Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, Volume 1899, Part 34

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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G. M. PULLMAN.

roads were open to it and its counterparts. The he accepted the charge of disbursements as trus- present wide use of the Pullman sleepers, in tee, which was accomplished without the loss of a dollar, though to the detriment of his private interests through consumption of his time. Europe as well as in America, is too well known to need comment. The history of the Pullman Palace Car Company is almost as well understood, though many who enjoy the facilities for comfort- able travel afforded by it know little of the labors of its founder in establishing a happy and desira- ble home for its employes at Pullman.

The history of the great strike at Pullman and among railway employes in 1894 is also now a matter of history. During its progress Mr. Pull- man maintained a dignified and consistent atti- tude, notwithstanding much harsh and unjust criticism; and the course of the Pullman Com- pany in that struggle has been generally vindi- cated.

The Nation, in its issue of November 22, 1894, refers to the general feeling that the existence of the Government and of society itself was at stake in this strike, and that to give in to the strikers at that point, or at any point, would have been a deadly blow to liberty and the rights of property; and says: "What account of the circumstances accompanying this strike, which was not so much a strike as a social convulsion, can be complete if it leaves out the intense anxiety of the best citizens lest a fatal surrender of principle should be made ?" * * * " There were hundreds of thousands of the best American citizens who re- joiced with great joy at that critical moment that Mr. Pullman was unyielding;" and " Americans abroad anxiously scanned the fragmentary des- patches and prayed fervently that Mr. Pullman would at any rate stand firm."

Mr. Pullman has been identified as an initial force with other large enterprises than the Palace Car Company, of which he is the head. Among these may be mentioned the Metropolitan Ele- vated Railway of New York, which was con- structed in the face of determined and powerful opposition. He has taken an active interest in the project for the construction of a canal across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Another work in which he rendered great public service was in the distribution of relief funds after the great fire of 1871. At the earnest appeal of Mayor Mason,

In private life Mr. Pullman is a patron of art and literature, and a supporter of elegance and refinement in society. In 1867 he married Miss Hattie A., daughter of James Y. Sanger (whose biography appears elsewhere in this work). Two daughters, who are active in philanthropic and religions work, and twin sons complete the fam- ily. They are: Florence Sanger; Harriet S., now the wife of Francis J. Carolan; George M., Jr., and Walter Sanger.

It has been Mr. Pullman's happy privilege to erect for the Universalist Society at Albion, New Vork, a memorial of his parents, in the form of a handsome and substantial church edifice. It is built of dark brown Medina stone, 125x80 feet in ground dimensions, with perfect furnishings and decorations. On the right and left, as one enters the auditorium, are placed the bronze medallion portraits of Mr. Pullman's father and mother. They were designed by Sculptor Carl Rohl Smith, of Chicago. They are oval, two feet five inches by one foot nine inches, and framed in a narrow moulding, ornamented with pearls. The tablet inscription is as follows:

Erected by a Son as a Memorial to His Father, JAMES LEWIS PULLMAN,

In Recognition of His Love and Work for the Universalist Church and Its Faith, and In Memory of His Mother, EMILY CAROLINE PULLMAN, One with Her Husband in the Joys and Hopes of Religion1. Dedicated January, 1895.

It is inclosed in a border composed of a wreath of ivy, the symbol of affection. A beautiful me- morial window is in the west transept.

The dedicatory services were held on the last day of January, 1895, the sermon being delivered by Rev. R. H. Pullman, of Baltimore. At the installation of the pastor, on the same day, the

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Rev. James M. Pullman, of Lynn, Massachusetts, preached the installation sermon, when the Rev. Charles Fluhrer, D. D., late of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was made pastor. Others who officiated

in the services were the Rev. Dr. C. H. Eaton, D. D., of New York; the Rev. Dr. J. K. Mason, D. D., of Buffalo; and the Rev. Asa Saxe, D. D., of Rochester.

CHARLES G. HUTCHINSON.

HARLES GROVE HUTCHINSON, a pro- gressive and energetic business man of Chi- cago, was born in Williamsville, Erie Coun- ty, New York, January 24, 1847, and is a son of William H. Hutchinson and Jane Grove. The Hutchinson family, which is, doubtless, of Eng- lish origin, located in the Connecticut Colony as early as the seventeenth century. Joseph, the father of William H. Hutchinson, served through the War of 1812, as lieutenant of a company of Connecticut troops. He took part in the campaign about Fort Erie and Buffalo, and the close of the war found him stationed at Detroit. Soon after the cessation of hostilities he resigned his commission and settled in western New York. His sojourn in this locality during the war had revealed to him its pre-eminent advantages as an agricult- ural country. For many years he was landlord of the Mansion House at Williamsville. His death occurred in Chicago in 1877, at the age of seventy-nine years.

William H. Hutchinson, who was born in Leb- anon, Connecticut, removed with his family to Chicago in the spring of 1849. Soon after com- ing to this city he began the manufacture of soda water, which he continued up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1880, at the age of six- ty-five years. His place of business was at the corner of Randolph and Peoria Streets, where he erected a large factory, which escaped destruction in the Great Fire. The family residence, at the

corner of North State and Erie Streets, was swept away in that conflagration. His prompt loan of a quantity of soda-water boxes, which afforded admirable pigeon-holes at the time, enabled the postoffice to resume the distribution of the mails with little delay after the fire. He was ever a public-spirited citizen and an enthusiastic ad- herent of the Democratic party, contributing much of his time as an organizer and worker for its success, though always refusing to be himself a candidate for any office.

Mrs. Jane (Grove) Hutchinson was born in New York. Her father, who was a native of Penn- sylvania, was of Dutch descent. The name was originally written Groff. While returning from a visit to Mackinaw, in 1856, Mrs. Hutchinson became a victim of one of the saddest disasters which ever occurred upon Lake Michigan, being one of the passengers of the ill-fated steamer " Niagara," which burned off Port Washington, Wisconsin. She was the mother of four sons: Chester M., of Hawthorne, Cook County, Illi- nois; William A., who is in the United States revenue service at Port Townsend, Washington; and George C. and Charles G., both of whom are residents of Chicago. William H. Hutchinson was married a second time, to Miss Mary M. Warner, of Williamsville, New York, and they became the parents of two sons, Douglas and Eugene, the latter of whom is now deceased, and the former resides in Chicago.

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Charles G. Hutchinson attended the Washing- ton School of Chicago until he was fifteen years old, after which he was a student for four years at the Military Academy at Fulton, Illinois. After the close of the Civil War-there being no further promise of demand for military service-he re- turned to Chicago, and became identified with his father's business, which he continued to co11- duct for some time after the death of its founder. In 1879, in company with his brother, George C. Hutchinson, he established a factory for the pro- duction of bottlers' supplies and extracts, under the firm name of W. H. Hutchinson & Son, which is still retained. Two years later the present factory on Desplaines Street was built, and about forty men are employed therein. The subject of this notice is also identified with several other im- portant industries. He is a stockholder and Treasurer of the Independent Brewing Associa- tion, and President of the Chicago Fountain Soda Water Company. He is one of the stockholders

of the Coit Paint Company (incorporated), and is the inventor and patentee of the Hutchinson Spring Bottle Stopper, a unique and useful ap- pliance, which has come into almost universal use.

Mr. Hutchinson is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being identified with D. C. Cregier Lodge, Washington Chapter, Chicago Commandery, Knights Templar, Oriental Con- sistory and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Like his father, he has been a life-long Democrat, but never seeks public position. He is an en- thusiastic and successful sportsman, and makes frequent excursions to the woods of Northern Wisconsin for the purpose of indulging his taste for fishing and hunting. He is a member of the Eagle River Fishing and Shooting Club, and of the Cumberland Gun Club, two of the leading sportsmen's organizations of Chicago. In all his business and social relations he is deservedly pop- ular, through his genial and social disposition and his kind and courteous manners.

GEORGE M. ROGERS.

EORGE MILLS ROGERS is not only dis- tinguished as one of the foremost attorneys and jurists of Chicago, but has given much study and careful attention to the leading public questions of the day. He is well versed in prob- lems relating to political economy and municipal reform, and his views are never narrowed by con- siderations of party policy, nor are his expressions colored by mere personal or mercenary motives. His professional integrity and liis reputation as a citizen have been equally well maintained, and no modern record of Chicago's representative inen would be complete without some notice of his achievements.

Mr. Rogers was born at Glasgow, Kentucky, on the sixteenth day of April, 1854, and is a son of the Hon. John Gorin Rogers and Arabella E. Crenshaw, extended notice of whom, together with the genealogy of their families, is given elsewhere in this volume. The subject of this sketch was but four years old when the family came to Chicago. He was educated at the public schools and the Chicago University, supplement- ing the instruction so received by a course at Yale College, from which famous institution he was graduated in 1876. He began his legal studies in the office of Crawford & McConnell, and con- tinued the same in the Union College of Law-

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now the law department of the Northwestern University.

In 1878 he was admitted to the Bar, and began practice in partnership with Samuel P. McConnell, a well-known barrister, since one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County. During the continuance of this partnership he was chosen at- torney for the Citizens' Association, and was a member of the committee which prepared and secured the passage of the original reform city election law. He also personally prepared the primary election law, which was adopted verbatim by the committee of the association having that subject in charge, and was presented to the Legis- lature for adoption. Owing to the fact that this bill was in charge of Senator Crawford during its passage, it became known as the "Crawford Election Law."

His services in behalf of this association could not fail to attract attention to his signal ability as a lawyer and a statesman, and caused his ap- pointment as Assistant City Attorney. This po- sition he filled with such credit that, in 1886, he was appointed City Prosecuting Attorney, but ow- ing to the ill-health of his wife, which demanded that he should travel with her, he resigned the office in April of the following year. After return- ing to the city he was appointed, in November, 1887, to the office of Assistant United States At- torney, but resigned that position in the following March, to re-engage in private law practice. With this business he has combined that of real- estate and loans, and his transactions have grown to such volume as to require the assistance of several clerks.

On the Ist of February, 1889, he was ap- pointed :1 Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and has discharged the duties of that judicial office with such candor and im- partiality as to earn and receive the approbation of courts, attorneys and litigants.

In 1893 it was deemed advisable by the leading lawyers of Chicago to take some practical steps toward the separation of judicial affairs from the contamination of political interests. With this end in view, they placed in nomination eight. candidates for judicial positions, who were equally

divided in political affiliations between the two leading parties. Mr. Rogers received the highest vote of any candidate before the Bar Association -the total number being 1346, out of which he received 1222. This nomination came to him without any solicitation on his part, and, although the "party machine" which dominated the Dem- ocratic convention prevented the endorsement of his nomination, which he made no effort to secure, his endorsement by the members of the Bar, who were influenced by no political consid- , erations, but by a desire to elevate the judiciary and purify the administration of justice, was re- garded as a far greater compliment than an elec- tion as a candidate of any political party could have been.

On the 3d of June, 1884, Mr. Rogers was mar- ried to Philippa Hone Anthon, a daughter of the late Hone Anthon, of New York City, whose family is conspicuous for the large number of eminent professional men among its members.

Mr. Rogers is one of the founders of the Iro- quois Club, and among the other clubs with which he is prominently identified may be men- tioned the Illinois, University and Law Clubs. In the fall of 1888 he united with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which his father had been one of the leading spirits, and he has repre- sented his lodge in the Grand Lodge of Illinois. In 1882 he made a foreign tour in company with his brother, who was suffering from ill-health, and visited the principal cities and other points of interest in Europe. His active mind and keen observation could not fail to make this trip of value to him in broadening his experience and extending his knowlege of men and the affairs of the world.

For a number of years after beginning his pro- fessional career, he was prominent in the political counsels of the Democratic party. In 1880 he was nominated as the candidate of his party for State Senator. His personal popularity may be judged from the fact that the usual Republican majority of two thousand in his district was re- duced to eight hundred. For some time he was Vice-President of the Cook County Democratic Committee, and labored diligently, though in

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vain, to bring about some needed reforms in the organization and methods of the party. Becom- ing displeased with the methods of politicians, he became one of the organizers of the Iroquois Club, which was established for the purpose of

exerting an influence in National politics, leaving local strife to those whose taste led in that direc- tion, and he was elected one of its first Vice- Presidents.

ROBERT HERVEY, LL. D.

OBERT HERVEY, LL. D., who was for nearly forty years a familiar figure in Chi- cago court rooms, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, August 10, 1820. Heis a son of Alex- ander and Elizabeth (Gibson) Hervey. The fa- ther was a son of Robert Hervey, who founded a mercantile establishment at Glasgow, in which Alexander succeeded him. The business career of the latter was cut short by his death, when his son Robert was but eleven years of age. Mrs. Elizabeth Hervey afterward came to America, and for a number of years resided with her son in Chicago. She died at Brockville, Canada, in 1862.

Robert Hervey was educated in his native city, first at a grammar school and later at the Uni- versity of Glasgow. While at this institution he began the study of medicine, and the knowledge thus obtained was of great use to him in subse- quent legal practice. With this information he often surprised courts, as well as expert witnesses. At the age of seventeen years he went to Canada, intending to enter into mercantile business in connection with uncles who were residing there. By the advice of one of the latter, however, he de- cided to study law, and became a student of Hen- ry Sherwood, of Brockville, afterward the Attor- ney-General of Ontario. When this gentleman removed to Toronto, Mr. Hervey accompanied him to that city, where he was admitted to prac- tice in1 1841. He then opened an office at Otta- wa, then called Bytown, the eastern terminus of the Rideau Canal, which had recently been com- pieted. He continued his legal business at Otta-

wa until 1852, when he came to Chicago, and has since been continuously in legal practice here.

He first opened an office in partnership with Buckner S. Morris and Joseph P. Clarkson, at the southeast corner of Lake and Clark Streets, in the same building where Judge Thomas Drum- mond then held United States Court. Mr. Her- vey subsequently took James R. Hosmer into partnership for a time, and in May, 1858, became a partner of Elliott Anthony-since a distin- guished Judge of the Superior Court. Mr. A. T. Galt was afterward admitted to this firm, and for many years the firm of Hervey, Anthony & Galt was one of the best known in Chicago. Mr. Hervey's early partner, Joseph Clarkson, was a brother of Bishop Clarkson, who was then Rector of St. James' Church on the North Side, and afterward became Bishop of Nebraska.

Mr. Hervey has practiced in all courts, from Justices' up to the Supreme Court of the United States, to which latter he was admitted in 1873, and has been employed on some of the most im- portant criminal cases in Cook County. The first

of these was in 1855, when he defended Patrick Cunningham, accused of killing a policeman. This case created a great sensation in Chicago, but Mr. Hervey secured a change of venue to Wau- kegan, where the minds of the jurors were less prejudiced than in Chicago, and his client was sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years for manslaughter. The adroit and skillful manage- ment of the defendant's attorney saved the latter from a death sentence and established the law- yer's reputation. Though he has defended some

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notorious criminals, none of his clients have ever been executed. He was attorney for some of the aldermen and Cook County Commissioners who were accused of "boodling," and all his clients were acquitted.

One of the most important cases taken up by the firm of Hervey & Anthony was the dissolu- tion of the consolidation of the Chicago & Galena Union Railroad Company with the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, a deal which was manipulated by the directors of the respect- ive roads to the dissatisfaction and alleged dis- advantage of the stockholders of the former road, who had not been consulted in the matter. The contest was finally settled by payment of dam- ages to the plaintiff stockholders of the Chicago & Galena Union.

For six years past Mr. Hervey has been afflict- ed with ill-health, which has confined him to his house and prevented his attendance at court or social gatherings. While his health permitted him to do so, he attended the Episcopal Church. Since 1865 he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, having joined Blaney Lodge at that date. While a young man he joined the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows at Ottawa, and be- came the Noble Grand of Ottawa Lodge No. 1 I. His connection with this order was abandoned, however, on his coming to the United States, though he has often regretted this action. While a citizen of Canada he was quite an active politi- cian, and spent considerable of his time, energy and money in the effort to help shape local affairs. His uncle, who realized the futility of this course, exacted a promise from young Hervey on coming to Chicago, that he would not mingle in the pol- itics of the United States. This pledge has been faithfully observed, and he did not become a voter until 1887.

In 1852 he became a member of St. Andrew's Society, an organization in which he has ever taken an active interest, and has probably done as much for its promotion as any single member. He has served as President of the society for six terms. The object of this association is to relieve the distress of the unfortunate among the count- trymen and women of its members, and it has

come to be one of the leading charitable institu- tions of the city. In the winter of 1865, during which there was much suffering to be relieved among the poor and unfortunate, the funds of the society became exhausted, and, at the request of his friends, Mr. Hervey prepared and delivered a lecture on Robert Burns at the old Metropolitan Hall. The receipts of this lecture netted the society about $450. This address met such pop- ular approval that it was afterward several times repeated in other places. In 1883 the faculty of Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois, invited him to deliver this lecture, together with an address to the graduating class of that institu- tion. This request was cheerfully complied with, and as a token of their appreciation of this effort the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the university. Another lecture on Walter Scott, which he delivered several years later at the same hall, also netted the society a handsome sum. In 1865 he helped organize the Caledonian Club, and was chosen its first Chief, a position which he filled several years.

Mr. Hervey was first inarried to Miss Maria Jones, daughter of Dunham Jones, a farmer near Brockville, Canada, who removed thither from the United States during the Revolutionary War, on account of his loyalty to the British Crown. Mrs. Maria Hervey fell a victim to the cholera in 1854. In 1861 Mr. Hervey was again married, to Frances W. Smith, a native of Rochester, New York, and his present helpmate. Her mother, who is now Mrs. T. B. Bishop, is a native of England, and resides in Chicago, aged over eighty years. Mr. Hervey has three children. Alexan- der is a farmer near Charleston, Missouri. Rob- ert is the manager of an extensive lumber com- pany at Tonawanda, New York; and Sophia is the wife of Sidney F. Jones, of Toronto, Ontario. For twenty-four years past Mr. Hervey lias lived near the lake shore, on Twenty-fifth Street, hav- ing moved to that location a short time previous to the great Chicago Fire, and thereby avoided becoming one of its victims. In this pleasant lo- cation his most recent years have been altogether spent, and here his friends always receive a hearty welcome.

S. T. HINCKLEY.

SAMUEL T. HINCKLEY.

AMUEL TAYLOR HINCKLEY was a citi- zen of Chicago almost from its beginning. His ancestry made him heir to all the noble qualities of the best Puritan stock. None of our citizens have come down through stock more dis- tinguished than the Hinckley and Otis families of Plymouth Colony, from whom is descended the subject of this sketch. (We regret that the scope of this work does not permit a more detailed gen- ealogy of these families than what follows.)

Samuel Hinckley, the common ancestor of all bearing the name in this country, was typical of his race; honest, industrious, prudent; qualities descended without interval to the present times. In the spring of 1635, as a "Dissenter," he came from Tenterden, Kent County, England, sailing from Sandwich on the ship "Hercules" (two hundred tons, Capt. John Witherly), bringing a wife, Sarah, and four children. Landing at Bos- ton, he went direct to Scituate, where he built a house, "No. 19," on Kent Street; removing to Barnstable in July, 1640, where he died October 31, 1662, leaving eleven children, three sons of which number, Thomas, Samuel and John, left descendants.

Thomas, son of the emigrant, was born in Eng- land about 1618; came to New England with his father; was Governor of Plymouth Colony dur- ing the last eleven years of its existence as a Colony, and was at the time of his death (April 25, 1705, at Barnstable, ae. 87) one of the Coun- cil of the United Colonies. Moore's "Lives of the Governors of Plymouth and Massachusetts" gives extended due notice of his deeds; and a

record of his public life is found in "The Records of Plymouth Colony." Of his private life little is known; but "during half a century he held offices of trust and prominence in the Old Colony, and had a controlling influence over the popular mind. * * The architect of his own fortunes.

* * Of good common-sense and sound judg- ment. * Honest and honorable. *

* In- dustrious, persevering and self-reliant; and the best lawyer in the colony. * * Independent in religion, tolerant before his times; he possessed his faculties to the very end."

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Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, Volume 1899, Part 34

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