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GROSS, Jacob, ex-State Treasurer and banker, was born in Germany, Feb. 11, 1810; having lost his father by death at 13, came to the United States two years later, spent a year in Chicago schools, learned the trade of a tinsmith and clerked in a store until August, 1862, when he enlisted in the Eighty-Second Illinois Volunteers (the second "Hecker Regiment"); afterwards par- ticipated in some of the most important battles of the war, including Chancellorsville, Gettys- burg, Lookout Mountain, Resaca and others. At Dallas, Ga., he had his right leg badly shattered by a bullet-wound above the knee, four successive amputations being found necessary in order to save his life. Having been discharged from the service in February, 1865, he took a course in a commercial college, became deputy clerk of the Police Court, served three terms as Collector of the West Town of Chicago, and an equal number of terms (12 years) as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and, in 1884, was elected State Treasurer. Since retiring from the latter office, Mr. Gross has been engaged in the banking busi- ness, being President, for several years, of the Commercial Bank of Chicago.
GROSS, William L., lawyer, was born in Her. kimer County, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1839, came with his father to Illinois in 1844, was admitte I to the bar at Springfield in 1862, but almost immediately
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entered the service of the Government, and, a year later, was appointed by President Lindenna Captain and Assistant Quarternaister and, under command of General Stager, assigned to the Department of the Ohio as Military Superintend- ent of Telegraphis. At the close of the war he was transferred to the Department of the Gulf, taking control of military telegraphs in that Department with headquarters at New Orleans, remaining until August, 1866, meanwhile being brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. For the next two years he occupied various positions in the civil telegraph service, but, in 1868, resumed the practice of law at Springfield, in conjunction with his brother (Eugene L.) issuing the first volume of "Gross' Statutes of Illinois," followed in subsequent years by two additional volumes, besides an Index to all the Laws of the State. In 1878 he was elected as a Republican to the General Assembly from Sangamon County, and, in 1884, was appointed by Governor Hamilton Circuit Judge to succeed Judge C. S. Zane, who had been appointed Chief Justice of Utah. Upon the organi- zation of the Illinois State Bar Association, Judgo Gross became its first Secretary, serving until 1883, when he was elected President, again serv- ing as Secretary and Treasurer in 1893-94.
GROSSCUP, Peter Stenger, jurist, born in Ashland, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1852; was educated in the local schools and Wittenberg College, granating from the latter in 1872; read law in Boston, Mass., and settled down to practice in his native town, in 1874. He was a candidate for Congress in a Democratic District before he was 25 years old, but, being a Republican, was defeated. Two years later, being thrown by a reapportionment into the same district with William McKinley, he put that gentleman in nomination for the seat in Congress to which he was elected. He re- moved to Chicago in 1893, and, for several years, was the partner of the late Leonard Swett; in December, 1892, was appointed by President Harrison Judge of the United States Distriet Court for the Northern District of Illinois as suc- cessor to Judge Henry W. Blodgett. On the death of Judge Showalter, in December, 1898, Judge Grosscup was appointed his successor as Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Seventh Judicial District. Although one of the youngest incumbents upon the bench of the United States Court, Judge Grosseup has given ample evidence of his ability as a jurist, besides proving himself in harmony with the progressive spirit of the time on questions of national and international interest.
CANDY . OUNTY, situated in the northeast- era quarter of the State having an area of 410 square miles and a population (1900) of 24.136. The surface is mainly rolling prairie, beneath which is a continuous coal seam, three feet thick. Buil ling stone is abundant (particularly near Morris), and there are considerable beds of pot- ter's clay. The county is crossed by thy Hinnis River and the Ilinois & Michigan Canal, al. o by the Rock Island and the Chicago & Alton Railways. The chief occupation of the people is agriculture, although there are several manufacturing estab. lishments. The first white settler of whom any record has been preserve 1. was William Marquis, who arrived at the mouth of the Mazon in a "prairie schoener" in 1828. Other pioneers were Colonel Sayers, W. A. Holloway, Alex- ander K. Owen, John Taylor, James McCartney and Joah Chappell. The first public land sale was made in 1835, and, in 1841, the county was organized out of a part of La Salle, and named after Felix Grundy, the eminent Tennessvean. The first pollbook showed 148 voters. Morris was che in the county-seat and has so It- mained. Its present population is 3,653. Another prosperous town is Gardner, with 1,100 inhab- itants.
GULLIVER, John Putnam, D.D., EL.D., clergyman and educator, was born in Boston, Mass., May 12, 1819; graduated at Yale College, in 1840, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1843, meanwhile serving two years as Principal of Randolph Academy. From 1815 to 1865 he was pastor of a church at Norwich, Conn., in 1865-69, of the New England Church, of Chicago, and, 1868-72, President of Knox College at Gales- burg, Ill. The latter year he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Binghamton, N. Y., remaining until 1878, when he was elected Professor of the "Relations of Christianity and Secular Science" at Andover, holding this posi- tion actively until 1891, and then, as Professor Emeritus, until his death, Jan. 25, 1894. He was a member of the Corporation of Yale College and had been honored with the degrees of 1. I). and I.L. D.
GURLEY, William F. E., State Geologist, was born at Oswego, N. Y., June 5, 1851; brought by his parents 10 Danville, Ill., in 1861, and educated in the public schools of that city and Cornell University, N. Y .; served as city engineer of Danville in 1885-87, and again in 1891-93. In July of the latter year he was appointed by Gov. ernor Altgeld State Geologist as successor to Prof. Joshua Lindalıl.
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HACKER, John S., pioneer and soldier of the Mexican War, was born at Owensburg, Ky., Novomber, 1797; in early life removed to Mis- souri, where he was employed in the stock and produce trade with New Orleans. Having married in 1817, he settled at Jonesboro, Union County, Ill., where he kept a tavern for a number of years, and was also engaged some thirty years in mercantile business. It is said that he was unable to read until taught after marriage by his wife, who appears to have been a woman of intelligence and many graces. In 1824 he was elected Representative in the Fourth General Assembly and, in 1831, to the State Senate, serv- ing by re-election in 1838 until 1842, and being a supporter of the internal improvement scheme. In 1837 he voted for the removal of the State capital from Vandalia to Springfield, and, though differing from Abraham Lincoln politically, was one of his warm personal friends. Ile served in the War of 1812 as a private in the Missouri militia, and, in the Mexican War, as Captain of a company in the Second Regiment, Illinois Volun- teers --- Col. W. H. Bissell's. By service on the staff of Governor Duncan, he had already obtained the title of Colonel. He received the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor from the first formal State Convention of the Democratic party in December, 1837, but the licad of the ticket (Col. J. W. Stephenson) having withdrawn on account of charges connected with his administration of the Land Office at Dixon, Colonel Hlacker also declined, and a new ticket was put in the field headed by Col. Thomas L. Carlin, which was elected in 1838. In 1849 Colonel Hacker made the overland journey to California, but returning with impaired health in 1852, located in Cairo, where he held the position of Surveyor of the Port for three years, when he was removed by President Buchanan on account of his friendship for Senator Douglas. He also served, from 1854 to '56, as Secretary of the Senate Committee on Territories under the Chairmanship of Senator Douglas, and, in 1856, as Assistant Doorkeeper of the Ilouse of Representatives in Washington. In 1857 he returned to Jonesboro and spent the remainder of his life in practical retirement, dying at the home of his daughter, in Anna, May 18, 1878.
HADLEY, William T. L., lawyer and Con- gressman, was born near Collinsville, Il., June 15, 1847; grew up on a farm, receiving his edura- tion in the common schools and at MeKendice College, where he graduate ) in 1897. In 1521 he graduated from the Law Department of the
University of Michigan, and established hon self in the practice of his profession of Edwardsville. He was elected to the State ! on ate from Madison County in 1886, serving, f w years, and was nominated for a second term, but declined; was a delegate-at-large to the Repub- lican National Convention of 1888, and, in 1895, was nominated and elected, in the Light . th District, as a Republican, to the Fifty -fourth Con. gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Frederick Remann, who had been elected in 1894, but died before taking his seat. Mr. Hadley was a candidate for re election in 1806, but was prevented by protracted illness from making a canvass, and suffered a defeat. Ilo is a son-in-law of the late Edward M. West, long a prominent business man of Edward :- ville, and since his retirement from Congress, has devoted his attention to his profession and the banking business.
HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL, a homeopathic hos- pital located in Chicago. It was first opened with twenty bods, in November, 1870, in a block of wooden buildings, the use of which was given rent free by Mr. J. Young Scammon, and was known as the Scammon Hospital. After the fire of October, 1871, Mr. Scammon deeded the proj .. erty to the Trustees of the Hahnemann Medical College, and the hospital was placed on the list of public charities. It also received a donation of $10,000 from the Relief and Aid Society, besides numerous private benefactions. In April, 1873, at the suggestion of Mr. Scammon, the name of the institution was changed to the Hahnemann Hospital, by which designation it has since been known. In 1803 the corner stone of a new hospital was laid and the building com. pleted in 1824. It is seven stories in height, with a capacity for 225 beds, and is equipped with all the improved appliances and facilities for the care and protection of the sick. It has also about sixty private rooms for paying patients.
HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE, located in Chicago, chartered in 1934-35, but not organ ized until 1860, when temporary quarters were secured over a drug-store, and the first college term opened, with a teaching faculty numbering nine professors, besides clinical lecturers, demon- strators, etc. In 1866-67 the institution moved into larger quarters and, in 1450, the corner-stone of a new college building was laid. The six su - ceeding years were marked by internal dision- sion, ten of the professors withdrawing to establish a rival school. The faculty was cor- tailed in numbers and re-organized. In August,
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1-12. the corner stone of a second building was Luil with appropriate. Masonic ceremonies, the by w structure occupying the site of the old, but lpg larger, better arranged and better equipped. Women were a Imittel as students in 1820 71 and are duration of the sexes has ever since continued A" abile l feature of the institution. For & p than forty five years a free dispensary has ( .. . I peration in erection with the college.
MAINS, Joihin Charles, Mayor of Chicagoand , we. han in Oneila County, N. Y., 1-1s, came to Chicago in 1835, and, for . r. It eleven years, was employed in various . . its, sorve.) three terms (1848-54) in the City Famil, was twice elected Water Commissioner ... and 56), and, in 1858, was chosen Mayor, - two terms Hle also served as Delegato !! .. Cook County in the Constitutional Conven 1 . :. . f 1569-70, and, in 1974, was elected to the Senate from the First District, serving in Fronty-ninth and Thirtieth General Assem- At the session of 1877 he receive l sixty- ytes for the seat in the United States site to which Judge David Davis was after- ,die t 1. Mr. Haines was a member of the Wago Historical Society, was interested in the Le vivago West Division Railway and President ( * Savings Institute. During his later years 1. . was a resident of Waukegan, dying there, July 4, 1506. -- Elijah Middlebrook (Ilaines), lr ther of the preceding, lawyer, politician n .. 1 1.,, islator, was born in Oneida County N. Y., 3: 01 .1. 1-22; came to Illinois in boyhood, locat- Art at Chicago, but, a year later, went to
: .. County, where ho resided until his death. Ination, rudimentary, classical and profes- Sal, was self-acquired. He began to occupy Moltivate a farm for himself before attaining : @ rity; studied law, and, in 1851, was I tothe bar, beginning practice at Wau- . it ! il opened an office in Chicago, still, . fer. making his home at Waukegan. In pa !!. hed a compilation of the Illinois ! how , followed by a "Treatise on the : 1
*. s .: D ities of Justices of the Peace." He T: . w. w compilations of the township laws Pat Wane ofa, Wisconsin and Missouri. ly Tavar . Mr Haines was an agitator, and his Calle s. a jed'ician both checkered and unique. family & kommerut he abandoned that Or- Ków di h hp in the formation of the Republican Frey, and was theted by the latter to the Legis- :" Po from Lake County in 1858, '60 and '62. In 15 : he came into prominence as an anti-monopo. Ist and on this ist . was elected to the Consti-
tution Convention of 1809-20. In That he was are in chosen to the 1. i-lature as an "independ- ent." and assuch, re-elected 1 51, '89, 9%1, 20and se, receiving the support. however, of the Demo crats in a District normally Republican. Ho served as Speaker during the sections of 18 and 's, the party strength in each of these Assemblies being so equally divided that he either held, or was able to control. the balance of power. He was an adroit parliamentarian, hut Fisd sites were the cause of much severe criticism, being regarded by both Democrats and Republicans as often arbitrary and unjust. The two sessions over which he presided were among the stormiest in the State's history. Died, at Waukegan, April 25, 1889.
HALE, Albert, pioneer clergyman, was born at Glastonbury, Conn , Nov. 29, 1799; after some years spent as a clerk in a country store at Wethersfield, completed a course in the theolog. ical department of Yal College, later serving as a home missionary, in Georgia; came to Illinois in 1931. doing home mis ionary work in Bond County, and, in 1833, was sent to Chicago, where his open candor, benignity and blaumneless conduct enabled him to exert a powerful influence over the drunken aborigines who constituted a large and menacing class of the population of what was then a frontier town. In 1839 he assumed the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church in Springfield, continuing that connection until 1865. From that time until his death, his life was largely devoted to missionary work among the extremely poor and the parials of society. Among these he wielded a large influence and always commanded genuine respect from all denominations. His forte was love rather than argument, and in this lay the secret of his suc- cess. Died, in Springfield, Jan. 30, 1891.
HALE, (Dr.) Edwin M., physician, was born in Newport, N. H., in 1999, commenced the study of medicine in 1848 and, in 1-50, entered the Cleveland Homeopathie College, at the end of the session locating at Jonesville, Mich. From 1855 he labored in the interest of a representation of homeopathy in the University of Michigan. When this was finally accomplished, he was offered the chair of Materia Medica and Thera- peuties, but was compelled to decline in conse- quence of having been elected to the same position in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. In 1876 he made a visit to Europe, and, on his return, severel his coune tion with the lahne minu and accepted a similar position in the Chi- cago Homeopathie College, where he remained
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five years when lo retired with th ru k of Pro fesor Emeritus Dr. Hate was the author of several volume hold in high esteem by members of tho profession, and maintained a 1026 reputa- tion for professional skill and benevolence of character. Ile was a member of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of various home and foreign associations. Died, in Chicago, Jan. 18, 1899.
HALL, (Col.) Cyrus, soldier, was born in Fay- ette County, Ill., Angust 29, 1822-the son of a pioneer who came to Illinois about the time of its admission as a State. He served as S. cond Lieutenant in the Third Hinois Volunteers (Col. Foreman's regiment), during the Mexican War, and, in 1860, removed to Shelbyville to engage in hotel-keeping. The Civil War coming on, he raised the first company for the war in Shelby County, which was attached to the Fourteenth Illinois (Col. Jolm M. Palmer's regiment); was promptly promoted from Captain to Majer and finally to Lieutenant-Colonel, on the propotion of Pahner to Brigadier-General, succeeding to command of the regiment. The Fourteenth Regiment having been finally consolidatedl with the fifteenth, Lieutenant-Colonel fall was transferred, with the rank of Colonel, to the conunand of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Illinois, which he resigned in March, 1861, was brevetted Brigadier-General for gallant and meritorious service in the field, in March, 1-63, and minstered out Sept. 16, 1565. Returning to Shelbyville, he engaged in the furniture trade, later was appointed Postmaster, serving some ten years and until his death, Sept. 6. 1878.
HALL, James, legislator, jurist, State Treasurer and author, was born in Philadelphia, Angust 19, 1793; after serving in the War of 1812 and spending some time with Com. Stephen Decatur in the Mediterranean, in 1813, he studied law, beginning practice at Shawneetown, in 1820. Hle at once assumed prominence as a citizen, was appointed State's Attorney in 1821, and elevated to the bench of the Circuit Court in 1825. He was legislated out of office two years later and resumed private practice, making his home at Vandalia, where he was associated with Robat Blackwell in the publication of "The Illinois Intelligeneer." The same year (1827) he was elected by the Legislature State Treasurer, con- tinuing in offico four years. Later he removed to Cincinnati, where he died, July 5, 1868. He con- dueted "The Western Monthly Magazine," the first perio lieal published in Hlinois. Among his published volumes may be mentioned "Tales of
the Border, Ni cn the W. rory Uste "Stets hoy of the Mat " "Romanos Of. We peru History " and "HI pote of the today
HAMER, Thomas, A dar and leg. bor was born in Union County, Pu, June 1, 199 came. to Ilinois in 1516 and Loan business a a mer clint at Verment, Fulton County; in 1869 asristed in recruiting the Eighty-fourth Minois Volunteers and was elected Lieutenant Colonel; was woundel in the battle of Stone River, re turned to duty after partial recovery, but was finally compelled to retire ou account of di abil- ity. Returning home he resumed busines, but retire l in 1978; was elected Representative in the General Assembly in 1846 and to the Serate in 1848, and re-elected to the latter in 1892, making ten years of continuous service.
HAMILTON, a city in Hancock County on the Missie -ippi River opjo it. Keokuk, Iowa; at june- tion of the Toledo, Peoria & Western and Keokuk bri ne i of the Wabash Railway. Its position at the f. t of the lower rapids insures abundant water power for manufacturing purposes. An iron ra heel and wagon bridge connects the Illi- nois city with Keokuk. It has two banks, elec- trie light- one newspaper, six churches, a high school, and an apiaty. The surrounding country is a farming and fruit district. A sanitarium is located here. Population (1890), 1,301; (1000). 1,311.
HAMILTON, John B., M.D. LL.D., surgeon, was born of a pioneer family in Jersey County, 111., Dee. 1, 1817, his grandfather, Thomas M. Hamilton, having removed from Ohio in 1818 to Monroe County, Ill., where the father of the . ub- ject of this sketch was born. The latter (Eider Benjamin B. Ilamilton) was for fifty years a Baptist preacher, chiefly in Greene County, and, from 1962 to "65, Chaplain of the Sixty-first Illi- nois Volunteers. Young Hamilton, having re ceived his literary education at home and with a classical teacher at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1-63 began the study of medicine, and the following year attempted to enlist as a soldier, but was rejected on secount of being a minor. In 1869 he graduate I fecan Rush Medi . I College in Chicago, and, for the next five years, was engaged in em eral practice Then, having passed an examina tion beford an Army Examining Board, he was appointed As istant Surgeon in the regular army with the rank of First Lieutenant, serving sue- cessively at Jeferson Barracks, St. Louis Fort Colville , Washington, and in the Marine Ho pital at Boston ; in 1879 became Supervi. ing Sur con General as sucre sor to Gen. J bu M. Woodworth
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and, during the yellow-fever epidemic in the South, a few years later, rendered efficient service in checking the spread of the disease by taking charge of the camp of refugees from Jacksonville and other stricken points. Resigning the position of Surgeon-General in 1891, he took charge of the Marine Hospital at Chicago and became Pro fessor of Surgery in Rush Medical College, besides holling other allied positions; was also editor of "The Journal of the American Medical Associ- ation " In 1596 he resigned his position in the Medical Department of the United States Army. in 1897 was appointed Superintendent for the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Elgin, but den1. Dec. 24, 1898.
HAMILTON, John L., farmer and legislator, was born at Newry. Ireland, Nov. 9, 1829; emi- gratri to dersey County, III., in 1851, where he been life working on a farm. Later, he followed the wweupation of a farmer in Mason and Macou join Counties, finally locating. in 1864, in Iroquois County, which has since been his home. After filling various local offices, in 1875 he was elected County Treasurer of Iroquois County as a Repub- lican, and twice re-elected (1877 and '79), also, in 1 ~~ 0, being Chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. In 1881 he was elected -to the House of Representatives, being one of the "1(3" who stood by General Logan in the mem- orable Senatorial contest of 1885; was ro-elected in 1896, and again returned to the same body in 1890 am l '98.
HAMILTON, John Marshall, lawyer and ex- Governor, was born in Union County, Ohio, May 23. 1>17; when 7 years of age, was brought to Illinois by his father, who settled on a farm in Marshall County. In 1864 (at the age of 17) he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-first Illi- mois Volunteers - a 100-day regiment. After lwwing mustered out, he matriculated at the Wes- leyan (Ohio) University, from which he gradu- atel in 1968. For a year he taught school at Henry, and later became Professor of Languages at the Wesleyan (III.) University at Blooming- ton He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and has Ien a successful practitioner at the bar. In 1576 he was elected State Senator from McLean County, and, in 1940, Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Gov. Shelby M Cullom. On Feb. 6, 14.3. he was inaugurated Governor, to succeed Governor Cullom, who had been chosen United States Senator. In 1931 he was a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination before the Repub- lican State Conventi m at Peoria, but that body selected ex-Gov. and ex-Senator Richard J.
Oglesby to head the State ticket. Side. then Governor Hamilton has been a prominent practi- tioner at the Chicago bar.
HAMILTON, Richard Jones, pioneer lawyer, was born near Danville, Ky., August 21, 1799; studied law and. about 1920, came to Jonesboro. Union County, Ill., in company with Abner Field, afterwards State Treasurer ; in 1521 was appointed cashier of the newly established Branch State Bank at Brownsville, Jackson County, but, in 1831, removed to Chicago, Governor Reynolds having appointed him the first Probate Judge of Cook County. At the same time he also held the offices of Circuit and County Clerk, Recorder and Commissioner of School lands -- the sale of the Chicago school section being made under his administration. He was a Colonel of State militia and, in 1832, took an active part in raising volun fers for defense during the Black Hawk War. also was a candidate for the coloneley of the Fifth Regiment for the Mexican War (1817), but was defeated by Colonel Newby. In 1856 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieu- tenant-Governor on the Democratic ticket. Died, Dec. 26. 1860.
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