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As it has not been deemed practicable to, hold a lodge of sorrow, this seems a fitting place to again record the names of our dead.
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[The names of the dead were then read by F. M. Ram- say.]
[Prayer by Dr. De Witt.]
We are all born to die. We begin to live, and with the first breath that tells of life we begin to die. The pendulum swings back and forth marking the steady fight of the mo- ments. An American orator of distinction has said that the ticking of the clock is the blended music about the cradle and the dirge about the grave. Birth, death, is the language of the time-piece on the mantel. Amidst the laughing glow of the morning's blushes and the soft shadows of the evening twilight, amidst the bloom and fragrance of springtime and the solemn slumber of the winter, over the altar and the bier, the pendulum swings with the same solemn steadiness, the clock ticks off the seconds, time moves swiftly into the past and we move swiftly towards an eternal sleep. And decay,
so universal and so relentless, will yet fasten itself upon the clock whose ticking is so full of solemn, eloquent suggestive- ness. The clock will not always tick, the pendulum will not always swing. By and by, we shall listen for the tick- ing, but the clock will speak not. Like the heart of the dead, the pendulum will sleep-sleep in wakeless slumber; like the tomb, the old clock will be speechless and the abode of unending silence ; like the stringless harp upon the wall, its music will be hushed-hushed forever. But the flight of time will go on just the same. It will come with its gray hairs and scatter them through the raven locks of youth, with its yawning graves and its caskets, its funeral trains and its tear-floods, its disappointments and its heartaches.
Dr. McFatrich is a member of the Indiana and Acacia Clubs, and Chicago Athletic Association.
He was married, October, 1885, to Miss Vesta R. Putman, of Chicago. They have two bright little girls-Vesta and Florence.
A splendid physical development supports the activity of an active brain and an unusual force of character; until that breaks-which is not likely for many years-Dr. McFatrich will con- tinue to occupy a conspicuous position in his profession, as a student of science, as a man who, in his fraternal alliances, has the best interests of humanity at heart.
In every position in his eventful life; which he has been called to fill, Dr. McFatrich has been successful in the highest sense ; in his profession, upright, reliable and honorable. In all places and under all circumstances he is loyal to truth, honor and right, justly valuing his own self-respect and the deserved esteem of his fellow-men as infi- nitely more valuable than wealth, fame or position. In those finer traits of character which combine to form what we term friendship, which endear and attach man to man in bonds which nothing but the stain of dishonor can sever, which triumph over disaster and misfortune and shine brightest in the hour of adversity, he is royally endowed.
GORDON W. ALLEN,
AUBURN, N. Y.
T HE subject of this sketch is one of the commissioners-at-large of the World's .Co- lumbian Exposition. He is a man of great execu- tive ability and is the principal man in the great reaper establishment of D. M. Osborne & Com- pany. He is also president of the Auburn Street
Railway Company and a director of the Cayuga County National Bank of Auburn. He has had extensive business relations with many of the leading railroads of the country for many years, and is on intimate terms with railroad officials from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is pre-
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eminently a man of affairs and represents a wide range of interests. He was formerly a resident of Chicago, and during recent years has held large real estate interests there. Among his confi- dential advisers is the Honorable Chauncey M. Depew.
Although he is in no sense a politician, Mr. Allen is an uncompromising Republican, and glories in the success of his party.
His business career has been eminently suc- cessful and he numbers among his friends and
acquaintances many of the prominent men of our country. He was appointed one of the com- missioners-at-large of the World's Columbian Exposition, to be held at Chicago in 1893. ITis splendid abilities, successful achievements, cul- tivated tastes and wide range of experience, all serve as a most admirable equipment for the duties of his important office and make him the peer of his distinguished associates, to whom is intrusted the work of carrying to a successful issue this enormous, world-wide enterprise.
T. W. HARVEY,
CHICAGO, ILL.
T URLINGTON WALKER HARVEY was born at Siloam, New York State, March 10, 1835, to Johnson and Paulina (Walker) Harvey. His father was a farmer in early life, but later worked at carpentering, at Durhamville, New York. About 1851 he established a sash, door and blind factory at Oneida, New York, and in 1866 removed to Sandwich, Illinois, where he died in 1880. Ilis widow died in 1890. Our subject's educational advantages were limited. From his eleventh to his fourteenth year he was employed in a store at Durhamville. After that he learned the carpenter's trade, working with his father, and " between times " attended the public schools. After his father removed to Oneida, he attended the Oneida Academy a short time, but spent most of his time in the factory, and at the age of nineteen had mastered the sash, door and blind business. That was in 1854. Removing to Chicago, which was then coming into prominence, he first secured a position as foreman of a small sash, blind and door factory. He next filled a similar position in the same line of business with Messrs. Abbott & Kingman and retained it five years, and during that time familiarized himself with the lumber interests and trade throughout the Northwest.
In 1859 he joined Mr. Peter B. Lamb, and established a planing-mill and lumber-yard ; two years later they were obliged to enlarge their plant to meet the demands of their constantly growing trade. In 1865 Mr. Harvey bought Mr. Lamb's interest in the business, which continued
to grow beyond the capacity of the increased facilities of 1869. It was then that he moved his business to Twenty-second and Morgan strects, then the southern limits of the city, where he bought land and put up the first fire-proof build- ing erected in Chicago for a planing-mill. He also bought and built extensive docks. This was the beginning of that which afterwards came to be the largest lumber business in the United States, Mr. Harvey owning and operating lumber-mills at Menominee and Muskegon, Michigan, until 1883, when the T. W. Harvey Lumber Company succeeded to the business, which continues up to this time.
At one time his Chicago yards handled onc hundred and twenty-five million feet of lumber annually. In 1878 Mr. Harvey furnished the money to build the first logging-railroad in the United States. It connected Lake George with the Muskegon River, and was for transferring his logs from the lumber-camps to the Muskegon River, where they could float to the mills at the mouth of the river. In 1883 Mr. Harvey, asso- ciating with himself a number of his worthy employés, organized the T. W. Harvey Lumber Company, and has been at its head as president ever since. But Mr. Harvey has not confined his attention to the lumber interests. In 1890 he laid out' the town of Harvey, a suburb of Chicago, where are located the works of the Harvey Steel Car Company, and twelve other manufactories. The town is now owned by the Harvey Steel Car Company and the Harvey Land Association, of
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which he owns the most of the stock, and is the president of both companies.
He is also a director of the Metropolitan Na- tional Bank, and of the American Trust and Sav- ings Bank, of Chicago. In 1882 he bought two thousand acres of land in Eastern Nebraska, which is known as " Turlington " and is one of the finest stock farms in the Northwest.
" Black Prince, of Turlington," a steer who car- ried off nearly three thousand dollars in prizes in one year, was bred and raised on this farm.
Mr. Harvey has always shown commendable public-spiritedness and has been a leader in benevo- lent and charitable work. His services during and after the great fire of 1871 can never be over- estimated ; he was then on the executive com- mittee of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, and was selected to serve on the Shelter commit- tee. The chairman of that committee was unable to act, and his duties fell to Mr. Harvey. These so completely occupied his time that he gave to his own business but one hour during the six months following the fire. The winter of 1871-72 was a severe one, and but for the timely help of this society, many must have perished from hunger and exposure. One hundred thousand people were homeless. For a portion, temporary barracks were provided, but the majority were comfortably housed. Many owned their lots or had leases of them ; for such, houses ready for occupancy were furnished. These houses cost one hundred and twenty-five dollars each ; and in one month, from October 18th to November 17th, fifty-two hundred and twenty-six houses were erected, which number was afterwards increased to more than eight thousand. Foreseeing that the price of the lumber must advance, on account of the millions of feet destroyed in Chicago, and by the extensive forest fires in Michigan and Wis- consin, which raged in the fall of 1871, Mr. Harvey bought all he could get at fourteen dol- lars per thousand feet. The price went up to twenty dollars per thousand; so that on the thirty-five million feet of lumber used by the shelter committee, there was a saving of more than two hundred thousand dollars to the Relief Fund.
During the same winter a coal famine prevailed in many parts of Chicago, and under the personal supervision of Mr. Harvey, teams and wagons
were purchased, and although many streets in destitute parts of the city were filled with eighteen inches of snow, seven hundred tons of coal were delivered to the freezing people in the outskirts in one day. These are given as illustrations of the more public of Mr. Harvey's acts of benevo- lence. Others might be given, for it is such work as that of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society that he delights in, whose charities have bright- ened many a cheerless home, lifted the load from many a burdened heart, and brought gladness to many a soul ready to despair.
For many years Mr. Harvey has been an aggres- sive spirit in religious work, and wherever known is esteemed for his manly, Christian character. He was president of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, of Chicago, from 1871 to 1873, and again from 1876 to 1879. He is also vice-president of the Chicago Evangelistic Society, whose object is the promotion of evangelistic work and Bible study. The head of this society is Mr. Dwight L. Moody, in whose absence Mr. Harvey is called to act as executive. In 1876 he was chairman of the executive committee, which had in charge the erection of the " Moody Tabernacle " on Monroe street.
He is an earnest Sunday-school worker, and for more than a quarter of a century has been super- intendent of a Sunday-school in Chicago.
Withal, Mr. Harvey is a man of simple habits, domestic tastes, and fond of home, and is never happier than in the midst of the joys of his own fireside. His is a refined, attractive Christian home, whose heart-cheering influence is felt by all who come within its range, and whose inmates delight in dispensing generous hospitality.
In 1859 Mr. Harvey married Miss Marie Hard- man, of Louisville, Kentucky, whose decease oc- curred in 1870. Their four sons, Charles A., John R., George L., and Robert H. still survive. Mr. Harvey married Miss Belle S. Badger, of Chicago, May 28th, 1873, and by her has three sons and three daughters. Mrs. Harvey is an accomplished woman of literary tastes and culture, and devoted to her family, and in hearty sympathy with her husband in his good works. She presides with dignity and grace over their luxurious home, and next to her domestic duties prizes the privilege she enjoys of engaging in charitable and philan- thropic work.
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When measured by what he is, and by what he has done, Mr. Harvey may be pronounced, in the
truest and best sense of the words, a successful man.
EDWIN OSCAR GALE;
CHICAGO, ILL.
E' DWIN OSCAR GALE, the eldest son of Abram and Sarah (Silloway) Gale, who were natives of Massachusetts, was born in New York City on the 7th of May, 1832. His family left New York for Chicago April 20, 1835, going by boat up the Hudson to Albany, canal to Buffalo, and boat to Chicago, which was reached Friday morning, May 25.
Chicago having no harbor at that time, pas- sengers and freight were landed by lighters. Mrs. Gale, who had brought a stock of millinery with her, opened on Lake street the first establish- ment of the kind in the town. Chicago was then a trading-post with less than one thousand white people and ten thousand Indians. The following year the Indians received their last payment and were transferred to Kansas. The fort (Dearborn) was a military post, and while occupied as such, the subject of this sketch attended school in the barracks. He has a vivid recollection of the Indians and soldiers, while the old fort is indelibly impressed upon his memory. His father the fol- lowing year purchased from the government the half-section of land now known as Galewood, which is still mostly held by the family. There Edwin spent his holidays. Chicago, in early days, offered few educational advantages; but young Gale made good use of his opportunities, and having a decidedly literary tendency he has been steadily adding to his information, develop- ing his taste for the classics and high order of literature. Nor is he a reader merely, but is an easy writer, and when interested in his subject an carnest and fluent speaker, while his poetic temperament has expressed itself in about four hundred pages of poems, many of which have been published in the Chicago Journal and sev- eral magazines. He has delivered a number of orations, lectures and poems on special occasions, but shrinks from notoriety. When a young man he was four years prominently connected with the Chicago Lyceum, where he received from his
fellow-member, Colonel Mulligan, the title of "The Lisle Smith of the Lyceum." Although having a strong predilection for writing and speak- ing, Mr. Gale became a druggist in order that he might engage in that business with his brother William. He served one year with Mr. Henry Bowman, then was in the employ of Messrs. J. H1. Reed & Co. at 144 Lake street, four years, till 1856. llis services were so satisfactory to the' house, then the leading one in the West, that he was offered a partnership, but, while his relations with his employers were most friendly and the offer most tempting, he declined it, preferring to be the senior partner in a small firm rather than the junior in a large one. He felt that if he went into business on his own account he would be the architect of his own fortune, and the responsi- bilities would develop his character and abilities if he had any. That he had character and ability is evinced by his successful business carcer of thirty-five years. His father had built, in 1847, the first brick store erected on Randolph street, at number 202, which was occupied by a German druggist named George Bormann, with whom the younger Gale served his time. In January, 1856, he sold out to the young man, who refurnished the store and continued in business under the name of Gale Brothers, until 1865, when William, who had served through the war, sold out to him. He soon afterward admitted to the business, as a partner, Mr. William F. Blocki, who was then his clerk, and subsequently he took into the firm Mr. J. M. Baker, an employé, and his own son, Walter H. Gale, who gives his attention principally to the branch stores at Austin and Oak Park. In the latter place Mr. Gale has resided since 1861, and has an ideal home. The house was built and occupied by Mr. Gale several years before the great fire, and hc declined a very tempting offer, immediately after that calamity, to rent it to a wealthy Chicago gentleman whose residence had been destroyed.
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His wife was anxious to have him do so, stating that the difference in rent between the homestead and a house she desired to live in would support the family. Such noble devotion was appreciated by the husband, who would not listen to the proposition, though he had lost his entire business and was burdened with a thirty- thousand dollar debt, assumed for real estate a few days before the fire. The plucky firm had a store rented at No. 57 West Randolph street before eight o'clock Monday morning, and were doing business Wednesday of that week. Here they remained until the burnt district was rebuilt.
Julia E. Gale, née Hart, who for thirty-four years has been the happy wife of her devoted husband, was born in New York State, Septem- ber 5, 1833, but from early childhood until her marriage lived near Belvidere, Illinois. There was never a more perfect union ; an unkind word has never passed between them ; the same gentle courtesies and kind attentions are shown each other as are expected from young lovers ; in fact, it is a love match that keeps on burning, and some of Mr. Gale's finest poems have been sug- gested by little home incidents or anniversaries. The rebrushing of his coat suggested the follow- ing :
She was brushing my coat, that wife of mine, A task I thought I had perfectly done; She said, as she saw the particles fine Float in its beams: "Turn your face to the sun." I placed my hands on her soft, wavy hair, I, smiling, gazed in her eyes of blue And replied, as I kissed her forehead fair, "I do, dear wife, I am looking at you."
One Sunday morning as he was going to the store he stooped to kiss his wife as is his invari- able custom in parting or meeting, when she remarked: " Love must be blind, or you would not think so much of your old, faded wife." That little remark suggested the following poem :
1S LOVE BLIND ?
Think you my love for thee the kind That poets spoke of long ago, When they declared that "Love is blind," Hence I must be, in loving you? Is my love blind, when I can see So much to love in thy dear face,
And know these years, thy love for me, With mine for thee has kept apace ?
Is my love blind, when thy true life, A constant round of duty done,
I see in thee the dearest wife
That ever blessed a mortal's home ?
Where precepts with examples wove, Our children learning both from thee, Are comments on a mother's love, In making life what it should be?
Then speak no more of beauty fled, Nor charms once thine now passed away ;
Whatso I loved when we were wed, In thee, dear wife, defies decay. The bud that blossoms on the tree, Loading the air with perfume sweet,
Must changed become, ere we can see, On bending bough the ripened fruit.
But if perchance thy face is thin, Thy cheeks outgrown their early bloom, And in thy tresses now and then A silver thread runs through the loom,
I prize no less these marks of time, For I am older growing too ;
And well I know these locks of mine Prove I am older still than you.
I've had of life its blessings true, And for them all most grateful feel; The source of most I trace to you, And in your love enjoy them still. If love be blind, we'll bless the boy Who blindly led us in his fold, And fills our hearts with so much joy, We quite forget we're growing old.
A home permeated by such mutual love cannot but be a happy one.
Mr. Gale's success as a business man has per- mitted him to gratify his promptings to kind acts and benevolent deeds, which are done in such a manner as to win the hearts of those who are the recipients of his favors. Of his firm it is said that no one ever failed to get prescriptions filled be- cause they could not pay for them. He believes that to be happy one should be employed ; that it should be the aim of a business man to be the master of his business, not a slave to it, delega- ting to others such work as they have capacity to successfully carry on, never aiming to amass a for- tune and then retire from business to enjoy life- as the loss of health and comfort this course is usually attended with robs life of its charms and opportunities, while the penurious disposition it engenders takes from noble deeds of their true enjoyment and mars the pleasure that should go hand in hand with a wise and noble use of money --- that happiness is not secured by amass- ing wealth, but in using it for the good of others ..
Mr. Gale, like his father before him, is a Uni-
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versalist, and is one of the most liberal supporters of Unity Church, at Oak Park. A Republican in politics, he votes that ticket unless he is satis- fied that an opposing candidate would be a better officer, when he usually indorses him. Except- ing holding the position of school director for twelve years and school trustee three years, he has uniformly declined office.
In personal appearance Mr. Gale is five feet, five and a half inches tall, and rather stout ; has light complexion, blue eyes, dark-brown, curly hair, well mixed with gray, and, as a commentary
upon the healthfulness of Chicago, he says he was never sick a day in his life. He is of strictly tem- perate habits and has a cheerful disposition.
Of his six sons, the eldest, Walter H., is one of his partners. E. Vincent, a practical tanner, is in the employ of W. N. Eisendrath & Co. Both of these are married. Thomas H., who graduated at the University of Michigan in 1888, is in the real estate business. Abram is learning business with his father, while the two younger, Greenleaf Whit- tier and Oliver M., aged respectively fifteen and thirteen, are still attending school at Oak Park.
JAMES HOBART MOORE,
CHICAGO, ILL.
I "N the little town of Berkshire, Tioga county, -New York, the subject of this biography was born, June 14, 1852, to Nathaniel F. and Rachel A. Moore, being the second of a family of two children. He received an academical education at the Cortland Academy, Homer, N. Y., and at the age of nineteen entered the banking office of N. F. Moore, his father, at Greene, N. Y.
In 1871 he entered the service of the Susque- hanna Bank, at Binghamton, N. Y., where he re- mained with much credit to himself for two years, when he determined to cast his lot in Chicago, removing to that city in 1873. There he occu- pied positions of trust with several institutions until 1878, when he took up the study of law in the office of Small & Moore, which firm was com- posed of Edward A. Small, formerly of Galena, Ill., and William HI. Moore, the latter an elder brother. Having pursued his studies successfully, in due time he was admitted to the bar, and on the death of Mr. Small, in 1881, he entered into partnership with his brother, under the style of W. H. & J. H. Moore, to which firm Mr. William A. Purcell was subsequently added. While this firm has enjoyed an extensive and increasing gen- eral practice, it has been largely occupied in or- ganizing corporative enterprises, the principal among them being the Frazer Lubricator Co., the Price Baking Powder Co., the Diamond Match Co., the American Strawboard Co., and the New ·York Biscuit Co., of which latter Mr. James H. Moore is second vice-president. He is also
second vice-president of the Diamond Match Co., and a director or stockholder in each of the other companies named. Mr. Moore's firm also numbers among its clients numerous other large and well-known Chicago corporations and business firms.
Mr. Moore is a Democrat, though not actively participating in political affairs. In his profession Mr. Moore is primarily a counsellor, having a keen legal mind and strong common sense, and as such he stands in high repute among his associates and the business public. The ready success at- tending his efforts in placing large amounts of capital stock for the several corporations above named among the leading financial institutions of Chicago, attest their confidence alike in his judg- ment and integrity.
He is a man of unusually clear perception, and a good reader of men. While he is affable and approachable to a degree, he at the same time always maintains a becoming reserve and dignity.
Mr. Moore is a man of most generous disposi- tion, and more than one young man in Chicago now prospering and on the road to fame and for- tune owes his condition to Mr. Moore's personal active efforts in his behalf when most in need of a helping friend.
" Fidelity to his friends" is a marked trait in Mr. Moore's character. While he has risen by his own merlts to affluence, his earlier as well as later friends have retained their places in his affec- tions. He is in the fullest sense a self-made man.
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