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Through his mother, Harriet A. Stimson, he is descended from a long line of physicians and clergymen. From this side also he inherits a
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legacy of long life-a maternal uncle and also an aunt having passed the century line by several years. Dr. Harper has no brothers living, three having died in infancy. Three sisters survive, one of whom, Miss Lucy, was married to John B. Hall, Esq., an active and prominent citizen of Chicago.
Dr. Harper received a good common-school education and graduated with honor from the High School of Evansville, Indiana, whither his father had removed while he was yet a child. He began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. George B. Walker, Dean of the Evansville Medical College, where he matriculated in 1871, and from which he graduated with great credit. The Medical College of Evansville was established in 1849, the late celebrated Dr. William H. By- ford, of Chicago, being one of its faculty. Shortly after graduating, Dr. Harper became a partner of one of his former preceptors, Dr. William R. Davidson, with whom he remained three years. In 1876 he entered the University of New York. Graduating in 1878, he took the first prize for the best examination on diseases of the eye and ear, being the first western man to take this prize, which had always formerly been awarded to graduates of Yale, Harvard, and other eastern colleges. Not satisfied with his excellent achiev- ments thus far, in 1878 he sailed for Europe, to perfect himself in his specialty of diseases of the eye and ear in London, Paris, and Vienna. Before leaving home he had been appointed Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Medical College of Evansville, and during his two years' stay abroad retained the position.
On his return from Europe in 1880, in conjunc- tion with Dr. A. M. Owen, he started The Indi- ana Medical Reporter, which was afterwards merged into The Western Medical Reporter of Chicago, of which successful journal he is still (1892) sole editor and publisher.
In 1882, Dr. Harper removed to Chicago, where he has ever since resided. He was immediately elected to fill (resigned, June, 1891) the chair of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which institution he was also secretary. For five years he acted as Assistant Surgeon in the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, from which increasing practice forced him to resign. He has for nine years been surgeon-in-chief in the eye and ear department of
the West Side Free Dispensary and holds the same position in St. Vincent Orphan Asylum. He is consulting oculist and aurist of the Oak- wood Retreat at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and also in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, at Battle Creek, Michigan. Is now president and Professor of Diseases of Eye and Ear in the Clinical Col- lege of Medicine, Chicago.
In excellent standing with the medical profes- sion, he is a prominent member of the Chicago Society of Ophthalmology and Otology; Chicago Pathological Society; Chicago Medico-Legal So- ciety; Chicago Medical Society; Illinois State Medical Society; Mississippi Valley Medical So- ciety, and holds a prominent membership in the American Medical Association.
Besides his professional honors, Dr. Harper ranks very high in the Masonic Order. In 1876 he united with the Knights of Pythias, Orion Lodge, No. 35, at Evansville, Indiana; in 1889 was made a Master Mason in Cleveland Lodge, A.F. and A. M., No. 411, Chicago; the same year he was ex- alted to the Royal Arch degree in Washington Chapter, No. 43, and early in 1891 was created a Knight Templar in St. Bernard Commandery, No. 35.
In politics, Dr. Harper is a Democrat, entirely free from partisanship or political aspirations. He has for years been a valued member of the Baptist denomination, with which he united in Evansville, in 1869. He now attends Immanuel Baptist Church, on Michigan avenue near Twenty- third street. 1526229
Dr. Harper has had a remarkably successful career, and a fact which greatly adds to his honor he is pre-eminently a self-made man. Every bit of his success, starting from a little town in Indi- ana, up to his present high rank in the medical profession of the Northwest, has been won by his own exertions and on his own merits. The Doctor is very fond of athletic sports and is an expert huntsman. In 1890 he spent a long holi- day in the wilds of Colorado, hunting and moun- tain-climbing, attaining an altitude of eleven thousand feet above the sea. Refined, genial, whole-souled, a great lover of music, his devotion to his profession has not prevented his mingling in society in which he is a general favorite.
On the 28th of May, 1878, Dr. Harper was mar- ried to Miss Mary E, Walker, daughter of Mr. W.
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H. Walker, ex-mayor of Evansville, Indiana, and niece of the late Dr. George B. Walker, who for thirty years was dean of the medical college of that place. Mrs. Harper's family were originally from New Jersey, and her grandfather, General William Walker, took a distinguished part in the
Mexican war and fell, in 1848, in the battle of Buena Vista. Several of her relatives also ren- dered gallant service in the late Civil War. Two children have been the result of this union, one of whom is still living, Robert Brinton Harper, a bright, handsome boy of nine years.
WILLIAM FLETCHER KING, LL. D.
MOUNT VERNON, IOWA.
W WILLIAM F. KING was born near Zanes- ville, Ohio, December 20, 1830, the son of James J. and Mariam (Coffman) King. Both his father and mother were of old Virginia fami- lies, and leading industrious, frugal and thrifty lives in their adopted State of Ohio, they both lived to advanced age; the father departing at eighty-six, and the mother at eighty-eight. They were conspicuous leaders in their community in every movement which looked to the material, in- tellectual and moral elevation of society.
William is the eldest of three brothers, all of whom are graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, at Delaware, Ohio. Isaac Fenton is a prominent clergyman at Columbus, Ohio, and John Wesley King is a successful lawyer at Zanes- ville. After finishing his college course in 1857, the subject of this sketch became a tutor in his alma mater, where he continued for five years, endearing himself to all and establishing a reputa- tion as a successful teacher. Resigning his position in 1862, he was thereupon, on the recommendation of Drs. (afterwards Bishops) Thomson and Clark, called to the chair of Ancient Languages in Cornell College, at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and since that time has been closely identified with the educational interests of that institution and commonwealth. Upon the death of President Fellows, in 1863, he was placed in charge of the college as acting president, and was formally elected president in 1865, and still holds that office, making him the senior college president of Iowa and the ranking president of Methodist colleges in the United States. To him the work of his high office is a loving service, and during the quarter of a century that he has devoted himself to it, it has engaged his best powers of mind and heart. To this fact is to be attributed in no small degree the high
standing and successful growth of the institution over which he presides.
President King has been alike interested in the physical, intellectual and moral development of his students, and counts among those who have come under his instruction and influence, thou- sands of young and middle-aged men and women who are to-day filling positions of influence and trust in every honorable vocation. His sympathies and labors, however, have not been confined to the college over which he presides with such dis- tinguished honor and ability. The public schools and all educational interests of his State have re- ceived their proper share af his attention. He has been president of the State Teachers' Association, and has served for years on its most important committees, and he has long been honored with membership in the Educational Council of the National Teachers' Association. Not to speak in detail of the various positions he has held in edu- cational and ecclesiastical conventions, his public lectures and sermons, with their wealth of thought and scholastic research, suffice to say, that in whatever position placed, he has mastered his surroundings, and has shown himself a broad- minded, pure-hearted and clean-handed man.
In 1870, President King was honored by the Illinois Wesleyan University with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1887 he received from his alma mater the degree of "Doctor of Laws," and the same year he received the same degree from the State University of Iowa.
In 1890, Dr. King was appointed by Presi- dent Harrison as the Republican representa- tive from the State of Iowa on the National Commission of the Columbian Exposition. The selection is a most happy one, for besides being a teacher and man of letters of high order, Dr. King
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is in the truest sense a man of affairs, practical and progressive in his ideas. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States, and is well informed concerning the resources of the country, and having visited and made a study of expositions in Europe, he brings to the work of his honored position the fruitage of a rich and varied experience. Dr. King is a man of common sense as well as of talent. He is a man of details, and has the happy faculty of taking in at a glance a difficult situation, and he also has the rarer quality of being able to execute his plans and put them to a practical test. He is a man of retiring nature, modest and unassuming, and nothing could be to him more foreign or distasteful than to court favors or position. These he has received in abundance, but they have come unsought. He is a man of dignified bearing and courtly manners,
and is happy to count among his warm friends men of all classes. He has made of life a grand success ; and were one to seek for its secret, it would be found in that persistent purpose which has been a motive power in his life, to make the world brighter and better, by putting to the noblest and best use, under Divine guidance, all that he is and has. Dr. King is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,and for many years he has been prominent in her councils. He has been twice elected to the General Conference, the highest legislative body of the Church.
He was married in August, 1865, to Miss Mar- garet McKell, of Chillicothe, Ohio. They have had one child, Lucy Hayes King, who died April 12th, 1887, at the age of eleven years. This great loss has toned and ripened both their lives.
CHARLES S. STOBIE,
CHICAGO, ILL.
T HE subject of this biography is one of Chicago's finest artists. He excels as a portrait and figure painter and is equally good at landscapes. All concede that his paintings of mountain scenery rank among the most realistic.
His many years life as scout and hunter in the Rockies afforded him an opportunity to view and study the gigantic canyons and lofty peaks of those mountains, and he reproduces them on canvas with an ease and skill that is a surprise to lovers of fine art. He reads human nature by intuition and the Indian character has been his special study. And the great chiefs and others he has painted true to nature, and his paintings in this line possess an excellence to which no other artist has attained.
Mr. Stobie is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and was born in 1845. He is the son of Charles U. Stobie. His mother's name before marriage was Miss Janet Oughterlonie; his father is a native of Perthshire, and his mother of Fifeshire, Scot- land. He commenced his education in private schools in Baltimore, and was two years in Madras College, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. In 1861 he began studying art, and several years he practiced as an architectural draughtsman.
In 1865 he crossed the plains with a wagon train from Nebraska City on the Missouri River, spending the winter in the Platte Valley, making Denver his headquarters. During that winter he became acquainted with James P. Beckworth, the well-known mountaineer, who was twenty years a chief among the Crows; from him the artist ob- tained an insight into hunting and trapping, the chief calling him playfully his recruit. At this juncture he received much valuable information concerning the various tribes, from such veterans as Kit Carson, Jim Baker, Mariano Medina, and other old mountaineers with whom he maintained friendly relations long afterwards. Major D. C. Oakes, another pioneer, also honored him with his confidence and advice. The next year (1866) the artist spent in the Ute county, hunting and mak- ing studies and sketches of the Indians and the scenery. Among the men whose friendship he won in the parks of Colorado at that period were Charles Utter and Jack Sumner. The latter subse- quently accompanied Professor Powell as guide and hunter through the wonderful Colorado canyon. Being thus in the very heart of the Ute county, Mr. Stobie had every chance to study its people. He hunted with the tribe and was with
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them when they drove the Arapahoes from the northern border of the park the same year. Pend- ing the Indian troubles in 1868, he acted as one of Major Downing's scouts, the other being John Cisco, who was later killed by the Indians near the " Smoky Hill" road. In 1869 he served in the same capacity in the government expedi- tion under the command of Major D. C. Oakes, which was organized to locate the White River Ute Agency. The command left Denver in July, traveled through the inountains by the old " Salt Lake Stage " road. Having reached Fort Steele and Rawlings Springs, they prepared to strike through the unexplored country south and south- west near " Old Duck Lake Station," on Salt Lake trail, taking the southerly course toward White River, whence they made their own trail through the alkali desert and mountains, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. During this expe- dition our artist-scout kept constantly in the ad- vance with Mr. U. M. Curtis, the principal Ute in- terpreter, whose twenty years' experience among the Indians and the mountains enabled him to impart to his young companion much valuable information about this part of the territory. The agency was finally located at White River, a few miles from Professor Powell's first winter quarters on his journey to the Colorado canyon. Since then Mr. Stobie officiated as guide and interpreter in the mountains, particularly in the Grand River county, and hunted buffalo in the neighborhood of Fort Wallace, as well as towards the Arkansas to the South and the Republican Forks toward the North. One of the first pictures Mr. Stobie painted on his return was a view of an Indian village at day-break, which immediately found a customer in a resident of Virginia City, who was able to appreciate its wonderful fidelity to nature. Mr. Stobie's western scenes are all characterized by the same truthfulness. His works must steadily rise in the estimation of those who can understand their peculiar merits. Mr. Stobie returned to Chicago in October, 1874, where he has made his home ever since, pursuing the routine of artistic life. He intends to return soon to the mountains and the Indian country to round up the labor so well begun.
Among the many notices in the Chicago papers of Mr. Stobie's merits we make the following extract from the Chicago Evening Journal of
January 28, 1887: " Mr. Charles S. Stobie is one of the oldest of Chicago's artists, having had his first studio in Crosby's Opera House some years before the fire. He has taken up his quarters for the winter in Gay's old room in McCormick Block. Mr. Stobie has just completed two large pictures of the nude, a "Blonde" and "Brunette," a commission from a Detroit gentleman. Mr. Stobie is one of the very few artists of the country who have attempted to paint the North American Indian. It is a remarkable fact that this field for an artist should have been so long left vacant. It is not saying too much to declare that there is not in the country to-day a gentleman more thoroughly equipped with the necessary knowl- edge of Indian life and character to successfully paint this class of subjects. Many men of ability have painted the red man as they thought he ought to be, but not as the Almighty made him. Mr. Stobie has spent twenty years of his life in this special study and has dared much to attain it."
The following is from the same paper of April 17, 1890: "Mr. Charles S. Stobie is just finishing a fine portrait in oil of Mrs. Leander McCormick's father, Mr. John Hamilton. Although Mr. Stobie has made a specialty of frontier life and the Ute Indians, among whom he lived a number of years, his present work evidences his versatility and ability in other lines. A Baltimorean by birth, and educated abroad, Mr. Stobie resolved early to make American subjects his study. To this end he became an American scout, and for a number of years lived among the Ute Indians, not as their guest but as one of them. He was the friend and companion of the famous mountaineers of the day, and has in his studio an autograph photo- graph presented to him by Kit Carson. Mr. Stobie's collection of studies of frontier life are now on exhibition at Lyon & Healy's music store. A picture of especial merit in this collection is ' A Storm on the Plains.' It is a strong and true piece of work, and while in coloring and other respects different from Pelletier's 'Approach of a Storm at Fontainbleau,' which he painted for Louis Phillippi, there is in the hushed, trembling air which precedes the terrific warning of the elements a suggestion which is in a way identical. Another good piece of work and one which can but be appreciated by those acquainted with or
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interested in the uncivilized Indians is the portrait of Sitting Bull. The Medicine Man is a picture which only one who has had exceptional and unusual opportunities could have painted, as no one is admitted to the medicine lodge save when they may possibly assist in saving the life of the patient, and it was in rendering such assistance that Mr. Stobie made the study which enabled him to paint this picture. 'The Scalp Parade of the Utes' is another faithful and interesting study in this collection, evidences that Mr. Stobie is in a fair way to accomplish with his brush what Joaquin Miller has with his pen in portraying the wild romantic American frontier life which is fast becoming a thing of the past."
The, Chicago Times, of May 13, 1877, in
speaking of the sale about to take place at the artists' gallery, says: "About one hundred and forty-five paintings of local artists are to be dis- posed of besides a score or more of others. One of the largest contributions is that of C. S. Stobie, no less than nineteen specimens of his work appearing on the catalogue. These are nearly all the result of years of travel in the Rocky mountains, and depict those scenes which would be most likely to attract the artists' attention. His most pretentious works are 'Bear River Valley,' 'Alkali Buttes' and 'Middle Park,' although several smaller paintings are of almost equal merit. Mr. Stobie is evidently an artist be- cause nature compels him to be, and is therefore thoroughly in love with his profession."
EDWARD JAMES JUDD,
CHICAGO, ILL.
AMONG the younger members of the Chicago I bar the subject of this sketch stands high. He is a native of Chicago, and was born April 28, 1858, the son of Norman B. and Adeline (Rossiter) Judd. His father was a well known and eminent attorney of Chicago, and an intimate personal and political friend of President Lincoln. He was con- spicuously prominent in securing Mr. Lincoln's nomination for the Presidency, and probably more so than any one else in that memorable nominat- ing convention. He was one of Mr. Lincoln's closest friends during the campaign which fol- lowed his nomination, and accompanied him on his perilous trip from Springfield to Washington prior to his inauguration in 1861.
Young Judd received his early education in the public schools of Hyde Park and at the academy at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Subsequently he at- tended one of the academies of Stockbridge, Mas- sachusetts (1872 to 1875), and entered Yale Uni- versity in the latter part of 1875. In the following year, while in the midst of his college career, he was obliged to return home on account of his father's financial reverses. The necessity of ob- taining employment was then explained to him, and he lost no time in applying for work, and ultimately became stock boy in the store of Messrs. Field, Leiter and Company, at four dollars per
week, and remained in their employ about a year. He left his position to study law in the office of Judge George S. Eldridge, a prominent lawyer at Ottawa, Illinois. After two years of study he passed a highly creditable examination, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. The following three years Mr. Judd spent in the general practice of his profession at Moline, in Rock Island county, Illi- nois, and in 1883 he returned to Chicago and practiced alone until 1887, in which year he formed a partnership with Messrs. Francis W. Walker and Edmund Furthmann, Mr. Furthmann subsequent- ly retiring from the firm.
His practice from the commencement has been of a decidedly lucrative character, and what may be termed general in its scope. He has been con- nected with several notable cases, probably the most celebrated of which was that of the Chicago Home for the Friendless vs. The City of Chicago, Mr. Judd obtaining on behalf of the home eighty- four thousand dollars of the moneys which had been entrusted to the city by Jonathan Burr, who had been a prominent citizen in the early days of Chicago. The sum in dispute had been left by him to the City of Chicago as trustee, and had been used for purposes other than those in- tended by the donor. Through Mr. Judd's efforts and the masterly manner in which he handled his
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client's case, the city was compelled to turn over the sum previously stated to the Home for the Friendless and the other charitable institutions, which it was the desire of Mr. Burr to benefit thereby. In winning this case, Mr. Judd not only enhanced his reputation as a skillful attorney, but also was the means of securing justice for institu- tions which are worthy of support.
Mr. Judd was married in 1885 to Miss Carrie W. Walker, daughter of Lucas B. Walker, and a sister of his present partner.
During the year 1891, Mr. Judd acted as coun- sel for Cook county, and during the present year (1892) occupies the same position as to those cases against the county which arose out of the doings of the County Board of 1886; most of the members of which were criminally convicted of malfeasance in office, and which cases are more commonly designated as the "Boodle Cases."
Mr. Judd is a member of the Union League, Marquette, Douglas and Hamilton clubs. In poli- tics he is an ardent Republican, as was his father before him, though he is by no means what may be termed a politician.
In personal appearance he is fair and of medium height. Of a jovial and sociable nature, he is a pleasant companion and a staunch friend, and is the center of a large circle of friends. He is a hard worker, and when there is work to be accomplished, he is always found in the midst of it, and never seems to tire until his task has been completed to the satisfaction of all con- cerned.
Mr. Judd is a respected citizen and a man of more than average ability, and with his high and laudable ambition and straight-forward, manly course must attain to a high place in his profes- sion.
DAVID BRAINERD LYMAN,
CHICAGO, ILL.
A MONG the able, leading and representative lawyers of the Chicago bar, none stands higher or is more worthy of a place in this work of "Representative Men of Chicago," than the subject of this sketch.
He was born March 27, 1840, in Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, Sandwich Islands. He comes, however, of sturdy New England stock, and is the son of the Rev. D. B. Lyman, who was formerly of New Hartford, Connecticut, and was a gradu- ate of Williams College and the Andover Theo- logical Seminary. In 1831 the Rev. Mr. Lyman married Miss Sarah Joiner, of Royalton, Vermont, and sailed for the Sandwich Islands, as a mission- ary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Here he and his wife labored indefatigably for the cause of Christianity and civilization for over fifty years, till their death, a few years since. He was a prominent educator and much interested in the advancement of the islands.
David passed his early youth on these islands, and acquired his. education mainly by his own efforts. He held several important government positions at an carly age, and thereby obtained
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