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means to gratify his desire for a university education. In 1859 he left Honolulu, sailed around Cape Horn and arrived in New Bedford, Connecticut, in May, 1860. He entered Yale College the following September, and graduated in Arts in 1864. He then entered the Harvard Law School and graduated therefrom, winning one of the prizes for the best legal essay, in 1866. During the years 1864 and 1865, while enrolled as a student at Harvard Law School, he was con- nected with the Sanitary Commission as hospital visitor, and was in charge of the Fifth Corps Hos- pital of the Army of the Potomac, and also the Point of Rocks Hospital in Virginia. The last few weeks of his service he was in charge of the Sanitary Commission of the forces concentrated about Washington. In 1866 Mr. Lyman was admitted to the bar in Boston, and the same year removed to Chicago and secured a clerkship in the law office of Messrs. Waite & Clark, where he remained two years. July 1, 1869, he formed a partnership with Col. Huntington W. Jackson, under the firm name of Lyman & Jackson, which is to-day the oldest law partnership in Chicago. Mr. Lyman has fine literary attain-
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ments, and is a good classical scholar. He has been highly successful in his profession. While he has, perhaps, devoted more time to real estate and corporation law than to any other branch, so general has been his reading, and such has been his industry, that he is a general practitioner, being at home everywhere, except in criminal cases, which he never takes, and always ready for attack or defense. He has much natural ability, yet by the thoroughness with which he prepares his cases, he illustrates the truth of the well-known maxim, "There is no excellence without labor."
While Mr. Lyman has probably a higher repu- tation as an able and learned counselor than as an advocate, yet such is his standing, and so thoroughly does he investigate and prepare his cases, that his arguments carry more weight than those of many members of the bar who may, perhaps, be more eloquent.
He has the confidence of his clients, because they know he will not advise them to commence a suit unless their course is right, and then, only when there is no remedy for them save in litiga- tion. He is noted for his indefatigable industry, for his painstaking preparation and management of his cases, for his unvarying courtesy toward everyone with whom he comes in contact, and for his most thorough and conscientious discharge of his duty to his clients. These qualities, added to his well-known ability and learning, have given him a high standing with his brethren of the bar, as well as with the courts.
Mr. Lyman takes no active part in politics, but is a staunch Republican.
He was married October 5, 1870, to Miss Mary E. Cossitt, daughter of Mr. F. D. Cossitt, of Chicago. They have three children living.
Mr. Lyman is interested, either as director or trustee, in a number of corporations, and is president of the Chicago Title and Trust Com- pany, which he was largely instrumental in forming.
In social life Mr. Lyman is much esteemed. He is a member of the Chicago Union League, University and Church clubs, and he was the first president of the last named. He is an earnest and active member of the Episcopal church. He resides in La Grange, one of Chicago's most beau- tiful suburbs. Mr. Lyman has always been a believer in and prominently identified with the cause of education. He has served for eighteen years on the Board of Education of La Grange in various capacities, as one of its members and as its president. Largely through his efforts the Lyons Township High School was established after a four-years' campaign, during which time the project was repeatedly voted down. Being a zealous advocate of the common-school system, each defeat only added to his earnestness, and he has the satisfaction of seeing both the Grammar and High Schools established at La Grange, ranking among the best to be found in any part of the county. Mr. Lyman is appreciated by the entire community in which he lives.
ARTHUR D. RICH,
CHICAGO, ILL.
A RTHUR D. RICH was born on a farm in Ticonderoga, New York, November 25, 1827, the son of Larned and Amanda (Pearce) Rich. His father was at the defense of Platts- burg, in 1814, and came to New York from Rich- ville, Vermont, being a member of that family which gave to the Green Mountain town its pres- ent name, while his mother was a member of one of the old families of Bolton, New York; our subject being their youngest son. In 1837, his father sold the homestead at Ticonderoga to the father of the eminent Boston divine-Rev. Jo-
seph Cook, and removed to Michigan, settling in St. Joseph county, near the town of Three Rivers. Being an enterprising man of intelligence, who knew the value of a good education, he gave his children excellent training. He died when our subject was eleven years of age. Being thus thrown upon his own resources, Arthur went to live with an elder sister, in the village of School- craft, Michigan. He continued his studies at the Schoolcraft Academy, his intention being to ulti- mately take a collegiate course. His ambition was a worthy one, but his means were limited, and
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he accepted the position of teacher in one of the neighboring schools, and by being studious, thrifty and economical, he at length was enabled to enter Spring Arbor Academy (now known as Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan), and upon leaving here, entered the Michigan University at Ann Ar- bor, teaching school a portion of the time to defray his expenses, and was graduated in 1851. In the following year he settled in Chicago. Having but five dollars on his arrival, he lost no time in seeking a position, where he could earn a liveli- hood, and at the same time pursue his studies to advantage. Applying to Messrs. Judd and Wil- son (of which firm Norman B. Judd, lawyer, poli- tician and diplomat, was the senior member)- then one of noted law-firms of Chicago-he was fortunate in being received into the office, not only as student, but also as a clerk, at a salary en- abling him to meet his current expenses. He re- mained in their office two years, and acquired a practical knowledge of the theory and practice of law, and also formed the acquaintance of many of the men, who were then the most distinguished members of the western bar. Abraham Lincoln, who was an intimate personal and political friend of Mr. Judd, was a frequent visitor at the office, and he and Mr. Judd were often associated in the trial of important cases, and Mr. Rich counts as among his interesting experiences, the oppor- tunities he had of hearing occasionally, not only Lincoln's impressive legal arguments, but also many of the droll stories, with which he used to entertain his friends, when work for the day was over. Having completed his course of study, in 1854, he was admitted to the bar and entered upon his professional career with the advantages of a liberal education and a natural adaptation for his chosen calling. His success has been pronounced. His aptitude for dealing, in a practical manner, with the issues involved in general litigation, his care of his clients' interests, and his conservative method of reaching conclusions, were noticeable in his early career, as they are to-day, and as a result Mr. Rich was but a comparatively short time in establishing a comfortable and remunera- tive practice, being looked upon by the profession and general public as a lawyer whose integrity was unquestionable, and who possessed more than average ability. Attracting clients by his candor and straight-forward methods, his affability and
geniality, he gained friends rapidly, and laid the foundation of a successful and highly creditable professional career. With politics and kindred al- lurements, he has had little to do. For more than thirty-five years he has devoted himself to the gen- eral practice of the law, during this time being prominently connected with a large number of the most important cases adjudicated in the State and United States Courts of Chicago and the Supreme Court of Illinois.
His participation in the well-known case of Rawson vs. Fox, the plaintiff being the somewhat noted banker, who sought to recover valuable Chi- cags real-estate, is well known, not only in legal circles, but to numbers of the general public also, while he also appeared as leading counsel for the plaintiffs in the celebrated case of Butler vs. But- ler, a case involving the property rights of minor children and the ownership of half a million dol- lars' worth of land in the heart of Chicago. In the divorce case of Jenkins vs. Jenkins, a case which was pending some twelve years in the courts (the longest on record in the Illinois courts), he secured for his client a decree of absolute divorce, and thus resisted the efforts of an adventuress to secure divorce and alimony. These are but a few of the many cases-more or less important-he has been identified with with credit to himself and the pro- fession. To-day, as the result of his strict atten- tion to business and his honorable methods, Mr. Rich has acquired a comfortable fortune, and is now in a position to take matters easily, and to enjoy a well-earned retirement from active busi- ness. He is now (1892) senior member of the law firm of Rich, Ripley & Alling.
He was married, in 1856, to Miss Esther Ten- ant Dyckman, a daughter of the late Judge Evert B. Dyckman, of Schoolcraft, Michigan. This marriage has been blessed by eleven children, of whom eight sons and one daughter survive. Of the eight sons, three have entered the medical profession ; one is at present a teacher in a city High School, but preparing himself for the law ; one is a Swedenborgian minister; another is an architect and builder, while two of the younger sons and his daughter are now in the University of Michigan, with the purpose of fitting them- selves for some profession or business of their future choice. Mr. Rich himself finds ample em- ployment in looking after his property interests
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and the education of his children. He is a di- rector and one of the largest stockholders in the Fort Dearborn National Bank of Chicago. His success in life is the result of his own unaided
efforts ; his determination was strong ; his ambition both worthy and honorable, and the results at- tained by him are such as make his example worthy of emulation.
COL. ALEXANDER B. ANDREWS,
RALEIGH, N. C.
T HE subject of this sketch is the fifth vice- president of the World's Columbian Expo- sition from the State of North Carolina, and sec- ond vice-president of the Richmond and Dan- ville Railroad system. He was born July 23, 1841, in Franklin county, North Carolina, the son of W. J. and Virginia (Hawkins) Andrews. His father was a merchant of Henderson, North Caro- lina. His mother was a daughter of Mr. J. D. Hawkins, of Franklin county. Both parents died when our subject was quite young. He was raised by his grandparents, and early acquired those in- dustrious, prompt and methodical habits that have characterized his subsequent career. He was ap- pointed by his uncle purchasing agent, paymaster and general superintendent of the contract works on the Blue Ridge Railroad in South Carolina in 1859 and has ever since been connected with rail- road interests.
In April, 1861, he joined the First Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry, being one of the first vol- unteer regiments of the Confederacy and was soon promoted to the rank of second and first lieuten- ant respectively, and in July, 1862, he became Captain of Company B and participated in the memorable campaigns of Stuart's, afterwards Hampton's Brigade, with much credit. While cheering on his men at the engagement of Jack's Shops, September 22, 1863, he was shot through the lungs, and it was thought at the time fatally wounded. To the astonishment of his surgeon, who had pronounced his case hopeless, he survived. Twice he attempted to rejoin his old command, and upon hearing of General Lee's surrender, though contrary to physician's orders, he reported to Johnson's command and was paroled with the surviving veterans of that gallant army at Greens- boro'. Finding himself penniless at the conclusion of the war, he made proposals to the companies interested in the Raleigh and Gaston and the
Petersburgh railroads, to lease, equip and to operate the ferry at Gaston, which ferry was ne- cessitated on account of the destruction of the bridges at Weldon and Gaston. Succeeding in this undertaking, he was shortly afterwards ap- pointed superintendent of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, and together with the president, Dr. Hawkins, build many miles of the Raleigh & Au- gusta Air Line. Resigning this position in 1875, he was subsequently appointed by the lessees of the North Carolina Railroad (the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company) superintendent of the North Carolina division and his occupancy of this position resulted in the towns of Reidsville, Durham, Winston, etc., becoming prosperous and growing centres of trade.
He at length became assistant president of the Richmond and Danville system. He is interested also in the extension of the various branches of the W. N. C. line. He was prominent in rescuing and placing upon a firm basis this line, at the time its condition was most desperate. He, with several others, advanced fifty thousand dollars to that road, which loan was never repaid, and the line at length passed into the hands of the Richmond and Danville organization, and in 1881 Mr. Andrews became its president. By his advice the Richmond and Danville owners have spent two and a half million dollars in its construction. The line now reaches to Paint Rock, one hundred and nineteen miles from Salisbury, and connects with the rail- road system of East Tennessee, the other branch reaching to Murphy, in Cherokee county, one hun- dred and twenty-eight miles west of Ashville. As showing the engineering difficulties which were overcome it may be stated that in one division of the road, in a distance of twelve miles, there are three thousand four hundred and ninety-five feet of tunneling, while the track rises over one thou- sand feet. In 1880 Col. Andrews built the Chap-
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pel Hill Railroad, which is ten miles long. He has also taken great interest in the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, formerly under his control.
He is a staunch Democrat, but has little ambition to figure in political affairs. He has been several times a member of the board of aldermen of Raleigh. A director in most of the principal bank- ing and insurance companies, he has always been actively identified with everything tending to pro- mote the welfare of both his City and State. He is prominent and highly esteemed in the Masonic Order.
In September, 1869, he married Miss Johnson, of Charlotte ; they have five children.
Col. Andrews is genial and affable in manner, of agreeable presence and commanding address, and never fails to leave a good impression upon all with whom he has to do. He is justly called the "Railroad king of the old North State." He exerts a great influence in his State and is thor- oughly identified with her material advancement and social welfare, and his selection as one of her representatives to the World's Columbian Exposi- tion was a well-deserved honor.
GEORGE MAYHEW MOULTON,
CHICAGO, ILL.
T HE subject of this sketch was born in Reads- boro, Vermont, March 15, 1851, the son of Joseph T. and Maria J. (Babcock) Moulton. His father was born in Chichester, near Concord, New Hampshire, in which neighborhood the family had resided for several generations. TheMoultons have always been prominent in both civil and military affairs, General Jonathan Moulton of revolutionary fame being great-great-grandfather of our sub- ject. When George was but two years of age, his father (with whom he is now [1892] in partner- ship) removed to Chicago. He attended the public schools of Chicago, and by his studious habits acquired an excellent education, graduat- ing from the Chicago High School, with the class of 1868, when seventeen years of age. He was selected to deliver an original German oration at the commencement exercises held in the Crosby Opera House. After thirteen years of continuous schooling, he joined liis father and ac- quired a thorough and practical knowledge of the carpenter's trade.
About this time (1870) the city of Duluth was developing rapidly, and both he and his father went thither, and were employed in building the first grain elevator ever erected in that section of the country. That was before railroads had pen- etrated the Far West, and the latter part of Mr. Moulton's journey to Duluth was made by sled stage. It was not until August, 1870, that the first railway train entered Duluth. On his arrival in that city, he was appointed secretary to the
vice-president and general manager of the com- pany, and also acted as general clerk of the work.
This elevator was completed in the fall of 1870, and Mr. Moulton remained for some time to aid in operating the plant, and then went to Still- water, Minnesota, to superintend the management of the company's elevator at that place, and re- mained in charge of it until the fall of 1871. Re- turning to Duluth, he remained there a short time and then returned to Chicago. What a sight met his gaze on his arrival ! It was Thanksgiving day, 1871. He had left the city prosperous, growing rapidly and with bright prospects. He returned to find it blackened and begrimed-a heap of ruins. Mr. Moulton, Sr., had numerous contracts on hand for the erection of grain elevators in va- rious places, among them the Galena Elevator at Chicago, in charge of which our subject was placed as foreman. He was thus engaged until the spring of 1872-his father, in the mean- time, having secured the contracts for the build- ing of the Advance Elevator at East St. Louis of one hundred and fifty thousand bushels ca- pacity ; the Central Elevators at St. Louis, hav- ing a capacity of five hundred thousand bushels, and the East St. Louis Elevators, with a capacity of one million bushels. Our subject now became associated with his father as a partner, and in March, 1872, he arrived in St. Louis, and was engaged there some eighteen months superin- tending the construction of these mammoth con- cerns and planning for others. Their firm have
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also erected elevators at Bethalto, Illinois, and St. Genevieve, Missouri, each having a capacity of fifty thousand bushels, while, in addition, they have had the designing of elevators erected at Venice, Illi- nois, and Indianapolis, Indiana. They have erected elevators in Portland, Baltimore, Buffalo, Norfolk, Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, New York, Tacoma and numerous other cities. Chicago has long been their head- quarters, but in their business as architects and builders of grain elevators, Mr. Moulton has vis- ited all the large cities and the grain centers, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Forming a copartnership with George H. John- son (in 1877) he engaged in the manufacture of hollow-ware tiles for floor partitions and roofs and wall-girder and column coverings, one of the most useful discoveries of modern times for building, and which, had it been adopted in Chicago pre- vious to the great fire, would have saved many costly structures. The development of this enter- prise was so rapid, that in 1880 the Ottawa Tile Company was established, with works at Ottawa, Illinois, purchasing ultimately a large tract of clay land.
The name of this company was afterwards changed to " Pioneer Fire Proof Construction Com- pany," which is now one the largest clay manufac- turing establishment in the world, with a paid- up capital stock of five hundred thousand dol- lars. Mr. Moulton, who has taken an active interest in its affairs from its origin, is its president and principal stockholder-the com- pany purchasing in 1885 a half interest in the River Bank Coal Company, of Streator, Illinois, of which Mr. Moulton has since become the largest stockholder and president. He is also president of the Commerce Vault Company, a director of the Chicago Deposit Vault Company and President of the Produce Cold Storage Exchange. He is also a stockholder in the Masonic Temple Asso- ciation of Chicago, the Masonic Temple Associa- tion of Joliet, Illinois, and of the World's Colum- bian Exposition Company. He was vice-presi- dent of the Knights Templar and Mason's Life Indemnity Company until 1890, when he suc- ceeded, as president of this association, the late Dr. J. Adams Allen.
In 1885 Mr. Moulton helped to incorporate the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home, and served as its
president until his voluntary retirement in 1890. He is still one of its board of trustees. The asso- ciation has acquired property now (1892) valued at fifty thousand dollars, and the home itself is a source of great good to a large number of orphans, children of Masons.
Mr. Moulton was created a Master Mason in Covenant Lodge, No. 526, A. F. & A. M., February 12, 1875 ; exalted Royal Arch Mason in Corinthian Chapter, No. 69, R. A. M., May 17, 1875; made Knight Templar in St. Bernard Commandery, No. 35, K. T., September 1, 1875; crowned Sovereign Grand Inspector General, Thirty-third Degree, A. A. S. R., for Northern Jurisdiction U. S. A., Sep- tember 20, 1887 ; created Knight of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine, Knight of St. John of Palestine and Guardian Knight of the Holy Sep- ulchre in the Grand Council of the State of Illi- nois, October 25, 1875, and is also a member of Queen Esther Chapter, O. E. S., and Medinah Temple, A. A. O., Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In Lodge he was Senior Deacon, 1877; Junior Warden, 1878 and 1890 Senior Warden in 1891, and Worshipful Master in 1892, and in Chapter, King, 1884 and 1885, and High Priest, 1886; in Council, Thrice Illustrious Master, 1884 ; in Commandery, Captain-General, 1878; Gener- alissimo, 1879, and Eminent Commander, 1883 ; in Chicago Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Six- teenth Degree, A. A. S. R., Sovereign Prince Grand Master, 1884-5; in Consistory, S. P. R. S., Thirty-second Degree, A. A. S. R., Sec- ond Lieutenant-Commander, 1885-7, and First Lieutenant-Commander up to January, 1890, when he became the Illustrious Commander-in-Chief ; in Illinois Grand Council of Deliberation, A. A. S. R., Grand Standard Bearer for three years from 1885, being elected Minister of State and Grand Orator for 1890-92; in Grand Chapter, R. A. M., Grand Master of the First Veil, 1888, and the same of the Third Veil, 1889; Grand Royal Arch Captain, 1890, and now occupies the position of Grand Principal Sojourner; in Grand Council, R. and S. M., Grand Conductor, 1886; Deputy Grand Master, 1887-8; Grand Master, 1889; in Grand Commandery, K. T., Grand Sword Bearer, 1885; Grand Standard Bearer, 1889; Grand Captain-General, 1887; Grand Generalissimo, 1888; Deputy Grand Commander, 1889; Grand Commander, 1890, and while at Wash- ington in 1889, he was appointed Grand Standard
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Bearer of the Grand Encampment, K. T., U. S. A., for the term ending August, 1892.
Mr. Moulton was for four years a major in the Second Regiment, Illinois National Guards, being commissioned in 1886, and resigning in January, 1890. He served in the two weeks' campaign at the Union Stock Yards, at the time of the labor riots in 1887, and was with his regiment at all of its encampments and whenever it did ac- tive duty.
Socially, he is much respected and well known, being a member of the Union League, Miltona and Acacia clubs and of the Sons of Vermont, etc., and is also a member of the Chicago Art Insti- tute and the Illinois Association of Architects.
He was married to Miss Anna Florence Gar- land, of Burlington, Iowa, March 12, 1873. They have two children, Edith May, born at Winona, Minn., and Arthur Garland, born in Chicago.
Eminently successful both in commercial and social affairs, George M. Moulton is a good type of that class of men, who, not content in remain- ing in the position to which they were born, have pushed forward, and, by creating and becoming connected with enterprises of more than ordinary importance, have become public benefactors.
Though still in the prime of life, Mr. Moulton has been the recipient of repeated and well-de- served honors from his fellow-citizens which mark the esteem in which he is held.
HON. WILLIAM VOCKE,
CHICAGO, ILL.
A brilliant example of the self-made American citizen, and a grand exemplification of the progress that an ambitious foreigner can make in this country of unbounded opportunities, is shown in the case of William Vocke, one of the leading German-American lawyers in the west. His singular success is due to his own energy and his high ideal.
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