Wheeling Township (part 4 of 5)

WILLIAM "II. DENSLOW LEWIS, physician, was born in April. I?56, in Brooklvn, N. Y.. nf William G. and Carrie M. (Owen) Lewis. The family removed to Chicago in 1857. where the elder Lewis went into the paint and oil business, buying out Alex- ..rider White. Young lx:wis went to Paris, where he commenced hi* academic and professional education. In 1873 he matriculated at Ihe University of Marburg. Germany, where he remained a year. Returning home, he went into the I'niversity of Nebraska, perilling mainly chemical investigations. In 1S75 he entered Ihe I'niversity of Michigan, graduating from the School of ITiarmacy as pharmaceutical chemist in IS77, and from the medical departmc-iit in I »7*. While here he prepared an exhaustive article oil

" 1-obelia Inflata; its Proximate Principles " (v. , Pharmaceutical journal of Great llritain. January KL l&li). which has Attracted international recognition. Locating 1:1 Hyde Park, he was appointed Health Officer and Village Physician in 1S70 and 18*0 Since then he has continued in the active practice of medicine ami surgery. Dr. Lewi* wa* married in September. 1 88.3, to Annie Oossjge llcmpstcd. of Kenwood. They arc both members of the Episcopal Church of the village: and the Doctor is Senior Past Regent and Medical Examiner of Hyde Park Council. No. 58s. of the koyal Arcanum of Illinois, filimg also the office of chairman of

PROFESSOR LESLIE LEWIS. M A , Superintendent of Schools. District No. 1, town of Hyde Park, was appointed to his present position January, 1870. He was born in Otsego County, N, V. In 1841), when lie* was alioul ten years of age. hi* parents moved to Erccport. 111., where he attended the high xchool. In iStio he entered Phillip*' Acailemy, Andover. Mas*., in preparation for college. Graduating, he entered Yale College the same year, where he took a full classical course, antl graduated in 18C16, with the degree II. A., the degree M, A. being conferred in 1S69. In lW/> he locates! in Waukcgan a* principal of the Wankegan Academy ; in I $(17 removed to Chicago to take the position of Principals! Dearborn school. In October, 1868, he took charge of the Hayden school, Chicago, a position he retained until January. 187b. Professor Lewi* is prominent in Masonic circles, being secretary of South Park Lodge. No. 663 ; ha* held all the chairs in Eair'View Chapter. No. 161, of Chicago, and K a member of Apollo Commanderv, No. 1. of the same city. He is also a member of Ihe Legion of Honor of Hyde Park, Regent of the Royal Arcanum, and a member of the Chicago Lilcrary Club.

CAPTAIN NELSON L. I.UTZ was born in Clrclcville. Ohio, in 1838. He enlisted in Company II, 13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a* First Lieutenant, for three months, and at its expiration organized and re-enlisted in Company A, 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which command he had until 1*63. when, from physical disability, lie was obliged to resign. He was engaged withhisreglmenl in both the siege and battle of Corinth, also in the battles at New Madrid. Ittka, and in several other engagements in Missouri under General Stiirges, and along the Mississippi, including the taking of Island No. to. and the defeat of Forrest. On his return to Circleville. he was employed in the l*rovost Marshal's office for I vcar. He removed to Geneseo. 111., in 1S65. where he opened a drug store, but sold out and located in Chicago in IS68, when he again entered the drug business, soon selling out and taking a position as tiook- keeper, which position he still occupies. He married Miss Carrie Howard, also a native ol Circleville, Ohio, in 1863. Thev have had three children : two are living.

CIIARI l'S W. MERRIAM.of Harmon, MerriannVCo .wholesale grocers. Chicago, was born in Lamoille County. Vl., in 1845. He moved to Cedar Rapids. Iowa, when seventeen yean of age, and remained there two years. He located in Chicago in 1S66, entering the employment of the wholesale grocery house of Whitaker, Harmon S; Co., the firm consisting of J. A. Whitaker, |«MC N. Harmon. Franklin McVeagh, and John Mcsscr. In 1870 the two house* of Franklin McVeagh & Co. and Harmon Messer <v Co. were formed, from Ihe old firm. In 1*74 John Messer died, and the lirm of Harmon. Messer \ Co. became the firm of Harmon, Merriam A: Co.. consisting of Isaac N. Harmon. C. W. Merriam' Isaac S. Collins, and Ircorgc W. Dexter. Mr. Merriam married Miss Alice Harmon, daughter of Mr. Isaac N. Harmon. September. 1877.

ALFRED MILLS was born near I.undon, England, in 155,4; and after receiving a good education became employed in the railway service. In 1872 he immigrated to Hamilton. Ontario, and a year later removed to Detroit. Mich., where he learned the Hade of upholsterer, and followed that occupation for several years. Mr. Mills came to Chicago in 1877, and for live years carried on an upholstering establishment, in December, 18S1, moving to this locality, where lie opened business as an undertaker, having studied and perfected himself in this line of trade. The subject of llns sketch is Past Chief Ranger of Court General Washington, No. 6,282, A. O. F.; is Noble Grand of Hyde Park Ixxlge, No. 732. i' O. 0. F.l a member of Mystic Star Lodge. No. 753. A. I'. & A. M.; Chicago Chapter. No. 127. R- A- »-! Chevalier Bayard Commandcry. No. 52, K. T.. and Worthy Past P.esident of Mistletoe Lodge. No. 142. Sons of St. < k-orge.

WILLIAM MOORE was born in 1844 in Cambridge, England, of Reuben and Anna (Sheldonl Moore, and came to this country in tW>5, I le was brought up to the fancy dry goods business and for eighteen years ha* lieen employed here as salesman in lha: line or in wholesale millinery. April 20. 1871. he was married to Miss Nettie Reynolds, a daughter of Daniel H. Home, of Hyde Park, where he lias since rc*ided; they are the parcnls of two children - iota W illoughby. born June 6. 1876. and Berth* Sheldon, born une 7, 18S2. , IAMES MORGAN came from England in 1S44. at the age of sixteen, and settled at Blue Island in the fall ol that year. In 184S he commenced studying law in the office- of Arnold vV Ugden, in the city of Chicago. In iSs'i he created the firm ol Hannah. 1 .ay ft Co., lumber merchants, of which lie is one of the partner*: and commenced purchasing real estate in Chicago. Ill 1*63 Mr. Morgan married Miss Rebecca Allison, a native of Maryland, residing in Chicago. They have one daughter; and attend St. Paul's Episcopal Chuich. Hvde Park; having moved from Chicago in

187.V in which vcnr lie was. elected .1 member ol the Hoard of t*riisiccs of the village of Hyde Park. M». Morgan was nrie* appointed a South Park commissioner, anil was chosen president <>f the board for two terms. He is n Republican in politics.

CHAKl.ES LEVEREtT NORTON mm bom August 13. 13511. in Chicago, son of Charles Augustus Norton, a member of the CUOM Har, ami LucvlHnnd) Norton. The family rami- la reside in Hvde I'arlc in 1S64; and young Nonon was educated in the common and high schools of the village. Mr entered the classical mm at the I'nivcrsily of Vermont, in the class vt ttWo, but discontinued after one vear In go into business. He bctattK assistant to the comptroller nil HJfWe Pw* in October, 1*78, ami was himself appointeil comptroller April 24, iSisJ. He is a member of tlvc KIM Presbyterian Church; also member of South Em Lodge. No. 66*, A. I*' & A. M.i Collector of the Hyelc I'ark Council of the Uoval Arcanum: anil is a Kepublican in politic* jOIIK MORRISON PAksllAI.L wa« born I Mulier <», 1S4O. in Lebanon, Ohio, of \V. F. I'arshall. a Itankcr, ami Henrietta (Dey) I'arshall; he was IxllH llliltl at the common school anil academy of la-banon. ami spent two years at Miami Cniversity. at Oxfr.nl, < Mini. He entered the house nf ( iiles Uroi. ft Co.. jewelers, at Chicago, with whom he has ever -fate* remained; tilling since IS"ij tlic responsible position of inaiuigei of the wholesale de|iartment. lie married Miss May Lester, of I'eotone, III, August 5, 1SS2; at which time thrv went to reside in Huh' I'ark.

ROBERT PAULEY, ilorisl. The business was established here in 1 S77. There arc four green-houses ami one propagating house. 1 Mlicr improvements will greatly enlarge this, the hi-jl. ing apparatus being sufficient to warm an acre of gla«s. Mr. Pauley was horn in Nottinghamshire. Kngland. July l'>. l^j!?- "c was brought up a HurM and horticulturist, hi* parent* being engaged in that business. In 1S62 he came* to the United Stales ami settled in Chicagu. and has since engaged as gardener in various places, lie has bexn in business for himself since i«6ij.

DANIEL APPI.ETON PKIRCE was horn in April, Iftjy, in Watcrboro, Vork Co.. Me. son of James II. and Lucy (Apple- Ion) Pcircc. The father was a native of the same place and a practicing physician then' lor over forty years ; his maternal grandlather, lor whom he was r.amt-il, served as Captain in the War of 1312. Mr. I'eirce received all the educational advantages the plaec afforded, anil which were such as to have qualilicd bint for u teacher in his seventeenth year. In he came West, settling in Kaciue, Wis., for five years, where lie studied law and MM admitted to practice in :->.., and continued in the office of a law firm almul three years. He then removed to Washington, where he obtained a position in the treasury department, which he tilled until the ch«xe of 1S71. In December ol thai year he came In Hyde Park, where he has since resided, lie-coming a menilsi-r ot the lirm of Ifcxlson vV. Peirte, dealers 111 groceries, proiismns. Hour and feed, lie was nurrieil November yu. 1^64, to Lizzie M. idle, by whom he has two children, Ida and Alice. They are attendant" at the Fin) Haptist Church. Mr. I'eirce is a Kcpublic.in in politics, wax a Village Trustee in 1SS1 and 1881. and is now Treasurer of the same.

GEORGE N. I'll Kl. PS, grain inspector, is a native nf Halion. IScrkshirc Co., Mass. After leaving school he learned the trade of practical tinner, and followed that nrciijvalion *i»mr years. In Novcmlier, 1872, Ih: came to Chicago and in |une follow ing moicd to the town of Lake. He was foreiiuin of the tin ilepartment, at the shops o| the Chicago, kock Island ft Pacific Kuilroad lor nine years, alter which he was appointee] grain in-pector. and located fur duly nt these shops. Mr. Pliclps lias made hi- home at Hyde Park since November. t3;i>. He is a number of kuyal Arcanum. lutcr-Occan Council, No, Oic|, and was dec led Ucgcnl ol that council in Decemlicr, 1.SS2.

WILLIAM L. PIERCE was Ix.rn in 1*43 in Albany. N. V., the oldest son nf William l!. and Kbralieth E, (Peek! Pierce. The father, now a retiree' lawyer, came West in l.ljiianil settled in t incinnali. w hence he removed to Chicago in lS«7. I he grandfather. Kev. Ur. John Pierce, a I'nitariau clergyman of lioston. was for some years the Stale Historian of Massachusetts ami xctTrinry ol llnrvard College. Tin mother, a member of an old Albany family, was q daughter of Captain Henry Peck, of the firm of Pert iv Newton I Isaac), celebrated ship-owners of the first half of this century, and the first to run a regular line of steamers on the I lud- «>n. Mr. Pierce trace* direct descent on thi- lather's title front Lucy, the sister of llenjamin l-'rankltu. In 1 862 he mftstcil in tile IJ4lh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, selling alsinl Iwo jears, and on his return resumed his studies in the Chicago I'niversitv. graduating in the class of nifif. He wax honored with the presidency "I the alnmni association of his tttma mater, in 1- to ami isSi. After graduating he purchased a half-iutctc-xl in the mercantile agcn.v of Tap|un, McKil'op .v. Co., in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Washing, ton and Baltimore, taking up his residence in the t.rst mimed city. In 11*70 be sold out his interest in the four branches, and returned

{0HEPH PL'LLM AN, assistant engineer llvile Park water *, was horn in Yorkshire, Kngland. in 1S22. 'lie learned Iht trade of machinist as a boy. ami followed it there until l»5(>. when he came to the I'nilcd states. In 1S57 he located in Clncar/o » shorl line, then moved In Aurora, where he entered the ciuploy nf the C. It. »V O. k. It., with whom he remained Iweutv-fneir vean. the lavt vearx lieing foreman of his department. In 1SS2 he .1 posihoii as engineer in the water works of the town nf I jkr. Cook County, where he remained until he receiied liispreseni appoint men I.

SAMUEL PULLMAN, general foreman of the car-buililiai depaiinieiit of the Chicago, kock Island ft I'acilic kailrextel Compun, was born in Lnglanel in tSjo, where he learned live trade of wood-Worker and was employed in car.lmilding sho|ix. In M.irra. tS5b, he came to New Vork City, subsequently going to llranlford, t tntario. where for three and a half year* he had charge of the shops of the II. ,\ I.. II. K. K. From there he moved to Aurcra. Ill . and entered the employ uf the C, II. ft *}. k. K. as Icirrmin in the car-building shops, where he remained about eighl wan. While residing there lie was elected a memlier ol the Aurnra Ifccwl of Aldermen in 1867. He resigned bis position with the C, II. A t,t. K, It. to accept that of foreman of the shops of the ("real Eastern U.iilroad Company, and left their empluy to accept his pre-ent m>sitioii September. 1*909. **"r. Pullman leas been a resident of Hyde Park for the past fourteen years. In April. he cai elected a member of the Hand of liducatiun of Ihstrin No. 1. towns of ilydk Park and Lake, and re-elected in l9;a> serving in all six years", and as a compliment for his services the Pullman was named after him. He was. in April, l58t, elected a membtrol the Hoard of Trustees of Hyde I'ark, ami served two years, and during his membership the present water works were con strutted, of which enterprise he was an active supporter. I le is a chjittr mcmlic-r ol the Mesne Mar Lodge. A. K. A; A. M.

I.. K. KICK.' dealer in drugs, jewelry, chemicals, ett, was born in Oswego. K. V.. in 1S43, and when very young mewed to Minnesota with bis people. Alter leaving school he began at the age of fuurteen to study and team the drug business ul Mantumillc. Mioa., and followed' it some seven years. Then hewent to IT irJMl and was engaged in the grain business there and in Chicago, bus ing milling grain in all parts of the Northwest J»J shipping to Chicago and mills east of there; wax also on the llnard of Trade in Chicago. In l»7<> he went In Kairmont. Ncb.aad <»|H-ned a drug and jewelry establishment. A year Inter lie remoicel to I'eabodv, Kan., and in December. 1S7*, to Coot t eninty, locating in Hyde Park and opened there a small elrug store. He has built up a large and extensive business, and has now two fSU->- IMimentx, drugs, jewelry and stationery. Mr. kiee is a mcmbtr ol the A. K \ A. M., Mystic Star LrKlgc, Chicago Chapter. K. .\. and Chevalier liavard Commandery of K. T.

WILLIAM HKNKY KlCHAkHSON was l»im June II. 1S40, in Wvoming Counlv, K, V.. son of Charles and AnnOtratlam) kichardson. He is of the MrmmchwetH family of thai turnc, bis father having been born in Lowell. Max*. He settled in mth falo about iSlu. and afterward rcmoveel to Wywineg trmnty where he died in 1S67. Having received a preparar.»y edurati.^ at Andover, young Kichardvort entered llarvanl, where he P*j* ated in the class of iSdt. He enlisted in ihe 4J<" \ ork VolnWl Infanlrv. but was refund the privilege ol hgimiiK fur the Lnion liecauxe of enfeebled health, lie came to C htcaffj the xame \-ear and entered the law office of Kno*. Kuslace i\ W. and was admitted to the Har in 1S63. He still remained linn, and when Mr. Reed was elected Stated Allorncr in isOJ l« became his assistant, and served in that capacity fi* "vr"' ' . . lie was elected Alderman of the Lirst Ward in Ito ***** ' ollicc (out vcars. He was married in l» MM '

It irnar.l. .in'd on his retirement from the Comrrwn ttwncu r r»j look up their residence in Hede Park. Thev are the paretm one child. Hattie A.. February 20, 1877. ''n<1 n**"11*^ Ihe episcopal Church. Mr. KicliardseMi » Kepublicau.

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ami added ti> his purchase in 18K0. Somt (vro years later he built a large building on the lead, filled it up handsomely, and moved his business, lo thK place. He ha* a large garden attached to hi* luisiness establishment, and is the proprietor <»( Broadway Hall. Mr. Ringc while residing in the city was widely known in the Third Ward, and took an active interest in polities, lie is a member of A. F. & A. M.. Waldick Lodge. No. 7C4, Wiley M. Chapter, K. A. M.. and the Oriental Consistory; and is also connected with the A. O. If. W. and the A. O. K.

COLIN KOHINSON was horn in iSi; in Argylcshirc. Scotland, and immigrated to Dryden, Tompkins Co., N. V., in 1837, where he remained twenty-live years, engaged mainly, alter amv. ing at man's estate, in tiuying'grain as well as transporting it. on his own and others' account, to the New York market by canal and river. In 1S62 he came West, and in 1803 settled ill llloomington, as a member of the firm of Krurn cV Robinson, dealers in coal, lumber and grain. In 1S74 he sold out to his partner, and came to Hyde I'ark, where he bought improved real estate, and where he has since resided, occupying himself mainly with the care of his property. In 1865 Mr. Robinson was married lo Ann K. Egglcstot). of Wyoming County, N. V.. by whom he has hail two living children - William C March 17. IS63. and Argyle E., May 1$, 1872. Mr. and Mrs, Kohinvon arc memtiers of the First Presbyterian Church of Hyde I'ark, of which Mr. Robinson is the treasurer and one of the trustees. He is a Republican in politics, and an advocate of " high license."

KOHINSON \- MINI iR, contractors on Hyde I'ark tunnel. This partnership was formed in May, tsSo, and they have since been engaged in general contracting in Chicago and vicinity. Anderson Minor, ol the above lirm. was born in Cleveland, Ohio. January 31, 1840. lie was partially educated in his native city, his linishing studies being taken at I liram College. Ohio, under live tuition of the late President (iartield. At the age of sixteen he began the mason's trade, and afterward moved to Toledo. Ohio, where he engaged in contracting and building. During his residence in this city of some thirteen years, he put up all the most prominent buildings in the city. In 1*71 he removed to Chicago, where he organized the tirm Of Minor A. Trimble, this lirm rxisting about two years, and building during that ti ne the Hamlin .V Hale building and many Others. In 1*73 he entered into partnership with I'. J. Sexlcm. The lirm ol Sexton .V Mimir existed about two years, engaged in general building; it was then dissolved. Mr. Minor afterward acted as superintendent for 1'. J. Sexton, receiving a salary and interest in the business. In this position hehad entire charge o( the erection of the Cook County Hospital and the Cook County Court-I louse. Mr. Minor is a member of the I. O. I). K., of Toledo. Lodge and Encampment, and also a member ol the Master Masons and lijilders' Association of Chicago

BBENEZER TOW NEK KOOTwasborn in Sheffield. Mass , August 5, 18*2, being the second of the three sons anil eight children of hredcriek Ferdinand and Sarah (Hint) Root, He is descended in the seventh generation from John Root ol Farmington, turn in England in 1<«>S, one of the first ami most prominent ' settlers ol larmington. Conn., in 1640. The intermediate names in the direct line from him to E. T. Root arc - Thomas Koole, of I armington. Conn., and afterward of Wcstficld, Mass.; Knsign Joseph Root, of Wcstficld; Colonel Azariah, of Wesllield, and afterward of I'oontoosick. now Shetlield. Mass.; Major Azariah, of Shcffield. Frederick Ferdinand, of Shetlield until isjfi, and of North Reading. Mass., until his death In 1S66. E. T. Root left home in fiy(>, and spent three years in Buenos Ayrcs. Returning home in 1839 he joined his older brother, the well-known \merican composer, tieorgc- Fred. Root, in Boston, and devoted himself to the study of music. From 184610 184.; he taught music in New Vork City, nnd from 1849 to 1851 in Alabama, whither he moved for the benctit of his health Returning to New Vork he look the position of salesman in the music store of Hall & Sons. Leaving that lirm in t8;8 he came to Chicago and established the lirm of Root ft Lady, in the same line. In 1 802 the firm which had Irom the first taken a leading position in its line in Chicago, was re-cnlorced by the accession of Ocorge F. Root, and was soon recognized as one of live chief music houses in the country The great lire of 1871 swept away their place of business, with -dock ami plates, and their ambition to pay dollar for dollar took most of what remained, leaving the consciousness and reputation of integrity as the basis of new enterprise. Mr, E. T, Root formed the firm of Root ft Lewis, music dealers, in 1S73, and January 1, 1S75. the Root .V.- Snns Music Company was established, embracing Root c\ l ewis, (ieorge F. Root & Sons, and Chandler \ Curtis*. In 1880, Mr. E. T. Root dissolved his connection with the company, and with his sons, Frank K. and Waller R.. aged respectively, twenty-eight and twenty-four years, formed the new lirm of Root ft Sons, general music dealers. April 30. 1855, Mr. Root married Alnura K. Kimball, of Jersey City. N. J., and they arc the parents of three sons and three daughters. The family are mcmlxrs of the Sueilrnborgian, or New Jerusalem. Church, and have resided in Hvde I'ark since July. 1867.

' MARTIN JAMES RUSSELL was born December in. 1845. in Chicago, of Martin and Jane (Mulligan) Russell. Having received Ivs education in the common schools, supplemented by a short period of study at the I'niversitv ol the Lake, he enlisted in the regiment of his uncle. Colonel Mulligan, the 23d Illinois Volunteers, in 1S61, and was soon made a Lieutenant of hi* company, and Adjutant of the regiment. He afterward acted as Assistant Adjmant-i iener-d ol his uncle's division, and was mustered out in Sepiemtier. 1864. He went into journalism in 1870. as city editor ol the Evening I'osl, and in 1873 became one of the editorial writers on live Times, continuing in that relation until August, 1883, when he look charge of the Chicago Herald, - In I'ebruary. 1873, Mr. Kus>ell was married lo Miss Cclia Walsh, and went to reside in Hyde I'ark. In 1876, and for four successive years, he was elected Clerk of the vilhige: and in 1&80 he *cas appointed a South I'ark Commissioner. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are the parents of live children - lames t lavton. born I Jcccmber 28. 1S73; Martin Cecil. March 30. 1878; l-e'wis. Scplc-mhcr, [tto; Kilty, in 167b, and [anc, in 1889.

HENRY SC 1 1 U E N E MANN, of Sehuenemanii A llclmkamp. grocers, was born in Ccrmaiiy July 15, 1S5S, and immigrated lo Illinois in 1S74, locating at Klmhurst. I In Page Countv, where he followed agricultural pursuits, and was also (or while employed in mercantile business. In 1878 he came to Chicago and was employed in the groeerv business, and in the spring of 18H2 opened a grocery establishment in Hyde I'ark In company with II. Hanliaucr. who did not. however, remain in the business long, and in the [all of 18S2 Mr. Scliucnemann became associated with his present partner, John Helmkanip. Both are active young men, and are building up a good trade; they have a nice store and carry a good stock. Mr. Scliuenemann was married May I, 1SS3, lo Lizzie, daughter of Anton Hannaucr, who runic to Chicago some thirty-live years ago,

COLIN SHANKS was bom at Aberdeen. Scotland. January 3. l83<). and received his education at the Robert Cordon Hospital lie came to America in 1854, and was employed with Celleral I'ricc. contractor on ihe M. I'. R. R., and located at Jefferson City, Mo., for sixteen months, alter which, at St. Louis, Mo., he served an apprenticeship ol lour years to the trade of locomotive machinist in the shops ol that company. Subsce|ucnllv he entered the employ of the ft. cV M. R. R., and remained wiih that road some five years, first as machinist, then as gang foreman. After this he was foreman in the shops of the Iron Mountain Railroad, al Carondclet. Mo., for several years. Mr. Shanks has filled many prominent potitions with various railroad companies. For two and a half years with the Illinois cx St. Louis Railroad he had charge of the machinery department in Iheir shops at East St. l-ouis; then with the K. 1'. R. R. Co., in the locomotive depart, merit, three months, after which he went to Holden. Mo., and look charge of the machinery department in the shorts of M. I'. R. R. for three years, when lie was removed to Scdalia, Mo., where he held the position ol general foreman in the shops of ihe same company for eighteen months. In 1 874 he became connected with I he Wabash, St. Louis A; I'aritic Railroad, at Decatur, HI. For live vcars be tilled the position of general foreman in the company's shops, and for two years was assistant master mechanic of the St. Louis 4c Chicago Division. Mr. Shanks came In Chicago in October, 1881. and had charge of the Chicago Division of the \V., St. L Ac I'. R. R. up to February I, 1882, when he was appointed to his present position, lh.it of general foreman of the company's shops in 1 Ik- low 11 of l ake. He is a thorough mechanic, and has had a long ex|ierierice in the building and repairing of locomotives, cars, etc. He has been a resident ol Hyde Park for over a year.

OWEN RHERIDAN, ftrd sergeant Kensington police force, was born in Ireland Itcccmbrr 17. 1849. He came alone to Ame rica in tS68, and has resided in Hyde Patk ever since. He first worked for H. C A*ny, attorney, and was night watchman for a vear. until he hrramc a memlier of the police force in 1S72. being promoted first sergeant In 1SS3 He is a memlier of the Ancient Order of Hibernian*. In April, 187;, he married Miss Mary Jane Carrigg. of New Vork Stale. They have four children - James, Hrssie, Mamie anil Margaret

LESTER AS A 1 1 KL TALCOTT was born in 1828 in Verona, Oneida Co., N. V.. of Jonathan II. and Sophia (Dewey) Talcolt. |ohn Talcolt, the founder of the family in this Country, arrived in "Boston Septeeabei 16, lf>.12. with the Rev. Mr. Hooker'* company, and settled at Newtown, noev Cambridge, whence Ihev removed to the number of about one hundred lo Connecticut in 1030, and founded Hartford " The Worshipful '' John Talcolt was one- of the committee of May I. 11137. who advised that war should be declared against ihe Pccpiods, and was for many year* a member of Ihe general court, as well as one ol ihe chief magistrates of the colony. Lester Asahcl is in the sixth tUBUlw fri»in John lalcotl, through Samuel. Nathaniel. Joseph, Jonathan, all.) Jonathan II. His father and grandfather WWWtril from Connecticut to Rome. N. V.. in 1803; anil the lather, with his immediate family, lu Kenosha. Wis., in l»37- Oa his mother* side, also. Mr. Tab eaU is of early New England Mock, anil his grandfather Dewey was a native of New Hampshire. Alter some brief preliminaiy ventures in Kenosha and Milwaukee. I.. A. Taloitt began business in Chicago ill 1S51. where he has since continued in the same line, foreign and dnmesile fruit and fancy groceries, without other change than growth in tohime. DM responding to that oi the city, lie has l«een a Mason since I.Sue, being a inemU-r ol Garden Cily Lodge, of I.afavcttc Chapter and Apollo I omnuindcry, and is a Republican in politics. He hits resided in Hyde I'ark since 1*72. His only son, Charles Lester. was horn in Chicago in 1S54; and Julia Alice, the daughter of Charles Lester, was born in Chicago in 1879.

BARTOW ADOLI'IICS Cl.KIt'll was tiorn in 1S40 at Clenham, near l ishkill. N. V., being the nMM ol lour sons, and eight children, of Augustus Louis and Henrietta I Von kit-senkaiupff) Clrich. The father, bom in Jena, Saxe-Wcimar, t.crman)', in IJtD, was a son ol private Counselor and Professor John Augustus llenrv I'lrich. ol that city, and the grandson of Magister Prcderick Nicholas Clrich, director ol the Moot** college in Jena. A. L. Clrieh. who had been lor some year* .1 MNCCMIll merchant of St. Petersburg, causae to the Cnited Mates in t»i*. with his wife, and established at Glcriham, near Fishkill Landing, on the Hudson, a doth factory, in which John Jacob Astor, IVtrr II, Shenck and himself were' the principal stockholders. There he died in 1*41. His widow, now living with one ol her children in Illinois, and the mother of II. A. Clrich. i*a daughter of I uun. sclor Justus John Von RiescnkamprT. collector of the port of Kevel. in Russia, where she was born in 1707. Hat ing previously studied for two years in the I'niversity of Heidelberg, in Germany, It. A. Clrich graduated from the law depattment of the I'niversity nf Michigan in fi'14. The same year he married Helen Amelia, n daughter of William S. Russell, of Livingston County, near Ann Arbor, Mich.; located in C hicago, and took up his residence in Hyde I'ark. He was admitted to the liar ol Illinois, and practiced five years, but since l8fn) has turned his attention chiefly la real estate interests and investments. In ISSJ he located the limn ol I hcltcnliam Reach, on the lake shore. al>oul two miles south of the South I'ark, on Ihe South t-hicago Branch uf lbe Illinois Cc-ntlal Railroad. Mr. I'lrich has been foi many years a contributor lu the Press on literary and political topics. 1)1 the latter class the most conspicuous were his campaign documents in tM>4 and i>so. which received the indorsement, respectively, of < Governors Yates and Cullom. With their eldest child, Victoria, bom in 1866, Mr. and Mrs. Clrich arc members of the Presbyterian Church. Their other living children were bom as follows: Russell, in IMS; Augustus Louis, in 1R70; II, A.. Jr.. in I.sj2 ; Helen Kuwll, in l!*74 ; and tiertrudr. in 1*70, Mr. Clrich has now only one surviving brother, Kdward Von KeisenkamprT Clrich, a well-known grain merchant uf Springfield, III., bum October 10. tr>2<>, at Clenham. X. V. He has two sisters living 111 I artllage. III., Mrs. Erra Wi-ndcl. and Mrs. l>avid Muck, wife ol an attorney. Mrs. II. A. I'lrich has two brothers, Frank I.. Kussell. an attorney in llelroit. and W. H. H. Kussell. an attorney in New York ; one sister, Mrs. M. Brooks, Grand Rapids. Mich. Her lather was from Worcester, Mass.. her mother from Bennington, Vt.; her maiden name, Jane A. Knox. Her parents located in Michigan at an early day : were independent farmers ; owned n large farm ; were well known and respected citizens, and educated their children. HeWitt Clinton, their second sun. died in the service of his country in I $63.

Our only sovereign. Gud. S. I). YEAZKY, retired, was born in New Hampton, X. II.. (-ctober 18, |92<>. At the age of hflcen he commenced railroad, mg. which he continued during the war. at the outbreak of which he was employed on the Cincinnati ,\ Marietta Railroad, and ran truups |o different points along that road anil South with but one man to assist him in the management of the train. At the close of the war he located in Chicago, where he began the wholesale and retail commission business. Being burnt our in the lire of 1*71, he turned his attention to building, which he fullowcd until 1KK1, when he retired from all active business. His wife was a Mi<s Mary Davis., liom and raised in Hiram, Ohio, the home of the late President (iartield, and was .1 schoolmate of both (iarlicld and his wife. They have one son hulding a respunsible position with the Western Indiana Railroad Company.

JOHN II, YOLK, monumental artist and designer. Chicago. ».i native of the State of New York, though raoa* of his early life was spent in Massachusetts, where, in his father's studio, he received his first instruction in sculpture and monumental art, In 1865 he ln-camr connected » ilti the Chicago Marhle Granite MaatuVlar. ing IVutipany, having the management of the monumental dcaattri' Ot ol 11. 1 le established lunisclf in business imrncdulelt* jiter the eventful lire of 1871, and lus become the acknowledged head 4 nioiuii-.icutal art in this country. In nearly all the prcannrni w-nivt. rns his work may Ik- seen, and whether in elaborate or p-ria 1 - no, j marked difference in style and proportion, as well aj tianht l-.nri Mirrounilmg work, may lie seen in his favor. Mr. Volk I .. , Inert i-.-il 111 his present plare business, comer nf lieu, born and U.uid"lp i sire. is. about eight, years, lr. 1874 U aanioj Miss Uatllc C. Town, of Elgin, 111., their union being blessed by four children.

JAM ES WADSWOKTH was born in 1828 in New lUrtlord. Conn., son of Daniel and Martha (Williams Moore) VYads«oith, and is descended in the seventh generation from William Wicworth. who arrived at Boston, in the " Lion." in 1632 ; and ra hU mother's side descended direct from Roger Wili »ms, launder uf Rhode Island, and General Scth Pomeroy. of Rcvoutiontryfamr. Mr. Wadswnrlh received an academic education in Mexico N. V_ whither his parents removed in 1S31. In 1845 they came to Chicago where the father died of cholera in 1851. in 1*53, JJ whn had been a clerk since 1 843. engaged in the wholesale jiocrry trade with George W. Flanders, firm of Flanders & Wad>wurlh He sold out in February. 1857. having a handsome cnoipeuacT. He engaged in banking in May of that year, and suffered severely by the panic in September and October. He dealt largely awi succeisfully in cotton in the Southern Stales in tS«2 and 1S63 ; invested largely in Hyde Park properly in 1867, 1 Rh5 and 1 ;«-;, and made I irgc profits: eagaged in the hide trade in Ihe wmaier of 1866. which he continued until 1S73. His productive nropertT was all destroyed in the great Are of 1871. as also his store and stock of hides. In lS'3 he withdrew from all active pursaittbut the care of his properly, which was both cutenstve and produtiirt. In December. 185'., he married Emily Wadsworlh WtiittlcXT, of Farmington, Conn., also a descendant on the mother's side of Ik* Wadsworths or Connecticut. They have had six children - Ruben Strong, 1857 ; Grace Lucretia, 1S59; Ellen Ruth. 1865 ; an infant, James Robert. 1863. and Alice Emily. 1870. of whom only the tw last survive. Tney are members of the First Presbjlerian Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since iBjo. Mr.Wadr worth was made one of the first Trustees at the incorjiorilHin of the village in 1861. He carries on an extensive dairy and breed, ing faim in Cook County, and is a broker in real ettate and tout on ihe same.

WAKEKM was bom in Switzerland May 21), tSto. and after leaving srhonl was employed in a rug factory, lie can* to Chicago in August, 1863. and early in 1864 enlisted WMTfa Illinois Volunteer favalrv. and served one year, after which he went to St. loseph. Mo., where he was employed ma buichermc establishment. Returning to Chicago in W. ^SSTSS opened a meat market, and in April. 1S72, muved to Hyde I art. lie is thciddest in the business in this locality, and h»a MB trade. Mr. Wakerli is a charter member of the I. l>. 0. r.. Iljut Park Lixlge. Xo. 722. . , ...

Historv Of Hvdk Pakkv

HENRY WILLIAM WOLSELEY was born November 3. 1S40, in Liverpool, England, son of Kev. Koben W. Wolseley. a clergyman of the Church of England, anil cousin of the now celebrated General Lord Wobeley, ol Egyptian fame. The maiden name of Ins mother was Gcorgina Nixon, of County Carlow. Ireland. In 1*63 young Wolseley left St. Peter's College, S'ork, where he was prosecuting his studies, and went to sea. prompted bv a cherished inclination for a sea-faring life and for his health, lie entered the merchant marine, in that branrh known is tea ships of that day, where he rose to the position of mate, and served seven years. In IS71 he came to America, settling in Chicago, where he began the study of law in 1S72 in the oltice of Norman C. Perkins. He was admitted to the liar of Illinois in June, I H74: ami went immediately into the practice of his profession. January if, iSSo, Mr. Wolseley was married 10 Ella C. Williams, of Lincoln. Neb., by whom he has one daughter - Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Wolseley are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of Hyde Park, where they have resided since and Mr. Wolseley is a vestry,

South Park

South Park is hardly a separate village or hamlet ; its individuality is completely absorbed by that of Hyde Park - the station alone perpetuating the cognomen. This, however, is but a recent name for the station. On December 12, 186;, Charles Augustus Norton came to the vicinage of South Park. There then was a stopping-place for trains, and *uch stoppingplace was dignified by the name of Woodpile; there the locomotive gathered ligneous food. The name was changed shortly afterward to Woodville, and then, by consent of Mr. Norton, to South Park. The first depot there was an old log building, and the ultima tkule in those days was deemed to be the vicinity of South Park. It was one vast swamp. Closely contiguous to the quasi depot was an old tree that was used by the soldiers camped near there in war times. as a post-office. Mr. Norton was born in Charlestown, Ohio - the town being named after his grandfather - in 1826, and was a graduate of the law school of Cambridge, Mass., also from the school of the Western Reserve, Ohio. He came to Chicago in 1854, and went into the real estate business; resuming the practice of law in 1858 with James M. Hill, of Oakland, and subsequently with Paul Cornell. He married, on September 30, 1858, Miss Lucy Bond, a grand-niece of Judge Reeves, of Litchfield, Conn , the gentleman who first kept law school in America. Mrs. Norton states that the earliest residents of the vicinity of South Park were the Fassctts, Roots, Downs and Wrights The only distinctive feature of South Park is its name, associating it with the vast system of parks described elsewhere, and the magnificent depot, costing $30,000, erected by the Illinois Central Railroad. Mr. Norton died on February 12, 187a.

The Sooth Park Hotel was built about 1874 by a Mr. Hoyt, and after a varied course of existence as a hotel, was destroyed by fire October 25, 1883. A description of the destruction is thus given in the Chicago Times of the 26th of October :

At an earlv hour yesterday morning the South Park Hotel, situated at the northwest corner of Fifty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, in the town of Hyde Park, was burned to the ground. At 4:15 o'clock a colored cook named Williams, employed in the hotel, was aroused from his sleep by the strong smell of smoke, and on arising discovered fire in the rear part of the building in a room usually occupied by Mrs.

Chandler, the wife of the proprietor, Tom Chandler, of pugilistic notoriety. He at once aroused Chandler and then the other inmates, seven or eight in number. The building being built of wood, and well seasoned, was in a few minutes a mass of flames, the inmates having lime only to gather up a few articles and escape with their lives. A strong southeast wind, accompanied by blinding rain, was blowing at the time. Two streams, with a water pressure of over one hundred pounds, were at once directed toward the burning building, one from the east and the other from the opposite direction. It was soon seen, however, that the attempt to save the building was useless, and an effort was then made to save some of the contents. Two pianos and a small amount of furniture were taken out and placed in .in adjoining lot. In the meantime a large crowd, principally composed of stock-yards toughs, had gathered. Fire Marshal Crapo, of Hyde Park, seeing that his force of two men was unable to handle the stream, so great was the pressure, called for assistance from the crowd, but no response followed. A large number of hangers-on had gained admittance to the house and to the store-room and proceeded to make free use of the cigars and liquors therein. The scene was one of intense confusion on all sides, and can better be imagined than dcscrilied. The building was in an hour a mass of ruins. Tom Chandler, the proprietor, stated that his loss was in the neighborhood of $18,000. The building was a two story and attic frame structure, about one hundred and twenty-five by fifty feet, and was built in 1873. It was owned by Charles F. Miller, of Milwaukee. One of the Hyde Park firemen, named Adams, had his hands b.tdly scorched by the flames, and Crapo himself had his neck blistered. I 'he firemen remained at their posts, playing on the smouldering ruins, until ten o'clock.

A proje t is in agitation whereby a large plat of residence properly near the station will be subdivided, ft large number of first-class housis, with all modern improvements, erected thereupon, and this residence property thrown upon the market for sale and lease. Judicious speculation will find ample Opportunity for its exhibit in this enterprise, as the locality is a favorite one for residences.

South Park Biographical Sketches

JAMES FRANKLIN ALDR1CI1 was born in 1S53 in Two Rivers, Wis., nf William and Anna Mary (Howard! Aldrich. The father is the wi ll -known c v-memberof Congress from the First Illinois district, who served from 1S76 to tSSJ. and is of early New- England ancestry. The mother is descended from John Howard, the English philanthropist (1736-00). They removed to Chicago in 1 $61, where young Aldrich received an academic education, lie afterwards entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ol Troy. N. V., where he graduated in 1S77 as a civil engineer. Returning home, he went into oil manufacturing at Grand Crowing, in the Chicago Linseed Oil Company, of which he was the secretary and general manager for over four years. Since then he has been in the commission gram business, on the Hoard of Trade, being now the senior mcmlier u( the firm of Aldrich. Norton \ Co. He is a memtxT of the Western Society of Engineers and of the L nion League Club, and is a Republican in politics. November 13. 187?. Mr. Aldrich was married to I 11I11 M., a daughter of General T. T. Sherman, and grand-daughter of Eraneis C. Sherman, three times Mayor of Chicago, and builder of the Sherman House. They are the patents of three children; are members of the Episcopal Church, and have resided in llvde Park since the fall of |S8l.

JOHN IRA BENNETT was born November 27, 1S31 .in Otsego County. N. V.. of Joseph and I.ydi.1 (Hirdsalh ltvnnctt, who were members of the Society of Friends. In 1S43 the family settled in Knox County, III., but in 1S46 returned ami took up their residence in Delaware County. In 1S49 J. I. Itcnnett became a pupil of Charlotte Academy where, in 1S50. he became a teacher as well as student. In tSjt he entered l nion College, and graduated in 1S54. From August, 1S54. to June, 1S57, he was principal studied law anil was admitted IO the liar of Tennessee M lime, 1H57. A monih later he » admitted in IIHW>K and t*K.»n 'he practicv ->( his profession ai (ialva. McHcnry Cuwrty. Inning the Rebellion. l*-ing disabled bv sickness for service in the field, he rendered all the aid in his power I" the Union cause - as a tncmlx-r the ilovcmor's staff, bv poimoiing enlistments, and otherwise, lb- n> presidential elector im the Republican lic-kcl in |S«|. In lS<>5 he was admitted in practice in United Stales courts, (rot two years hi owned the (ialva Union, and was a mcliihcr <>( the Hoard of Education. He was interested in goal mines Iwtldea attending to his profession, anil was the unsuccessful competitor of Judge I'lrasants for the llench of that circuit. In June. 1*72, he remoicd u> Chicago, taking tip his residence in Hyde Park, where he was eleeted a Yillagc Trustee, and chosen I'resiilenl in isjS and j S In the latter year he was appointed a master in chancery of the lrnilc-d States courts in northern Illinois, which office la- still holds. In 1*55. at HiBiWraoa, Ky.. Mr. Itennelt was married to Mis* Maria K. Reynolds, a native of 1 Iclaware County, N. V.: they are the parents of seven children - l-'annie, horn in lajfc, HOW Mrs. W. C. Nelson, of Hyde lark; Frank Ira, horn in isjs a.lmittcd to the liar in iWo: Fred Fuller, in i860. Aldcn Lewis, in 1S65: Cicorgc, in l*"7. lohn in 1S70, and Will in 1S73.

JAMES CI. IN ION' CALHOUN was bom in May, 1S24. in West Charlton, Saratojja lav, N. ¥., son of James ami Marion Htoyd) Calhoun. The father was a niannfailtircr -.( woolen goods lor many years - also a farmer, and died in llrlvoir. Kan., after three years' residence, in I&79, aged ninety-two, Itolh Holds and Calhoun* arc of Scotch origin. Young Calhoun received most of his early education near Utica. N, Y.,and in Kandolph, N. Y.. whither his parents had removed while he was yet a child. A clerk anil accountant in several siores from 1*3') to tSco, lie formed in the latter Year a connection with the Atlantic ft I ireal Western Knilwav, which lasleil seventeen years, in almost ever)1 ca|Mciiy eccepl that of president. From iStiS to 1670 he was in the employ of the Krie Railway Company as and i lot ; from 1*7010 is74«<:crctaiy and treasurer of the tdenwood 1 \m1 Company - a Jay lional corporation; from 1S74 to t«7<> secretary and treasurer of the Knickerbocker Coal Company, and since 1*77 treasurer of tin- Chi. cago *: Kaslern Illinois Kaiiway Company In 1S40 he married Marv I. I lulslander, of New York Citv. who died in ls(>4. In iSott he married Martha I., liaker, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He joined the Masonic I Irdcr in I Sol;, becoming a Royal Arch Masiiu in I$66: and in polilics. is a Kepubliean.

JOHN WILLIAM HRANT was in |s53, in Hull. Kngland, being the fourth son of ( ieorgc- and Margaret (Hodgson) iJrant. The family came to the Cnited Males, and settled in Chicago in iSb$. In lab* young Hrant began to learn the business of an engraver with Hark, the wcll-knn»n New York artist in that line. In 1S7J he returned to Chicago, going into business on his own account, and in 1*77 formed a partnership with Waller K. Ilawtin, under the style of Hrant \ tlawtin. which still continues. The lit 111 has hail a steady growth in the volume of business done from year to year, in keeping with the unprecedented development of the city. In 1S70, Mr. Dram married K. I.., a daughter of Colonel II. Pease, of Chicago. 'I hey have one child, Chester, tiorn in ls8t. In lU] Mr. Hrant bought some ground in Hyde I'ark. near South I'ark Station, as the site of a permanent home.

HENRY VAKKI'M FREEMAN, lawyer, was born in Hridgeion, X. J.. Daeewber M, 1*42, of Mi nei liniall 1 parentage. The family moved to Illinois in 1*50, ami ihe father. Henry, was superintendent of schools at Uockford from i860 to 1881. ' °h* mother's maiden name was Mary II. Hangs, of Hrewster. Mass. Through both parents Mr. 1kxiii.ui is descended from the early scltlrrsof Massachusetts; his grandfather, Solomon, was a member of Ihe Massachusetts Senate from Harnstable Cnunly for twenty years, succeeding his father. Solomon who had served twcnlv-lwo years, and had previously lies-n a Judge for many years. The original immigrant was F.dmund Freeman, who sculcd in the Plymouth Colony in 1(135. Henry Y. was prepared for college at'lieloil. Wis, I '.it went into the army In August. iW>3, and served to the end of the war. arriving home luly 3, lSo<, He enlisted as a private, but was soon made t Irderly Sergeant , and on August 14, iM,j, was promoted to a captaincy, serving in the Army ol the Cumberland. At the opening of the fall term in iSdf. he entered Yale College, where he graduated in t'69. Me spent some time in the (aw olivets ol Rich & Noble, and of King, Scott ft Pu>x>n, of Chicago, where he was admitted to the Par in 1S70 and entered cm the practice of his profession, [mtiieiliatclv after the lire lie was one year principal of Ihe- high sehuol of Charleston, Coles Co.. III. On hU return in 1872, he went to reside in Hvdc I'.irk, and resumed the practice of law in the ourls of Chicago. He was married October 16. 11*73. to Miss Marv I... ;, daughter of Rev.William S. Curtis, a Presbyterian derg) man. for inn Iv a professor ar Ann

Arbor, and at Hamilton College, and president of Knox I'otVji, al tialcsburg. III. Kroin 1876U 1^71) Mr. Freeman wis Jtoociittii with Mr. Haitney in the practice of law, but since then his bin alone. Ill 1S77 he was chosen attorney of the village of |UJ, I'ark. lake their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman are roemlufsof Ihe Presbyterian Church. I hey have three children - MiIh) II, born November SI, 1S74; Mary F.thel, November tl. 157(1. Helen, tktolxr 3.

NICHOLAS HUNT was born in 154(1, in Ireland, and imrmgrated to the Cnited States in lS6(, settling in Fast I'my. X, Y., with his brother John, who is now SU|x-rcisor of lite Tenth Ward. In 1- > voting lluni, came 10 Chicago, and obtained enipluyrrKni from the South Park Conimissioners. September 15. 1871. lit »» enrolled as a tulnilman of the town ol Hyde Pari. In U was promoted to the position of captain nf police for thr shale tillage, which he still holds- In 1S74 Mr, Hunt was married to Mi« Johanna I'ruminitis, a native of jhinkirk, N. \'., 1*1 a resxlrct i.{ Chicago since 1S70; they are the parents of three children - MkLael, in 1S74: Annie, in l*7<). and Nellie, in lS7!i.

From 1877 to i99i He was a member of the Stale Hoard of Kqual- Icilinn by appoimratnt, anil since ISSi by election. Octolier 2. 1S56, he was married to Anna, a daughter of kcv. Charles Marlvn. of Ver.ma, Oneida Co.. V V. Thev arc the parents of live children anil have one grand-child. They removed 10 Hyde I'arfc in t«Jt. where Mr. Root Idled the position of school director in 1862, 1S63 and 1 3f>4. and achieved ximc reputation anions his townsmen as a prudent officer.

KUWARD KVAN WOOPLE was liorn March S. iSjj. in lancsvillc. Wis., son of Isaac and Cornelia (Sheldon) Woo He; the lather was a lawjer, and was interested in securing the charter of the Chicago & KccSi River Valley Railroad; now a pari of the Chi. cagn \ North.Wcstern. lie dies! in Jancsvillc April 3. tfKii. The mother was the second daughter nf "t icncral William II. Sheldon, originally nf Delhi. Crawford Co.. N. V., and later of Milwaukee and Jancsvillc: she died In May, 1S117. Voting Woodlc studied at Racine College, graduating In the class of 1873, and has since received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater; he then studied law under Samuel Handles, of Waukesha, and afterward entered the Law School of Madison I niversity; whence he graduates) in !$75 with the degree of LI.. B-, and was admitted to the liar of Wisconsin. In is-n he came to Chicago, entering the law office of Isham & Lincoln, and in 1S7; was admitted to the liar of Illinois, In April. 1S7S. he entered the service of the law department of the Illinois Centra! Railroad < omp-inv; a position he still holds. Mr. Woodlc is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Hyde I'ark. where he has resided since IS77.

South Park System

Everything that has made a permanent antl extensive mark in the histories of nations will lie found capable of being traced to a germinativc idea in the brain of one individual. Confraternities may carry on and amplify the work succeeding to the thought ; the thought was in the brain of one num. Gulvuni and the frog-legs ; Watt and the tea-kettle ; Franklin antl the kite; Daguerre and the nitrate of silver, ail were embryonic gems of thought, whose expansion, by the brains and actions of others, has been illimitable. And the atom, around which other atomic ideas segregated, until the vast park system of Chicago became a belt of verdure, whose every leaf voiced the thanks of the half a million of Chicago's workers? the little park upon the lake shore created by Paul Cornell, in 1*57, near the foot of what is now Fifty-third street. The idea engendered thereby simply was to enhance the value of the real estate in Hyde- Park by attractive environment ; ami what was feasible and successful in a restricted locality, would probably be advantageous if applied to much larger sections ; if, in its application, the design was commensurate with the area to which it was to be an ornament. In 1S66, the idea of such adaptation to the region where the South Parks now are began to be discussed ; and the following gentlemen became subjects of the attractive cohesion of similarity of thought, and commenced making definite efforts to locate the South Parks. These gentlemen were Paul. Cornell, George M. Kimbark, Chatincey T. Bowen, George R. Clarke, Obadiah Jackson, Jonathan Young Scammon and J. Irving Pean e. These gentlemen sent letters of inquiry to various places where public parks are maintained, asking for descriptions of the systems whereby they are originated, supported, etc., and from such descriptions they eliminated such features as seemed undesirable, and incorporated the remainder, with such amendments as were necessary, in a bill for the action of the Legislature, with which Paul Cornell went to Springfield, and there remained timing the winter of 1867, advocating the measure. This bill provided for the appointment of five commissioners, whom the Governor should appoint; the amount of bonds to be issued were not to exceed $1,000,000, and the amount of tax to be levied in any one year was not to be more than §200,000. No specific properly was designated as the intended location for the parks, part of the duty of the commissioners being to select the sites for improvement ; but the prevalent idea was that Egandale, which had already been made a public pleasure-ground by Dr. William Bradshaw Egan, lying between Forty-seventh and Fifty-fifth streets, antl east of Cottage Grove Avenue, would be selected ; the hill providing that the prospective park was not to be farther north than Thirty-fifth Street, nor farther south than Sixty-third Street, antl was to also be between Michigan Avenue and Lake Michigan. The bill was signed and submitted to the people at the spring town election of Hyde Park, as a special vote. The voters, through misunderstanding the sentiment of the people, and possibly chicane, voted their ballots both affirmatively and negatively as to the park tpiestion ; and the act was killed by a majority of one hundred and sixty-nine votes. This, however, only acted as an incentive to another effort, and accordingly a bill was compiled w herein the location of the parks was defined. The situation of them was decided by a committee of citizens, comprising Jonathan Young Scammoii, George C. Walker, George R. Clarke, J li ving Pean e, joseph M. I lake. Ilenrv H. Honore. Chatincey T, Bowen, A. F'.migh, P. R, West fall. Schuyler S. Hcnjamm, John Fitch and John I). Jennings, The bill was given to Mr. bowen to t ike to Springfield; and by the Legislature it was passed, by a vote of fiftyeight to two in the , House, and by a vote of twentythree to one in the Senate. The act was approved February 24, 1869; the eighteenth section of such act providing that an election should be held in the towns of Smith Chicago, Hyde Park antl I -ike, on the fourth Tuesday in March next after the passage of the act, to ratify or annul sai3 act ; the act without such ratification by the popular vote being null and void. Such election was held, and resulted ; For the parks and boulevards, 9,66? ; against the parks and boulevards, 6.035 : majority, making the act a law, 3.737. The land set apart by the act for the parks and boulevards was described as follows : " Commencing at the southwest corner of Fifty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, running thence south along the west side of Cottage- Grove Avenue to the south line of Fifty-ninth Street; thence east along the south line of Fifty-ninth Street to the east line of Hyde Park Avenue; thence north on Hyde Park Avenue to Fifty-sixth Street ; thence cast along the south line of Fifty-sixth Street to Lake Michigan ; thence southerly along the shore of the lake to a point due cast of the center of Section twenty-four 24 . in Township thirty-eight 1 38 north. Range fourteen (14; thence west through the center of said Section twenty-four 24 to Hyde Park Avenue; thence north on the east line of Hyde Park Avenue to the north line of Sixtieth Street, so 'called : thence west on the north line of Sixtieth Street, so t ailed, to Kankakee Avenue ; thence north on the east line of Kankakee Avenue to Fifty-fust Street ; thence east to a point to the place of beginning. Also, a piece of land Commencing at the southeast [amended to northeast by act of April 16, 1869] corner of Kankakee Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, running thence west a strip two hundred feet wide adjoining the north line of Fifty-fifth Street, along said Fifty-fifth Street to the line Ix-twcen Ranges thirteen (13 : and' fourteen 14 east ; thence north, cast of and adjoining said line, a strip two hundred feet wide, to the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Also, a parcel of land beginning at the southwest corner of Douglas Place and Kankakee Avenue, running thence south a strip of land one hundred and thirty-two feet wide, along the west side of said Kankakee Avenue, to a point one hundred and fifty feet south of the south line of Fiftyfirst Street. Also, a strip of land commencing at the intersection of Cottage Grove Avenue ami Fifty-fin! Street, running thence east one hundred feet in width on each side of the center line of Fifty-first Street, to a point one hundred feet east of the center line »f IJrexel Avenue. Also, a strip of land extending north from the intersection of Fifty-first Street with Drcxcl Avenue, one hundred feet in width on each side of the center line of said avenue to the north line of Fortythird Street ; thence northerly, a strip of land two hundred feet in width, till it meets or intersects with Elm Street in ("leaverville ; thence northerly along said Elm Street. t«0 hundred feet in width, west from the east line of said street to its intersection with Oakwood Avenue." The first Hoard of Commissioners appointed were : John M. Wilson, Paul Cornell who has remained continuously in office as such commissioner , Levered H. Sidway, George W. Gage and Chauncey T. Bowen, At the first meeting of the board the following gentlemen were chosen officers: John M. Wilson, president ; Paul Cornell, secretary ; George 15. Smith, treasurer ; and George Washington Waitc, chief engineer. Naturally, the next question discussed by the board was the best method of hypothecating the $j,ooo.ooo of bonds they were authorized, by the act, to issue ; and which were to bear not to exceed seven per (entiim per annum. The bonds were disposed of at prices averaging eight f>tr centum discount, and with the money thus realized the commissioners proceeded to procure the real estate designated. An appraisal of the eleven hundred acres by five prominent real estate dealers, during the winter of 1869 -70, was $1,700,000. The Circuit Court appointed, as commissioners to estimate the augmentation of value to property by the park improvements, Benjamin F. Hadduck, W. L Grecnleaf and George Washington Waite. Their estimate was that the land would be benefited fifteen millions of dollars; a pretty good result from an investment of §1,700.000. Then the commissioners proceeded to purc hase the land ; and the prices paid then, and the value of land in the immediate vicinity, will manifest how chary Messrs. Waite, Hadduck and Greenlcaf were of over-estimating the augmented value. The pnncii»al part of the land was purchased in 1869 and 1 870.

The following table will exhibit the prices paid by the commissioners for the acre property ; in some cases the price was only decided after protracted litigation; but in the main, the lots were sold at a fair price by the proprietors, without recourse to appeals.

Washington Park

* This p|i»« was offered to the cnmn.is*iioicrs al priswte sole for fuoassa, ;it lite time Ittiiratton was tsuumenced ; but the eoinmwsinivrrs. after coaaujltlliloith soch authorities upon value of land as Janes M. Hoes, A. J. Avrrill, and others of like acumen, all »4 »!»»« .uisiilered the price esressivelj- Inn*, pro. ereded with the lioutitlun foe condetnnalinei. and, after lliree trials, were compelled to pay tlic sum named awl Lhr ci»*t» of the litigation t la 1*71. the two hundred anil rWsauo the Phillips, now [tunics v. traci cnold lmrc been condemned at a valuation ol about %iy.ooo: but by advice ol counsel, an 3i.-irei~.it as made with Mr, Phillips to purchaie the laud for lloo pel acre, but the title proved defective, and the land IV still in lilir.li.oi. lni»lo.this s»,r. mrrtl. of over two hundred acre.

H. S. Monroe, it «/., transferred the property to H. 0 Stone for §7.500, and this grantee In turn conveyed tn James Marks, in 1S67. for $10,500. In 1870, Messrs. Marks and Turner sold it for §51,500. In 1S35, Chartea IV. Cook pan] 8200 for the whole southeast quarter wherein the twenty-six acres sold by Mrs. t ook are located, and in the same year sold one-half of the quarter section for §100 to George W, Merrill. In 1&6&, Mrs. Cook paid Thomas Foster, H *A, §17.500 for seven and one-half acres in the same tract. The north fifty acres in South Park were entered - with eighty-three more acres - in 1835, by J. Smith, for §iS7.'oR. In 1X37, the fifty acres was sold to Norman Kcw. for §1,000. In 1S54. Mary L Watson conveyed to John R. Pollard, ft ,1/., consideration. §4,250; in 1857. Henry II. I'enniman sold the plot to Samuel

Relative, to the disproportionate amounts paid for the various tracts, it may be authoritatively stated that, at the time the first Park Act was passed, property in the district hounded by Forty-seventh ami Fifty-first streets and Cottage drove ami Vincenues avenues, was selling for from §100 to 8300 per acre, and property south of Fifty-Ant, and north of Sixty-third streets, for from §100 to §150 an acre. Therefore it is no illusory idea to consider, that the one thousand acres of ground could have been purchased for park purposes, in their present locality, at an average of $500 per acre at that time. Hut the defeat of the first park bill, ami the period that elapsed prior to the second bill passing, thoroughly Informed the people of the prospective demand for their real estate for park purposes ; and from 1 S67 to 1X72-7.;, the amounts asked were simply enormous. Not alone were the exaggerated ideas of property value caused by the park necessities, but likewise by a disproportionate conception of the augmentation of prices caused by the location of the parks. In many cases, in real estate transactions, four and five times as much as the property was actually worth was asked. 'The actual increase in value, however, has In-en enormous, as property in the vicinity of the parks that, in 1867, bad been averajjed at §500 per acre, now is worth from five to twenty thousand dollars per acre, according to location ; some choice tracts adjoining the park being salable at much higher prices than the last quoted, Hut. had the fust bill passed by the vote of the people, and the property been bought ere the park demand had excited individual cupidity, there is no doubt that the land would have cost less than three quarter! of a million, whereas now the purchase price, with interest, costs of litigation, etc., will bring the amount to the vicinage of §6.000,000.

'The present park commissioners arc Barnard Callahan, John H. Sherman, I^mis Wahl, John R. Walsh and Martin J. Russell. Paul Cornell, the commissioner who was 011 the Ixiard from its establishment, went out by reason of a decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Under the act of 1881. Mr. Cornell was appointed commissioner for the third time, hut the court decreed the act void and Louis Wahl was appointed in his place.

A statistical statement of the amount of land converted into park*, etc., will be found in the iV.lowintable of the Snutl) Parks and boulevards: paid on Mint, all discounts, premiums, and Interest on bonds, nil penalties, costs and expend--., and the difference of interest betw een the time <>f purchase of the park land* and the payment of the final installment of the South I'ark assessment, ruining the whole account on a final settlement greatly in arrears to land account.

The Washington Park Ct.rn arc the proprietors <if the Washington Driving Park, comprising eighty acres of land, just south of South Park, and located between Sixty-first and Sixty-third street*, and Cottage Grove Avenue and Grand Boulevard, The history of this club is thus given by the Chicago Inter-Ocean:

"The first thought of this club originated in the brain of Albert S. Gage, Esq., who has never faltered for a moment in bis efforts to make the club a grand success. Through his instrumentality a stock WMnnany was formed w ith the capital stock of $150,000. With this start the club has to-day one of the finest courses in the country, if not in the world. Upon their lot has been erected a club house which cost upward of $50,000, and which far surpasses anything of its character in the world. There is nothing in America that can compare with the Washington Park Club. When the gates are opened Chicago will see the handsomest club house in the United States. In the laying out of the ground the club has bail the good fortune to have the combined talents of S. S. Beman, the architect of Pullman, and X. F. Barrett, the well-known landscape gardener. 'These gentlemen have worked together with a view of making the buildings and landscape harmonize, and the entire plat as picturesque as possible. There will be ample drives for the club members, and a perfect track for public meetings and members' speed trials. 'The grand stand will be the finest in the world, being five hundred feet long, two stories high, fitted with refreshment rooms, parlors and reception rooms, the whole costing upward of $40,000, and capable of seating ten thousand people. Stables are now completed to accommodate two hundred and eighty horses, and as many more will be erected in the spring. The clubhouse, which will occupy a position twelve feet alxne the track, with a lawn sloping from it, will I>e completed by May 1. It will be one hundred and thirty-six feet long by ninety-seven wide, and two stories, basement and attic in height, In the basement will be the kitchen, storerooms, heating apparatus, cellar, etc., and the attic will contain the servant and lumber rooms. On the main floor will l>e a spacious entrance hall, club oflice, cafe (with serving anil wine rooms off , billiard-room, a ladies' waiting-room, a )>arlor for the directors, a lavatorv, and live private dining-rooms. Extending around the entire building on this floor is a veranda sixteen feet wide, which will be provided with chairs and other conveniences for witnessing the rates. The second floor contains a grand dining-hall, seven private diningrooms, wine and serving-rooms, a grand hall, ladies' parlor, ladies' toilet and private-room and cloak room, A covered balcony sixteen feet wide also runs around the entire building of this story. All of the rooms and halls have lire-places specially designed for each by Mr. Beinan. Upon the third floor are also some sleepingrooms and bath-rooms, and upon the roof of the building are two open observatories, from which every part of the parjc and surrounding country can be seen. The grand dining-hall referred to wilt have an elaborate timbered ceiling, antl all of the private dining-rooms will have sliding doors, so. if desired, they may be thrown together. 'The main entrance halls and staircases will be finished in white ash, and the rest of the structure will Ik- treated in white pine, The main staircase will be an elaborate affair, and will be a very attractive feature of the large hall. The families of members are expected to visit the club, consequently the necessity of the strict scrutiny spoken of previously. At the present moment there are three hundred members admitted to this club. The initiation fee is $150, and the applications for membership are quite numerous. Before the gates open it is expected that there will be five hundred members. There is not a name on the rolls but what has passed the most rigid scrutiny, and a membership in the Jockey Club is virtually a guarantee of the owner's standing in s<K;iety. The club have opened stakes for the various ages of thoroughbreds, and will give their inaugural meeting beginning June 28, closing July 12. Racing on alternate days. In the young classes the stakes closed October 15, with three hundred anil seventy-five nominations. The entries for the general meeting close January 15, at which time fully as many more entries will probably be made. This new club will offer an opportunity to those who enjoy the letter qualities of the turf sports The thousands who have each summer gone to Saratoga and other Eastern resorts to enjoy racing will now make this city the terminus of their summer tours. The residents of Chicago who have long desired an objective point for their drives will find in this club the fulfill ment of these desires. It will elevate the taste and benefit the turf. Fine turnouts will he numerous, and the sport will be dignified. Mr. J. J. E. Dewater, the late secretary, did much to further the success of the club, he being a member of the American Jockey Club of New York."

At the annual meeting of the Washington Park Club the following officers were elected: Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, president : N. K. Fairbank, first vicepresident ; Samuel W. Allcrton, second vice-president ; John W. Doane, third vice-president ; Albert S. Gage, fourth vice-president ; John R. Walsh, treasurer ; John E. Brewster, secretary. Executive Committee - The president, vice-presidents and the treasurer, ex-officio ; H.J. Mncfarland, John Dupee, Jr.. George II. Rozet, 1 n.es Van Inwage 1. Martin A. Rverson, Morto , B. Hull and John E. Brewster. Building Committee- Morton B. Hull. Albert S. Gage, Martin A. Ryerson, Charles A. Schwartz, S. H. Sweet, Racing Stewards - Albert S. Gage, George H Rozet. H. J. Macfarland, John Dupee, Jr., John E. Brewster. Furnishing Committee - 11. J. Macfarland. John Dupee, Jr., C. D. HamiN. House Committee - Charles -Schwartz. Albert S. Gage, James Van Inwagen.

Oak Woods Cf.mftkrv. - On the nth of February, 185 V an act of incorporation was legalized, whereby Joseph B. Wells. William B. Herrick, John Evans. Norman B. Judd, William B. Egan, Ebenezer Peck. J. Voting Scammon, R. K. Swift and Charles N. McKubbin were crystallized into "'The Oak Woods Cemetery Association." The purport of such corporation and the powers granted by the act can l>e readily inferred from the caption ; the land that they now own as a necropolis is situated bet wen Sixty- seventh and Seventy-first streets and Cottage Grove Avenue and the right of way of the Illinois Central Railroad. The great event that has occurred at the cemetery was the unveiling of the monument to the memory of the soldiers deceased in the War of the Rebellion; on Decoration Day, May 30, 1875. 'The ceremonies were under the auspices and direction of the ladies of the Soldiers' Home, and Whittier and Hilliard Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic. Four companies of the First

Regiment I. N. G. participated in the procession, which was headed by Nevans and Dean's band; in tliis procession appeared a wagon, drawn by eight white horses, containing the customary thirty-eight young ladies dressed in white, emblematic of the States of the Union. On approaching the c emetery, the " I Had March in Saul " was played, and the military marched with arms reversed. Arriving at the monument the services were commenced pursuant to the ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic ; the pupils of Knglewood school sang two songs under the leadership of Miss Mack and Mr. Murray, prayer w.is offered by Rev. Johnson, of Hyde Park, and Rev. Donnelly, of Knglewood. read a scripture passage and the assemblage sang " America." The consuetudinal original poem was read by Mr. Samuel West, of Hyde l'ark, and the mind* of the auditors being in a mournful mood attuned to this portion of the ceremony) the monument was unveiled. It is a handsome work of art, representing a soldier, dressed in fatigue uniform, standing at "parade -rest," upon a pedestal of white marble, and a base of granite. After the unveiling, T, R. liryan made a speech, the band played, Bishop Charles K. Cheney and H. S. Vail spoke ; the doxology was sung and the benediction pronounced, after which the audience dispersed to lay the customary floral offerings upon the graves of the quiet sleepers. The present cemetery is neatly laid out and contains many handsome mausolea of departed citizens. The officers of the corporation are MarCUS A. Farwcll. president; George M. Itogue, secretary ; W. C. D. G rami is, treasurer, and William Dcnnison, superintendent.

Grand Crossing

In 1854, two railroad trains collided at the crossing of the Illinois Central and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads, on what is now Seventv-fifth street. One result of that accident was a decree from the lail road companies that all trains should stop before reaching the crossing of the roads ; and this suggested to Paul Cornell that the adjacent countrv would be a convenient site for a village, and on November 10. 1855, he bought a section of land there and gradually added thereto, merely paying taxes on the proi>crtv and keeping improvements away - so as not to enhance the property valuation, and consequently the taxes levied thereupon - until 1X71. Nine hundred and sixty acres in Sections 26 and .55, Township 38 north, Range 14 east, were platted and subdivided as the final plat being filed on Fcbniarv 16, 1872 ; the original plat of the village ascended, with a quantity of other possessions of Mr. Cornell, in the smoke of" the great fire. Cornell is four and a half miles south of the oty limits, and is especially eligible for manufacturing Rites; the large number of railroads centering there, over which three hundred trains run dailv, render the receipt of raw material and the shipment of the manufactured article a facie process. The town has a hotel-the Grand t ross.ng Hotel built in .87,. by Mr. Cornelland furnishes educational facilities at two schools. The firs school, called the Cornell school, was built, ,87, on land given by Mr Cornell, but the extension of & '3 ;,ruSaml ,he rcPleti*nof the Cornell school

1870-71, and was the Cornell Watch Factorv. This building was erected at a cost of S7a,oeo, and the wat, hmaking was successfully carried on until 1875. irkcn the machinery, etc., was transferred to California and in December. 1875, the Wilson Sewing Machine Company occupied the building and remained therein until t&$>, when the plant was removed to Wallingford, I t., the administration of the W ilson Sewing Machine Company having changed. In i860, or 1861. Paul Cornell purchased the territory around, and comprising die settlement of anil Charles A. Norton and Paul Cornell subdivided it This hamlet lies west of Cottage Grove Avenue ind north of Seventy-fifth street, and was one of the early settlements of the village of Hyde Park. They had a little school there in 1808; and the death of Mr Field, Sr., during the same year, is supposed to have hecn the demise of the first white man in all that section of country. The earliest settlers were John, Peter ami tames Storms; John and Orvillc Field; Peter Cudmore. then connected with the Prairie Farmer, and the Nichols family. Prior to the erection of the Cornell Watch Factory the section which was sulHlivided and legally named Cornell, but subsequently renamed Grand Crossing by Mr. Cornell, because there was another pestofiiec in the State called < orncll," was one vast expanse ot water meadows. The early history of Cornell may be epitomized as - a small depot, a railroad crossing and a telegraph office. VV. H. Albright was the a^ent of tine Illinois Central Railroad Company, until April 1, 1866, when the present agent, R. 1'. Dunne, was appointed, and he. literally, was the first settler at Cornell. The first store-keeper was Joseph Lawton. who kept a neutral stock of goods on Seventy-sixth Street near Kgandale Avenue, and he was the first person resident of die Mini of Cornell, arriving there April 11. 1872. Those irho built the first dwelling-houses in Cornel! were Jo-e|<h Lawton, John llurke, Paul Cornell and Adam Neeh. in 1 87 a. The first Postmaster was R. P. Dunne, appointed April 1, 1872 ; the present Posmastcr, Joseph Lawton. succeeded him July 1, 1872. In April, 1873, the name of the village was changed from Cornell to Grand Crossing, bv Mr. Cornell, to avoid the confusion created by the identity of names of this Cornell and another in Livingston County ; and the applicability of the new name has so forcibly commended itself that it ims adopted by the railroad authorities and gradually hy the inhabitants.

The first religious services held were by Rev w H. Holmes in the railroad station on October 2;. he and Henry C. Northrop commenced religious work in that month, and on January s l<4j»,** organization was made with a congregation of nine members and three probationers. July 1.5. iSjj. tlc church edifice was dedicated, the land upon was erected having been donated by Mr. Cornell, wh<< also gave §1,200 toward the building fund. The money with which the church was built was solicited principally by Miss Nina G. Lunt. In the summer of i^j ->" addition twenty feet by twentv-four feet was ball to 'te church. The Sunday-school at organization had irr.rtcen scholars ; it now has three hundred and seventeen, the number of members now is one hundred and eight. The church property is worth §5-5°° following have been the pastors of the church : »uPr plies; at organization. W. H Holmes : October. 1S7-1 J. W. Duncan; October, 1875-76, D. M. lomp^. October, 1S76-79, J. W. Richards, pastor; Uctulxr,

History Of

The Calholie Congregation at ( Irand Crossing numbers about three hundred, with an attendance at the Sundayschool of some eighty scholars. Their spiritual Deeds arc supplied by a priest who visits the village and says mass at Social Hall, hut this method will shortly be abrogated, as steps arc now l>eing taken to erect a church edifu e befitting the size of the congregation.

1 here are several secular societies which meet in the village. Amo Lodge, Knights 0/ Honor, No. 1,826, was instituted October 14, 1879, with fourteen charter members. The first officers elected were : A.J. Davis, dictator ; C. H. Pattisun, vice dictator ; R. 1>. Kirbv, assistant dictator; H. L Pease, reporter; M. M. Barnes, financial reporter; J. \V. Tinsley, treasurer: J. W. Halliday, chaplain; William McDowell, guide; A. Hunt, guardian, and John Dutnall, sentinel. The present membership is sixty-one, and the officers are : G. H. Chapman, dictator; \V. I.. Cray, vice dictator; J. S. Scovel, assistant dictator; Hiram L. Pease,* reporter ; Julius Mailer, financial reporter ; A. C. Rantzler, treasurer ; William Gill, chaplain ; K. Burns, guide ; A. J. Davis, guardian ; William Everett, sentinel ; HVL. Pease, medical examiner ; J. C. Scovel, G. G. Thomson, H. L Pease, trustees ; E. C. Scovel, sitting past dictator. There have been but two deaths in the lodge in four years, with an average of thirty-six members.

The Athletes of Grand Crossing likewise have a Turn Verein, which was organi/.ed February 21, 1878, with a membership of about forty ; the officers elected the same day were : First sprec'her president . Julius Miiller; second sprecher ( vice-president , H. IlackenbfOCh ; William Scidlcr, secretary; H. Kettler, treasurer ; Joseph Kocnig, first turnwart ; Fred Werdele, Second turnwart, and John Wodrich. steward. The society at present has a membership of thirty-six persons, and has a complete paraphernalia of gymnastic apparatus. It also has two lots on the corner of Seventy-fifth Street and Dobson Avenue, where it intends erecting a Turn-Halle when the requisite funds shall have been subscribed. Its officers at present arc: George Ruhr, president; O. Landolf, vice-president: E. SeltS, secretary, from whom these particulars were obtained ); J. Wodnch, cashier ; G. Hackenbroch, treasurer ; Ferd Hansen, first turnwart; Joseph Roedel, Second turnwart, and II. Hackenbroch, steward.

There is also a West Side Draining Association that contemplates draining the locality by pumping off the surface water. Its officers are ; Joseph Lawton, president ; F. Patzaek. vice-president ; Hugo Boos, treasurer, and H. C. Robinson, secretary.

The M anckac iukk.s ok Granu Crossing. - The Wilson Foundry, Williamson \' Barker, proprietors, was established in 1876, at an outlay for buildings and machinery ol $16,000: the number of men employed at the outset was nineteen, the augmentation of the busi- ness since increased the number to fifty-two. The amount paid out last year for freight received by the foundry was $j,32o; the value of manufactured goods

The Chicago I.inseed Oil mill was erected in 1879 by William Ray. William Aldrich, J. F. Aldrich, II. T. Yaryan and P. C. Hanford. The last named gentleman bought out the interests of the other partners in 1883, and now controls the manufactory alone. The capacity of the mill is slated at one thousand bushels of seed and fifty barrels of oil |>cr diem, the latter being produced by what is known as the naphtha process of extraction. The average number of employes is fourteen.

Chapman, Green & Company's chemical works were established in 1876, having been removed from Hudson, Mich., in that year, where they had been in successful operation since 1865. The value of the annual product of the works is estimated at §150,000; an increase in their trade of over $130,000 in seven years. The estimated cost of buildings and chemical apparatus is $ 1.000. The members of the linn are: Dennison, W. Chapman, George W. Green, C. A. Baker and Alonzo Cook. They employ from twenty-five to thirty-live workmen.

The sewing-machine furniture factory of F. Patzack, Hugo Boos and J. Routchke was established in 1868 by Pat/ack & Schultz. This firm dissolved in 1876, and F. Patzack removed to Grand Crossing and erected a cabinet-making shop one hundred and twentyfive feet by forty feet, three stories high; a finishing, packing and shipping shop one hundred feet by thirty feet, three stories high; both of brick; a drying kiiii, seventy-five feet by twenty feet, and a store-house for veneers, seventy-live feet by twenty-five feet. The capital invested will aggregate $100,000, and the value of the thirty thousand pieces manufactured per annum will amount to about $80,000. The linn employ one hundred ami ten hands during the busy season.

The Chicago Tack Company, Orrin I.. Basalt, proprietor, established their works on September 1, 1S76, at an outlay of §12.000, and the number of men employed the first year was ten, ami the value of the manufactures $40,000. In the present year thirty-three hands were employed, and the sales aggregated $160,000. The charges paid to railroad companies for freights to their factory last year amounted to about $5,000. The supply of iron used is obtained principally from Sweden.

The Lyman Barbed Wire Manufacturing Company was established in April, 1879, by F. T. Sherman, E. j'. Marsh, E. N. Sherman and E. S. Marsh, the members forming an incorporated company with a capital of $10,000. The building was leased from William Aidrich, and was successively used as a linseed oil mill, a furniture factory, and in October, 1880, as a barbedwire factory, when $20,000 worth of machinery was placed in the building. The patent under which this firm manufacture was obtained by Ross I.yman, of Des Moines, Iowa, and purchased from him in 1879. The number of men employed in 1S80 was twenty; in 1883, seventy-five. The product for the year ending October, 1881, was valued at $250,000; for the same period of 1SS3 it aggregated $600,000. The company receive and ship about ten thousand tons of wire annually, and pav $40,000 per annum freight charges. The 1 >oniinion Barbed Ware factory, at Montreal, Canada, was established by Marsh & Sherman in 1880, and sold to Cooper, Fairman & Company January 1. 18S3. November, 1SS3. the works were shut down, but' their opening

The Mason & Davis foundry WtU> built in 1S.S1, and furnishes cniploynictU to about one hundred men. 1l manufactures a large variety of small canting*, as well as those n-tpiired for large healing and conking stoves.

their factory at tlr.ind Crossing in July, 188*, at an expenditure ol $10,000. an<l the works placed in Charge of J. S. itedinglon. Thirty mechanic* are employed, and" the annual produc t of the factory estimated at one million yards of rubber cloth, worth $iSo.ooo. The total sales of robber cloth and duthinty for the year terminating July, 1883, amounted to about $.500,000.

The Chicago Lock Company, organized under the laws of the State in July, |XS», established their factory at Grand Crossing in August of the same year. The machinery, patterns, building, ett, cost about $15,000. The works are at present inoperative, but the management expect to open them shortly, and furnish employ ment to forty men. The officers of the company are: H. I). Huff, president; S. S. Calkins treasurer, and James T. (ianson, secretary.

The Grand Crossing Tack Company was incorporated August zrf, 1883, with a capital of $10,000/ The stock company comprises Arthur J. BosSett, Fdward W, Hutchinson and Tht-ophila F.. liasscll. The factory employs twenty-two hands, and although they have been running but about three mouths, they have already secured a large and increasing trade.

Wilson ffjttt Ci'ta/><t/i\; .V,\ J. - On June iS, 1X76, Wilson Hose Company, No. 4, was organized with the following members: j. I 'ill, captain : IV. C Cogswell, lieutenant ; J. (.'. Mulcahey, first assistant lieutenant ; Wi H. Ravnor, president; l>. U. Kirby. vice-president; Martin King, treasurer; Henry Ellsworth, secretary ; James I iamcy. steward ; Sylvester lirai ken, Thomas Raynor. John Hr.u kcn. Robert Shirley. Joseph Mulcahey, Ccorgc Trotter, R. A. Seites and William R. Gill, privates. The name of this company has since l>cen changed to ('.rand Crossing Hose Company, No. 4 ; their apparatus originally consisted of one band hook and ladder truck and one hand hose carl. Their present engine house is situated at the corner of llolison and Seventy- Fifth streets, ami cost $2,500 ; and the company now has a double horse honk and ladder tnn k and one two-wheeled hand hose cart, with one thousand feet of rubber hose ; and an auxiliary company of No. 4 has a hand hose cart and five hundred feel of rubber hose. The present meinliers of the company are : A. Hackenbrock, captain ; R. F. I5oos, lieutenant ; F. Hansen, first assistant; <i. Hackenbrock, president ; M. Wolf, vice-president ; J. Mullen, treasurer ; 0. Hansen, cashier ; Joseph Roedcl, secretary; T. Schlinsky, steward ; J. Wodrich, O. A. Scidler, T. Helton. William Kllfclt, Enoil Scitz and H. Hackenbrock, privates.

Grand Crossing Biographical Sketchf.S.

A. J. UASSKTT, president and treasurer of ihe Grand Crossing Tack Company, was born in Taunlon, Mass., in 1S53. and was educated in his native tnwn. In 1S72 he settled in Chicago as agent (or the Taunton Tack Company, and remained in their empluy until 1876 when lie hecaroe connected with the Chicago Tack Company as commercial manager. This he continued until iSSj. when the Grand Crossing Tack Company was organiicd. of which he is a co partner.

OUR IN L. BASSETT, proprietor of the Chicago Tack Company, was born in Taunton, Mass.. Apiil [6, 1624. A/tcr leaving school he worked on Ihe home (arm, also learning the trade of carpenter and pattern-maker, which he followed until ihe year 1648. lie then went to California and engaged in nfthing. Remixing to Massachusetts after an aV.ence ot abuul two years, he Wis tmpluyed in Ge.-rge I'. Foster $t Co's gun manulaclary ai a pal. tcni-maker. tie was next einpoyed by General tlumtiile ai ass staut superintendent in the witud department in a gun nui. factory at Rhode I. land. In |3$S he accepted a puaituiu i> the Tauninn Tack Fac'ory. in Taunlon. of which he was an iiwnrt and director, running and building machines. At the end ol the second year he had constructed a- id built on a new plan a k-alktr, carpet and .1 tack machine, the same pallern of tack machine thai is 11 -ed to day by the Chicago Tack Company, and frow whit* nearlv every lack machine built since has copied. Wiih the ei. cepiinn of eleven month* (from 1S63 to IWJ] during which he served in the war in the 3d Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Company K. lie remained with the Taunlon Tack Company eighteen ye.111. In 157; he removed to Cook County and estllitished the Chicago Tack Company at Grand Crossing.

J. C. IlLEvV ETT. superintendent of the Western Steel Company, was burn in Huff 1I0. New York, in 1841. Me war educated in his native city At ihe age of nineteen he engaged in sailing on ihe lakes in the summer. In the winter he was employ.d in machine shops, being what is called a "natural mechanic." la 1 S70 he removed to Chicago, where he engaged in lake service, having charge nf steam dredge and flee:. In 167) he bnill the " Uret Ilarte." »n excursion steamer, and commanded her until l9so, when he sold oul, and the following year took present position. Mr, lllewetl is a member of the A. O. U. W. of Chicago; being a Select Knight of the Older.

JOHN HURLING, of the fiim ol Gu-tarson 4 florlinr. ccatraciors and builders, was but 11 in Ostergotland, Sweden. Jane 30, $45. Afier leaving school he was engaged in manu'ictiirirg estahli-hmenta in various positions until 1867, when hecuneliithc U ited Slates. He first located on Long Island lor a lew mentis, then removed to Pennsylvania ; ftom tlieie he removed M l"r"c>i<x Shortly afterward he came to Hyde Paik. whete he fol nwrd the tr.ide of carpenter some four years. Thence he removed loGniid Crossing and followed tl.c fame business until the present fi-rtiwu nrgmired. He was matticd in Hvde Park in 1S7J to MM r>m» Skag, a native of Sweden. They have two ch.ldrrn-Juhn Victor nnd Augusta Elvira. Mr. Ilorling is a member of ihe h.olll.of Grand Crossing. .

t;, II. CHAPMAN. M. D., physician and surgeon, wu wre in Tallmadge. Summit Co., Ohio, November 10, 1*5"- uc was educated in the schools and academy of hrs native town In wp he settled ill Hudson. Mich., where he commenced studying mencine under his faiher. a practicing physician. The M.owing mi he entered the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor. At cm" o( the course he removed to Chicago and studied under W * Reeves Jackson, at the same time attending lectures al Ku.-n Medical College. He graduated February. 1S74. ;e,u/"rT Hudson and engaged in practice with his f.lher. IS 1 settled in Grand Crossing in the practice of his ptUltS«W» Chapman is a memberof the American Medical Association and a

WM.I.IAM DENNISON. superintendent «l Oak Cemetery, was appointed t" his present P"'«'"» He was born in South Shield. Durham Couniy. E"fl,nd;;*; education in hi. native coonly. He was bcourht uu followed the «ame business in BflW"" United States aud sealed in Ui «l where for some years he followed the business of contracts

1 S6u, when It came to the United States and sealed JjO^E where for some years he followed the business of «I'SU»I'"" fronts for business blocks and private houses At ir« employ*, afterward in business fur himself. Ht JWf'^JJ engaged in general occupalions until apjwnted to his pre

Septembe, i, tS42. His parents moved After Conn.v. when he was an infant. He waseducated In 1 Undo n. A"P leaving achool he learnt telegraphy at ftsg*;^ engage<l in clerking, in a hardware store in Henry, 1 l»ja c i||ei) about three years, the las! year being in charge ol me ^