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Mr. Kretzinger's daughter, Clara Josephine, is a younger child. and a young lady of marked artistic promise. The Saturday Even- ing Herald, of Chicago, in a series of articles on the twentieth annual exhibition of American artists at the Art Institute, has this to say of one of Miss Kretzinger's latest productions : "In room 25 there is a cabinet-sized interior figure subject, The Print Seller, which de- serves a somewhat detailed notice, principally from the fact that it will afford to the students of the institute (and that from a young lady who, too, is still a student ) a valuable lesson as to the point at which the imitation of the texture accessories, or the still-life of a figure picture, should be arrested. This very mature and interesting work is by Miss Clara Josephine Kretzinger-interesting because it was produced by this gifted young artist after she had received only two years of art instruction, a period which is about one-fourth of the average time a student has to subject himself or herself to train- ing. After about five months of tuition a picture of hers was hung in the Paris Salon, and since then, two more. The Print Seller is not only excellently painted, but it shows a mastery of composition. and a feeling for subtleties of color and its orchestration, so to speak. is admirable-qualities which are rarely, if ever, attained until some years after emancipation from the schools." In the spring of 1908 two more paintings were accepted by the Salon, and upon this she received honorable mention, which is one of the highest honors con- ferred by the Salon.
One of the most reliable and progressive of the younger members of the Chicago bar, who stands high in professional ability and as
a man of broad business and financial judgment, is
LEONARD A.
Leonard Asbury Busby, of the firm of Shope, Zane.
BUSBY. Busby and Weber, with offices in the Chicago Title and Trust building. He was born at Jewett. Harrison county, Ohio, on the 22nd of May, 1869, son of Sheridan and Margaret ( Quigley) Busby. Of the parents, the father was a native of Maryland, of
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straight English stock, and died at Jewett, Ohio, in 1884, at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother was a Pennsylvanian by birth, is of Scotch-Irish descent and is now a resident of Chicago.
Mr. Busby received his primary education in the public schools- of Jewett and at the age of sixteen commenced to teach in the com- mon schools of Harrison county. After following this occupation four years he was enabled to complete his education at the Ohio Wes- leyan University, Delaware, from which, after pursuing a four- years' course, he graduated in June, 1894, standing at the head of his class in scholarship. Coming to Chicago in September of the same year, Mr. Busby entered the law department of the Northwestern Uni- versity, where, after a year of hard work, he obtained his degree of LL. B. In June of the year of his graduation he was admitted to practice at the Illinois bar, and at once entered the law office of Lyman and Jackson, then the oldest law firm in the city, having been organized in 1869.
By December, 1898, Mr. Busby had won his way to a partnership in the firm, the style becoming Jackson, Busby and Lyman. David B. Lyman retired from the old firm to become president of the Chi- cago Title and Trust Company, and his son was taken in as a junior member. After the death of Huntington W. Jackson, January 3. ยท 1901, the elder Lyman returned to the firm and its style became Ly- man, Busby and Lyman, which continued until December 1, 1906, when the firm was dissolved by mutual consent. At that time Hon. Simeon P. Shope, John M. Zane and Harry P. Weber (of the firm of Shope, Mathis, Zane and Weber), and Mr. Busby formed the pres- ent partnership of Shope, Zane, Busby and Weber.
Upon the death of Mr. Jackson, Mr. Busby was elected to suc- ceed him as a life member of the board of trustees of the John Crerar Library, taking his place on the board as a member of the Administra- tion Committee. Mr. Jackson showed his absolute trust and confidence in Mr. Busby by appointing him the sole executor and trustee of his estate, amounting to half a million dollars, requesting that his executor be not required to give bond.
Mr. Busby has personally represented a number of large interests in important litigation during the last few years, and is now an active and successful practitioner. He drafted the Act and secured the pas-
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sage of the law relating to the establishment of free public libraries in the public parks, and represents the John Crerar Library in the pending litigation over the right to erect its building in Grant Park on the lake front. . As counsel for the bondholders he won the famous Fort Wayne (Indiana) Street Railway suit, which involved the rescue of more than $1,000,000 of wrongfully converted funds. Mr. Busby also rep- resented the Bank of Montreal in the suit growing out of the failure of George H. Phillips; the suit was brought against the bank by the trustee in bankruptcy and involved the right of the bank to retain over $300,000 collected by the bank from Phillips immediately prior to his insolvency. The case was tried before Judge Seaman in the United States circuit court and decided in favor of the bank. In 1906 Mr. Busby became counsel for the receiver of the Call- met Electric Street Railway Company and in 1907-08 took personal charge of the work involved in taking the Calumet Company out of the hands of the receiver, organizing its successor, the Call- met and South Chicago Railway Company, and effecting the con- solidation and merger of the South Chicago City Railway into the former company. He also represented the new company before the city council of Chicago in its negotiations for a new twenty-year franchise, which was granted March 30, 1908, and is now General Counsel of the consolidated company.
Mr. Busby's practice has covered a wide range. He has a brilliant record as a trial lawyer and particularly in the defense of personal injury suits, but his constructive ability, as shown by the various or- ganizations and reorganizations with which he has been connected, has won for him a still higher place in the esteem and confidence of his clients.
Fraternally, socially and professionally Mr. Busby is widely con- nected, being a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Chicago Bar Association (of which he was treasurer and member of the board of managers for two years). the Law Club and the Chicago Club. Mr. Busby is a Democrat of the Cleveland stamp, but he has never taken an active part in politics for the reason that his law practice and business relations have practically absorbed his entire time and strength to the exclusion of everything else. He is unmarried, and lives with his mother in Woodlawn.
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In the field of general law, as also in his specialty of patent law, one of the most eminent figures of the Chicago bar during the last
JESSE thirty years of the nineteenth century was Jesse Cox, whose death on September 10, 1902, at the age
Cox. of fifty-nine, was felt as a distinct loss to the pro- fession. He had fairly earned his position in the law, since he had been for many years not only an earnest student of its general prin- ciples, but also for his persistent and well-rewarded research into the details of his specialty. During thirty years of practice in Chi- cago he was a faithful conserver of all the interests confided to his care and fine judgment, and perfected a career that deserves a last- ing place in the history of the bar.
With the exception of nine years from 1878 to 1887 his practice was of a general nature, but during those nine years he made a hne reputation in the specialty of patent law, and continued until his death to be an authority in this branch of practice. Although he was abso- lutely devoted to the cause of his client in whatever field he worked, he never forgot the ethics of his profession or stooped to unworthy means to gain an advantage. By close study and through his famil- iarity with a wide range of legal lore, he usually fortified his posi- tions with so many facts and precedents that only the leading prac- titioners could successfully cope with him, and he won more than a majority of the causes he tried.
In his extensive library he had many volumes on the subject of political economy. Outside of the law, this was his favorite study, and it became more than a matter of casual interest with him. He wrote and lectured on many themes connected with the subject, and his studies of the problems of labor caused his main interest in politics.
One of the most important and interesting litigations in which Mr. Cox was engaged was that of the People ex rel. Hugh Maher versus Erastus Williams. Judge Williams, an old and respected member of the bench, had decided a suit against Hugh Maher, who claimed an eighty-acre tract of valuable land near Riverside, which he claimed Charles B. Farwell had conveyed to him in payment of a gambling debt. Farwell claimed that the land had been made over as part payment of an election bet made between him and Maher on the election of Lincoln. After the trial Judge Williams refused to
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sign a certificate of evidence to the supreme court so that Maher could take an appeal. The latter then filed a petition in the supreme court for a writ of mandamus to compel Judge Williams to sign the certificate, and the writ was granted. Owing to the prominence of the parties and the peculiar nature of the litigation the suit attracted widespread attention. This was the second time in the history of the state that a judge had been ordered by the supreme court to sign such a document, and in the other instance the judge resigned rather than obey the order of the higher court.
Before coming to Chicago Mr. Cox had gained experience and success as a lawyer in Philadelphia. Born in Burlington. New Jer- sey, October 29, 1843, he was reared in Philadelphia, to which city his parents removed when he was one year old, and received his edit- cation in private schools and under private instruction. In January. 1862, he commenced his professional studies in the office of George M. Wharton. a pioneer lawyer of that city. After practicing for seven years in Philadelphia, he came to Chicago in January, 1873. In October, 1869, Jesse Cox married Miss Annie Malcom, of Phila- delphia, a daughter of Rev. Howard Malcom, who was for many years a prominent minister of the Baptist church, and president of the Georgetown (Kentucky) College and of the University of Lewis- burg, Pennsylvania.
For about eight years prior to his death Jesse Cox had as his as- sociate in practice his son. Arthur Malcom Cox, who is a prominent ARTHUR M. Cox. lawyer and now a member of the well-known law firm of Carnahan, Slusser and Cox. He was born in Chicago June 16. 1873, the year of his father's removal to this city. He attended the Brown and Marquette ward schools and in 1892 graduated from the West Division high school. Soon afterward he commenced the study of his profession in his father's office, passed an admission examination in the appellate court in 1894 and continued in practice with the elder Cox until his death in 1902. He continued his practice alone until May 1. 1903, when he became a member of and added his name to the firm of Carnahan, Slusser, Hawkes and Cox, the present style being assumed on the retirement of Benjamin C. Hawkes. Among the younger members of the Chicago bar Mr. Cox has already attained a high standing as a successful practitioner in the field of chancery. In politics Mr.
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Cox is a Republican, is a Baptist in his religious affiliations, is a Master Mason, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. and of the Union League, Hamilton and Chicago Yacht clubs, and the Chicago Bar Association.
Ralph Crews, a rising attorney in the field of corporation law, is the son of Seth Floyd and Helena Ridgway (Slocum) Crews, his RALPH father, still an active practitioner at the local bar, CREWS. standing for many years in the front rank of the attorneys and citizens of Mount Vernon, Jefferson county, Illinois. In 1876-80 the latter served as state's attorney, during which period no indictment which he drew was ever quashed. At the end of his four years' term he declined a re-election. In the fall of 1882 he was elected a member of the Illinois legislature, serv- ing the winter of 1882-83. The elder Crews has always been a stal- wart Republican, and the family for many generations has been steadfastly attached to the Methodist faith. The family came to Chicago in 1883, since which time he has been engaged in many cases which have established his position as a leading trial lawyer.'
Ralph Crews was born at Mount Vernon, Jefferson county, Illi- nois, on the 29th of March, 1876, and was seven years of age when the family removed to Chicago. He received his education in the public and high schools of Hyde Park, graduating from the latter in the class of 1893. Soon afterward he commenced to study law under the tutelage of his father, and became a regular student at the Chi- cago College of Law. Receiving his professional degree from that institution as a member of the class of 1897, he was admitted to practice in June of that year, and has since continued as a promising and progressive member of the profession. His specialty is corpora- tion law, in which he has already met with creditable success.
In June, 1901, Mr. Crews. was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Stuart Sherman, of Riverside, Illinois, which beautiful suburb is the family home. They have two daughters, Mary A. and Elizabeth R. Mr. Crews is a Republican in politics, but has given his sole and faithful attention to the furtherance of his career as a lawyer, and has had neither time nor inclination to seek public pre- ferment. He is an advocate of outdoor sports, both as a means of health and recreation, and is a member of the Riverside Golf Club, which numbers among its supporters some of the most prominent
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families in the place. Domestic, sociable, energetic and able, substan- tial progress and an honorable standing, both as a lawyer and a citi- zen, are clearly assured him.
Joseph B. Langworthy, who is among the progressive members of the legal profession in Chicago, is a native of Geauga county.
JOSEPH B. Ohio, and was born on a farm in that section of
LANGWORTHY. the state January 10, 1862. He is a son of Joseph and Sophronia (Merry) Langworthy, and had the good fortune to spring from Scotch-Irish ancestry-the good for- tune, because it brought him an inheritance of quick perception bal- anced by sturdy persistency. The father was born in Massachu- setts in 1810, migrating in 1846 to Ohio, where he resided until 1872. when he removed to Branch county, Michigan, dying there in 1882. The mother, who was born in Ireland, was brought to the United States in early childhood and her death occurred in Geauga county in the latter part of 1864. They were the parents of thirteen chil- dren, of whom eleven are living. Of their sons, Henry and George B. were soldiers in the Civil war and continued their military serv- ice by participation in the Indian campaigns of the west.
Mr. Langworthy received an unusually thorough education in general and literary branches before commencing his professional studies, his original intention being to enter the educational field. The earlier steps of his mental training were taken in the public and high school of Angola, Indiana, after which he became a student in the Northern Indiana Normal College, from which he was graduated in 1879. After teaching school for some time he entered the Univer- sity of Michigan as a law student, and as he had already made consia- erable progress through his private readings he obtained admission to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession at LaPorte. Indiana. in 1885.
Mr. Langworthy came to Chicago at the advice of United States District Judge John H. Baker of Goshen, Indiana, who had taken a deep interest in the young attorney. IIe became a resident of the city in 1890 and during the succeeding eight years was connected with the law firm of Moran, Mayer and Myer. Since 1898 he has conducted an independent practice, broadly covering all civil busi- ness, and much of his practice has been in the higher courts, such as the appellate and state supreme. He is a member of the State Bar
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Association and, in politics, a Republican. In 1885 Mr. Langworthy was united in marriage with Miss Carrie M. Caswell, who died in 1891. In 1897 he married, as his second wife, Miss Emily Atwood, who died in 1904.
Ernest Dale Owen, who has been a practicing lawyer in Chicago for nearly twenty years, is a representative of the Owen family which
ERNEST D. has become famous in England and the United
States in the fields of social reform, science
OWEN. and spiritualism. His grandfather. Robert Owen, is acknowledged to be the founder of English socialism, which, how- ever, at that time had a different meaning from what is known as socialism today. He was born in Wales in 1771, and in early man- hood was manager and part owner of the New Lanark cotton mills in England, introducing among his operatives various reforms look- ing to the improvement of their domestic and social condition, among which was the first instance of co-operation. The history of English socialism is commonly dated from 1817, when he brought before a committee of the house of commons a report on the poor law. rec- ommending the formation of communities, with land as the basis of their support, each living in a large building with common kitchen and dining room, the separate families, of course, to have private apartments. Work, and the enjoyment of its results, was to be in common. In 1823 he came to the United States and two years after founded a community at New Harmony, Indiana, in which was tried the practicability of some of these principles. The experiment failed in 1827. He bought the town of New Harmony from the Rapp Society. In the following year he severed his connection with the New Lanark mills and thereafter, until his death in 1858. gave his entire attention and fortune to the elevation of the working peo- ple
David Dale Owen, one of the sons, when he was about sixteen years of age, came to the United States with his father, became a famous geologist, and was especially connected with the government surveys of the northwest. He died at New Harmony in 1860, being an uncle of Ernest D. Owell.
The father of the latter, and another son of Robert, was Robert Dale Owen, best known to Americans of all the members of the noted family. He was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born Novem-
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ber 9. 1801, and during more than half a century was prominently before the people as a social reformer, politician and spiritualist. In 1843-47 he served as a member of Congress from Indiana, and after the war of the Rebellion broke out stood among the foremost Aboli- tionists in the country. Among his best-known literary works de- voted to spiritualism are "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World" and "The Debatable Land." He wrote "Threading My Way," an autobiography, and a number of other books and pamphlets. During the war he wrote "Wrong of Slavery and Right of Emancipa- tion," circulated by the thousands of copies at the expense of the gov- ernment. He died near Lake George, New York, June 17. 1877. Richard Owen was another uncle of Ernest Dale Owen, the Chicago lawyer, and was a geologist and linguist of note and for many years professor at the state university at Bloomington, Indiana.
Ernest Dale Owen was born at New Harmony, Indiana, the place of the Robert Owen experiment in community living, on the 17th of April. 1850. He spent six years of his earlier life in Europe, and his schooling was mostly obtained abroad and at McMullen's Acad- emy. New York, at which Theodore Roosevelt was once a student. In 1871 he was admitted to the practice of his profession in Indiana. and afterward pursued his professional work in Michigan and Illi- nois, being admitted to the bar of both states: In 1875 Mr. Owen located at Marquette, Michigan, remained there for four years, and then returned to New Harmony, where he engaged in a substantial practice until he came to Chicago in December, 1889. Since the latter date he has been known in this city as an attorney of broad legal information engaged in the successful handling of involved and important litigation. He is a man of thoughtful disposition and scholarly tastes and a forceful and logical speaker. He confines his club connections to the Indiana Society. He has written somewhat for magazines and other publications and is fond of literary work.
Daniel Jay Schuyler, an old and prominent lawyer of Chicago, is descended from the Schuylers of central New York, who were so prominent in the early development of that sec- DANIEL J. tion of the Empire state. The first of the name to
SCHUYLER. come to this country was Philip Pietersen Van Schuyler, who, more than two centuries and a half ago, left his na- tive Holland and settled on the present site of Albany. When the Vol. II-15
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place was incorporated as a city in 1686, a member of the family was elected first mayor, and, after serving eight years in that posi- tion, successively became president of the king's council in New York, acting governor, a member of the New York assembly, and commissioner of Indian affairs.
General Philip Schuyler was a still more famous representative of the name. As a general iu the Revolutionary field, a member of the Continental Congress and afterward United States senator from New York, he was truly one of the fathers of the Republic. He is especially identified with the history of the Empire state because of his life-long advocacy of the development of a system of internal im- provements, and especially of the canals in New York.
The branch of the Schuyler family from which is descended Dan- iel J. Schuyler located in New Jersey just before the Revolutionary war. Different members of it, however, afterward returned to New York and made their home for several generations in Montgomery county. At Florida, in this locality, Mr. Schuyler was born on a farm located by his great-grandfather, his parents being John Jacob and Sally Ann (Davis) Schuyler. Here he commenced a vigorous, healthful life, inherited from sturdy, forceful ancestors, on the 16th of February, 1839. His education was begun in the common schools near his home, and he early showed a decided literary and oratorical bent. His academic studies at Princeton and Amsterdam were somewhat interrupted by work upon the farm, but following a course of study at Franklin, Delaware county, he entered Union College, Schenectady, for a regular and continuous training. Graduating from the latter institution in 1861, he soon after commenced the study of law, which, with intervals of teaching, occupied the succeeding three years. A portion of this period he spent in the office of the distin- guished lawyer, Francis Kernan, of Utica, New York. In January, 1864, he was admitted to the New York bar.
Mr. Schuyler wisely decided upon the west as the most favorable field for practice, and upon Chicago as its most promising center. To a comprehensive knowledge of the law he added those personal traits of industry and faithfulness which, together, form a guarantee of substantial success. He practiced alone until 1872, when he en- tered into partnership with George Gardner, the firm continuing un- til 1879, when the latter was elected a judge of the superior court.
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He afterward became senior partner in the firm of Schuyler and Kremer, devoting himself chiefly to court work as a general pract. tioner, while the junior partner made a specialty of admiralty law. He is now senior partner in the firm of Schuyler, Jamieson and Et- telson, and has devoted himself largely to commercial, corporation and fire-insurance law. Especially in the field last named are his opinions regarded as authority.
On September 5, 1865, Mr. Schuyler was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Byford, second daughter of the late William H. By- ford, long recognized as one of the most eminent of Chicago physi- cians. Two children have been born to their union, Daniel J., Jr., and Edith Nolan Schuyler. In 1897 Mr. Schuyler organized the Holland Society of Chicago, the members of which are composed of the descendants of old Dutch families residing in this city. As a stanch Republican, he is also a member of the Hamilton Club, and, as a good citizen, has always been active in elevating public move- ments. His religious faith is that of Congregationalism.
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