The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 17

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

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College, Philadelphia, having taken the first course there in the winter of 1859 and '60. In the interest and advance- ment of the profession Dr. Kendall is zealous, and is an active member of various medical associations. Of the State Medical Society he has been a member since 1867, and of the Adams County Society since his residence in the county. He is also a member of the Pathological Medical Society of Quincy. Ile was married November 6th, 1856, to Frances Caroline Collins, of Illinois.

UDD, HON. NORMAN BUEL, was born at Rome, Oneida county, New York, January 10th, IS15. Ilis father, Norman Judd, settled in Oneida county as early as 1812 with his wife, Catherine Van der Heyden, who was a daughter of Adam Van der Heyden, of Troy, New York. Norman Buel Judd received a liberal education, and fitted himself for college at the Grosvenor High School, in Rome, but notwithstanding the desires of his father that he should complete his studies in a college course, he chose rather to relieve his father of the burden which such a step would necessarily imposc, and decided to quit the school-room for the larger school of the world. Not unlike hosts of other young men in that day and this, he tried with more or less success and satisfaction merchandising, the newspaper office and the physician's study. Neither of these pursuits or professions were congenial, and the young man entered the law office of Wheeler & Barnes, attorneys in Rome, New York, and here found his true vocation. Ilis law studies were diligently prosecuted without intermission with the above gentlemen and Foster & Stryker until 1836, when he attained his majority and was duly entered at the bar. Among his early associates in the High School at Rome was the present ex-Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, J. D. Caton, who, having completed his studies carlier, had removed to Chicago and commenced the prac- tice of his profession. When Mr. Judd was admitted to the bar Mr. Caton invited him to join him in the new country, and he accepted the invitation with alacrity. Ile arrived in Chicago in November, 1836, and shortly thereafter en- tered into law parnership with Mr. Caton. The limited space of this article will not serve to recount a tithe of the interesting episodes in the life of a young lawyer in a village scarcely out of its swaddling garments, for such Chicago was at that day ; but the firm of Caton & Judd was, it may be understood, prominently identified with whatever belonged the growing interests of the young city. Mr. Judd had arrived, as above stated, in November, and a month later was delegated to draw up for presentation to the Legislature the first charter for the city of Chicago, which he did, using the charter of Buffalo, New York, as a guide. The bill for this charter, as drafted by him, was passed by the Legis- lature, then in session at Vandalia. He was elected in

the following year to the office of City Attorney, which position he occupied for two years. In 1838 Judge Caton removed from Chicago, and the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Judd in this year entered into a partnership with J. Y. Scammon, which continued nine years. In the first year of this association Mr. Judd was appointed Notary Public and Attorney for Cook county. After the termination of his business connection with Mr. Scammon he formed a copartnership with Judge John M. Wilson, under the name of Judd & Wilson, which continued until Judge Wilson was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1842 Mr. Judd was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen of this city. In IS44 he was elected by the Democrats to a seat in the State Senate, in the place vacated by Hon. Samuel Hoard, and represented the district of Cook and Lake counties for the unexpired term. He was in 1846 re- elected to the Senate, but the new constitution of 1848 terminated his office, and he was elected under the new constitution to the same office in 1848, in 1852, and in 1855, making a continuous term of service of sixteen years. It was during these years that the legislation in Illinois cstab- lished the great railroad corporations which to-day exist in that State, and Mr. Judd was prominently identified in that legislation, he having become an expert in the study and practice of railroad law. During the years from 1848 to IS60 he served as attorney of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad Company ; attorney and Director of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ; attorney and Director of the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad ; as President of the Peoria & Bureau Valley Railroad Company ; attorney for the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad ; a Director of the Chicago, Milwaukee Railroad, and as President of the Railroad Bridge Company at Rock Island, Illinois. These were busy years, and that the energy and industry of the Senator, as well as the skill and talent of the lawyer, were rewarded with fruits which will last while the State and nation exist cannot be doubted, when it is taken into consideration that in these years the State of Illinois was by wise legislation raised from a prairie wilderness to a proud place among the States of the nation, that her impaired credit was restored and a system of railroads established which has built up the city of Chicago and put its future prosperity beyond peradventure. Although Mr. Judd is yet alive, it is not undue praise nor flattery to attribute the firm foundation of the prosperity of the State of his adoption largely to the wise legislation which he was so actively en- gaged for several years in framing and putting into material use ; and to say that the organization of the State courts of justice in Cook and Lake counties was moulded largely by his legal knowledge and vigor. The agitation of the Missouri Compromise repeal, which was brought about by the admission of the free State of California into the Union in 1850, and the subsequent bill for the admission of Kansas and Nebraska under the popular sovereignty policy of Douglas, called Mr. Judd into more general promi-

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nence. He was a stern and untiring advocate of the anti- Nebraska policy, and found himself at the outset one of a hopeless minority in his own party. This minority, how- ever, held the balance of power in the Legislature, which in 1855 was called upon to elect a successor to Ion. James S. Shields, United States Senator, who had voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and in order to defeat the pro-slavery Democrats. Mr. Judd, after a conference with the representative Whigs who supported Mr. Lincoln, brought about a coalition, which united on Lyman Trumbull, the candidate of the anti-slavery Demo- crats, who was elected. This event brought him in closer intimacy and clearer prominence with the political leaders in Illinois at that time, and from this time dates his parti- cular intimacy with Abraham Lincoln. The course pur- sued by Mr. Judd in this election called out bitter impreca- tions from Douglas and the pro-slavery Democrats, but the people of his district testified their regard for his conduct by re-electing him Senator at the election immediately suc- ceeding. He was in 1856 elected a delegate to the Bloom- ington Convention of Whigs, Democrats opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and Americans ; was made a member of the committees on resolutions in that convention, and assisted in drafting the platform of the new party, which was the future Republican party. He was at this time appointed Chairman of the State Republican Exe- cutive Committee, which position he held until 1861. He was also Chairman of the Republican delegation to the Philadel- phia National Convention which nominated John C. Fremont for President in 1856; was made the Illinois representative on the National Republican Committee, which position he also held until 1861. The great senatorial campaign of 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was opened by the latter in Chicago on the 9th of July of that year, and the former was present to hear the speech. At this time Mr. Judd had matured plans for a contest be- tween those giants which should eclipse anything the politics of the State had ever known; and his connection with that celebrated debate is best illustrated by the following note from Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Douglas, which was placed in the latter's hands by Mr. Judd on the 24th of July, 1858.

" HON S. A. DOUGLAS :

" MY DEAR SIR :- Will it be agreeable to you to make an arrangement for you and myself to divide time and address the same audiences the present canvass? Mr. Judd, who will hand you this, is authorized to receive your answer, and, if agreeable to you, to enter into the terms of such an arrangement. Your obedient servant, "A. LINCOLN."

The conduct of that celebrated campaign was, so far as Mr. Lincoln was concerned, largely in Mr. Judd's hands, and as a result the two men were more than ever firmly bound in friendship and confidence. In a caucus of the Republicans of the Legislature in the winter of 1859 and IS60 Mr. Judd was present by courtesy, and a proposition

was made to name Mr. Lincoln on the Republican ticket for Vice-President, when he asked permission to speak and warmly protested against the use of Mr. Lincoln's name in the second place, saying that if it were to be used at all it must be at the head of the ticket, and that it would be im- politic to challenge the prominent candidate at that time. It was finally unanimously agreed that Mr. Lincoln's name should not be given to the public in any way at that time. Mr. Judd had an eye to the future, however. In January, 1860, the Republican National Committee met at the Astor House in New York city, for the purpose of fixing upon the place where the National Convention should be held, and on the nineteenth ballot the choice of the committee was Chicago, by one ballot in the majority. The conven- tion assembled on June 16th, 1860; Mr. Judd nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, and he was chosen on the third ballot. Mr. Lincoln was elected in the succeeding autumn, and upon the eve of his election it became evident from the agitation at the South that some measures should be taken to quiet affairs. A " Peace Convention " of all the States was proposed. Mr. Judd was opposed to the election of commissioners from Illinois until after the ma- jority of the States besides had elected commissioners, lest and for the reason that the word of Mr. Lincoln was under- stood to be the policy of the State, and his counsel pre- vailed. When the President-elect was to make his journey to Washington, which will ever be memorable, Mr. Judd was selected as one of a few very intimate friends to ac- company him from Springfield, and that Mr. Lincoln did not lose his life at that time is undeniably due to the watch- fulness and extreme care with which that journey was executed. Mr. Judd, Mr. Allan Pinkerton, Mr. Sanford, President of the American Express Company, and Mr. Franciscus, General Manager of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, at a secret meeting, planned a foil which was suc- cessful, and enabled Mr. Lincoln to arrive at the Capital safely. Mr. Judd was immediately upon the formation of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet appointed Minister of the United States to Prussia, and he resided in Berlin until he resigned, . at the request of President Johnson. After his recall from the mission he was elected to Congress from Chicago, having been nominated over John Wentworth, and served in the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, closing his term of service on the 4th of March, 1871, at that time formally declining any further nomination. He while in Congress introduced resolutions which went far toward moulding the legislation of this country for protecting the rights of naturalized citizens of the United States in foreign countries, and the treaties between the United States and foreign powers for carrying out such legislation. In 1868 he intro- duced a bill, which was passed by Congress on July 14th, 1870, creating certain interior cities of the country ports of entry under the customs laws, placing them upon a level with the ports of the seaboard, and facilitating the importa- tion of merchandise to the interior. He also introduced

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resolutions in Congress which have resulted in legislation for the enlargement and establishing of the outside harbor of Chicago. Oa July 17th, 1872, he was appointed Col- lector of Customs of the Port of Chicago, which position he at present occupies. Ile was married in 1844 to Adaline Rossiter, of Chicago. His career has been one of unusual activity in the private pursuits, as well as in the wider sphere of political life, during a period in the history of this country unequalled for its strife and turmoil.

ROUSE, JOIIN N., D. D. S., was born, September 15th, 1845, near Downingtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Daniel and Mary (Mowrerer) Crouse of the same State. His father was engaged in agricultural pursuits generally, but more particularly in stock-raising. In the work on the farm he was materially assisted by his son, who during the winter and inclement months of the year at- tended the village school in Chester county, where his preliminary education was obtained. In 1856 the family removed to Carroll county, Illinois, as Daniel Crouse had determined to give his entire attention to stock-raising. Ilis son, on reaching the State, entered the Mount Carroll Seminary, and obtained an excellent education during the three years' course of study which he pursued there. After leaving that institution he selected the medical profession as the one most in accordance with his taste, and thereupon he entered the office of Eby & Crouse, practising physicians, who were located in Mount Carroll-then, in I859, a town of considerable importance, and containing a population of 2500 inhabitants. During the continuance of his studies there he occupied a portion of his time in teaching school as a means of self-support. At this time his attention was particularly directed to dentistry, owing to the fact that Dr. Eby, of Eby & Crouse, was a dental practitioner. He now determined to abandon his medical studies and devote him- self exelusively to the dental profession, as one from which a competenee could be more readily acquired; and with this end in view repaired to Philadelphia in 1863, where he entered the Philadelphia Dental College, also attending a night course in anatomy at the Jefferson Medical College. In 1864 he returned to Mount Carroll, and re-entering the office of Eby & Crouse he assumed charge of the dental department, and succeeded in building up an extensive and lucrative practice. In the fall of 1864 Dr. Eby retired, and the firm now became known as Crouse & Brother, medical and dental practitioners, and this partnership continued until the spring of 1867; although during the winter of 1866-67 John N. Crouse attended his second and last course at the Pennsylvania Dental College, of Philadel- phia, where he graduated with the degree of D. D. S. On his return to Mount Carroll he resumed his practice, con- tinuing there until the following year, IS6S, when he | has at various times contributed valuable eases and reports

removed to Chicago, as affording a more extensive field for one of his attainments. He is considered a first-class operator, and stands deservedly high in his profession. He became one of the charter members of the Illinois State Dental Association, which was formed in 1864, and has always taken an active part in their proceedings. Con- tributions are occasionally furnished by him to the dental journals. He is a man of positive ideas, and withal quite logical. Taking a great pride in his profession, he aims to excel in all its details. In pursuance of this ambition he has taken one course in the Chicago Medical College, and expects to take the degree of M. D. in due time. In re- ligious belief he is a Baptist. He was married in 1870 to Arvilla Hull, from Clinton, New York.

OLER, EDWARD O. F., A. M., M. D., Physician, was born, March 6th, IS33, near Winchester, Virginia, and is a son of P. W. and Catharine (Carson) Roler, both of these being descendants of old Virginia families. During his childhood his parents removed to Eikhart county, in the northern part of Indiana, where he received his preliminary education. In 1852 he entered the Asbury University, and subsequently completed a collegiate course. In 1862 his Alma Mater conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts. IIaving made choice of the medical profession as his future sphere of action, he became in 1856 a student under Dr. W. H. Byford, and also attended the lectures delivered in the Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which institu- tion he graduated in 1859. He forthwith commenced practice in Chicago. In 1861 he entered the army as an Assistant Surgeon of the 42d Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and in the course of a few months was promoted to the rank of Surgeon, and transferred to the 55th Regiment. He held this position for about a year, when he was appointed Medical Director of the 15th Army Corps, and was at- tached to the staff of General Sherman, serving subse- quently with General John A. Logan. He retired from the army at the close of the war, after having rendered valuable service, and won the esteem of all with whom he was connected. In order to still further perfect himself in his profession he went abroad, and remained in Europe for a year, studying in the University of Berlin and hospitals in Vienna. He returned to Chicago in 1867, and has since been actively engaged in a large and growing practice. In this same year he was appointed Lecturer on Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children in the Chicago Medical College, and in 1868 was duly installed as pro- fessor of the same, in connection with Dr. W. HI. Byford. He is gradually direeting his private practice to this spe- eialty. He is a man of scholarly attainments, and is par- ticularly well read in the literature of the profession. He

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to the medical journals. Hc was married in 1867 to Do- | Republican candidate for Mayor, but owing to the town retta, only daughter of Rev. Charles Doering, D. D., of Berlin, Prussia, Superintendent of the Methodist Foreign Missions in Germany.

being largely Democratic has never secured an election. In all his opinions he is candid and outspoken, exceedingly independent, and curries favor with none, hence he is not calculated to make a successful politician. These traits of character were early developed and have remained with him through life. His competence is due to his own industry, prudence, and unswerving integrity. Though well advanced in years he is still robust and active, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who come in con- tact with him. He has represented the city in Council.

OGERS, TIMOTHY, Manufacturer, was born in Vernon, Tolland county, Connecticut, November 15th, ISO9. His parents were Lee L. and Rhoda (Dimmock) Rogers, both natives of Connecticut. The education he obtained was such as the coun- try schools of that period afforded. When of proper age he was apprenticed and learnt the carriage and wagon trade in Manchester, Connecticut. After serving his time he engaged in the business for himself in the town EAKE, IION. JOSEPH B., Brevet Brigadier- General United States Volunteers, Lawyer and Soldier, was born April Ist, 1828, in Deerfield, Cumberland county, New Jersey, and is of Welsh extraction, the family being among the earliest settlers of that colony. His father removed to Cincinnati, in which city the son received his preparatory education, and subsequently entered Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in the class of 1846. IIe shortly after this entered the law office of IIon. W. S. Groesbeck, where he remained until he be- came qualified for the profession, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio, January 16th, 1850. Hle practised law in Cincinnati for about six years ; and then removed to Davenport, Iowa, where he opened an office, and devoted himself with great assiduity to building up a lucrative business. In the summer of 1861 he was elected a member of the Legislature, which convened in that year and is familiarly known as the " war session ; " and in the autumn of the same year he was elected to the State Senate from Scott county. He served through the session which commenced in January, 1862, and at the close was elected President of the Senate pro tem. At the second call of the President for more men in the summer of 1862 he resigned his scat in the Senate, recruited a com- pany, of which he was elected Captain, and mustered into the 20th Iowa Infantry, on the organization of which regi- ment he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, and as such commanded the regiment until the close of the war. His first service was in the army of the frontier, under General Schofield, and afterwards under Generals Blunt and Heron ; the first campaign terminated at the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7th, 1862. In the spring of 1863 General Heron's Division, to which the 20th Iowa then belonged, was sent to participate in the siege of Vicksburg, where it remained until the final sur- render of that stronghold, July 4th, 1863. His next service with the division was in the capture of Yazoo City ; thence they were sent to Port Hudson, and then to New Orleans. The division was ordered to Morganzia, and in an engage- of Somersville, Connecticut, where he remained until 1838. During his residence there, and in 1832, he married Dorothy M. Billings, a native of the place. Having secured what in that time was considered a snug sum, he decided to seek a more extended field of operations, and conse- quently removed to Quincy, Adams county, Illinois, in the year 1838. The town contained then about one thousand inhabitants, and in Mr. Rogers' line of business there were only a few small shops, engaged mostly in repairing. With the activity characteristic of the New Englanders, he im- mediately commenced the manufacture of wagons and plows, and the excellence of his productions soon gave him a reputation, and secured him a large and yearly increasing trade. The business was conducted by him alone until IS47, when he associated with him Charles H. Winn, who was a member of the firm until 1854. From 1847 to 1852 this firm were in all probability the largest manufacturers of wagons and plows in the State, turning out annually in the neighborhood of from seven thousand to eight thousand plows, and six hundred to eight hundred wagons, employing a force of about sixty men. They supplied most of the wagons that were used at that time in northern Missour; and western Illinois, and the reputation acquired by the Rogers' wagons and plows still exists. He was among the first manufacturers of plows that would scour. After the retirement of Mr. Winn, in 1854, Mr. Rogers conducted the business himself until 1864, when he retired from it and was succeeded by his sons, William T. and Edward A., who still carry on the trade, and were obliged to increase their facilities in 1871, which they did by erecting a large building on the corner of Fourth and Oak streets. On his retirement from the trade he had so successfully established Mr. Rogers did not remain inactive. Becoming possessed of the property known as the "Adams House," now styled the " Occidental," he has since conducted that hotel with the same energy and success that characterized him in his previous avocation. In 1872 he erected on the southeast corner of Hampshire and Sixth streets one of the finest blocks that adorn the business portion of the city. Although eschewing politics, he has several times been chosen as the ment while on this expedition he was wounded and cap-

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tured by the rebels, and sent to Tyler, Texas, where he re- mained until July, 1864, when he was exchanged and sent to New Orleans. With his regiment he afterwards partici- pated in the capture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, when they again returned to New Orleans. They were next ordered into Arkansas during the Price raid. In the spring of 1865 the regiment was attached to the 13th Army Corps, Army of the Gulf, and joined in the operations against Mobile, by way of Pensacola, reaching the former city to assist in the sicge and capture of Fort Blakely and Spanish Fort, the defences of Mobile. The regiment remained in that city until the close of the war, or until ordered home to be mustered out, which was done at Clinton, Iowa, in the summer of 1865. This regiment was in active service from the date of its muster into the army until discharged, and never remained over six weeks at any one point during its entire term of service. His war record is a good one, he having been brevctted Brigadier-General of Volunteers for bravery on the field. On his return home he resumed the practice of his profession. At the general election held the same fall he was again sent to the Senate by the Republican party, and served throughout the session, com- mencing January, 1866, as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In the following year he resigned his seat in the Senate and retired from political life, devoting himself with great energy to the law, which gave him a large and remunerative practice. IIe was elected attorney for the county, and was also a member and President of the Board of Education, both of which positions he resigned in IS7 I on his removal to Chicago, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1873 he formed a partnership with William Vocke, with the firm- name of Leake & Vocke, and they have an extensive general practice. As a lawyer he occupies a good position, both as a counsellor and an advocate. ITis opinions are reliable and his judgment correct. He is well read, and devotes himself entirely to his profession. Previous to the organization of the Republican party he was an old-line Whig; but on its dissolution he became and yet continues an earnest member of the Republican party.

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The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 17

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