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In June, 1907, Mayor Busse appointed Mr. Urion a member of the board of education, and he is now serving with characteristic zeal and discriminative ability in his first public office, his term in which will expire June, 1910. He has always been interested in Republican politics, however, and has frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions. Mr. Urion is connected with the Union League, Mid-Day and Press clubs, and his relations with fraternalism in the organized sense are confined to Masonry. In his private character he is sociable and approachable, although scholarly and dignified. In 1885 he was married to Miss Mabel E. Kimball, daughter of Henry Martyn Kimball, editor of the Carlinville (Illinois) Democrat, and their four children are Virginia, Alfred, Jr., Henry and Frances Urion.
William Duff Haynie, of the firm Knapp, Haynie and Campbell, a prominent practicing attorney and a leading factor in several large
WILLIAM D. corporations, is an Illinois man, both by birth and, to a considerable extent, by education. He was born in
HAYNIE. Salem, Illinois, on the 16th of August, 1850, the son of Abner F. and Martha Duff Lee (Green) Haynie. His father was born in Tennessee and his mother in Kentucky, the ancestors of each being Virginians and on the maternal side descendants of the Wash- ington and Lee families of the Old Dominion. His father died in 1851, and his mother, who was for twenty years professor of modern languages in the Illinois State Normal University, placed William D. in the high school connected with that institution and, on his gradua- tion in 1870, sent him to Harvard College, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1874.
While a close and deep student, Mr. Haynie possessed the prac- tical traits necessary for every-day success, and his predilections grad- ually drew him into the broad and stirring domain of the law. His systematic professional education commenced in the office of Green and Gilbert, Cairo, Illinois, and was continued with Stevenson and
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Ewing, and in the law department of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer sity, Bloomington, Illinois, in which he passed a busy and profitable year, graduating therefrom in 1876. Mr. Haynie's record was such as to draw the attention of the townspeople to his sterling qualities, and he himself had the good judgment to begin his practice where he was best known, although larger and more distant fields might seem more promising. During the nine years following his graduation he continued his professional labors with gratifying success at Bloom- ington. In 1885 he went to Washington to assume the position of chief clerk in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, who at that time was Hon. A. E. Stevenson, afterward Vice-Presi- dent. He acceptably performed the duties of that position until Feb- ruary, 1889, when he decided to again enter private practice at Rapid City, South Dakota. In the meantime he had acquired considerable prominence with the Democracy, and the party recognized his stand- ing and abilities as an organizer and a far-seeing politician by appoint- ing him to a responsible position on the National Campaign Commit- tee, with headquarters during the campaign of 1892 in New York City. In 1893-94 he practiced at Deadwood. South Dakota, and in June of the latter year became a resident of Chicago.
In September, 1894, Mr. Haynie became associated with the law department of the Illinois Steel Company, of which he is a director. For several years he was also a director of the Illinois Manufacturers Association, and 'is recognized as a corporation and business lawyer of perfect reliability and great acumen.
Mr. Haynie has always taken a practical interest in military mat- ters, and was at one time first lieutenant of Company G, Fourth Regi- ment, Illinois National Guard. Socially and politically, he is a mem- ber of the University, Iroquois, Colonial, New Illinois Athletic and South Shore Country clubs. His domestic life, which is ideal, was inaugurated by his marriage, January 30, 1889, to Ella R. Thomas, of Washington, D. C.
There is no profession in which the admonition to "make haste slowly" can be more advantageously followed than in that of the law.
CHARLES A. It will be found that the great national figures, most
of whom have had a legal training, and those who
WINSTON. have acquired eminence solely in the law, have been men of the most thorough preparation. However great their native
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talents, the unformed fledglings are not reaching the high posts of honor today, but those whose education and training have enabled them to survey a broad field of knowledge before they fairly entered the activities of their career. In these days a thorough and broad education is largely taking the place of the long, and oft-times wear- ing experience, which in the earlier periods was considered essential to honorable elevation in any of the professions or walks of life.
Charles A. Winston, senior member of the law firm of Winston, Lowy and McGinn, is a typical modern lawyer, who has laid a broad foundation for continuous personal development and professional progress. Born in Boone county, Kentucky, on the 6th of December. 1865, he is the son of A. G. and Georgetta (Matson) Winston. His father, also a native of that county, was born in 1832, being in early life engaged in the practice of the law and later in business. He is now a retired citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio, his wife (the mother of Charles A.) being an Ohio lady, born in 1835 and died in 1888.
William T. Winston, the paternal grandfather, was a native of Hanover county, Virginia, and settled in Boone county, Kentucky, in the early part of the nineteenth century, dying in that section at the age of sixty-nine. The Winston family came originally from York- shire, England, whence six brothers emigrated to the United States and settled in Hanover county, Virginia.
Charles A. Winston first attended the public schools of Kentucky, and pursued higher courses at the Woodward College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1886. He then entered the law department of the University of Cincinnati, from which in 1891 he obtained his professional degree, being admitted the same year to both the Ohio and Kentucky bars. Not yet satisfied with his profes- sional attainments, Mr. Winston took an advanced course in the law. department of Harvard University, graduating therefrom in 1893.
In the year named above Mr. Winston came to Chicago, and after being engaged in active practice here until 1896, spent a most profit- able twelve months in travel, spending most of the period in Europe, verifying and enlarging his knowledge of peoples and institutions, both of the past and present. This was followed by a post-graduate course at the Harvard Law School, in which his special line of study and investigation was directed toward constitutional, corporation and civil law. At the close of this supplementary study he accepted a pro-
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fessorship in the University of Minnesota, filling the chair of Real Property for a year. In 1899 he resigned the professorship, returned to Chicago and re-engaged in active practice.
Since that year Mr. Winston has been engaged in progressive professional work, and has made a specialty of corporation law, of which he has made so close and deep a study. Both in his individual capacity and as a member of the firm of Winston, Lowy and McGinn, he is winning a position at the bar which is a full justification of his faithful and careful preparation for his professional career. His prac- tice is largely in the higher courts, his admission to the United States circuit and district courts being obtained in 1894.
In 1900 Charles A. Winston was united in marriage to Miss Nina W. Wright, of Houghton, Michigan, and a daughter of Z. W. and Esther (Towne) Wright. In politics Mr. Winston is a Republican, but has never actively entered that field. He is fond of outdoor sports, being a member of the Birchwood Country Club and the Chi- cago Athletic Club.
Henry Milton Wolf, member of the well known law firm of Judah, Willard, Wolf and Reichmann, is one of an association of distinctive-
HENRY M. ly western attorneys. Henry M. Wolf is a native of
WOLF. Rock Island, born November 15, 1860, the son of
Moses and Bertha ( Rothschild) Wolf. He received the bulk of his education in Chicago, graduating from the old Central High School in 1878, and later attending the University of Chicago, as well as being instructed by private tutors. The period from 1878 to 1880 was thus passed, after which he entered Yale College and graduated with honors and the degree of A. B. therefrom, in 1884. He commenced the study of law at that famous institution and con- tinued his legal studies in the office of Dupee, Judah and Willard until March, 1886, when he was admitted to the bar.
It was at this early date that 'Mr. Wolf became associated as a partner in the firm of Dupee, Judah and Willard. Both Mr. Judah and Mr. Willard had studied in the office of the original firm of Hitchcock and Dupee, the former entering into partnership arrange- ments in 1875 and the latter in 1882. A few years later the firm name was changed to Dupee, Judah. Willard and Wolf. Since April 1, 1905, the business has been conducted under the present style of Judah, Willard, Wolf and Reichmann.
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Henry M. Wolf is a member of the Chicago Bar and the Illinois Bar Associations. He is a Republican and identified with the Yale, University, Standard, Chicago Athletic and Chicago Literary clubs. He is a thoroughly qualified lawyer, and a citizen of substantial, use- ful and progressive qualities.
John Richard Caverly, city attorney of Chicago, has made rapid progress in his profession, and since becoming connected with the
JOHN R. legal department of the city, about a decade ago, he
has been continually in office, either in that connec-
CAVERLY. tion or as a police magistrate, and through all the changes of administration has rendered faithful, earnest and impar- tial service.
Mr. Caverly was born in London, England, on the 6th of Decem- ber, 1861, the son of James and Mary ( Boulter) Caverly, natives re- spectively of Ireland and England. In his person is therefore com- bined that brightness and sturdiness which form the characteristics of a strong and successful man-popular, clear of head and practical of purpose, charitable and yet a keen judge of human nature.
Mr. Caverly was brought by his parents to Chicago when a boy of six years, and received his literary training in the Annunciation Par- ish School and St. Patrick's Academy, of that city, and his profes- sional education in the law department of the Lake Forest University. In 1897 he obtained his degree of LL. B. from the latter institution, and almost immediately (in April) was appointed assistant city at- torney, serving in that position until May 1, 1903. Mr. Caverly severed his connection with the city attorney's office upon the latter date, as he had been appointed justice of the peace and police magis- trate at the Harrison Street police court, which has always been con- sidered the most trying and responsible position of the kind in Chi- cago. He presided over the court with promptness and impartiality for more than three years, or until December 1, 1906, when the justice courts of this nature were abolished by law. His fine record as as- sistant city attorney, however, had followed him, and on New Year's day of 1907 he was appointed by Mayor Dunne to the head of the office, in which he is logically bound to increase the splendid reputa- tion which he has already made.
In his personal politics John R. Caverly is a firm Democrat, al- though his convictions in this line have never influenced him in the
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discharge of his official duties. He is a well known member of the Chicago Democratic and the Cook County Democratic clubs, and, pro- fessionally, is identified with the Chicago Bar and the Illinois State Bar Associations. He supports such social organizations as the Iro- quois Club, the Illinois Athletic Club, and such fraternities as the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Columbus. It will therefore be readily inferred that he is a remarkably busy man, and has little time to review his own achievements. ITis domestic life, which has been notice- ably harmonious, was inaugurated by his marriage with Miss Char- lotte J. Cochran, on the 15th of September, 1898.
It comes as no surprise to the average citizen to be told that Chi- cago numbers among its attorneys some of the greatest commercial and corporation lawyers in the country; from the
WILLIAM VOCKE. character of the city and the tendency of the times.
one would naturally expect a gravitation of such legal talent hither. It is also a truth, but one not admitted without careful investigation, that the metropolis of the west has a noticeable proportion of lawyers who are highly and broadly cultured outside of their professional limitations. Even to the general reader, who has not personally examined the matter, the name of the late William Vocke naturally suggests itself as a signal illustration of this element of the legal fraternity : and his personality also emphasizes the fact that many of the most cultured lawyers of Chicago are of his father- land.
William Vocke was a native of Minden. Westphalia, Germany, born April 4, 1839. the son of William and Charlotte (Ebeling) Vocke. He received his early education in his home schools, and, los- ing his father at an early age, decided that his future lay in the republic across the ocean. At seventeen he ventured forth, landing in New York in 1856, and, after stopping there for a short time, in order to secure work and the resulting means to place himself further west. he passed on to Chicago-the city of ugly outward appearance, but of mysterious fascination for the energy, enterprise and intelligence of all nationalities and all classes. In 1857 he became a permanent resident of Chicago, and soon found employment with his own coun- trymen as a carrier for the Staats Zeitung, then as now the leading German newspaper of the west.
Mr. Vocke's newspaper territory was then a large part of the
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northwest side of the city, and by working from two until eight each morning he partially supported himself and was enabled for a time to give what hours were not absolutely necessary to sleep to the study of the law, to which he had already pledged himself. At this critical juncture in his affairs Professor Henry Booth-that good friend to so many young men-came to his relief, and, by allowing the de termined and ambitious young German the use of his books, with in- struction thrown in gratis-that is, permitting him to pay, if con- venient, at some future date-the path to the realization of a legal education was thus paved for William Vocke, who ever insisted that the day on which he was able to pay his kind friend carried with it one of the happiest events of his life.
In 1860, then of legal age, Mr. Vocke left the employ of the Staats Zeitung to accept the position of a collector for the firm of Ogden, Fleetwood & Co., then one of the leading real estate firms in Chicago. His service of something less than a year in that capacity gave him a good standing among business men and so earned him the commenda- tion of his employers that when he resigned to enter the Union army they presented him with a handsome sum of money in gold. In April, 1861, he promptly responded to the three months' call for troops, be- ing a private in the Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry. He afterward re-enlisted and was present at every engagement of the Army of the Cumberland until his regiment was mustered out of the service. His soldierly discipline, loyalty and bravery won recognition by his promo- tion to the captaincy of Company D.
Captain Vocke's ambition and foresight were well illustrated by the fact that during the leisure periods of his army service he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and upon his return to the north in 1864 he was fully competent to fill the position which was proffered him- the city editorship of the Staats Zeitung. He held that position until April, 1865, and won a place among able western journalists. From the latter date until November, 1869, he was clerk of the police court of Chicago, having during this period resumed the study of law and been admitted to the bar (1867). With the exception of the seven years from 1873 to 1880, when he was in partnership with General Joseph Leake, Mr. Vocke practiced alone. His clientage was always extensive and the legal interests entrusted to him of a very important character. He had a thorough understanding of the law as a science,
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and stood among the foremost trial lawyers of the city, his power of analysis, his penetration to the foundation principles and his logical presentation of the facts, combined with his winning personality, being an explanation of his unusual successes before a jury.
Mr. Vocke made frequent contributions to both the German and English press, and gained a high reputation as a forcible and polished writer. In 1869 he produced a volume of poems comprising excellent translations of the lyrics of Julius Rodenberg. During the later years of his life his writings were more in the line of law than on general literary topics, one of his most important productions being a volume entitled "The Administration of Justice in the United States, and a Synopsis of the Mode of Procedure of our Federal and State Courts and All Federal and State Courts Relating to Subjects of In- terest to Aliens." The work was published in the German language at Cologne, and has not only received the praise of German journalists but has proven of much benefit to German lawyers and business men.
In 1870, three years after his admission to the bar. Captain Vocke was elected to the lower house of the state legislature. Shortly after the great fire of 1871 an extra session was called and he was instru- mental in framing what is known as the "burnt-record act"; and among his other noteworthy legislative achievements he formulated and in- troduced a life-insurance bill, which was indorsed by the Chicago Tribune as "the soundest and most judicious measure ever proposed to a legislative body on that subject." From 1877 to 1880 Mr. Vocke served as a member of the Chicago board of education, and in that position, as in all other official capacities, he performed his duties faith- fully and impartially, irrespective of political considerations or indi- vidual leanings. For many years, and at the time of his death, he was the official attorney for the Imperial German consulate at Chicago, which was an indication, coming from his own fatherland, of his standing as a German-American citizen and lawyer. Among other offices with which he had been honored was also the presidency of the German Society of Chicago for the Aid of Emigrants, which organi- zation has done a fine work in facilitating the amalgamation of that invaluable racial element with the American nationality and body politic. In his fraternal and social relations Mr. Vocke was identified with the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and with the University and Germania clubs.
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On January 13, 1867, Mr. Vocke married Miss Eliza Wahl, and they became the parents of two sons and four daughters. The loved and honored husband and father passed away in the city which so long had appreciated his high talents and worth, on the 13th of May, 1907, leaving, besides the widow, the children mentioned above : Fred- erick Vocke, of Chicago; William Vocke, of Oklahoma; Mrs. Franz Bopp and Mrs. D. P. Doak, of San Francisco; and Mrs. J. C. Mc- Mynn and Mrs. J. A. Bird, of Chicago. The deceased was domestic and approachable, a genial companion and a delightful entertainer, a man of well-rounded character, and stood for years among the ablest and broadest of the German-Americans whom Chicago has delighted to honor.
Andrew Rothwell Sheriff, member of the substantial firm of Mc- Cordic and Sheriff, is a native of Washington, D. C., and was born
ANDREW R. April 8, 1872, his parents being George Lewis and SHERIFF. Sarah Borrows (Rothwell) Sheriff. He first attend- ed the public and high schools of the national capital, and subsequently pursued a professional course in the Georgetown University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1892 with the degree of LL. B. Not satisfied with his proficiency, he entered the Harvard Law School and in 1894 received a similar degree from the more famous institution, subsequently pursuing a two years' course (1894-6) at Harvard College and Graduate School. He left the latter with a full A. B. degree, and in 1897 an A. M. was added to his titles, as a reward for work done in 1895-6.
Mr. Sheriff's record from 1889 to 1896 was that of a remarkably capable and scholarly young man and member of the bar. In 1889-92 he was employed as a document clerk in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., having in custody the scientific publications of that great institution, and for one of his age the position was one of unusual responsibility. Admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia July 2, 1894, he acted as assistant instructor in constitutional law at Har- vard College in 1895-6, and in August of the latter year came to Chi- cago to engage in active practice. He engaged in independent pro- fessional work until February 1, 1898, when he formed a partnership with Alfred E. McCordic, also a Harvard graduate in law. On the Ist of January, 1904, Charles Y. Freeman was admitted into the firm, which still retains its former name of McCordic and Sheriff. The
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firm is largely engaged in the practice of corporation law, and, through the individual connections of its members, in the conservation of im- portant business and commercial interests: Mr. Sheriff himself is vice-president and director of the Illinois Car and Equipment Com- pany and secretary and director of the Chicago & Calumet River Rail- road Company, Mr. Freeman being secretary and assistant treasurer of the former corporation. Mr. Sheriff has professional membership in the American Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, and as a university man is identified with Beta Theta Pi.
Andrew R. Sheriff was married in Chicago, October 17, 1900, to Marguerite, daughter of William Hamilton Mitchell, and they have become the parents of two sons. Rothwell Mitchell and William Ham- ilton Mitchell Sheriff. He is a member of the Republican party, and is identified with the Hamilton and Calumet clubs. As an Episcopalian he is a vestryman in the Trinity church, of the South Side, and since becoming a resident of Chicago has been active in the work of the denomination.
John A. Brown is the junior member of the law firm of Kern and Brown, his associate being Jacob J. Kern, the well known ex-state's
JOHN A. attorney and one of the able representatives of the
BROWN. German-American element in Chicago. There is no firm in Chicago which is a better exemplar of the restless, yet substantial ability and the never failing resourcefulness of the rising lawyer of today, than that of which Mr. Brown is an equal partner. He is a native of Tannersville, Greene county, New York, born June 21, 1876, the son of James and Catherine (Goggin) Brown.
John A. Brown laid the foundation of his legal education in Chi- cago, under private tutors and at the North Division High School. He pursued his professional studies at the Kent College of Law, from which he graduated in 1898 with the degree of LL. B., and at the Illinois College of Law (post-graduate course) by which in 1899 he was honored with LL. B. and LL. M. His law studies were com- menced while occupying the position of clerk of the circuit court under Frank J. Gaulter, were continued in the office of Lackner and Butz. and were under the supervision of his uncle, Judge Goggin of the superior court. His first intimate business relations with Mr. Kern were in 1896, when the latter retired from the office of state's attorney
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and formed a partnership with Elisha S. Bottum, Mr. Brown being employed by them in various professional capacities. Mr. Bottum died in 1898. Charles D. Fullen became an associate of the firm, of Kern and Fullen, and Mr. Brown was received as a silent partner, the partnership assuming its present name at the retirement of Mr. Fullen in 1900. Mr. Brown was admitted to the Illinois bar January I, 1899, and to the United States Supreme Court May 31, 1904. The scope of the business of the firm with which he is identified embraces both civil and criminal procedure, and the formation, development and conservation of large corporations and business interests. It has been an opponent in all of the late board of trade litigation over quo- tations and is recognized as a prominent factor in the commercial world.
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