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In order to facilitate his work Judge Heath prepared a series of common school music read- ers and a set of vocal exercise charts, the latter his own invention. He also wrote and published many charming and popular songs, among them being "The Days Are Passing On, Dear May," "When Other Days Shall Come," and "The Loss of the Sea Bird." In addition he frequently contributed to periodicals, his style being clear and forceful. He was very active in the promo- tion and support of music teachers' associations throughout the country. For three consecutive terms he served the Indiana branch of the Asso- ciation as president, and was a regular attend- ant of the National Association after joining it in 1878 at Cincinnati, Ohio. For three years he served the association as secretary and treas- urer, and in 18SS was made its president. He was also on the board of examiners of the American College of Musicians for a number of years.
In addition to his musical career. Judge Heath invented and patented several mechanical de- vices, and was a business man of more than ordinary success, being connected with Pixley Company of Utica, N. Y., having charge of its branches at Oshkosh, Wis., and Ottawa and Danville, Ill., successively, and from the time he located at Danville in 1895 until his death, August 3, 1914, he made this city his home.
Soon after the Soldiers' Home was ready for occupancy he was asked by the government to
organize a band, and did so, remaining its leader for eleven years, when he retired, having had the same success that marked all of his musical efforts. In 1932 be was induced to become a candidate for municipal judge on the Republican ticket and was elected by a large plurality. As a judge and humanitarian he accomplished re- sults that will make bis name remembered for years to come. A Mason of high rank, he began his connection with the order when he entered Summit City Lodge 170, at Fort Wayne, Ind., und he took the Thirty-third degree at Boston, Mass., September 18, 1906. He was the father of Scottish Rite Masonry at Danville, as he had been at Fort Wayne, Ind., and he filled many offices in his loyal support of the order. Thought- ful of the welfare of others, he verified the teachings of the Masonic order and lived the creed of the Methodist church, of which he was a member. He was an enthusiastic member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Judge Heath was married at Berlin, Wis., to Elama C. Parmalee, and they had two sons, namely : Herbert Wilbur and Rodney Leon, the latter of whom died at Danville, Ill., in 1900. Herbert Wilbur Heath is an advocate of the best in all things, is successful in social, com- merciai and farming interest. Mrs. Heath was born at Cazenovia, N. Y., a daughter of Albert and Sarah A. Parmalee, natives of Clinton, N. Y. She was a direct descendant of the family that founded Yale University. Mrs. Heath died in 1886. Judge Heath was married (second) in 1889 to Katherine Aull Heath, who was born at Dayton, Ohio, a daughter of Nicholas L. and Julia Ann (Geiger) Aull, natives of Frankfort- ou-the-Main, Germany, and of Funkstown, Md., respectively. Mrs. Heath is past Grand Matron of the Eastern Star, and is deeply interested in charitable work. She is closely identified with the best interests of Danville and prominent in educational and social life.
Judge Heath was a man of strong likes and dislikes. He possessed a fearless frankness that would not suffer him to pretend in the slightest degree to anything he did not feel, and he bound to himself friends as with cords of steel. In all business relations he was known as an honest man whose dues were strictly paid. Temperate in his habits, his private character was without reproach, and he was justly recognized as one of the best representatives of the highest type of manhood.
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JOSEPH OLIVER MORRIS.
High rank in the legal profession has long distinguished Chicago, and it numbers among its members many men whose achievements have gained for them national prominence. Among the ambitious, alert and enterprising attorneys who, in the last three decades, have taken advantage of the opportunities offered in this city for professional advancement and thereby attained a large measure of success, is Joseph Oliver Morris, who, however, has not entirely confined his activities to the law.
Joseph Oliver Morris was born August 3, 1863, at Chicago, Ill., and is a son of Edwin E. and Anna (Oliver) Morris, both of whom were born in England although the Morris family claims Welsh ancestry. Edwin E. Morris was born near Brighton, County Sussex, where the family has been known for generations. He married Anna Oliver, who was born at London Wall, in a section made memorable as the birthplace of the poet, John Milton. Her ancestry reached to the royal Marchant family and also to Oliver Cromwell. The family for generations were the largest dealers in rosewood and mahogany in the world. In 1854 Edwin E. Morris came to the United States and to Chicago, but in 1857 re- turned to England and there married. With his bride Mr. Morris returned to Chicago and immediately began to show the business enter- prise which subsequently made him widely known in commercial circles, becoming the owner of the Phoenix Coffee and Spice mills, which was not only the first but continned the largest concern of its kind in this city. He was afterward a member of the firm of Morris, Cloyes & Company, proprietors of a pioneer grocery house which did an extensive business during the Civil war in furnishing supplies to the government. Following the cessation of hostilities, Edwin E. Morris removed to Cin- cinnati, where he was engaged in the exporta- tion of packing house products, being the originator of this great industry in opening up trade relations with Europe. Mr. Morris has long lived retired, residing now, at the age of eighty-nine years, with his son, Joseph O. Morris. His wife passed away in 1890.
In the public schools of College Hill, Cin- cinnati, Ohio, Joseph O. Morris acquired his early education, and afterward pursued a pre- paratory course at Belmont College, Ohio. On the removal of the family to Chicago, he com- pleted a course at the Lake View High school,
where he was graduated in 1882, and afterward spent a year in foreign travel. In 1883 he entered upon the study of law in the office of Flower, Remy & Gregory, the predecessors of the present firm of Musgrave & Lee, with whom he spent four years, in the meanwhile attending for a short time, the Union College of Law, identified or affiliated with the Northwestern University, where he qualified himself to pass the state examination that secured him admis- sion to the bar in 1884. He engaged in practice as a member of the law firm of Morris, Ganse & Craig until 1895, since which time he has prac- ticed alone. Specializing largely in corporation law, he has represented many of the important brokerage firms in the country, all members of the New York Stock Exchange, in litigation in- volving legal technicalities peculiar to the brokerage business, and is considered an author- ity on that branch of the profession.
Mr. Morris, in association with his partner, Mr. Ganse, has become heavily interested in valuable realty. In 1800 they purchased a tract of 1,000 acres located at South Waukegan, in- corporating under the name of the South Waukegan Land Company, their holdings being then valued at $1,000,000. They laid out and founded the town of South Waukegan and in 1894 changed its name to North Chicago. Through the panic of 1893 Mr. Morris guided this mammoth enterprise, and in 1895 disposed of the last holdings. In 1906 he purchased two large tracts of land at Hammond, Ind., and guided this venture successfully through the financial difficulties of 1907, so well remembered in this city. Mr. Morris is now the owner of all the company's stock, the property at the pres- ent time consisting of a tract of land one half mile in length along the Calumet River, valued at $250,000, a part of which has been platted and is now on the market. He has passed safely through two great financial panics but has so managed his undertakings that he still retains many valuable pieces of property in Chicago and vicinity and has invested also in California land. Additionally he is connected officially with numerous business enterprises of the city and country, in which his sound judg- ment and keen discrimination are recognized as valuable elements. Although vitally interested in all that pertains to modern progress along
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every line and carefully watchful of the events which, at the present day, are history making, Mr. Morris is not an ardent politician.
Mr. Morris was married at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3, 1892, to Miss Edith Beatrice Green, a daughter of Joseph Green, and four of their six children survive: Joseph C., Edith Marjorie, Melissa De Galyer and Constance Olive. For a number of years the family residence has been maintained at No. 113S Sheridan Road, Evans- ton, in which city Mrs. Morris is active in social circles and in the literary clubs. Mr. Morris holds membership in the Hamilton and Auto- mobile clubs, Chicago; the University Club of Evanston, and the Skokie Country Club. His
church membership is in the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston and for twenty years he has been a teacher of the Bible class. He has devoted much of his leisure to church and Sun- day school work and his labors in that direction have been particularly unselfish. In former years he was very active in the Young Men's Christian Association and was one of the board of man- agers and a prime mover in securing the erec- tion of the magnificent association building on LaSalle street in 1803. Hle is a man of broad information and of intelligent investigation along many lines, living up to his opportunities and ever giving something of himself to help others to do the same.
CHARLES H. BUSHNELL.
Genius may be the motive power of success, but many who take the trouble to study the lives and leading characteristics of the men of the country who have accomplished something, are led to believe that experience and sound judgment must be combined with natural incli- nation to produce the best results. In the majority of cases where a man has risen above his fellows, it will be found that this rise has come gradually through persistent fighting in spite of all opposition. There are many quali- ties which help to form the character such as self-reliance, conscientiousness, energy and hon- esty and they all work together to produce the highest standing and most satisfactory re- wards. The above is certainly true of the successful career of Dr. Charles H. Bushnell of Chicago. In no other profession is the true character of a man brought out so prominently as that of medicine, and as he really is, so is he held by his professional associates and col- leagues. All who have the honor of Dr. Bush- nell's acquaintance admit that he is respected, honored and beloved not only by his associates but those to whom he has long been a minis- tering friend. For years he has been connected with the medical fraternity of Chicago, in which city he has always made his home, and his influence is strongly felt in his immediate neighborhood. It is an admitted fact that Chi- cago is the home of some of the ablest medical men of the world, and Dr. Bushnell has kept pace with the march of improvement and by personal experiment and investigation as well as study and exhaustive reading, has long been classed with the most efficient and dignified of his profession. Dr. Bushnell was born in the
city which he has so honored. April 30, 1800, a son of Dr. Lewis Bushnell, who was born in New York, January 21, 1820, but removed to l'eoria County, Ill., with his parents when thir- teen years old. The family came to Chicago in 1549, where Dr. Lewis Bushnell was for some years one of the early grocers of the city. Later he was engaged in buying stock for the government during the Civil war, and subse- quently turned his attention to the practice of his profession. The Bushnell family is an old one in this country, as the grandfather, Anson Bushnell, was a soldier of the War of 1812 and descended from ancestors who took part in the Revolutionary war. Dr. Lewis Bushnell mar- ried Harriet Augusta Hitchcock, born in New York, November 1, 1827, who still survives. She is in full possession of her faculties, and is the delight of her children and grandehil- dren. Dr. Bushnell died April 19, 1907, having lived long enough to see his place worthily filled by his son, Dr. Charles H. Bushnell.
Charles II. Bushnell attended the public schools of Chicago, never having had the ad- vantage of an academic course owing in large measure to ill health, but he has studied faith- fully, gained a boundless experience, and exer- cises at all times his excellent judgment. When he was only eleven years old he became a mos- senger boy with the American District Tele- graph Company, remaining with this organiza- tion until he was fourteen years old, when he was given a clerkship in the Superior Court, but in about a year, was compelled to resign on account of continued ill health, and to go into the country where he could get out in the open air. After a year's stay on a farm, he
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felt able to exert himself and securing the po- sition of guide at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, not only gained the re- muneration offered, but found his experiences a liberal education for he was brought into contact with many different people and broad- ened by his exchange of viewpoint with them. Returning to Chicago at the close of the expo- sition this ambitious youth secured a position as bookkeeper with the real estate firm of Charles A. Kerfoot & Company. However, it had always been his intention to follow in his father's footsteps, and as soon as possible he became connected with a physician with whom he began studying medicine. During the eight years that followed, Dr. Bushnell studied at night and worked during the day, and not only managed to save money by his office position, but to support his family, for he had married in the meanwhile. In 1892, however, his efforts were rewarded as he was able to enter Ben- nett Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1896. He has also done post graduate work and has received the hon- orary degree of M. D. from the College of Medi- cine and Surgery of Chicago, which is the med- Ical department of Valparaiso University. Soon after his graduation, Dr. Bushnell entered upon a general practice, and since then had devei- oped into one of the leading physicians of the city. For four years he was attending gyne- cologist to St. Anthony's Hospital and Orphan- age; for six years he was attending gynecologist to the Frances E. Willard National Temperance Hospital : also served on the staff of the Cook County Hospital for seven years; and on the staff of the Chicago Union Hospital for ten years, and is now serving on the staff of Sheri- dan Park Hospital. He was likewise gynecolo- gist to the Lake View Hospital for four years, and has been examiner for a number of fra- ternal insurance societies. Dr. Bushnell has
also distinguished himself as an educator and was for four years a member of the faculty of the medical department of Valparaiso Univer- sity and for twelve years of the faculty of the Bennett Medical College, much of the time as professor and head of the department of gyne- cology and obstetrics. He holds membership with the Chicago Medical Society, the Illinois Medical Society, the American Medical Asso- ciation and the National Eclectic Association and for some time was president of the Illinois State Eclectic Medical Association, and also president and secretary of the Chicago Eclectic Medical Association. Dr. Bushnell is also a member of the National Red Cross Society and of the Illinois State Society for the prevention of tuberculosis.
Dr. Bushnell was married November 24, 1SS1, to Ella Clerk Dole of Chicago, and to this union three children have been born: Lewis E., An- son C., and Elmer D. Fraternally Dr. Bushnell is a Knight Templar Mason and also a mem- ber of the Mystic Shrine, and socially he belongs to the Hamilton and the Chicago Automobile clubs. With one exception he is the oldest member of the Apollo Musical Club of Chicago and is well known in musical circles of this city, having taken a prominent part in musical affairs since the first May Festival in 1SS1. His musical talent and ability and his strongly marked personal characteristics have rendered him popular in social circles, and wherever he is known he is held in high esteem. Dr. Bush- nell belongs to the self-made class and is an excellent example of what a strong, steadfast man can accomplish. He studies deeply upon the great questions of the day, and finds enter- tainment in books, music. travel and congenial companionship. His professional service has ever been discharged with a keen sense of con- scientious obligation, and his work has brought him ample recompense.
LORENZO B. DOMINY.
When it is remembered that the majority of people never rise above the ordinary, but live out their lives in obscurity, and dying are for- gotten, all the more credit is accorded those who have enriched their communities, bene- fited their associates, raised a higher standard for the generations to come, and demonstrated the worth of individual endeavor. The ag- gressive, public spirited men of any locality plan for the future as well as the present, and
so shape the future of the community. Lorenzo B. Dominy was accepted by all as a leader in every enterprise for the public good. In his business transactions he was a man of pru- dence, safe and reliable, and his advice on busi- ness transactions was sought by many. He was liberal in his dealings and many men owe their start in life to his financial aid and en- couragement.
Lorenzo B. Dominy was born in Madison
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County, Ohio, March 9, 1844. He was left an orphan by the death of his parents, Ezra and Hester A. Dominy, when he was only sixteen months old, and was reared to manhood by his maternal grandfather, Dr. Lorenzo Beach. The latter, with his family, came to Illinois in 1855, and the lad came with them, the party settling in Indian Grove Township, Livingston County, where the grandfather continued to reside till his death. Reared a farmer, it was but natural that the formative years of his youth and early manhood should be devoted to agriculture, but Mr. Dominy's energetic disposition was not entirely satisfied and in 1870 he left the farm and engaged in the hardware business, asso- ciated with his uncle T. A. Beach. Three and one-half years later he disposed of this con- cern, to assist in founding the banking house of Bartlett, Beach & Dominy. Ill health necessi- tated the retirement of Mr. Bartlett four years after the organization, and Mr. Beach subse- quently left the firm, in 1503, so that the bank was continued in Mr. Dominy's name until 1001, when he admitted his sons-in-law, G. Y. McDowell and W. R. Bane, into partnership, the name becoming L. B. Dominy & Co. Though changes have been made in the personnel of the partnership since Mr. Dominy's death, this banking house still continues in the family under the same name and is one of the strong- est institutions of its kind in Livingston county. In 1892, Mr. Dominy's far-seeing business sense prompted him to establish a branch house, which handled farm mortgage investments. The firm was established under the name of Dominy and Powell, the junior member being another son-in-law, Herbert Powell.
Mr. Dominy was the first mayor of Fairbury, and during his occupancy of the executive chair, he set a standard which has governed the actions of successive officials ever since. The city council had him as one of its most effective members for several terms, and he was a mem- ber of the board of supervisors from Indian Grove Township for a number of years. At
his death, the . following resolutions were adopted by the board :
"Again we are called upon to mourn the death of one who has always been foremost in the affairs of this county, L. B. Dominy, for many years an active member of this board from Indian Grove Township, died on July 27th, 1902.
"We desire to add our tribute to the memory of one whose unusually active life marked him prominent for usefulness. His name is above reproach and he was trusted and respected by all. Ile was always a wise and safe counselor in public affairs as well as private. '
"Resolved, That this board extends its sym- pathy to the bereaved family, and feels with the community a keen sense of loss at his death.
"Resolved, That this expression and these resolutions be spread upon the records of this board and that a certified copy be tendered the family of the deceased."
On December 27, 1864, Mr. Dominy was mar- ried to Miss Phebe A. Curl, a daughter of James and Lavina (Smith) Curl, both natives of Greene County, Pa. Mr. Curl was a car- penter and cabinetmaker of Carmichaels, Pa., and died May 12, 1860, his wife passing away December 31, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Dominy be- came the parents of five children. One son, Charles L., died in infancy, and the youngest daughter, Hazel, died the year preceding Mr. Dominy's death, at the age of seventeen years. Three children, Jennie C. McDowell, Jessie B. Powell and Lizzie H. Bane, together with the widow and three grandchildren, Hazel Bane, James Lorenzo and Marion McDowell, survive.
With the death of Mr. Dominy, Fairbury lost one of its strongest characters. He was a man of the people, bluff but kind hearted. He made friends on every side and retained them. It may be truthfully said, he had no enemies. He was a member of the Methodist church of Fair- bury. Before his death, he had anticipated building a public library to be given to the city. Since then this has been erected by the family and presented to the city, fully equipped. It is a fitting memorial to his life, quietly and steadily continuing an uplift to the community, as he would have wished it to be if living.
JAMES P. LYNCH.
In the midst of these epoch-making times, the recognition of the work of the medical profes- sion has come to a fresh and even thrilling dis- tinction. Through its skill and knowledge that wonderful machine, the human body, is not
only rehabilitated, but sometimes reconstructed. Medical science is elastic, its boundaries are limitless, but it is at all times held firmly in the grasp of the intelligent men who uncover its mysteries. Not only, however, is the phy-
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siclan called upon for material assistance, but the ideal medical man irradiates the sick ebam- ber with the light of his cheerful presence, lift- ing his patient out of the slough of despond- ency into the higher plains of sane thought. No matter how many patients a physician may have upon his hands, he is expected to give to each one a full measure of his individual thought and careful consideration, and the con- scientious man never gets away from his work. Others can throw off the burdens of their every- day cares, but the medical man has them with him at all times, as he does their calls upon him, so that there is little wonder that so many of the skilled physicians today sink under the overwhelming weight, and pass from mortal life; the marvel is that so many remain to fur- ther aid humanity. One of those men whose lives and energies have been thus conserved is James P. Lynch, of Thirty-first street and In- diana avenue, Chicago.
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Dr. Lynch was born in New York City, January 12, 1857. Until he was eight years old, Dr. Lynch lived in his native city, but in
1865 his parents moved to Chicago, where he was given the educational advantages offered by the public schools of that place. Having decided upon a medical career, Dr. Lynch en- tered the Beanctc Medical College, after finish- ing his academic course, and was graduated therefrom in JS83. Immediately thereafter he entered upon a general practice, and for over thirty years has thus continued with marked success. Recognizing the benefit of medical so- cieties to the modern physician, Dr. Lynch has always been active in their support and belongs to the Chicago Medical Society and the Ameri- can Medical Association. Dr. Lynch has won many warm personal friends, and they unite in rendering him the credit certainly due a man of his experience and natural ability. Dr. Lynch is one who lets his deeds speak for themselves, but they are of sufficient impor- tance to place him in a leading position among the men of his profession on the South Side, Where his reputation as a skilled physician and surgeon is widespread.
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