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Harlan W. Cooley,
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Married at Seymour, Connecticut, September 22, 1892, to Nellie Wooster, daughter of L. T. Wooster and Julia (Smith) Wooster, he has become the father of two children, Julia and Harlan. In poli- tics he is a Republican, in religion a Methodist, and in general charac- ter a gentleman and an able lawyer.
For more than thirty years one of the masters in chancery of the circuit court of Cook county, Horatio Loomis Wait is one of the most
familiar and thoroughly respected personalities now
HORATIO L. WAIT. identified with the practice of law in Chicago. More- over, he is a settler of over fifty years' standing, dur- ing a decade of that period being connected, in an active and promi- nent capacity, with the naval service of the United States. He com- menced the practice of his profession about a year before the great Chicago fire, and has therefore been a continuous witness of the won- derful expansion and development of the new metropolis into one of the great cities of the world. He first saw it as a raw young city, barely able to struggle from the mud of the prairies, and, although now a venerable figure, finds himself among the strenuous activities of a city which has shouldered its way past Boston, St. Louis and Philadelphia, and will soon be pushing New York for first place as the metropolis of America. He is one of the favored few who, in the span of one life, has resided in a community of such rapid ad- vancement that he has witnessed a municipal development which ac- cording to the usual order of history would have been impossible of accomplishment in a century ; and better still to relate, he himself has been an active and ever constant force in this speedy progress.
Horatio L. Wait is a native of New York City, where he was born on the 8th of August, 1836, being the son of Joseph and Harriet (Whitney) Wait. He received his preliminary education at the Trin- ity School, of his native city, and was fitted for college at the Colum- bia College Grammar School. In 1856, however, before commencing a regular course in the higher branches he came to Chicago, and was employed in the office of J. Young Scammon, the lawyer and public spirited citizen. The issues of the Civil war stirred him deeply, and the actual conflict was the means of effectually barring out his legal studies for a number of years.
In 1861 Judge Wait first enlisted in Company D, Sixtieth Regi-
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ment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but shortly afterward entered the naval service as paymaster, with the rank of master. In this capacity he served under Admirals Dupont and Farragut, in blockading Sav- annah, Pensacola and Mobile, and later was assigned to Admiral Dahlgren's flagship at the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, until its capitulation. Mr. Wait found the service so much to his liking and his services were so highly ap- preciated by his superior officers that at the conclusion of the war he joined the European squadron, on the United States ship "Ino," and before the conclusion of the year 1865 was promoted to pay- master, with the rank of lieutenant-commander. For five years longer he continued with Uncle Sam's squadrons in various capacities and in various parts of the world, and in 1870 resigned his commission to become a permanent landsman in Chicago and resume his legal studies, so long interrupted in the interest of his country.
Having prosecuted his studies in the office of Barker and Tuley with fresh vigor, after his long absence from such confining duties, Mr. Wait passed a creditable examination which admitted him to practice before the Illinois bar, forming soon afterward a partnership with Joseph N. Barker, his former preceptor, under the firm name of Barker and Wait, which later became Barker, Buell and Wait. Mr. Wait's private practice of six years showed him to be firmly grounded in the principles of the law, and, noticeably, of a judicial temperament. A lawyer also of unimpeachable integrity and possessed of popular personal qualities, it was eminently appropriate that in 1876 he should receive the appointment of master in chancery of the circuit court, and that, in view of his impartiality, courtesy, promptness, and unfailing rectitude and ability, he should have continued to discharge the duties of the position to the present time. He has long been a valued mem- ber of the Chicago Bar and the Illinois State Bar associations, while his naval experience is recalled by his life membership in the Farragut Boat Club and his activity in the organization of the Illinois Naval Reserve.
Judge Wait was married May 7, 1860, to Chara Conant Long, and they have become the parents of James Joseph and Henry Heile- man Wait. For many years he has been known as an earnest and prominent Episcopalian. He is a vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal
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church, Hyde Park, has been engaged in its Sunday school work, and was previously superintendent of the Tyng Mission Sunday school. He was one of the founders of the Charity Organization Society. later merged into the Relief and Aid Society; is a Companion of the Loyal Legion, and, during his residence of forty years in Chicago. has been a citizen of the highest mind and acts-the firm upholder of public charities which appealed to his sense of justice and utility, and the dispenser of private benevolences to the full extent of his means and strength.
Jacob Newman has been a member of the Chicago bar for many years and is now the senior member of the law firm of Newman. Northrup. Levinson and Becker.
JACOB NEWMAN.
He was born in Germany, November 12, 1853. the son of Salmon and Pauline ( Lewis) Newman. His parents came to the United States when he was four years of age and settled on a farm in Butler county, Ohio. The subject of this sketch was early thrown upon his own resources. From Jacksonburg. Butler county, Chio, he moved to Noblesville. Indiana. where he at- tended the public schools until he came to Chicago in the summer of 1867. In the larger city he found greater opportunities, and after working hard for two years he saved enough money to enable him to enter and continue his studies at the old University of Chicago. Dur- ing the whole of his four years in college he worked and paid his own way.
Mr. Newman graduated from the Chicago College of Law in 1875 and immediately formed a partnership with Judge Graham under the firm name of Graham and Newman. This copartnership lasted about three years, when Judge Graham moved west, and Mr. Newman con- tinted the practice alone until the spring of 1882. In that year he formed a copartnership with Adolph Moses under the name of Moses and Newman, which firm was well known for many years at the Chi- cago bar. In 1890 Mr. Newman retired from the firm and formed the present firm of Newman, Northrup, Levinson and Becker.
Mr. Newman is a firm Republican and is a member of the Union League. Standard and Ravisloe Country clubs. He was married May 30, 1888, to Miss Minnie, daughter of Hugo Goodman, and is the father of John Hugo, Elisabeth and George Ingham Newman.
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Emil C. Wetten, first assistant corporation counsel of the city of Chicago, is a native Chicagoan, his education, professional training
EMIL C. and entire experience being identified with the west-
WETTEN. ern metropolis. He is a graduate of the Chicago College of Law (law department of the Lake Forest University) and the University of Michigan, and has received the degree of LL. B. He is a member of the law firm of Eddy, Haley and Wetten, and devoted himself exclusively to his practice until 1907, when he accepted the position of assistant corporation counsel.
For many years Mr. Wetten has been an active Republican, in 1906-1907 serving as president of the Hamilton Club, and is regarded as among the active and progressive leaders of that organization and the party at large. He is also a member of the Union League and Colonial clubs, and, in his more strict professional relations, is actively connected with the Chicago and Illinois State Bar associa- tions. He is also a member of the Delta Chi fraternity, a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.
Edward S. Whitney is of the younger generation of lawyers en- gaged in the substantial practice of corporation law in Chicago, be-
EDWARD S. ing a member of the well-known firm of Sears,
WHITNEY. Meagher and Whitney, of which the senior is Na-
thaniel C. Sears, ex-judge of the superior court of Cook county. Mr. Whitney is a native of Bennington, New Hamp- shire, born October 12, 1867, the son of Nathan and Charlotte M. (Belcher) Whitney, natives respectively of Massachusetts and Ver- mont. During his active business life the father was a paper manu- facturer, and is now living in comfortable retirement.
Edward S. Whitney received a thorough education, passing from the grammar schools of Bennington to the academy at Francestown, New Hampshire, and finally graduating from the Arms Academy at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in the year 1885. In 1890 he re- ceived the degree of A. B. from Amherst College, and in 1893 Har- vard University conferred upon him the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. In February of that year he was admitted to the Suffolk county bar of Massachusetts, and in the following November, being admitted to the bar of Illinois, he located in Chicago for the practice of his pro- fession. Mr. Whitney's independent career was of such notable progress that in April, 1902, he became a member of his present co-
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partnership, his partners being old and prominent practitioners and the entire combination presenting marked features of legal strength. Their practice is already extensive and rapidly growing.
On the 14th of September, 1898, Mr. Whitney was united in mar- riage to Miss Grace A. Kerruish, at Cleveland, the home of the bride, the children of the union being Margaret and Miriam. Mr. Whitney retains his collegiate affiliations by his membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon. In politics he is a Republican and is iden- tified with the stalwart Union League Club.
Charles F. Lowy, of the law firm of Winston, Lowy and McGinn. with offices in the Stock Exchange building, has obtained a firm stand-
ing among the rising young attorneys of the city,
CHARLES F. LowY. and that, although he is of foreign birth and has been a resident of Chicago only about sixteen years. He was born in Bohemia, June 17, 1874, and received his literary training in the public and normal school at Humpolec, in his native country, as well as in one of the high schools of Vienna, Austria. Thus mentally equipped, he came to the United States in 1891, be- ing naturally attracted to Chicago, which contains the largest Bo- hemian element of any city in the United States. Locating in this city during the year of his arrival in America he busied himself at various pursuits, but soon commenced to become interested in legal matters and studies. At length he was enabled to pursue a regular professional course in the law department of the Lake Forest Uni- versity, from which he was graduated in 1900.
Charles F. Lowy was admitted to practice before the Illinois bar in 1901, and since then has been industriously, energetically, intelli- gently and successfully pursuing his well-chosen career. From the time of his admission until 1906 he maintained his office at No. 89 Clark street, in the latter year becoming a member of the firm of Winston, Lowy and McGinn and removing to the Stock Exchange offices. In 1902 Mr. Lowy had been admitted to practice before the United States circuit court of appeals, and since that time. both in- dividually and in connection with his partnership practice, has been in charge of numerous cases tried before that tribunal and the Illi- nois supreme court. His practice has been largely confined to the law of corporations, he being the counsel for a number of brewing
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companies. Mr. Lowy's continuous progress to his present substan- tial standing has been the pure result of personal exertions and worth, as he has never been able to apply the influences of family influence or inherited wealth to his individual affairs. Fortunately, he located in a city where he had many brothers in the unaided struggle for advancement, and where those who have fought their way to an ad- vanced position are quick to recognize merit and manliness.
In 1905 Mr. Lowy again evinced his common sense and apprecia- tion of complete Americanism by taking to himself a wife in the per- son of Miss Belle Friend, of Chicago. They have one daughter, Lucile. Mr. Lowy is a Mason, in affiliation with Keystone Lodge No. 639, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Sons of Israel. With the last-named fraternity he is very closely identified, serving, in 1907, as delegate to the United States Grand Lodge at Atlantic City. He belongs to the Phoenix Club, and is, all in all, a fine type of a thoroughly Americanized citizen of foreign blood and broad education, drawn partly from his native land and partly from the country of his enthusiastic adoption.
Before coming to Chicago in 1896, Watson Jared Ferry, now a corporation lawyer of standing in Chicago, had accomplished good WATSON J. FERRY. public service in two states. He was born in Pres- ton, Chenango county, New York, on the 27th of March, 1844, and received a thorough literary train- ing in the Albany (N. Y.) Academy and the St. Lawrence University of New York. Graduating from the latter, in 1861, he took up his law studies in various offices at Canton and New York City, and in 1867 was admitted to practice before the bar of New York state.
From 1867 until 1871 Mr. Ferry was engaged in professional labors at St. Lawrence, New York, and during that period served as special county judge for two years, under appointment from Governor Hoffman. In 1871 he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, and resumed his practice there, but during the quarter of a century of his residence in the western city he came into considerable prom- inence as a public functionary. From 1883 to 1884 he served as a member of the general assembly from Kansas City, was police com- missioner from 1884 to 1890, and subsequently became a member of the military staff of Governor Marmaduke. While practicing in
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Kansas City he had as a law partner the late Hon. George W. McCrary, formerly a member of Congress from Iowa, secretary of war under President Hayes, later United States circuit judge, and a commanding figure of national prominence, who died in 1891.
Mr. Ferry located in Chicago in 1896, and since that time his practice has been mainly along lines of corporation law. In addition to his private practice, he has been connected in a semi-official capacity with much litigation for the Chicago City Railway Company.
In politics Mr. Ferry has always been an aggressive Democrat. He is an Episcopalian and since coming to Chicago has been an active member of the St. Paul's Episcopal church. He is also identified with the Chicago, Washington Park and South Shore Country clubs, being both of a social disposition and a firm believer in the efficacy of an indulgence in outdoor recreation.
For sixteen years one of the most prominent practitioners at the Minnesota bar and since 1898 recognized as one of the most deeply-
GEORGE H. read lawyers in Chicago, George Henry White, is
WHITE. now a member of the firm of White, Mabie and Conkey. He is a native of Union Village. Wash- ington county, New York, born on the 12th of September. 1854. being the son of James and Caroline E. (Cunningham) White, both natives of the Empire state. Of his parents, the father was born in New York City and is deceased, while the mother, a native of Glens Falls, New York, is a resident of Harvard, Illinois.
George H. White received his education in the public schools of New York, Illinois and Wisconsin, pursuing a higher course in the Badger state at the Sharon Normal Institute, in Walworth coun- ty. Thereafter he entered the Northwestern University, Evanston. and in 1875 graduated from that institution with the degree of Ph. D. He then commenced his professional studies, and in 1880 was admitted to practice before the Iowa bar; to the California bar in 1881, and to the bar of Wisconsin in 1882. During the last-named year he removed to Minnesota and, securing admission to the bar of that state, commenced his long, active and honorable practice there.
Mr. White came to Chicago in 1898. and has since been admit- ted to practice in all of the state courts and the United States district and circuit courts. He is a lawyer of thorough reliability and ability.
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and the firm of which he is the senior member, although young in years, has already obtained a substantial standing. Mr. White's high standing personally is evidenced by his appointment in April, : 1907, to the responsible position of city prosecuting attorney of the city of Chicago. In politics, he has been a life-long and an uncom- promising Republican, and has always done his full share in promot- ing the interests of his party.
In 1886 Mr. White was wedded to Miss Cora H. Arndt, a native of Sandusky, Ohio, by whom he has had two children, Vernon A. and Gladys C. His fraternal connections are high, as a Mason being a member of the blue lodge, chapter, a Knight Templar and Shriner. He is not a formal member of any religious sect, but is a regular at- tendant at the services of the Methodist church, of which he is a stanch and liberal supporter. In disposition he is earnest, straightfor- ward and unassuming, and all his life has been a great student, his readings and studies extending into many fields outside the province of his profession. This latter trait has given him a breadth of view and depth of research which are forcibly manifested in his practice and character as a lawyer and citizen.
Clarence W. Taylor, attorney and counselor at law, and a widely known solicitor for patents, practicing in Chicago, was for a period
CLARENCE of over twenty-five years a prominent member of W. TAYLOR. the profession at Sioux City, Iowa, and other west- ern points. Since the fall of 1904, when he became a resident of this city, he has materially extended his reputation as a thoroughly reliable solicitor of foreign and domestic patents and trade marks, having established not only a good private practice in these lines, but, in view of his ability, been appointed general counsel of various interests whose industries depend largely for their development and permanence on the stability of the patents involved.
Born near Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio, on the 25th of Septem- ber, 1853, Mr. Taylor is a son of William J. and Katherine (Garver) Taylor. He had the misfortune to lose his mother when he was only twelve years of age, her death occurring at Hastings, Minne- sota, in 1865, his father surviving her until 1886, when he died at Minonk, Illinois. William J. Taylor was a man of considerable prominence in central Illinois, having held a number of political and
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civil positions during his residence at Minonk and otherwise been considered a citizen of wide influence and high character.
Clarence W. Taylor was educated, as to the elementary branches, in various public schools, and as he early evinced a preference for some intellectual profession, he first prepared himself for that of a teacher. Entering the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valpa- raiso, he mastered the course which qualified him for that occupation, and while following it as a means of livelihood was drawn more and more closely to the study of law. His first systematic readings
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in that line were pursued under the guidance of Martin L. Newell, of Woodford county, Illinois, of which Mr. Newell was then state's attorney.
Admitted to the Illinois bar January 17, 1879, in the following April Mr. Taylor was elected city attorney of Minonk, where his father was so well known and where he had himself commenced the practice of his profession. At the expiration of his term he removed to Sioux City, Iowa, and for twenty-five years was engaged in pro- fessional work there and at other cities of the west. He was a leading
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member of the Sioux City bar for fifteen years, and removed thence to Chicago with a high professional and personal reputation. Such members of the bench and bar as J. L. Kennedy, judge of the Fourth judicial district of Iowa, and George W. Wakefield, ex-president of the Iowa State Bar Association, had nothing for him but words of the highest commendation. Mr. Wakefield speaks of him as a "tem- perate, capable, active and industrious man," and Judge Kennedy not only repeated such endorsement but added, in broad terms, that "his standing in the profession was the best." From other points where Mr. Taylor had become known as an attorney and a man came the same strong testimonials, one quotation, from a non-professional friend, well describing his general characteristics as "a man of refined manners, correct habits, a kind heart, and a clear, well trained, vig- orous intellect."
Since coming to Chicago, in September, 1904, Mr. Taylor has centered his abilities in the practice of corporation, patent and copy- right law-a professional field which requires thorough mastery of countless details, mechanical ability of a high order, and intense and continuous application to the entrusted matters. These qualities he possesses in so positive a degree that his noteworthy success in his broader metropolitan field is assured. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Patent Law Association of Washington, D. C., an organization which numbers some of the most eminent authorities in that line in the country.
In 1880 Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Agnes S. Poage, a native of Minonk, Illinois, and a daughter of Albert B. Poage, a patriotic martyr to the cause of the Civil war. For the full terrible four years of the conflict he bravely served in the Union ranks, after which, with shattered health, he returned to his home, where his death soon after occurred. One child, Agnes Mabel, has been born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Taylor. She is a refined, attractive and highly educated young lady, being a grad- uate of Oxford (Ohio) College, from which she received the degree of A. B. The family are sincere and worthy members of the Pres- byterian church. Personally, Mr. Taylor is a Republican, but since coming to Chicago has devoted his energies and capabilities to the establishment of his professional business, and to the complete exclu- sion of public or political considerations.
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Charles Calvin Carnahan, senior member of the law firm of Car- nahan, Slusser and Cox, and, in his legal capacity prominently con-
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CARNAHAN. also a leading Republican and a public man. He is a native of Cochran's Mills, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 3rd of April, 1868, being the son of William II. and Maria L. ( McKee) Carnahan. Mr. Car- nahan comes of good old patriotic American stock, not a few of his ancestors participating in the Revolutionary war. In recognition of the value of his services in that conflict, his maternal great-grand- father received from the government a tract of land which is now included in the site of Worthington, Armstrong county, western Pennsylvania.
Mr. Carnahan received his preparatory education in the public schools of his native village, and his higher literary training at Hills- dale College, Michigan. He first read law in the office of J. W. King. a prominent attorney of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and, coming to Chicago in the fall of 1891, entered the Chicago College of Law for a regular professional course. Being admitted to practice before the supreme court of Illinois in 1892, he at once entered into general practice, which has since been continuous and successful. In the spring of 1893 he received from Lake Forest University his regular degree of LL. B. Mr. Carnahan is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and of the Chicago Law Institute, and is recognized as one of the younger lawyers who has already made a reputation and has a greater future. His prominence as a Republican is attested by the fact that he was a candidate for Congress from the Fifth dis- trict in 1900, and, although defeated, made a strong run and extended his reputation as a fertile campaigner, a good manager and a fair- minded citizen. He is a leading member of the Union League, Illi- nois and Chicago Athletic clubs.
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