The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 107

Author: Robson, Charles, ed
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy
Number of Pages: 770

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ARTLETT, PROFESSOR N. GRAY, Pharma- cist, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 9th, 1840. He is the son of George F. Bartlett and Martha M. (Rodgers) Bartlett. Receiving a thorough English education in the schools of his native town, he entered, when about seventeen years of age, the laboratory of I. S. Morris & Sons, of Louisville, where he remained about one year. He then

removed to Keokuk, Iowa, and continued his business with his brother, George F. Bartlett, who was a member of the firm of B. Kaye & Co. After an association of three years with this firm, he returned to his former employers, Morris & Sons, at Louisville, where he resided until 1861. lle subsequently removed to Chicago and completed his phar- maceutical education under the direction of E. H. Sargent, with whom he remained for five years. He returned after- ward to Keokuk, and entered into partnership with his brother, the style of firm being Wilkinson, Bartlett & Co. IIis connections with that firm were severed in 1870 by his being called to Chicago to assume the editorship of the " Pharmacist," a position which he filled during the ensuing three years. At this time he became connected with the Chicago College of Pharmacy, as Professor of Pharmacy, and on the retirement of Professor Blaney in IS71 was ap- pointed to succeed him as Professor of Chemistry. The latter professorship he held also in the Chicago Medical College for about two years, at the expiration of which period he resigned in order to engage in the drug business. He has contributed to the literature of his profession, and won favorable notice by the excellence of his lectures. He was married in 1870 to Mary A. McCune, of Keokuk, Iowa.

ARD, JASPER D., Lawyer, ex-Member of Con- gress, and United States District Attorney for Northern Illinois, was born in Wyoming county, New York, 1829. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and a descendant of General Ward, of Revolutionary fame. He attended the common schools located in the vicinity of his home, and was fitted for college at the Aurora Academy. He gradu- ated from the Allegheny College in the class of 1849. Pre- vious to entering college, however, and also after graduation, he was engaged temporarily in teaching school. He then commenced the study of law under the instructions of Albert Gowen, an eminent legal practitioner of New York State, and in 1852 was admitted to the bar. In the ensuing fall he removed to Chicago, and commenced the practice of his profession. In 1854 he associated himself in partnership with Major Hart, now of San Francisco, California, which continued until 1857. He then formed a new partnership with George W. Stanford, and in 1872 Mr. Kahlsatt was admitted as a member of the firm. In 1854 he was elected Alderman, and officiated as Chairman of Judiciary Com- mittees. In 1855 he was the first Republican candidate for City Attorney, after the organization of the Republican party, but failed to secure an election. In 1858 he was again elected Alderman. In 1860 he visited Colorado, but returned in time to take part in the Lincoln campaign, and canvassed the State with the same energy which had pre- viously characterized his actions while laboring for the suc- cess of Fremont in the preceding Presidential election. In

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1861, after the battle of Wilson's Creek, he enlisted in Col- | adopted State and city, and has been instrumental in ad- onel Bissell's Western Engineer Regiment, and served for a vancing their material prosperity. His abilities as a legal practitioner are unquestioned, while his business is extensive and remunerative. He is attached to Unitarian doctrines, and for a number of years has officiated as President of the Unitarian Association. He was married in 1856 to Maria Merriman, of Bedford, Massachusetts, and has two children. His eldest son is now a student in Harvard College. period of eight months. Before leaving the service he was promoted to a Lieutenancy. In 1862 he was elected to the State Senate from Chicago, and served until 1866. While acting in this capacity, he was Chairman of the Finance Committee, and a member of various other important com- mittees. In 1372 he was nominated as the Republican can- didate for Congress from the Seventh Illinois Congressional District, and was elected. At the expiration of his term he secured a re-election. While thus publicly occupied, he served on the Judiciary Committee, and on many other com- mittees of an important nature, and was also one of the special committee appointed to investigate the Arkansas matters. In the fall of 1874 he was renominated by accla- mation, but was defeated. In 1375 he was appointed by President Grant United States District Attorney for Northern Illinois, which position he still retains.

HALLENBERGER, MARTIN, Lawyer, was born ncar Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on December 3d, IS25. He was the son of Jacob and Mary (Slonaker) Shallenberger, who emi- grated to Fulton county, Illinois, in 1838. He received his early education at the schools in the vicinity of his home in Pennsylvania, and afterwards con- cluded an academical course at Peoria, Illinois. When twenty-one years of age he decided upon the law as a pro- fession, and for the period of three years pursued his studies in the office of the Hon. Onslow Peters, of Peoria (who afterward became Judge of that circuit), and was admitted to the bar in 1849. IIe located at Toulon, the county-seat of Stark county, and continues his practice there, and also in adjoining towns, up to the present time. By diligent ap- plication to the various duties of his profession, he has acquired an excellent reputation, especially for the able manner in which he conducts criminal suits, being retained on all important cases of that nature occurring within his district. In the fall of 1857 he was elected by the Demo- cratic party to the lower House of the Legislature, where he served one term. During the Presidential campaign of 1860 he became principal manager of the Stark County Democrat, resuming the charge of it in 1865, and conduct- ing it with great success for two years. The japer con- tinues to be published, and is known as the Prairie Chief. In 1849 he was married to Eliza J., daughter of Thomas HIall, M. D., of Toulon.

HOREY, DANIEL L., Lawyer, was born in Washington county, Maine, January 31st, 1824. Ile attended the public schools of his neighbor- hood until his thirteenth year, when his parents removed to Lynn, Massachusetts. He was fitted for college at the Philipps Academy, in Andover, and graduated from Dartmouth College with the class of 1851. Among his classmates were Hon. Charles Hitch- cock, Hon. E. A. Rollins, late United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, U. C. Grant and Frank Clark of Waukegan. After graduating he went to Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, and was engaged in teaching and direct- ing the classical studies in the Rittenhouse Academy, then, as now, under the management of O. C. White, D. D. During this period he applied himself also to the study of law, under the instructions of Hon. Joseph Bradly of New Jersey. He subsequently completed his preparations for the bar at the Dare Law School of Harvard, where he gradu- ated in 1854. He was admitted to the bar both in New York and Boston, and opened an office in the latter city, where he practised for one year. He then removed to Davenport, Iowa, where he was professionally occupied for ANNISTER, REV. HENRY, D. D., Clergyman and Professor of Exegetical Theology in the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, was born in Conway, Massachusetts, October 5th, 1812. His grandfather, Captain John Bannister, was an officer in the colonial army during the American Revolution, and for a great many years a representative in the Legislature of Massachusetts. His father, Amos Ban- nister, married Mary Nash, of Greenfield, Massachusetts ; he died very early, and his widow married again, and lived in St. Lawrence county, New York. The boy Henry showed in aptitude for study, and a strong desire for a more ex- two years, acting during the last year as City Solicitor. Re- moving finally to Chicago, he has since resided in this city, engaged in the practice of law up to the present time. Al- though a supporter of the Republican party, he favors a more liberal commercial policy, and, while residing in Iowa, took an active part in the political movements of the hour. During the illness of Mr. Church, he acted as Attor- ney for the Chicago & Alton Railroad. He drew the bill for the organization of the Chicago Public Library, and was a member of the first Board of Directors, which position he still holds. He has always manifested a generous interest in movements of an educational nature relating to his tended education than could be obtained at a country school.

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His stepfather was unable to assist him, but gave him his [ presiding over this circuit, he preached during the first year time when he was seventeen years old, on condition that he would work his own way at school. He started from home and walked one hundred and fifty miles to the seminary at Cazenovia, New York, and there became a student. In two years he was prepared for college, and was providen- tially led to become a student at the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Connecticut, where he graduated with honor, taking his M.A. degree, in 1836. After graduation he taught for a while, and then entered the Theological Seminary at Auburn, New York, where he remained till 1839, when he was called to teach the classics in Cazenovia Seminary. In 184I he accepted the position of Principal of the Fairfield Academy, at Fairfield, Herkimer county, New York. Two years later, in 1843, he returned to the Cazenovia Seminary, having been elected its Principal. He fulfilled the duties of this office for thirteen years. In 1856 he was elected to fill the chair of Exegetical Theology in the Garrett Biblical Institute, the Methodist theological college then newly or- ganized at Evanston, Illinois, as a perpetual foundation, under the will of the late Mrs. Eliza Garrett, for the cduca- tion of young men for the ministry. Here he has since remained. He was married in 1840 to Lucy Kimball, daughter of Rev. Rewel Kimball, of Lewis county, New York. Though his work in life has been chiefly that of an instructor, he has at the same time been a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has since 1842 held several important ecclesiastical positions therein. His Alma Mater at Middletown conferred on him in 1850, of her own ac- cord, the degree of D. D. IIe was abroad in 1869 and 1870, chiefly in Germany and in Bible lands-Egypt, Sinai and the Desert, and in Palestine and the Levant. The chief object of the journey was to study the working of theo- logical institutions in Germany and in Europe generally. His life as a scholar has been calm and uneventful, and he has declined many proposals to change for more conspicuous, bat not more useful, posts.

DDY, DOCTOR TIIOMAS M., A. M., Minister and Editor, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, September 7th, 1823. His father, Rev. Augustus Eddy, was a well-known and popular minister in 10 the Methodist Episcopal Church, who cxercised his earlier ministry in Ohio, and labored many years also in Indiana. In 1836 Thomas removed with his family to Indiana, where he was engaged alternately in hard work and in attending school. IIe became subscquently a student in an excellent academy, where he pursued a course of classical and general studies. He entered the ministry in 1842, and was appointed to a circuit on the Ohio river. It was a hilly, rough, and in some respects an uninviting field, and one well calculated to test thoroughly the enthusiasm with which he entered upon his chosen profession. While for them, as a minister of Christ.

more than three hundred times, in addition to attending upon all the social meetings peculiar to his denomination. Hle also early became a newspaper correspondent, and a writer for several reviews and magazines. Thus laboring profes- sionally, and winning attention by the excellence of his pub- lished articles, he soon took a leading position among his brethren, and was appointed to several of the most promi- nent churches within the limits of the Conference to which he belonged. Quite early in his ministry he became the rc- cipient of the honorary degree of M. A. In 1856 he was called to the editorship of the Northwestern Christian Ad- vocate, made vacant by the death of Rev. James V. Watson, and within a brief period succeeded in swelling the sub- scription list from 11,000 to over 30,000. In the slavery controversy in the Methodist Church, the Northwestern took a decided and an extremely radical though justifiable posi- tion. In this course the organ was fully sustained, the Methodists of the Northwest entering the General Conference of 1860 as an unit for the radical ecclesiastical legislation concerning slavery there accomplished. His first editorial on national affairs, which attracted general attention, was an elaboratc review of the Dred Scott decision. Subsequently, when Southern persecutions of loyal Methodist ministers wcre proceeding to extremities, he addresscd, through the Northwestern, a powerful and stinging letter to James Buchanan, then in the Presidential chair. That letter was everywhere read with intense interest, and so well did it recite issues, recount indignities, and point the contrast bc- twecn wrongs and rights, that it was widely copied by scores of newspapers, and reprinted as a campaign document. During the war the Northwestern Christian Advocate was, in its influential spherc, thoroughly radical, and when armed conflict became inevitable, advocated the policy of a vigorous and uncompromising prosecution of the contest. In addi- tion to his labors as editor, his services during the war in promoting the interests of the Christian and Sanitary Com- missions were not inconsiderable, although he declined to enter exclusively into their service as lecturer or agent. Ile lectured repeatedly upon the vital issues of the struggle, and so highly appreciated were his inspiring words, that when he tendercd his services in the field to Governor Yates, he was urged to retain the post where he was ren- dering such efficient service to the cause of the Union. His two volumes of war history, entitled " The Patriotism of Illinois," are valuable contributions to the literature called forth by the rebellion. At the conclusion of the war he returned to his work as an editor and minister. As a pulpit orator he is ready, clear and effective, and although popular as a lecturer, he yet, from choice, gives his voice and strength to the minister's more ardnous but more sacred calling. Upon two occasions he received the tender of a Congres- sional nomination, but in each instance declined, preferring to remain among the people, and to labor with them and

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OWEN, CHAUNCEY T., Merchant, was born in Manheim, Herkimer county, New York, August 15th, 1832. His parents, Stephen Bowen and Lucinda Bowen, were members of a society almost wholly composed of farmers. At the age of twelve he left his home to attend school in Fair- field, where he remained one term. Returning home he spent a few months on the paternal farm, and then entered the store of his brother, James H. Bowen, in Antwerp, Jef- ferson county, New York, where he was employed during the ensuing eighteen months. Later he became a clerk in a store at Little Falls, where he remained one year. At the expiration of that time he removed to Chicago, where he entered the service of N. H. Wood, and before he had been in his employ three months was placed at the head of the establishment. The proprietor was absent the greater part of the time and the whole responsibility rested upon him ; he gave his personal attention to every department.of the business, and was at once cashier, book-keeper, and head salesman. The salary for the first year had been fixed at two hundred dollars, but at the end of the year he found six hundred dollars credited to his account, while at the same time his salary was raised without solicitation to one thousand dollars. N. H. Wood retiring from business in 1853 he was succeeded by Mills, Bowen & Dillingbeck, the members of the firm being D. H. Mills, George S. Bowen, Chauncey T. Bowen, and' Stephen Dillingbeck. In 1856 the firm was succeeded by the famous house of Bowen Bro- thers, of which George S. Bowen and Chauncey T. Bowen were the copartners. In July, 1857, their oldest brother, James H. Bowen, came from Albany, New York, and asso- ciated himself with them. For one period of three years the sales amounted to more than fifteen millions of dollars. After retiring from business the firm of Bowen Brothers erected one of the finest mercantile blocks in the city of Chicago. He is a member of the Grace Episcopal Church. He was married at Watertown in 1861 to Theresa II. Dewey, daughter of the late Dr. Dewey, of Antwerp, New York. His only ehild, Frederick C. Bowen, was killed by a fall when only six years of age.

State Legislature, in which he served during the sessions of 1859, 1861 and 1867. He was again ehosen a Presiden- tial Elector on the Republican ticket of 1868, having natur- ally gravitated from the Whig to the Republican party on the organization of the latter. On the outbreak of the war, he at once took up arms on behalf of the Union, and re- ceived the appointment of Brigadier-General of Volunteers, dating from May 27th, 1861. He commanded the 4th Di- vision at Pittsburgh Landing in 1862. Promoted to the rank of Major-General in September, 1862, he was assigned to the command of the 16th Army Corps at Memphis, and to-the command of the Army of the Gulf in 1864-65. He "was honorably mustered out in July, 1865. From 1869 to IS72 he was Minister Resident to the United States of Co- lombia, and was elected to the Forty-third Congress on the Republican ticket from the Fourth District of Illinois, com- prising Boone, De Kalb, Kane, McHenry and Winnebago counties. He received 15,532 votes, against 5,134 cast for S. E. Bronson, Liberal and Democrat.

ALLANCE, CIIARLES, Lawyer, was born No- vember 10th, 1800, at Silver Springs, Madison county, Kentucky. The family originally came from Durham, England, to this country nearly two hundred years ago, and settled in Virginia, near Culpepper Court House. His grandfather, Charles Ballance, was killed in the Revolutionary war. IIis father, Willis, married Rejoice Greene, the daughter of a well- known family of that name in Virginia. For his early edu- cation Charles was entirely dependent on himself, and to secure the means to further extend his knowledge, he taught school during the winter months. In 1831 he became one of the early settlers of Peoria, Illinois, and having by close application qualified himself for the praetiee of law, he soon acquired an excellent reputation, and became partieularly prominent for his aetion in the long pending controversy known as the " Freneh Claims." This case being one of historical interest, a brief outline may not be superfluous. Peoria, from 1680 to 1812, had been a trading-post of the Freneh settlers. They elaimed no government title to the land, but simply oeeupied it as squatters. During the war of 1812 the village was destroyed and entirely forsaken, no trace of the inhabitants being left. During the years 1817 iand 1818 the surveys that were made in that section by the

URLBURT, STEPHEN A., Lawyer and Con- gressman, was born in Charleston, South Caro- lina, on November 29th, 1815. He received a thorough and liberal education, and in due time United States government embraced the abandoned settle- choosing the law as his profession, began its ment, and the land, being pre-empted, was purchased and study. IIaving been admitted to the bar in 1837 improved by American settlers. After they had become he removed to Illinois and settled at Belvidere, where he valuable, the heirs of many of the old French squatters has since resided. He early took an active part in political returned, and laid elaim to the lands. This was the com- meneement of the memorable litigations known as the "French Claims," which embarrassed land titles in Peoria for a period of thirty years. When this controversy arose, discussion, and in 1847 was elected on the Whig ticket to the Constitutional Convention of the State. In the follow- ing year he was chosen Presidential Eleetor on the same ticket. Some years later he was brought forward for the the American settlers had been in possession long cnough

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to claim protection under the statute of limitation, even had their titles been imperfect. Mr. Ballance being largely interested, became the champion of the American claimants, and nobly contested their rights for many years. Although opposed by the ablest legal talent of the country, he main- tained his position entirely by his individual exertions, and when defeated in the local courts he carried his case to the Supreme Court of the United States. His efforts were ulti-

mately successful and the French claimants were completely clefeated. His marked ability in these cases placed him in the front rank of the legal profession in Illinois, on all points pertaining to titles of real cstate. In politics he was originally a Whig, afterwards a Republican, and was in 1855 elected Mayor of Peoria. At the beginning of the late war, notwithstanding he was then sixty years of age, he organ- ized a regiment and was commissioned as its Colonel, although he did not enter active service. He enjoyed con- siderable reputation as a writer, and commenced the writing of a history of the progress of Peoria from the time of the French arrivals in 1673. IIe was engaged on this work at the time of his death, which occurred on August 10th, 1872. He was beloved and highly esteemed by all who knew him, and although possessing considerable wealth, was opposed to display, was simple in his tastes, and of kindly disposition. In 1835 he was married to Julia Schnebly.

ITCHELL, ALFRED, Lawyer, was born on March 29th, 1820, in Palestine, Crawford county, Illinois. His early education was such as he could obtain at a common country school, his attendance even at that institution being limited to the winter months, as his summers were de- voted to working on a farm. As he grew older, however, his opportunities enlarged somewhat, and in his seventeenth and eighteenth years he had the advantage of three terms at the Indiana State University, and in his nineteenth year he attended . the academy at Hillsboro', Illinois, where he remained a year. After this he commenced the reading of law, which he continued with diligence until he was quali- fied for admission to the bar. He then procured his license in December, 1841, and in the month of June fol- lowing commenced the practice of his profession in Olney, Richland county, Illinois. In January, 1843, he was elected State's Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District, and was re-elected to the office in 1845, and continued to hold the position for a period of ten years. In the year 1847 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Illinois. In 1849 he was chosen Judge of Richland county, and in 1859 was made Judge of the Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuit. He has not been without journalistic experience, and assisted to establish and edit the first paper published in Olney. He assisted also to organize and sustain the Republican party there in 1856, being one of the twenty- of which he was a pronounced and outspoken member, as

nine who dared to vote the Republican ticket at the Presi- dential election in that year. He was a corporate member of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company, and was subsequently a Director of the company. He aided actively in procuring the charter of the company and in construct- ing the road from Cincinnati to St. Louis. On June 27th, 1844, he was married to Mary J. Chubb, at Lawrenceville, and he removed to Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, in June, 1866.

ULLER, SAMUEL WORCESTER, Lawyer, was born in Hardwick, Caledonia county, Vermont, April 25th, 1822. His father, Samuel Fuller, was a New England farmer of limited means. His mother, Martha (Worcester) Fuller, was one of a large family of children, several of whom arrived at considerable distinction ; one, a successful lawyer, represented his district in Congress; another was the emi- nent scholar and lexicographer, the compiler of " Worces- ter's Dictionary " and other works of acknowledged value. Until about twenty years of age Samuel remained at home, leading the ordinary routine life of a New England farmer's son, and attending at intervals the schools located in the vicinity of his home. He then resolved to embrace the legal profession, and in order to prepare himself for the bar entered in 1842 the office of Judge Bartlett, one of the leading practitioners of the State. He maintained himself in the meantime by teaching school, and also by securing the aid of several friendly neighbors who had taken an interest in his welfare. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of his profession in Clare- mont, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, where he remained until 1850, when, desiring a wider field for the exercise of his energies, he removed to Illinois, and settled first at Pioncer, afterward at Pekin. His struggles with the adverse circumstances that surrounded his early life, and his continued ill health, would have crushed a less sanguine disposition, and it was only by the constant employment of a strong will power that he was enabled to surmount the many obstacles placed in his way by lack of wealth and vigorous health. Ifis final success, and the honorable dis- tinction won by tireless application, may be cited as a laudahle example-one that should be followed by all labor- ing under similar embarrassing conditions. Young and comparatively unknown in his new home, he rapidly at- tracted the favorable attention of the bar and the general community, and won the respect and friendship of his asso- ciates. Among those were Purple, since Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois; Davis, since Judge of the United States Supreme Court; Browning, since Secretary of the Interior; and Lincoln, afterward President of the United States. So rapidly did he win his way to public confidence, that when nominated by the Democratic party,

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The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 107

Author: Robson, Charles, ed Publication date: 1875 Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy Number of Pages: 770

Author: Robson, Charles, ed
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy
Number of Pages: 770