History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 142

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

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MARSHALL. HORNE was born February 4. 1549, in Salis- bury, England, whence he immigrated to the United States in 186g. After the great fire he came to Chicago and went to reside with his brother in Hyde Park, where he has since remained. For four months in the service of Reynolds & Ball, grocers, he next learned the trade of plumhet with Wilkx & Collins, which was afterward changed to F. 1). Collins & Co., to whom he succeeded by pur. chasing in 1875. He has since continued in the business of plumber and gas fitter, at Hyde Park. Mr. Horne is in favor of high license. April 11, 1852, he was married to Miss Maria Han- lon, of New York City, by whom he has had one child, who died in infancy. Ile is a Republican in politics

WILLIAM WILKINSON HUNTER was born in Septem- ber, 1840, in l'ittsburgh, of James and Hannah (Wilkinson) Ilunter. After receiving a common school education, young Ilunter became a clerk about 1865 with White, Orr & Co., dry goods dealers. In January, 1869, he came West, first settling in St. Louis, when he went into general commission business ; and in 1872 established a commission, grain and feed business on his own account. In Jan- uary, 1879, he came to Chicago, where he established a similar house, without relinquishing the one in St. Louis; which in Jan- uary, 1881, was merged into that of Hunter Bros,, of which he is the senior partner. Mr Ilunter was married in September, 1873. to Lillie E., a daughter of W. C. Ilunt, a merchant of St. Louis,

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hy whom he has ne living chilil-Oscar 1 ... born in Joly. 1974. sir. and Mrs. Hunter attend the services of the M. F. Church, of which Mrs, Hunter is a member; and they have resided in Ilyde Park since 1879.

1., F. HUNTSMAN, assistant engineer of the water works of the town of Lake, was born in Oskakuwi, Iowa, July 16, 1957. Hle was educated in his native town: afterward engaged in operating stationary engines in Indiana. In 1877 he became connected with the Chicagu, Rock Island & Pacific Railroadl Shops in Chicagu. where he remained until appointed in his present position.

NATHANIEL. N. WURST, M. D., was burn in Westmore- land County, l'enn., in 1846, and received his education at Wash- ington and Jefferson Literary O'oflege; graduating in 1Mm. After this he began to read medicine al @unea. II] , with { hester Hurd, 11. 1). A year later he attended Jefferson Medical College, l'hil- adelphia; from which he graduated, after a three years' enurse, in 1573. The Doctor then practiced his profession at Streator, III. In Way, 1876, he came to Chicago, and has since made his hume in the town of Hyde Park. The Doctor has a large and Incrative practice; he has bell the position of surgeon to the C .. k. I. & l'. K. K. Co. since 1856, and is also surgeon in chief of the Reci. dent Insurance t'ompany of North America, Ile is a member of the Chiragn Medical Society, and the Illinois State Medical Society.

BENJAMIN PETERS HUTCHINSON was born February 24. 1920, in Middleton, Mass,, being a won of Ira and Hannah Intchinson. In early life he had nu special edmatimal adivan- tages, and on arriving at man's estate he first engageil in the man- ufacture of shoes at Lyn, and later at Bostum. In September, tags, he came to Chicago, where he has remained since, engaging hest in the grain business and afterward in pork-packing: tu which he has added, for the last dozen years or more, a banking business, under the style of the t'orn' Exchange Bank. In 1$53 Mr. Hotchinson marned Sarah M. Ingalis, of Lynn, a member of the well-known family of that name: whose earliest New England representative was among the first settlers of that city more than two hundred and fifty years ago. Their children are t'haries 1 ... Ilelen M., Kate, and Williams Ingalls, Mr, Hutchinson has owned a summer residence in Hyde Park fur ateral year-, where he resiles most of the year.

JOHN ALEXANDER JAMESON was born January 25. 1924, in Trasborg, Orleans Cu .. Vi. The father, l'homas, was Sheriff for many years, a member of the constitutional convention, and a prominent resident of that county. Young Jameson gracht- ated at the University of Vermont in the class of 1816, and has since been honored by that institution with the degree of 1.1. 1. \ teacher for four years in Canada, and a tutor in his alma mater (nr two years, he then entered the Dane Law School of llarvari] College, and afterward remul law for a time at Burlington, Vt .. where he was admitted to the Har, later at Chicago, November 12. 1953. where he formed a partnership with Henner N. Hilibardl, In 1854 they remmed to Freeport, but in 1856 Me. Jamesun returned to Chicago and became a member of the firm of L'orall. Jamesin k liss, In 1863 he was elected to the Bench of the Superior Court of Chicago, and twice re-elected Judge of that court and its successor, the Superior Court of Cook County, making a continu- ous occupancy of eighteen rears, which chreil December 3. 1953. He has been a writer of valuable wurks on legal topies for many years, some of which have been recognizeil by the profession as standard in their respective lines. October 11, 1555, he married Miss Eliza, daughter and grand-daughter of Drs, Juseph .A. Deni- soon, of Kuvulton, Vt .. and in 1957 Imilt a home in Ilyde fark, where he removed his family in 1858. Their children are Mary. born December 20. 195 ;; John .. Jr., burn September 12, 1505, and Rebecca, born in 1870.

WILLIAM SEYMOUR JOHNSON, physician, was burn January 13, 1831. in 1.exinguim Heights, Greene Co., N. Y., son nf William and Mary Iskinner! Johnson. The father was a gradn. ale of Hamilton College, and of the Auburn Theological Seminary. and became a Congregational minister. In September, 1534. he removed with his family to Sharon, Medina Co., Ohio, and died May 3. 1876, within twenty days of his seventy- eighth birthday. Ilis widow survived until January 25, 1883, and was nearly eighty- four years old at her death. Yning Johnson was of infirm health in carly life, Int with the help of his father he succeeded in obtaining n good cummon school and academie education, and tauglu schoul at intervals from young manhood to the age of thirty, In 1352 he had moreil into Illinois, and in the fall of 1861 he enlisted in the 11th Illinnis Volumeer Infantry, serving four years, Enlist- ing as a private, he was made Firy Sergeant after a few months, and in the fall of 130z was commissioned First Lieutenant, and had been a Captain for about a year when mustered out in tsby. fle then came to Chicago and studied melicine in Hahnemann Medical College, graduating in March, 1865, wher, he settled in Ilvite Park. lle was married lune - 1870, to Emma Mason, of

I'nin, Ill., a ilaughter of an old settler of Ogle County, by whum he has had two children-Gracie, in 1875, and May, in IStg. Mr. und Mrs. Johnson are members of the Presbyterian Church, and the Doctor is a member of the Masoni -: Order and a Republican in politics.

FREDERICK KANST, superintendent of foral and nursery department, South Park Green-houses, was appointed to his present position in 1973, and has hell it uninterruptedly since. lle was born at Magdeburg, Germany, in 1847. lle was en. gaged in gardening while pursuing his studies. In tous his parents came to the United States and settled near Momence, In. Mr. Kanst has since onming In this country been engaged princi- pally in floriculture and horticulture in different places,

GEORGE KERN, proprietor Hyde Park Steam Hakery, was Lofa in Germany in 1844, and at the carly age of thirteen was apprenticed to learn the bakery business, and has followed that business «inre, In 1870 he came to Chicago and for three years worked as a juurneyman baker, after which he opened a bakery and built up a nice trade. In November, 155), he opened his present steam bakery at Hyde Park, and is doing a very large business. He is an experienced man in all branches of his trade, and has Insiness is continually increasing.

MRS. ELIZA KLINGER & the widow of the late William Klinger, of Chicago, who died in 1892. Mr. Klinger was a so- Lessful business man up to the time of his last illness. He and his wife were natives of P'russia. He came to this country in 1546, and was one of Hyde Park's oldest citizens. Mrs, Khiuger way left at her husband's death with five children, but, by the foresight and energy of her late husband she is in comfortable circumstances. being owner uf a fine residence on South Park Boulevard, Iler children are four girls, one of whom is married, and one bor.

CHARLES ALONZO KNORR was born January 30, 1553. in l'hiladelphia, Penn., of George Thomas and Jeannelle (Parkc) Knorr. The father has been for many years connected with the Evening Telegraph of that city, and in middle life was a singer ed somle lucal eminence, as was his mother, a native of Glasgow, who dieil in 1975. Voung Knorr early manifested musical ability, and was a member of the choir of St. Mark's Church at the age of nine. About 1;y he began to take lessons in the Conservatory of Music. and afterwant in uratorio and general concert work from Professor K. tiiles, In t$73 he left Philadelphia with the Richings-Ilemant (kl Folks' l'oncert Company, being a member of the Quaker L'ity Quartette of that combination, which located in Chicago in 1875. and was highly appreciated. In isso he took a leading part in organizing the Chickering Quartette of Chicago, in which he as. smetl the role of first tenor, and which still holds the first rank among kindred organizations in the city, Besides his work as a singer, Mr. Knorr is associated with the Chicago Music C'ompany al 152 State Street. He hes been connected all his life with the choirs of the more prominent churches in Philadelphia and Chi- vago, and is now engaged In the I'lymnuth Congregational Church. In 1876 Mr. Knorr was married in Engenie Soiliday, of Philadel. phia, who has rome uf a musical family, and is emluwed with marked altility in that direction. They are the parents of three hove-Carl Wolfwohn, born in 1875; Edward Newell, in 1380; and Lomis Solliday, in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Knorr are members of the Episcopal Church. In May, 1862, they took up their residence in Hyde Park.

FREDERICK KREUTZHURG, merchant, was born in Chi- rago in August. 1846, Ilis father. August Kreutzburg, came to the city at an early day and was an extensive contractor, and in partnership with W. C. Deakmann bih the Sherman House. Frederick began his business career at the age of fourteen as a clerk in a grocery store, and was also for several years employed in the packing business. He moved to Hyde Park in 160g, and at that time embarked in the retail grocery business. He has now [to establishments, groceries and flour and feed, and is the oldest mer- chant in his line in this locality.

JOHN F. LACEY was born in Baltimore County Md., is August. 18go, and there received a good education. In 1568 he came to l'hicago, and subsequently entered the employ of the C .. K. I. & 1'. R. R. Co., in the locomotive engineering department. For the first three years he was employed as a fireman, and during that period learned to be a locomotive engineer, since which time he has been running an engine for the company. Mr. Lacey has fe- sided in Hyde Park since 1670; and in connection with his other pursuits he purchased, in September, 1543, a grocery stock, aml now carries on a business in that line.

GEORGE HOOPER LEONARD was hoan ou the toth day of June, 1847. in Stafford, Genesee Co., N. \' He was educated at Columbia College, D. C., and graduated at Columbia Law School in June. 1860. Immediately after completing his saw rounse br came West and settled in Hyde Park Since he rame West he been actively engaged in the practice of the law_ In Sepr in 1876, he was married to Laura R Botlin, daughter of

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Butlin, of Ilyde Park. lle was elected a member of the llearil of Education in tBBt. and has been president of the board for the past year. In April, 1882, he was elected a Trustee for the village, and has been President of the board since April, 1883.

WILLIAM LEWIS, violinist, was born in 1837 in Devoi- shire, England. lle early manifested an aptitude for music, Inherited from and cultivated by his father, a violoncello player of some ability. At the age of eight; young Lewis was considered a prodigy, and appeared in concerts in several cities ax a violinist, At ten he was one of the choristers in Exeter cathedral, where he had the advantage of a thorough drill hy the leader of the cholr. He also took lessons from a Mr. Wonacott, a violinist of no small reputation. In esso the family came to Amerlea, and settled in Bellevue, Huron Co., Ohio, where young Lewis besides occasional farm work after a time learned the trade of carpenter. In 1851 he attracted the attention of M. C. Cady, afterward of the well-known firm of Root & Cady, of Chicago, by coming unexpectedly to his relief as a volunteer violinist at his " musical convention " in Mon- roeville, Ohio. The first considerable amount earned by Mr. Lewis at a single performance was the 835 and expenses pald him, in Cleveland, in 1853, for playing at a concert giveu by the " Black Swan," under the management of Colonel [. 11. Wood, afterward of Wood's Museum, in Chicago, L'pon the death of his father in 1854. he formed with the " Continental Vocalists," a company of costume-singers, an engagement which lasted seven years. Mean- while, in 1858, during a vacation of the troupe, he took lessons frum Theodore Thomas In New York City. In 1862 he embarked in business in Chicago, in the prosaic grocery trade, quickly lusing his small accumulations. He then found employment as a salesman in the music house of Root & Cady, besides attending to his pro- fessional calls as a violinist of recognized ability and a popular member of the Philharmonic Society, under the leadership of Hans Balatka. In 1870 he made a trip to Europe as a representa- " tive of Root & Cady, and in 1871 was promised an interest in the firm Irom January 1, 1972, which was duly fulfilled. But the house lost almost everything by the great fire and the ambitious attempt "to pay dollar for dollar." The panic of 1873 aggra. vated the financial difficulty, and upon the dissolution of the firm, Jr. Lewis formed with E. T. Root the firm of Root & Lewis, In the same line, and resumed his public entertainments, after a retirement of two or three years. Abont 1875 a new combination was formed, the three houses, George F. Root & Sons, Ront & Lewis, and Chandler & Curtiss, being merged in the corporation known as the Root & Sons Music Company. In 1878 Mr. Lewis withdrew, and with E. G. Newell formed the Chicago Music Company. In which were also Interested William A. Fond and C. A. Zoelisch, of New York City. In 1983 Messrs. Lewis and Newell formed a partnership with P. P. Gibbs, the firm of Lewis, Newell & Gibbs, who add the sale of pianos to the general trade in music and musical merchandise of the Chicago Music Company. Mr. Lewis has been characterized by a musical expert as " "The possessor of natural genius for the violin, which patiently and laboriously cultivated has made him an acknowledged artist in his line ; he is modest, amiable and generous, ever willing to give his . services in the interest of his art, and enilowed with a wholesome contempt for all charlatanisnt and pretense In the profession." In 1860 he married Elizabeth G., a daughter of Edward Gibbs, a merchant of Milan, Ohio, where he had gone to school some years before. They have twochildren : Mary Elizabeth, born in 1863. who after studyIng for five years under Miss Agnes Ingersoll, of Ilyde l'ark, Is now a pupil of Kullak, of Berlin, evincing marked ability as a pianist ; and Frederick C., born in t575. Mr. Lewis has resided in Hyde Park since 1867.

WILLIAM 11. DENSLOW LEWIS, physician, was born in April, 1956, in Brooklyn, N. Y., of William G. and Carrie M. (Owen) Lewis, The family removed tn Chicagn in 1857, where the ekler Lewis went Into the paint and oil business, buying ont Alex- ander White. Young Lewis went to l'aris, where he commenced his academic and professional education. In 1973 he matriculated at the University of Marburg, Germany, where he remained a year. Returning home, he went into the U'niversity of Nebraska, prose- ruting mainly chemical investigations. In 1875 he entered the University of Michigan, graduating from the School of Pharmacy as pharmaceutical chemist in 1877, and from the medical depari- nient in t878, While here he prepared an exhaustive article on " Lobelia Inflata: its Proximate Principles " (v. - , Pharmaceu- tical Journal of Great Britain, January 19, 1878), which has attracted international recognition. Locating in Hyde Park, he was appointed llealth Officer and Village l'hysician in 1879 and 1880. Since then he has continued in the active practice of medicine and surgery. Dr. Lewis was married in September, 1883, to Annie Gossage llempsted, of Kenwood. They are both members of the Episcopal Church of the village; and the Doctor is Senior Past Re- gent and Medical Examiner of Ilyde Park Council, No. 582, of the Royal Arcanum of Illinois, filling also the office of chairman of

finance committee in the Grand Council of the State. He is a Re- publican In politics, but not a partisan.

PROFESSOR LESLIE LEWIS, M. A., Superintendent of Schools, District No. 1, town of Ilyde Park, was appointed to his present position January, 1876, lle was born in Otsego County, N. Y. In 1849, when he was about ten years of age, his parents moved to Freeport, III., where he attended the high school. In 1860 he entered Phillips' Academy, Andover, Mass., in preparation for college. Graduating, he entered Y'ale College the same year, where he took a full classical course, and graduated in t806, with the degree 11. A., the degree M. A. being cunferred in 1869. In 1866 he located In Waukegan as principal of the Wankegan Arad- emy : in 1867 removed to Chicago to take the position of Princi- pal of Dearborn school. In October, 1868, he took charge of the Hayden school, Chicago, a position he retained until January. 1876. Professor lewis is prominent in Masonic circles, being sec- retary of South l'ark Lodge, No. 662 ; has held all the chairs in Fair View Chapter, No. 161, of Chicago, and is a member of Apollo Commandery, No. 1. of the same city. Ile is also a mem- lx'r of the Legion of Honor of Hyde Park, Regent of the Royal Arcanum, and a member of the Chicago Literary Club.

CAPTAIN NELSON L .. LUTZ was born in Circleville, Ohio, in 1838. Ile enlisted in Company B, 13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as First Lieutenant. for three months, and at its expira- tion organized and re-enlisted in Company A, 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which command he had until 1963. when, from physical disability, he was obliged to resign. Ile was engaged with his regi- ment in both the siege and battle of Corinth, also in the battles at New Madrkl, luka, and In several other engagements in Missouri under General Sturges, and along the Miwassippl, including the taking of Island No, 10, and the defeat of Forrest. On his return to Circleville, he was employed in the Provost Marshal's office for a year. lle removed to Geneseo, Ill., in 1865. where he opened a drug store, but sold out and located in Chicago in 1868, when he again entered the drug business, soon selling out and taking a posi- tion as book-keeper, which position he still occupies, lle married Miss Carrie Howard, alsu a native of Circleville, Ohio, in 1863. "They have had three children : two are living.

CHARLES W. MERKIAM, of Harmon, Merriam & Co., whole- sale grocers, Chicago, was born in 1.amoille County, VI., in 1845. lle moved to L'edar Rapids, lowa, when seventeen years of age, and remained there two years, lle located in Chicago In 1866, entering the employment of the wholesale grocery house of Whit- aker, Ilarmon & Co., the firm consisting of J. A. Whitaker. Isaac N. Harmon, Franklin McVeagh, and John Messer. In 1870 the two houses of Franklin MIcVeagh & Co. and llarmon, Messer & Co. were formeil, from the okl firm. In 1874 John Messer died, and the firm of Harmon, Messer & Co. became the firm of Har- mon, Merriam & Co., consisting of Isaac N. Ilarmon, C. W. Mer- riant. Isane S. Collins, and George W. Dexter. Mr. Merriam married Miss Alice Harmon, daughter of Mir. Isaac N. Ilarmon, September, 1877.

ALFRED MILIS was born near London, England, in 1854: and after receiving a good education becante employed in the rail- way service. In 1872 he immigrated to Hamilton, Ontario, and a year later removed to Detroit, Mich., where he learned the trade of upholsterer, and followed that occupation for several years. Mr. Mills came to Chicago in t$77, and for five years carried on an upholstering establishment, in December, 1891, moving to this locality, where he opened business as an undertaker, having stuilied and perfected himself in this line of trade. The subject of this sketch is l'ast Chief Ranger of Court General Washington, No. 6,282, A. D. F .; is Noble Grand of Ilyde Park Lodge, No. 722. 1. 0. O. F .; a member of Mystic Star Lodge, Nn. 753, A. F. & A. M .; Chicago Chapter, No. 127. R. A. M .; Chevalier Bayard Commandery, No. 52, K. T., and Worthy l'ast President of Mis- tletoe Lodge, No. 142, Sons of St. George.

WILLIAM MOORE was born in 1844 in Cambridge, England, of Reuben and Anna (Sheldon! Moore, and came to this country in 1865. Ile was brought up to the fancy dry goods business and for eighteen years has been employed here as salesman in that liue or in wholesale millinery. April 20, 1871, he was married to Miss Nettie Reynolds, a dlaugliter of Daniel H. Horne, of Ilyde l'ark, where he has since resided; they are the parents of two children- John Willoughby, burn June 6, 1876, and Bertha Sheldon, born June 7, 1882.

JAMES MORGAN came from England in 1844, at the age nf sixteen, and settled at Blue Island In the fall of that year. In 1845 he commenced studying law in the office of Arnold & Ogden, in the city of Chicago. In 1850 he created the firm of Hannah, Lay & Co., lumber merchants, of which he is one of the partners; and commenced purchasing real estate In Chicago. In 1863 Mr. Morgan married Miss Rebecca Allison, a native of Maryland, re- slding in Chicago. They have one daughter; and attend St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Hyde Park; having moved from Chicago in

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1873, in which year he was elected a member of the Board of Trus. tees of the village of Hyde Park, Mr. Morgan was twice appointed a South l'ark commissioner, and was chosen president of the board for two terms. Ile is a Republican in politics,

CHARLES LEVERETT NORTON was born August 13. ISgn, in Chicago, son of U'harles Augustus Norton, a member of the Chicago Har, and Lucy IBondl) Norton. The family came tu reside in flyde l'ark in t864; and young Norton was educated in the common and high schools of the village. He entered the clase sical course at the University of Vermont, in the class of to, but discontinued after one year in go into business. He became assist- ant to the comptroller of Hyde Park in October, 1874, and was himself appointed comptroller April 24, 1883. He is a memint of the First Presbyterian Church; also a member of South Park Lodge. No, 602, A. P. & A. M .; Collector of the Hyde Park Council of the Royal Arcanum: and is a Republican in politics.

JOHN MORRISON PARSILAI. 1. was born Octuber 6, 1846. in Lebanon, Ohio, of W. F. l'arshall, a banker, and Henrietta (Deyl l'arshall; he was educated at the common school and academy of Lebanon, and spent two years at Miami University, at Oxforl, Chin. He entered the house of Giles Bros, & Co .. jewelers, at t'hicago, with whom he has ever since remained; billing siure 187g the responsible position of manager of the wholesale ilepart- ment. lle married Miss May Luster, of Peotonr, III , August 5, (SS2; at which time they went to reside in Hyde Park.

ROBERT PAULEY, torist. The business was established here in 1577. There are four green-houses and one propagating house. Uther intprovements will greatly enlarge this, the heat. ing apparatus being sufficient to warm an acre of glass. Mr. Pau- ley was born in Nottinghamshire, England, July 10, 1837. Ile was brought up a florist aml horticulturist, his parents being engaged in that business, In 1862 he came to the I'nited States and settled in Chicagu, and has since engaged as ganlener in various places. Ile has been in business for himself since lafig.

DANIEL. APPLETON PEIRCE was born in April, 1837, in Waterboro, Vork Co .. Me, son of James 11. and Lucy (Apple- ton) l'eirce. The father was a native of the same plier and a practicing physician there for over forty years ; his matera.il grand- father, for whom he was nanul, serveil as L'aptain In the War of 1512. Mr. Peirre received all the educational advantages the place afforded, and which were surh as to have qualified him fur a teacher in his seventeenth year. In 1857 he came West, settling in Racine, Wis., for five years, where he studied law and was admit. ted to practice in 1600, and continued in the office of a law firm about three years, Ile then removed to Washington, where he nltainel a position in the treasury department, which he tilled until the close of 1571. In Derember af that year he came lo Hyde Park, where he has since resided, becoming a member of the firm of Ikalson & Peirce, dealers in groceries, provisions, tour amil feed. Ile was married November 30, 1864, to Lizzie M. Gile, by whom he has two children, Ida and Alice. They are allemtants at the First Baptist Church, Mr. Peirce is a Republican in politics, was a Village Trustee in 1881 and 1882, aml is now Treasurer of the vante.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 142

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