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successful practitioners at the bar of Cook county.
EDWARD C. HIGGINS. Although still a comparatively young man. he has
attained high rank in his profession and the splen- did character of his abilities gives every assurance that the future holds for him a distinguished career in the law.
Mr. Higgins was born July 24, 1866, at Woodstock, McHenry county, Illinois, and after graduating at the high school in that city
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in 1884, he entered the University of Michigan, from which institu- tion he received the degree of LL. B. in 1888. After his graduation he remained a year at Ann Arbor doing post-graduate work and col- lecting material for a text book which was published by the dean of the law faculty.
While Mr. Higgins was pursuing his law studies at the Univer- sity of Michigan he took and passed an examination held in the spring of 1887 by the board of examiners appointed by the supreme court of the state, and a certificate of admission to the bar was issued to him to take effect upon his becoming of age.
Shortly after completing his studies at Ann Arbor he accepted an invitation to deliver an address at Manistee, Michigan, which resulted in his locating there a few months later and forming a co- partnership for the practice of law with the Hon. Thomas Smurth- waite, one of the leading lawyers of the Michigan bar.
Attracted by the greater opportunities of a large city, Mr. Hig- gins came to Chicago in 1895 and has since become well known as a successful practitioner and educator. Here, as in Michigan, his superior qualities soon attracted attention and his mental attainments and legal learning were quickly recognized in the profession and by the public. Since coming to Chicago he has been associated in practice with the Hon. William J. Hynes, one of Chicago's most celebrated lawyers. Mr. Higgins is a member of the faculty of the Chicago-Kent College of law, succeeding the late Chief Justice Bailey as professor of common law pleading and practice in the year 1895, shortly after his arrival in Chicago. During the time he has been teaching this intricate branch of the law he has established a high reputation as an authority upon the subject, and each year his course at the law school is attended by many students from other schools, as well as by practicing lawyers who seek to avail them- selves of the superior advantages that are to be derived from this course as conducted by Mr. Higgins. He also delivers courses of lectures from time to time at Notre Dame University, Indiana, and upon several occasions he has been offered professorships in colleges in different parts of the country which he has been obliged to decline because they would take him away from his practice in Chicago. For a number of years he has done a great deal of legal work for the Chicago City Railway Company, and is recognized at the bar as one
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of that great corporation's most effective trial lawyers. It is seldom that a member of his profession combines in such a marked degree the best qualities of the practitioner and the instructor as Mr. Higgins.
In 1898 Edward C. Higgins was united in marriage with Miss Helen Kelly, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and their three children are Clarence A., Wilhelmina Lucile and Eileen Theodora Higgins. In his political affiliations Mr. Higgins is a Republican, but has never been attracted beyond the limits of his profession, finding that its studies and practical duties have always given full expression to his ambition. He is a member of the Edgewater Country Club and also of the Knights of Columbus, but his greatest enjoyments, aside from his professional duties, are found by him with his family in his pleas- ant home at 2475 Magnolia avenue.
Of the younger generation of lawyers practicing at the Chicago bar, none have a brighter future, judging from the past, than Vin- VINCENT J. WALSH. cent J. Walsh, junior member of the prominent firm of Peckham, Packard, ApMadoc and Walsh. He himself is a native of Chicago, born September 12, 1875, and reared and educated amid the inspiring and energiz- ing influences of the city's life. Of his parents, James and Mary E. (Sheahan) Walsh, the father was born in county Mayo, Ireland, and in 1845-then about five years of age-was brought to Canada. In 1867. still a young man, he became a resident of Chicago, was for many years identified with the construction and operation of railway properties, and is now living here in retirement. The mother was born in Washington, D. C.
Primarily, Mr. Walsh was educated in the Jesuit schools, and for his more advanced mental training entered St. Ignatius College, Chi- cago, from which he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of .1. B. In the following year he became a student at the law school of Har- vard University, from which, at the completion of his course in 1898. he received the degree of LL. B. In December of that year he was admitted to the Illinois bar, being a clerk and assistant in the office of Green, Ilonore and Peters from November, 1898. to June, 1902. From the latter date until July 1, 1903. he engaged in an independent practice, becoming then a member of the firm of Peckham, Smith, Packard and ApMadoc. Upon the death of Mr. Smith in 1906 the firm was reorganized as Peckham. Packard, ApMadoc and Walsh.
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Mr. Walsh is engaged in the general practice of his profession, while the firm of which he is a member are attorneys for the First National Bank of Chicago. His substantial standing is shown in that he served as vice president of the Legal Club in 1906-07, being also an active member of the Law Club, University Club, Union and Harvard clubs. His politics is Democratic, but he has never made them prominent in his citizenship. Personally he is social and do- mestic, the latter trait of his character being in process of marked de- velopment through his marriage, July 3, 1906, to Miss Julia Cudahy, daughter of John and Margaret O. Cudahy, of Chicago.
Clarence A. Knight, an acknowledged leader among the corpora- tion lawyers of the west, is a native of McHenry county, Illinois, born on the 28th of October, 1853, and his prelim-
CLARENCE A. KNIGHT. inary education was acquired in the common schools, being supplemented by a course in the Cook County Normal School. After teaching country school, Mr. Knight was drawn into the energetic whirl of Chicago life, locating in the city in April, 1872. He began the study of law in the office of Spafford, McDaid and Wilson, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1874, passing his examination before the supreme court of Illinois at Ottawa. For one year thereafter he remained identified with his former instructors and then formed a partnership with Mr. McDaid under the firm name of McDaid and Knight, and in 1879 was ap- pointed assistant city attorney by Julius S. Grinnell. Five years later (1884) upon the election of Mr.' Grinnell as state's attorney, Mayor Harrison appointed Mr. Knight attorney to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Grinnell, and upon the election of Hempstead Washburne as city attorney Mr. Knight was appointed assistant city attorney. In 1887 he was made assistant corporation counsel under Mayor Roche, and July 1, 1889, he resigned and formed a partnership with Paul Brown under the firm name of Knight and Brown, thus rounding out ten years of invaluable service with the municipal law department. Dur- ing this period he put through a vast amount of important business. One of the vital measures which he incorporated into the laws of the state was that providing for the annexation of territory adjoin- ing the city. An act looking to that end was declared unconstitu- tional by the supreme court, and Mr. Knight was then selected to pre- pare a new measure to cover the case; this he did, and it was passed
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by the legislature in 1889. In June of that year, under the provisions of this law, Hyde Park, Lake View, Jefferson, the Town of Lake and portions of Cicero, were annexed to Chicago.
In July, 1889, Mr. Knight resigned as assistant corporation coun- sel and engaged in the private practice of his profession, under the firm name of Knight and Brown. In 1893 the senior member was appointed general counsel for the Lake Strect Elevated Railroad Company, and in April, 1897, to a like position with the Union
CLARENCE A. KNIGHT.
Elevated Railway Company, the Northwestern Elevated Railroad and all the surface electric lines connecting with the North and West Chicago Street railways. Perhaps his most noteworthy service in this capacity was the litigation which he conducted over the right to build the Loop elevated railroad on Lake and Van Buren streets and Wabash and Fifth avenues. This he handled with the decision, good judgment and professional force which have marked his career as a private practitioner, a representative of the city and an advocate
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of transportation improvements. Mr. Knight is president of the Chicago and Oak Park Elevated road, which office in connection with his legal identification with other lines mentioned, makes him one of the strongest factors in Chicago in the management and develop- ment of the transportation systems of the municipality. In 1903 the firm of Knight and Brown was discontinued, after which the senior practiced alone until November, 1904, when he associated himself with the late Hon. George W. Brown, the firm thereby re- maining Knight and Brown.
In 1877 Mr. Knight married Miss Dell Brown, daughter of Dr. H. T. Brown, of McHenry, Illinois, and their children are Bessie and James H. Knight. Mr. Knight has long been a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a Knight Templar of Chevalier Bayard Commandery. He also belongs to the Royal League and is a member of the Union League and the South Shore Country clubs.
Carl Richard Chindblom, a member of the Chicago bar since 1900, is prominent in affairs, widely known as a public speaker, and wields CARL R. CHINDBLOM. a large influence in Swedish-American circles. Of Swedish parentage, he was born in Chicago, De- cember 21, 1870. His parents, who have lived in Chicago nearly forty years, are Carl P. Chindblom, a tailor by trade, and Mrs. Christina C. Chindblom, nee Engel, both of whom came to this city from Åsbo, Östergötland, Sweden. The son studied in the public schools of this city and also attended a private school for the study of the Swedish language. In September, 1884, he was en- rolled as a student in the academic department of Augustana College, at Rock Island, Illinois, graduating from this institution with the degree of A. B. in May, 1890. Continuing his studies, he engaged in various employments until the fall of 1893, when he accepted a position as teacher in the Martin Luther College, an institution then just opening in Chicago. He severed his connection with this institu- tion in 1896, having in the meantime received the honorary degree of A. M. from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas. In January, 1897, he enrolled as a student in the Kent College of Law in Chicago, and graduated with the degree of LL. B. in June, 1898. Despite this rapid recognition of his qualifications, the law required three full years of study for admission to the bar, and he continued prep- aration for the legal profession until the spring of 1900, when, upon
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examination before the state board, he was admitted to practice. Since that time he has practiced law in Chicago, and has offices at the present time at 160 Washington street (suite 807-811). For several years he has been secretary and attorney for the First Swedish Building and Loan Association.
Mr. Chindblom's ability as a public speaker and his activity in political and public affairs has often brought him before the public to make addresses on festival and other occasions, not only in Chi- cago, but at other places in Illinois and in other states. He is a Republican in politics and has done much campaign work in his home city and state and elsewhere. In the fall of 1894 his services were engaged by the Republican state committee of Michigan, and in the campaigns of 1896, 1898 and 1900 he did service as political speaker for both the Illinois state and National Republican com- mittees, speaking in both the English and Swedish languages. Mr. Chindblom was in 1903 elected president of the Swedish-American Republican League of Illinois. He is a member of the Gethsemane Swedish Lutheran church and of several fraternal and social or- ganizations. He is a member of St. Bernard Commandery and of the Mystic Shrine.
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He has served on the board of directors of Augustana College and Theological Seminary, also on that of the North Star Benefit Association, with head office at Moline, Illinois. He was one of the committee which reorganized the present Scandia Life Insurance Company. Early in 1906 Mr. Chindblom was appointed attorney for the state board of health, by Governor Deneen, and in the fall of the same year was elected county commissioner on the Republican ticket.
Mr. Chindblom married. April 27, 1907, Miss Christine M. Nilsson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hjalmar Nilsson, of Minneapolis. Mrs. Chindblom is an accomplished pianist. They reside at 614 Foster avenue.
Albert N. Eastman, senior member of the law firm of Eastman, Eastman and White, has been actively connected with the Chicago bar
ALBERT N. for twenty-two years, during which period he has
EASTMAN. gained a substantial reputation as a close student
liable lawyer.
of the law and a painstaking, able and strictly re- He is also a Republican of advanced position, and Vol. 11 -- 20
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is a strong factor in the work of the Hamilton Club, of which he is a life member. He was formerly president and for several years director of the Lincoln Club, another influential political organiza- tion of the west, similar to the Hamilton Club.
Mr. Eastman is a native of Ohio, born in Kingsville, Ashtabula county, October 17, 1864, and is a representative of a pioneer family of the Buckeye state. The first member of the Eastman family to settle in America came to this country in 1632. The grandparents of Albert N. Eastman were Porter G. and Phoebe Eastman, who were early settlers of the Western Reserve of Ohio, the former be- coming a wealthy citizen of that section of the state. He gave his influential support to all educational and moral movements and institutions, within the scope of his powers and of which his good judgment approved. He was also a stanch Abolitionist at a time when his opinions were by no means popular, and proved his faith by his works in the conduct of the far-famed and widely extended "underground railway."
The parents of Albert N. Eastman, Henry A. and Sarah F. (Parrish) Eastman, removed to Chicago with their family in 1872, but four years later returned to their Ohio home. This was not the elder Eastman's first venture into the western metropolis. An old miner of 1852 and one of the first to prospect the famous Virginia district, he returned east in the early sixties, came to Chicago and, in connection with his two cousins, founded a branch of Eastman's Business College. In 1872 he was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, but decided to spend the last years of his life in the state to which he was so attached by family ties and associations.
Albert N. Eastman, however, decided otherwise. He was edu- cated in the public schools and Academy of Kingsville, Ohio, in the high school of Ashtabula, that state, and under the direction of Rev. Joseph N. McGiffert, a prominent minister of that place, under whose careful instruction he completed a collegiate course. Thus possessed of a broad general knowledge, he came to Chicago to penetrate and master the intricacies of the law. His first experience as a law student was obtained in the office of Smith and Helmer, and, having passed a creditable examination before the state supreme court, sitting at Ottawa, Illinois, he was admitted to the bar in May, 1887. In the following September he entered the office of Weighley, Bulkley
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and Gray, becoming a partner of the firm in 1894. In May, 1895, the association was dissolved, and with the senior member Mr. Eastman formed the firm of Weighley and Eastman, which, in turn, was dis- solved in June, 1896. Since that time Mr. Eastman has practiced alone and in connection with his present associates, under the firm name of Eastman, Eastman and White. During the last nine years, in addition to his regular practice, he has given a large portion of his time to corporation work. He has also organized many corporations, quite a number of which constitute the controlling power in their line. In many of these companies Mr. Eastman acts both as director and general counsel.
Few men are more widely known among the general practitioners of the country than Mr. Eastman, as, among many other activities, he enjoys an influential participation in the affairs of the Commercial Law League of America. This is an organization composed of several thousand lawyers of the United States and Canada, and, with the American Bar Association (of which he is also an active member ) is the leading professional organization of the country. While de- voting his energies and abilities to the interests of the league, until last year Mr. Eastman refused to accept office, but in 1907, by a unani- mous vote, he was elected president.
Albert N. Eastman was married in July, 1889, to Miss Myrta E. Hopkins, daughter of William L. Hopkins, and granddaughter of Alden W. Walker, one of the pioneer Methodist ministers of Ashtabula county, Ohio, where Mrs. Eastman was born. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eastman, namely: Walker P. and Frances E. The family home is in Edgewater, Chicago. Mr. East- man is a leader in the work of the Edgewater Presbyterian church, of which for seven years he has been a member and a trustee, having also served as president of the board of trustees for several years. Mr. Eastman is a member of the International Law Association, Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association; is also a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Ravenswood Lodge No. 777, Columbia Chapter No. 202, Oriental Consistory and Me- dinah Temple, all of Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago Auto- mobile Club; is identified with the Country and Golf clubs of Edge- water, and has been president of the former, which is one of the
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largest and most prominent clubs of the city. He is also a life mem- ber of the Chicago Press Club.
Horace Hawes Martin, of the leading and substantial law firm of Herrick, Allen, Boyesen and Martin, is a son of the Empire state,
HORACE H. and was born at Olean, Cattaraugus county, on the
MARTIN. 24th of September, 1855. He entered Racine Col- lege, Racine, Wisconsin, and continued there the education begun in the public schools of New York state, After his graduation from Racine College he was offered the position of in- structor therein, and was thus engaged for three years.
In the imparting of knowledge to others, Mr. Martin secured the double advantage of the more firmly implanting it in his own mind. as well of securing the means to carry out his cherished ambition of adding a legal education to his literary acquirements. In 1877 he entered the Harvard Law School, and three years later obtained his professional degree of LL. B. The year of his graduation from Har- vard (1880) he located in Chicago, and, upon his admission to the Illinois bar, entered the law office of the late Hon. William C. Goudy. There he remained for some time, his next connection being with Dexter, Herrick and Allen, in whose employ he remained for five years. After practicing alone for about the same length of time Mr. Martin became a member of the firm of Swift, Campbell, Jones and Martin, and since 1896 has been a representative in the well- known co-partnership of Herrick, Allen, Boyesen and Martin, gen- eral practitioners.
Mr. Martin is one of the leading office lawyers in Chicago, and enters into the preparation of cases with a thoroughness and a breadth of view, which have generally proved assurances of success in the court room, whether the campaign is one of offense or defense. He is a man of broad literary culture, deep legal knowledge and keen practical insight, and as such is a noticeably strong element in the continued advancement of his firm. Professionally, he is identi- fied with the American and Chicago Bar Associations and the Law Club, and also belongs to the University, Caxton and Onwentsia clubs. He is also in close touch with the musical and intellectual advancement of Chicago, being a member of the reorganized Thomas Orchestra, and of the Newberry Library.
On November 18, 1892, Mr. Martin married Miss Florence Eve-
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lyn Durkee, of Buffalo, New York, and they reside at Lake Forest. In politics he was formerly a Cleveland Democrat, but is now a con- servative Republican.
Senior member of the firm of Gorham and Wales and a rising and able lawyer of Chicago, Sidney Smith Gorham is a native of
SIDNEY S.
Vermont, born in Rutland county, November 6.
GORHAM. 1874. He is a son of Frank E. and Mary J. (Smith) Gorham, the father dying at Rutland, that county, when he was about forty-five years of age, while the mother resides at Lagrange, Illinois. Mr. Gorham obtained his education in the country schools of his native county and at the Rutland graded schools. In 1890. at the age of fifteen years, be became a resident of Chicago, and in 1894 graduated from the Chicago College of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1895.
From July, 1890, until his admission to the bar in 1895, Mr. Gor- ham was employed as a clerk in the office of Mills and Ingham, and after Mr. Ingham's death he remained in the employ of Luther Laflin Mills. For the eight years immediately following his admission to the bar he practiced alone. On December 1, 1903, he entered into a partnership with his former employer, Luther Laflin Mills, and the latter's son, Matthew, under the name of Mills, Gorham and Mills. After withdrawing from the firm on July 1, 1905, Mr. Gorham prac- ticed alone until May, 1906, when he associated himself with Henry W. Wales under the present style of Gorham and Wales, with offices in the New York Life building. The firm engages in a general civil practice.
Mr. Gorham is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and is also identified with the Chicago Athletic Association, Lagrange Country, Illini Country, Hinsdale Golf and the Chicago Automobile clubs, as well as with the state and national organizations devoted to the latter sport. Mr. Gorham is one of the most enthusiastic auto- mobilists in the west. He has served as secretary of the Chicago Au- tomobile Club for four terms, has been president of the Illinois State Automobile Association for two terms, and has been honored with the secretaryship of the American Automobile Association for one term. In 1906 he was a member of the Vanderbilt cup commission. He has always taken a deep interest in good roads movements and in state laws tending to advance the best interests of automobiling.
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As the representative of the Illinois motorists, he attended the legis- lative session of 1905, and largely through his efforts a bill was passed similar in its provisions to the present statute, but the measure was vetoed by Governor Deneen. Again, at the session of the Forty- fifth General Assembly, in 1907, he was delegated to look after the interests of the motoring fraternity of the state. He prepared the statute "defining motor vehicles and providing for the registration of the same, and uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof." which passed the legislature and became the present law without the governor's signature. To Mr. Gorham's car was assigned No. I by the secretary of state.
On July 15, 1896, Mr. Gorham was united in marriage with Miss Myrtle Genevieve Willett, daughter of Consider H. and Lois A. Wil- lett. One child of their family is living, Sidney S. Gorham, Jr.
John McRae Cameron, member of the law firm of Custer and Cameron, was born in Ottawa, Illinois, on the 18th of September, JOHN M. CAMERON.
1867, son of Neil and Mary (McRae) Cameron. Early in his life the family removed to Chicago, in whose grammar and high schools he received his education preparatory to the study of the law.
When admitted to the Illinois bar in 1889 Mr. Cameron was a clerk in the law office of Campbell and Custer and remained with that firm until the death of William J. Campbell in 1896, after which he continued his connection with the new firm of Custer, Goddard and Griffin. In 1903 he became actively identified with Jacob R. Custer and Joseph A. Griffin in the formation of the firm of Custer, Griffin and Cameron, and since May 1, 1908, has remained in prac- tice with Mr. Custer under the style of Custer and Cameron. Mr. Cameron is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illi- nois State Bar Association, the Riverside Golf Club and the Church Club. He is a thirty-second degree Mason; in politics a Republican, and in his religious faith an Episcopalian.
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