Album of genealogy and biograghy, Cook County, Illinois, 10th ed., Part 1

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Chicago, Calumet book & engraving co
Number of Pages: 916

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GENEALOGY COLLECTION

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ALBUM OF GENEALOGY

AND

BIOGRAPHY

COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS

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WITH PORTRAITS

TENTH EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED

CHICAGO CALUMET BOOK & ENGRAVING CO.

1898

THE CALUMET PRESS

PRINTED BY CALUMET BOOK & ENGRAVING COMPANY 170-174 SOUTH CLINTON STREET CHICAGO

PREFACE

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E BELIEVE the time has arrived when it becomes the duty of the people of this county to perpetuate the names of their pioneers, to fur- nish a record of their early settle- ment, and relate the story of their progress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age, and the duty that men of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity, demand that a record of their lives and deeds should be made. In biographical history is found a power to instruct man by precedent, to enliven the mental faculties, and to waft down the river of time a safe vessel, in which the names and actions of the people who contributed to raise this country from its primitive state may be preserved. Surely and rapidly the great and aged men, who in their prime entered the wilder- ness and claimed the virgin soil as their heritage, are passing to their graves. The number remain- ing who can relate the incidents of the first days of settlement is becoming small indeed, so that actual necessity exists for the collection and pres- ervation of events without delay, before all the early settlers are cut down by the scythe of Time.

To be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind from remotest ages. All will be forgot- ten soon enough, in spite of their best works and the most earnest efforts of their friends to preserve the memory of their lives. The means employed to prevent oblivion and to perpetuate their mem- ory have been in proportion to the amount of intel- ligence they possessed. The pyramids of Egypt were built to perpetuate the names and deeds of its great rulers. The exhumations made by the archæologists of Egypt from buried Memphis indicate a desire of those people to perpetuate the memory of their achievements. The erection of the great obelisks was for the same purpose. Coming down to a later period, we find the Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and monu-

inents, and carving out statues to chronicle their great achievements and carry them down the ages. It is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling up their great mounds of earth, had but this idea-to leave something to show that they had lived. All these works, though many of them costly in the extreme, give but a faint idea of the lives and characters of those whose memory they were intended to perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of the people that then lived. The great pyramids and some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity; the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crumb- ling into dust.

It was left to modern ages to establish an intel- ligent, undecaying, immutable method of perpet- uating a full history-immutable, in that it is al- most unlimited in extent and perpetual in its ac- tion; and this is through the art of printing.

To the present generation, however, we are in- debted for the introduction of the admirable sys- tem of local biography. By this system every man, though he has not achieved what the world calls greatness, has the means to perpetuate his life, his history, through the coming ages, for the benefit of his posterity.

The scythe of Time cuts down all; nothing of the physical inan is left. The monument which his children or friends may erect to his memory in the cemetery will crumble into dust and pass away; but his life, his achievements, the work he lias accomplished, which otherwise would be for- gotten, is perpetuated by a record of this kind.

To preserve the lineaments of our companions we engrave their portraits; for the same reason we collect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we think it necessary, as we speak only truth of them, to wait until they are dead, or un- til those who knew them are gone; and we need be ashamed only of publishing the history of those whose lives are unworthy of public record.

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PREFACE.

The greatest of English liistorians, MACAU- LAY, and one of the most brilliant writers of the present century, has said: "The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people." In conformity with this idea, the GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM of this county has been prepared. Instead of going to musty records, and taking therefrom dry sta- tistical matter that can be appreciated by but few, our corps of writers have gone to the people, the men and women who have, by their enterprise and industry, brought the county to a rank sec- ond to none among those comprising this great and noble State, and from their lips have ob- tained the story of their life struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be pre- sented to an intelligent public. In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an influence extending throughout the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to suc- ceed, and records how success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, very many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them, as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy-"They have done what they could." It tells how that many

in the pride and strength of young manliood left the plow and the anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting-room, left every trade and pro- fession, and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace once more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of every woman is a lesson that should not be lost to those who follow after.

Coming generations will appreciate this vol- ume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work, and every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written; and the publishers flatter themselves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of conse- quence. In addition to the biographical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given.

The faces of some, and biographical sketches of many, will be missed in this volume. For this the publishers are not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give the information necessary to compile a sketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some member of the family would oppose the enter- prise, and on account of such opposition the support of the interested one would be withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, though repeated calls were made at their resi- dences or places of business.

CALUMET BOOK & ENGRAVING CO.

ADDENDA.

The preparation of this volume has involved the labor of several years. Since the pages were stereotyped, time has wrought many changes.

Several of the subjects of biographies have passed away. Among these are :

A. G. BURLEY, . page 227

DR. A. W. BURNSIDE, 205

I. N. CAMP, 546

E. H. CASTLE, 544

J. D. CATON, 115

C. M. HENDERSON, 391

JOHN JENKINS

208

EDSON KEITH,

T. E. LEWIS,

297

ORRINGTON LUNT,

503

DAVID C. MAHON, 412

JAMES McMAHON, 181

DR. O. T. MAXSON, 328

GEORGE M. PULLMAN, 231

COL. W. A. RAY, 405

REV. MINER RAYMOND, 178

JOHN SOLLITT,

199

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JOEL ELLIS.

OEL ELLIS, for nearly fifty years an active citizen and useful business man of Chicago, was descended from the old Puritan stock which has done so much in developing the men- tal, moral and material interests of the United States. The energy, fortitude and stern moral character which characterized the founders of the New England colonies is still observed in many of their descendants, and these attributes were possessed by Joel Ellis in a marked degree.

His first ancestor of whom any record is now to be found was Barzillai Ellis, born June 9, 1747, presumably in Massachusetts, and of Eng- lish blood. March 6, 1773, he married Sarah Tobey, who was born June 5, 1755, no doubt in the same state and of similiar ancestry. They resided in Conway, Franklin County, Massachu- setts, whence they moved, about the close of the last century, to Chautauqua County, New York. Here Barzillai Ellis died in 1827. His youngest son, Samuel Ellis, died in Chicago in 1853. The other children were Barzillai, Asa, Freeman, Ben- jamin, Joel and Elnathan.

The children of Benjamin Ellis were Parmelia, Eleanor, Jane, Stephen, Mason, Datus, Joel (the subject of this sketch) and Ensign. His wife was Sophia Birch, a native of Connecticut. Ben- jamin Ellis died in Fredonia, New York, in the year 1855. He was a farmer, and cleared up land in the primeval forest, which consumed the best years of his life and required the assistance of his children, who had little opportunity to attend school.

Joel Ellis was born in Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, May 25, 1818. As above

indicated, his early years were devoted to the toil which usually befell farmers' sons in those days, and he attended school but very little. Schools were far apart and held sessions of only three months per year, in winter, when attendance on the part of many children was almost impossible. However, Joel Ellis was blessed by nature with a sound mind and body, and his clear judgment and active industry made him a successful busi- ness man and good citizen.

When, in 1838, he set out for the west, whither an uncle (Samuel Ellis, before mentioned) had preceded him, he was an energetic and self- reliant young man of twenty years, full of cour- age and hopefulness and the ardor and ambition of a strong nature. Arriving in the autumn, he found the young city of Chicago suffering from the commercial and industrial stagnation which followed the financial panic of 1837, and his search for employment was a vain one. The only offer which he received was from his uncle, who was engaged in farming some miles from the then city, but on ground now built up with thousands of the finest homes in Chicago, along Ellis, Green- wood and other avenues of the South Side. He continued in farm labor with his uncle for two years, much of which time was occupied in chop- ping wood from the timber which then covered this region, and which must be cleared away to make room for a tillable farm.

From 1840 to 1858 he was associated with Archibald Clybourn, an active business man of Chicago, and became thoroughly conversant with the meat business, which was one of Mr. Cly- bourn's chief enterprises. It was at the house of

JOEL ELLIS.

Mr. Clybourn that he met the lady who became his wife in 1844. This was Miss Susan Gallo- way, a sister of Mrs. Clybourn and daughter of James and Sally (McClenthan) Galloway, of Pennsylvania birth and Scotch ancestry. Her grandfather, Samuel Galloway, was a native of Scotland, whose wife was of Pennsylvania-German descent. They were among the earliest settlers on the Susquehanna River, and Samuel Galloway was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. Mrs. Ellis was taken by her parents, when a small child, to Sandusky, Ohio, and thence the family came to Chicago, arriving on the 9th of Novem- ber, 1826. They left Sandusky on the Ist of October, in a sailing-vessel, and were wrecked south of Mackinaw, but were rescued by another vessel, which brought them to Chicago.

James Galloway had visited Illinois in the fall of 1824, and was very much charmed with the country about the Grand Rapids of the Illinois River (now known as Marseilles), where he bought a claim. He spent the winter of 1826-27 in Chicago, with his family, and settled on this claim in the following spring, and continued to reside there the balance of his life. His wife died in 1830, and he subsequently married Ma- tilda Stipes, of Virginia. In character Mr. Gal- loway was a fit representative of his sturdy Scotch ancestry, and was well fitted for pioneering in those early days, when means of travel and communication were difficult, and the dwellers in the wilderness were compelled to forego many comforts and social advantages, besides braving the enmity of their savage neighbors.

Of the five children of James and Sally Gallo- way, Mrs. Clybourn is the eldest. The second, Jane, wife of Washington Holloway, died in 1894. John died in Missouri; Susan is Mrs. Ellis; George, born April 12, 1828, at Marseilles, is now de- ceased. Of the second marriage, Archibald and Marshall are the only surviving offspring. The former now shares a part of the original farm at Marseilles with George's widow. The latter re- sides in Chicago.

On leaving the employ of Mr. Clybourn, Mr. Ellis engaged in the retail meat business on his own account, and furnished supplies to many of

the leading hotels and to vessels entering Chicago Harbor. In 1865 he formed a partnership with Thomas Armour and began an extensive whole- sale business in meats and provisions, which grew beyond his fondest dreams of success. In fifteen years he amassed a comfortable fortune, which was largely invested in improved real estate in the city. As the care of his property absorbed much of his time, he decided to retire from active business, and, in the spring of 1871, he purchased twenty acres in the town of Jeffer- son (now a part of the city of Chicago), on which he built a handsome suburban home, in which he hoped to pass the balance of his days in well- earned rest from the arduous labors which had occupied his earlier years. Scarcely was he set- tled in his new home when the great fire of Octo- ber, 1871, robbed him of all his buildings save the home at Jefferson, just completed. Without any repining, he set to work at once to repair the losses. It was his custom to rise at two o'clock in the morning and drive into the city to begin business. There were no rapid-transit systems then to move suburban residents quickly from and to their homes, and he took means which would appall any but such stout natures as his to rebuild his fortunes. In this he was moder- ately successful, and when a cancer caused his death at his home in Jefferson, October 29, 1886, he left his family comfortably provided for.

A quiet, unassuming man, he gave little at- tention to public affairs, though he took the in- terest in local and national progress which every true American must feel, and discharged his duty as it appeared to him by supporting the Republi- can party after it came into existence, having formerly affiliated with the Whigs. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was an active supporter of the Universalist Church, be- ing among the organizers of St. Paul's congre- gation, whose pastor, Rev. W. E. Manly, per- formed the ceremony which made liim the head of a family. Besides his widow, he left three children, namely: Lucretia, the widow of George W. Pinney, residing in Chicago; Winfield, of Highland Park, Illinois; and Mary Josephine, Mrs. Algernon S. Osgood, of Chicago.

C. H. THURBER.

CHARLES H. THURBER.

HARLES HERBERT THURBER, a native of Owego, New York, was born March 24, 1864. His ancestors are supposed to have been French in origin and members of one branch of the family settled in central New York as pioneers. The grandfather, John Thurber, was the first of the family to reside in Owego. He was a man of excellent traits of character, beloved by all his friends and honored by all who knew him. He died in the region of Owego, where he had been a tiller of the soil.

John A., a son of John Thurber, married Sarah M. Aber. He was born near Owego, and was for a period of twenty years a merchant. He was a Republican, and an active member of the Baptist Church, and was honored by all who knew him for his strict integrity. His worthy helpmate, who was the daughter of Joel Aber, a man of French descent, was born in Sparta, New Jersey, and was for several years previous to her marriage a prominent teacher in the schools of Waverly, New York.

Charles H. Thurber attended the school of the district where his parents lived. At his father's store he was ever ready to help out in the various departments. The said store was in Deckertown, Sussex County, New Jersey, to which town his father was attracted by the prospective business brought by two new railroads being extended through the county. A meat market and bakery were connected with the general store, and young Thurber was often given entire charge of the latter. In order to supply the laborers, he was compelled to rise at five o'clock in the morning

and work until school time, when he would hasten to a neighboring district, where he was the teacher. On Saturdays he was obliged to rise at three o'clock and drive to a place fourteen miles distant to transact business with a man who superintended the railroad laborers. At the same time he kept the books of his father's busi- ness, and besides all this, he so closely applied himself during the time spent in assisting his fa- ther that, at the age of sixteen years, he was prepared to enter college. On account of some trouble with his eyes he was compelled to wait two years before he would be able to use them in study. His desire for an education was stimu- lated by a loving mother and her brother, Will- iam M. Aber, who graduated from Yale when C. H. Thurber was fourteen years of age, and who invited the latter to attend the exercises at the close of his college career. These associa- tions no doubt gave impetus to his already eager desire for knowledge. He owes much of his success as a scholar to his old teacher, H. A. Van Fredenberg, who laid the foundation of a brilliant education for Mr. Thurber while the latter was between the ages of nine and fourteen years.

The following is a record of Mr. Thurber's school work: Bachelor of Philosophy, Cornell University in 1886; Master of Arts, Haverford College in 1890; registrar and secretary of Cor- nell University 1886-88; teacher in Haverford College Grammar School 1888-90; special agent United States Bureau of Education in Germany in 1890-91 ; student of Royal Polytechnicum in

J. T. TURNER.

Dresden, Germany, 1890-91 ; instructor in French in Cornell University in 1891-93; professor in Pedagogy in Colgate University and principal of Colgate Academy 1893-95; director of the Cliild Study Division of the Department of Public In- struction in New York in 1895-96; assistant to editor-in-chief Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia 1892-94, and editor of the School Review since 1893. Since September, 1895, he has been dean of Morgan Park Academy of the Chicago Uni- versity. He entered college at the youthful age of eighteen years, and while at Cornell University he had the good fortune to become acquainted with Prof. Charles Kendall Adams, who subse- quently became president of the university, while Mr. Thurber was a senior. The latter became his private secretary and stenographer, which position he held nearly three years.

Dean Thurber's worth as an educator lias been thoroughly demonstrated, as has also liis power to draw young men to him and imbue them with a desire to excel in their studies, which is very

marked. His influence over otliers has been partly the result of his perfect equipoise of powers and reserve force. Having overcome every ob- stacle himself, he may well be able to encourage others who are struggling to gain an education.

Dean Thurber lias explored many branches of the educational field, and in each new study has found some interests that proved an incentive for further study. For two years he was sec- retary and one year president of the depart- ment of Secondary Education of the National Ed- ucational Association, and is now secretary of the Illinois Society for Child Study. As a worthy descendant of Cotton Mather, he has interested himself in religious measures and is a devoted member of the Baptist Church.

Dean Thurber was married June 25, 1891, i11 Apalachin, New York, to Miss Anna E. Billings, who was born in Denver, her parents having been among the earliest pioneers in Colorado. One child blessed this union, born November 18, 1892, and is named Gertrude Ruth Thurber.

JOHN T. TURNER.

OHN THOMAS TURNER. Among the most successful contractors in the city of Chicago is Jolin Thomas Turner. He is well known and highly respected in business circles for his honesty in all dealings, and is ad- mired for his ability and perseverance. He comes of a very old English family, and was born in Hastings, England, October 29, 1855. For men- tion of his ancestry, see biography of Mark Turner, on another page of this work. Though now working for the interests of his adopted coun- try, he is loyal in memory to the land that gave

him birth, and the ancient and grand old coun- try has a very warm place in his heart. With all due respect to the Land of the Free, he cherishes a deep love for proud England, and its people will ever be regarded as those most dear to him.

John Thomas Turner attended school in Eng- land, receiving the finishing touches of his edu- cation in Ford County, Illinois. He served an apprenticeship of five years in general stone cut- ting and masonry. He began this term at the age of sixteen years, and was subsequently engaged as journeyman in the employ of Turner Brothers.

COL. J. E. TROUGHTEN.

I11 1883 he entered the employ of B. N. Branch, founder of the establishment now located at the corner of Forty-first Street and Vincennes Ave- nue. He was foreman in this service four years, and during this time worked on residences on Drexel, Greenwood and Cottage Grove Avenues.

In 1887 he was made foreman for another con- tractor, with whom he worked eighteen months. For some time he was superintendent of mason work in the employ of Bemritter Manufacturing Company, doing the mason work on the Sheldon School and the First Presbyterian Church of Hyde Park. He was three and one-half years in Bryn Mawr, doing practically all the mason work on residences in that locality. He subsequently began contracting for his own interests, his first work being on the residence of F. I. Bennett, on Jefferson Avenue, between Sixty-first and Six- tieth Streets. He has since that time given his whole attention to contracting, being very suc- cessful. In 1887 he erected a residence at No.

7412 Evans Avenue, and has since been located at this number.

December 6, 1882, Mr. Turner was married to Miss Mary Ann Maloney, daughter of William Maloney, of Columbia County, Wisconsin. She was born September 19, 1859, in Columbus, Wis- consin. The living children of Mr. and Mrs. Turner are: Lama May, aged fourteen years; John William, eleven years; and Charles Lester, nine years. Clarence died at the age of three and one- half years. For sixteen years Mr. Turner has been connected with J. Ward Ellis Lodge No. 447, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has passed all the chairs in the lodge. He is also connected with Woodlawn Lodge No. 24, North American Union, and the Master Masons' As- sociation. He votes for the representatives of the Republican party. He is, withal, a worthy, refined and respected gentleman, beloved alike by family and friends, and honored by all with whom he is acquainted.

COL. JOSEPH E. TROUGHTEN.

OL. JOSEPH EDWARD TROUGHTEN, a government employe at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, was born in Lon- don, England, June 20, 1842. He is a son of William David and Amelia Sophia (Stone) Troughten, both of whom descended from old and eminently respectable lines of English ances- try, which reach back into a past measured by five centuries. William David Troughten was a gentleman of excellent attainments, both natural and acquired, and he left the impress of his ex- alted character indelibly stamped upon the lives

of his social and business associates. He died in 1851, aged forty-eight years.

Mrs. W. D. Troughten most worthily sustained the high character of her husband by those peer- less qualities of womanhood-devotion and con- stancy-which were strongly developed in her. She survived her husband, dying in 1891, aged eighty-six years.

Joseph E. Troughten's early life was passed in his native city, receiving instruction in the ru- dimentary branches of learning from a private tu- tor. When eight years of age he entered an

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Album of genealogy and biograghy, Cook County, Illinois, 10th ed., Part 1

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago, pub Publication date: 1898 Publisher: Chicago, Calumet book & engraving co Number of Pages: 916

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Chicago, Calumet book & engraving co
Number of Pages: 916