The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 28

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

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UNNICLIFF, DAMON G., Lawyer, was born in Herkimer county, New York, August 20th, 1829. Ifis parents were George Tunnicliff and Marinda (Tilden) Tunnicliff. His earlier and elemental education was acquired in the country schools of his native place. In 1849 he decided to emi- grate to the West, and travelled, accordingly, to Illinois, there settling in Vermont, Fulton county. During a brief period of his residence in this place, he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. Resolving, subsequently, to embrace the legal profession, he entered the law office of Blackwell & Walker, prominent practitioners of Rushville, Schuyler county, one of whom, the latter, soon afterward was elected and has ever since occupied a scat on the Supreme bench ; and, under the able supervision of those instructors, assidu- ously pursued for a time his legal studies, until 1853, when he was admitted to the bar. He did not, however, cease to be a student because he had obtained his license; but Mr. Blackwell being then on the point of removal to Chicago, he accompanied him there. Mr. Blackwell (sub- sequently author of "Blackwell on Tax Titles) soon formed a copartnership with Hon. Corydon Beckwith (who a few years later occupied for a few years a seat on the Supreme bench), and under these gentlemen he pur- sued his studies with great industry until 1854, when he established himself in Macomb, McDonough county, and there, associated with Cyrus Walker, one of the ablest leading practitioners then resident in the State, engaged in the active practice of his profession. At the conclusion of the fifth year thus occupied, he dissolved his connection with his associate and practised alone. A few years after- ward he connected with him Asa A. Matteson, with whom

LOCKI, WILLIAM F., Druggist and Pharmacist, was born, December Sth, 1842, in Poland. His father, F. W. Blocki, was an extensive Polish land-owner and agriculturist, whose emigration with his family, in 1850, to America was prompted by the political outbreaks in his own

country. The family settled in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The early instruction of his son, William F., was privately conducted in Poland, and subsequently, while in the com- mon and high schools of Wisconsin, he acquired a very substantial education, which has been constantly improved by comprehensive courses of reading and by the study of the sciences, especially that of chemistry. In I859 he entered as an apprentice to the drug business with Gale Brothers, of Chicago, and here commenced under the most favorable auspices the study of pharmacy, both theoretically and practically, and in a short time became accomplished and exceedingly skilful in the preparation of medicines. In 1866 the firm was reorganized, and he was admitted as a member, the house changing its. name from Gale Brothers to Gale & Blocki. He has been an influential member of the Philadelphia Pharmaceutical Society since 1863, and one of the most active members of the Chicago College of Pharmacy ever since its organization. In 1871 the firm of Gale & Blocki was burned out during what has passed into history as the Great Fire ; but its large business, which was thus seriously interrupted, was reopened in the west division of the city, 57 West Randolph street, where they conducted their business until the burned district was sufficiently re- constructed to open and furnish a drug store of the first order in a fine new building, at No. 85 Clark street, in the spring of 1872. So successful was it, by enterprise, pru- dent management and through the reputation it had made by the skill and care displayed in preparing its compounds, that within one year a new store, under the Palmer House, was opened to accommodate its daily increasing patronage. Both of these places are beautifully arranged and fitted, and completely stocked, and are without any superiors in the city. Mr. Blocki has two brothers in the same business,

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(wholesale), Messrs. J. and E. W. Blocki. In addition to his pressing business engagements, he finds time to attend to his duties as a member of the Committee of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, having in charge the publication of The Pharmacist, the organ of that association. During the late war he served for a time with a regiment of volunteers from Illinois. He is a gentleman of fine culture, of irre- proachable character, thoroughly skilled in the science of pharmacy, and has by his business as well as fine social quali- ties achieved an honorable position in the community. He was married, on March 11th, 1868, to Emily Halleck, of New York city, and has three children, who are named Marion, William Gale, and Kate Raiworth Blocki.

ICKEY, T. LYLE, Lawyer and Judge, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 2d, 1811, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, who had settled in South Carolina, then moved to Virginia, and thence to Kentucky. Ilis grandfather was a

member of Marion's cavalry, and served through the Revolution. His father was Rev. James H. Dickey, and his mother's maiden name Mary Depew. The family moved to Ross county, Ohio, when he was but three years old. Ilis mother died a year later, and he soon returned to live with his grandmother on her plantation in Kentucky most of the time until he grew up. He attended school both in Ohio and Kentucky, studied Latin and mathematics at an academy, and went to college at Ohio University of Athens, graduating at the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, in 1831. He was married December 6th, 1831, when but twenty years old, to Juliet Evans, daughter of a substantial farmer. He then taught school in Lebanon, Ohio; the children of Tom Corwin, and a boy who after- ward became Judge Dunlavy, being among his pupils. He then moved to Millersburg, Bourbon county, Kentucky, and taught a private school for two years with marked suc- cess, beginning with twelve scholars and closing with one hundred and thirty-five. IIe moved to Macomb, McDon- ough county, Illinois, in the winter of 1834-35, riding on horseback with his little child, afterward Mrs. General Wallace, intending to become a farmer. IIe there met Sirus Walker, an old, intelligent lawyer, who persuaded him to study law. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1835, at the age of twenty-three, and practised law in Macomb a year and a half. In 1836 he moved to Rush- ville, Illinois, and practised for three years, and at one time edited a Whig paper. In 1837 he speculated in real estate, and had realized a degree of success, when the panic of 1837 came, and he lost all his means and was overwhelmed with debt, from which it took him twenty years to extricate himself. In 1839 he moved to Ottawa, Illinois, and prac- tised law with Lorenzo Leland for a year; then with one of his own students. In 1846, at the opening of the Mexi-

can war, he organized a company of men, of which he was appointed Captain, and joined the Ist Regiment of Illinois Volunteers; but after considerable service, returned on account of impaired health. This company was a remark- ably fine body of men, turning out two generals-Wallace and Morril-in the last war, beside many other officers. He resumed his practice, and was elected Judge, in 1848, of the circuit, comprising twelve counties, filling the posi- tion for four years, when he resigned and recommenced the practice of law. In 1854, being still under the burden of debt, he moved to Chicago and practised law assiduously for four years, when he was enabled to pay off his liabili- ties. His wife died December 3d, 1855. ITis son, Sirus E. Dickey, who was in partnership with him when the last war broke out, entered the army, served with distinction, and was killed at Banks' defeat on Red river, April 8th, 1864, having the rank of Assistant Adjutant-Gencral on Ransom's staff. Another son is John I. Dickey, Superin- tendent of the Telegraphic Department of the Union Pacific Railroad, and Assistant Superintendent of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. Ilis youngest son, Charles H., is a merchant at Maui, one of the Sandwich Islands. In 1857 and 1858 he was in partnership in Chicago with M. R. M. Wallace, afterward Judge, who, with General Wallace, was a student of his. IIe then returned to Ottawa and practised law with W. II. L. Wallace and his son Sirus E. Dickey until the war broke out in 1861, when both his partners went into the service. After the battle of Bull Run he raised a regiment of cavalry, got authority to appoint all his own officers, and in less than forty days had his regiment, containing 1200 mcn, one of the best ever put into the field, ready for service. Taking along his youngest son, he entered the field as Colonel of the regiment, mustered in as the 4th Illinois Cavalry, and joined Grant at Cairo in December. In February he went with Grant up the Tennessee river and helped capture Fort Henry; led in the advance on Fort Donelson, and was at the battle of Shiloh with both sons and his son-in- law, General Wallace, who was there killed. In the advance on Corinth his cavalry was attached to General Sherman's command till after Corinth was taken. About June Ist, 1862, he was appointed Chief of Cavalry on Grant's staff, and sent to Memphis in command of that post. In July he returned to Corinth and was with Grant during the summer, took part in the battle of Iuka, and in October was sent to Washington to procure additional arms for Grant's cavalry. On his return all the cavalry of Grant's army was organized into a division of five brigades, and he was placed in command of the division. When Pemberton retreated from Tallahassee, he pursued his rear, fighting steadily for four days far in advance of his sup- ports. Soon after he took 600 selected men and made the first extensive raid into the enemy's country through a region alive with rebels, returning without the loss of a man. In 186; he resigned and returned to Ottawa to his

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profession, in partnership with John B. Riee, for four years. | sentative during the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and In 1866 he was Democratic candidate for Congress for the Twenty-sixth General Assemblies, and for four years of this period as Speaker of the House. He moved into Peru, Illinois, in 1868. In 1872 he was elected Member of Con- gress from the Seventh Congressional District of Illinois, which position he filled for two years, living with his family in Washington. In addition to his other labors, he has twiee served in an editorial capacity-in Ottawa, Illinois, and Wilmington, Ohio. He is a man of great worth of character, and oceupies a high position in the esteem of a wide circle of friends. State at large, and canvassed with General Logan upon the Republican plan of reconstruction, his being the first open speech by a Democrat on that subjeet. In the fall of 1867 he was sent to Washington as commissioner with General Hurlburt to secure appropriations to widen the Illinois & Michigan Canal to a ship channel, but without success. In IS68, being in Washington, the position of Assistant Attorney General of the United States was tendered him, which he accepted and filled for a year and a half, when he resigned and spent the winter in Florida. In 1870 he re- turned North and married Mrs. Hirst, of Princess Anne, Maryland, August 8th, 1870. Then he returned to Ottawa and praetised law for three years as member of the firm of Dickey, Boyle & Rieholson. December, 1873, he moved to Chicago, practising law with Hon. B. G. Caulfield until August, 1874, when he was by the Mayor appointed coun. sel to the corporation of Chicago, which position he now holds.

ORWIN, HON. FRANKLIN, Member of Con- gress, was born January 12th, ISI8, in Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio. His father was Matthias Corwin, Jr., a lawyer, and a brother of the famous Tom Corwin of Ohio. His father died when he himself was but five years old, and at his death Franklin went to live with this unele, of whose family he became an inmate until he reached manhood. Hle attended an excellent private school from early youth until he attained his eighteenth year. He then went into a printing office, where he worked for one year. At nine- teen he commeneed studying law with his unele, and at twenty-one was admitted to the bar of Ohio, and became a partner with his unele in that profession in the town of Lebanon. He was married in 1839 to Rebecca Jane Hib- ben, of Wilmington, Ohio. In 1841 he moved to Wilming- ton, where he continued the practice of law for several years, being connected in business with his unele, after which he practised alone until 1850, when his health failed. During these years he was for one term Prosecuting At- torney for Clinton county, and member of the Ohio Legis- lature for several years; being Representative in the Forty- fifth, and Senator in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh General Assemblies. In IS50 he abandoned law and was chosen President of the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanes- ville Railroad, then just begun. He remained such until a few months after its completion, in 1856, when he resigned, after having given it his entire time and energy. In I857 he moved to the neighborhood of Peru, Illinois, and entered upon the management of an extensive farm. He continued a farmer for twelve years; but during these years he again became active in the political arena, and was elected thrice over to the Illinois Legislature ; serving six years as Repre-

ULLER, OLIVER FRANKLIN, was born in Sherman, Fairfield county, Connecticut, October 19th, 1829. His father was Revilo Fuller, a tanner. His mother's name was Caroline E. Hankerford. Before the great fire Mr. Fuller had in his house a written genealogy of the family, proving it to be direet deseendants of the Fullers known to have been part of the company landing here in the " Mayflower." He first attended distriet school at home; then, at fifteen, went to clerk for an apothecary in Peekskill, New York. He remained five years with him, when he started a drug store for himself in company with a Mr. Dain. He continued to run this store about two years ; but his health had declined, and he was thought to be on the verge of the grave. He sold out to his former em- ployer, travelled a while, and about a year afterward went to New York city, where he kept a set of books for six months. In February, 1852, he moved to Chicago, though still weak, and started a drug business, combining both retail and wholesale branches, in connection with Myron P. Roberts, under the firm-name of Fuller & Roberts. At the end of two years the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Fuller continued the business alone for two years. The retail department was only continued about three years. He next took into partnership Charles E. Perkins and Edward B. Finch, under the firm-name of O. F. Fuller & Co. In IS5S Mr. Perkins retired from the concern, but the firm-name remained until 1859, when their store was burned ont. They immediately started again under the name of Fuller & Fineh. In 1862 they took another Mr. Fuller into partnership, and the firm became Fuller, Finch & Fuller. In IS71 Mr. Finch retired from the firm, and the business has since been condueted under the present firm-name of Fuller & Fuller. Mr. Fuller was married in Peekskill, New York, November 9th, IS58, to Phebe Ann Shipley, of Peekskill. When he arrived in Chicago the city numbered about 35,000, and their first year's business, of $52,000, was considered a good one. It has steadily increased from that day to this, being now about one and a quarter millions a year. In 1864, whien goods were at war prices, they sold $2,000,000 worth of goods, though hand- ling fewer goods then than now. Their business is the

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largest of its kind in Chicago. He is an honorary member of the Chicago Pharmaceutical Association. Although his house was burned in the great fire of 1871, his store and business was not burned out, and it was the only wholesale establishment, of any kind whatever, that was left standing in the whole city of Chicago. It is almost needless to say that Mr. Fuller acquired at the West sound health, which enabled him to labor early and late in the building up of his vast business. IIe is now the oldest wholesale drug- gist in the city, being the only one still in the business who was engaged in it at the time he commenced.

CCLELLAND, MILO ADAMS, M. D., was born January 28th, 1837, in Beaver county, Pennsylva- nia, being the son of Thomas and Esther ( Wilson) McClelland, both natives of Pennsylvania, who removed West and located near Evansville, in southern Indiana, when he was six years of age. Subsequently they changed their residence to Living- ston county, Illinois. He was prepared for college at Beloit, Wisconsin, but was prevented from attaining the honors of an academic career. In 1862-63 he applicd the few hours at his leisure, after the daily labors incident to farming were over, to the study of medicine, and in the last year was enrolled as a matriculant of Rush Medical College, Chicago, in which he took one course. By unusual dili- gence, and by the aid of a talent peculiarly fitted for that study, he made rapid progress in acquiring a sound theo- retical knowledge of the science of medicine, and upon the conclusion of his first course of lectures commenced prac- tice in Knox county, Illinois, associating with Dr. Samuel Wilson. In a short time, so rapid and lucrative was his advance in the profession, he purchased the property and IROTII, IIENRY, Chemist and Pharmacist, was born in Posen, Prussia, September, 1839. IIe is a son of August and Augusta (Gærlt) Biroth, of Prussia. His cducation was acquired in the Real schools of his native placc, the fortified capi- tal of the Grand Duchy of Posen, on the Warta. Upon the completion of his course of studies he came to this country in the fall of 1857, and cstablished himself in Chicago, Illinois, entering the employ of F. Mahla, a prom- inent and respected chemist of that city. Hc remained thus occupied until the breaking out of the civil conflict, when, in 1861, he entered the service of the United States as Hospital Steward for a term of three months. At the cx- piration of that term, during which he was noted for his effi- ciency and thorough knowledge of the details connected with his office, he returned to Chicago, and became engrossed in business established and conducted solely on his own account. In this, the manufacture and preparation of chemicals, etc., he has since continued, meeting with great and merited success. He has been Vice-President of the Chicago Col- good-will of his associate and continued his constantly en- larging career at Hermon, in the lower section of Knox county. Here he remained eighteen months and then re- paired to New York to more thoroughly acquaint himself with the various branches of his profession, and in March, 1867, graduated with credit from Bellevue Medical College. Returning to Illinois he located at Knoxville, where he has practised ever since. In 1868 he was chosen County Phy- sician, and has served in this capacity up to the present time. IIe is the medical attendant at St. Mary's College, in Knoxville, and delivers at this institution lectures on physiology. IIe is a member of the State and American Medical Associations, and also of the Military Tract Medi- cal Society, and has contributed many treatises on subjects of importance to the profession, which are characterized not alone by depth of research but by forms and suggestions which in practice have secured most favorable results. In 1872 he submitted to the Military Tract Medical Society a paper on " Civil Malpractice," which was so important in its revelations as to become widely circulated, both through | lege of Pharmacy, and at the present time is Corresponding

the columns of the medical journals of the State and in book form. Its statements and its recommendations re- ceived the earnest indorsement of the newspaper and medical press, and of the profession generally. It was a clear and for- cible treatise on the liabilities of practising physicians under the civil law. He is now preparing a more elaborate and ex- haustive work on the same topic, to which he will append chapters on Prognosis in Fractures and on the rights and duties of the medical expert. He is making a thorough study of medical jurisprudence at his leisure moments, and all the important results of his investigations in the science of medicine, and the science of law as applied to it, will be embodied in the forthcoming volume. Hc has been ap- pointed to make a special report to the State Medical So- ciety on medical jurisprudence at its next regular meeting. Ile was for a term President of the Military Tract Medical Society, and in his valedictory upon vacating that position delivered an address on " Medicine, Past and Present," in which he advocated strongly the claims of present medical practice. Ilis inaugural thesis, presented to the faculty of Bellevuc Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1867, contains an elaborate and complete discussion of the his- tory, symptoms, causes and treatment of crysipelas. He has written a paper upon " The Philosophy of Creation as manifest in the Structure of Animals," and another upon " The Influence of the Body upon the Mind," in which he has shown that diseascd mental manifestations depend largely upon diseased bodily conditions. Dr. McClelland has attained a leading and influential position as a practi- tioner in the West. In 1865 he was married to Louisa J. Bowman, of Pennsylvania, who is still living.

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Secretary for that institution. He is admirably endowed with the faculty of putting to practical uses his superior knowledge of the general principles and special minutiæe of his profession, and is constantly engaged in working out theoretical problems, and from them evolving and deducing valuable facts tending to the advancement of science and progress. In this connection he exhibits a liberality and disinterestedness toward his professional brethren, in mak- ing known to them the details of his investigations and method of practical manipulation, seldom met with in a manufacturer. In addition to his other many labors, he contributes frequently to the current literature of the profes- sion, and his essays are invariably marked by an instructive and practical character. As a pharmacist he enjoys the confidence and high esteem of the medical fraternity ; as a skilful and energetic scientist, he is, in the particular branches to which he especially devotes his time and atten- tion, unsurpassed. He was married in 1862 to Elizabeth Ashman, formerly a resident of Switzerland.

LDREDGE, GEORGE S., Lawyer and Judge, was born in Hamilton, Madison county, New York, June 22d, 1826. Ilis father, Jamcs B. Eldredge, was likewise a lawyer and judge. He attended the academic department of what is now Madison University, and at the age of nineteen began the study of law in the office of Bashford & Ketchum in Clyde, New York, which he continued there and in his father's office for a period of four years. IIe was admitted to the bar of the State in IS4S. Ile then became partner with Judge Ketchum of Clyde in law business for about three years, and was afterward partner with his father in the practice of law in Hamilton until 1855. Ile was married May 14th, 1855, to Maria Moseley of Hamilton. In the fall of the same year he moved to Peru, Illinois, and continued in the practice of law with Judge Chumasero until 1860, and afterward alone until 1872, when he removed to Ottawa, Illinois, and opencd the practice of law with E. N. Lewis. In 1875 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Eldredge still continuing in his profession. Ile is now Attorney for the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad. He acquired the title of Judge from filling that position for a period in the Recorder's Court at Peru. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Illinois of 1869-70. In the winter of 1869 he was a member of the convention called at Peoria to further improvements upon the Illinois river. IIe became Chairman of the convention, and was largely instrumental in effecting the passage of the law pro- viding for the construction of the dam at Henry, and con- templating thorough improvement in the navigation of the river. The Judge is a man of strong eonvietions, positive

UDD, HERBERT, M. D., was born December ISth, 1844, in Franklin, New York, his parents being Alonzo B. and Julia (White) Judd. His early education was very thorough. After a common school course he went through all the grades at Franklin Academy and Delaware Literary Insti-

iute. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Al- bert E. Sullard, reading the text-books with that gentleman for two years, and enjoying the advantages of a practical illustration of the principles involved in the medical science. Leaving the office of this able practitioner, he went to Al- bany and studied two years with Drs. Freeman and Craig, and during that time entered, as a matriculant, the Albany Medical College, from which he graduated in 1867. In the following spring he settled in Galesburg, Illinois, com- menced practice there, and has continued it with unvarying success up to the present timc. His thorough training, combining as it did the very best forms of theory and prac- tice, effectually prepared him for a career of great efficiency as a physician, and though still a young man comparatively, he has taken a position in the front rank of medical prac- titioners in this country. IIe is unusually expert in detect- ing the causes and in determining the effects of diseases, and the success of a physician's practice mainly turns upon his skill in making these discoveries. He is a member of the Military Tract Medical Society, and has acted as its Secretary since the second year of its organization. This society is of physicians practising in the counties of Knox, Warren, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Henry, Beaver, and Stark of the State of Illinois, and among its members are enrolled the ablest men of the profession. Dr. Judd was married May 13th, 1872, to Mary S. Slater, of Gales- burg.

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The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 28

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