History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 105

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

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building, as far as completed, and furniture is $7,300; of which $4.210 had been raised in cash and $1.500 in reliable subscriptions, leaving $1.590 mprovided for. which. added to $910 estimated as needed to finish the inside work in the basement and attir stories, make- *2.500, which sma he asked for. Dr. Hatfield noule a few remarks, urging all present to take a part aml and thex worthy brethren. Mr. Nelson then took charge of the finances, assisted by eighteen good-looking Lientenants. composeal of ministers mad prominent laymen. The result was $1,041 in rash and' subscriptions. After the clave of this service, part of the congregation pro- corded to the college bnihling, where the dedicators service was hekl. Professor Erirson delivered a vervelo- quent address in the Swedish language. Revs. S. O. Westergren. 11. W. Eklund and C. G. Nelson took part in the ritual service, after which the dedicatory prayer was offered by President Cummings, after which the visitors went through the bnibling, und the manimons opinion was that it was in all respects perfeet." "The design of the founders of the Swedish Theological Seminary is to furnish facilities to students who wish to embrace the ministry. Eighteen students are now in attendame. Some of them, who ilesire a more thorough education aml training. are allowed to prane a seven years' course-four years in the Seminary and three years in the Northwestern University. When the emlowment fund of the Seminary has reached suf- ficient proportions, it is the intention of the manage- ment to provide for the education of women. This institution. although nominally mider the patronage of the University, is as much a separate institution us the Garrett Biblical Institute, being like it. responsible to its conference and not. being dependent for funds upon the management of the Northwestern University. The students are not only instructed in the literature of their own language. in all branches calenheted to fit them for the Swedish ministry, hnt are taught in their native tongue : so that those born in this country aquire a facility and promptness of expression which is of antobl valne to them when they are placed in charge of a society.

The Free Methodist Church was organized hy Rev. George W. Whittington, n stilent of the Northwestern I'niversity. in September. 1881. In October. 1880, when he was appointed to that field by the Illinois Annual Conference, there were only six members in Evanston. In July following. the district chairman, W. F. Manley, sont a band of Christian workers and a large ranvas tabernacle to Evanston. The tent was pitched near the site of their present church, where a series af meetings were held and about sixty persons converted. Among the number was Mrs. Eliza Pratt. a widow of seventy-six years. and one of the oldest residents of Evansinn. She donated a lot ou which to build a chapel, and gave $500 toward the building. The chapel was built at a cost of $2.000, being nearly ready for use before the tent was taken down. in Sep- tember. 1881. The church was dedientrd November 13. by Rev. William G. Hammer and W. F. Manley. being free of debt. Rev. William G. Hammer, Rev. W. M. Kelsey aml Rev. Philip ('. Hanmu were the leaders in the tent meeting. Rev. F. H. Haley, Rev. A. F. Ferris and Rev. Thomas Fluck have supplied the pul- pit at intervals for the past two years. under the direc- tion of the distriet chairman or presiding ekder. W. F. Manley. The present pastor. Rev. Mr. Manley. received his appointment from the Illinois Aunnal Con- ference. October 8. 1883. The membership of the Church is sixty, the society being in a prosperons con-

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dition. It is expected that a $2,000 parsonage will be built in the spring.

Other Churches .- In addition to the above, the Nor- wegian Methodist Episcopal Church has a small society, whose pastor is Rev. A. Haagensen. They worship in a wooden building on Sherman Avenue and Church Street. The German Lutherans have both a church and school, under the control of Rev. A. Detzer. Jr., the building being on Greenwood Avenue, corner of Wesley. The African Methodists have a society over whom Rev. George H. Hann presides. The Second Baptist Church is a struggling society, but doing much good work. The Episcopalians have a mis- sion in North Evanston. Rev. George A. Whitney, pastor.

SOCIETIES.

The Northwestern Band was organized October 1. [883, and has at present abont fifteen members. Henry Prior, Jr., is lender.

The Evanston Boat Club was organized September 17, 1880, with George Lunt as president and L. D. Bradley as captain. In March. [881. the club was incorporated, und in June, their boat-house com- pleted at a cost of $3,500. Improvements amounting to $1,500 will be made this winter and early spring. The active membership is now fifty-three, and there is an honorary membership of sixty-four. At present. the officers of the club are as follows: President. F. N. Winne: vice-president. H. R. Powers : secretary. F. J. Kitchell : treasurer. F. K. Stevens : captain, Allan Watson.

Legensia Literary Society was formed in January. [880. The membership is limited to fifty, the present unmber being forty-eight. W. S. Harbert is president. and Durr A. Kimball, secretary.

Evanston Social Club, an organization formed in the fall of 18:4 for dramatie, literary mal musical improvement and social enjoyment. was chartered November 15. 1881. Its present officers are : George E. Gooch, president : Milion W. Kirk, vice-president : John A. Childs, secretary ; W. C. Garwood, treasurer. The club now numbers one Iumnulred members.

The Temperance Union of Evanston, was first organ- ized in 1874. under the name of the " Woman's Tem- perance Alliance," with Mrs. E. E. Marcy as president. The present member of members is 150, and the offi- cers now in office : President. Mrs. Zimmermann ; vice- presidents, Mesdames Cragin. Runddd, Thompson. R. M. Hatfield aml Haven ; corresponding secretary. Morton Hull: recording secretary, HI. L. Miller : treasurer. Mrs. Townsend ; industrial school com- mittee, E. E. Marcy.

The Evanston Military Band was organized in November. 1881. and re-organized and incorporated in September. 1883. as the " Evanston Military Bund and Orchestral Association." The band has a membership of twenty-four. and . meets for practice over the post- office, under the instruction of Prof. O. E. Locke, musicnl director, and Prof. C. M. Hutchins, So far. nearly all attention has been given to band practice. but measures are being taken to organize a full orches- tra, combining the best home talent. The present officers of the band are: W. N. Brainard. president ; Prof. O. E. Lanke, vice-president und musical director : W. E. Clifford, secretary : C. W. Webster, treasurer.

The Utopia Club was formed in 1871, with twelve members. It has since increased in numbers, holding its meetings over the post-office. Robert Freeman is president, and W. B. Huntoon, secretary and treasurer.

Evans Lodye, No. 524. A. F. & A. M., was opened'under dispensation of the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois, dated October 17, 1866. Its charter members were J. M. Lyons. E. S. Taylor. J. B. Geer, L. Kistler. James Kenney, E. R. Paul, M. Culver, W. S. Steele. George W. Post, D. JJ. Pridham and P. B. Shumway. By the dispensation, George W. Post was indicated as the first worshipful master : [. Kistler. senior warden and P. B. Shumway, junior warden. At the first stated connaunication, the worshipful master made the following appointment of permanent officers for the Masonie year: J. M. Lyon, treasurer ; E. S. Tay- lor, secretary ; E. R. Paul. senior deacon; D. J. Pridham, junior deacon : M. Culver, tyler. The Lodge has prospered and now numbers 129 members. The officers for 1884 are: Francis S. Belden, W. M. ; Frank S. Woods, S. W. ; Otis E. Haven, J. D .; John Goebel, treasurer : George W. Hotchkiss, secretary : M. Bates lott. S. W. : Walter P. Marsh, J. D. ; James MeMahon, tyler. The Lodge has a commodious and elegant hall in the Masonic buikling, and holdis stated communications on the second and fourth Theday of each month. The past masters of the Lodge have been George W. Post, 1 .. Kistler. I. B. Geer, L. D. Haines. C. C. Stratton, George W. Huntoon, Jr., J .. D. Gage, Charles Raymond, George D. Moseley, Morris J. Moth and W. E. Clifford. During the nine months while the laxlge was under dispensation, a large nun- ber of men most prominent in the success of the Taxige, were the recipients af degrees conferred by it. among whom were Rev. Henry Bannister, D. D .. (ileceased lust year), Henry Bannister, M. D., H. B. Hard, O. A. Crain. J. W. Lundlam, W. E. Clifford, Charles Crain and Merrill Ladd. In the Masonic year (1882-3) just closed. only one Lodge in the State reported a larger increase of membership than Evans Janlge. and the character of its " material " has ever heen of a very high standard of worth.

Evanston Chapter, No. 144, R. A. M., was chartered October 2, 1820. The charter members were Orvis French. C. J. Gilbert, Lewis Kistler. N. G. Iglehart, 0. 11. Mann, Wesley Brainard, I. B. Geer, T. A. Cos- grove. Charles Raymond, E. F. Alexander, Louis Leonhardt. E. J. Goodrich and H. M. Walrath. The present officers ure: Orvis French, M. E. H. P .; J. W. Ladlam. E. K., and C. T. Bartlett, E. S. The Chapter has seventy-eight members, During the thirteen years since its charter was granted, O. Frenel has been M. E. H. P. nine years, having been the first, incumbent, and he is now entering his tenth vear of service.

The Odd Fellows are locally organized as Evanston Lodge. No. 613, and the Royal Areumum as Covenant Council, No. 158.

Evanston Lodge, No. 613, I. O. O. F., was organized March 29. 1880, with sixteen charter members. There are now forty-eight members in good standing. The present officers are: N. G., George F. Stone; V. G., Samnel Harrison ; secretary, Hamilton Smith ; treas- urer, Peter Svedlund ; P. G., Andrew Paterson : D. G. M., M. R. Powers.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EVANSTON.

JAMES E. ACKLEY, builder, was born in East Hampton, Conn., Angust 10, 1841. Hle learned his traile in his native place, serving an apprenticeship of three years. Ile then took contracts for building in East Hampton for ten years, and in January, 1871, enme to Evanston and worked for two years In Chicago, since which time he has been building and contruet- ing in Evanston, Ile married Miss Sarah C. Smith, of East Hampton.

EZRA ADAMS was born in Perry County, Ohio, July 28, 1819. He came with his parents in 1828 to Vermillion County, 111., where he learned his trade and worked at it ten years. Then for twelve years he was engaged in mercantile business in Danville, after which he kept a hotel in Champaign City for three years. In 1864 he came to Evanstour and was pro- prietor of the Avenne House five years; then kept a tobacco and cigar store in Chicago for two years; then turned his at- tention to his trade of painting in Evanston, which he is en- gaged in at the present time. Mr. Adams is a member of Evans Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Ile married Miss Mary David, of Illinois, in November, 1840. She died in April, 1850, leav- ing three children-Mary E. (now Mrs. Lawrence Abbott, of t'hicago), Theodore F. and Ashbury. In 1852 he married Miss Clarinda Burt, (f Coshocton, Ohio. She died in 1861, leaving four children-Morris, Jasper J., Oliver P. and George W. His present wife was Miss Martha L. Peck, of Connecticut, whom he married in 1863. They have four children-Waldo P., Clara L., Marvin O. and Frank E.

HERBERT AMBLER, painter, was born in Shipley, county of York, England, April 7, 1850. Ile learned his trade in Ship- ley, England. and carried on a shop npto the time of coming to Chicago in the fall of 1871. Huving worked there for wine months he went to Waukegan, Ill., and carried on business for four years. In 1876 he came to Evanston and carried on his own shop until the fall of 1882, since which time he has been working for William Stacey. He was married to Miss Sallie C. Smith, of Waukegan. In., May 14, 1874. They have two elrikiren, Herbert L .. und Eliza JJ.

C. G. AYARS, special agent of Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartforil, is a native of New Jersey. He settled in Evans- ton in the spring of 1859, and was engaged in farming for two vears. From 1861 to 1821 he resided in the town of Lake. Cook County, engaged in farming. While residing there he held the position of Town Clerk frum 1862 to 1868, and also was Deputy Sheriff of Cook County from 1866 to 1874. lle touk mp his residence in Evanston in 1871, where he now resides. During the years 1874 and 1875 he was engaged in the fire insurance business in Chicago. Fromn 1875 to 1881 he held the office of Commissioner of Cook County. From" 1881 to 1883 he was again engaged in the general fire insurance busi- ness in Chicago, and since May. 1853. has been special agent of Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. He is a member of Evans Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Evanston, and also of the Evanston Lodge, I. O. O. F. Ile was married to Miss Margaret. H. Fredenburgh, of New York City (her anees- tors being among the earliest sett lersof thnt city). Mr Avars is one of the charter members of the Social Club of Evanston.

W. R. BAILEY, proprietor of a meat market, was born in Staffordshire, Englund, September 4, 1845. At the age of eight he came with his father to Chicago, where, after attending school, he entered the grocery store of T. C. Iloug. At the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861. he enlisted m Company F. 8th Illi- nois Volunteer Cavalry, and served for three years and ten months, having been in one hundred and seventeen engage- ments. After the close of the war, in 1865, he settled in Evanston, his parents having come the year previous. In September, 1865, he started his present business and has been also largely engaged in buying and shipping stock. He was chief of the Fire Department of Evanston for six years. Ile married Miss Nancy MeCallister, of Belfast, England.

SETH BARBER, deceased, was born in Norwich, county of Norfolk, England, April 30, 1822. He served an apprentice- ship to a linen draperat Norwich, and was engaged as a sales- man in prominent business houses in London. He came to Galena, Ill., In 1852, and was engaged in the dry goods trade

for five years as the firm of Barber & Chandler. Ile then went to Minnesota, and in 1864 came to Chicago and was eur. ployed ns salesman for J. V. Farwell & Co. and other promi- nent business houses, up to the time of his death, April 8. 1881. He resided in Evanston since 1875. Mr. Barber was a meinber of Blaney Lodge, A. F. & A M., and attained the thirty-second degree Hle married, in London, Miss Eliza Chandler, of the county of Wiltshire, England, June 18, 1846. They have two children, Arthur E. and Emma L.

M. R. BARNARD. real estate agent. Chicago, was born in Charlemont Mass .. November 1, 1824. For eighteen years he held the position of Superintendent of Public Schools of Ithica, N. Y., and for four or five years afterward was interested lu ednentional publications, and a greater part of the time delir- ered lectures before teachers' institutes in different States. From 1871 to 1881 he was engaged exclusively in the realestate. insurance and mortgage loan business at Indianapolis, at the same time for several years being a member and also president of the school board. In 1881 he came to Chicago aud engaged in the same business, taking up his residence in Evanston. He married Miss Margaret E. Bliss, of Florida, Muss, Their children are Sarah 1 .. , Eugene F., Laura J. (unw Mrs. T. A. 11. Johnson, of Indianapolis), Carrie, Louisa and Ilelen.

HON. WILLIAM If. BARNUM was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., February 15, 1840, but has been an Illinoisen for upward of forty years, his parents and relatives having removed to this State with him in 1842, and locating at Belle- ville, in St. Clair County. Thera he passed his boyhood, at- tending private schools until his sixteenth year, when he went to the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, Mich Ile remained there for two years and a half devoting, however, some con- siderable time to teaching at Belleville, and thereby contribu- ting materially to his expenses at the Normal, and subse- quently at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, where he was ad- mitted as a sophomore in the full of 1858. Ilis class graduated in 1861, but he remained with them no longer than the com. mencement of his junior year. Nevertheless, within a few years his alma mater conferred upon him, unsolicited, its hon- orary degree of M. A. On leaving the University he resumed teaching at Belleville, keeping up his classical, literary and his- torical studies, employing competent professors to further in- struct him in Latin, Greek and German. At the same time he hegan the study of the law, to which all along he had been paying some attention. This special bent of his mind was doubtless due to his very early and constant contact with the members of perhaps as brilliant a Bar ax uny in the West. Among them may be enumerated Governor John Reynolds, General James Shields, late Chief-Justice Sidney Breese, Sena- tor Lyman Trumbull. Hon Don. Morrison, Gor, Gustavus Koerner, Hon. William II. Underwood, Gov. William H. Bis- sel, Hon. William Il Suyder, Hon. Jehu Baker, M C., Judge Nathaniel Niles, Hon. Philip B. Fonke. M. C., Ilon. John Hay, M. C., Hon. Charles V. Jolinson, and Hon George Trumbull, brother of the Senator. in whose office at Belleville the subject of this sketch began and pursued the regular study of law until admitted to practice in the fall of 1802. Immediately after his admission, Mr. Barnum removed to Randolph County. III .. aud opened a luw office at Chester. originally intending to re- main there only two years and then go to Chiengo or St Louis. He met with such success in the Rundolph Circuit, which em- braced five counties, that he practiced there five years. His practice wus general. The land snits and criminal trials which he conducted were many of them quite remarkable. and gave him very considerable local prominence. lle niso, during the same period, practiced in the Supreme Court at Springfield. During the first three years of his stuy at Ches- ter he held two terms of appointment as Master in Chancery. but retired from the position when his practice became more lucrative. In the autumn of IN67 he accepted an invitation to come to Chicago and form a copartnership with Lawrence J. J. Nissen, a well-known attorney of this city. The connection thus formed continued for ten years, until the summer of 1877. January 1, 1876, however, the new firm of Harding. Nissen & Barnum was formed, Hon, G. F. Ilarding becoming

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senior member. During those ten years Mr. Barnum attended almost exclusively to the court practice, and acquired very considerable distinction as a trial lawyer, as well as for his legal arguments and briefs in the Supreme Court. His forensic success was greatly promoted by the happy taste and talent of Mr. Nissen for office business and by his invaluable aid in the preparation of cases. In Mr. Harding's magnificent law library Mr. Barnum found a long-coveted arsenal of principles and precedents, which he often used with telling effect. In the summer of 1877 the first was amicably dissolved. Thereupon Mr. Barnum and Mr. Cornelius Van Schaack entered into a copartnership, which continued until the promotion of Mr Barnum to the Bench on June 2, 1879. for the term of six years, being one of the five Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County. The rank and estimation in which he was then held will appear from an editorial sketch published in the Chicago Times of April 27. 1870, and indorsed by the other papers of the city both before and after his election. Mr. William Il. Barnum, at the age of forty, has achieved a leading position at the Chicago Bar. Ilis mind is eminently judicial. He has practiced at the Bar for seventeen years, and in Chiengo for twelve years. For a man in middle life Mr. Barnum has han- dled an unusual number of exceedingly important enses, and always with consummate ability. He won specinl prominence in the famous Turner forgery cases. the most remarkable liti- gation ever before a court in this city. In these cases, which he fought single-handed, he was opposed by Messrs, Swett, Storrs, Ketchum, of Jacksonville, and other attorneys, He was also associated with Judge MeAllister in the great Uhlich- Minhlke case, involving neurly two millions of property. He argued a case gratuitously which broke up the old reformu- school outrage. Mir. Barnum is receiving a powerful backing from the Bar, many leading members of which are interesting themselves in pushing him to the front. Politically Mr. Bar- num has been a life-long Demoerat, though never a violent partisan. He is a Inwyer, not a politician. Judge Barnum's judicial career is matter of public record. By arrangement with his colleagues he took the Chancery Bench and held it for three years, disposing of a vast amount of business in that time. The docket was loaded down with arrearages froin for- mer years, to the extent of some twelve hundred cases, many of thein known as "snags and terrors to both Bar and Bench." Some of these unavoidably consnmed in their hearing a month apiece of Judge Barnum's time, The Bar generally appreri- ated the cause of the delay, and credited the Judge for the promptness with which cases were brought to trial and decided. By means of general calls and studied acceleration of the docket and his Invariably speedy decision of causes and mutions, his chancery calendar was reduced to comparatively small and quite managrable proportions at the time it was turned over in September, 1882, to his able successor, Judge Moran. Judge Barnum left nothing undecided which had ever heen submit- ted to him. He then took a common law docket, pursuant to the arrangement tuentioned, not because of any preference for it, but from a desire to keep abreast with the Bar and with the progress of legal questions through the courts. lle has held his terms of the criminal court also, und presided there at many important trials. In the course of his judicial duties in the several departments mentioned, Judge Barnum lus been called upon to decide causes of great magnitude of hoth publie and private concern and questions of unusual difficulty and delicacy. How well and correctly he has decided them up- pears In part from the published reports of appealed enses in the Supreme and Appellute Conrt reports, and otherwise by the general acquiescence of the Bar; his decrees and judg- ments have been almost uniformly affirmed. Ile has some- times had occasion in the discharge of his duties to go counter to some temporary phases of general or local public sentiment, but has not 'hesitated to act upon his convictions of law nnd justice regardless of consequences. Junge Barnmun holds al present a high rank on the Bench lle seems to labor and study to conscientiously discharge the functions of his office lu the interests of right, and administers justice with as little error as possible. Ils decisions are clear, logical, and based upon law of which he is an ahle interpreter. As a Judge und a man he is clothed with becoming dignity, though courteous und genteel with all, and possessed with a high sense of honor: is a fair type of true manhood and an honor to the Bench. In his attainments as a wise and safe counselor and an upright and just Judge he well illustrates what may be secomplished by the persistent and honest pursuit of an ardent and deter- mined purpose.

C. T. BARTLETT, builder innl contractor, was born in Lake County, Ill., November 25, 1848. His parents came to Chicago in 1834, and were natives of New Hampshire. In 1836 they went to Lake County, Ill., his father being the first County

Commissioner and still living on his original homestead. The subject of this sketch at the age of eighteen went to Chicago and learned his trade with C. A. Price, and was a superintend- ent on the public works of Indiana. In 1871 he came to Evauston and engaged in bulkling and contracting, nud con- strueted most of the sewers in Evanston. Ile is a member of Evans Lodge, A. F. & A. M. also Chapter, and of Evanston laxige, 1. 6. O. F. Mr. Bartlett was married to Miss Martha A. Cronkhite, of Lake County, III., January 4. 1870. ller parents settled in Lake Conuly in 1840. They have six chil- dren-Faerie D., Charles H., Mary S., Walter W., George V. und Laura M.

CHARLES BECK of Beck & Huntoon, hardware dealers, was born in Trenton, N. J., June 23, 1854. He came, when two years of age, with his parents, Jolin and Eva, who were unong the first settlers of Evanston, and are now living upon n farm at tilencoe. The subject of this sketch learned his trade with J. S. Heywood. the first tinner to settle in Evans- ion, and worked for him for fifteen years. In 1822, npon the failure of Mr. Haywood, Mr. Berk continued the business for himself up to March 10, 1883, when he formed a partnership with William Huntoon, nudler the name of Beck & Huntoun. He is a member of Evanston Lodge, 1. O. O. F .; also of Evanston Gun Club, and Evanston Hose Company. He was married to Miss Emma J. Douglas, of lowa, December 4, 1878. They have one child, George.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 105

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