The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 27

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

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united with several medical associates, he assisted in | he laid the foundation of his present eminence as an at- establishing and organizing the Chicago Medical College. IIe then accepted in that institution the same position which he had held previously in the Rush Medical College -the Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Chil- dren-and down to the present time has performed its attendant and responsible duties with marked zeal and effi- ciency. During a term of years he was associated with Professor N. S. Davis in the editorial management of The Chicago Medical Journal. In 1864 he published the first medical work attributable to a Chicago author; its title is " Chronic Inflammation and Displacements of the Unim- pregnated Uterus ; " in 1866 appeared his " Practice of Medicine and Surgery applied to the Diseases and Acci- dents incident to Women," which is extensively used as a text-book, and not rarely quoted as a valuable authority ; in 1871 was published the second edition of his work on the " Unimpregnated Uterus ; " and in 1869 a second edition also of his " Practice ; " in 1872 his work on " Obstetrics " was issued, and in the following year appeared a second edition of the same volumc. IIe has twice performed the " Cæsar- can Section ; " and, as a lecturer on medical and scientific subjects, and a writer on kindred topics, has secured a widely extended and honorable reputation throughout the Northwest and elsewhere. He was married, October 3d, 1840, to Mary Anne Holland, daughter of Dr. Hezekiah Holland; her demise occurring March 3d, 1864, he was subsequently married a second time to Lina W. Flersheim, of Buffalo, New York. He has recently been elected Editor-in-chief to a new medical journal, under the auspices of the Chicago Medical Press Association, entitled The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner. It is the suc- cessor of the two journals known as the Chicago Medical and the Chicago Medical Examiner.

OYNE, HON. THOMAS, LL. D., Lawyer, was born, 1817, in New York city. Hc is the son of respectable Irish parents, who had been com- pelled to cmigrate, in 1815, in consequence of troubles in which his father had become in- volved with the English government. The latter clied in 1829, and his widow followed within a year. Thomas, who was the eldest of seven children, had been sent to St. Peter's Catholic school, where he continued until he was left an orphan. In 1830 he was indentured as an apprentice to a manufacturer of fancy goods, travel- ling cases and pocket books. Ife remained there for four or five years; and, being fond of literary pursuits, joincd the " Literary Association," where he made the acquaint- ance of the late Judge Manierre, Mon. Horace Greeley, Judge C. P. Daly, Hon. William B. Maclay, M. B. Maclay, McElrath, and others. It was in this club that

torney, and of that friendship with Judge Manierre which lasted unbroken until the latter's death in 1863. He also, while an apprentice, attended two night schools, in one of which he studied Latin and Greek, and at the other English grammar and elocution. He was a diligent reader and close student and made rapid progress. His term of ser- vice expired in 1835, when he became a clerk in a whole- sale grocery house, which enabled him to continue luis attendance at the night schools. In the following year he entered the office of Hon. John Brinkerhoff, as a law student; meanwhile, by various little business schemes, he continued to increase his means, whereby he might continue his studies. His friend, Judge Manierre, had removed to Chicago in 1835, and as they were in corre- spondence, he was soon induced to follow the judge. He left New York in August, 1837, and was four weeks en route to the " Prairie City." He found his friend acting as clerk of the Circuit Court, and he secured immediate employment in the office at a salary of ten dollars per week. He here had a rare opportunity to familiarize himself with the Illinois practice, and he pursucd a regu- larly systematizcd course of study. During the next two years, he joined a literary club, and also renewed his Latin studies, besides commencing the study of French. In the fall of 1838 he commenced teaching school, but continucd only four months, as he found it occupied too much of his time. He entered, subsequently, the law office of J. Young Scammon as a student, and completed his readings in 1839, and was admitted to practice towards the close of that year. He had become imbued with Democratic principles, and, as that party was victorious at the municipal election in 1840, he was clected City Clerk. He was the author of the memorial, presented to Congress in 1841, urging an increased appropriation for the improvement of the harbor of Chicago. In the autumn of 1842 he removed to Galena, where he resided two years. He returned to the practice of the law in Chicago, December, 1844. In IS47 he was elected Probate Justice of the Peace under the old Constitution, being the office now termed County Judge. Ife held this office until the new Constitution went into effect, when the court was suspended, in the fall of 1848. Ife had, meanwhile, formed a partnership with Ifon. Mark Skinner, for the practice of his profession, and this firm continued until the latter was elected Judge, in 1851. Ile took a leading part on the Democratic sidc, advocating the Mexican war; but in 1848, after the pas- sage of the Wilmot Proviso, he became an advocate of Frce Soil principles. He was Chairman of the Committec appointed at a great mass meeting in favor of the Proviso, and was the author of the address to the people. It was a bold, manly, vigorous protest against the further exten- sion of slavery, and was designed to affect the opinion of the Democratic masses of the State. Ife was an advo- cate for the election of Van Buren and Adams, in 1848;

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and, as a Presidential clector, made a thorough canvass leaders, among them John Slidell and Howell Cobb, with whom he was intimate, against the dangers they were incurring. When he saw all remonstrance was useless, he gave his whole energies to the preservation of the Union. He was a member of the Union Defence Com- mittee, and was the author of the well-known appeal to the people of Illinois. Throughout the four years con- flict, he rose above all partisan preferences, and never encouraged partisan organizations. The resolutions of respect to the memory of General W. H. L. Wallace, who fell while leading his division at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and adopted by members of the bar of the State of Illinois, during the session of the Supreme Court, at Ottawa, on April 23d, 1862-although credited to another in the Military History of the State-were composed and reported by him [Vide Reports of Supreme Court of Illi- nois, Vol. 27, 1861-62]. Like everything emanating from his tongue or pen, during those troublous times, these resolutions bear the impress of true devotion to country, and sincere affection and sympathy for those who fell in the great struggle for national existence. After the war, he thoroughly indorsed the positions assumed by President Johnson in his conflict with Congress, and was a Delegate to the Philadelphia Conservative Convention, August, 1866, serving upon the Committee on Credentials therein. In 1872 he was found among the earnest supporters of the movement which resulted in the nomination of Horace Greeley for the Presidency. His voice was heard in the campaign in several masterly speeches, ringing with in- tolerance of wrong and with devotion to the cause of good government and the highest interests of the country, and he was placed upon the ticket as a Grcelcy elector from the First District. In 1874 he acted with the opposition so called; and with Judge Greene, of Cairo, an old and influential Democrat, drew up the call of the Democratic State Committee, issued in Chicago, embodying the Specie plank, Free Commerce, and Civil Rights, which the New York World published under the Flag, and over a column of commentary commending the brevity of its language and the wisdom and sound democracy of the action. During the summer of 1875 he was elected the President of the Jeffersonian Club, an organization the principles and objects of which were well defined by him in his inaugural address, delivered in Greenebaum's Hall, Chicago, on July 9th, before a large and enthusiastic audience. Receiving into its fellowship men of all shades of political opinion, he announced that the object of the association was to save the country from rogues, to extinguish corrupt rings, and to restore honesty and economy to the adminis- tration of government, national, State, and municipal. After an eloquent denunciation of existing frauds, con- stituting a very gloomy and forbidding picture, he con- fronted the question : " Is there sufficient vital moral force or patriotism in the people to still save their free institu- through Northern Illinois. Though accepting the com- promise measures of 1850, he did not relinquish his opposi- tion to slavery extension, and when a successor came to be nominated as a Congressman to succeed Hon. John Wentworth, Dr. Molony was selected entirely through his (Thomas Hoyne'») efforts. In 1850 he was elected Presi- dent of the Young Men's Association, and was subse- quently re-elected, being the only individual who was elected to a second term. He delivered a series of lectures before that body. Through the influence of Wentworth, he was appointed by President Pierce, in 1853, the United States District Attorney for Illinois, which then embraced the entire State. With this appointment his business rapidly increased. In 1854 Judge Douglas introduced into Congress the Kansas and Nebraska bills, and the bill for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the anti- slavery excitement broke out afresh. He sided with Senator Douglas on these questions, and in 1856 can- vassed Northern Illinois in behalf of Buchanan. In 1858 he advocated the admission of Kansas under the Lecomp- ton Constitution, and in this acted in accordance with the views of the President, although Judge Douglas opposed the movement. In 1859 he was commissioned United States Marshal for the Northern District, succeeding Charles A. Pine, who had become a defaulter. He brought order out of the chaos which had reigned in that office ; and in 1860 superintended the United States Cen- sus for the Northern District, which was so efficiently performed that he was complimented therefor by J. P. Kennedy, the Superintendent of the Census Bureau. This was the last political office he held; but his labors in the public behalf did not end here. When Senator Douglas presented the Baptists with ten acres of land conditional upon the erection thereon of a university, to be built within a specified time, at a cost of not less than $100,000, he was elected one of the Board of Trustees, upon which he has continued to serve; and he endowed a Professorship of Law, subscribing and paying $5000, beside giving his active personal efforts towards the founding of the law school. It was opened September 21st, 1859, and the Board of Trustees, in recognition of his great efforts in this direction, established a chair in the faculty, known as " The Hoyne Professorship of International and Constitu- tional Law." At the annual commencement of 1862, the university honored him with the degree of Doctor of Laws. He also secured for that institution the great Lalande prize telescope of Alvan Clark; and, as a compliment to his enterprise in anticipating the offer which Harvard Univer- sity inten'led making, he was elected first Secretary of the Chicago Astronomical Society, which position he still holds. IIe is a life member of the Chicago Historical Society, and also of the Mechanics Institute of that city. Previous to the outbreak of the great Rebellion, he labored earnestly to avert war, and cautioned many of the Southern Itions ?" To it he unhesitatingly answered " Yes," and

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pointed to the aroused and awakening public opinion as extending assurance of the nation's salvation, so soon as an opportunity arose to bind the honest people of the country together in the necessary effort. To precipitate that oppor- tunity was the work of the club. Its principles were enunciated as follows : gold and silver coin as the only currency ; free commerce and a tariff for revenue only ; the civil rights of all men, white as well as black, and the abolition of all sumptuary legislation ; the restriction of the government at Washington to the exercise of such powers only as are expressly granted in the Constitution, all others being, in that instrument, reserved to the States ; strict economy in all public expense, and the discourage- ment and putting down of all schemes of legislation hav- ing for an object the aggrandizement of individuals or classes; the right of election by the people, and the punishment of all the corrupt or corrupting influences which may be brought to outrage the ballot-box at elections. This or- ganization Mr. Hoyne regards as the event of the time in the political life of Chicago; and as the commencement of a reform movement that, extending through the country, will draw to its support the various elements now com bining to elect the next national administration. The results flowing from his efforts in connection with the movement he anticipates will prove the most important to the public of any in which he has been an agent. He is one of the originators of the Chicago Public Library, and presided over the first meeting called for the purpose of organizing, and was President of the first Board of Direc- tors thereafter, which position he yet holds. His address to the Law Class of the University, graduating in 1869, was an eloquent appeal to young men entering upon the profession, to uphold its honor and dignity, and to main- tain an clevated bar, and a bench above suspicion, also the unadulterated administration of justice in the courts. The Fourth of July oration on the " New Departure," delivered by him at La Salle, 1871, was a masterly effort, and was widely published, and added much to his fame as an orator. Hle is a director of the Chicago Branch of the Mississippi Valley Socicty, or International Chamber of Commerce, for the promotion of direct business relations between Europe and the West and South, and a liberal commercial policy between the different countries of Europe and the | United States. IIe is a member and one of the originators of the Chicago Bar Association, was its Vice-President in 1874, and one of the Committee on Legal Education in 1875. He is one of the originators of the Citizens' Asso- ciation, and a member of the committee who prepared the address, " To the Citizens of Chicago," of July 30th, 1874. IIe was married, September 17th, 1840, to the daughter of Dr. John T. Temple, one of the first settlers of Chicago. She is the mother of seven children; the eldest son, Temple S., is a prominent physician and a Professor in the Hahnemann Medical College; the second son is the junior partner in the law firm of Hoyne, Horton & Hoyne, of

which his father is the senior member, and is a lawyer of great ability ; and the third son is Assistant Cashier of the Germania Savings Bank.

MITII, ARTHUR A., Lawyer, Circuit Judge of the Eighth District, was born in Batavia, Clare- mont county, Ohio, May 9th, 1829. His parents were Erastus Smith, from Rhode Island, and Martha (Hulick) Smith, from Ohio. After ac- quiring an elementary education in his native place, he came to Knox county, Illinois, in the fall of 1840, and entered upon a course of higher studies at Knox College, located in Galesburg, Knox county. Graduating from that institution in 1853, he decided to embrace the legal profession, and, under the supervision of Abraham Becker, an able former practitioner of New York State, commenced the study of law, and finished in the office of the Hon. Julius Manning, of Peoria, Illinois. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar of Illinois, and immediately commenced the practice of his profession in Galesburg, and continued thus engaged until the outbreak of the Southern Rebellion. He then, in 1862, entered the service of the United States, in the 83d Regiment of Illinois Infantry, and, upon the final organization of that body, was elected Lieutenant-Colonel. Subsequently, commis- sioned Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General, he was an active participant through the war, and rendered effective services to the government and toward assisting in main- taining the integrity of the Union. His regiment served in the Army of the West, mainly in the Army of the Cumberland. At the termination of the struggle he re- turned to Galesburg, there resuming the practice of his profession, and rapidly acquiring an extensive and rc- munerative clientage. In 1866 he was appointed by Governor Oglesby to fill the unexpired term of Judge John S. Thompson, and at the expiration of that term, in June, 1867, was elected to the same office-Circuit Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, then comprising the counties of Knox, Warren, Mercer, and Henderson. This section is now called the Eighth Circuit, and includes all of the above-named counties, with the exception of Mercer county. Prior to this, in 1861, he had been clected to the Legislature, where he served two sessions; throughont which his conduct was characterized by inflexible loyalty and marked ability. In 1873 he was re-clected to the Circuit Judgeship for a term of six years. He is a learned and skilful practitioner and expounder of the law, and his judgments and rulings are remarkable for their soundness and accuracy. In all matters pertaining to the social and political welfare of his adopted State and county, he is warmly interested; has aided effectively in fostering and developing the industries and resources of Galesburg ; and while in the halls of the Legislature has worked profitably

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for the interests of his constituents. He was married, in j an old and prominent citizen of Chicago, Horace G. Chase, 1855, to Mary Delano, whose demise occurred in the fol- lowing year ; subsequently, he was again married to Mary E. Benner, of Galesburg, Illinois.

in the business of investing money for Eastern capitalists upon real estate security in and about Chicago. His resi- dence is at South Evanston, a beautiful and rapidly grow- ing suburban village about six miles north of Chicago, upon Lake Michigan. He is a large land-owner in the village, and his enterprise has contributed materially to its growth and prosperity. Since his residence here he has been prominent in the management of the village schools, and for four terms in succession has been chosen President of the village.

DAMS, JOIIN BALLARD, Lawyer, and for several years Judge of the County Court of Racine county, Wisconsin, was born at Dryden, Tompkins county, New York, January 26th, 1836. His father, Rev. Moses Adams, a Metho- dist Episcopal clergyman, was born, January 6th, 1806, in Jefferson county, New York, and died in ANNAMAN, ROBERT L., Merchant, Lawyer and Judge, was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Sep- tember 5th, 1803, being the son of Jolin II. and Susanna ( Beebe) Hannaman. His father came from New York and his mother from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His grandfather, Christopher Ilahnemann, was a descendant of Hahnemann, the founder of the medical system of Homoeopathy. The orthography of the family name was changed after the emigration of the family to America. Robert L. received his early educa- tion in the country schools, residing on a farm until his sixteenth year. For some years after he was engaged in surveying, a knowledge of which he acquired with great aptitude. In 1822 he moved to (what subsequently be- came) Hamilton county, Indiana, and accepted a position as school teacher. In the following year, upon the organi- zation of that county, he was elected Recorder of Deeds, retaining this office until 1825, when he was chosen Sheriff, and by virtue of his office Collector of the Revenue. The new county was a very large one, comparatively, being sixty miles in length, and the duties assigned him in his dual office demanded ceascless activity and thorough execu- tive ability, qualities which he possessed in no ordinary degree. Upon the expiration of his term of office as Sheriff, he was elected County Surveyor, for which his early experiences especially fitted him. He retained this position ten years. During this time he studied law, and was, in 1830, admitted to practice. In 1833 he became Justice of the Peace, and filled this judicial station five years. Ile represented Hamilton county in the State Legislature from 1834 to 1836, having been elected on the Whig ticket. Upon the expiration of his term in this body, he removed to Illinois and settled in Knoxville, then the county-seat of Knox county, and engaged in mercantile pursuits down to 1844. In 1837, soon after his settlement in this county, he was chosen its Probate Judge, and fulfilled its respon- sible dutics for nine years, transacting during the same time no inconsiderable amount of business as a notary public. Upon relinquishing his commercial business, in 1844, he resumed the practice of the law, associating with Julius Manning, this partnership continuing for seven Ottawa county, Kansas, in September, 1871. His mother, whose maiden name was Caroline Ballard, was born in 1809, in Courtland county, New York, and is still living and resides with her son. Judge Adams was educated principally at Jefferson County Institute, Watertown, New York, and at Casenovia Seminary, New York. From 1848 to 1854 lie lived with his parents at Watertown, New York, and with them, in the spring of 1854, removed to Racine, Wisconsin. For two or three years he was employed in the book store of his father, whose failing health compelled him to give up active service in the ministry. In 1856 Judge Adams entered the law office of IIon. William P. Lyon (one of the present justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin) and continued as a law student until the fall of 1857, when he entered the law school at Albany, New York, where he graduated in 1858. He then returned to Racine and became the partner of Judge Lyon in the law practice, the law firm of Lyon & Adams, and Lyon, Adams & Hand continuing until the election of Judge Lyon to a judicial office. In 1860 he married Susan A. J. Dun- combe, daughter of Dr. Elijah Duncombc, of St. Thomas, Canada, who died childless, in May, 1863. In 1861 he was elected Judge of the County Court of Racine county, Wisconsin, although at that time but twenty-five years of age, and he was re-elected to the same office in 1865. In the latter part of 1864 he married again, his second wife being Caroline Belden, daughter of Ira Belden, of Aurora, Illinois. Four children of this marriage are living. In September, 1868, Judge Adams resigned his judicial office and removed to Chicago, Illinois, to engage in business as a conveyancer and examiner of real estate titles. After the great fire of 1871 he commenced the preparation of a work which was published in 1874 in two large volumes, entitled " Real Estate Statutes and Decisions of Illinois." This work comprises a compilation of all of the real estate statutes of the State and Territory from the earliest period of legislation, and also digested notes from all of the de- cisions of the Supreme Court of the State affecting real estate and titles thereto. In this work W. J. Durham became associated with him as one of its authors. Since the spring of 1872 Judge Adams has been associated with | years. In 1852, upon the organization of the Peoria &

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Oquawka Railroad Company, which has since been merged | he continued in association during the following ten years ; into the corporation of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy at the expiration of that time he again dissolved his part- nership connection and resumed his practice alone. On one occasion he was tendered a Circuit judgeship, but being ineligible according to the Constitution, on account of his age, he was obliged to decline the proferred honor. Endowed with natural abilities of a high order, a thorough course of professional training has admirably developed and expanded them, and he ranks with the leaders of the bar in McDonough county, Illinois. He was married in January, 1855, to Mary E. Bailey, daughter of Colonel Bailey, of Macomb; her demise occurring in 1865, in 1868 he was again married to Sarah A. Bacon, of Illinois. Railroad, he was elected its Secretary, and acted in that capacity two years, his partner, Mr. Manning, during the same time acting as counsel for the road. Since 1852 Mr. Hannaman has lived in Knoxville, where he has engaged in a large and lucrative practice. IIe has had a law office at Galesburg ever since the removal of the county-seat to that place. He was married in March, 1823, to Hannah Plummer, of Massachusetts, by whom he has had eleven children, four of whom are now living. Very recently he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Knox county, and now serves in that capacity. His life has been an un- usually active one, in which both public services and private pursuits have been closely blended. IIe is a man of the most irreproachable character, who has been able in all stations to secure, by his fidelity to the trusts confided to him and by the able administration of his varied duties, the highest respect of the communities in which he has resided, and to retain it.

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The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 27

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