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JOHN FARREN, superintendent of blacksmith shop C., R. I & I. R. R. shops, was born in Boston, Mass., December 24. 1833. When young he moved to Schenectady. N. Y., where he was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade in the " Queen Lacomo- tive Works." Ile came to Chicago in :860 ; was superintendent of the blacksmith department in the shops of the t'hicago & Galena Union Railroad four years ; then with the C., P. & F. W. R. R. for six years, and in 1870 took his present position. Mr. Farten located in llyde l'ark In 1870, and became identified with the Incal politics. He took an active part in building the water works am! other public improvements. In 1878 he was elected a member of the Board of Education of District No. 2, lowns of Ilyde l'ark and Lake, serving three years, and was re-elected in 1881. Through his efforts the fine school building, corner of Fifty-first Street and Wabash Avenue was erected and named after him. The year ful- Jowing he was elected a member of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County from District Nn. 5.
OTIS SKINNER FAVOR, merchant, was born july 24. 1840, in Boston, Mass., son of Zebulon Carr and Harriet Hitch. born (Savage) Favor. Soon after his birth the family removed to New York City, where they remained until 1855, when they came to Chicago. The father went into the manufacture of furniture and the son acted as his clerk, but they had scarcely well begun before the panic of 1857 swept away their business. In 1859. young Favor filled the position of night clerk in the Richmond House, Chicago, and when Tabor, Hawk & Co opened the Ilyde
Park Hotel, he became Its clerk. In July, 1862, he organized Company K. south Illinois Volunteer Infantry. at Ottawa, and was elected its First Lieutenant. At the close of the war he engaged in the paint and oil business, and has been in mercantile business ever since. November 6, 1566, he married Miss Allie, a daughter of Meses Thompson and Mary E. Miles ; and they are the parents of four children. Ile has resided in Hyde Park since 1870.
JOSIAH MITCHELL FLEMING was born August 18. 1839. in New l'aris, Preble Cn .. thio, eldest son of James and Mary (Hopkins) Fleming, The father, a native of Kentucky, of Scotch- Irish origin, with his father, Mitchell Fleming, and other relatives, was among the early settlers of that county. The mother, by birth a Marylander, but of English descent, was a daughter of Joslah Hopkins, a sea captain. At the age of thirteen, J. M. Fleming was entered as an apprentice in a general store in New Madison, Parke Co., Ohio, for three years From 1855 to 1857 he served as salesman in the same line, nt Union City, in the same cminty. Ile then removed In Dayton, Ohio, where he was em- ployed for seven years in a dry goods house, whence he went to Cincinnati in (Sog, to take the position of manager of the retail business of john Shilllto & Co. In 1965 he came to Chicago to fill a position of responsibility with Field, Leiter & Co., being. since 1877. the general manager of the retail house of that firm, and the persent one. Marshall Fieldl & Co. In June. 1863, Mr. Flem- ing married Adhdlie W., a daughter of the Rev. Dr. George C. Crum, of the M. E .. Church, of Springfield, thio, Their only child living. Carey Kennedy Fleming, was born October 19, 1864, In Dayton, Ohio. The family are members of the M. E. Church, and have resided in Hyde Park since 1881.
JAMES RAMSAY FLOOD, physician, was born in 1838 in Hamilton, Canada ; and in 1858 began in teach school. His father, James Floml, was a large dealer in timber for ship-building purjawes, and senior partner of the well-known lumber firm of Flocl, Couk & Co., of Hamilton and Binbrook. About 1863 young Flood came to the United States and entered the University of Michigan, afterward graduating at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, in tsoh, After a brief interval in Detroit and Huron City, he settled in Ityile l'ark in 1867, in the practice nf his pro- fewsin. From IS;t to 1881 he gave his services to the Woman's llo.pital free of charge. About 187t he was appointed the firat health officer of the newly-created municipality. In 18&t he established the South Chicago Bank, which, when sold by him in 1883. was inerged in the Calumet National Bank. He also founded the South Chicago Building and Loan Association. Ile resumed the practice of his profession early in ts54, at his home In Hyde Park. April 10, 1867, Dr. Flood married Sarah C., a daughter of Hon. Samuel Douglass, of Evanston, late County Judge of Ben- ton, lowa, They are the parents of four children-Samuel Doug- lass, born in 1868 : Robert Douglass, in 187t : Elenora Douglass, in (87) : aml James William Douglass, in 188t.
SYLVESTER DANA FOSS was born April 12, 1834, in Thornton, N. Il., being the second of three children of Jacob Hoyt and Lavinia ( Elliott) Foss. The father was a fariner : the grandfather, Ebenezer, was a soldier of the Revolution and one of the guards at the executinn of Major Andre ; and the family is of early New England origin. The maternal grandfather of S. D. Foss also fought in the war uf the Revolution, was taken prisoner and carried to England, The Elliotts, ton, are of early New En- gland origin. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Foss went to Boston and served in a wholesale grocery store over three years. It Feb- ruary, 1859, he came West, and tried his fortune at Pike's Peak, where 1.cadville now stands, and where he had about the average luck of the adventurers of that day-much hardship, some valuable experience, and little gain, In 1860 he returned to Chicago in time to vote for Abraham Lincoln, amil has ever since voted the Repub- Ilcan ticket. Ile went to work for the Board of Trade as inspector of grain, and held the position about seven years, Early in 196d he engaged in his present business of grain commission, and about six months afterwand formed a partnership with his only brother. Martin 11., under the style of S. 1). Foss & Co., which remained unbroken until the death of the latter in 1881. Meanwhile, on the accession of E. B. Strong and joseph Reynolds In 1879, the name was changed to Foas, Strong & Co., which still continues, doing a constantly increasing and eminently successful business, and has never failed to pay dollar for dollar, Mr. Foss was elected a director of the Board of Trade in 1874 and 1575, and is now again a director, llc represents the Fourth Ward of Chicago in the t'onon Council, having returnel to the city in 1978, after a revilence of seven years in Hyde Park, Ile is chairman of the committee on printing and n member of the committee on finance and police. March 5. 1863. Mr. Foss married Susan Morgan, a daugluter of Lansing Morgan, a lumber merchant of Elgin and Chicago. They are the parents of three daughters and one son. the latter named Willis Judson Foss. Mr. and Mrs. Foss are members of the l'rexbyterian Church, and Mr. Foss belongs to
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WILLIAM S. GEE, physician, was born August fi. 1856, in Clintun, Mo., whenre his parents. George and Nancy ( Fonl) tice, removed In Madison County, Ind., in 1858. The father is a native of Leicestershire, England. who came tu America aluunt 1936, and now resides at Anderson. Ind. The mother was an American of Senich parentage. W. S. Cice grew up on a farm, receiving the usual public school education, supplemented by a high-school course. after which he taught the cummon district schools for about five years. Ile received his professional education at lahne- mann College, graduating with Ingh honors in the class of 188t. Hle then became resident physician of the Hahnemann Hospital for a time, and in the spring of 1942 settled at Hyde Park in the practice of his professiun, where he has already attainedl a ilegtee of success far beyond his expectatums. Dr. Gee is much interested in benevolent organisations, being a member of the Royal Arcanum. und of the United Order uf Hunor, of the (kbdl Fellows, and of the American Legion of Honor, of which List he is the medical examiner for his council. December 31. 8883, Dr. Get married Katharine llelle, a daughter of T. B. James of Ilyde l'ark, and] Marshall Field's oldest salesmen. She is a graduate of the village high school of the class of 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Gee are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Ilyde l'ark.
G. W. GIFFORD, wholesale glove manufacturer. Chicago, was born in Watertown, N. V., in 1330. He moved to Chicago in 1647 and entered a wholesale hat, cap andI fur house as twosk-keeper. In 1857 he commenced the manufacturing business on his own- account, which he has followed successfully since, notwithstanding he was burned out three different thunes. His wife was a Miss Emma Onion, a native of New York City, whom he married in 1553. They have six children. Mrs. Clifford. although in her fifty-third year, Is as nimble and active as many women at thirty. She los her mother in the cholera epidemic of 1852 in Chicagu, after but a few hours sickness. She has nursed when sick, and prepared for the last journey perhaps more than any woman in private life in Chiengo.
IRVING L .. GOULD, importer of lace goods, Chicago, was born in Minneapolis. Minu., in 183g. He minved to Boston, Mass., with his mother when quite young, and attended school there. Ilis first business was book selling, after which he engageil in the insurance business, and after being about four years engaged in the two branches above named. he engageil in the lace business in that city, where he thoroughly familiarized himself with it. Moving to Chicago in 1979. he estalilished himself in the business of importing lace goods, and although quite a young man he has succeeded in his business beyond precedent. Ile married Miss Grace Mander. ville, a native of Indiana. in February, 1892. She died January 18. 1583, leaving an infant.
ZACITARIAS HALLEN, manufacturer and-dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Sweden Ilecember 8, 1843, and on attain- ing the age of eleven years was apprenticed to the trade of shoe. maker; and followed that occupation for a livelihood. He was for four years a volunteer and two years a regular sublier in the Swedish Army. Mr. Hallen Immigrated to Cook County in the spring of 1871, located in the town of lake, and was employeil at his trade as a journeyman until . August, 1872, when he embarked in business for himself. Ile moved to his present location in Ilyde l'ark in September, where he has a large brick business establish- ment, and has built an extensive trade, carrying a stock of some 84.000. lle is a member of the 1. O. O. F., Ilyde Park Inlge. No. 722, and has been treasurer of it for the past year, and the .\. O. F., Cuurt tieneral Washington.
JAMES GRAHAM HAMILTON was born in 1845 in Bre- men, Cook Co., Ill .. being the fourth child of William and Mary A. [Graham) Hamilton. The father, by birth a Scotchman, came to America in 1525 at the age of seventeen, and is still living near Bremen un the farm purchased by him September 3, 1835. The muther is nf Scotch-Irish descent, aud a native of Ireland, where she was born in 1311. February 22, 1863, young Hamilton, then in his elghteenth year, enlisted in the 39th Illinois Volunteer It- fantry, in which he served until October 13. 1564, when he lost a leg in a skirmish with the Ketels on the Darbytown road, before Richmond, Va., on account uf which he was honorably discharged soon after. Returning disabled for farm work he secured a com- merelal education, and has since filled several jkoitions of an clerical character in the offices of Cook County. He has served as depuis 10 the Recorder and County Clerk. In tipo he was elerted as Town ('terk of Hyde Park, and in 8879, 1350 and teHT, was it- I'll- lector of Taxes, Since 1597 he has been Deputy Clerk of the C'rim- inal Court of Conk County. Jannary to. 1878. Mr. Ilamilton married Miss Hattie R. Clark, of Chicago, and their only child, Wesley Allen, was horn October to, 1870. Mr. Hamihun has resislel in Hyde Park since 1$70, and has usually voted the Re- publican ticket,
ROBERT HAWKINS, chief engineer and superintendent of Hyde Park water works, was appointed to his present position April, t88] Ile was born in Wexford County, Irelandt, January 8, 1548. His parents settled in Chicago in 1864, where, affer leaving school, he entered the N. W. R. R. shops, where he remained about tive years, learning the trade of machinist, which he followed afterward in various places. In 1874 he was appointed to the wa- ter works of Hyde Park and Lake. On the dissolution of this combination he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Public Works, a position he retained until appointed tu the present one.
CYRUS MADISON HAWLEY was born January 27. 1515, in Sulen, Cortland ('D., N. Y., of Lewis and Sarah (Tanner) Hawley, of Newport, R. I. Educated at Homer Academy under Professor Wonlwurth, Mr. Hawley studied law under Joshua A. Spencer frum about 1836 to 1840; his health being poor, in early manhood he embraced no career until he was admitted to the Har of Illinois in 1949. Ile had. however, heen mininated for Con- grens in hils district hy the Liberty party in 1846, and received neinly three Thousandl votes; being somewhat more than were cast for the Democratic candidate, but lacked about three hundred of the number cast fur the successful Whig candidate, who pledged himself to anti-slavery principles before election, but once in Con- gress, gave in his adhesion to the "silver gray" fattion of President Fillmore. In 1847 Mr. Hawley came West, and after a period of travel for the benefit of his health, and a shutt residence at Wan- kegan, he settled in Chicago and began to practice law, In 15gs he was of the firm of Burgess & Hawley, and during the Civil War was active through P'ress and platform in support of the L'nion- especially as a member of the Republican campaign committees. In 1866 he was of the firm of Trumbulls ( Lyman and George) & Ilawley, which continued until his elevation to the Bench of the Supreme Court of Utah Territory, in 1569. His judicial carver forms a conspicuous chapter in the history of the attempe of the Government to make United States laws paramount in that fac. tional community. At the cluse of his official term in 1873 he re- moved ta Washington, where he formed the firm nf Ilau ley x Kille, which continued until his retirement in 1876 from the active duties of his profession. Hle returned to Chienga in 1879 and Inok np his residence in Hyde Park in t980. In recent years he has utilized hi+ leisure in writing various papers-political, philo- sophival and religious-on the questions of the day, as he felt that he had a message to his fellow-citizens. Mrs. Ilawley, who before her marriage to the Judge in tBez was Sophia Fellows, is a daughter of Hon. Henry Fellows, of P'enfield, N. Y., a grand- daughter of General Fellows, of the Revolutionary Army, and a cousin of l'resident Barnard, of Columbia College, N. V. The Judge traces descent from Francis Hawley, who landed in Hosta in the second quarter of the seventeenth century, amd afterward settled in Connecticut. He was one of four or live brothers who left Parwich, Derbyshire, for New England; and from when are desrendeil all the American Hawleys.
HOMER NASHI HIBBARD' was born November 7, 1524. in Bethel, Windsor Co., Vt., nf Samuel and Edith (Nach) Ilib- Ixarct. Mr. Hibbard Is descended from Robert and Joan " Hit- bert," who were members of the Congregational Church at Salem. Mass., in 1635. He is of the sixth generation thus : Robert l2dl. Nathaniel, Zebulon. Zebulon (2dl, Samuel and Homer X. Thrungh his mother, a daughter of l'hinchas Nash, he is in the same degree removed from Thomas Nash, a member uf Rev. John Davenport's colony of Quinnipiac, now New Haven, Conn. In 1846 Mr. Hibbard entered the I'niversity of Vermont, and graduated in the class of 1850. Ile then became principal of the Burlington high school for two years, when he entered the Dane Law School, nf Harvard University, remaining until the spring of 1853. He can- tinued his law studies for six months longer at Burlington, when he was admitted to the Bar. Coming to Chicago, he was admined to the Har in Illinois, November 7. 1853, and formed a partnership with John A. Jameson, with whom he removed to Freeport in 18:4. In 1956 he formed a partnership with Martin P. Sweet, of that city, and tuok an active part in its educational Interests, being pres- ident of the Board of Education. He was appointed master in chancery, and elected City Attorney; and in this Intter capacity drafted it« charter and culified its ordinances. In 18ho he returned to Chicago to rejoin his former partner in the firm of Cornwell. Jameson & llibbard, which was dissolved in 1865 by the election of Mr Jameson to the Bench; he afterward formed the firm of Thbhard, Rich & Noble, which was dissolved in 38;t. In January, Igu Mt. Ilbban was appointed by Judge Drummond register is bankruptcy for l'hivago, a position he has since held. In rien he tonk np Ins residence in Hyde Park, where he has been a member of the Board of Education for ten years, and its president m. nv times. Ile married Miss Jane Noble in 1955, barn in 162". daughter of the Hon. William Noble, a lawyer and a P' mimaster Burlington, Vt. They are the parents of hve chilton-F
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Nash, born In 1856; William Noble, In 1858; John Denison, in 1864. Mary Grace, in 1868; Katharine, in 1871.
JOHN W. HICKEY. of Hickey & Edwards, house, sign and decorative painters, was born in Providence, R. I., in 1953, and came to Chicago in 1857 with his father, James Ilickey. who for some years carried on an extensive business in the manufacture of waggons. The subject of this sketch began at the age of fifteen to learn the trade of sign and decorative painter under 1 .. Regan, and since then has perfected himself in all branches of painting. For the past eight years he has been engaged nearly all the time in business for himself. In tsso he moved to Hyde Park, was two years employed by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, and in January. 1983, opened business in company with W. G. Edwards, an old and experienced man in this line. The firm do a large business, employing about twenty men. They do considerable decorative work, for which they are buikling up quite a reputation.
HORACE R. HORART, editor of the Railway Age 'and vice- president of the Railway Age Publishing Company, Chicago, was born in Wisconsin in 1839. Ile became identified with the Press immediately after graduating from Beluit College In 1860. lle enlisted in the Ist Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry in 1861, and served as Battalion Quartermaster until woumled near Ilelena. Ark., in 1862, from the effects of which he was obliged to quit artive service as a soldier, but received the appointment of Deputy Provost Marshal for the Second Congressional District of Wiscon. sin, with office at Janesville, Wis., holding that position for four years, until the close of the war. Ile moved to Chicago in 1866, and was connected with the city department of the Tribune until appointed city editor of the Evening l'ost, in 1867. He hekl this position two years, when he resigned to take the Western manage- ment of the American Press Association, which position he uecu- pied four years. In the meantime, in 1870, he started the Evening Mail, of which he was managing editor, being also president of the Evening Mail Company. Ile soll out his interest in the Evening Mail in 1873, and visited Europe with his family. Returning in 1874. he purchased a half-interest in the Jacksonville ( !!!. ) Daily Journal, of which he became editor. In 1875 he returned to Chicago and became editor of the Chicago Morning Courier, which he managed until it became a Democratic organ. In 1876 he joined with Mr. E. H. Talbott in starting the Railway Age, with which he has ever since been nctively connected, holding the position ahove noteil. lle was a Trustee of Ilyile P'ark for three years, and for two years its l'resident. During his presidency the new and excellent water works were built. Ile married, in 1872, Miss Emma M. Ilastings, a daughter of llon. Samuel D. Hastings, for many years State Treasurer of Wisconsin. They have one child, a son. Mrs. Hobart was born in Philadelphia, Penn.
HASSAN ARTEZ HOPKINS was born February 25. 1814. in White Creek, Washington Co., N. V., of Hleman and Hannah (Robinson) Hopkins. At the age of fourteen he went into mer. cantile business as clerk, first in Swanton, and afterward in St. Albans. In 1932 he accompanied two ulder brothers to New Jersey, where they opened a general store at Drakeville. In the winter of 1836-37, in partnership with Leonard Wheeler, he went to North Carolina with a stock of goods, on a trading venture ; and at the close of the season returned North and opened a general store in Colchester, L'unn., which they closed out in 1838. After a brief experience in quarrying marble at Glens Falls, N. Y., with Julius 11. Rice, Mr. Hopkins, with an elder brother, formed the firm of Hopkins Bros., general traders, with the oversight, man- agement and control of the products of Mr. Rice's quarries, which Ilassan A. Hopkins sold in the Boston and New York markets. About 1542 he formed the firm of Hopkins, Dix & Co., with a son of Mr. Rice as the third partner. Afterward, on relinquishing the marhle business he and Mr. Dix (James 1 .. ] operated a furnace and machine shop, as well as general store, as Hopkins & Dix. In November, 1955. he came to Chicago, and was at once employed hy his nephew, Paul Cornell, in his new enterprise of laying out what is now Hyde Park, where he settled permanently in 1857. having meanwhile spent eighteen months introducing a new roofing material in Philadelphia and Baltimore. In the spring of t859 he was chosen Trustee ol the original Hyde Park Company, and as such has had occasion to sign a large number of transfers of Hyde Park realty. In 1841 he married Aliss Sarar M. Masten, a daughter of an old settler of Ulster County, N. V. Their only child. Leonard Wheeler, born in 1844. died in 1865, while in the United States volunteer service. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Hyde l'ark, of which he was one of the first elders.
J. HOPKINS, merchant, Chicago, was born in Rhode Island 1 1815. He moved to Connecticut with his parents in 18to, and to Boston, Mass., in 1847. llc located In May. 1857, in Kewa. nee, Ill., where he remained until :1867, when he decided to make the Garden City his business home. Hle commenced business tlere
as a grocer, changing Incation twice, until now he is established in his extensive double store. He married Miss Margaret A. Hollis In ISgo in Boston. They have no children. Mr. Hopkins visited Savannah, Ga., 10 1937-38; Baltimore, 1839-40; and Demerara, South America, in 1842, and recites many interesting incidents of his early travels.
DANIEL HAINES HORNE was born November 24. 1817. in l'ittsburgh, Penn., of John S, and Sarah ( Keynolls) Horne. The family removed to Cincinnati in thts, and thence in 1527 to Xenia, Chio, where young Ilurne received a classical education at the Academy of the Key. Hugh McMillan. In 1834 he entered the law office of Hon. William Ellsbury, but the next year took a posi- tion in the wholesale dry goods house of Blachly & Simpson, in Cincinnati. In 1835 he went from them to Menken & Co., in the same line, to wind up their affairs as assignee, which occupied most of the year. He was in the employ uf Boylan & Co. from Novem- her, ti36, where he remained until 1845, having an interest for the last eighteen months, He then established the wholesale dry goods firm of lorne & Co., which he wound up in 1850, having wearied of buying for cash and selling on credit. lle then, in connection with John I .. Scott and \ex. Mckenzie, established the Western Bank of Cincinnati, which was wound up in 1851, and the capital transferred to the wholesale gmcery business of Mckenzie, Reed & Co., from which, in a short time, Mr. Keed retired, and Horne & Mckenzie built the Cincinnati Steam Sugar Refinery, in 1851. The business was greatly enlarged in 1853, and Keys, Maltby & L'o, were added to the firm. From 1850 to 1855 Mr. Horne oceu. pied his leisure time in reading law in the office of Scott & Sulli- van, and in editing a daily afternoon newspaper. In 1855 he sold out his interest in the sugar refinery to Dr. John M. Mckenzie, and purchased the interests and property of the Blue Lick Springs Water Company, in Nicholas County, Ky. Ile had raised the sales from 500 to 5.000 barrels in 1861, when his trade, ntustly Southern, was broken up by the war blockade al Cairo under Gen- eral P'rentiss. He acted as agent for the Portsmouth Packet Com- pany one year, ran the rebel blockade at Vanceburg, Ky., with the steamer " Moderator," driving the rebels out of the town, and helped! to prevent the rebels from crossing the thilo in 1862, as a part of the crew of the patrol hoat. " Monitor No. I." In Decem- ber of that year he came to Chicago, and went into the auction busi- ness as Horne & Gibbons, which he continued until 1865. when he went into real estate business. He removed to Hlyde l'ark Febru- ary 29, 1864, where he was Justice of the l'eace for five years, 1873- 1877, and special assessment commissioner from 186g to 1883. In 1867 he commenced reporting the proceedings of the Hyde Park Board for all the Chicago papers, which he continued until the estab- lishment of the llyde l'ark Sun in 1375. September 21, 1882, the South Chicago Independent was established, and Mr. Ilorne he- came its editor. A few years since, he brushed up his early know !- edge of law and was admitted to the Bar. Ile has sokl a number of places, and has caused many persons to become residents of llyde l'ark, and is thus a combination of merchant, banker, manu- facturer, real estate dealer, editor and lawyer. February 13, 1839. he was married to Miss Anna B., a daughter of Moses Coffin, who had been wharf-master in Cincinnati for about thirty years. They are the parents of four daughters, still living, and two sons wha died in infancy: Mary C., born October 4, 1840, married to Will- iam 11. 1mlge. November 25, 1862, who diel in ist. leaving three children; Mrs. William Moore and Mrs William 11. Hatch, who, with their husbands, are elsewhere mentioned; and Miss Car- riella, who still resides under the parental roof.
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