Album of genealogy and biograghy, Cook County, Illinois, 10th ed., Part 53

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

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M. W. HAYNES.

REV. MYRON W. HAYNES, D. D.

EV. MYRON WILBUR HAYNES, D. D., pastor of the Englewood Baptist Church of Chicago, was born in Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts, on the Ist of January, 1855, and is a son of Elnathan and Saralı (Wheeler) Haynes, who were natives of the same State. The pa- ternal grandfather was also born in Massachusetts, and was of English descent. The father of Dr. Haynes was a farmer, and died in the Bay State when Myron was a child of eight years. The inother, who is still living, is now the widow of L. Holt, and makes her home in Ayer, Massachu- setts. To Mr. and Mrs. Haynes were born nine children, six sons and three daughters, namely: Alfred, deceased; Rev. Edwin M., D. D., a min- ister of Rutland, Vermont; Nathan J., who was a member of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Sharpshooters and lost his life during the Civil War; Alonzo J., deceased; Sarah H., deceased, wife of George F. Parker, of Shirley, Massachu- setts; Melissa A .; George H., who belonged to the Fifty-third Massachusetts Infantry and died during the war; Amanda M., wife of Leonard Spaulding, of Ayer, Massachusetts; and Myron W.

Our subject was reared in Lunenburg and Roy- alston, Massachusetts, until about seventeen years of age, and acquired his early education in the district schools. He afterwards attended Belle- ville Academy, of Belleville, New York, and completed his academic course in Colgate Acad- emy, at Hamilton, New York, after which he was graduated from Colgate University. When his literary education was completed he at once

entered upon the work of the ministry, his first charge being at Frankfort, New York. He was afterward at Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in 1888 came to Eng- lewood, where he was one of the prime movers in the erection of the large and handsome edifice known as the Englewood Baptist Church, which has a membership of one thousand. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Shurtliff College, of Alton, Illinois, in May, 1893.

On the 20th of June, 1879, Dr. Haynes was united in marriage with Miss Florence G. Felt, daughter of Warren and Eveline (Alexander) Felt, who were natives of New York. Three children have been born to them: Carey Dana, Ethel Ada and Arthur Stanley. In his political views, Mr. Haynes is a Prohibitionist.

The State Republican of Lansing, Michigan, in speaking of the dedication of the new Baptist Church on the 18th of March, 1894, said: "Rev. M. W. Haynes, D. D., who delivered two power- ful sermons at yesterday's dedication, is one of the finest pulpit orators ever heard in Lansing. There are orators who are not leaders of men; they are simply mouthpieces, and whatever power they possess dies with the sound of their voices. There are leaders who are not orators, though, as Carlisle has said, they must possess a certain pow- erful eloquence, however rude or halting their speech. Dr. Haynes is at once an orator whose culture and scholarship does not refine away the convincing logic and the inspiring eloquence that proclaim a high purpose and a single aim of im-

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mediate and practical value. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and has filled successive pas- torates at Marblehead, Massachusetts, Frankfort, New York, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, with con- spicuous and increasing success. In 1888, he was called to the Baptist Church of Englewood, and his first sermon there was delivered to a con- gregation of less than a hundred. In two years his people had outgrown the old church and had constructed under his leadership one of the finest churches in Chicago, which is weekly packed to its utmost capacity. His church now numbers one thousand members, and his congregation is usually more than double that number. This phenomenal growth is indicative of the magnetic

power of leadership Dr. Haynes possesses and which is established in numerous practical works covering a wide field of activity. In fact, Dr. Haynes' religion is one that is emphatically prac- tical. In proof of this a number of gentlemen who are not members of his church, convinced of the power and practical character of Dr. Haynes' sermons, have formed a company to publish an undenominational journal, The Plowshare, for the special purpose of publishing weekly Dr. Haynes' morning sermons. Such a tribute is rarely re- ceived by any minister. The Plowshare has been published one year and has attained a remarkable popularity, the subscribers including those of different churches and of no churches."

WILLIAM McGREGOR.

ILLIAM McGREGOR is a gentleman in whose life is seen the reward of patient in- dustry and wise business management. He was born on the 11th of March, 1826, and the place of his nativity is the parish of Sorbie, Gal- lowayshire, Scotland. There his father, Dugald McGregor, born in 1788, was a farmer. The latter died in Gallowayshire in 1850, at the age of six- ty-two. His wife, Mary (Shaerer) McGregor, was the daughter of Daniel Shaerer and Ann McKnight, his wife. Daniel Shaerer was an at- torney of character at Whithorn, Wigtonshire, Scotland. Mrs. McGregor came to America in 1850, and died in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1887, at the age of eighty-four years.

Dugald McGregor, the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, held the position of greve (manager), and had charge of the farms of the Laird of Glasserton. Until eighteen years old

William McGregor spent his time upon his fa- ther's farm, and attended school, where he picked up a fair knowledge of the fundamental principles of an education. From his eighteenth to his twentieth year he was at Nottingham, England, engaged in learning the dry-goods business in the store of a relative; but, finding the employment uncongenial, he abandoned it. Sailing from Liv- erpool in the ship "John Bright," he found him- self, seven weeks later, April, 1847, in the city of New York, at the cost of ten pounds, three shill- ings for passage. After a short visit with rela- tives there and being dissatisfied with the outlook for business, he went to Newburg, New York, where he found former schoolmates, and engaged in learning the trade of stationary engineer in the Washington Iron Works. Three years later, having completed the trade, he took charge of the machinery of J. Beveridge, brewer, with

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whom he remained until April, 1861. The sub- sequent four years he was in the employ of the Washington Iron Works, where he had the su- pervision of five hundred men or more, engaged in shipping and setting up machinery. His just and fair treatment of all won him the good-will of his subordinates, and he was the recipient of many marks of esteem, among them a gold watch presented to him by them on the occasion of his leaving the establishment.

In April, 1865, Mr. McGregor was induced to go to Oil City, Pennsylvania, where he started a machine-shop on Oil Creek. He also engaged in oil speculations, and at the end of 1867 had lost all of the savings of years of hard work. He next turned his attention to Chicago, and settled here in the summer of 1867, engaging in the bus- iness of buying and selling second-hand machin- ery, having a few men by whose aid he rebuilt and repaired machinery, but having no power.

Here the natural ability and energy of Mr. McGregor showed itself, and in a quiet yet vigor- ous manner he set out to win back what he had lost by speculation. Year by year he enlarged his business. The Great Fire came but did not reach his establishment. Business was greatly stimulated by the immense local demand that event made for goods in his line. In 1872 Mr. Terwilliger became a partner in the concern, and in 1884 it was incorporated under the name of W. McGregor & Company, Mr. McGregor own- ing a majority of the stock and becoming Presi- dent. In 1875 the machine-shop was transferred from Canal Street to Nos. 53 and 55 South Clinton Street, one block away, where it occupies a building fifty-seven by one hundred and fifty feet in dimensions, a portion of which is three stories in height. The work of manufacturing steam boilers was begun in 1875, and the boiler factory at the intersection of Carroll Avenue and Fran- cisco Street now requires a shop two hundred by four hundred and twenty-five feet, besides other buildings.

In 1852, at Newburg, New York, Mr. McGreg- or was married to Miss Ann Wilson, daughter of Jacob and Amelia Wilson, both natives of Orange County, New York. There were five children

born of this marriage, namely: Douglas J., now manager of the boiler works of W. McGregor & Company; Mary Ellen, the wife of Charles D. Willard, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, California, who has one child, named Annie; the second daughter, now deceased, late wife of Virgil Kinzie, a wool merchant of Chicago; William G., who is engaged in business with his father; and Walter Herbert, who died at the age of twenty-one years in California, where he had gone on account of his health.

Mrs. McGregor's death occurred in July, 1876. She was a faithful wife and mother, a sincere Christian, and reared her children in the paths of sobriety, honesty and uprightness. Five years later, Mr McGregor was wedded to Mrs. Maria Pike, widow of Meshick Pike, of Bloomington, Illinois. She survived only five years after this marriage, and died in New Mexico, while return- ing from California with her husband. June 2, 1886, Mr. McGregor was united in mar- riage with his present wife, Maria L. Peugeot, daughter of Lemuel H. Flershem, and widow of Edward Peugeot, biographies of whom appear in this work.

In politics Mr. McGregor is a Republican, but is not oblivious of the shortcomings of his own or any other political party. In the last city elec- tion he was an earnest worker for George B. Swift, who is his personal friend. He is a leading spirit in the Illinois Club, of which he has been a mem- ber since its early days.

He joined the Union Presbyterian Church of Newburg, New York, in 1848, and for fifteen years was an active member, and for some time an Elder, in that organization, and for ten years Superintendent of its Sunday-school. After com- ing to Chicago he was a warm supporter of Dr. Swazey and an Elder in his church, the Ashland Avenue Presbyterian. He now worships at the Third Presbyterian Church.

Mr. McGregor liaslived a busy life and success has come to crown his labors. He has a large circle of personal friends, who are warmly at- tached to him, and his home at No. 692 West Madison Street is an exceedingly happy one.

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G. B. CARPENTER.

GEORGE B. CARPENTER.

G EORGE BENEDICT CARPENTER was born in New York City July 14, 1845, going thence in boyhood to his grandparents' home upon a farm near Goshen, New York State, where early development took place and his entire aca- demic schooling was obtained. During the Civil War he continued to live there, being engaged in a store; thereafter going to Philadelphia to travel for a local house, to sell its paper upon commis- sion.

He came to Chicago about the beginning of the year 1866, in his twenty-first year, being helped by an uncle, Charles Tappen, then General Freight Agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, to a position with that corporation, in the capacity of freight clerk, in which duties he busied himself the following two years. Then, not finding this occupation congenial, he selected journalism, at a lesser income, commencing as re- porter on the Chicago Republican. After another two years of faithful service here he became as- sociated with another periodical, The Interior, on which a speedy reward of merit advanced him to the chief position as its managing editor, which duties were performed up to the date of the Big Fire. The Pulpit, a short-lived weekly, which had for its motive the printing of noteworthy ser- mons of the previous week, was a creation of his brain; but did not meet with deserved support, and was discontinued. But all this time he was feel- ing his way; associates had not yet come to rec- ognize his strength.

At this juncture came the inspiration destined to give superb tone to his accomplishments and a worthy home in our city to the Muse. The Star Lecture Course, as planned by himself be- fore the reconstruction of burned theatres, was instrumental in bringing the best lecturers and concert companies to our midst for several years; these entertainments being at first given in two places, namely, the Union Park Congregational

Church on the West Side, and the Michigan Av- enue Baptist Church on the South Side. The firm of Carpenter & Sheldon was continued after this had grown to be unprofitable upon the re- building of old and new playhouses, but turned its attention to the handling of real estate. In 1878 Mr. Carpenter developed mentally his grand scheme for the building of Central Music Hall, which after two years of unwearying energy was an assured success through enlisting the financial aid of leading capitalists. This fine building, now erected at the southeast corner of State and Randolph Streets, is to-day the noblest, most en- during monument standing to the memory of this young enthusiast, whose white heat of action so young in life consumed his usefulness, and whose handsome features, reproduced by the sculptor Volk, now grace one of its halls.

On Friday, the 7th of January, 1881, Mr. Car- penter was called away from a prosperous earthly life, after but a brief illness occasioned by over- work. Obsequies were held in Central Music Hall, to whose creation he had devoted so much of his last years, and which was the pride of his heart. Loving hands did every beautifully grace- ful act that could be performed to make the final services touchingly memorable. The since la- mented Rev. David Swing delivered the funeral address, which was listened to with rapt atten- tion by the elite of our city. The opportunity offered by the demise of one so popular passing away in the height of young powers was the means of inspiring that gifted divine with a sym- pathetic eloquence rarely heard. During the im- pressive ceremony Mr. Swing made use of the following exquisite language:

"Rarely has there come into this world a young man so full of the study and love of the public. * * Youth forgot all selfish pleasures and hon- ors, forgot that accumulation of money which blinds and consumes so many ; forgot the pleasures

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of food and drink; forgot the peace of the evening fireside, that it might toil for what pertained to mankind. * * He has fallen the victim of his own impassioned nature. * * He gathered up many years into a few, and compelled us to weep to day the tears which should have been long delayed. * It remains for me to say fare- well to the most useful of all our young men."

His remains were taken to Rose Hill, followed by sincere benedictions of multitudes to whom the results of his work had brought happiness. Those who best knew honored him, while respect and affection were universally entertained for him.

Among the organizations making formal ac- knowledgement of their loss, were the Apollo Club, the Central Music Hall Company, and the Press Club; the resolutions of which last, being of unusually graceful significance, are repro- duced verbatim:

"The Chicago Press Club, having learned with sincere sorrow of the death of George B. Carpen- ter, formerly a member of the journalistic profes- sion in this city, desires to place upon record its appreciation of his many noble qualities. Dur- ing his journalistic career he won the esteem of his associates; and, had he remained in the pro- fession, his abilities would have enabled him to attain a high position in its ranks. Asan amuse- ment manager he achieved success because of his indomitable energy; and in all his career as a manager he catered only to the highest and pur- est taste, and thus became a public benefactor. As a citizen he was remarkable for his public spirit and enterprise; as a man he was lovable and beyond reproach; as a companion he was eagerly sought; and we who knew his many vir- tues mourn him deeply and sincerely.

"The sympathy of the club is hereby extended to the family of our departed friend, who has left to them the richest legacy a husband and a father can leave-the memory of a true man."

Mr. Carpenter married, May 25, 1870, Miss Lucy A. Boone, a daughter of Levi D. Boone, M. D., whose wife was Louisa M. Smith, both her parents being very early and esteemed residents of Chicago. Three children greeted their every way congenial union:

Marion Louise Carpenter, born in 1872, educat- ed at Miss White's private school of this city, and upon the violin, being given the superior advant-

ages of the "Hoch Schule" of Berlin, Germany, under the distinguished Prof. Emanuel Wirth;

Susie Tappen Carpenter, born in 1874, also a graduate of Miss White's school; with the added accomplishment of painting, acquired at the Berlin (Germany) School of Art during the family tour abroad.

George Boone Carpenter, born May 7, 1879; now attending the famous Armour Institute of Chicago, where he already evinces marked bias toward the profession of architecture.

Mrs. Carpenter was born January 30, 1852, in this city, and was educated at the Dearborn Semi- nary, where before graduation she developed rath- er remarkable vocal talent, which, unfortunately, later exacting duties have conspired to repress. From the time of her husband's death in 1881, she became the agent and secretary of the Cen- tral Music Hall Company, with which she con- tinued in that business relation of great de- mands and personal responsibility for the full period of ten years, having been the lessee of the hall all the said period. Resigning therefrom in 1891, she took her family to the European Con- tinent for a period of two years, wintering in Ber- lin and dividing the summers among various places of advantage, that the incalculable benefits of both travel and study might fit her children for adorning the more elegant, refined walks of life. Returning to her ever-dear America and the metropolis of her nativity, she at once became deeply interested in musical matters, having acted most efficiently during the last two preceding years as President of the Chicago Amateur Mu- sical Club, one of the conspicuous associations of its kind in the country, being able to boast of a membership of six hundred. Previous to her incumbency of this chair she had been serving upon its Executive Committee.

For the first thirteen years of her married life, the family residence was upon Michigan Avenue, but the cozy home which now welcomes through its portals representatives of our city's elite is located at No. 3222 Lake Park Avenue, sur- rounded by choice neighbors and overlooking that ever changeably interesting panorama of the harbor of Lake Michigan.

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GODFREY MACDONALD.

Mrs. Carpenter comes rightly by her talents, being the direct descendant of two distinguished old American families, the Rathbone and the Daniel Boone. Of the former we are able to glean the following very satisfactory account from a volume of genealogy published years ago, and which, we are glad to note, is now about to be brought down to the present generations:

Rev. William Rathbone is the first of that name found in the United States, about the year 1637; he was an author, and not in accord with the prevailing doctrines of the Massachusetts Colony, as appears from the Historical Collec- tion of that state.

John Rathbone, Senior (probably a son of the preceding), of Block Island, Rhode Island, was elected Freeman May 4, 1664, and was one of the sixteen original purchasers of that island from Governor Endicott. In 1676 he was a Surveyor of Highways; in 1682, 1683 and 1684, Represen- tative in the Rhode Island General Assembly; in 1686, one of the petitioners to the king in refer- ence to "Quo Warranto;" in 1688, one of the Grand Jury of Rhode Island; and in 1689 nar- rowly escaped the hostilities of the French, who pillaged the island and bore his son into captiv- ity. He married and had eight children, the third being,

John Rathbone, Junior, who married, January 10, 1688, Ann Dodge, and had eight children, the fourth being

Joshua, born February 9, 1696; married, Feb- ruary 16, 1724, Mary Wightman, daughter of Valentine Wightman, of Groton, Connecticut, by

whom he had twelve children, their fourth being

The Rev. John Rathbone, born June 26, 1729, near Stonington, Connecticut; he married, Janu- ary 8, 1751, Content Brown, daughter of Hum- phrey Brown, by whom he had thirteen children, their eldest being

John Rathbone, born October 20, 1751, in Canterbury, Connecticut; died March 14, 1843; one of the most distinguished merchants of New York City. He married, in 1775, Eunice Wells, in Westerly, Rhode Island, and had eleven chil- dren, of whom the sixth was

Clarissa Harlowe Rathbone, born in Stoning- ton, Connecticut, November 19, 1787; married, June 6, 1808, in New York City, to Theophilus Washington Smith, who was born in that city September 28, 1784, and was an incumbent of the Supreme Bench of the State of Illinois for twenty-five years, during which time he never had an opinion reversed; the writer of several valuable judicial treatises. His parents emi- grated from Europe in 1761, his father being a native of Dublin, Ireland; his mother, a native of London, England. They had nine children, of whom their fourth was

Louisa Matilda Smith, born in New York City June 25, 1814; married in 1833, at Edwardsville, Illinois, Levi Day Boone, who was born in Fayette County, near Lexington, Ky., December 8, 1808, and died in Chicago, January 24, 1882. They had eleven children, and their third was

Lucy Adeline Boone, the present Mrs. George B. Carpenter, and representative of the ninth Rathbone generation in America.

GODFREY MACDONALD.

X ODFREY MACDONALD has been identi- fied with the railroad interests of the United States for more than forty years, and is one of the best known of the many men connected witli that line of business. He is a native of Scot- land, a land wliose sous have been instrumental

in no small degree in developing the industries and shaping the destinies of the Western World. His father was William Macdonald, of Ballyshear, near Campbeltown, County of Kintyre, Argyle- shire, who came to America with his family in · 1844. After a few years' residence in Canada he

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returned to his native land, where he was appoint- ed Professor of Natural History at the College of St. Andrew's in Fifeshire, and held that position until his death, which occurred in January, 1875, at the age of seventy-six years. In 1820 he mar- ried Miss Jane Blair, of Doonholm, on the "banks and braes of bonnie Doon." They were the par- ents of six sons and five daughters, of whom Godfrey is the sole survivor, and the only one who becaine a resident of Chicago. The two youngest brothers of the latter died in India, after an active service of over thirty years in the British army, a period which included the famous Indian Mutiny. These were Col. William Macdonald, of the Twelfth Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, who died at Sihchar in 1884; and Maj. Lorne Macdonald, of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ben- gal Native Infantry, who died at Agra in 1883.

Godfrey Macdonald was born in January, 1829, at Ballyshear. He was educated at Edinburgh, in the high school and the Edinburgh University, but left there at the age of fifteen years to accom- pany his parents to Canada. Their residence was in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls, Ontario, until 1850, when he returned with the family to Scotland. Two years later, however, he again came to Canada and engaged in business at Grimsby, near Hamilton, Ontario.

In 1853 he made his first trip to Chicago, and continued to visit this city at intervals until 1857, when he and his family became permanent resi- dents. At that date he was appointed Assistant Agent of the Grand Trunk Railroad at this place. From 1859 to 1863 he was engaged in the cattle and distilling business in central Illinois. At the latter date he was appointed Contracting Freight Agent of the Michigan Southern & Northern In- diana Railroad, which was eventually absorbed by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He continued his connection with these corpora- tions as General Western Freight Agent until 1876, when he resigned to accept the same posi- tion, with charge of their export freight business, with the Michigan Central & Great Western Railroads. I11 1881 he was appointed General Through Freight Agent of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Michigan Railroad, with headquarters

at Milwaukee. Resigning in 1883, he was ap- pointed General Agent of the Union Pacific Rail- road in Chicago. This position he also resigned in 1884 to attend to personal business in Colorado. In November, 1887, he returned to Chicago and accepted a position with the "Nickel Plate" line, with which he has since been employed, and at present occupies pleasant offices in the Traders' Building.

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Album of genealogy and biograghy, Cook County, Illinois, 10th ed., Part 53

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