History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 102

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 875

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Hon. Grant Goodrich served as vice-president until 1858, when J. G. Hamilton was elected vice-president and treasurer. He continued to discharge the duties of the two offices until 1864, when they were separated. Mr. Hamilton continued to act as vice-president until 1875, when Rev. Philo Judson was chosen to the office. He died before the close of the year 1875-76, Orrington Lunt being elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Lant still holds the office.

Rev. P. Judson was chosen the first secretary and financial agent of the board of trustees iu 1856. In 1861 H. S. Noyes was chosen secretary, and continued to hold the office until 1873 when William H. Luut as- sumed the duties of the position. James G. Hamilton, the present incumbent, became secretary in 1875.

Orrington Lunt was elected treasurer in 1856, and was succeeded by J. G. Hamilton in 1858. His successor iu 1865, Thomas C. Hoag, still holds the office. He also acts as financial agent.

The first executive committee of the Northwestern University, elected in 1856, was composed of John Evans, M. D., Hon. William B. Ogden, Grant Good- rich, George F. Foster, N. S. Davis, M. D., J. K. Bots- ford, and Orrington Luut. Of these members Messrs. Evans, Lunt and Botsford have served to the present day. J. G. Hamilton, who was elected in 1857, also continues as a member of the committee. George C. Cook held his office from 1861 to 1876. Rev. P. Jud- son was a member of the executive committee for two terms, commencing in 1858, and from 1873 to the time of his death in 1875. The executive committee for 1864-65 consisted of John Evans, M. D., J. K. Bots- ford, J. G. Hamilton, Orrington Lunt, George C. Cook, HI. S. Noyes and Thomas C. Hoag. To this number, in 1867 were added William H. Lunt, David H. Wheeler and. John V. Farwell. In 1869 Robert F. Queal was elected in place of Mr. Wheeler. E. O. Haven was elected in place of Henry S. Noyes, iu 1870, and in 1813, two members were added to the committee und one chosen in place of Mr. Haven, viz. : P. Judson, Emily HI. Miller and C. H. Fowler, D. D. Rev. Mr. Judson died in 1875, aud for 1876-77, in ad- dition to Messrs. Evans, Orringtou Lunt, Hamilton, Hoag and Botsford, the executive committee consisted of William Deering, O. H. Horton, Mary B. Willard, Oli- ver Marcy, LL. D., J. J. Parkhurst and N. S. Davis, M. D. In 1880 Catherine E. Queal was elected a member of the committee and Heury A. Pearsons was chosen iu place of Dr. Davis. In 1881 was chosen the present executive committee, viz. : Hon. John Evans, M. D., Orrington Lunt, James G. Hamilton, Thomas

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C. Hoag, Jabez K. Botsford, Henry A. Pearsons, A. tions. The new building was dedicated in October, M., William Deering, Oliver H. Horton, Josiah J. Park- hurst, Philip B. Shumway, A. M., and Rev. Joseph Cummings, D. D., LL. D."

WOMAN'S COLLEGE .- Among those most prominent in the establishment of the Northwestern Female College were : Rev. Hooper Crews, pastor of Clark- street Church, Chicago; Rev. J. V. Watson, D. D., editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate; Rev. John Dempster, D. D., Rev. Richard Haney, Rev. J. W. Agard, and several laymen of the Clark-street and Indiana-street churches, Chicago. The Rock River Con- ference pledged their influence to seenre the recognition of the General Conference for the proposed institution. With this encouraging support, both of an individual and a general nature, Prof. W. P. Jones, formerly prin- cipal of the Peoria Wesleyan Seminarv, undertook the work of erecting the college on the block bounded by Chicago Aveune, Lake Street, Sherman Avenue and Greenwood Street. Prof. Jones's brother, Colonel J. W. Jones now of New York, contributed liberally for the support of the first building. The corner-stone of the

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first structure erected was laid June 15, 1855, by Bishop Simpson. It was annonuced that the first term would commence in October, but as the building was not ready for occupancy at this time the College opened in the first room used for religions services in Evanston. This was situated in the upper story of the only village store, a frame building then standing on the northeast corner of Davis Street and Orrington Avenue. On January 1, 1856, the new building was dedicated, but, unfortunately was burned to the ground on December 20 of that year. The insurance policy upon the building had expired only a few days previ. ously, and while workinen were testing a new furnace the structure caught afire from the melting of a Ilne ; consequently the loss was total. Prof. Jones at once set to work again to erect another building; and the undertaking was accomplished within less than a year by himself and family, assisted by John Link, of Chicago ; Dr. P. M. MeFarland, of Winchester, Inil. ; Joseph Snppiger, of Highland, Ill. ; A. C. Stewart. Leander Clifford und J. C. Hamilton and a few other friends who furnished interest-bearing-loan subserip-

1857. Prof. Jones continued in charge of the college until September, 1862, when he accepted a consulat appointment to China for six years. He was succeeded by Mrs. Lizzie McFarland. Dr. Lucius HI. Bagbee became principal in 1864, and retained the position until Prof. Jones returned from abroad, in the summer of 1869.

Ecanston College for Ladies,-On the 24th of Sep- tember, 1868, a number of the lending women of Evanston and Chicago assembled at the hume of Mra. Mary F. Haskin for the purpose of taking some action which might advance the higher education of women. Then and there was formed the Woman's Ednestional Association, with Mrs. Haskin as president. Fifteen members were elected to constitute a Board of Man- agers, and through the exertions of this noble and able body of workers, assisted by Edward S. Taylor, then a member of the Legislature, the charter for the Evans- ton College for Ladies was obtained during the winter of 1869. The names of the board were: Mrs. Mary F. Haskin, president ; Mrs. Mary J. K. Huse, vice-presi. dent : Mrs. Elizabeth M. Greenleaf, treasurer ; Mrs. Har- riet N. Noyes, recording secretary ; Miss Cornelia Lunt, corresponding secretary ; Mrs. Melinda Hamline, MIR Caroline Bishop, Mrs. Harriet S. Kidder, Mrs. Mary T. Willard, Mrs Maria Cook, Mrs. Margaret P. Evans, Mrs. Sarah J. Hurd, Mrs. Annie H. Thompson, Mrs. Abby L. Brown and Mrs. Virginia S. Kent. The board was organized nuder the charter April 13, 1869, and continued until 1873 to manage the affairs of the college, with a vigor and ability which earned the ladies wide-spread admiration. As this was the first educational institution of the country controlled by women alone, their fame and the knowledge of their good work traveled even across the water to England. The Village Board of Trustees deeded the large tract of land to the College for Ladies which now com- prises the site of the Woman's College, and while preparations were going on to erect a building the old structure of the Northwestern Female ('ollege was leased. its alnuini being adopted as the senior alumni of the new institution. Professor Jones surrendered the charter of the Northwestern Female College to Mrs Haskin, president of the bourd of trustees. On the 14th of February, 1871, Miss Frances E. Willard was chosen president of the faculty, and in 1872 presented diplomas to the grulnating class, an event quite nuigne in the his- tory of woman's education in this country. The first fac- ulty consisted of the following persons : President, Miss Frances E. Willard ; professor of French ond Italian. Laurent De Fossa, Ph. D., soon succeeded by Miss Kate A. Jackson ; professor of History, Mrs. Minerva B. Norton ; professor of instrumental music, Oscar A. Mayo: instructor in drawing, Miss Mary L. MeClure; justruetor in oil and water color paint- ing, Miss Hannah Pettengill; instructor in the pre- paratory department, Miss Fannie Smith : instructor in vocal music, Miss Ada F. Brigham : leet- urer on physiology and hygiene, Mary A. Thompson, M. D. ; teacher of kindergarten, Mra. Ida MI Kessler: superintendent of the home department, Rev. S. Norton and Mrs. Minerva B. Norton. On June 3, 1871, ground was broken by Mrs. Haskin for the new building and the corner-stone was laid upon the snc- ceeding 4th of July, with impressive and appro- priate religions and Masonic ceremonies. The pro- gramme carried ont upon this occasion was the work of the ladies, and the celebration was one of the grand- est events of the kind which ever occurred in this

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country. Mrs. A. H. Hoge, of Chicago, was active in securing this triumph, which aggregated with subscrip- tions, the women of the Educational Association about $30,000. When Dr. Haven accepted the presidency of the Northwestern University he made it one condition of assuming the responsibility that women should be admitted to the institution upon an equal footing with men. This fact somewhat modified the plans of the Evanston College for Ladies, and as a matter of economy they decided to utilize the services of the University faculty. Miss Willard had remained presi- dent of the faculty of the College for Ladies from the commencement, and Mrs. Haskin president of the board of trustees until the spring of 1873, when Mrs. Elizabeth M. Greenleaf succeeded her. Other prom- inent members of the faculty during the life of this institution were as follows: Mary J. Safford, M. D., and Sarah Hackett Stevenson, M. D., lecturers on physiology and hygiene; Harriet E. Reed, professor of higher English ; Evelyn C. Crosby, teacher in preparatory department ; William Arnold, teacher of penmanship; Anna S. Lewis, teacher of vocal music ; Mrs. Kate A. Merriman, matron. During the entire existence of the college, the following gentlemen acted as the advisory committee : Erastus O. Haven, Luther L. Greenleaf, Obadiah Huse, Edwin Haskin, Philo Judson and Lyman J. Gage. Prominent among the officers who have served were Mrs. Mury B. Wil- lard, corresponding secretary ; Abby L. Brown, Mary E. Brown, Mary E. Kedzic, Jennie F. Willing, Emily Ilintington Miller, Kate J. Queal, Mary H. B. Ilitt, Caroline Bishop, Anna L. Gray, Anna S. Marcy, Myra J. Fowler and Jennie Jones. One of the conditions of the consolidation of the Ladies' College with the Northwestern University was that five ladies should be chosen as a portion of its board of trustees, and that the president of the Ladies' College should be dean of the new department and a professor in the University. Dur- ing the last year of its existence, as a separate institution, the Evanston College for Ladies had connected with it a Conservatory of Music, at the head of which was Oscar A. Mayo.

On the 25th of June, 1873, this College became a department of the Northwestern University. Its first faculty of oversight consisted of Charles H. Fowler, D. D., president of the University, Frances E. Wil- land, A. M., president under its former management, Kate A. Jackson, Minerva B. Norton, Harriet E. Reed, Evelyn C. Crosby, Anna S. Marcy ; " Home Department "-Rev. S. G. Lathrop, superintendent and Mrs. Rev. S. G. Lathrop, matron. The College edifice, which had been commenced was completed in the spring of 1874. When the University purchased the property there had been expended about $50,000, it assuming the mortgage and debts and completing it at an additional cost of $26,000. It is located two blocks west and one block south of the University Park. It consists of four stories and a basement, the building being of brick with stone trimmings, and constructed in the Americanized Italian style. On the principal floor, with the main entrance from the south, and another from the east, are the home and reception parlors, dean's office and chapel. On the second and third floors are suits of rooms for teachers and stu- dents. The music rooms and art gallery are on the ground floor.

THE WOMAN'S EDUCATIONAL AID ASSOCIATION of the Northwestern University was established as the " Aid Fund Committee " by the Evanston College for Ladies, in January, 1872. Its president was Mrs.

Hannah Pearsons, and its secretary and treasurer Mrs. Jennie Gillespie. In July, 1873, a charter was obtained, under the present name and a reorganization effected, with Mrs I. R. Hitt as president. The pre- sent officers are: President, Mrs. Hannah Pearsons : vice-president, Mrs. Mary F. Maskin ; treasurer, Mrs F. D. Hathaway; secretary, Mrs. C. P. Bragdon. The association is an organization of ladies whose object is to furnish a suitable home for young ladies while pursuing their studies at the Northwestern University. This home is the College Cottage, oppo- site the Woman's College, the ordinary work of the honse being done by the young ladies. The experience of the past indicates that this arrangement, so far from being bardensome, furnishes an element of positive value in the education of the young ladies.

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE .- The Chicago Medical College was organized in March, 1859, under the anspices of the trustees and charter of the Lind Ob- servatory, becoming a department of the Lind Uni- versity. In the spring of 1864 it separated itself from the University, and adopted the name of the " Chicago Medical College." Five years later, by agreement be- tween its trustees and those of the Northwestern University, it became the medical department of the latter institution. In 1870 its splendid building on the corner of Prairie Avenne and Twenty-Sixth Street was erected at a cost of about $30,000, $15,000 of which was paid by the Northwestern University. The building is 60x100 feet in size. Following is the first college faculty under the new management: E. O. Haven, D. D .. LTA. D., president of the University : N. S. Davis, A M., M. D., dean of the faculty ; W. H. Byford, A. M., M. D., treasurer ; Elmand Andrews, A. M., M. D. secretary ; James S. Jewell, A. M., M. D., emeritus ; H. A Johnson, A. M., M. D., Ralph N. Isham, M. D., J. H. Hollister, M. D., E. O. F Roller, A. M., M. D, R. H. Patterson, M. D., Daniel T. Nel- 801, A. M., M D., Thomas Bevan, M. D., H. W. Boyd, M. D., W E. Quine, M. D., N. Gray Bartlett, Ph. D., Thomas S. Bond. M. D, Julien S. Sherman, M. D., Norman Bridge, M. D., and R. T. Higgins, M. D, N. S. Davis, M. D., LL. D., is still dean of the faculty, Drs. Andrews, Johnson, Isham, Hollister, Jewell and Roller being retained, and the following additions made: Samuel J. Jones, A. M., M. D., Marcus P. Hat- field, A. M., M. D., Lester Curtis, A. M., M. D., (secre- tary) ; Henry Gradle, M. D, E. C. Dadlev. A. M., M. D., John F. Owens, M. D., Oscar C. DeWolf, A. M., M. D., Jolm H. Long, Ph. D. Walter Hay, M. D., LL D., Fred C. Schaefer, M. D., Christian Fenger, M. D., I. N. Danforth, A. M., M. D., and Frank Bil- lings, M. D., demonstrator. In 18:4 Ellen M. Soule was chosen dean. She served two years, and was suc- ceeded by Mrs. A. E. Sandford, who served one year. In 1877 Jane M. Bancroft, Ph. M., was elected, who still continues in office. The present committee of oversight consists of Joseph Onuimings, D. D., LL. D., president : Jane M. Bancroft, Ph. M., dean ; Catharine Beal, B. P., Harriet Kimball, and Mrs. Catherine A. Merriman.

At the time of the union of the Evanston College for Ladies with the Northwestern University the Conservatory of Music was established. Its first faculty, chosen in 1873, consisted of Charles H. Fow- ler, D. D., Oscar Mayo, James Gill, Hans Balatka. Lonis Faulk, Anna Lonis and Adu Brigham Lathrop, In 1876, Oren E. Locke, the present director, was chosen to the office. In addition, the faculty now serving consists of James Gill, Joseph Singer, Peter C. Lut-

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kin, W. Warrew Graves, C. Montgomery Hutchins, Robert L. Cumnock, A. M., and Henry S. Carhart, A. M. The medical students have increased from 100, in 1870, to 170, in 1883.

COLLEGE OF LAW .- In 1859 Hon. Thomas Hoyne subscribed $5,000 for tho endowment of a chair of international and constitutional law in the University of Chicago. The College of Law was inaugurated in September of that year, at Metropolitan Hall, by in- pressive ceremonies, conducted before an immense audience. Sidney Breese, Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court, off Illinois, and other distinguished representatives of the Bench and Bar, were upon the platform, the opening address being delivered by the Hon. David Dudley Field, of New York. Twelve students composed the first class, and, as it was organized before the University had graduated its first class, for several subsequent years the College of Law furnished the public with graduates. For four- teen years the College of Law remained under the control of the University of Chicago. Upon the 30th of June, 1873, however, an agreement was entered into by its trustees and those of the Northwestern University, by which, under the name of the Union College of Law, it became also a department of the latter institution. By the provisions of this agree. ment cach University was to enjoy equal authority in the management of the department, and was to ap- point three members from the board of trustees, who, with the presidents of the faculties, were to constitute an executive committee. The committee had the power to appoint the professors. Each University agreed to annually furnish $2,000 for the support of the department for a term of years. For 1873-74 the board of management consisted of Hon. Thomas Hoyne, LL. D, chairman on behalf of the University of Chicago; E. B. McCagg, Rev. Jesse B. Thomas, D. D., Hon. James R. Doulittle, president of the Uni- versity of Chicago: for the Northwestern University, Hon. Grant Goodrich, Wirt Dexter, Robert F. Queal and Rev. Charles H. Fowler, D. D., president. Hon. Judge Henry Booth was dean of the faculty, and re- inains in office to the present time. Hon. Lyman Trumbull, LL. D., and Hon. James R. Doolittle. LL. D., continued as members of the faculty nutil 1876. During the next year Hon. Thomas Hoyne was chosen president of the joint board of management. James Frake, secretary and Hon. Harvey B. Hurd, treasurer. In 1880 Hon. Henry Booth was elected treasurer, and there was no further change in these offices until the death of Mr. Hoyne, July, 27, 1883." The joint board of management, chosen in 1873. was retained until 1876, when the following members were elected: North- western University-James Frake, A. M., Orrington Lunt, O. H. Horton, and Oliver Marcy, LL. D. Uni- versity of Chicago -J. C. Burroughs, D. D., LL. D., Hon. Alonzo Abernethy, and Joseph F. Bonfield, A. M. In 1877 Galusha Anderson, D. D., and Hon. Henry Strong, were elected in place of Messrs. Bur- roughs and Abernethy. There was no further change in the management until 1879 when Frederick A. Smith, A. M., succeeded Mr. Bonfield. In 1881 Joseph Cummings, D. D., LL. D., succeeded Oliver Marcy, and in 1882, F. W. Peck was chosen in place of Dr. Strong, which, with the changes noted among the officers of the board, makes the joint management as follows: President, not yet elected ; James Frake, A. M., LL. B., secretary ; Hon. Henry Booth, LL. D., treasurer. Northwestern University-James Frake,

*Up to Jan. 1, 1884, no one to succeed Mr. Hoyne had been eleeled.

A. M., LL. B., Henry S. Towle, Oliver H. Horton, LL B., Joseph Cummings, D. D. LI. D. University of Chicago-Galusha Anderson, D. D., Fred. W. Peck, A. M. and Frederick A. Smith, A. M.

The Union College of Law is located at Nos. 80 and 82 Dearborn Street, in the vicinity of most of the law offices and courts. In addition to these advantages offered, two moot courts are held weekly, one by the senior, the other by the junior class. Moreover the students are admitted free to the library of the Chicago Law Institute, in the court-house, a library consisting of fourteen thonsand judiciously selected volumes. The college was first opened as a department of the Northwestern University, October 6, 1873, and during the year 1882-83 had an attendance of one hundred and thirty-nine pupils.

GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE .- The history of the founding of this great educational institute, located upon the University campus, with a board of trustees and financial management under its own charter, forcibly illustrates the immeasurable effects of seem- ingly small canses. In 1826 Peter R. Borein, of Ten- nessee, was converted at a Methodist camp-meeting, and after several years of ceaseless and prayerful en- deavor, felt that he was warranted in preaching the Gospel. In the winter of 1839, a few months before his death, he became the means of converting Angastus Garrett and his wife, Eliza. Although in the Gospel sense these conversious were of untold value, it did not seem at the time, as though the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Garrett had joined the Church, prominent ss they were, was to have the sublime effect of far ad- vancing the cause of Christian education in this coun- try. Nevertheless this was its effect. Mr. Garrett died in December, 1848, and it was left for his child- less widow to dispose of the great bulk of his property in a way which has induced many who have lived after her to rise up and call her blessed In December, 1853, two years before her death, Mrs. Garrett pre- pared her will, after having consulted Rev. John Clark, Dr. Kidder and others, as to the feasibility of founding some institution for the encouragement of Christian education. From their suggestions sprung the form of the royal endowment which established the Garrett Biblical Institute. Nearly two-thirds of her large fortune, amounting to about $300,000, was devoted to this object. Grant Goodrich, Walter S. Gurnee and John Link, of Chicago, were made her executors and she provided, in case they should all die before the Garrett Biblical Institute was incorporated. that the property should descend to the trustees of the Northwestern University. Mrs. Garrett further directed, in case the property and its income should exceed the amount necessary to build and support the institute, that the surplus should go toward the founding of a female college, to be under the same management as the Biblical Institute. At a meeting of the Church, held in Chicago December 26, 1854, Rev. John Clark, Rov. Philo Judson, Orrington Lant, Dr. John Evans and Grant Goodrich were . appointed a committee to secure the immediate erection of a suitable building in which to open a school, and to provide means to sus- tain it until the promised endowment should become available. At this time it was not expected that Mrs Garrett would contribute much for four or five years -but the shadow of death was already upon her, and, in less than one year she was called to her reward. In July, 1854, the old building, with accommodations for forty or fifty students, was commenced. It was asub- stantial frame structure, 66×32 feet, three stories in

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height. The lower floor was used as the boarding de- partment, the second for families and teachers, recita- tion rooms and chapel and the third for the library and students' rooms. A slight addition was made to the building in 1856, the structure being consnmed by fire January 2, 1859. Here the Institute was conducted until the erection of Heck Hall in 1866-67. The first term opened in January, 1855, in charge of Rev. John Dempster, D. D., Rev. William Goodfellow, A. M., and Rev. William P. Wright, A. M .; it commenced with four and closed with sixteen students. The sec- ond term commenced with twelve and closed with nineteen pupila, the greatest number in attendance being twenty-eight. In the meantime (on February 15, 1855) the Garrett Biblical Institute had been in- corporated by legislative act, and Orrington Lunt, John Evans, Philo Judson, Grant Goodrich and Stephen I'. Keyes were named as its first trustees. It was to be under the "patronage and control of the Methodist Episcopal Church." Thereafter the trustees were to be elected by the Rock River Annual Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, or, in case of a division of said conference, than that in which the Institute was situated. The trustees had power to appoint and remove professors and teachers, and the president of the faculty. The annual conference was authorized to appoint a committee to examine into the orthodoxy of the doctrines taught in the Institute. By Article VI. the property wasexempted from taxa- tion. After the incorporation of the Institute, Mrs. Garrett made a codicil to her will, granting the prop- erty unconditionally. Its noble founder died Novem- ber 23, 1855, and the temporary organization of the Garrett Biblical Institute was bronght to a close in the spring of 1856.

Prior to the general conference of 1856 an indirect correspondence had already taken place between the trustees of the Institute and the Bishops of the Church, and in the Episcopal address occurred the following passage : " If Biblical schools were yet to be organized it is not probable that we should feel called upon to make any allusions to then. But they actually exist at two points and prospectively, perhaps, at others. Several annual conferences both East and West, have approved and patronized them, while other conferences are aiming to accomplish similar results by Biblical departments, connected with literary institutions. If it be the judgment of the Church that Biblical schools are desirable, then we would suggest, with due refer- ence to all concerned, that they should be of a connec- tional character, and, in some way responsible to the General Conference, so that their management and teaching shall be in harmony with the doctrines and disciplines of the Church."

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 102

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas Number of Pages: 875

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 875