History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 140

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

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HYDE PARK MOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

WILLIAM EDWARD AIKEN was born in 1954 in Chicago, his parents being C'haries M. and Henrietta l., (Kucket) Aiken. The grandfather, Edward 11 Aiken, kept the Garden City Hotel at an carly period in the history of Chicago The father was a try goxals merchant for len or twelve years, and removed some years ago to San Antonio, Tex., where he now resides, Mrs. Aiken was a daughter of Joshua Rucker, and a sister of the well- known Judge H. 1 .. Kucker, of Chicago, as well as of the scarcely less known E. A. Rucker, a prominent member of the txhd Fellows organization, Supplemental to the public school education ul young Niken in Chicago, were two ferns at Griswold College, Davenport, Juwa, which he left in 1872 to become assistant bok. keeper in a grain commission house. After seven years spent in that connection, and two in a similar position in another fine. De went into business on his nwn acunit in 7550 as a grain com nus. sion dealer. In 1575 Mr. Viken married Ida A., a daughter of Dr. Noulen, of Madison Parish. I.a. They are the parents of

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three children-Iliram E., born in 1877, Ida Josephine, boen in 1879. and Charles Kobert, born in 1880, In October, 1890, Mr. Aiken took up his residence in llyde l'ark.

CHARLES MARTIN ANDERSON was born March 7. 1851. in Gottenburg, Sweden, and immigrated to America in 1870, ile first settled in Boston, working at his trade of painter, which he had learned in Sweden, Russia and Germany. He came to Chi- cago in 1872, and in 1874 removed to llyde Park, where he still remains, and where he began business on his own account as painter. lle is a member of the I'resbyterian Church, and has been a Mason since 1876, belonging to South Park Lodge and Fairview Chapter. Ile is a Republican in politics, and advocates high license.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AVER was born April 22, 1825. in Kingston, Rockingham Co., N. 11. Ile is descended lu the eighth generation from John Ayer, who left England in 1637, and settled in Haverhill, Mass., in 1645. After receiving an academic education in Albany, N. Y., young Ayer entered Dartmouth Col. lege, where he graduated in the class of 1816. Ile then studied law for three years, during the last of which he attended the Dana Law School of Harvard, and was admitted to the Bar in July, I+49. lle began to practice in Manchester, N. 11., whence he was elected to the Legislature in 1953, and in 1854 was appointed Prosecuting Attorney of Hillsboro County, N. 11., which he held until his re- moval to Chicago in 1857. Ile was admitted to the Bar in Illinois, May 15. 1857, and was corporation counsel of Chicago from tiot to 1865, in which capacity he prepared the revised charter of the city in 1863. Ile was afterward of the law firm of Beckwith, Ayer & Kales, and in 1875 of Ayer & Kales, Since December, 1876, he has been general solicitor of the Illinois C'entral. In 1868 he mar- ried Miss Jennie A., a daughter of Judge Ilopkins, of Madison, Wis., and has had by her-Walter, April 26, 1870; Mary Louise, in 1572, and Janet, in 1977. The family are attendants of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since May 1. 1873, and Mr. Ayer is a vestryman of that church.

CORNELIUS BAKER, contractor and builder, was born in Perry County, Penn., in 1840, where he received a good educa- tion, and after leaving school learned the trade of carpenter and builder. In September, 1861, he enlisted in the late war, and served four years in the Army of the Cumberland. He was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. In the spring of 1869 he came to Chicago and worked for four years at his trade as a jour- neyman. Ile then embarked in business under the firm style of Baker Bros., contractors and buiklers, but after a few years he with- drew, and has since carried on the business alone. He is quite a large contractor, and employs from twelve to twenty hands. Mr. laker has accumulated a nice property, and has a comfortable home on State Street.

MINARD LAFEVER BEERS was born March 18, 1847, in Callamer, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, of Daniel .Alexander and Lucy I'mma ( Minor) leers, The father, who was a builder, named the son in honor of a French architect. He was educated in the com- mon schools and academy of Collamer, thin, and learned the trade of carpenter from his father, At the age of twenty-one became a student of Joseph Ireland, architect, of L'leveland, ( thio. He came to Chicago in 187t, and for a time worked as draughts- man for Architect Wheelock. From 1874 to 1878 he was of the Firm of Cobb & Beers, architects, and since then alone in the same business. May 4, 1871, Mr. lleers was married to Miss Harriet Mabel l'age, of Collamer, Ohio, by whom he has had three chil- dren-llerbert l'age, October 18, 1873 : llarley Maynard, Decem- ber 22, 1880 ; Leslie Minor, February 21, 1333. Ile went to reside in Hyde Park in 1877.

LARS BERG, of John Berg & Bro., manufacturers of ladders, wooden ware, etc., was horn in sweden in 1830 and reared on a farm. Ile immigrated to Chicago in 1870, and was employed lu the manufacture of ladders, wooden ware, etc. In 1877 he became associated with his brother, John Berg. under the firm naine of John Berg & Bro. They do a heavy business in the manufacture of ladders, etc., and give employment to some twenty men, and have extensive manufacturing premises in Chicago. The subject of this sketch resided in the town of Lake for ten years, and in October, 1883, changed his place of residence to llyde Park. Ile was married in Chicago, January 13, 1873, 10 Bietei Swanson. They have three children-Sophia, Amelia and I.conard.

GEORGE MARQUIS BOGUE was born January 21, 1842, son of Warren S. and Sally ( Underwood) Bogue. The father was born in Vermont and the mother in New York. The family came 10 Chicago in 1856, and in 1857 young Bogue went to work in the freight office of the Merchant's Dispatch, with whom he remained until t85g. Ile then took a course of study in Cayuga Lake Academy, Aurora, N. Y. Returning in 1861, he again entered the office of the same company, where he remained until 1863. In June, 1863, he entered the service of the land department of the Illinois Cen-

tral, continuing therein until October, 1867. Since then he has been in the real estate business on his own account. lle went 10 reside in Hyde Park in 1858, where he occupied the position of Village Clerk from 1864 to 1867, and Treasurer from 1869 to 1872. lle was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners for Cook County in 1872, and served until 1874, when he was elected a member of the Legislature, serving one term. Ile was appointed by the Governor of the State of Illinois railroad and warehouse commissioner in February, 1877, which position he occupied until his resignation in February, 1883. when he was chosen arbitrator of the western railroad pools. Jannary, 1871. Mr. Bogue was married to Miss Catharine M. Van Doren, by whom he has two children surviving-Franklin Ackerman, born January 31, 1979 ; and Ruth Van Duren, born October 14, 1882. 'Ile Is a member of the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, and has been one of lis trustees since 1864.

OSWELL AMOS ROGUE was born May 3, 1832, in Louis- ville, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., son of Warren S, and Sally (U'mlerwood) Bogue. The father was a native of Vermont, In. 1854 young Bogue came to Chicago, but left the same year for the mines of Ontunagon district, on Lake Superior, where he remained until 1856. Ile then engaged in the general commission business In Chicago until 1868, when he went into real estate, in which he has since remained. Ile is now president of the Dakota company. organized under the territorial laws of Dakota, to cleal in lands, insurance, banking and general business in that territory, with principal office in Chicago, In 1857, Mr. Bogue married Miss Mary S., daughter of Luman Moody, of Canton, N. Y., and niece of Governor Silas Wright, of New York. She died in 1873, leav- Ing three sons-Luman M., Warren C. and John 11., all residing in Denver, Col. In 1874. Mr. Bogue married Mrs. Grace C. lielden, a daughter of Abner Cutler, of Ituffam. Their only child, Roswell, was born in May, 1878, in Hyde Park, where Mr. Bogue took up his residence in 1871. Hle is a member of the South Cion- gregational Church, and has been from its organization one of its deacons and trustees and also its treasurer. lle was Comptroller ní the village from 1879 10 1682, and is a Republican in politics. Hle joined the Masonic Order in the winter of 1853, at Canton, N. V., and the Apollo Commandery of Chicago in 1858. 11 is a member of Oriental Lodge and Lafayette C'hapter,

CHARLES LANSING BOYD was born in 1843 in Albany. N. Y., of Jesse C. and Elsie (Noble) Boyd. His family came West in 1849 and settled in Chicago, lu the year 1860 Charles went to clerk for his brother James, banker and broker, at Chicago. About 1863 he was admitted into the firm of James Boydl & Bros. ; and after the removal of James to New York City in 1865 he and Robert continued as Boyd Itros .; then Robert going to Aurora in 1867, he carried on the business as Charles I., Boyd until the fire. After that event he used the style of the Exchange Bank, and made a specialty of purchasing mutilated and charred currency, being about the only large buyer. Upon the failure of the First National Bank of Washington, in 1873, Mr. Boyd organized. in co-operation with the National Bank of C'ommerce of Chicago, a bureast of redensp- tion of mutilated currency. But when the Government organized ils department for the same purpose about 1874. he went into building at Grand Crossing. He became a deputy to Collector Kimball in 1876, and to Treasurer Iluck in 1877. From September, 1877, to January 1. 1884, he was employed as an expert in winding up the affairs of the " Bee-hive " Bank, umler Receiver Ward, and is now a mortgage and investment banker, 154 lake Street. In 1865_ Mr. Boyd was married to Melvina F., a daughter of the late William lock, a merchant tailor of Chicago since 1538. They are the parents of four chillren-James, born in, 1866; Emma 1 .. , in 1860 ; Elsie N., in 1975 ; Hannah L., in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Hyde Park, and Mr. Itnyd is secretary of its board of deacons.

ROBERT BOYD was born July 15, 1841, in Albany, N. Y .. son of Jesse C. and Elsie (Noble) Boyd. His grandfather, James Boyd, was a member of the New York Legislature, and an ardent supporter of William L. Marcy. The Boyds were early settlers in the Mohawk Valley. Robert came West with his parents in 1849. At the age of twenty he became a clerk ina general store in Dixon, but after six months rejoined his brothers in Chicago, later obtain- ing an interest in the hrm of James Royd & Bros., bankers and brokers. James removed to New York in 1865, when Robert and Charles 1. continued as Boyd Brothers. In 1867, with some others, Robert started in Aurora, Ill., a bank, which afterward be- came its Second National, but sold out his interest after about six months, and took the position of confidential clerk for a large woolen house; and upon its re-organization after the fre became a member under the style of Biddle & Boyd. Early in 1877. as a re- sul of the long-continued financial pressure, that firm was dis- solved; and, after being two years out of business, in January. 1877), Mr. Boyd became the manager of the Fidelity Safe Deposit Company, of Chicago, where he has since remained. In 1864 he

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was married to Miss Celia Stone, who died ol consumption in 180g. leaving two children : Robert, Jr., born in 1866, and William, born in 1868. Ju 1874 he married Miss Helen Pitcher, ol Lewis County, N. Y., by whom he has had one child, Alexander, In 1576. Ile moved to llyde Park in 1875. He joined the Masonic Order in 1863, and is a member of the Apollo Commandery. Ile is a Republican in politics.

ALEXANDER STUART BRADLEY, lawyer, was born at Fryeburg, Maine, in 1833. Ilis father, Alexander k., was also a lawyer, and practiced for many years, until his death in 1862. They are descendants of Captain Samuel A. Bradley, who with his brother, Lieutenant Jonathan, was killed in battle with the Indians at Concord, N. H., about 1724, the subject of this sketch being of the fourth generation. Ilis earlier education was received at the cominos school and academy of Fryeburg. after which he entered Bowdoin College, where he graduated in ts58. Hle studied law under the well-known statesman, William l'itt Fewenden, of Port- land, a cousin on the maternal side, and was admitted to the Bar in 1563. lle married Miss Harriet A. Towle, daughter of Dr. Ira Towle, in 1864, and removed to Nashville, Tenn., in t865. lle practiced law at Nashville from 1865 to 1872, and was register in bankruptcy fmni 1867 10 1872, when he came to llyde l'ark, was admitted to the Bar of Illinois, and has since practiced in the courts of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley are the parents of four chil- dren-Alexander Stuart. Jr., born in 1968; Mary, in t870; Ilar- riet, in 1875; and Annie, in 1877.

JOIN JAMES CLARK was born September 6, 1527, in Gloucester, Muss., son of George and Mary (Burnham) Clark, Ile learned the business of heavy iron-worker at the age of sixteen. and followed it for twenty years, engaging then in a stock com- pany, the Cape Ann Anchor Works. of which he was president and manager for some years. In 197t he came to Chicago as managing partner in the West of Clark, Somes & Co., verwel owners, and wholesale ilealers in fish, They suffered some losses in the great fire ; and in 1874 Mr. Clark sold out his shipping interest and became sole owner of the western business ol the house. In 1876. having closed his relations with Somes, he formed the firm of Clark & Loveday, fish dealers. In September, 188t, he sold out his interest to Mr. Loveday, and has since been engaged in fish brokerage. Mr. Clark was married in 1548 to Elizabeth 11. C'urtis. who died ten years later, leaving two children-John Henry, born in t849, a resident of Gloucester, Mass, and Richard II., born in 1955, who is in the employ of Gray, Burt & Kingman, of t'hicago. In 1959, Mr. Clark married Elizabeth A. Gould, a native of Nova Scotia, by whom he has had seven children-Elizabeth, ttlive. Bertha and tirace ; Frank, born in 1863 : Odell, in 1868, and Ben- jamin, in 187t. Though over thirty years in business Mr. Clark has never failed or compromised with his creditors.

JOHN ADAMS COLE was born December t6, 1839, in Westmoreland, N. JI., of John and Elizabeth (Shaw) Cole. The family inoved to Medway, Mass., in 184t, where young C'ole received his earlier education, supplemented later on by higher studies in Kimball Uinion Acarleny, at Meridan, N. II. In 1856 he went Into the office of Thomas Doane, a distinguished civil engineer of Boston, from whom he took the full three years' course ol instruction, Mr. Calc was engaged on the Charleston water works survey. and after three years' professional pursuits was appointed, in 1862, general agent east of the Alleghany Mountains in charge of the field operations of the United States Christian Commission, distributing about $3,500,000 ul their funds from 1862 to 1966. He then went into engineering in Washington ; and in 1872 came to Chicago, Ile has had charge of Lake View water works, and those of Ilyde Park have been constructed mainly after his designs and under his directions, and he is now engaged in building the tunnel under Lake Michigan for that municipality. Ile is engineer for the towns of Lake View and Jefferson, and con- sulting engineer for Hyde Park, where he has resided since t8St. In 1870 Mr. Cole was married to Julia M. Alvord of Washington, by whom he has had two children-Edward S., in 1871, and Julia F ... In 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Cole are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Cole is a Republicant.

ISAAC S. COLLINS of the firm of llarmon, Merriam & Co., wholesale grocers. Chicago, was born in t'hicago in 1842. Ilis father Samuel B. Collins, located in Chicago in 1837, and wax senior member of the firm ol Samuel B. Collins & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in boots, shoes and leather. Ile was one of the pioneers of Chicago, well and lavorably remembered by all old settlers as a public-spirited business man. Ile died in 1855. Mr. Isaac S. Collins was employed in the general freight office of the Illinois Central Railroad Company in 196t. Ile enlisted In the war in 1862, and entered the employ ol Whitaker, Harmon & Co., wholesale grocers, In 1865. In 1870 he became a member of the firm of Harmon, Messer & Co., which was changed to llarmon, Merriam & Co., after the death of Colonel John Messer. He mar-

ried Miss Annic E. Kriegh, daughter of David Kriegh, who died in 1880, leaving one son, Kriegh Collins.

HON. IRUS COV, attorney at law, was born in Chemango County, .N. V .. July 25, 1833, and received his primary education in the schools of that place, alterwards entered Central College in Cortland County, N. Y., graduating from that institution in 1953. Jle attended the New York State and National Law School at l'oughkeepsie, N. V., and was admitted to the Har at Albany in the spring of 1857. During that same year he removed to Kendall County, JI1., and entered into the successful practice of the law, doing a large business. Ile at once became the leading lawyer in that sec- tion ol the State, and was engaged in every trial of importance in the Circuit Court that was fried in Kendall County during his residence there. Mr. Coy represented Kendall County in the State Legislature in 180g and 1870, and in that body attained to a high rank. His counsel was sought by his associates in all matters of importance, and he soon advanced to the position of a leader, and was considered by many as the ablest debater in either branch der. ing those sessions. Ile guarded faithfully the interests of the State, and some of his speeches were the miost elnquent of any ever deliv- ered in the Illinois Legislature. Mr. Coy removed to Chicago in 1871 and has been attorney for the I'nion Stock Yards & Transit Company since that time. Hle has the entire management of the legal business of the concern, and since his connection with the company it has not had to pay a single judgment. A number have been obtained against them, but Mr. Coy has always been suc- cessful in having them set aside by the higher courts, Ile has resided at Ulude l'ark since 1874, In 1876 he was elected a mem. ber of the Board of Trustees of Ilyde Park, and in 1877 was elected a member of the Board of Education of District No. 2, of the touns ol llyde Park and Lake, for a term of three years, and re-elected in 1880, During one year of this period he was president of the board, and resigned on account of the pressure of legal business in his practice.

GEORGE WALTER CUSHING was born October 9, 1844. in Abington, Plymouth Co .. Mass., son of Greenwood and Mary Hobart (Reed) Cushing. [te is a member of the original C'ushing family of Massachusetts. The Reed lamily are also old settlers of New England, and many historic associations cluster around the names of some of his ancestors on both sides. G. W. Cushing came West in 1865, taking the position ol cashier in a mercantile house, and in 150g went into the service of the Illinois Central, in which he has since remained, filling at present the office of assistant freight agent. Mr. Cushing was married in August. 18;2, to Mrs. Ellen Seeds, nee Dolan, a native of New York City. They are attendants at the services of the U'nitarian Church, and Mr. C'ushing is a member of the Masonic Order. lle is a resident of Hyde Park since 1873.

GEORGE W. DEXTER, of the firm of llarmon. Merriam & Co., wholesale grocers, Chicago, was born in Chicago November 19. 1846, where his parents located in t838. Ilis father was a native of New Hampshire and his mother of New York State. The subject of this sketch attended the common school until t557. when his parents moved to Mellenry County, Il., where he te. mained until the breaking out of the war. In 1866 he again lo- cated In Chicago, having served some three years In the commis- sary department of the Federal army, with the commands of A. J. Smith and J. 11. Hawkins, nearly all the time in active feld sert- ice, being too young to join the ranks. On his return to the city he went in work as a clerk in the wholesale house of Whitaker, Harmon & Co., and became a member of the present firm in 1979. lle married Miss I .. A. Sawyer in 1873, who was born in Jlenty County, IM. They have three children.

NATHAN BEACH DODSON was born October 23, 1826. in Luzerne County, l'enn., of Nathan and IJuldah (Bowman| Dod- son. The father was a larmer and miller, and removed to : Ilinois in 1837, settling in McDonough County. Ile removed to Kane County in 1843, and in 1845 to Cook County, dying on his farm in 1874, aged eighty-nine. Having received his education in the common schools Mr. Dodson worked with his lather until the age of twenty, when he came to Chicago and served as clerk and ap- prentice at the tinner's trade from itgh to 1850. Ja 1550 Mt. Dodson ernssed the plains to California, and returned toward the close of 1851. lle began mercantile business in the line of bas trade at Morris, Ill., in 1852, continuing until the fall of 1561. lle then returned to Chicago and went to work for William Blair & Co., where he remained until the spring of 157t, when by reason of enfeebled health he was out of business for nearly a year. January 1, 1872, he became a member of the firm of Dodson & Peirce, dealers in groceries aud provisions, flour and leed, in llyde Park, where he had come to reside in March, 1862. He still con tinues al the old stand. Mr. Dodson has suffered much domestic bereavement, having successively lost five children and three wines. He is the father of two children by his last wife, Caroline Dexter,

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who died in 1974. The slaughters are Maud and Mabel, aged re- spectively seventeen and fifteen. Mr. Dodson is a member of the Baptist Church, and is a Republican in politics.

GOODRICH QUIGG DOW was born in 1848 in Chester, N. Il., son of Dr. Darius A. and Mary Goodrich (Quigg) Dow. The father served through the Civil War, and in the later part of The conflict as Surgeon of Division. The Dows, Goodriches and Quiggs are old families in New Hampshire, and are of English and Scotch origin. Mr. Dow's great-grandfather, Quigg, a Cap- tain In the army of the Revolution, was the first to drop the pre- fix " Mc. ' which is still retained by some branches of the family. Coming West in 186g, Mr. Dow settled in Hyde Park, as a drug- gist, and toward the end of 1873 was appointed Postmaster, in both nf which avocations he is still engaged.

GEORGE A. EMERY, real estate dealer, was born in Hampden, Me., November 2, 1831. While a mere boy he was a pioneer to California, going around Cape Horn in 1850. lle was engaged in active business most of the time while in California, being a partner for several years with the llon. F. F. Low, late Governor of Callfornia, in the banking business, At one time he was treasurer for twenty-two different corporations, among which was the Union Cape Mining Company, which at that time was the largest mining operation ever undertaken in the State. He shipped to the United States mint over 300,000 ounces, or about five tons in weight, of goll dust during the last two years nf his stay in C'al- ifornia, Having been very successful, and having acquired what he considered a competency, he retired from business in California and returned to his old home in Maine, in tibo, where he soon after married Miss Frances Snow, his present wife. Ilis restless spirit would not long allow him to remain down East, andl visiting Chicago in the summer of 1867. It seemed so much like C'aliornia 10 him that he went back East, sold out his entire homestead. which he had previously improved and beautified at great cost to himself, and with his family came to Chicago in July, 1868. In looking around for business he came to the conclusion that a great city was sure to spring up here, and shrewdly invested largely in real estate on the avenues south in the town of Ilyde l'ark. Ile built an elegant home on l'rairie Avenue, near Forty-fifth Street. and removed to Ilyile Park, where his interests were. He is one of a very few who went through the panic of 1873 unscathed: has never been surd nor had a judgment entered against him; is honorable and upright In his dealings; and is now in the front rank of nur first-class men. Ile Is remarkable for his energy, and we predict for him a brilliant future.

MARTIN FARRELL was born in Kilkenny County, Ireland, in 1832, and there received his education. In October, tist, he came tu Chicago, whence he went about a year later, in the fall of 1892, to St. Louis, Mo., where he was employed in a wholesale grocery house. Returning to Chicago carly in 1855, he opened a retail grocery establishment, where he carried on business up to 1876. Early In 1874 Mr. Farrell erected a large brick building. containing two stores, and in October of that year engaged in gen- eral merchandise business, which he carried on until about 1879. when he closed out all his goods but his grocery stock. His son Thomas now carries on a grocery business in one of the stores. Mr. Farrell gives some attention to the business, but devotes most of his time to his real estate interests, He was in 1876 elected n member of the Board of Trustees of Hyde Park and re-elected in 1877.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 140

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