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Arthur Heun, architect, with offices at Sio Steinway Hall, is a ARTHUR HEUN. native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born on the 23rd of July, 1866. His parents were born in Germany- his mother ( formerly Fredericka Nerreter), in Nu- remberg, and his father (Bernhardt Herman Heun) in Leipsic.
Charles John Connell, president of the Fitzsimons & Connell Company, is one of the best-known contractors in Chicago, and has CHARLES J. CONNELL. been especially identified with some of the most im- portant works in connection with dredging, dock- ing, pile driving and river, harbor, canal and rail- road improvements generally. He is a native of Hatley, Stanstead county, province of Quebec, Canada, born on the 3Ist of March, 1839, son of David and Margaret Graham ( Macfarlane) Connell.
Mr. Connell was educated in the public schools of Hatley and the
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academy at East Hatley, and obtained most of his early business and financial experience in Chicago, coming hither in 1861, when he was twenty-one years of age. He then became cashier with W. F. Cool- baugh & Co., pioneer and leading bankers of the city, and after two years assumed the same position with the Union National Bank, which he held for a period of eight years. Soon after the great fire of 1871 he became interested in the business of contracting, and since 1872 has devoted his entire attention and ability to it. In the latter year he associated himself with General C. Fitzsimons and in 1889 their extensive business was incorporated as the Fitzsimons & Connell Company, of which, after the death of Mr. Fitzsimons in 1904, Mr. Connell became president. The company is engaged in the prosecu- tion of large public contracts, and in former years transacted an ex- tensive trade in lumber.
Besides being the head of this important corporation, Mr. Con- nell is secretary-treasurer of the Great Lakes Tug & Dredge Owners' Protective Association, and of the Illinois Dredging Company. He is a Republican in politics, and identified with the Chicago (since 1869), Evanston, Evanston Country and Glen View clubs.
On September 20, 1877, Mr. Connell was united in marriage with Miss Fanny A. Mulford, of Montrose, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Sylvanus S. Mulford, a well-known general merchant of that place. Their children are Charles Mulford and Philip Graham Connell. Mr. Connell has resided for many years in Evanston, Illinois.
Fayette Shepherd Cable, president and treasurer of the Cable- Nelson Piano Company, has for nearly twenty years been prominently identified with the manufacture of musical instru-
FAYETTE S. CABLE. ments in Chicago. Few branches of the manufac- turing industry have had greater development in Chicago than the production of pianos and organs, and in the history of the industry there are some names that constantly recur as leaders in the establishment and extension of factories and the broadening and upbuilding of the trade. Among these familiar names that of Cable has a deserved prominence, and Fayette S. Cable was one of those who established this reputation in piano and organ manufac- ture.
He was born in Cannonsville, Delaware county, New York, March 18, 1855, a son of Silas and Mary (Goodrich) Cable, whose Vol. 111-16.
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parents were among the first settlers of that section. The elder Cable spent the greater portion of his life there, engaged in farming, and the son, Fayette, was reared in a quiet rural community. After com- pleting his higher education in the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, New York, he taught school several years, and in 1875 began his business career as an agent of the school book house of A. S. Barnes & Co., New York City. In 1880, after he had filled the position of traveling representative of that concern for some four years, he came to Chicago to assume the duties of manager of the Chicago branch of the Philadelphia book house of Porter & Coates.
The late Herman D. Cable, who was the pioneer Cable in this field of manufacturing, had already established the Chicago Cottage Organ Company, and with this successful enterprise Fayette S. Cable allied himself in 1890, as stockholder, director and the secretary of the company. He continued as one of the leading factors in the de- velopment of the business until 1903, when he severed his connection with it and organized the Fayette S. Cable Company, manufacturers of pianos. In July, 1904, the business was reorganized as the Cable- Nelson Piano Company, manufacturers of the well-known Cable- Nelson pianos, Mr. Cable being president and treasurer. The fac- tory is located at South Haven, Michigan, and the office of the com- pany at 209 State street.
October 16, 1879, Mr. Cable married Miss Kate Elting, a daugh- ter of Daniel Elting, of Ellenville, New York. Their children are Anne S .. Rachel Elting, Gladys Goodrich and Dorothy Roselle. Mr. Cable is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Union League and Atlas clubs of Chicago. At Hinsdale, where the pleasant family home is located, he is a member of the Hinsdale Club. His religious faith is Congregationalism.
Edward D. Moeng is president of the Franklin Company, of Chi- cago, engaged in the varied work of designing, engraving, electro-
EDWARD D. typing, commercial photographing, embossing,
MOENG. printing and binding. He has had a training of more than thirty-five years in every conceivable branch of the above named fields, both as workman and manager, and . is, therefore, fully qualified to conduct such an enterprise, see that the work turned out is superior, and provide for the improvements and developments in the trade. He is a native of Chicago, born on the
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5th of November. 1856, being a son of Diedrich and Dora ( Degen- ner) Moeng. He received his education in the public schools of the city, and when fifteen years of age began his business career with the house of Zeese & Rand, electrotypers, his position with them be- ing as errand boy. Their plant was burned in the great fire, and the youth continued in the same capacity with their successor, A. Zeese. In 1872-76 he was serving an apprenticeship at the plumbing trade, was learning the trade of an electrotyper with A. Zeese & Co. from
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1876 to 1882, and during the succeeding seven years served as su- perintendent of the electrotype foundry of Blomgren Brothers. In 1889 Mr. Moeng became superintendent of the mechanical part of the business of A. Zeese & Co., and during his incumbency of that position, which lasted ten years, it 'was organized as the Franklin Engraving and Electrotyping Company, with an increase of capital stock from $60,000 to $180,000. He was manager of the latter com- pany for two years, and in 1901 became its president. In 1902 the
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capital stock was further increased to $200,000, and when the Marsh & Grant printing company was purchased in 1905 the style was changed to The Franklin Company, as the scope of the business was thereby extended so as to include other specialties than engraving and electrotyping. In all its departments it now represents one of the most complete houses in the country. There are other houses which, in any one of its specialties, may enjoy a larger bulk of business, but none which are its superiors as a complete establishment in all that relates to the artistic and practical in illustrating, printing and en- graving. The company now occupies eight floors at Nos. 346-350 Dearborn street.
In 1886 Mr. Moeng was united in marriage with Miss Helen Jahn. The beautiful family residence on Columbia avenue and the lake shore, was completed in the fall of 1908, and in a unique home built of cobble stones, which were secured by Mr. Moeng from his own lake shore frontage. Fraternally, Mr. Moeng is identified with the Masonic and Royal Arcanum fraternities, and is a member of the Chicago Athletic Association.
Although still in the early forties, James McDonald is the founder and president of the Interstate Coal and Coke Company. Born in JAMES Lincoln. England, on the 21st of July, 1865, son of John and Elizabeth ( Halliday) McDonald, his par-
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ents were in comfortable circumstances and, like Other typical English folk of their station, had a keen appreciation of the value of education to an able and ambitious boy. James McDon- ald, therefore, enjoyed his earlier mental training at the famous Lin- coln grammar school, graduating therefrom with the degree of As- sociate of Arts.
For a time after leaving school Mr. McDonald remained in Eng- land engaged in the grain trade, but in the fall of 1882 realized a long cherished hope by coming to the United States and locating at Chicago. In October, 1883, he secured employment with the Chi- cago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Company as an accountant, and during the twenty years of his connection with the business abund- antly proved his abilities in such positions as paymaster and general sales agent. At one time he also had charge of the company's job- bing department. On April 1, 1903, Mr. McDonald organized the Interstate Coal and Coke Company, with large interests in the In-
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diana, Illinois and Ohio coal fields, and of this rapidly expanding con- cern he is still president. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Nelsonville Coal Company, of Hocking county, Ohio.
In 1890 Mr. McDonald married Miss Florence R. Lemmon, daughter of Thomas A. Lemmon, who, as secretary and treasurer, has been connected with the Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Company for twenty years. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald are Paul A. and Bessie Mae McDonald. Although natur- alized in 1886, and a stanch Republican in politics, Mr. McDonald has never been ambitious for public preferment. He is a member of the New Illinois Athletic Club and his religious faith is that of Con- gregationalism.
Charles F. Spalding, president of the Spalding Lumber Com- pany, an organization which is among the pioneers of the north-
CHARLES F. western lumber interests, was born in Chicago,
October 5, 1865, son of Jesse and Adelphia
SPALDING. (Moody) Spalding. He comes of one of the oklest and most honorable of American and English families, the town of Spalding, founded by his ancestors in Lincolnshire, being in existence as early as the twelfth century. Between 1630 and 1633 Edward Spalding left that town and settled in Braintree, Massachu- setts, and from him are descended the American members, through Joseph, Nathaniel, Joseph and John, to Jesse, the father of Charles F. Spalding.
The late Jesse Spalding was a strong factor in the development of the northwest for nearly half a century. Both his grandfather and his father were for many years active and influential in the public affairs of Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and Jesse himself was born in Athens (that county) on the 15th of April, 1833. He was trained on his father's farm, received his education in the com- mon schools and at the home academy, and upon attaining his ma- jority engaged in lumbering on the north branch of the Susquehanna. For two years both a woodsman and a raftsman, he then began to deal in lumber. As the restricted home market did not satisfy his ambitious plans, in 1857 he removed to Chicago, even then the acknowledged center of the most vigorous activities of the northwest. Soon after he bought a sawmill at the mouth of the Menominee river, Wisconsin, where he commenced the manufacture of lumber.
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This mill was burned three times in the early seventies, and in 1871 the business, which, under various styles, had grown to immense proportions, was incorporated as the Menominee River Lumber Com- pany. In 1882, Mr. Spalding purchased the interests of all his part- ners and became sole owner of the Wisconsin mills and Chicago yards, shortly afterward buying out the New York Lumber Com- pany, whose mill was on the Menominee river, Wisconsin, and an- other milling property at the mouth of the Cedar river, about thirty miles above Menominee, Michigan. In the year 1882 he also organ- ized the Spalding Lumber Company, of which he remained presi- dent until his death, March 17, 1904. Before that time, however, he bought hundreds of thousands of acres of timber lands in Wis- consin and Michigan to supply these and other mills with logs, his manufactories producing annually about one hundred million feet of lumber, and his market embracing leading cities both of the east and northwest.
Jesse Spalding was also largely identified with the transporta- tion development of the northwest, both in the line of railways and waterways. He was associated with William B. Ogden and others in the cutting of the great Sturgeon Bay ship canal, which saved a distance of 150 miles on each round trip between Chicago and Green Bay ports. On the death of Mr. Ogden he became presi- dent of the operating company, which in 1893 turned the property over to the United States.
The deceased was largely interested in banking and other financial concerns in Chicago, was a director in many large corporations, and his advice in the conduct of important enterprises was frequently sought. Soon after the great fire he was elected to the city council, in which he served for three years, and as chairman of the finance committee aided much in the restoration of the city's credit. In 188I he was appointed collector of the port of Chicago, and subse- quently served as a government director of the Union Pacific Rail- road. He was in every way a large and able man of affairs.
Charles F. Spalding received his education in the Harvard School, Chicago, and the Exeter (N. H.) Academy. After leaving school he joined his father in the Spalding Lumber Company, learning the business at the mill at the mouth of Cedar river, Michigan. He thoroughly mastered all its details of manufacture and sale, and upon
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the death of his father was elected president. He is a director of the Hibernian Bank, resident vice president of the American Surety Company, director of the First National Bank (Marinette, Wiscon- sin), of the Menominee River Lumber Company, Commercial Na- tional Bank (Chicago), Commercial Bank (Iron Mountain, Michi- gan), vice president of the Tennessee Central Railroad, vice president of the Waccamaw Lumber Company, located in Wilmington, North Carolina, and president of the Holcomb-Hayes Company, which man- ufactures railway ties.
On February 1, 1888, Mr. Spalding married Miss Elizabeth Clarke, daughter of John V. Clarke, of Chicago, and the children born to them have been as follows: Jesse, Jr., Lillian, Bertrande and John Vaughn Clarke. In his religious faith Mr. Spalding is an Episcopalian ; is a Republican in politics, and identified with the Chi- cago, Union League, St. Louis, Chicago Athletic, Germania, Forty, Glen View, Exmoor, Saddle and Cycle, Edgewater Golf, and Mid- Day clubs.
Thomas Alexander Lemmon, who for more than forty years has been identified with the coal interests of Chicago, either as employe
THOMAS A. or proprietor, is a native of Indiana, born at New
LEMMON. Albany, April 16, 1841, son of Michael and Martha J. (Griffin) Lemmon. His mother was a grandniece of Thomas Jefferson. After passing through the public and high schools of his native city, young Lemmon scarcely had a breathing spell before he was called into military service by the out- break of the Civil war. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Cav- alry, Fifteenth Army Corps, Army of Tennessee, and participated in the fighting at Shiloh, as well as at other important engagements. In the first day's conflict of that historic battle his was the only cavalry regiment engaged, and acquitted itself with promptness and bravery. After leaving the army he located at Louisville, Kentucky, where for eleven months he engaged in the clothing business.
Mr. Lemmon has been a resident of Chicago since July 5, 1866, when he entered the employ of E. D. Taylor & Son, coal dealers, as bookkeeper, and later became identified with Taylor & Thomas in a like capacity. Colonel A. L. Sweet, now president of the Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Company, became identified with the coal business at this time, also commencing his career with Taylor
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& Son. In 1871 Mr. Lemmon associated himself with S. V. Cornish, and established the firm of Lemmon & Cornish, whose property was destroyed in the fire of 1871. In the following year he entered the service of the Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Company, of whose predecessor, the Chicago & Wilmington Coal Company, Colonel Sweet had been superintendent for several years. In 1887, after fifteen years of active and able work as an expert accountant and confidential man, he was promoted to the office of secretary and treasurer of the company, which he has since held continuously and creditably. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Eureka Coal and Dock Company.
On the 27th of April, 1865, Mr. Lemmon celebrated the conclu- sion of his army life by his marriage to Miss Sarah C. Berry, and their children are as follows: Florence R., now the wife of James McDonald, also a leading coal merchant; Chandler Fontaine and Albert Berry. C. F. Lemmon is sales agent for the Chicago, Wil- mington & Vermillion Coal Company and resides in Chicago. A. B. Lemmon, the younger son, holds a similar position with the North- western Fuel Company, and also lives in this city.
In politics Thomas A. Lemmon is a firm Republican, and as a Civil war veteran is identified with Columbia Post No. 706, Grand Army of the Republic. Fraternally he is a member of the William B. Warren Lodge No. 209, A. F. and A. M., and also belongs to the Traffic Club of Chicago and the Illinois Athletic Club.
William Liston Brown, a representative business man and citizen of Chicago, is president of the firm of Pickands, Brown & Co., one WILLIAM L. BROWN. of the oldest houses in the west and one of the leaders in the country, engaged in the iron and the iron ore business. He is a native of St. Joseph, Michigan, born on the 23rd of August, 1842, son of Hiram Brown. His father was born in 1804, a native of the Empire state, and was among the pioneers of western Michigan. After engaging in the grain forwarding business at St. Joseph for a number of years, in IS48 he removed to Chicago, where, in 1852, he became one of the earliest members of its Board of Trade. After the death of his first wife. he married Jane Reese Tilton Liston, a native of Pennsylvania. who became the mother of William L. The ancestors of both the
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paternal and maternal families were patriots of the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812.
In 1848, then a lad of six years, William L. Brown came to Chicago with his parents, and here he received his education in both private and public schools. In 1859, at the age of seventeen, he began his business career as a clerk for a Board of Trade commis- sion firm, but in 1862 joined the famous Chicago Mercantile Battery of light artillery and served with it during the remaining three years of the Civil war. He was in the Vicksburg campaign, the Red River expedition and the capture of Mobile, being discharged from the service in July, 1865, when he returned to Chicago.
Soon after the war Mr. Brown became interested in the pig iron and iron ore business, and increased his already strong influence in the trade by the organization of the house of Pickands, Brown & Co., in 1883, and of which he has ever since been the controlling member. In 1890 Mr. Brown became interested in Chicago shipbuilding, and, with others, organized the Chicago Shipbuilding Company. This has become one of the most important industries of the kind on the Great Lakes, and was the means of so extending Mr. Brown's repu- tation in this line that in 1899 he was elected president of the Ameri- can Shipbuilding Company (Consolidated Lake Shipyards). He is also president of the South Chicago Furnace Company, whose ex- tensive plant for the manufacture of pig iron is situated on the Calumet river, and also a director in the First National Bank of Chi- cago. He is also a director, and often an official, in a large number of steel, iron and lake navigation companies, and is a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. For many years he was an active member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
On September 27, 1871, Mr. Brown married Mrs. Catharine Seymour Bigelow, daughter of Dr. Stephen Seymour, one of the first physicians of Chicago to practice homeopathy. Their pleasant home is in Evanston, Illinois. In his religious faith Mr. Brown is a Swedenborgian, and was for many years a trustee of the Chicago New Church Society, and is serving at the present time on the board of trustees of the Northwestern University. He is also a member of the Chicago, Commercial, Caxton, Tolleston, Glen View Golf, On- wentsia Golf, Evanston Country, Point Moullie and Castalia Fishing clubs, of Chicago and vicinity, as well as of the Kitchi-Gammi Club,
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of Duluth, Minnesota, and the Union and Tavern clubs of Cleveland, Ohio. Further, he is a life member of the Chicago Press Club. His identification with the organizations above named fairly indicates the trend of Mr. Brown's tastes and recreations. In politics he has always been an unqualified Republican, and, although he has invari- ably refused to accept public office, he has faithfully contributed his personal and financial aid, in a broad way, for the good of the party and the public.
Frank J. Johnson, secretary of the American Hoist and Derrick Company, has altogether been a product of the northwest, and is
FRANK J. one of the founders of the establishment with
JOHNSON. whose development into a great industry he has been intimately associated for more than a quarter of a century. A native of Racine, Wisconsin, he was born July II, 1856, being a son of Joseph and Bridget M. (Gorman) Johnson. The father of Mr. Johnson was born in England, and, coming to the United States in 1848, located for a time at Troy, New York, whence he removed to Racine. In 1862 he settled in Chicago, and afterward resided successively at Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota, his death occurring in the latter city. There, also, passed away the mother, a native of Dublin, Ireland, who since early womanhood had been a resident of the United States.
After receiving his education in the graded and high schools of Chicago, Mr. Johnson went with his family to Duluth, where he served an apprenticeship as pattern maker, afterward following his trade there and at St. Paul. In 1882 he assisted in the founding of the American Hoist and Derrick Company of the latter city, and in the twenty-six years of its operations it has become one of the leading manufacturers of heavy machinery in these lines in the world. The product of its plant, located at St. Paul, not only go to all parts of the United States, but to many foreign countries, and since 1892 the company has maintained a central office in Chicago. Since that year Mr. Johnson has been a resident of this city, in charge of the Chicago branch, whose office is now at No. 60 South Canal street. The manufacturing plant at St. Paul gives employment to 700 men, and the enterprise has been highly successful since its founding in 1882. The present officers of the company are as follows: Oliver Crosby, president ; Frank J. Johnson, secretary, and W. O. Wash-
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burn, treasurer. The business is incorporated under the laws of both Minnesota and Illinois.
Since coming to Chicago in 1892 Mr. Johnson has resided in Englewood, where he has become well known as an energetic, sociable and honorable member of the community. He is a Knight Templar, member of the Englewood Commandery No. 160, and is also iden- tified with the following organizations : Builders' Exchange, Build- ers' Club, New Illinois Athletic Asociation, Press Club and the Beverly Country Club. He is a Democrat in politics, although far from being a politician. His wife, to whom he was married July 10, 1879, was Miss Hattie L. Guild, of Osceola, Wisconsin, and the children of the family are Grace, Howard, Helen, Ruth and Lora.
William P. Henneberry, president of the Henneberry Company, widely known printers and bookbinders, has been an active figure in WILLIAM P. HENNEBERRY. these lines of business, industry and art, for more than forty years. He is a native of Chicago, born at No. 341 South Clinton street, on the 14th of March, 1848, being the fifth son of John and Mary Henneberry, who settled in Chicago in the early forties. He is a Chicagoan also by education, his early training being obtained at the old Foster School, on South Union street, near Twelfth, its principal at that time being Mr. George W. Spofford, still a resident of the city. When he en- tered the Chicago high school, on West Monroe street, September, 1863, its head was the late Professor George Howland, who after- ward became an educator of national fame, as all Chicagoans know.
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