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Mr. Spikings is a member of Providence Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Jefferson. He is a Democrat in national political affairs, but in the campaign of 1896 he supported Williatu Mckinley for president, believing that the issues were not those which usually separate the two great parties. He has ever been in harmony with American institutions, and though never aspiring to public office, has conscientiously fulfilled his duty as a citizen. He has been a stanchi friend of the public schools, and for many years was director in his district. Like the majority of pioneers, he has had to contend with many trials and hardships, and has lived to see the land to which he has devoted the best years of his life become a means of wealth and independence to his children.
JOSEPH A. KAY.
OSEPH ARCHDALE KAY was born June 1, 1844, on the old homestead of his parents in Jefferson Township, Cook County, Illi- nois. He spent his boyhood on the farm of his father, Abel Kay, attending school in the winter, and assisting in the labor of the farm as soon as he was able. In 1859 lie drove a milk wagon, and took care of an engine in a grist mill. I11 September, 1861, he enlisted in the First Mis- souri Cavalry, Company D, which was con- solidated with the Tenth Missouri Cavalry in the
winter of 1862. He served three years and one montlı, and then enlisted in Hancock's Veteran Corps, in Company K. The first service of his company was in Missouri, against Price, at Pea Ridge, and soon after they were in Arkansas, and then they went down the Mississippi to a point below Vicksburg. In northern Mississippi he saw many skirmishes and battles. From Corinth they made a forced march to Florence, passing through Shiloh. During the war he was home for a few months on furlough. He
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spent one year in the Veteran Corps, and was discharged April 11, 1866. During the last of Mr. Kay's service he did provost duty in Wash- ington.
After the war Mr. Kay returned to Jefferson and engaged in farming. He remained with his mother two years, and then moved to the place he now occupies, and has since been engaged in gardening. His sons cultivate the farm, which contains eighteen and one-half acres.
June 23, 1866, he was married to Maggie, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Best) Primrose, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of England. They died in Jefferson. Mrs. Kay was born in Elgin, and died October 3, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Kay had nine children, namely: Marshall, who lives with his father; Joseph, deceased; Stephen, deceased; Carrie, 110W
Mrs. Lincoln Smith, who resides in Chicago; David, deceased; De Mar, who resides at home; Annie, who lives in Chicago; Bert, deceased; and Maggie, who resides in Chicago with a sister. Mr. Kay was married November 17, 1886, to Mrs. Katie Stull, of Monmouth, Illinois, and they. have two children, namely: Jefferson and Edith.
Mr. Kay is a member of Providence Lodge, No. 711, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Jefferson Park, having been connected with the order thirty-two years. He is also connected with George H. Thomas Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic. He takes an active ill- terest in politics and is a supporter of the Repub- lican party. He is interested in local affairs, and favors all movements for public improve- ment.
JOHN W. TURNER.
OHN WESLEY TURNER, an honored citi- zen of Chicago, was born March 22, 1847, in the great city of the West, and is the old- est son of John and Sarah (Patterson) Turner, extended mention of whom appears elsewhere in this. volume. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, and grew to manhood in this city, being occupied, when old enough, with as- sisting his father in the care of his livery stable, and with other business interests. When he reached his majority, most of the management of his father's affairs devolved upon him. The disastrous fire of 1871 swept away much of the fortune of the family, and they removed to the farm in Lake View, when John W. Turner faced the inevitable, and resolving to do his best for the welfare of their interests, determined to try market-gardening, and to make a success of it. He assumed almost the entire management of the
farm, and personally contracted for the sale of the products, most of which were disposed of by wholesale. Having lived all his life in a great city, this life and work were new to lini, and it was only by his giving great energy and study to his labor that he was able to succeed so well.
For eighteen years Mr. Turner supplied the Goodrich line of lake steamers with all their vegetables, besides making large shipments an- nually of carload lots to different ports of the country. The cultivation of about sixty acres of land for the growth of vegetables necessitated the employment of considerable capital and labor. Mr. Turner gave his personal care and attention to every detail in the management of his large business, and so successfully was it conducted that about 1890, father and son were both able to retire from active business cares.
Since his retirement Mr. Turner has enjoyed
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the fruits of his industry, and he busies himself in superintending the management of his farms in Niles Township, and other landed interests. He has fully improved all opportunities for the promotion of his financial interests, and thor- oughly enjoys the results of his well-directed efforts.
Mr. Turner has always taken an active in- terest in the affairs of the country and in men of note, and he keeps himself well informed on the general topics of the day. In politics he is an
ardent supporter of Republican principles, and is a recognized leader in the councils of his party, having for several years been chairman of the Central Republican Club of the Twenty-sixth Ward. He is a member of the Marquette Club and of the National League, and is popular among his friends and acquaintances. Mr. Tur- ner is a very companionable gentleman, of pleas- ing presence, an entertaining conversationalist, and possesses to a remarkable degree the qualities of good-fellowship.
PROF. OSCAR O. BAINES, M. D.
2 ROF. OSCAR ORLANDO BAINES, M. D., who was one of the most successful of the younger physicians of Chicago, was born March 5, 1863, in Ashtabula County, Ohio. His father, William B. Baines, emigrated from England at the age of eighteen years, and settled near Janes- ville, Wisconsin, where he became a prominent farmer, owning what was then widely known as the Willard farm, where Frances E. Willard, the famous temperance worker, was reared. His wife, whose parents were wealthy manufacturers in Germany, came to this country from a little village on the Rhine, when she was twenty-two years old. Their children were: Mary, now the wife of William Blandon, assistant cashier of the Merchants' & Mechanics' Bank in Janesville, Wisconsin; William, a farmer, who is now de- ceased; Charles, a thriving commission merchant in Omaha, Nebraska; Frank, the foremost leaf tobacco merchant of Wisconsin; and Oscar O., the subject of this sketch.
Oscar began his education in Janesville, Wis- consin, acquitting himself with honor in the pri- mary and high schools of that city. He was pos- sessed of a strong love for literary work, and was well adapted for the study of medicine, which he
began in the office of Dr. S. S. Judd, of Janesville. After spending two years there, he entered Bennett Medical College, Chicago, and graduated in 1885, carrying the highest honors of his class. He then located in the northern part of Chicago, and in the fall of 1886 was elected demonstrator of anatomy at his alma mater. He held this position until 1889, when he was elected to the chair of general descriptive anatomy, and in 1890 he received the additional honor of the chair of surgical anatomy and the office of secretary of Bennett College.
He was a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association, of the State Medical As- sociation, and was vice-president of the Chicago Eclectic Medical and Surgical Society. In 1895 he received an unusual honor for one of his years, being appointed by Governor Altgeld as a member of the State Board of Health. He was also secretary and attendant doctor of the Baptist hospital, at which place he was loved by all the patients. Dr. Baines ranked high among the members of his profession, both in his specialty of diseases of women and in general medical and surgical work, the extent of his practice dem- onstrating his standing in the community. In
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politics, though non-partisan, his sympathies were with the Democratic party, and he belonged to the honorable class of men who always vote. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and was a most worthy and respected citizen.
He was very ambitious in his profession, and his fellow-laborers lost a valuable associate when he died, May 19, 1896. He was also active in social and religious life, having been superin- tendent of the Lincoln Park Congregational Sun- day-school one year, and also a deacon and trustee in the church. He was always ready to come to the aid of those who needed a leader, and always gave his services cheerfully. He was a member of the Masonic order, the Royal League and the Royal Arcanum. It is a pleasure
to know such a man as was Dr. Baines, and to have been his friend is a great privilege. His memory will be cherished in Chicago for many years, and his life will be an example to young inen in this and other generations.
Christmas Eve, 1887, Dr. Baines married Miss Ida. Christie, daughter of Angus and Elizabeth (Walker) Christie, of Chicago, who were de- scendants of very old Canadian and English fam- ilies. Mrs. Baines was in every way fitted to be the wife of a man like her husband. She is ac- complished in music and in other ways, which helped make the home life pleasant, and to make the home one that it was a pleasure to enter. To Dr. and Mrs. Baines were born two children, Oscar Roland and Alice Elizabeth.
EDUARD KLEINDIENST.
c DUARD KLEINDIENST was born Decem- ber 14, 1853, in Schlesien, Melisch, Ger- many, and is a son of Gottlieb and Anna Rosa ( Pittoli) Kleindienst. His maternal grand- father was lost in the battle of Leipsic, when his mother, Anna Pittoli, was only three years old.
Gottlieb Kleindienst was born in the same province as his son, Eduard, and was by trade a mason and a contractor. He settled in the Province of Posen, near the city of Posen, and there followed his trade until he died, in 1868. His wife is still living, at the age of eighty- seven years. They had nine children, five of whom died in childhood, of diphtheria. William died in 1889, in the Province of Posen. The living are: Charles, who follows the mason's trade, and lives in Chicago; Dorothea, wife of Adolph Peschel, a resident of Schokken, in Posen; and Eduard, whose name heads this sketch.
Eduard Kleindienst removed to Posen with his parents when he was two years old. He received
a common-school education, and then began to study for the profession of architect in a private school, but he did not follow this work. He learned the trade of mason, and had some prac- tical experience in the work before he came to America, at the age of eighteen. He came from Bremen to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he remained three months and found em- ployment as an interpreter of the Polish and Ger- man dialects.
After coming to Chicago he worked at his trade one year, and in 1874 entered the employ of Goodwin & Elder, commission merchants, and spent three years with them. After this he spent one year as superintendent in the oleomargarine factory of James Turner. He then returned to Goodwin & Elder and was in their employ two and one-half years. He was later employed as salesman for ex-County Commissioner Knopf, one of the largest commission dealers on the street, and continued two years, after which he was with
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J. H. Phillips & Company, commission merchants, over four years. Mr. Kleindienst then entered into partnership with F. Heinze, under the firm name of F. Heinze & Company. This connec- tion continued one year, when it was dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Kleindienst estab- lished a partnership with C. W. Cleveland and H. T. Marsh, under the name of Kleindienst, Cleveland & Company. This continued only about six months, when his partners withdrew and Mr. Kleindienst continued alone about six months. He then entered the employ of Barron & Bir- mingham and continned with them four years, and after that was with N. E. Hollis for two years. He was then with O. P. Emerson nearly two years.
October 27, 1880, he married Maria Johanna Seiring, a native of Leipsic, Saxony, Germany. She is a daughter of Gottlieb and Johanna (Kohler) Seiring. The former died in 1866, in Leipsic, and the latter still lives in that city, at the age of seventy-two years. Mrs. Kleindienst came to Chicago in 1872. She had one child, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Kleindienst were both reared in the Lutheran faith, and he favors the Democratic party with his political support. In 1885 he removed to Norwood Park, where he built the handsome and comfortable residence in which he now resides. He came to this country when a very young man, and has carved his own fortune by his perseverance and energy, and is worthy the admiration and respect lie receives.
CHARLES W. TURNER.
HARLES WESLEY TURNER, a retired clergyman, living in Chicago, is the second son of John and Sarah (Patterson) Turner, whose biographies appear elsewhere in this vol- ume. He was born July 8, 1849, in Chicago. His primary education he received in the public schools, and he later attended the Chicago High School, from which he graduated in 1869. He spent one year at the Chicago University, and then took a classical course at the Northwestern University, at Evanston, where he graduated with the class of 1875. He was always much in- terested in the church and its work, and in this he was encouraged by his father, who was also an influence and power in such w.rk. For one year after graduation, he was assistant secretary and librarian of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation of Chicago.
In 1877 Mr. Turner removed to Milwaukee,
where he filled the office of general secretary of the association for a period of six years, after which he spent five years in South Dakota, rest- ing, recuperating his health, and preaching oc- casionally for the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has all his life been identified. In 1889 he was ordained to preach, and was as- signed to regular work in the ministry. His first charge was at Stockbridge, Wisconsin, where lie spent two years, and subsequently spent one year at Elo, three years at Waukau and two years at Amherst. In 1896 failing health forced his retirement from active labor in the ministry.
March 19, 1879, Mr. Turner married Miss Florence N. Wakeman, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and they became the parents of seven children, whose names are as follows: John W., Frederick N., Anna Belle, Glenn P., Forrest H., Florence N. and Charles W.
GEORGE BUTTERS.
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G EORGE BUTTERS, one of the most public- spirited citizens of Oak Park, was born Sep- tember 14, 1849, in South Boston, a division of the Massachusetts metropolis, and is a son of John Arnauld Cormerais Butters and Caroline Elizabeth (Sampson) Butters.
His first American paternal ancestor was Will- iam Butters, who settled in that part of Woburn, Massachusetts, now called Wilmington, in the year 1665. He served in King Philip's War as a member of Capt. Joseph Sill's company. He was a farmer by occupation and also operated a sawmill at Wilmington. He probably came from Dedham, England, and his posterity in the seventh generation, which is now scattered all over the United States, is represented by the sub- ject of this sketch. His great-grandson, Samuel Butters, and a son of the latter, who bore the same name, enlisted from Wilmington, in the Con- tinental army, and were among the "Minute Men" who were called out at Lexington. Samuel But- ters, junior, continued in the service until 1781, and was a corporal in Capt. William Bird's com- pany, of Colonel Webb's regiment. His son, William Butters, was a counselor-at-law, at Pitts- field, New Hampshire, and later at Boston.
John A. C. Butters, who was a son of the last- named, was born at Pittsfield, New. Hampshire, and for some time kept a book store at Lynn, Massachusetts. He went from there to Boston, as bookkeeper for Phillips & Sampson, the lead- ing book publishers in the United States at that time. He died at West Roxbury, Massachusetts,
Febuary 19, 1856, at the early age of thirty-four years. His brother, William A. Butters, be- came a well-known citizen of Chicago, where he was engaged in the auction and commission busi- ness for many years. Another brother, Isaac N. Butters, was a prominent business man in Min- neapolis, Minnesota. The mother of these children was Eloisa Monreau Cormerais, a daughter of John Arnauld and Jane Vaughan (Rindge) Cor- merais, the former a native of France.
George Vaughan, great-grandfather of Jane V. Rindge, was a lieutenant governor of New Hampshire in the early days of that province. He was a grandson of Hon. Richard Cutt, and married a daughter of Hon. Robert Elliot, one of the first counselors of the province of New Hampshire. The maternal great-grandfather of Jane V. Rindge was Col. Timothy Gerrish, a grandson of Maj. Richard Waldron, who was killed by Indians at Dover, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Caroline E. (Sampson) Butters was born April 5, 1824, at Plympton, Massachusetts, and died of apoplexy at Oak Park, Illinois, March 17, 1893. She had lived in Chicago since 1870, and was a member of Dr. N. W. Thomas' Church. She was a daughter of Capt. John Sampson (who commanded the Old Artillery Company at Ply- mouth, Massachusetts) and Priscilla (Bramhall) Sampson. Captain Sampson represented the sixth generation of descendants front John Alden, and also Capt. Miles Standish, of Plymouth Colony. Zabdiel Sampson, grandfather of Capt. John Sampson, was killed September 9, 1776, at
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the battle of Harlem, New York. He enlisted from Plymouth, Massachusetts, and had pre- viously served in the French and Indian War. During the last-named struggle, he was captured by the Indians, who (as related in Giles Memorial, by John A. Vinton, page 400) "tied him to a tree and amused themselves by throwing hatchets, to see how near they could throw and miss." Mr. and Mrs. J. A. C. Butters had two children. The eldest, Mary Priscilla, was born September 16, 1847, at Lynn, Massachusetts, and died unmar- ried, January 12, 1872, at Quincy, in the same State.
George Butters attended a private school at West Roxbury and also at Brookline, Massachu- setts. At the age of nine years he went to live with an uncle at Quincy, Massachusetts, where he attended the primary and high schools, When fifteen years old, he entered the employ of Samnel Greves, a furniture manufacturer in Boston, and learned the trade of upholsterer.
He took up his residence at Chicago in July, 1868, and was employed by D. Long & Com- pany, upholsterers and furniture dealers, in whose business his uncle, William A. Butters, had an interest. He became a salesman in this estab- Ishment, and a few years later was employed as bookkeeper. When the business was closed out in 1870, lie entered the service of William A. Butters & Company, having charge of their shoe department. The following spring, owing to ill- health, he went to Colorado, where he remained until after the Great Chicago Fire in October of that year. The next spring he moved to Oak Park, and purchased a tract of land, which he subdivided and sold. He lias ever since given his attention to real-estate investments, and was in a portion of these transactions associated with the firm of E. A. Cummings & Company. He is one of the original stockholders of the Proviso Land Association and also in the Union Land Pool. He was one of the corporators and a mem- ber of the first board of directors of the Cicero & Proviso Electric Railroad Company, and was as- sistant consulting engineer during the construc- tion of its lines and performed all the duties of that office. Upon their completion, he was elected
the first general manager of the company, and was later elected president, to succeed D. J. Ken- nedy. He held this position until February, 1896, and is still one of the directors.
He lias always manifested a great interest in the progress and development of Oak Park, es- pecially of the portion known as Ridgeland. He lias not only sought to promote its material growth, but has wisely taken a leading part in the work of developing the intellectual culture and social instincts of the people. He was one of the first members of the Ridgeland Literary Club, an organization which became very popular, grew rapidly and was eventually merged into the Ridgeland Hall Association, a corporation which included most of the citizens among its stock- holders, and erected the handsome brick block on Lake Street known as Ridgeland Hall. Mr. Butters was president of this corporation until it disbanded.
November 17, 1872, he was married to Miss Maria Shaw Bramhall, of Boston, Massachusetts, a daughter of William Bramhall, president of the Shawmut National Bank of that city, and his wife Elizabeth (Shaw) Bramhall. The only child of this marriage, George Russell Butters, born October 6, 1878, died July 21 of the following year. Mr. and Mrs. Butters are connected with Unity Church of Oak Park.
Mr. Butters was made a member of the Masonic fraternity in Lincoln Park Lodge, No. 611, of Chicago. He subsequently joined Harlem Lodge of Oak Park, in which he has held all the prin- cipal offices, being elected worshipful master in 1879, in which lodge he is now a life member. He was created a sublime prince of the thirty- second degree, October 5, 1875, in Oriental Con- sistory of Chicago, of which he is also a life mem- ber. He was made a Knight Templar April 28, 1880, in Apollo Commandery, Chicago, from which he was demitted to join Siloam Command- ery of Oak Park. He was made a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, in Medinah Temple of Chicago, November 20, 1891. He is one of the early members of the Society of Colonial Wars of Illi- nois, and also of the Illinois Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
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Mr. Butters has always been a Republican in political principle. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Oak Park Board of School Di- rectors, and served six years, being at first secretary, and later president of the board. It was during this time that the first school build- ing at Ridgeland was erected. In 1878 he was elected assessor of the town of Cicero, and was five times successively re elected. This office made him an ex-officio member of the Town Board of Trustees, and at the expiration of his services as assessor, in the spring of 1884, he was elected treasurer of the town. In the year 1889 he was elected a town trustee for the terni of four years. During this period of eleven years of his connection with the Town Board
he served on the most important committees of that body.
He helped to organize the first fire company in the town of Cicero, known as the Ridgeland Fire Association, was elected its first president, and has held that position most of the time since. This organization created an endowment fund by subscription, with which it built the first en- gine house in the town, installed the first system of electric fire alarms, and has introduced most of the improved features of the service in that town,
In recent years Mr. Butters has spent con- siderable time in the preparation of a large volume entitled "A History of the Butters Family, from 1666 to 1896," which he published in the latter year, at his own expense.
HENRY SCHADE.
ENRY SCHADE, who is now conducting a florist's establishment in Norwood Park, was born December 26, 1839, in Prussia, and is a son of Henry and Margaret Schade, na- tives of that country. In 1846 they came with their family of three children to Chicago. Henry Schade, senior, was a painter and decorator, and worked at his trade many years in Berlin. His first employment in Chicago was on Mr. Ogden's house, and he was engaged at his trade when he could find such employment, until his death, from cholera, in 1856. His widow is still living, and is eighty-three years old. They had six children, three of whom were born in Chi- cago. They are: Nicholas, of No. 239 North Avenue, Chicago; Henry, the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, wife of Julius Nieman, of No. 235 North Avenue; Peter, of South Dakota; Hat- tie, deceased; and Margaret, Mrs. Bruno Hacker, residing on North Avenue.
Henry Schade of this notice was educated in
the parochial schools of Saint Joseph and Saint Michael's Churches. At the age of fourteen years he began to learn the trade of upholstering, and after completing this was employed at his trade by the Tobey Furniture Company. He remained with this company thirty-three years, thus demonstrating his ability and faithfulness. In 1883 he bought six acres of land in Norwood Park, and moved his family to it. He sold this land later, and bought about an acre and a- quarter where he now lives, at the corner of Evergreen and Locust Streets. In1 1895 he es- tablished his present greenhouses, where he cul- tivates roses, carnations, geraniums and potted flowers for the city market.
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