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During the recent legislative session the names of Senators Campbell and Busse drove terror into the trust representatives and corporation promoters who sought questionable legislation through that body.
Mr. Campbell has represented the Thirteenth Ward as a member of the Cook County Republican Central Committee for the past five years, during which time he has rendered very valu- able services to that body and the Republican party in general. Having served as Chairman of the Committee on Naturalization, prevention of frauds or illegal voting, and several other im- . portant positions, and besides this he is a member of the Execu- tive Committee. In this capacity, as in all others, he has dis- played such good sound judgment that he is considered a very valuable member of that splendid organization to-day.
Mr. Campbell is a member of the Hamilton and Lincoln Clubs. He is married and resides at 493 West Erie street, Thirteenth Ward. His political career, as well as his private life, is one to be proud of, and but few men have ever been elected from Cook County that reflects more credit on the party to which they belong than does Senator Daniel A. Campbell.
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EPHRAIM BANNING.
A DISTINGUISHED LAWYER OF GREAT ABILITY AND A LIFE-LONG DEVOTED REPUBLICAN.
Ephraim Banning has long since been recognized as one of Chicago's most eloquent and leading lawyers, and but few of the legal profession command more high esteem and respect than Mr. Banning enjoys among members of the bench and bar alike in Chicago. The esteem in which he has long since been held can best be seen from the following :
Speaking of his early experience, Judge Henry W. Blodgett has said that "he had a large and varied practice" in his court, and that "he showed himself a good admiralty lawyer, was well equipped in all questions arising under the bankrupt law, and in commercial cases generally, as well as in real estate law." Mr. Frank J. Loesch, the well-known railroad lawyer, who was one of his early associates at the bar, has said : "His preliminary training for admission to the bar was solid; his industry, both then and since, has been nothing less than wonderful, and while he has in late years confined himself, and attained eminent suc-
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cess as a patent lawyer, his career as a general practitioner dur- ing the first ten or twelve years of his practice was beyond the most sanguine expectations of any of our lawyers. He has ful- filled the promise of his youth in being not only a sterling man, but a lawyer who has lived up to the highest ideals of our pro- fession, whose integrity has never been questioned, whose faith- fulness to his clients' interests attained that measure of success which it deserved, and whose ability as a lawyer none can dis- pute."
Mr. Banning's mind was directed by circumstances attendant on his practice and by natural tendency to a special study of the · law of patents, and after about ten years he practically withdrew from general practice and made a specialty of patent cases.
There is no doubt that Mr. Banning would have achieved marked success as a general practitioner, for he has an intellect that is both quick and cautious, and is a very convincing speaker, but he did well in following the bent of his nature. In 1877 he was joined in practice by his brother, Thomas A. Banning ; and in 1888 by George S. Payson, who was succeeded in 1894 by Thomas F. Sheridan, who is still a member of the firm. For fifteen years or more the firm has been not only eminent, but prominent in the management of litigations relative to patents and other intellectual property. Their briefs are familiar in the Supreme Court of the United States and in the Federal Courts of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, St. Louis, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans and several other cities.
The merited success which the firm has had throughout the United States is largely due to the superior ability of Mr. Ban- ning and his legal associates.
Mr. Ephraim Banning comes of good legal stock, his mother who was a Kentuckian, being a sister of the late Judge Pinkney H. Walker, of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and having among his people others who attained distinction in the science of law. His father, Gilmer Walker, had a large practice, and his brother, Cyrus Walker, was a distinguished practitioner in Kentucky until he removed to Illinois, where he achieved still more note- worthy success-Lincoln, Douglas, S. T. Logan and Cyrus Walker ranking at one time as the four leading lawyers of the state.
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Mr. Banning's name may be placed on the long roll of suc- cessful men whose characters have been formed largely by maternal influence .. But the character of his father, after whom he was named, was far above the average. A Virginian by birth, and of the class to which in that early day few opportunities of education were offered, he became a person highly csteemed among the early settlers of Illinois and Kansas. He turned his back upon slavery and at a very early day settled in McDonough County, Illinois, where Mr. Ephraim Banning was born July 21, 1849. Subsequently the family moved to Kansas, and in that territory the early happy boyhood days of Ephraim Banning were spent.
From Kansas the family moved to Missouri, and while there the civil war broke out. Two of Mr. Banning's brothers promptly enlisted for service in the cause of the Union. Ephraim -- then about twelve years of age-became his father's "right-hand man" on the farm. One of the brothers gave his life to the national cause; the other served with honor till the close of the war.
The educational advantages of a frontier settlement in Missouri during the war times were not of the best, but young Ephraim Banning made the most of them, and in his seventeenth year had learned all the schools of the neighborhood could teach, and afterwards attended the Brookfield, Missouri, Academy, wherc, under the tutorship of the Rev. J. P. Finley, D. D., he studied the classics and other courses of a liberal education. Subse- quently he became a student at law in the office of Hon. Samuel P. Huston of Brookfield.
In 1871 Mr. Banning came to Chicago and acted as student and clerk in the law office of Messrs. Rosenthal and Pence, and was admitted to the bar of Illinois by the Supreme Court in June, 1872.
In the following October he opened an office for himself, and without the advantage of influential friends or political patron- age soon succeeded in gaining a good clientage as a successful practitioner. Close application to business together with thor- oughly honorable methods soon won fame and fortune for him such as few men of his years and advantages ever enjoyed.
Mr. Banning, who is a devoted Republican, has done much to promote the interests of his party, and although frequently
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urged to run for office by his many friends, he preferred to remain "a private in the ranks." He was elected a Mckinley presidential elector in 1896.
In 1897 he was appointed by Governor Tanner to the unpaid but honorable and responsible office of member of the State Board of Charities, the duties of which he is well fitted to perform.
Early in 1899 he was strongly urged for the office of United States District Judge at Chicago, for which he was supported by Senators. Cullom and Mason and a majority of the Chicago Congressmen- five out of seven-and, as stated by one of his opponents, endorsed by " Republican organizations of the state, county and city, together with the Bar Association and the leading citizens of Chicago." The President, however, had other plans, and, in pursuance of these, made a personal appointment.
Mr. Banning is a member of the Union League, Lincoln and Illinois Clubs, and the American, State, and Chicago Bar Associations, in the latter of which he is an active factor. For several years he has been a member of the committee of the Chi- cago Bar Association on legislation with reference to federal judges and practice in the Federal Courts.
He was a member of the committee on legislation to establish a Juvenile Court in Chicago and revise the laws relating to the care of delinquent and dependent children in Illinois.
He served as Chairman of the committee on organization of the Congress of Patents and Trade-marks, held under the auspices of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. He was chosen by this Congress as one of five to present certain industrial questions, especially relative to patents and trade-marks, to the Congress of the United States.
In religion Mr. Banning is a Presbyterian, and is an elder in- that church. He has been twice married; first to Miss Lucretia T. Lindsley, who died in 1887, leaving three sons, all of whom survive; and second, to Miss Emilio B. Jenne. He has been a resident of the great West Side for more than a quarter of a. century.
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EMERY B. MOORE.
A SPLENDID TYPE OF PATRIOTIC, PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN.
A DEVOTED REPUBLICAN AND SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MAN.
Mr. Emery B. Moore is what may be very truthfully termed a splendid type of American citizen. He is one of the best known and most highly esteemed of Chicago's successful business men.
Mr. E. B. Moore was born at Whately, Mass., in 1845, and received his education at the academy at Wilbraham, Mass. At the age of twenty-one he obtained a position as bookkeeper with the then well-known firm of I. S. Parsons & Company at Flor- ence, Mass., and three years later he became the head of the firm.
His health became impaired and he was compelled to come West, locating in Chicago, where he soon found what few men are blessed with, health and prosperity. In 1878 he first located in this city at 177 Madison street, and from a small beginning,
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through close application and strict business methods, he soon built up a business of which he may well be proud. He is to-day the largest individual manufacturer of wood carpet and parquet floors in the entire United States. So extensive has his business become that he found it necessary to establish an Eastern branch of his Chicago establishment, which is located at 38 West street, Boston, Mass., under the personal management of his son, Arthur G. Moore, where he controls a very large patronage. He is also president of the Litho Marble Co., Manhattan Building.
Mr. Emery B. Moore comes of good old revolutionary stock. His great grandfather, Noah Bardwell, was an officer under George Washington during the war of the Revolution, and noth- ing but his age alone prevented Mr. E. B. Moore from having served in the Federal army during the civil war for the freedom of the slaves. He is a splendid type of patriotic, public spirited citizen of whom Chicago may well be proud.
Mr. Moore has resided in Austin for the past twenty-five years, and he has contributed very largely towards making it the "ideal suburb" which it is to-day. He has watched it grow from a small village to a city of over 12,000 inhabitants. He has mingled with its best citizens, all of whom hold for him the highest esteem and respect that possibly can be accorded a private citizen.
Mr. Moore has been a life-long devoted Republican, and though he never sought office, yet he has contributed more in a financial way to aid his party to success than any other man residing in Austin. Nomination after nomination has been offered him for various offices when the nomination was equiva- lent to election, but he modestly declined, preferring to remain a private citizen in the ranks of his party, to which he renders valuable services and substantial aid at all times.
As a business man he has clearly demonstrated his ability, and ranks at the top of the list of self-made successful Chicagoans.
As a citizen he is thoroughly trustworthy of any honors the public may see fit to bestow upon him.
Mr. Moore resides with his wife and family at 119 South Park avenue in a beautiful and happy home.
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HON. SHERMAN P. CODY.
THE WELL KNOWN NEWSPAPER MAN, AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE HAMILTON CLUB.
Hon. Sherman P. Cody who is one of the most widely known newspaper men in the city, was born at Naperville, Du Page County, Illinois, some forty-two years ago. He is the son of Ex-Judge Hiram H. and P. E. (Sedgwick) Cody, and brother of Arthur B. and the late lamented Hope Reed Cody.
Hon. Sherman P. Cody, the subject of this sketch, received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and afterwards graduated from the Northwestern College at Naper- ville. When only fifteen years of age he started out to fight the battles of life, and the first position he procured was that of errand boy with one of the wholesale drug houses of Chicago. From this humble position he arose to head salesman, and after- wards traveled for six years for some New York and Detroit houses. After this his newspaper career commenced in this city in which business he has ever since been engaged, in con- nection with "The Chicago Eagle."
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Mr. Cody was elected member of the state legislature in 1895, and during his term in that body introduced and secured the passage of many important bills. His vote will be found recorded in favor of every measure representing the best interests of his District as well as Chicago and Cook County.
Mr. Cody secured the passage of a bill placing the Lincoln monument in the hands of the state (thereby not only abolishing the pernicious practice of charging a fee of admission, but guar- anteeing the proper care and preservation of this historic relic). He also supported the County and City Civil Service bills, and was an earnest advocate of the proposed constitutional conven- tion as well as many other important measures too numerous to mention.
Hon. Sherman P. Cody is an active member of the Hamilton Club and a Mason of high standing, he is also a member of several other benevolent and social organizations. He is very domestic in his taste, and takes much pride in spending his leisure hours in the company of his wife and two children. He resides in an extremely happy home on West Monroe street, Twelfth Ward, where he has lived for over twenty years.
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NEWTON H. FAIRBANKS.
A BRIGHT YOUNG LAWYER AND DEVOTED REPUBLICAN.
Newton H. Fairbanks, who is one of the prominent members of the Chicago bar, is a brother to Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Senator from Indiana. He is of New England descent. His instincts and character are as sturdy and rugged in sterling characteristics as was his ancestry, and his foothold in his profession in Chicago is both sure and steadfast.
Newton H. Fairbanks was born on a farm near Unionville Center, Ohio, in 1859. He spent the first eighteen years of his life engaged on the farm, where he worked with his father in the summer months and attended the country school in winter. A word about these country schools. They were the great builders of character in the primitive and, indeed, in the subsequent days in the Western States. There was more earnestness and more attention paid to legitimate study therein than in the more pre- tentious schools of to-day. They turned out almost ready for
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college courses a great many men who have become famous in later years, and judging from the marked ability and sound judg- ment of Mr. Fairbanks, it is but reasonable to predict that he will yet rank among the many famous men who can so proudly claim the State of Ohio as their birth place.
On leaving the country school young Fairbanks entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, graduating in the classical course in June, 1884, and two years later received the degree of M. A. from the same institution.
Following his graduation here he took up the study of law in the Cincinnati Law School, completing his course in May, 1885, immediately after which he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio.
In November, 1887, Mr. Fairbanks removed to Kansas City and began the practice of his profession, where his success dur- ing the ensuing three years convinced him that he could succeed in a larger field, with the result that he removed to Chicago in 1890, where he has enjoyed a large legal practice ever since.
Mr. Fairbanks is a brilliant speaker and a lawyer of remark- able ability who commands the confidence of the public and respect of the bar and bench. He has a wide and varied practice among the best business men of Chicago, and from present indi- cations is in a fair way to make a mark at his profession in Chicago.
Mr. Fairbanks is a much honored and valued member of the Hamilton Club.
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JUDGE LORIN CONE COLLINS.
SUCCESSFUL ON THE BENCH AND AT THE BAR- RECOGNIZED LEADER IN THE COUNCILS OF HIS PARTY.
There are few men if any in the entire State of Illinois who are more widely known and none more highly esteemed and respected by all classes than Judge Lorin C. Collins, late of the Circuit bench of Cook County.
For nearly three terms which he served on the Circuit Court bench, he made an enviable record and a model judge. The poor and the rich were treated alike by him, and his rulings, while acting in the capacity as jurist, were so thoroughly defined and unquestionably fair in all cases which came before him that they will be quoted by the legal profession for generations to come.
From a political standpoint, Judge Collins is what may be termed a leading light in Republican circles, being for years recognized as the ablest orator and best debater of political issues
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in the entire State of Illinois. In the city of Chicago, which has been his home for the past thirty years, politically speaking, the .Judge in himself is considered a tower of strength as a vote get- ter to the great Republican party.
Judge Lorin C. Collins was born at Windsor, Conn., August 1, 1848. His father was the Rev. L. C. Collins, a prominent and very influential minister of the gospel, and his mother was Mary Bemis Collins, both parents being of American descent, his earliest ancestors in America being Governor Bradford, who -came to this country with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower. The Rev. L. C. Collins, together with his entire family, removed to St. Paul, Minn., in 1852. They would doubtless have gone further if they could, but in 1852 St. Paul was considered the end of this continent in that direction. Here Judge Collins spent his boyhood's happy days on a farm near St. Paul, and here he first originated the unalterable idea within his youthful but bril- liant mind of becoming a lawyer.
At the age of twenty he came to Chicago and entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, where he graduated with high honors in 1872. Prior to his course at the Northwestern, he had the advantage of a preparatory education in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and after leaving the Northwestern he en- tered the then well-known law office of the firm of Clarkson & Van Shaack, of Chicago, and pursued his legal studies there until he was admitted to the bar in 1874.
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Four years later Judge Collins was elected to the Legislature, which was in 1878, where he speedily achieved unusual distinc- tion as an eloquent debater. He was re-elected twice in succes- .sion thereafter, and became the recognized leader of his party up to 1883, when he was chosen Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, being the youngest man that has ever been honored with that exalted position, which he filled to the general satisfac- tion of both political parties, and closed his legislative career with rare but deserved credit to himself and congratulations of the public in general. In 1884 Mr. Collins was appointed judge of the Circuit Court to fill an unexpired term, and so thoroughly competent did he prove to be and so faithfully did he perform his duties that the public honored him with election to succeed himself for two successive terms.
Judge Collins resigned from the Circuit Court bench to again
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enter the private law practice before his last term of office had expired. From a legal, political and social standpoint the Judge is very popular, and has frequently been urged by his many friends to allow his name to go before the public as a candidate for mayor of Chicago. He is a very prominent member of the following societies: Masonic order, where he has advanced to the degree of Knight Templar, Union League Club, Miltona Club, which he founded twelve years ago, American Wheelmen, for which he defeated the notorious bicycle tax law at his own expense, passed by the city council and signed by Mayor Harri- son. He is also a member of the Hamilton Club, Washington Park Club, the Hyde Park Club and the American Yacht Club, in all of which he takes an active interest.
We predict for Judge Collins in the councils of the Repub- lican party a deservedly bright political future.
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LEONARD GOODWIN.
A PROMINENT REPUBLICAN AND LAWYER OF REMARKABLE ABILITY.
Leonard Goodwin is a Republican of the old school. He was born August 25th, 1859, at Aurora, Illinois, his early education being obtained in the public schools of said city. He began the study of law at the age of eighteen years in the office of Judge M. O. Southworth, of Aurora, Illinois, and was admitted to prac- tice by the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois in the fall of 1880. He removed to Creston, Iowa, where he practiced law for two years.
Mr. Goodwin's health began to fail about that time, and he was compelled to travel for several years, and finally settled down at San Diego, California, where he resumed the practice of law for seven years. He resided there during the great real estate boom in 1886, and through his usual good judgment. accumulated considerable wealth by speculating in real estate.
Mr. Goodwin took an active part in Republican politics in San Diego, where he acted as member of the Republican County
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Central Committee for four years, and during that time served as chairman of the Republican City Central Committee.
During his residence in San Diego Mr. Goodwin was a recog- nized Republican leader. He did more than any one else to break up the corrupt political ring which at that time existed in San Diego and had deceived the people and looted the treasury, and it was largely through his efforts that this gang was broken up and a straight Republican ticket elected for the first time in the history of the county.
Mr. Goodwin returned to Chicago in October, 1894, where he has been actively engaged in the practice of law ever since. His offices are in the Roanoke Building. He has resided in the Twenty-fourth Ward during his residence in this city, where he has taken an active part in Republican politics. He is captain of the Twenty-second Precinct, and a member of the executive committee of the ward club.
He is an active member of the Marquette Club, of which he has been a member of the political action committee for the past two years. He is also a member of the Hamilton Club.
Mr. Leonard Goodwin is a recognized lawyer of remarkable ability, and is a brother to Judge R. P. Goodwin, of Kane County, Illinois.
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HON. EDWARD J. DWYER.
FORMER LEADER OF THE ILLINOIS STATE SENATE.
Hon. Edward J. Dwyer, whose success in political and busi- ness ventures entitles him to honorable mention as a splendid type of self-made Chicagoan. His success in the political field was entirely due to his unalterable loyalty to faithful constitu- ents, and his success from a business standpoint was due to his integrity and ability.
Mr. Dwyer was born in Chicago, November 21st, 1861, in the Seventeenth Ward, in which he became a dictator and leader from the time he attained his majority up to a few months ago, when he moved to the Twelfth Ward. His father was Michael J. Dwyer, and his mother Mary B. (Guinan) Dwyer. The subject of this sketch, Mr. Edward J. Dwyer, received his early education in the public schools of Chicago, located on the West Side, and when only seventeen years of age entered the employ of William Burgess Printing Company, which was located in the old Times
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building; the position which he first held was that of mailer, which position he afterwards filled with the old Chicago Times, the Inter Ocean and Tribune. Mr. Dwyer resigned his position with the Tribune to accept a position as Superintendent of the Althrop Mailing and Publishing House, which was at that time the largest of its kind in the city.
He resigned that position only to accept a clerkship in the city clerk's office.
In 1890 the political career of Mr. Dwyer began. He received the nomination for West Town Clerk that year on the Republican ticket, and strange as it may seem he was the only Republican elected on the West Town ticket. This gave Mr. Dwyer such a stronghold with his party, that he was chosen as the Republican standard bearer for West Town Assessor in 1892, to. which position he was elected by a very handsome majority.
The operating expense of the West Town office under Assessor Dwyer was only $21,000, and under several Democratic administrations which followed afterwards the operating expense amounted to more than three times that much.
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