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The actual selling of the stock at the yards is largely done by commission firms, of which there are a great number, located in the Exchange Building already mentioned. These men are a decided advantage to the shipper, enabling him, in an unsatisfactory condition of the market, to hold his stock until better prices can be obtained. The country dealer, too, can consign his his stock designed for this market direct to some reliable firm of commission men, who receive and dis- pose of it to the best advantage, retaining for their pay a certain percentage of the sales.
The Union Stock Yards National Bank has long been a recognized institution of this great market. Practically it is a clearing house ; by it the commission dealer is enabled to transmit the proceeds of his sales to his principal in the country, with promptness and dis- patch. Sellers who receive money in the yards find it safer, as well as more convenient, to deposit funds in a bank on the ground, through which they can be securely transmitted to their home. As a means of direct com- munication between country bankers and the city, it is a valuable agent. Banks and bankers in the interior having a stock trade, open regular accounts with the Stock Yards Bank, and are thus able to secure dispatch in the transaction of their business, as well as reliable information concerning the frequent yet important fluctuations in the trade. The first officers of the bank were Samuel M. Nickerson, president ; Edward S. Stickney, cashier ; and S. M. Nickerson, William F. Tucker, John Adams, George Webster, Mancel Talcott and George C. Walker, directors. The application for the charter was made February 29, 1868, and on March
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12, of the same year, the bank was formally opened for business. The present officers are Elmer Washburn, president ; George Conrad, cashier ; Charles Jameson, assistant cashier. The directors are Elmer Washburn, George E. Conrad, Stephen B. Roath, George T. Will- iams and Samuel M. Nickerson.
There are at the yards over thirty large packing houses, the capacities of which, as will be seen from the annexed table, are enormous. These houses are situ-
ated just west of and adjoining the yards, and cover an area of nearly three hundred acres, In the packing district, hogs, cattle and sheep, aggregating to the num- her of millions, are annually slaughtered ; their prod- ucts in various forms finding their way into the lead- ing markets of the civilized globe. The following table is a detailed statement of the packing seasons of 1882-83, showing also the total packs from :868 to 1872 :
SUMMER PACKING, MAN.
WINTER PACKING, NOV. I TO FEB, 29.
ANNUAL-MARCH 1, 1882 TO FEB. 28. 1883.
PACKERS.
NEMILK INGS,
NUMBER HOUS
No, Hogs.
Av. Weight.
Av. Vield Lard.
Live.
Dressed.
Tutal.
A Net Wright.
Av. Yold
No.
Av. Sit Weucht.
Av. Vield Lard.
Armour & Co. ..
200,
500.524
500 534
236,
36.
1.025,484
217.57
32.92
Allerton Packing Co.
4.949
203.
37.03
83.074
....
$3.079
247.
40. 10
$5.625
244.54
45.65
Anglo-American Pack. & l'rov, Co ..
359.590
164.10
26,10
337.8021
31,910
309.775
203.15
3.4.80g
759.374
1×1.68
30.34
Baldwin, Geo. D. & Co.
..
....
40,170
40.170
214 24
45.25
40.170
2.14.24
45.25
Chicago Packing & l'rovision Co ...
102.200
2003.
33.73
370,317
. .
376.317
240.
42.
478.51;
232.54
40.23
Carpenter, W. O. & Son.
2,075
207.
31.21
1.077
4,274
6.351
217.4:2
35.00
137.518
170.25
20.48
Denny, Henry & Son. .
55.063
140.00
17.65
145.920
145.000
191 51
25.94
201,892
177-44
24.48
Damhke & Fischer
3,836
216.
55.
3,014
. .
3.014
222.
(m).
6,850
215.70
57.66
Ferguson, J. C. & Co.
41,6;1
164.25
79.650
79.050
171.
26.
121.334
168.08
20.14
lately Bros .
48, 16%
172.64
28.05
73.251
73.251
172,31
29.25
121,419
171.71
25.79
Higgins, Geo. W. & Co.
30.0000
31.
102 off
6.501
110.517
237.90
40.131
144,933
224.57
37.86
Lees, Hendricks & Co
5.700
145.
30%
2.310
2.1.0
203.
30.
Sul0
161.71
30.
Moran & Healey
9,612
151.
21.
26.079
20,079
191.
27.50
34,091 173.55
26.85
Silberhorn, W. Il.
64.1%
171.80
37-
64,215
€4.215
210.
132,701.
11)1.03
37.48
Teufel, Son & Co
tob.623
16.
21.97
. .
80.72
1-6.
22. 4.
196,355
172.19
22.22
L'nderwool & Co.
57.4 2
41.00
45.0$1
45.634
163.
13.1%
100.110
163.54
$1.45
Uinrath, Charles
120
230.
450
5.238
2,1%);
7.332
21.50
217.37
3/1.42
4.45MINS
203.44
33.62
Packing of season 1881-52
2 6 9. 545
150.17
32.17
2,292,131
31.711
.323,947
217.50
39.35
5.012.302
202.32
35.50
Packing of sein 1:50-51.
2.854.565
1 M 42
310,012
2 .: 18,05 %|
2.425.444
2492152
222.6%
$$1.31
4. 563.200
217.005
16.95
Packing of season 1475-79
2,013.239
35.12
2. 32,421
04.313
2.4,1.370
1,016,200
216.10
35.04
2,922,072
203.56
32.46
Packing of season 1 75 70
725.7 1
176. 19
20.25
1,516,179
22,56%
1.564,717
1,105.770
1.33 551
215.50
37.30
...
..
l'acking of season 1572-73.
....
1.353.49%
195,955
1,217,250
234.69)
44.29
Packing of watson 1-70-71
759.907
120,540
910,240
225.1>
34,15%
Packing of season 1809-70.
573.591
14.001
657,492'
201.53
30. 80
l'acking of season 1968-60
540.327
51.427
5497. 054.
202.75
30.39
In 1842 the editor of the Prairie Farmer, being in an enthusiastic mood, wrote that the day would come when Chicago would in a single season slaughter and pack not less that ten thousand head of hogs. A glance at the above figures will show how very far short of the real figures the editor's predictions fell.
The following, including the first board of directors, were the officers of the company from its organization to the present time:
1865-Timothy B. Blackstone, president; F. H. Win- ston, secretary; Robert H. Nolan, assistant secretary; J. Y. Scammon, treasurer; R. M. Hough, general superin- tendent of construction; O. Chanute, chief engineer; and F. T. E. Bryant, superintendent of yards. The first board of directors were: James F. Joy, M. L. Sykes, Jr., Jacob N, Mccullough, John F, Tracy, Timothy B,
Blackstone, John L. Hancock, R. M. Hough, Charles N. Culbertson, Virginius A. Turpin, John S. Bang and E. B. Philips.
In 1866 J. M. Douglass was elected president. He, however, resigned 'his position soon after his election, and P. R. Chandler was chosen to fill the vacancy. June 4, 1867, John B. Sherinan was elected superintendent; and June to of the same year George T. Williams was appointed assistant secretary. January 15, 1873. James M. Walker was elected president, and George T. Will- iams, secretary, February 18, 1881, N. Thayer, Jr., was chosen president; John B. Sherman, vice-president; George T. Williams, secretary, and Thomas Brown, assistant secretary. February 14, 1882, John B. Sher- man was elected vice-president and general manager, and G, Titus Williams general superintendent, The
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1,5015. 2020
34.014 48.541
1.402,030)
217.53
43.007
3.911,292
210.15
30.36
Packing of season 18;6-77
1.305. 572
19. 21
20.30
1.511,220
203 40 32.44
Packing of season 1974-75
..
.....
1,021.729)
24.047
25.922
16b.
24.
25.933
160.
24.
Jones & Stiles ...
47.353
31.23
103.131
175.32
28.17
Murphy, B. F. Packing Co
.. .
59.533
59.813
239.70
$2.11
59.833
239.70
42.10
Davies, Atkinson & Co
70, 16*
20.
07.344
67.344
181.
21131
15.
60, 183
21130
15.
Flannigan & Iloff.
.....
2.554
2.554
226.80
30.
2.584
226. bo
30.
50,075
168.
237.30
1.07
2,34.44
36.
Other houses
9.312
214.43
38.43
TOTALS
1-1.83
39.20
2.525.047
224 44
44-4.5
1.10.971
213.10
11.34
l'acking of season 187 ;-; 8.
1.479.91 9
11. 59
2.305.141
75 93ª
52,000
220.47
75.30
215.55
34.14
Doud, L. B. & Co
0, 183
5,400
236,
19.200
227.
92.60
Bolsford, II. & Co ....
44-339
197.54
33.33
130.564
.....
130.504
243.54
Arnold & Co .....
10,90 0
220,
231.83
$0.45
Cudahy, John ..
35.30
ł=1, 1 %3
212 1:
5.5*3.034
200.001
33.24
Packing of season 1570-80
2,070,025
148, 00
30.32
35.52
2,207.528
212.23
37.35
Packing of season IS73-74
306.534
Packing of season 1871-72.
1.121,295
...
10.
25.441
Tobey & Hooth
210.19
25.50,
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officers as they now stand are: N. Thayer, Jr., presi- dent; John B. Sherman, vice-president and general manager; G. Titus Williams, general superintendent; George T. Williams, secretary, and J. C. Denison, assistant secretary.
In closing this sketch of these yards it is needless to say that, financially, they are a success, and are every day proving more clearly beneficial to those interested in them. Neither can it be denied that they are equally beneficial to the trade, to the city whose borders they touch, to the town in which they are situated, and to the . men wiso have invested their money in their construc- tion and maintenance.
The following tables will, it is believed, be found of interest, not only to the present reader, but to those who in years from now may care to glance at these pages to see what in times past constituted the trade of these great yards:
TOTAL RECEIPTS OF STOCK FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS,
Cattle.
Calves.
Hugs
Sheep.
Horses.
1865, 5 days.
613
17.764
1.433
1866
393.007
961,746
207,987
1,553
1867
329, 188
1.000, 735
847
1868
324.524
1,700,782
270,891
1,902
1860
493. 1012
1,661,Sug
340,072
1.524
1870 .
532,404
1,693,152
349) $53
3.537
1971
543.0547
2,340,063
315.053
5.9/13
1872
654.975
3.852,623
310,211
12,145
1873
701.425
4.437.750
291,734
20,289
1874
920.843
3,912,110
418.948
11,346
1877
1.033,151
4.025,970
310,240
7.571
1878
1.083,068
0.339.654
310.420
4.415
1879
1.215,732
0.448,3341
325.119|
10,473
1881
1,498,550
48.048
0,474.844
493.62.4
12,900
1952
1,582.5.30
5.817,5014
628,887
13.856
1583
1,8,8,944
30.233
5.640.625
749.017
15.355
Total ....
16,507,957
104.136 71,075.290
6,538,837
165.033
TOTAL SHIPMENTS OF STOCK FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Cattle.
Calves.
Ilogs.
Sheep.
Horses,
1866
263,693
..
492,875
75.447
162
1867
203.580
....
759,780
30.275
387
1868
213.987
....
1,020,329
81.634
2,185
1869
294.717
..
1,086,305
108.690
1,538
1870
391,700
....
924-453
116,711
3.488
1871
401,927
1,162,286
135.004
5.482
18-2
510,025
1,835.594
145.016
10,625
1873
574.181
2,197.557
115,235
18 540
1874
622,924
2.330,361
180,353
16,608
1875
696.534
...
1.582,643
243.604
n.129
1876
797.724
....
1,131,635
195.925
6,839 6.598
1878
699, 108
....
1,266,906
156,727
8,176
1879
726,903
.....
1,692,361
159,266
9.284)
1881
938,712
33.465
1,289,079
353.938
11,108
1892
921,000
10,229
1.747.723
314,200
12.785
1983
966,758
12,671
1.319,392
374.463
14.698
Total
10,815,512
56,365 24,175,098
3,018,634
148,353
[" Prior to 1881, calves were classed with cattle.
The largest receipts of stock in a day is shown by the following table :
Cattle, Nov. 15, 1882
Calves, Sept. 29, 1881. 1.428
Hogs, Nov. 25, 1879.
44,643
Horses, Oct. 5, 1874
460
Cars, Jan, 11, 1882
1,490
LARGEST RECEIPTS OF STOCK IN ONE YEAR.
Cattle, 1883.
1,878,944
Calves, 1881
48,948
Hogs, 1880. .
7.059,355
Sheep, 1582.
628,887
Horses, 1873 20,28g
Cars. 1881.
137,191
The following tables show the total receipts and shipments at the Stock Yards from December 25, 1865. to 1883, a period of eighteen years :
The following table shows the annual valuation of stock received and handled at the yards for cighteen years :
1866
$ 42.765.328
1567
42.375,241
1863
52,506,288
1800
60,171,217
1$70.
62,000,631
1871.
60,331,082
1872 ..
87,500,000
1973
91,321,162
1674.
115.049.140
1975.
117.533.942
$$76.
111,185.650
1877
99,021,100
18-8
106,101.8;9
1879 .-
114,795.#34
1650.
143.057,626
1882
190,670,221
1883
201,253,772
Total
$1,886,739,823
PACKING HOUSES.
The Anglo- American Packing & Provision Company -Fowler Bros,, now numbered among the leading firms engaged in this great industry, began operations in Chicago in 1873, and eight years later opened a branch establishment at Kansas City, where they still carry on business, slaughtering during the year 1883. 5$3.775 hogs. In 1879 the Anglo-American Pack- ing Provision Company was organized with R. D. Fowler president, and Anderson Fowler, secretary. 'This com- pany does an immense business in all branches of the trade, its cured and packed meats being found in all leading markets both at home and abroad. They slaughter about six thousand hogs per day at the Union Stock Yards, where they have extensive premises, and furnish employment to nearly two thousand men.
The Chicago Packing & Provision Company .- This is one of the oldest packing institutions at the Yards, and was established in the summer of :868 by B. P. Hutchinson, Calvin Snow, and others. Its establish- ments here are very large, covering nearly thirteen acres of ground, and furnishing employment to nearly one thousand men. Capacity during the slaughtering sea- son abont seven thousand hogs per day.
J. C. Ferguson & Co .- This firm was originally established in 1854, at Indianapolis, Ind., by J. C. Fergu- son, who, however, severed his connection with that institution and located in Chicago in 1881, Here a new firm was organized under the title at the head of this paragraph, and composed of the following persons: N. M. Neeld, E. B. Howard, John Q. Ferguson, and E. W. Ferguson. They are large packers and dealers in pro- visions, slaughtering 150,000 hogs annually, and em- ploying nearly two hundred men. Howard & Co. are the New York representatives of the firm, while their foreign interests are looked after by the well-known house of Goodbody & Co., London, England.
Davies, Atkinson & Co .- This house was formed and began business at Hamilton, Ontario, in 1863, and in the spring of 1873 moved to Chicago, The firm is com-
Sheep, Feb. 8, 1882.
1.394.990
156,510
8.713
1877
703.402
. ..
951,221
155.354
1880
886,614
1,382.477
7.059.355
335.SI0
10,398
1876
1.006,745
4.258,390
333,655
17.588
1575
364.005
8,150
183.007,710
12,076
6,701
671
HISTORY OF LAKE.
posed of J. T. Davies, of Liverpool, and J. A. Atkin- son, of Chicago. They slaughter 350,000 hogs per annum, employ about 400 men, and do a large business, principally curing and packing for English markets.
George W. Higgins & Co., established in 1858, and had its packing house in Chicago up to 1867, at which time they removed to the Union Stock Yards. They have large premises, do an extensive business, principally in curing for American markets ; kill 200,000 hogs per annum, and employ 300 men. The firm is composed of G W. Higgins, Jr., and W. P. Jones.
Thorne & Co .- Inis firm was established in 1862 by A. L. and John R. Thorne and Herman Gelpeke, but for the past six years A. L. Thorne has conducted the business alone. This house deals in hams, shoulders and bacon. They purchase the green meats, cure and sell to smokers exclusively. In 1883 they handled 1,360,000 pieces of cured meat. They have a large house, capable of holding 50,000 packages, and give employment to about 100 men.
Fairbank Canning Company .- The original business was established in 1869, by N. Morris; the present company being incorporated in June, 1880, by N. Morris, N. K. Fairbank, Frank E. Vogel and W. H. Burnett. The present officers are N. K. Fairbank, president ; N. Mor- ris, vice-president ; Frank E. Vogel, secretary ; and Lewis Neugass, superintendent. They kill about 200,000 head of cattle annually, besides doing a large business in canning, also in shipping dressed beef. They have very large premises, and employ about 650 men.
W. H. Silberhorn, packer and dealer in provisions- This business was established in November, 1880, the concern coming from New York City, where business had been carried on by the family of Mr. Silberhorn since 1828. This house kills about 2,000 hogs per day, and employs about 200 men ; packs for English and Ameri- can markets, The establishment at the yards is under the superintendency of J. J. Silberhorn. The Silberhorn Canning Company is the same firm, and carries on business in the same buikling. This establishment does a large business in canning, employing in this depart- ment sixty men.
Jones & Stiles, packers .- This firm was founded in September, 1876, by the present partners, Wm. Jones and Josiah Stiles, They have a large packing house, the capacity of which is 1,000 hogs per day : they do a large business, curing and packing principally for En- glish markets. They employ 150 men, and slaughtered in 1883 115,000 hogs.
The Allerton Packing Company was formed and the present packing house built in 1871. They slaughter 2,000 hogs daily during the season, employ some 200 men, and pack principally for the home markets. The pres- ent officers are: S. W. Allerton, president; John B. Robertson, treasurer, and David Pyne and Joseph Osher, directors.
Mora t & Healy .- This house was established in September, 1876, by John Moran and others, and in October, 1880, changed to the style composed of John Moran and James 1. Healy. They kill during the sea- son about 1,200 hogs per day, employ 140 men, and do a large business, principally in fancy English meats.
Swift Bros. & Co., cattle and beef dealers, organ- ized December 3. 1877, and during the first year killed 100 head per day. During 1883 they killed 331;668. They employ about 700 men. In January, 1878, the firm began to build refrigerator cars, and now use a large number in shipping dressed meat to Eastern mar- kets. They have ninety branch houses in various States
in the Union, and in 1883 their banking account was about $20,000,000. The entire slaughtering for this immense business is done at the yards. A. C. Foster is superintendent of the works.
Henry Denny & Sons, packers, established in Sep- tember, 1880. This firm has two packing houses in Ireland, and does besides a large business here in pre- paring meats for the English trade, and also for the American markets. The packing house has a capacity of 3.000 hogs per day, and about 150 men are employed in the establishment.
Armour & Co .- This firm was established in 1863 as commission merchants, and four years later began slaughtering and packing for home and foreign markets. The first season they packed 30,000 hogs, which was then considered as being a big business. They now pack 1,000,000 hogs, and slaughter nearly 300,000 cattle per annum. Their immense establishments at the Union Stock Yards cover some five or six blocks, including packing houses, cooling houses, canned meat establish- ments, lard refinery, ice houses, smoke houses, dressed beef houses, fertilizing factories and storage houses. The dressed beef business, in which this firm are now the largest dealers in the world, was begun in 1882, and they constantly employ in transporting their products to Eastern markets over 300 refrigerator cars, their ship- ments of dressed beef being 700 cattle daily. They employ regularly about 3,000, and during the busiest part of the season 4,000 men.
Hately Brothers .- Mr. J. C. Hately, who came to this city in 1873 to purchase provisions and other produce for the English markets, and in 1878 com- menced a packing house on a small scale, is now one of the largest Chicago packers. Mr. lately is also a rep- resentative of that class of men who, by their energetic and straightforward business methods, are raising Chi- cago yet higher in the estimation of the world as a manufacturing and trading center, His familiarity with the requirements of the English markets soon showed bim that to supply hog products in a manner to be sat- isfactory, either to himself or the trade, he would be compelled to commence packing operations on his own account. Starting in a small, rented house, his business grew so rapidly that in 1879 he took the establishment now occupied by Stiles & Co., which he vacated in May, 1881, when he had purchased the extensive premises of the Ricker Packing Company for $90,000. He was in possession here only a few months when he had the misfortune to lose everything by fire. By the winter of 1881-82 the place was entirely rebuilt with all the recent improvements, and with the addition of smoke houses, lard refinery, etc., all at a to'al cash outlay of $135,000. In October, 1882, he was joined in the business by his brother, W. C. Hately, since which the house has been known as lately Bros. The firm now has a capacity for killing and curing three thousand hogs daily, for re- fining five hundred tierces of lard in the same length of time, and for storing seventeen million pounds of meats. In their warehouses they store large quantities of side meats, barrels of pork, lard and hams, for bankers and for Eastern buyers. Their trade is principally with England, where they were educated to the business and to know the wants of that market in all its details. In 1884 they slaughtered two hundred and one thousand hogs, which cost in cash $2,495,000.
DROVER'S BANK .- Besides the Union Stock Yards Bank, elsewhere mentioned, there is the Drover's Na- tional Bank, an institution which opened its doors for business February 2, 1883. It is located in a small but substantial brick building on Halsted Street, and just
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south of the Transit House. The building, which was specially built for the purpose, is admirably arranged, and has as strong and well constructed vaults as are found in any bank in the State. In addition to the se- curity thus afforded, there is inside the vaults a burglar proof safe of the best and latest improved make, and so constructed as to defy the skill of the shrewdest cracks- men. The officers and directors of the bank, who are all men of high business standing, are : Solva Brintnall, president ; A. D. Lamb, vice-president, and W. H. Brintnall, cashier. The directors are: S. Brintnall, C. L. Shattuck, J. E. Greer, A. D. Lamb and W. H. Brint- nall. The capital stock of the institution is $100,000.
UNION STOCK YARDS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JULIUS AAGAARD, proprietor of Aagaard's Laundry, was born in Germany in 1857, and in 1873 came to Chicago, where he was employed as a barber. In 1875 he removed to the Union Stock Yards, and a year later opened a shop there, which he carried on up to the summer of 1883, when he leased it. In connection with other pursuits he established, in July, 1881, a steam laundry. He has built up quite a trade, and gives employment to twelve persous. Mr. Aagaard is a member of the A. F. & A. M. of this place.
GEORGE ADAMS, of Adams & Burke, live-stock commission merchants, is one of the oldest in this line of business at the Union Stock Yards. He was one of the first live-stock commission merchants at the oid yards of the Piusburgh, Ft, Wayne & Chicago Raviroad Company, and disposed of the first car-load of stock sold in these yards. Ile came so this place in December. 1865. For some eight years he carried on business alone, but of late years has been a member of the firm of Adams & Burke, who do a large business in these yards.
CHARLES F. E. ANDREWS was born in Green Bush, N. V., in 1846, and when he was very young his parents came to La Porie, Ind. In 1862 he entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company as a messenger boy, and has remained with them ever since. He learned telegraphy in the company's office at La Porte and acted as operator for them. In [567 he came to the town of Lake, and has since been employed as telegraph operator in the shipping department of the I. S. & M. S. R. R. Co. at the Union Stock Yards. fle is the oldest oper- ator on this division of that road. Mr. Andrews is among the oid sellers of Lake, He is a member of Mystic Siar Lodge, No. 759, A. F. & A. M., has for two years past been secretary of that body. and is connected with Inter-Ocean Council, R. A., No. 604.
VALENTINE APEL, was born in Germany in 1827, where he learned the butchering business and followed it for some years. In 1852 he came to the city of New York, was for ten years em- ployed in packing-houses, and in 1862 embarked in the business on his own ace unt, carrying on an extensive establishment up to the panic of 1573. Mr. Apel came to Chicago in t875 and entered the employ of the Angio.American Packing & Provision Company. taking charge of the cellars of the curing department of English meats. Two years later he opened up and took the entire charge of the department where all American meats are cured and packed. One hundred and fifty men are required to do the work in these eellars.
LYMAN H1. ARMS was born in Albany, N. Y., In 1850, and after leaving school followed mercantile pursuits. In February, 1$72, he came to lilinois, located in the town of Lake, and in the following March entered the employ of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Company, with whom he remained three years. Alter this he was with the Western Union Telegraph Company as book. keeper at the com rany's office in the Union, Stock Yards, which posuion he filled for five years. In September, 1880, he again en- tered the employ of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Company, and on May 10, 1881, was appointed to the position of feed-master. in the company's service. Mr. Arms is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity ; he is a charter member of Mystic Star Lodge. A. F. & A. M .; also a member of Chicago Chapter, R. A. M., and Apollo Commandery. K. T.
JOIIN BAKER was born in Germany in June, 1842, and seven years later his parents came to Milwaukee, Wis. In 1852 he came to Chicago, and some years later learned the trade of cigar maker, but not liking it, he learned the cooperage business, his occupation ever sinee. In 1878 he entered the emp oy of the Chicago Pack- Ing & Provision Company, and for the past three years has occupied the position of assistant foreman in the coopering department. Mr. Baker is a capable workman and is highly respected among his fellow-employés.
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