Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 2nd ed., Part 64

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Publication date: 1895
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CHARLES P. HUEY.

D HARLES P. HUEY, who is successfully en- gaged in the practice of law in Harvey, re- ceiving a liberal patronage, was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony, October 3, 1849. His fa- ther, Robert T. Huey, was born and reared in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he made his home until the age of thirty-five, when he entered the British service and became a soldier in the Colonial

army. He was sent with his command to South Africa, and reached Cape Town about 1838. In that place he was united in marriage with Wil- helmina Thomas. At the close of the war he was discharged from the service and returned to Cape Town, from whence he afterwards removed to Port Elizabeth, on the extreme southern coast of Cape Colony, where with his family he resided

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for many years, engaged in trading and in various business pursuits. He finally engaged in mer- chandising, and in the interests of that business, and partly for recreation, departed for Liver- pool in 1860. He took passage on a sailing-ves- sel, which was never heard from again, and is supposed to have sunk in mid-ocean, not a pas- senger escaping to tell the tale of the disaster. He left a wife and six children. Anna, the eldest, became the wife of Samuel Slaughter, who is now serving as a County Assessor in southern Utah; Mary is married and resides in northern Mon- tana; Charles is the next younger; Leonard is in the railway service and resides in southern Colo- rado; Nellie is the wife of Ernest H. Price, of Fresno, Cal .; and Walter resides in the same State.

Charles P. Huey began his education in the private schools of Port Elizabeth, which he at- tended until nine years of age, after which he spent two years in the Gray Institute, a large and most excellent school. At the age of ten years he began the study of Latin. When a child of eleven summers he accompanied the family to America, locating in Salt Lake City, where he attended St. Mark's Grammar School, an Epis- copal institution of learning, for two years. At the age of nineteen he entered a printing-office and worked as a compositor until 1872, becoming an expert printer. He learned so rapidly that in half the usual time he had completed the regular apprenticeship and was made a journeyman. He then, until the fall of 1873, was engaged in the newspaper and publishing business, and during a part of the time assisted John C. Young, a nephew of Brigham Young, in the publication of a local paper, which was opposed to the systeni of polyg- amy, and was really the beginning of the great opposition developed in Utah against the system. So bitter was the opposition of the Mormon lead- ers, that the printing establishment was once broken up by a mob and Mr. Young assaulted.

In the fall of 1873, Mr. Huey became a student in the law department of the University of Michi- gan at Ann Arbor, pursuing a two-years course, and graduating with honor in the Class of '75. He at once began practice in Salt Lake City, and

soon acquired prominence in the prosecution of the case of the United States against Rossiter, a prominent Mormon in the employ of Brigham Young, who was bound over under the Poland Law to keep the peace for having threatened with violence John C. Young, the old friend and asso- ciate of Mr. Huey, and who was then local editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, the leading Gentile paper of the city. The case, under the advice of Mr. Huey, was prosecuted before Mr. Pratt, United States Commissioner, who held the accused under bonds. The prisoner's counsel, one of the lead- ing lawyers of Salt Lake City, and attorney for the Mormon Church, appealed to the United States District Court for discharge, under writ of habeas corpus, which, after an able argument by Mr. Huey in opposition to the release, and argu- ments in its behalf by the prisoner's counsel, was denied by the Chief Justice, and the prisoner re- manded to the custody of the United States Mar- shal. Mr. Huey's maiden speech at the Bar won the first signal victory for the anti-polygamist un- der the Poland Law and gained hin a well-de- served prominence. He continued in practice in Salt Lake City until 1882.

In 1878, Mr. Huey wedded Mary J. McFerren, of Hoopeston, Ill., and in 1882, on account of his wife's health, removed to Hoopeston, where he practiced law for some time, but was mostly en- gaged in the banking business for six years, in company with his brother-in-law, J. S. McFerren, who is President and chief owner of the First National Bank of Hoopeston. Mr. Huey served as Assistant Cashier until 1889, when he resumed law practice, and also for a year published the Hoopeston Sentinel. He also founded and pub- lished the Danville Sentinel, and in March, 1892, came to Harvey, where for a few months he edited the Harvey Citizen. In the same year, however, he retired from the newspaper field, and has since successfully engaged in law practice.

In politics, Mr. Huey is a Republican, but at local elections subordinates party to the best in- terests of the town, laboring with otlier promi- nent citizens for temperance, good government, and the material interests of this thriving suburb. He now holds the office of City Attorney. He is

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a n:ember of the Episcopal Church, and an active member of Dirigo Lodge No. 399, K. P., which he represented in the State Grand Lodge at Spring- field. He has taken the highest degree in the Odd Fellows' fraternity, and has passed all the chairs in the local lodge. He has only one child,

James J., who is now nine years of age. Mr. Huey is recognized as one of the most prominent and progressive citizens of Harvey, and in the history of his adopted county he well deserves mention.

PLEASANT AMICK.

LEASANT AMICK, a pioneer of northern Illinois, now engaged in the real-estate busi- ness in Chicago, has for some years been con- nected with the business and official interests of this city, and is recognized as one of its represen- tative men. He was born near Diamond Lake, Cass County, Mich., October 14, 1834, and is a son of Jacob and Rachel (Corron) Amick, natives of Virginia. They removed to Cass County, Mich., previous to 1830. The Amick family is of German origin, and the ancestors were among the pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania. Members of the family afterward removed to the Old Domin- ion, and Jacob Amick was born near the Natural Bridge in Virginia. The Corron family is Eng- lish, and its founders in America settled in Vir- ginia. The mother of Mrs. Rachel Amick was a daughter of James Pinnell, Jr., who came from Lambeth, London. One of his uncles, Rev. Robert Pinnell, served as rector of a church for more than half a century in one of the parishes near London.

In 1835, Jacob Amick removed with his family to Illinois and located on a farm in Kane County, becoming one of the first settlers of that locality. He was a cooper by trade, and carried on that bus- iness in connection with farming. He was the in- ventor of the grapevine cradle-swath. In 1844, he removed to Chicago, where he engaged in the manufacture of scythes and grain-cradles until

1849, when he went overland to California. There his death occurred, October 25, 1850, at the age of forty-eight years, resulting from an attack of cholera. He was an old-time Abolitionist, being identified with the movement from the beginning, and left Virginia on account of the slavery there tolerated. He was distinguished for his strong convictions and devotion to principle, and had the confidence of all who knew him. He held mem- bership with the Tabernacle Baptist Church, now the Second Baptist Church of Chicago, the house of worship being then located on La Salle, between Washington and Randolph Streets. His wife, who was a member of the same church, passed away in 1878, at the age of seventy-two. . Of their children, one died in infancy; Mary Elizabeth be- came the wife of Alanson Miller, and died of chol- era in Chicago in 1852; Marthia, deceased, was the wife of Joseph Shaw; Pleasant is the next younger; Hiram, who is now living in California, was a member of the Mercantile Battery of Chicago, and for a number of years was Secretary of the Fire Department of Chicago; Myron J., who for many years was a member of the United States army, and did much scouting duty during the Great Rebellion, now resides in New York City.

The gentleman whose name heads this record was in his tenth year when the family located in Chicago. The house built by his father in 1844 on Curtis Street is still standing. Pleasant Amick,

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his wife, and afterward two of their children, at- tended the Scammon School on Madison Street, the first free-school building in the West Division, of which Prof. A. D. Sturtevant was the Principal, and Pleasant was afterward a pupil in Gleason's Academy. At the age of fifteen he became a clerk in a grocery-store on Clark Street owned by J. B. Doggett, with whom he continued until 1855, when he embarked in business for himself as a member of the firm of Leybourn & Amick, grocers. In 1859, they sold out, and during the war Mr. Amick served as enrolling officer under Col. William James, of Chicago. In 1864, he was elected Tax Collector for the West Division, on the same ticket with Abraham Lincoln, and served two years. In 1866, he embarked in the real- estate business, which he has followed almost con- tinuously since, being considered one of the best judges of real-estate values in the city. During the three succeeding years he served as City As- sessor, and in 1880 and 1881 he was Assessor of the Town of West Chicago. For fourteen years

he was in the tax department of the West Division, serving in various capacities.

On the 15th of November, 1854, Mr. Amick was joined in wedlock with Julia S. Bishop, a na- tive of Lewis, Essex County, N. Y., and to them have been born three children: Frank S., a real- estate dealer of Chicago; J. Stella; and Mamie, who died at the age of three and a-half years.

Mr. Amick was reared in the faith of the Bap- tist Church, but now holds membership with no religious organization. He is a member of Columbian Lodge No. 819, A. F. & A. M., of Lawndale, and in politics he has been a stalwart Republican since the organization of the party. He is a gentleman of genial and pleasant manner, has an extensive acquaintance among the earlier settlers of Chicago, and feels a keen and abiding interest in their early history. His long residence here makes him familiar with much of its devel- opment, and in the work of advancement he has ever borne his part.

HENRY TURMAN BYFORD, M. D.

ENRY TURMAN BYFORD, M. D., Profes- sor of Gynecology in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of Chicago, and in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, and of Clinical Gynecology in the Woman's Medical College of Chicago, and ex-President of the Chi- cago Gynecological Society, is a native of Evans- ville, Ind., born on the 12th of November, 1853. He is the second and only surviving son of the late Dr. William Heath Byford, of Chicago, and Mary Ann Byford, his wife, the latter a daughter of Hezekiah Holland, a physician of Mt. Vernon, Ind., and sister of a physician, Andrew Holland.

Dr. William H. Byford, the pioneer gynecol- ogist of Chicago, was a man whose intelligence

and culture, extended observation and experience, fitted him to fully appreciate the benefits of edu- cation, proper environment and morality upon the young, and took such measures as afforded his sons ample opportunity to enjoy them and to pre- pare to enter one of the learned professions.

The subject of this sketch obtained in the pub- lic schools of Chicago his primary education, and at the age of twelve had completed a large portion of the public-school course. He then accompa- nied his elder brother to Europe, where he spent four years (1865-1868) in travel and study. At Berlin, he learned French and German, and also took a full regular classical course including Lat- in and Greek. It would seem that under the

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circumstances he would have labored under in- surmountable difficulties in competition with the pupils of native birth, but at graduation he took prizes in divinity and also in German composition.

Upon his return to the United States, Dr. By- ford matriculated in the University of Chicago, where he contemplated taking higher honors in the classics; but discovering a preference for the sciences, he entered the scientific department of Williston Seminary in East Hampton, Mass., from which he was graduated in the year 1870. En- tering the Chicago Medical College, he took a three-years course, which hecompleted in 1873, graduating as valedictorian of his class. It is a matter worthy of remark that the college records show that he was marked one hundred per cent. in all branches of medicine taught, except diseases of the eye and ear, which at that time did not re- ceive so much attention as at the present date. During his second year he attended the lectures and demonstrations given to the senior class, and at the end of the year passed a successful exami- nation in all branches and fairly won the position of interne in Mercy Hospital.

The serious illness of his brother in Louisiana requiring Dr. Byford's presence there, interrupted his hospital course, and prevented his delivering the valedictory address to his class at graduation. Although absent from the commencement exer- cises, his extraordinary proficiency and excep- tional standing were distinctly recognized by the faculty, which granted him his degree of Doctor of Medicine without examination, a very unusual act, but one which the circumstances of the case fully justified. One condition was attached to the granting of the degree, and that was that the young graduate, then hardly twenty years of age, should not enter the active practice of medicine un- til he had attained his majority. This was done out of regard for the ethics of the profession, which does not encourage the practice of medicine by minors, however proficient.

The interini between graduation and the attain- ment of his majority was spent by Dr. Byford in at- tendance upon his brother in Colorado, where he had tle satisfaction of seeing him recover. Declin- ing his father's proffered partnership, the young

physician thought it best to begin professional life independently, and associated himself with his col- lege friend, Dr. J. A. St. John, opening an office in one of the less fashionable districts of the city. The brilliant promise of future success which had appeared in the student was fully realized in the practitioner. He was energetic, competent, pop- ular, and successful from the first. In 1879, he visited Europe a second time, and for a year and a-half devoted his time about equally to study in the hospitals and travel for pleasure.

On his return to Chicago, Dr. Byford associated himself with his father, and directed his attention principally to obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, working steadily toward his life ob- ject-the diseases of women and abdominal sur- gery. Although busy with his private practice he has not spent his whole time therein. He has been Curator in the museum of the Chicago Medi- cal College, lecturer on diseases of children in the Chicago Medical College, and lecturer on obstet- rics in Rush Medical College. These positions, however, were relinquished on account of their requiring time that he could not spare from his favorite study and specialty. In December, 1888, he received the appointment to the chair of Gynecology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medi- cal School, of which he is one of the founders; and the following year he was chosen Professor of Clinical Gynecology in the Woman's Medical College, and upon the death of A. Reeves Jack- son, in 1892, was elected Professor of Gynecology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chi- cago. He has also been Gynecologist to St. Luke's Hospital for several years past and surgeon to the Woman's Hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Association, of the American Gynecolog- ical Society, of the Chicago Medical Society, the Chicago Gynecological Society (of which he was President in 1887), of the Chicago Academy of Medicine, and the Chicago Medico-Legal Society.

Dr. Byford is known throughout the United States as one of the most original and progressive men in his specialties, and has originated a num- ber of operations which have been approved and adopted by medical practitioners generally.

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Among these are inguinal suspension of the blad- der, shortening of the sacro-uterine ligaments, bi- lateral anterior elytrorhaphy, subcutaneous peri- neal tenotomy and the vaginal fixation and vaginal drainage of the stump in abdominal hysterectomy. Not only surgical operations, but also surgical instruments, have been the objects of Dr. Byford's study, and of these latter he has originated many new forms of greater utility than their predeces- sors that are in daily use and called by his name. As a clinical and didactic lecturer he has been very successful, and as a writer on medical topics is able and voluminous. He was one of the edi- tors of "Byford's Diseases of Women," a treatise originally by his father, one of the authors of the

"American Text Book of Gynecology," and also of "A Treatise on Diseases of Women, by Emi- nent American Teachers."

While in Paris, Dr. Byford was a student at the school of Julian, where he studied drawing of the human figure. From other artists of Europe he learned landscape-painting from nature, and now seeks recreation in the study of art and the treas- ures of literature.

On the 9th of November, 1882, Dr. Byford married Mrs. Lucy L. Richard, a daughter of Frederick Larned, who was a near relative of N. P. Willis. They have four children, Genevieve, Mary, Heath Turman and William Holland.

REV. JOSIAH AUGUSTUS MACK.

L EV. JOSIAH AUGUSTUS MACK, Gen- eral Secretary and Manager of the Chicago Bible Society, was born in Gilead, Tolland, County, Conn., on the 4th of July, 1828, and is a son of Ela Augustus and Esther (Cone) Mack, who were also natives of Gilead, and came of old New England families. The father was adopted in his infancy by a man bearing the name of Mack, which became his surname, although his own father was named Gillette. The father of Mrs. Esther Mack, John Cone, was killed, dur- ing her childhood, by the accidental explosion of a cannon on one of the training days of the Con- necticut militia. E. A. Mack served as Captain of a company of militia, and made farming his oc- cupation through life. He died at the age of forty-six years, and his wife passed away in Chi- cago at the advanced age of eighty-seven. They came to Illinois in 1836, and the journey by way of the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes covered a period of six weeks. The family settled on a claim near the Fox River, in Kane County, after-

ward purchasing the land of the United States Government, and for several years they lived the typical frontier life. Later they removed to Ba- tavia, Il1.

Josiah A. Mack acquired his early education in the district schools, then the only educational in- stitutions. Afterward he attended a boarding- school in Batavia for several terms. At the age of eighteen he began clerking in a general store in Batavia, and three years later entered into part- nership with his uncle in the same business. After two years he yielded to the desire for Christian work and became agent for the Ameri- can Bible Society, and in that capacity labored in northern Illinois for three years. This occupa- tion gave him experience and training for public speaking and determined him to enter the Chris- tian ministry. A college course being out of the question, he took up the study of theology with Dr. William E. Merriman, who afterward became President of Ripon College, at Ripon, Wis.

After studying for one year, Mr. Mack was

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licensed to preach by the Elgin Association of Congregational Churches, and in 1839 le ac- cepted his first pastorate at Udina, Ill., where he was ordained by a special council, Rev. N. C. Clark preaching the sermon. He was later called to Plainfield, where he labored with growing suc- cess for four years. When the war broke out he took an active interest in organizing troops for the service, and during the struggle was sent to Helena, Ark., as a representative of the Christian Commission. There he engaged in Christian work among the soldiers and colored people. He spent some further time in the South for the ben- efit of his health, which had broken down under his labors at Peoria, in the First Congregational Church of that city. He held pastorates also at Moline and other points in Illinois, and in 1876 was called to his native town in Connecticut, where he served as pastor of the church for over six years.

In 1883 Rev. Mr Mack returned to Illinois and became General Secretary and Agent for the Chi- cago Bible Society, in which service hecontinues. Under his management the receipts of the society have increased from $2,000 to $14,000 per annum. In 1889 the society was reorganized and special provision made for a Bible-work department, in which fifteen to twenty young women have been

employed, and the force is increased as fast as means justify. This work is undenominational, and the society is supported by benevolent con- tributions. It has been in existence for over fifty years, and is managed on the broad basis of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.

Mr. Mack was united in marriage in 1850 with Eliza Sophia Towne, a native of Troy. N. Y., and a daughter of Deacon Silvanus Towne, of Batavia, Il1. To them were born six children who grew to maturity. Emily Eliza, wife of George C. Clark, of Peoria, Ill .; Charles Augus- tus, pastor of the Congregational Church at Ran- toul, Ill .; Mary L., wife of Charles Alden Smith, Principal of the preparatory school at Lake Forest University; William Howard, of Philadelphia, Pa .; Fannie Cone and Rose C.

Mr. Mack has always taken an intelligent in- terest in political and other public interests, though he is not a partisan politician. Growing up among the people, and earnestly sympathizing with what- ever makes for good government and mutual con- fidence, he has cast his vote and given his influ- ence in ways promotive of these ends. His good judgment and conscientious labors have been of inestimable value to the cause with which he is identified, while his genial, pleasant manner has won him many warm personal friends.

REUBEN LUDLAM, M. D.

2 EUBEN LUDLAM, M. D., one of the fore-

most physicians, surgeons and medical writers in the Northwest, was born in Camden, N. J., on the 7th of October, 1831. His parents, natives of New Jersey, were descended from early Colonial immigrants. His father, Dr. Jacob W. Ludlam, an eminent physician, spent his earlier years in the East, but removed with his family to Illinois in 1856, and died in Evanston

in 1858, after a long life spent in alleviating the sufferings of humanity. His widow, Mrs. Mary Ludlamı, now eighty-six years of age, still resides in Evanston.

Reuben Ludlam's inherited tendencies and early training led hint to follow in the professional foot- steps of his father. In his childhood he was ac- customed to accompany liis father in his daily round of visits, and took great interest in the cases

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he saw. His studious habits and thoughtful na- ture caused his rapid advancement at school, and at the age of nineteen he was graduated from the old academy at Bridgeton, N. J., with the highest honors of his class. At the age of sixteen he be- gan the study of medicine in his father's office, and when qualified matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania (where his father had received his medical education), finished the curriculum, and was graduated therein in 1852. He had spent six years in preparation for the practice of his chosen profession.

Soon after receiving his diploma, Dr. Ludlam came to Chicago. He was a young man fresh from the influences of the regular or allopathic school of teachers, but he did not allow his train- ing or environment to overbalance his judgment, and after weighing the doctrines of Hahnemann, the great founder of homeopathy, with care and conscientious attention, he decided they were largely true and should be adopted. To renounce the teachings of those he had learned to re- spect for their great knowledge of the healing art was a matter that required a great effort, but, his mind once made up, he was equal to the effort, embraced the new theory of medicine and became a practitioner of the new school. In 1859, the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago was or- ganized, and he was chosen to fill the chair of physiology, pathology and clinical medicine therein. On account of the high degree of skill he showed in those branches, he was transferred, four years later, to the chair of obstetrics and the dis- eases of women and children. He was made Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women a few years later, and elected Dean of the college faculty. In each of these capacities he rendered inestimable service, and his cheerful and attentive manner endeared him to all who came within the circle of his acquaintance. For twenty-five years he was Dean of the faculty, and resigned that place to become President of the college and hospital in 1891, which office he still holds.

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Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 2nd ed., Part 64

Author: Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Chicago : Calumet Book & Engr. Co. Number of Pages: 808

Author:
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago : Calumet Book & Engr. Co.
Number of Pages: 808