Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, Volume 1899, Part 28

Author: La Salle Book Company (Chicago, Ill.)
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : La Salle Book Co.
Number of Pages: 910

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When he was very young his parents removed to Cook County, Illinois, where they remained about four years. The health of the mother becoming precarious, the family returned to New York, to Oswego County, where she died in 1858, leaving a daughter seven months old, who grew to womanhood, and died iu Wisconsin in 1883.

After his mother's dea h, the subject of this sketch was left largely to the care of his grand- mother and mother's sis.er. During his early boyhood he attended regularly the public school and also received considerable benefit from study at home. Later he entered the academy at Mex- ico, New York, an institution of high grade, and made such good use of his opportunities that he succeeded in passing the regents' examination, which entitled successful contestants to admission to any college in the State in 1866. While still in his teens, young Stevens found his health giv- ing away under continued and close application to study, and on the advice of the family physi- cian to seek an outdoor life for him, his father again came to Illinois, in 1866, settling near Bar- rington, in Cook County, having in the same year married, this time to his former wife's youngest sister, Frances Kellogg.

Here for four years the young man remained with his parents, attending school and pursuing his studies at home, at the end of which time, or when about eighteen years of age, he obtained a teacher's certificate in Lake County, and in the winter of 1870 taught his first terin of school with success. In February of the following year he came to Chicago and engaged in bookkeeping, but soon bought out an interest in a grocery and crockery store on the North Side, and was begin- ning to see good business prospects ahead when the great fire of October, 1871, swept away the store and all its contents. Without a dollar, young Stevens returned to Lake County soon after the fire and again taught school during the winter term. Soon after the conclusion of his school he became the agent of the American Ex- press Company at Barrington, and on January 1, 1873, was transferred to the messenger service of the company at Green Bay, Wisconsin, in which service he remained until the following June, when he resigned to engage in a business of his own at Green Bay, and in which he con- tinued with varying fortnnes until 1876.

In the latter year he returned to Illinois and engaged in teaching in McHenry County. With the exception of the following year, spent as a bookkeeper in Chicago, Mr. Stevens continued in the work of teaching until 1883, most of the time in the high schools of Libertyville and Wauconda. He had long cherished the desire to enter the medical profession, and now, seeing his way clear, he left his position at Wauconda in the fall of 1883 and, coming to Chicago, entered Ben-

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nett Medical College, where he was a close stu- dent, and in March, 1885, graduated with much credit to himself.

His attainments were evidently appreciated, for upon graduation he was offered a professor's chair in the college. This he declined, however, pre- ferring to enter upon the exclusive practice of his profession, for which a good opportunity offered in partnership with an old-established physician in Wisconsin, with whom he remained for two years. The partnership was then dissolved, and Dr. Stevens continued an independent practice in the same location for over six years, during which time he built up a large practice and became well and favorably known by the profession through- out the State. While here he became President and later the Secretary for two years, of the State Eclectic Medical Society of Wisconsin, and was prominent in all its affairs, being Chairman for three years of their Committee on Medical Legis- lation.

In 1891 Dr. Stevens returned to Chicago and was elected to the chair of Diseases of Children in Bennett Medical College, his alma mater, to which was added in the following year Clinical Medicine, both of which positions he still holds, and in which he has made an excellent record. In 1891 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the National Eclectic Medical Association, and now serves in that capacity, having been re- elected annually ever since. He was also Secre- tary of the World's Eclectic Medical Congress, held in Chicago in June, 1893, in connection with the World's Fair. The other eleven members of the Executive Committee, as well as the general officers of the congress, ascribe a great part of the success of the congress to his untiring efforts for the previous nine months in securing papers and a very large attendance and making all necessary arrangements.

The Doctor is also on the medical staff of Ben- nett Hospital, attending physician at the Willie Hipp and Bennett Free Dispensaries for children and the Evanston Emergency Hospital.

Dr. Stevens is a member both of the Wisconsin

and the Illinois State Eclectic Societies, of the National Eclectic Medical Association, and of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association. In addi- tion to his other duties he edits and publishes The Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, a publication of recognized merit. It is a royal- octavo book of five hundred pages, published each year, and containing the meritorious papers read at the different State societies at their an- nual sessions.

The Doctor is a member of the Masonic frater- nity and has taken much interest in the various degrees, from the Blue Lodge, of which he is a Past Master, to the Commandery of Knights Templar, of which he is a member. He is also a11 Odd Fellow, a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and of other fraternal orders, in all of which he is popular. In his religious associations Dr. Stevens is a Methodist and alı active worker in the church of which he is a member at his Evanston home, although his sym- pathies and his benefactions extend beyond the boundaries of his own church. In his political affiliations he is an all-around Republican, as re- gards national and State affairs, and for good mnen only, whatever the party, in the control of local affairs.

Dr. Stevens was married in 1873 to Miss Gertie Wood, of Lake County, Illinois, of an excellent and well-known family there. Mrs. Stevens has not only proved to be an excellent wife and de- voted mother, but is known outside the family circle for her many virtues. They have three children, a daughter named Edith G., aged six- teen, and two bright boys, aged six and eight, and named respectively Clark Jay and Karl I. Personally, Dr. Stevens is a fine-looking, well- preserved gentleman, whose genial face is a cor- rect index to a generous heart and a naturally refined nature. He easily makes and keeps friends, and is uniformly regarded as a welcome addition to any social circle. He has fine literary tastes, and, so far as his professional duties will allow, finds pleasant companionship among his books.

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CALVIN T. HOOD, A. M., M. D.

D ALVIN TODD HOOD, A. M., M. D. The remarkable professional career of Dr. Hood illustrates the benefit of good blood and breeding, supplemented by thorough preparation and intelligent application. The grandfather of Dr. Hood, Archie Hood, was a remarkable man of his time, descended from the early English settlers of Raleigh, North Carolina, and being distantly related to the noted Confederate, Gen. Hood. He was tall and stately, measuring six feet and four inches in height, without his boots, and was very intelligent and active. He was what is often called a " natural bone-setter," and though he never studied medicine or surgery, was called upon by people for forty miles around to set broken bones, which he did with success. He was straight as an arrow at his death, which oc- curred in 1872, at the age of seventy-two. He had three wives, the first of whom, Mary Walker, was the mother of his children. He built the first gristmill constructed by English-speaking people in the Mississippi Valley. This was at Elkhorn Prairie, Washington County, Illinois.

Samuel Gordon, maternal grandfather of Dr. Hood, was also of English lineage, and opened the first store and blacksmith shop at Kaskaskia after it became a modern settlement. He also built and operated the first inill for extracting oil from castor beans, one of the principal early pro- ducts of that region. He stood six feet seven inches, and was a famous Indian fighter, winning inany a contest with his red neighbors in the early days of Kaskaskia, and participating, as well, in the Blackhawk War. When the bell brought out by the French to Kaskaskia blew down and was cracked in a storm, he bargained to repair it, in consideration of the gift of a clock made in Paris in 1672 and brought to Illinois the next year. The case was destroyed in a subsequent fire, but

the works are still preserved by Mr. Gordon's daughter, the mother of Dr. Hood.

Archie Hood had eight children, seven of whom grew up and are still living, being residents of Illinois. James, the third child, married Nellie A., daughter of Samuel Gordon, and settled at Sparta, Illinois, where he engaged many years in mercantile business, and where he still resides, being in the sixty-fourth year of his age, his business being continued by his son, one of the most active and enterprising citizens of that re- gion. Rev. John Hood, pastor of the First Pres- byterian Church of Galesburg, is another of the sons of Archie Hood. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Knox College, of which body he has been President.

Mrs. Nellie A. Hood is a graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, a woman of cultivated tastes and intellectual attainments, and her influence in form- ing the character and directing the studies of her sons (only one of whom displayed any taste for business, the others being in professional life) has been powerful and lasting.

The subject of this biography is the eldest of a family comprising four sons and a daughter. He was born at Sparta, Randolph County, this State, on the nation's eighty-sixth-birthday anniversary, July 4, 1862. At a very early age he began as- sisting in his father's 'store, in the intervals be- tween school days. He graduated from the local high school, and before the age of sixteen began the study of medical science, which he continued for five years, under the tutelage of Dr. David S. Booth, a widely-known physician of Sparta. He attended Princeton (New Jersey) College and tlie University of Michigan, where he was Clinical Assistant. After teaching school a year, during which time he continued his medical studies, he came to Chicago, March 17, 1884, and entered

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R. H. CHAMBERLIN.

the spring term of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In February of the following year he took his degree from this institution and at once began practice. In September of the same year he entered the Chicago Homeopathic College, from which he was graduated in February, 1886. Ever since that time he has enjoyed a steadily growing practice. He occupies an office in the Marshall Field Building, where he is found fore- noons, making a specialty of mental and nervous diseases, in the treatment of which he has acliieved a remarkable success. He is constantly driven with the applications of patients in the vicinity of his home office on West Adams Street.

In 1887, only a year after completing his medi- cal courses, he was elected Professor of Physi- ology and Pathology of the American Dental College, in which he continued to lecture five years. In 1889 he began lecturing on Electro- Therapeutics in the Chicago Homoeopathic Col- lege, and a year later was inade Associate Pro- fessor of Mental and Nervous Diseases in the same institution, and has fulfilled the duties of that chair ever since. He is also Assistant Busi- ness Manager of this institution, and has had entire charge of the buildings and appurtenances for the last four years.

Dr. Hood is a man of wonderful vitality and remarkably strong physique. If he were not, he certainly could not perform one-half the work which he has been performing for many years. For a man of his comparative youth he is carrying large responsibilities, with credit to himself and

the institutions with which he is identified. He is a member of the Illinois Homeopathic Society, the Chicago Academy of Physicians and Sur- geons and the American Institute of Homœpathy. He is a member of the official board of the West- ern Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and, while not in any sense a politician, adheres from principle to the Republican party in matters of public policy.

On the Ist of September, 1886, Dr. Hood mar- ried Miss Ethel May Barker, a native of Nunda, New York, and a daughter of O. W. and Mary (Swain) Barker, of old and long-lived American families. Mrs. Hood's parents reside on a farm near Nunda, where she was reared. Having fit- ted herself by a course of study, she became one of the first trained nurses employed at the Pres- byterian Hospital in Chicago, where she first met the Doctor. They have two daughters, namely: Grace Gordon, born on the anniversary of her father's birth, in 1887, and Ethel May, born March 5, 1890.

Those who meet Dr. Hood, either socially or professionally, are at once impressed with his manly bearing, his kindly courtesy and his cul- tured intellect. In the midst of his multifarious duties he always has time to pass a pleasant word with any one who may have occasion to call upon him, and his presence in the community is a blessing, for his personality, as well as his pro- fessional skill, carries an elevating and restorative power.

RHUEL H. CHAMBERLIN.

HUEL HAMPTON CHAMBERLIN, for- merly Superintendent of the Illinois Division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail- road, was born in Mendham, Morris County, New

Jersey, in 1826. When quite young, he was taken by his parents to Milton, Pennsylvania, where they remained about two years. They then re- moved to Pottsville, in the same State, and from

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there to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where they stayed about three years. After that the family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Rhuel attended the common school for four years. Later he was at a boarding-school at Lititz, Pennsylvania, in which town he also attended school under the tuition of Mr. J. Beck for about eighteen months. The family then moving to Philadelphia, he re- mained there about six years, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to a Mr. Brewer in the chair-making business. When, however, he had been for two years with Mr. Brewer, his parents moved to New York City, and he went with them. He there went under the instructions of William Walling and finished his trade.

After learning this business, Mr. Chamberlin went to Troy, New York, and worked for W. L. Adams, but being in ill health while there he returned to New York City. After his recu- peration he went back to Troy, and there, mak- ing a contract with Burge & Bros., who were the proprietors of a chair factory on Adams Street, he remained until their factory was burned down, about two years later. After this he went to New York City and engaged in the chair busi-

ness. Being unfortunate in this enterprise he failed, but paid all his debts in full, owing no one at the time of shutting down his factory. He then accepted an offer made by Burge & Bros., who had rebuilt their factory at Troy. From there he again went to New York City, and secured a position on the Third Avenue City Railway as conductor when it first opened. He stayed on that road three years, and later was on the Dela- ware Division of the New York & Erie Railroad as head brakeman, under Supt. Hugh Riddle. Here he remained one year, and then for about four years was conductor on an extra freight train. After this, in the year 1873, he was made pas- senger conductor on the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad, remaining there until June, 1874. In November he went to Chicago to take a position as passenger conductor on the Chi- cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. On Jan- uary 1, 1878, he was appointed Superintendent of the Illinois Division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.

Mr. Chamberlin is a member of Port Jervis Lodge No. 328, Delta Chapter No. 191, and Del- aware Commandery No. 44, K. T., of Port Jervis.

REV. CANDIDUS KOZLOWSKI.

EV. CANDIDUS KOZLOWSKI, Rector of the Polish Church at Lemont, was born on the 25th day of March, 1836, in the city of Warsaw, Poland. His father was Andreas and his mother Josepha (Majewska) Kozlowski, natives of the same city. Andreas Kozlowski was a captain in the French army, and served un- der Napoleon I. in Spain, in 1806, and in the European War of 1812. He was a valiant sol- dier, and fought for what he considered the inter- ests of Poland. He lived to the age of seventy- six years, dying in 1852. He was married three

times (the second wife being the mother of the subject of this biography), and was the father of twenty-one children. Josepha Kozlowski was the mother of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, only three of whom are now living, the subject of this sketch being the only one in America.

The father of Andreas, Adalbert Kozlowski, was also a soldier, and served in the Polish army, having witnessed the coronation of the last king of Poland and given him his unswerving adhesion. He was a man of more than ordinary means, a

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landed proprietor, and owner of tenement houses in Warsaw. He lived to be upwards of eighty years old, and died in 1847.

Candidus Kozlowski is a man of rare education and attainments, and used his best and inost strenuous efforts for the liberation of his native land from Russian rule. He was educated in his native city, and in 1863 became a leader in the revolutionary movement which resulted in the complete subjugation of the Polish patriots, and the execution of a large number of their leaders -including hundreds of the friends and relatives of Mr. Kozlowski. With a handful of men, num- bering less than a hundred, he fought his way through to the Austrian frontier, where he was warmly received by the populace and Austrian common soldiers, who applauded his bravery and assisted his escape toward Italy. He is still un- der the ban of a Russian death sentence, and dare not return to the dominions of the Czar.

In the latter part of the year 1863, at Bologna, Italy, he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. After he took holy orders, he became a traveler and visited many countries, in cluding the greater portion of Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. He came to the United

States in 1872, and established a church at Cin- cinnati. He purchased a Lutheran Church, which he converted into a Catholic institution, and chris- tened it St. Stanislaus. About a year later, he returned to Europe and revisited many of the countries in which he had previously traveled. In 1874 he became a permanent resident of America, and took charge of a parish at La Salle, Illinois, where he remained seven years. After a visit in Europe, he was rector of St. Josaphat Church in Chicago for five years, and'has been for the last five years in his present charge. His parish com- prises four hundred families, and the school in connection numbers three hundred and fifty pupils.

Father Kozlowski's liberal education and wide travels have made him a cosmopolite in ideas, a practical man in business, a genial gentleman and an able priest. As a recreation, he gives consid- erable attention to the study of astronomy, and is the possessor of a fine telescope, which he pur- chased at the Paris Exposition, and on which he was obliged to pay a duty of $42. He is loved and respected by his people and the entire com- munity, and is one of the most valuable of the country's adopted citizens.

MENZO RUSSELL.

ENZO RUSSELL, a farmer residing on sec- tion 22, Northfield Township, has the honor of being a native of Cook County, his birthi having occurred in the township which is still his home, February 17, 1839. He is the only child of Jacob and Eliza (Rhines) Russell, both of whom were natives of Sharon, Schoharie County, New York. His mother was a daughter of Henry Rhines, a shoemaker and farmer. In 1834 Jacob and Eliza Russell emigrated to Cook County, Illi- nois, arriving in Chicago with a capital of $6.

The father first engaged in burning charcoal about four iniles from the city, and in this way secured enough money to purchase a team, with which to engage in farming. He settled on sec- tio11 22, Northfield Township, where he still makes his home, residing with his son Menzo. He became the possessor of three hundred acres of good land, and may truly be called a self-made inan. He has borne all the hardships and expe- riences of frontier life, and is familiar with the history of Cook County from its earliest days.

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He has now passed his eighty-fourth birthday, but is remarkably active for one of his years, and still works upon the farm. In early life he was a Democrat, but since the organization of the Re- publican party has been one of its supporters. Mrs. Eliza Russell died January 8, 1892, aged seventy-five years, three months and six days.

Menzo Russell has always lived upon the farm which is yet his home, and therefore has a wide acquaintance throughout this community. No event of special importance occurred during his boyhood and youth, which were quietly passed on his father's farm. Having attained to mature years, he chose as a companion and helpmate on life's journey Miss Margaret Russell, the wed- ding being celebrated July 3, 1859. The lady is a daughter of David Russell, who was a native of New York, and lived to be seventy-two years of age. With his brothers, William and John, their wives and father and mother, he was laid to rest in the family burying-ground, two miles southeast of Shermerville. Mrs. Margaret Rus- sell's three brothers, Norman, Jacob and John Russell, promptly responded to their country's call for troops at the breaking out of the Civil War, and valiantly aided in the defense of the

Union. Her grandmother had three brothers in the Revolutionary War; therefore the Russell family has been well represented in military af- fairs when the country was in need of valiant sons.

To our subject and his wife were born eight children, four sons and four daughters, but the former are all now deceased. Mary Elizabeth, born October 17, 1862, is the wife of George Goebel, a stone and brick mason of Evanston. Catherine, born June 16, 1864, is the wife of Joseph Selzer, a farmer of Northfield Township. Leona, born December 20, 1866, is the wife of Joseph Bastien, a tinner of Evanston. Lottie, born January 13, 1877, is at home. The parents of this family are both imembers of the Methodist Church, and are highly respected people, who have many warm friends in the community. Mr. Russell is a stalwart Republican. He cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has supported each Presidential nominee of the party since that time. He is a wide-awake and progressive citizen, and public enterprises calcu- lated to advance the general welfare never solicit his aid in vain.

PETER CRAWFORD.

L ETER CRAWFORD, one of the most deserv- ing pioneers of Cook County, was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1796, and was a son of Peter and Janet (McNaught) Crawford. The father was born near Inverary, on Loch Tyne, Argyleshire, in 1753, and was a boat-builder in his native land. He died in Delaware County, New York, in 1848. His wife died in Hamden, New York, in 1836, at the age of seventy years.

She was a daughter of Malcolm and Catherine (McKinley) McNaught. Her father was a ship- carpenter, and came to America at the age of nine- ty years. His death occured in Delaware County, New York, ill 1825, at the age of ninety-five. His children were: Gilbert, a Baptist minister of Delaware County, New York; John; Neil, who died in Scotland; Mrs. Janet Crawford; Cather- ine and Mary, who died in Scotland; and Archi-

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bald. The mother of this family passed away in Scotland in 1818, at the age of eighty-four.

To Peter and Janet Crawford were born eight children: Malcolm, who died in infancy; Donald, who died in Hamden, New York, in 1868, at the age of eighty-two; John, who died in Scotland in 1817, at the age of twenty-nine; Gilbert, a Pres- byterian minister, who for a number of years was pastor of a church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but died in Leroy, Genesee County, New York, in 1848, at the age of fifty-six; Catherine, who was born in 1796, and died at the age of seventy-five years; Peter, of this sketch; Sarah, who became the wife of Malcolm McFarland, and died in Ham- den in 1853, at the age of fifty-two; and Janet, who died in Hamden in 1872, at the age of sixty- eight.

Peter Crawford, whose name heads this notice, came to America in 1820, on a sailing-vessel, lo- cating first in Delaware County, New York, with his parents. In Buffalo, New York, he wedded Juliet Sophronia Hubbard, a native of Westmin- ster, Windham County, Vermont, born October 19, 1807. She was a daughter of Salmon and Caroline (Pratt) Hubbard. Mrs. Crawford's fa- ther was a son of Daniel Hubbard, who died in Massachusetts in 1813, at the age of eighty years. Salmon Hubbard was born in Sunderland, Hamp- shire County, Massachusetts, in 1774, and was the eldest in a family of five children, the others being Spencer, Lemuel, Polly and Electa. Salmon Hubbard died in Canadice, Livingston County, New York, about 1859. His children were: Hi- ram, who was proprietor of a livery and stage line and died in Canandaigua, New York, in 1848, at the age of forty-nine years; Daniel, who died in 1849, at the age of forty-eight; Elijah H., who was born in Guilford, Vermont, and died in New York in 1830, at the age of twenty-seven; Salmon, who was born in Westminister, Vermont, in 1805, and died in 1835; Juliet Sophronia, wife of Peter Crawford; Almira, who was born in Greenwich, New York, in 1810, became the wife of John Purcell, and died in Canadice, New York, in 1884; and Ornan, who was born in Williamson, Ontar- io County, New York, in 1813, and died in 1834. Mrs. Caroline (Pratt) Hubbard was born

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Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, Volume 1899, Part 28

Author: La Salle Book Company (Chicago, Ill.) Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : La Salle Book Co. Number of Pages: 910

Author: La Salle Book Company (Chicago, Ill.)
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : La Salle Book Co.
Number of Pages: 910