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Mr. Brown is a member of the Illinois State and Chicago Bar asso- ciations and of the legal fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta, his professional standing being emphasized by the fact that he is also a trustee of the Illinois College of Law. He is a member of the directory of, and holds legal relations with many corporations and business enterprises. He is a Democrat, a member of the Central Young Men's Christian Association; is a life member of the Press Club of Chicago and is very prominent in the Royal Arcanum, being Past Regent of the Illinois Council in. that fraternity. In politics, he is a Democrat; in religion a Catholic, and in everything earnest, straightforward, fertile and forceful. His youth and vigor give promise of many years of usefulness and satisfaction. When "life's fitful fever" shall be over, it will be proper for the memorist fittingly to portray a character which can be only partially developed in the days of the contempora- neous biographer.
A corporation lawyer of high individual standing and senior mem- ber of the firm of Gurley, Stone and Wood, William W. Gurley is an
WILLIAM W. Ohio man, born January 27, 1851, his parents being GURLEY. John J. and Anseville C. (Armentrout) Gurley. After graduating from the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity in 1870, he read law in his father's office, but prior to commencing practice held the superintendency of the Seville (Ohio) public schools. This experience was in 1871-2, and in June of 1873 he was admitted to the Ohio bar.
Mr. Gurley has been a resident and a practitioner of Chicago
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since September, 1874. and although his professional work in the earlier years was of a general nature, for a long time it has been almost confined to corporation law. That it is extensive will be receg- nized when it is stated that he is the general counsel for the Chicago Railways Company, Chicago Union Traction Company, the Receivers of the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company, the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Company, Featherstone Foundry and Machine Company and other corporations. He is also a director of Wakem & Laughlin, Incorporated; Stearns & Culver Lumber Com- pany, Lyon Cypress Lumber Company, and the Baker Lumber Company.
October 30, 1878, Mr. Gurley wedded the daughter of the late Hon. Joseph Turney, of Cleveland, Ohio-Miss Mary Eva Turney, a cultured and attractive lady. They are the parents of one daughter. Helen Kathryn. Mr. Gurley is both domestic and popular socially. being a member of the following clubs : Union League, Chicago, Uni- versity, Chicago Golf, Exmoor Country and Edgewater Golf clubs, all of Chicago, and also the Transportation and New York clubs and the Ohio Society of New York.
Robert Willis Campbell, member of the firm Knapp. Haynie and Campbell, who are engaged in general practice and are general counsel for the Illinois Steel Company and other corpora-
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CAMPBELL. tions, is a native of Indiana, born July 30, 1874, the son of Joseph C. and Lena (Nicoll) Campbell. He has passed most of his life in California, his father being still an active practitioner at the San Francisco bar. Mr. Campbell was educated primarily in the public schools of Stockton and San Francisco, grad- uating from the Boys' High School of the latter city, now known as the Lowell High School. He was thus prepared to enter the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, receiving therefrom the degree of B. . 1. in 1896, and pursuing a professional course ( 1897-8) at the Hastings College of Law, San Francisco.
Mr. Campbell read law and was clerk in the office of Reddy, Camp- bell and Metson, San Francisco, until April, 1899, when he was admit- ted to the California bar and became managing clerk for the firm named. He acted in that capacity until 1900, when, upon the death of Mr. Reddy, he was admitted to a partnership under the firm style of Campbell, Metson and Campbell.
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Upon coming to Chicago in May, 1904, Mr. Campbell resigned his connection with the San Francisco firm and joined with Kemper K. Knapp and William D. Haynie in the formation of the copartner- ship of Knapp, Haynie and Campbell, in the building up of whose profitable and high-class business he has done his full share.
Married at Wheaton, Illinois, September 10, 1901, to Miss Bertha Gary, daughter of Hon. Elbert H. and Julia E. (Graves) Gary, he has become by her the father of one child, Julia Elizabeth. His father-in-law is widely known as one of the great corporation lawyers and capitalists of the east. Mr. Campbell is a leading Mason, being a Knight Templar and member of the Mystic Shrine. He is identified with the Wheaton Golf Club-one of the best known organizations in the country-and with the University, Union League, Hamilton and Illinois Athletic clubs. In religion he is a Methodist, and in his politi- cal affiliations, an unwavering Republican.
Henry Crittenden Morris, lawyer and author, is one of the most scholarly members of the Chicago bar, and has had a most varied ex-
HENRY C. perience both at home and abroad. As lawyer, au- MORRIS. thor and a student of literature and history, he is well known.
Mr. Morris is a native of Chicago, born April 18, 1868, the son of John and Susan (Claude) Morris. Through his father's family he is distantly connected with William Morris of England and Robert Morris, the financier of Revolutionary times and fame, while on his mother's side he is descended, in direct line, from the historic Rev- erend John Cotton, of Boston, Massachusetts, who came to America in 1640. He pursued his preparatory studies in the academy of the old Chicago University, during 1878-81, afterward attended Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, and Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, graduating from the latter with the degree of A. B. in 1887; subse- quently, in 1890, he was given an A. M. degree. He had already traveled and studied in Europe in 1882-83, and ten years later, still a young man, pursued special courses in languages, history and litera- ture at Leipzig, Freiburg, Paris and Ghent. He is proficient in eight modern languages and has a working knowledge of several others. In 1893 Mr. Morris was appointed United States Consul at Ghent, Belgium, and was thus able to bring his linguistic ability into the service of the government. Because of this proficiency, his general
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culture and unfailing tact, he was considered one of the most valuable members of the consular service, and continued his connection with it for five years, until 1898, when he voluntarily resigned. While serving in this capacity he wrote about two hundred reports on com- mercial, industrial and social conditions in Belgium and other Euro- pean countries which appeared in "Commercial Relations of the United States" and similar government publications.
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When Mr. Morris returned to Chicago in 1898 he resumed the practice of the law, in which he had already made some progress, having graduated in 1889-a member of the first class-from the Chicago College of Law, and having been soon afterward admitted to the Illinois bar ; for the past ten years he has been actively engaged in his profession.
Mr. Morris has made an especially thorough study of all matters connected with colonization; his "History of Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Present Day" is considered a standard publica- tion on the subject by all those who are competent to judge. He has
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also done some work in the local field; having published in 1902 the " "History of the First National Bank of Chicago." He is a member of the American Historical Association, American Political Science Association, the National Geographic Society, the Illinois Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, and several other similar organizations. In December, 1906, he read a paper before the Ameri- can Political Science Association at its annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, on "Some Effects of Outlying Dependencies on the People of the United States," which attracted wide and favorable at- tention, and materially increased his reputation as a profound and interesting writer on colonization. One of the most agreeable tributes to the character of Mr. Morris as a scholar and a cosmopolite was his selection by Chief Justice Fuller of the supreme court of the United States to serve as his personal secretary in the Muscat Dhows Arbi- tration before the International Permanent Court at The Hague. Mr. Morris has always taken much interest in the subject of beautification of cities, whether through the landscape gardener, the architect or the sculptor, believing in municipal art as a powerful force in the edu- cation and general progress of the people. The Hamilton Club, of which he is a leading member, has taken up the subject with ardor, creating at his suggestion and for this purpose a permanent committee of which he was chairman in 1904-6 and again in 1907-8. He was likewise in 1907-8 a member of the editorial staff of the Hamiltonian; He is also identified with the Twentieth Century, Chicago Literary and New Illinois Athletic clubs.
Mr. Morris' religious convictions as a Universalist are firmly root- ed. In 1891-2 he was president of the Young People's Christian ( Uni- versalist) Union of Illinois and clerk of St. Paul's Universalist Church, Chicago. Since 1900 he has served as trustee of his alma mater, Lom- bard College, which is one of the most prominent denominational in- stitutions in the country ; in 1906-1908 he was also president of its Association of Graduates. He has always been eager to support the cause of Universalism and in these days of liberality of thought and charity of religious attitude his denominational views have had a material influence upon the esteem and admiration which are univer- sally accorded him as a man of broad culture and a useful member of society. In politics Mr. Morris is a Republican ; he is always interest- ed in maintaining the highest standards in the selection of men for
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office and the elaboration of policies ; it is only on this account that he takes any part in local political affairs.
The name of the rich, cultured old state of Ohio is associated, in the minds of the men of the middle west, with courtesy, sociability and broad mentality. The public figures who have emerged from the Buckeye state to achieve national
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reputations in politics, philanthropy, business and the professions, have a certain warmth and richness of texture which has come to be considered characteristic. For many generations Ohio has been to what was formerly the middle west, what Massachusetts still is to New England, and when to the broad and deep traits of her sons are added the invigorating qualities which have been justly ap- plied to those who have been subjected to the influences of a long resi- dence and training in Illinois, the personal resultant stands a logical chance of being a potent member of the community.
C. Arch Williams is a typical Ohio-Illinois man and lawyer and has had good cause to congratulate himself on the state of his birth and that of his adoption, for both have been kind to him, although not beyond the measure of his deserts. He was born in Bryan, Ohio, on the 31st of May, 1869, the son of John S. and Ella N. (Oldfield) Williams, both also natives of his state. The family was planted in Pennsylvania at an early day, whence various members migrated to his birthplace. He obtained the foundation of his education in the public and high schools of Bryan, and after graduating from his lit- erary studies he engaged in mercantile lines several years, and then made up his mind that he wished to abandon the business world alto- gether. The practical training, however, which he thus obtained, as well as his experience in meeting with ease and assurance all classes of people, were to be of incalculable benefit to him in his future career as a lawyer.
Mr. Williams came to Chicago in 1892 and immediately centered the law department of the Lake Forest University, now the Chicago- Kent College of Law. He was graduated from the latter in 1894. was admitted to the Illinois bar and, after taking a post-graduate course of one year, received his degree of LL. B. and entered into active prac- tice. Until July, 1903, he conducted an independent practice, but . at that time, upon the death of ex-Judge Loomis, formed a partner- ship with his son, F. S. Loomis, and under the firm name of Loomis
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and Williams continued a growing legal business until July, 1906. Since the latter date he has been a member of the copartnership of Steere, Williams and Steere, and, through his able qualities as a law- yer and his stable, popular traits as a man, has continued his progress both in the development of a professional reputation and a profitable legal business.
Outside of the field of the law Mr. Williams is widely known for his fraternal work, and is one of the most prominent figures in the Royal Arcanum, whose growth has exceeded that of any order of its age in the United States. The secret of this remarkable progress is that it has had the good fortune to attract such enthusiastic and un- tiring propagandists as Mr. Williams; otherwise it would have been impossible to be able to record the facts that since the organization of the Royal Arcanum in Boston, thirty years ago, the fraternity has reached a membership of two hundred and fifty thousand, of which number twenty-two thousand is accredited to Illinois, and the munifi- cent sum of $114,000,000 has been paid out to the widows and orphans of those who have been welcomed into its ranks. For several years Mr. Williams has been among the most prominent members of the Royal Arcanum in the state, has held all the line offices in his council, and has made an especially fine record as orator, editor and practical worker for the increase of membership. His editorship of the organ of Garden City Council, as well as of the Illinois section of the Royal Arcanum Bulletin, has evinced a facile pen and marked journalistic ,abilities in every way. To emphasize his eminently useful service for the order, in April, 1907, he was unanimously elected Grand Regent of Illinois, the highest office in the state, and although still on the sunny side of forty, he is the virtual leader of more than twenty thousand brothers who will stake their all on the absolute good faith of C. Arch Williams in all the activities of the strenuous modern life. He is an active worker in the Sixth ward, and a member of the Ham- ilton Club, indicative of his reliable Republicanism, and in 1906-8 was associate editor of the Hamiltonian. During his earlier years in Chi- cago, while a student at law, he won considerable public commenda- tion as a singer, but when he entered active practice was obliged to place his talent in the background, although it has been brought for- ward occasionally to the unbounded pleasure of his fraternal associates during the stated social entertainments of the local council. Mr. Wil-
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liams has a fine library, embracing both legal and general literature, and in his outward characteristics and daily life evinces every mark of the cultured, energetic, able and progressive lawyer and gentleman.
It would be difficult to name an American who, within a compara- tively brief span of life has made a more enduring name for personal WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL. nobility and fine public service than the late William J. Campbell. Republicanism was bred into his fan- ily and into his own personality, and he was its sin- cere and unfaltering apostle, believing and preaching by word and act that the good of society and of the country depended upon its con- trol of public affairs. Firm and enthusiastic in that faith, he studied politics as a science that he might do his full part in continuing to apply those principles of public polity to the government of his coun- try which he believed in his heart to be right and most beneficial to all. While he was therefore recognized as one of the most skillful politicians in the country, he was honored with the almost unique dis- tinction of holding himself above trickery and of viewing and manipu- lating politics on a broad and high plane. He was the statesman and Christian gentleman in politics, and in him was closely personified the following general law as laid down by a distinguished American author: "The more the Christian gentleman knows, the better politi- cian he will make, and in him, and in him only, will scholarship come to its finest issue in politics."
William James Campbell was born December 12, 1850, in the city of Philadelphia, and the old-time spirit of "brotherly love" seemed to have been implanted in him. The son of John and Mary Campbell, sturdy, reliable Scotch-Irish people, his parents came to the west during his infancy and settled in Bloom township. Cook county. The boy divided his time between his father's farm and the local schools, the combined training fashioning him into an intelligent and reliable youth. Later he mastered the higher branches in the Bloom township high school, Lake Forest Academy and the University of Pennsyl- vania. He left the last named institution, however, before receiving his degree, and, returning to Chicago, became a student in the Union College of Law, where he completed the prescribed course. He at once entered practice, and almost from that time until his death was a prominent figure in legal circles and an influential factor in politics. For some months before and after his graduation he was in the law
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office of William C. Goudy, then one of the leading corporation at- torneys of the city. With this gentleman Mr. Campbell studied for about two years, the association materially broadening and strength- ening his legal outlook. In 1879 he formed a partnership with Jacob R. Custer, which continued until his death. The firm of Campbell and Custer soon acquired a large practice. Mr. Campbell confined himself to the duties of counsel, his time being fully occupied by the important and involved affairs of a number of the largest business houses and corporations of Chicago. He became as well known in New York as in Chicago, and there had business connections which yielded the firm of Campbell and Custer a handsome income.
Mr. Campbell's connection with politics commenced in 1878, after he had graduated from the Union College of Law but while he was still studying under the inspiring tutelage of Mr. Goudy. From that year until 1886 he represented the country district of Cook county in the Illinois senate, of which body he was elected president at three consecutive sessions-a distinction seldom accorded one of his years and experience. In 1891 he became the Illinois member of the na- tional Republican committee to succeed Colonel George R. Davis, re- signed; in 1892 was re-elected and shortly afterward was made a member of the executive committee. In that capacity his work was of such a noticeable order that he was not only re-elected in 1892, but in June of that year was unanimously chosen chairman of the com- mittee. On account of pressing professional and business duties he declined the honor, although urgently urged to accept it by the most prominent statesmen and politicians throughout the country. Despite his aggressiveness and positiveness, Mr. Campbell's methods were so open and devoid of personal animosity that he made many warm friends in the political world. He took a comprehensive view of the political situation, saw where work was most needed, and brought his forces to bear in strengthening the weakest points. As a strong, yet diplomatic political manager he has therefore been seldom equaled.
In 1876 Mr. Campbell was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca McEldowney, of Bloom, Cook county, and they became the parents of five children-Mary, William James, Herbert John, Allan Walter and Edward Custer. Mary, the eldest of the family, was married in 1898 to Louis Sherman Taylor, treasurer of the manufacturing de- partment of the Pullman Company, being the mother of two children
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-Helen Campbell and William Campbell Taylor. William James, who is in the employ of Armour & Co., was united in marriage, in 1904, to Miss Rena Lawrence. Herbert John is a member of the Chicago bar.
In his domestic life the deceased showed in a touching manner the sympathetic, warm and mellow traits of character which were neces- sarily hidden from the professional and public eyes. For the first ten years of his married life Mr. Campbell lived at Blue Island, and in 1887 moved to the village of Riverside, Illinois, where he established a beautiful and cultured home, the faithful and attractive wife and mother throwing that spirit over and around it without which home is nothing.
From his earliest connection with that picturesque and artistic suburb, Mr. Campbell was deeply interested in its welfare, and evinced his interest by actively participating in its government and in all move- ments designed to add to its conveniences and attractiveness. For seven years he was president of the board of trustees, and during that period watched with the keenest interest and pleasure every detail of the municipal work. He projected many village improvements, and it is largely due to his watchful and tireless exertions that Riverside is today one of the most beautiful suburban villages in the United States. A trustee of the Riverside Presbyterian church, he gave lib- erally to that organization, and extended its benevolences far beyond the pale of any religious sect. Among. the secular institutions with which he was identified in a marked degree was the Armour Insti- tute of Technology. After Dr. Gunsaulus, he was considered its most valued supporter, and the words of the founder of the institute are therefore of special force: "He supported four or five young men in the institute, and his two sons attended there. He was a benevolent man, and he believed in a Christian as well as a benevolent education. He was ready with his time and money to aid young men; he believed in the education of the hands, the brain and the heart-thie democracy that lifts instead of pulls down; and he gave himself thoroughly to his genuine love for young men."
Mr. Campbell was a valued member of various social organiza- tions, including the Union League Club, the Chicago Club, the Chi- cago Athletic Association and the Lawyers' Club of New York, and at the time of his decease was a trustee of Armour Institute and Ar-
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mour Mission. He died after a brief illness, from an attack of pneu- monia, on the 4th of March, 1896, in the forty-sixth year of his age, bearing with him the fond memories not only of those to whom he was knit by domestic ties, but countless friends whose affection for him had only increased with the years of his loyalty. After his death resolutions of sympathy and respect were passed by the Illinois Re- publican state convention, the national Republican committee, by numerous clubs and societies, by the directors of Armour Institute and the Riverside board of trustees. But the real worth of the de- ceased was not revealed by such public testimonials, impressive though they were; it was from the pages of the private letters which flowed in a torrent to the bereft widow and family that might be demonstrated the abiding influence for good which radiated from the life of William J. Campbell.
Harlan Ward Cooley, a well known attorney engaged in general practice, is a native of the national capital, where he was born on the
HARLAN W. 29th of January, 1866, the son of D. N. and Clara
COOLEY. (Aldrich) Cooley. His father was commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Lincoln.
Harlan W. Cooley was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1884, afterward pur- suing a four years' course at Yale University, from which he received the degree of B. A. in 1888. He commenced his law studies at Yale and continued them at the Union College of Law, Chicago, being ad- mitted to the Illinois bar in 1890. Since that year he has been in general practice in this city, and since 1905 resident vice-president and general counsel of the American Fidelity Company, of Montpelier, Vermont. He has acquired considerable property and financial inter- ests at Dell Rapids, South Dakota, having since 1890 been vice-presi- dent of the First National Bank of that place, as well as president of the Dell Rapids Elevator Company.
Mr. Cooley has always retained his close identification with his college societies, being now connected with Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member of the Law Club, the Chicago Bar Association, the Yale Club, the Hamilton Club, the Twentieth Century Club, the Quadrangle Club, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
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