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 MARSHALL FIELD 
 
 AS the wealthiest dry goods merchant in the 
 world and a financial factor in many of the 
 leading corporate organizations of the country Mr. 
 Field in his personality was simplicity itself. He 
 was unostentatious, public-spirited with modesty, 
 retiring. Forty -nine years a resident of Chicago 
 he had been essentially a merchant, devoting his 
 strength and brain to the systematic and scientific 
 building up of great establishments of trade. In 
 so doing he had at the same time given of his 
 fortune to the ethical advancement of Chicago 
 notably his gift of a million dollars to the Field 
 Columbian Museum and of nearly half a million in 
 land and money to the University of Chicago. If 
 Mr. Field had expressed himself on the secret of 
 his success he probably would have said, "system 
 in all things."
 
 MARVIN HUGHITT 
 
 MR. HUGHITT bears the honorary title of 
 "dean" of the railway presidents of the 
 West. From the day he mastered telegraphy by 
 ear in New York state, fifty years ago, to the 
 present time he has been an active railway official 
 occupying all the offices of trainmaster, assistant 
 general superintendent, general superintendent, 
 general manager, vice-president and finally presi- 
 dent of the Chicago $, Northwestern system and 
 representative of the extensive Vanderbilt interests 
 connected therewith. Practical and profitable 
 railroading always has been Mr. Hughitt's forte 
 even in the days of the civil war when he success- 
 fully demonstrated as a train dispatcher his ability 
 safely and expeditiously to care for Federal troops. 
 He has been eighteen years the head of the 
 system he now represents, and one of the most 
 honored of Chicago's citizens.
 
 JOHN J. MITCHELL 
 
 FROM messenger boy to president of the bank 
 in which he once served as an employe is 
 the career of Mr. Mitchell. His financial interests 
 now extend not only to all parts of this country 
 but to the centers of money in Europe and the 
 Orient. At 19 he was a minor employe of the 
 Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and at 26 presi- 
 dent of the bank. His varied interests now extend 
 to insurance, an advisory capacity with the Audit 
 company of New York; trustee of the American 
 Surety company, director in half a dozen railway 
 companies and in several electric light and power 
 companies, and a power in half a score of other 
 important corporations. Born in Illinois, Mr. 
 Mitchell has made his reputation as a conservative 
 financier in Chicago and won the additional repu- 
 tation of being an accessible and fair-spoken man 
 of business.
 
 CHARLES H. ALDRICH 
 
 INDIANA hails Mr. Aldrich as a native son, but 
 his Alma Mater of Michigan claims grateful 
 recognition of him as well. He was an early 
 student at Ann Arbor and a graduate in 1875, 
 receiving later (1893) the degree of A. M. His 
 practice of the law began in Fort Wayne and was 
 extended to the general government when he 
 became solicitor-general in 1892. He is fond of 
 golf at Glen View, but more interested in intricate 
 governmental and corporation questions involving 
 vested rights. In this solving of complex prob- 
 lems he has won an enviable reputation through 
 the judicial character of his mind and his extensive 
 knowledge of the law.
 
 FRANK O. LOWDEN 
 
 MR. LOWDEN has taken step by step his 
 successes in life through his own energy. 
 The law is his hobby. He was valedictorian of 
 the Iowa State University when he was graduated 
 in 1885 and valedictorian on his graduation from 
 the Union College of Law in 1887. In 1898 he 
 was president of the Law Club of Chicago, and a 
 year later professor of the Northwestern Univer- 
 sity Law School. He is a member of the 
 American, Illinois State and Chicago Bar associa- 
 tions and a trustee of Knox college. In the legal 
 world he is ranked one of the first corporation 
 lawyers of the West, having the advantage of long 
 practical experience and broad and persistent 
 study. In the campaign of 1904 he was a member 
 of the Republican national committee from Illinois.
 
 JAMES GAMBLE ROGERS 
 
 A GRADUATE from the West Division High 
 school in 1885 and from Yale University in 
 1889, Mr. Rogers began the study of architecture 
 the latter year and practiced on his own account in 
 1892. He was a student in the Ecole des Beaux 
 Arts, of Paris, tor six years, becoming architecte 
 diplome pare goverment Francais. Since his 
 return from Paris he has been engaged in general 
 architectural practice in Chicago and has designed 
 structures of many varied types. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Beaux Arts, New York, and 
 the Societe des Architectes Diplome, of France. 
 Originality always has characterized his designs 
 with a happy blending of the practical and artistic.
 
 JAMES H. ECKELS 
 
 FINANCE is the bone and sinew of life to Mr. 
 Eckels. He has given at least twenty-five 
 years of his busy days to the study of national 
 finances and the highest arts of modern banking 
 as exemplified in American financial institutions. 
 The confidence reposed in Mr. Eckels when 
 President Cleveland appointed him comptroller of 
 the currency in 1893 an office he held four years 
 has been reflected by his rapid advance in the 
 banking world to the presidency of the Commercial 
 National bank of Chicago. Mr. Eckels is fond of 
 music, books, the charms of country life, and the 
 pleasures of the family circle. He is one of the 
 most modest of Chicago's influential men.
 
 JOHN C. FETZER 
 
 FROM the days when the site of the old 
 Tremont House sold for a pair of boots to 
 the million dollar valuations of the present the 
 importance of the sound judge of realty values has 
 steadily increased. Mr. Fetzer has won his high 
 reputation in Chicago financial circles through 
 unerring judgment as to not only the present but 
 the prospective future worth of centrally located 
 property. Born in Pennsylvania in 1865, in 1896 
 he took charge of the properties of the McCormick 
 estate of Chicago, and has won a phenomenal 
 success with them. He has the most exclusive 
 real estate clientele in the city.
 
 ARTHUR MEEKER 
 
 MR. MEEKER is the general manager of 
 Armour's Stock Yards plant and president 
 of the Omaha Packing company. He also is vice- 
 president of the Hammond Packing company, 
 and the Hutchinson Packing company, and a 
 director of Armour C& Co., and of the National 
 Packing company. Mr. Meeker has made the 
 industrial and commercial side of the Armour 
 business a life-long study, identifying himself 
 with every step forward of the firm. When free 
 from business cares he has the Chicago, Mer- 
 chants, Washington Park, Caxton, Saddle and 
 Cycle, Onwentsia and Chicago Golf for entertain- 
 ment or his delightful summer home which he 
 opens each summer at Beverly Farms, Massa- 
 chusetts.
 
 N. W. HARRIS 
 
 LIFE insurance first inspired Mr. Harris to an 
 active financial career. At eighteen he was 
 a solicitor for the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
 of New York and a general agent for the same 
 company when he was twenty. As early as 1867 
 he organized and became the secretary and general 
 manager of the Union Central Life Insurance com- 
 pany of Cincinnati. In 1883, after an extensive 
 journey abroad, he organized the banking house of 
 N. W. Harris CSt, Co., one of the largest in the 
 country in its specialty of dealing in state, county 
 and city bonds. Mr. Harris has given much of his 
 life as a layman to promoting the welfare of the 
 Methodist church, with which he is conspicuously 
 connected. As a trustee of Northwestern Uni- 
 versity his name always will be indelibly inscribed 
 on the tablets bearing the names of the men who 
 have given it fame.
 
 EDWIN L. LOBDELL 
 
 LOBDELL was born in Illinois and his 
 financial fame has been won within its 
 confines. Coming to Chicago in 1873 after his 
 education was completed he became a teller in the 
 First National Bank for seven years and then 
 passed to the Board of Trade as a partner in the 
 firm of Nash, Wright C& Co. Later he started a 
 banking and brokerage business of his own. From 
 this grew through the years the present well known 
 firm of Edwin L. Lobdell CS> Co. Aside from his 
 many business responsibilities Mr. Lobdell is 
 conspicuous in club life and its social features. He 
 is a member of the Union League, Athletic, 
 Bankers, Exmoor, Midlothian and Twentieth 
 Century. Fond of athletics, he maintains a 
 delightful summer home at Highland Park.
 
 FRANK B. TOBEY 
 
 FAR down on Cape Cod, at Dennis, Mr. Tobey 
 was born, worked on a farm, clerked in a 
 country store and postoffice, became identified 
 with the anti-slavery movement and wrote the call 
 and was secretary of the first Republican conven- 
 tion held in his native town. By 1857 he was 
 convinced that he was destined to be a furniture 
 manufacturer and a year later inaugurated the 
 business in Chicago with which his name is now 
 inseparably connected. He now is president of 
 the Tobey Furniture company, president of the 
 Bureau of Justice, director and treasurer of the 
 Children's Home and Aid Society, president of the 
 Society of Ethical Culture and president of the 
 board of Trustees of Rush Medical college.
 
 ALFRED L. BAKER 
 
 BANKING propositions and stocks and bonds 
 won Mr. Baker from a long practice of the- 
 law. Born in Massachusetts, he studied law in 
 Boston and was admitted to the bar in 1881 and 
 practiced at Lynn until 1886. The same year he 
 removed to Chicago and became the senior mem- 
 ber of Baker C8k Greeley until he retired to engage 
 in the banking and brokerage business and became 
 a member of the Chicago Stock Exchange, the 
 Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock 
 Exchange. He displayed such ability in the finan- 
 cial world that he became president of the Chicago 
 Stock Exchange in 1898 and later president of the 
 Merchants' club, with which he has been promi- 
 nently identified ever since. In movements to 
 improve Chicago he has been a conspicuous factor 
 during the last seven years.
 
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 EDWARD B. BUTLER 
 
 HAVING occupation always at hand has been 
 the life-spirit of Mr. Butler. Since his 
 earliest days his life always has been busy. As 
 early as 1870 he was engaged with a wholesale 
 dry goods house in Boston, a training which led 
 to his eventually founding with his brother, 
 George H., the house of Butler Brothers at 
 Boston. Similar houses are now to be found in 
 Chicago, St. Louis and New York. They repre- 
 sent the industry of a merchant a title Mr. Butler 
 is proud of. During the World's Fair he was 
 chairman of the ways and means committee and 
 chairman of the department of admissions and 
 collections. The Illinois Manual Training School 
 Farm at Glenwood, Hull House, the Chicago 
 Orphan Asylum, Krring Woman's Refuge, First 
 State Fawners' Society, Rockford college and 
 Bureau of Associated Charities can all bear 
 splendid testimony to the time and means he has 
 given to their advancement. He is a member of 
 six clubs and fond of outdoor life.
 
 WILLIAM BEST 
 
 MR. BEST was born in the quaint old town of 
 Canterbury, England and educated there and 
 in the Chicago public schools. As far back as 1857 
 he was an office boy for John C. Partridge $, Co., 
 a firm in which, through industry, he was destined 
 to become a partner in a few years. When 
 Mr. Partridge died he reorganized the house into 
 the firm of Best, Russell iS> Co., and now known as 
 Best &, Russell, incorporated. His fellow citizens 
 frequently have honored him with public office - 
 South Town collector, South Park commissioner, 
 president and auditor of the South Park board. He 
 is a high degree Mason, a trustee of the Sixth 
 Presbyterian church and a member of half a dozen 
 of the leading clubs.
 
 JACOB R. CUSTER 
 
 HISTORIC Valley Forge was the birthplace of 
 Mr. Custer and his college life began at 
 Washington Hall, Trappe, Pa., and was extended 
 to Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, from which 
 he was graduated as an A. B. In 1869 he was 
 graduated from the Albany (N. Y.) Law School. 
 In the legal profession Mr. Custer's career has been 
 active and conspicuous. He is a master of chance- 
 ry and for years was a partner with the late William 
 J. Campbell. For eight years he was counsel to 
 the sheriff of Cook County and his sound judg- 
 ment and legal acumen were frequently called 
 upon to decide many knotty questions. Mr. Custer 
 is a member of the Union League Club and presi- 
 dent of the Calumet.
 
 THOMAS E. MITTEN 
 
 BORN and educated in England Mr. Mitten 
 came to the United States in 1880 and began 
 his railway career as a telegraph operator for the 
 Chicago C& Eastern Illinois railway. In his service 
 with that company he was successively agent, 
 train dispatcher, trainmaster and adjuster of claims, 
 so that he acquired a practical and invaluable 
 knowledge of all important transportation ques- 
 tions. To add to his varied experiences he acted 
 as general superintendent of a Denver railway, 
 was general manager of the Milwaukee Street 
 Railroad company and general superintendent of 
 the International Railway company of Buffalo, 
 advancing in 1905 to be first vice-president of the 
 Chicago City Railway company. He is essentially 
 a transportation expert.
 
 EDWIN A. POTTER 
 
 R. POTTER was born in the historic 
 town of Bath, Me. Until he was thirty 
 years old he was connected with his father's lum- 
 ber and ship-building business at Bath, but in 1872 
 he established in Chicago a branch of the china and 
 glassware house of A. French & Co., which later 
 was incorporated as the French & Potter company, 
 and discontinued in 1890. In 1889 Mr. Potter 
 became a member of the piano house of Lyon, 
 Potter & Co., which later retired from business on 
 the advancement of Mr. Potter to the presidency 
 of the American Trust and Savings bank. Mr. 
 Potter has been president of the Kenwood club 
 and is a leading financial authority on La Salle 
 street.
 
 WILLIAM L. BROWN 
 
 IN IRON ores and the market for pig iron Mr. 
 Brown is a leader of the highest recognized 
 authority. In 1859 he was a clerk for a Board of 
 Trade commission house and between 1862 and 
 1865 was fighting the battles of the Union in the 
 Vicksburg and other campaigns. The iron busi- 
 ness attracted him when he returned from the 
 war, and by 1883 he was able to organize the firm 
 of Pickands, Brown & Co., one of the largest in 
 the United States in the iron and iron ore trade. 
 The Chicago Shipbuilding company is one of his 
 children and he is president of the American Ship- 
 building company. Despite his intense business 
 occupation and the many varied corporations he 
 represents Mr. Brown has a host of clubs which 
 cordially welcome him the Chicago, Commercial, 
 Caxton, Tolleston, Glen View, Evanston, Evanston 
 Country, Castalia, Fishing and Mid-Day.
 
 JOHN S. FIELD 
 
 ICE and the many uses to which it can be put al- 
 ways has been the conspicuous part of the in- 
 dustry of Mr. Field. He is president of the Knicker- 
 bocker Ice company and of the Consumers company. 
 His business life began with the old ice firm of 
 Swett & Crouch, Chicago, as a solicitor. When 
 the business was purchased by E. A. Shedd C8. 
 Co., in 1879 he became a member of the firm, ad- 
 vancing to be vice-president and general manager 
 when it was incorporated as the Knickerbocker 
 Ice company. When this company in 1898 absorb- 
 ed thirty-five of the local ice companies he be- 
 came president. Mr. Field has been a trustee of 
 Plymouth church for six years and chairman of the 
 board three years. He is a director of the Glen- 
 wood school, the Charity Hospital and of the first 
 board of the Chicago Commons.
 
 CHARLES F. SPALDING 
 
 AFTER leaving school Mr. Spalding joined his 
 father in the Spalding Lumber company, 
 and learned the practical and financial side of the 
 lumber business at Cedar River, Michigan. His 
 advancement was rapid, due to his thorough 
 application to the work. He now is vice-president 
 of the Spalding Lumber company, a director in the 
 Hibernian bank, resident vice-president of the 
 American Surety company and a director in the 
 First National bank of Marinette.Wis., Menominee 
 River Lumber company, the Commercial National 
 bank of Chicago and the Commercial bank of Iron 
 Mountain, Michigan. Born in Chicago Mr. 
 Spalding acquired his early education through the 
 Harvard School of Chicago and Exeter Academy.
 
 WALTER S. BOGLE 
 
 IN knowledge of the coal business Mr. Bogle is a 
 leader. As a graduate of the Chicago High school 
 in 1868 he entered his father's coal business and 
 was for years manager of the Delaware and 
 Hudson Canal company. He now is president of 
 the Crescent Coal C8t> Mining company, of the W. S. 
 Bogle Coal CS, Mining company and a director 
 of the Fort Dearborn National Bank. For three 
 years he was a member of the West Park board, 
 president of the Iroquois for one year and five 
 years vice-president. In public affairs he always 
 has taken a prominent part figuring in many of the 
 leading municipal enterprises and always giving 
 his support to whatever would better Chicago.
 
 W. VERNON BOOTH 
 
 MR BOOTH, leaving college, entered into a 
 business his father established half a 
 century ago and now the largest enterprise of its 
 kind in the world. His executive ability touches 
 and controls great fish packing houses at Baltimore, 
 salmon canneries at Astoria, Oregon, steamship 
 lines, innumerable can factories, cold storage ware- 
 houses, fishing fleets, and the like, giving employ- 
 ment to more than 5,000 men. Aside from the 
 extensive time which Mr. Booth gives to his busi- 
 ness he is a hospitable host, one of the active and 
 brilliant figures of the Onwentsia and Saddle and 
 Cycle clubs, of the Chicago Yacht club, Athletic and 
 Chicago Golf. A fine horseman, a lover of fair 
 sport, he easily holds one of the highest social posi- 
 tions in the city.
 
 EDWARD P. RUSSELL 
 
 NEW ENGLAND gave Mr. Russell to the 
 West. He was a graduate of the Massa- 
 chusetts public schools but came West to win his 
 fortune and fame. The banking and brokerage 
 business received his favorable attention and his 
 natural abilities took him into the offices of 
 Edward L. Brewster 8, Co., in 1885. In the end 
 he became the senior member of Russell, Brewster 
 C8> Co. Following the line of his business activi- 
 ties Mr. Russell extended his influence to 
 becoming a member and director of the American 
 and British Securities company of London, and a 
 member of the Chicago Stock Exchange and the 
 Chicago Board of Trade. In club life he enjoys 
 the hospitalities of the Exmoor and Chicago, at 
 home, and of the Metropolitan, in New York.
 
 JAMES ELLIOTT JENNINGS 
 
 BORN in a little log cabin in Arkansas Mr. 
 Jennings has made his way upward through 
 the persistency and intelligence of his own efforts 
 He is an enthusiastic golfer and devotee of outdoor 
 sports and exercises, owning a 110 acre stock farm 
 and country home at Delavan, Wisconsin and 
 belonging to the Evanston Country, Evanston Golf 
 and Glen View clubs. While attaining success 
 Mr. Jennings' occupations have been multifarious. 
 He was manager of the Thayer Transfer company, 
 of Kansas City, a salesman of Browning, King & Co., 
 with Humphrey & Co., of St. Louis and then with 
 J. Grafton Parker & Co., in the real estate and 
 renting business. Mr. Jennings in the growth of 
 his business abilities has given his energies and 
 thought to the needs of the small investor; how to 
 make his capital profitable. He now is president 
 of the Jennings Real Estate Loan company.
 
 
 HENRY U. MUDGE 
 
 MR. MUDGE entered the railway service as a 
 water boy on track work with the Santa 
 Fe Railway system, since which time he has been 
 a telegraph operator, brakeman and baggageman, 
 conductor on freight, passenger and work trains, 
 train dispatcher, roadmaster, trainmaster, assist- 
 ant superintendent, superintendent and general 
 superintendent, general manager and now a second 
 vice-president the last position being held with 
 the Rock Island system. Having his headquarters 
 for years at Topeka, Mr. Mudge is known to every 
 farmer and cattleman, every mine owner and 
 builder of western towns from the Kaw river to 
 California. He made himself during his long serv- 
 ice with the Santa Fe one of the most popular 
 and practical railway men in the West, holding 
 through the years the confidence of every man 
 who knew him.
 
 WILLIAM W. TRACY 
 
 PARKS, banking, affairs of national politics and 
 the charms of a fine horse serve to make up 
 the daily life of Mr. Tracy, who is one of the 
 busiest bankers and brokers of Chicago's financial 
 center. As a graduate from two eminent Massa- 
 chusetts institutions of learning, in 1882 and 1886, 
 Mr. Tracy located at Springfield, 111., as a messenger 
 in the First National Bank, of which he consecu- 
 tively became corresponding clerk, teller, assistant 
 cashier and vice-president and of which he now is 
 a director. His banking business in Chicago began 
 in 1895. He served five years in the Fifth Regi- 
 ment, I. N. G., the governor's guard, has been 
 president of the National Republican League and of 
 the Republican League of Illinois, president of the 
 Lincoln Park board, and one of the leading club 
 members of the city, especially in Onwentsia.
 
 ALONZO C. MATHER 
 
 TNVENTOR and manufacturer are the titles 
 JL bestowed upon Mr. Mather. After leaving school 
 he was first employed at Utica, N. Y., then at 
 Quincy, 111., and in 1873 chose Chicago as his home. 
 He is the patentee of many inventions, including 
 a glove fastener, of which large quantities have been 
 sold. His leading inventions are the Mather 
 automatic car coupler, and a car for cattle trans- 
 portation, which greatly adds to the comfort and 
 condition of the cattle transported. For this he 
 received a gold medal from the American Humane 
 association. He is now president of the Mather 
 Humane Stock Transportation company and of the 
 Mather Stock Car company. In his early life he 
 was one of the first members of the First Regi- 
 ment, I. N. G.
 
 JOHN M. WHITMAN 
 
 MR. WHITMAN is of Scotch descent. He 
 has been since 1899 the 4th vice-president 
 of the Chicago & Northwestern railway. His first 
 work in the railway business was as a rodman in 
 the engineering department of the Illinois Central 
 road. Between 1858 and 1860 he was engaged as 
 a leveler in the work of enlarging the Erie canal, 
 going from that to the construction of railways in 
 Georgia. When the Union Stock Yards of Chicago 
 were designed in 1867 he was in charge of the con- 
 struction work and also in control of work at the 
 same period for the deepening of the Illinois and 
 Michigan canal. As early as 1883 he was superin- 
 tendent of the Iowa division of the Northwestern 
 and subsequently connected with the Chicago, St. 
 Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha system as general 
 superintendent. There hardly is a phase of prac- 
 tical railway life that Mr. Whitman has not ex- 
 perienced.
 
 SIDNEY C. LOVE 
 
 BISHOP WHIPPLE, one of the pioneer 
 prelates of Minnesota, and the head of the 
 Shattuck school, was the educator of Mr. Love, 
 who first entered into business in a bank of Keokuk, 
 Iowa, and left that to join the South Side Elevated 
 Railroad Company of Chicago. The banking and 
 brokerage firm of John C. King C& Company was 
 organized by him in 1897, but from which he 
 retired in 1900 to form the present firm of Sidney 
 C. Love CS, Co., with offices in this city, New York 
 and St. Louis. 'While Mr. Love gives close 
 attention to business he is fond of the outdoor life 
 and the pleasures of golf and the handling of spirit- 
 ed horses. He is known as one of the first drivers 
 and equestrians of the North Shore.
 
 THOMAS CRATTY 
 
 AS A member of the law firm of Cratty 
 Brothers, Jarvis C8!, Latimer, Mr. Cratty 
 has given long attention to technical law. He 
 was a member of the legal profession at Peoria as 
 early as 1869 and continued practice there with his 
 brother, Josiah, until 1884, when they removed to 
 Chicago and established themselves as authorities 
 on corporation law. In this particular branch he 
 has distinguished himself as an authority on the 
 particular questions of the organization of cor- 
 porations, the laws of the various states regarding 
 this, the rights of corporations and individuals, 
 and the relations between corporations and the 
 public on a legal basis. In this class of study and 
 practice he has won a high reputation.
 
 SILAS H. STRAWN 
 
 MR. STRAWN graduated from the Ottawa 
 High school in 1885, but before beginning 
 the active practice of law in which he has won his 
 success, taught school for two years. After read- 
 ing law in the office of Bull & Strawn at Ottawa 
 he came to Chicago in 1891 and attended the 
 University Extension lectures of the University of 
 Chicago for two years. Admitted to the bar in 
 1889 he first practiced at Ottawa and then con- 
 nected himself with Weigley, Bulkley & Gray, of 
 Chicago, and Iat2r with 'Winston C& Meagher, in 
 the latter firm eventually becoming a partner. He 
 is now of Winston, Payne C> Strawn, a director 
 in the Chicago Terminal railway company and 
 counsel of the East Chicago company. He is one 
 of the directors of the Midlothian Golf club.
 
 AMBROSE L. THOMAS 
 
 TN the world of making a thing known through 
 -L a telling advertisement Mr. Thomas has made 
 a reputation second to none. He is president and 
 director of the Lord C$t> Thomas company, also of 
 the Sterling Remedy company, vice-president and 
 director of the Orangeine Chemical company, and 
 director of the Metropolitan Trust & Savings Bank 
 and the Indiana Mineral Springs company. Mr. 
 Thomas believes in publicity for every meritor- 
 ious public ware. The science of advertising and 
 the business mechanism of a successful advertis- 
 ing house have been his favorite studies for years. 
 Through them he has risen to the top-notch of 
 success. Mr. Thomas has shunned public life 
 although he made an efficient and conscientious 
 south town collector at a time when a high sense 
 of honor counted for much in that office.
 
 WILLIAM H. LAKE 
 
 MR. LAKE was sixteen years old when he 
 entered the grain business in Chicago with 
 the old firm of Dwight CS!, Gillett. For eight years 
 he was with Bartlett, Frazier 8, Co., and later 
 organized the firm of Lake CS, Leask. He is now 
 the senior member of the firm of W. H. Lake &> 
 Co., and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, 
 Chicago Stock Exchange, Milwaukee Chamber of 
 Commerce and New York Produce Exchange. In 
 club life he connects with the Washington Park, 
 the Chicago Athletic, the Chicago Yacht and the 
 Glen View, being an enthusiastic golfer. On the 
 board he is known as one of the modern, pro- 
 gressive dealers and traders of high principles.
 
 JOHN S. MILLER 
 
 FEW who know him today would suspect that 
 Mr. Miller once was an able teacher of 
 mathematics and Latin and Greek in the old and 
 famous St. Lawrence University. Even after he 
 was admitted to the bar at Ogdensburg, New 
 York, in 1870, his educational work continued. He 
 did not relinquish it until 1874, when he removed 
 to Chicago and began the legal career which has 
 placed him in the foremost rank of the corporation 
 lawyers of the country. While corporation coun- 
 sel of Chicago (1891-93) Mr. Miller argued the case 
 of the city against the Illinois Central railway in 
 the Lake Front Park litigation and won. As a 
 member of the board of education he was con- 
 spicuous for his advocacy of methods of sim- 
 plicity. He has been president of the Union 
 League club and is one of the leaders in all civic 
 improvement work.
 
 ALBERT J. EARLING 
 
 IN 1906, Mr. Earling will have been forty years 
 in continuous service with the Chicago, Mil- 
 waukee CSt, St. Paul railway, a most remarkable 
 record. Born in Wisconsin and receiving a com- 
 mon school education, he entered the employ of the 
 road in 1866 and has been successively five years a 
 telegraph operator, five years a train dispatcher, 
 four years assistant superintendent, two years div- 
 ision superintendent, four years assistant general 
 manager, two years general superintendent, six 
 years general manager, three years second vice- 
 president and general manager, and six years presi- 
 dent. His name is synonymous with the growth 
 and development of the Milwaukee system of 
 which he has become an almost inseparable part.
 
 E. J. BRUNDAGE 
 
 WHILE employed in railway offices in Detroit 
 and Chicago during his youth Mr. Brundage 
 studied law in leisure moments, being admitted to 
 the Illinois bar in 1892 and graduating from the 
 Chicago College of Law with an LL. B. Born in 
 New York Mr. Brundage chose Chicago for his 
 home, became twice a member of the state legis- 
 lature and in 1904 was elected president of the 
 county board. He has been one of the inspiring 
 factors of the new county building, which he prom- 
 ises shall be not only a work of art but one of the 
 most practical public buildings ever erected in the 
 West. As a public official he is known as an 
 untiring worker a man of broad ideas and extreme 
 energy.
 
 JOHN A. DRAKE 
 
 LOVE of finely bred horses, fondness for out- 
 door sports and great capacity for taking on 
 important business enterprises have marked the 
 interesting life of Mr. Drake. While the greater 
 portion of his time is now given to his business 
 enterprises in New York, his name long has been 
 intimately associated with the life of Washington 
 Park club, Chicago, and the promotion of legiti- 
 mate and healthful gentleman's sport. Mr. Drake 
 takes to golf with great zest and is an extensive 
 traveler. Retiring from business some years ago 
 he took to racing through sheer admiration for a 
 spirited horse. As he has put it himself: "I never 
 had any idea of making any money out of it, and 
 no man who goes into racing for the sport of it 
 can make any money out of it."
 
 JOSEPH H. DEFREES 
 
 IN the development and application of corporation 
 law Mr. Defrees has given the best of three 
 decades or ever since he left Northwestern Uni- 
 versity. He was born at Goshen, Indiana, and 
 practiced at the Indiana bar until 1888 when he 
 came to Chicago and began legal life here in the 
 firm of Shuman &, Defrees; later of Aldrich, Payne 
 & Defrees and now Defrees, Brace & Ritter. Mr. 
 Defrees is a director of Kelly, Maus C& Co., the A. 
 H. Pierce Manufacturing company, the Chicago 
 Car Seal company ; president of the Windermere 
 company, and vice-president of the Western Con- 
 solidated Granite company. He is a member of 
 the Chicago Bar Association and of the Chicago 
 Law club and an active Republican.
 
 ERNEST W. HEATH 
 
 MONROE Heath, one of the early Mayors of 
 Chicago, was the father of Mr. Heath. The 
 former in 1851 had organized the Heath ca, Mil- 
 ligan company, paints and oils, and to this the son 
 went in 1874 becoming secretary and treasurer of 
 the Heath and Milligan Manufacturing company 
 when it was incorporated in 1881 and president 
 and manager of the company in 1894. Mr. Heath's 
 business and social career always has been identi- 
 fied with the growth of Chicago. He was born 
 and educated here, his ambitions have been grati- 
 fied here, and he has risen to the eminence of 
 being recognized as one of the leading conservative 
 figures in the city's commercial world.
 
 JOSEPH HARRIS 
 
 IN THE future of the automatic telephone Mr. 
 Harris has persistently pinned his faith. 
 When it was introduced into the departments of 
 the government during the Spanish-American war 
 of 1898 he said it had come to stay the telephone 
 that does away with the "hello girl." When the 
 imperial government of Germany adopted it for 
 use in Berlin and gave its orders to Chicago man- 
 ufacturers for the automatic switchboards, Mr. 
 Harris repeated his assertion. 'When he saw 
 10,000 of these automatic telephones in practical 
 use in Chicago, he declared that all his faith and 
 prophecies of the past had come true. Mr. Harris 
 was born and educated in Chicago and for years 
 was a salesman for a clothing house. When he 
 became interested in the automatic telephone, 
 Fortune smiled upon him.
 
 JOHN M. EWEN 
 
 COOK county's new, practical and artistic 
 public offices will be constructed under the 
 supervision of Mr. Ewen who is an engineer and 
 builder of national note. Receiving his education 
 at Russell's Military Academy, New Haven, and 
 Stevens Institute of Technology, he was with the 
 J. B. and J. M. Cornell Iron Works for three years, 
 with W. L. B. Jenney for one year; four years 
 engineer and general manager with Burnham C& 
 Root and ten years (four in London) with the 
 George A. Fuller company on building construc- 
 tion as vice-president, general manager and 
 western contracting agent. Since 1902 he has been 
 the vice-president and western representative 
 of the Thorn pson-Starrett company, of New 
 York, building contractors. He has been actively 
 identified with the erection of many of the high 
 office buildings of the United States.
 
 CHARLES W. GILLETT 
 
 SEEING business life first as a clerk and 
 traveling salesman Mr. Gillett became an 
 advertising manager and two years later formed 
 the Champion Iron and Steel Company, of 
 Muskegon, Michigan, which was subsequently sold 
 to the United States Steel corporation. Since that 
 time Mr. Gillett has given his virile energies to the 
 stock market and the promotion of the extensive 
 interests of the E. W. Gillett Company, manu- 
 facturers of baking powders and extracts. 'While 
 rising into prominence in the business world he 
 was an active member of the First Regiment, 
 Illinois National Guard, doing much to give that 
 regiment the enviable reputation it now bears. He 
 is prominently connected with the Union League 
 and Washington Park clubs and has his residence 
 in the beautiful Lake Forest region.
 
 CHARLES W. GILLETT 
 
 SEEING business life first as a clerk and 
 traveling salesman Mr. Gillett became an 
 advertising manager and two years later formed 
 the Champion Iron and Steel Company, of 
 Muskegon, Michigan, which was subsequently sold 
 to the United States Steel corporation. Since that 
 time Mr. Gillett has given his virile energies to the 
 stock market and the promotion of the extensive 
 interests of the E. W. Gillett Company, manu- 
 facturers of baking powders and extracts. While 
 rising into prominence in the business world he 
 was an active member of the First Regiment, 
 Illinois National Guard, doing much to give that 
 regiment the enviable reputation it now bears. He 
 is prominently connected with the Union League 
 and Washington Park clubs and has his residence 
 in the beautiful Lake Forest region.
 
 ALBERT B. DICK 
 
 AFTER a long experience with manufacturing 
 enterprises and the lumber trade, Mr. Dick, 
 as president of the company which he represents, 
 has given his entire attention to the manufacture 
 of the Edison mimeograph and Edison supplies. 
 Receiving his education in the Galesburg public 
 school he plunged actively into business with the 
 Brown agricultural implement manufacturers for a 
 number of years and then with the Deere & 
 Mansur company and the Moline Lumber company. 
 As far back as 1883 he organized and incorporated 
 the A. B. Dick company, dealers in lumber, and 
 manufacturers, and became a prominent figure 
 in the commercial life of Chicago. Mr. Dick makes 
 his home at Lake Forest and is a member of 
 several leading clubs.
 
 G. WATSON FRENCH 
 
 IT was in 1877 that Mr. French engaged as a 
 moulder with the Eagle Manufacturing com- 
 pany, of Davenport, Iowa, and so satisfactorily dis- 
 charged his duties that he eventually became presi- 
 dent of the company. He also is president of the 
 Bettendorf Metal Wheel company, a director of 
 the Republic Iron and Steel company and 
 chairman of its executive committee. He is vice- 
 president of the Annie Laurie Mining company. 
 He was born in Iowa and educated at Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, Mass. In club life, of which 
 he is fond, he is a member of the Midlothian, the 
 Chicago, the Calumet and Mid-Day. In the steel 
 industry he has won an enviable success.
 
 ALFRED STROMBERGU 
 
 IN electrical work, and a knowledge of the 
 science of electricity, Mr. Stromberg is a past 
 master. His education in this work began in 
 Sweden, extended to Norway and Denmark and 
 was completed in the United States. The intrica- 
 cies of the telephone he learned through L. M. 
 Ericsson, a noted European electrician, and this 
 lead him into an intimate connection with the Bell 
 Telephone company, of this country, and to 
 eventually making himsslf through the present 
 Stromberg-Carlson Telephone company, of Chicago, 
 a manufacturer of telephones. In this enterprise 
 he has acquired a national reputation, being rated 
 as one of the first telephone construction experts of 
 the country. In preparing technical papers on the 
 details of telephone designing he has won the front 
 rank.
 
 HENRY G. FOREMAN^ 
 
 MR. FOREMAN'S everlasting fame will rest 
 upon his determined efforts to give Chicago 
 an outer belt of parks and a complete outdoor 
 recreation system. While he has won fame for 
 himself as a real estate operator and public official, 
 president of the country board and a member of 
 the South Park board, his real fame will hinge 
 upon his battle for the Chicago beautiful. Mr. 
 Foreman was born in Chicago and received his 
 education here. He was one of the organizers of 
 the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Chicago Title & 
 Trust company and the Chicago Real Estate board. 
 A man of wealth and superior intelligence with his 
 multifarious private affairs he always has sought 
 to give much of himself to the betterment of his 
 native city.
 
 JOHN R. MORRON 
 
 MR. MORRON believes in Chicago, and before 
 the Merchants' club he has been a strong 
 advocate of the commercial possibilities of the 
 city. He is vice-president of the Diamond Glue 
 company and the Diamond Casein company; a 
 director of the National Bank of the Republic, of 
 the Schwarzschild C& Sulzberger Glue company 
 and the Audebert Wall Paper company. Despite 
 his many business activities, Mr. Morron finds 
 time to give himself to the duties and the social 
 life of the Chicago, Athletic, Mid-Day, Forty and 
 Midlothian clubs, and to take a conspicuous part 
 in the active municipal improvement work of the 
 Merchants' club. He is one of the stanch sup- 
 porters of the shibboleth: "Chicago the Central 
 Market."
 
 LAWRENCE A. YOUNG ^ 
 
 MR. YOUNG hails from the state where a fine 
 horse not only grows but is loved. He is a 
 Kentuckian by birth and when he removed to Chi- 
 cago in 1896 he brought with him the natural blue 
 grass affection for a thoroughbred. He is a graduate 
 of Princeton University and of the Louisville Law 
 School and a lawyer by profession. During Mayor 
 Carter Harrison II's first term he was assistant cor- 
 poration counsel and is now one of the directors of 
 the Chicago City railway company. As president 
 of the Washington Park club and the inspiring 
 genius of a number of successful American Derbies 
 he always has held a prominent position in the life 
 of the city. He also is president of the Western 
 Jockey club.
 
 JOHN T. CONNERY ^ 
 
 MR. CONNERY is one of the many examples 
 of successful Chicago business men who 
 began their careers at the bottom round of the 
 ladder of work. Although born in Rhode Island 
 he received his education in the Chicago public 
 schools and the Chicago Athenaeum and then 
 became a yard clerk with a coal firm. Three years 
 later he was cashier and book-keeper for the Silver 
 Creek Coal company and afterward its secretary. 
 In 1904 he was chosen president of the Miami 
 Coal company, an office he still retains. As a 
 society and club member he is connected with the 
 Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Columbus, the 
 Catholic Order of Foresters and the Chicago 
 Athletic club.
 
 SAMUEL Me ROBERTS ' 
 
 IN THE long and steady growth of the Armour 
 interests, the extension of the affairs of the 
 Armour house into a score or more of world -wide 
 industries, Mr. McRoberts has acted as the treas- 
 urer of the corporation, keeping a watchful eye 
 upon its finances and resources. A position of 
 this character in a house employing at times as 
 many as 30,000 men, having relations with every 
 important foreign government for food supplies, is 
 one of the utmost responsibility. Mr. McRoberts 
 in his discharge of the duties entailed upon him 
 for years has won the highest praise not only from 
 his superiors but all having business dealings with 
 the Armour house. He has grown into Armour's.
 
 JOHN W. EMBREE 
 
 ONE of Chicago's greatest industries, a com- 
 mercial development, which wrested laurels 
 from other cities, has been her lumber business. 
 She is now the center of the largest mixed lumber 
 trade in the world and one of the important char- 
 acters in bringing this about has been Mr. 
 Embree, who is secretary of the Rittenhouse CS, 
 Embree Lumber company. He has given wide 
 study to the lumber trade conditions of Chicago 
 and especially to her future sources of supply. 
 The gradually disappearing near-by markets of 
 production are disappearing while the demand on 
 Chicago for lumber, local and foreign, is steadily 
 increasing. This situation presents a difficult 
 problem to the lumber merchant, but one which 
 Mr. Embree appears to have solved in a remark- 
 able manner.
 
 WILLIAM A BIRK 
 
 /CHICAGO born, Mr. Birk has given his entire 
 ^X business career to Chicago enterprises and 
 the exploitation of the merits of the city itself. For 
 a number of years he was engaged in the grain 
 commission business on the Board of Trade and 
 after that was a member of the brewing firm of 
 Wacker C& Birk. In 1891 he organized the brew- 
 ing firm of Birk Brothers, of which he now is the 
 president. He is a member of Lincoln Park lodge 
 of Masons, a director of the Germania Mannerchor 
 and an active member of the Chicago Athletic and 
 Iroquois clubs. He has given his name and its 
 influence to many public enterprises and always 
 has been identified with progressive commercial 
 and municipal movements.
 
 WILLIAM WALLER 
 
 IN THE real estate and coal business Mr. Waller 
 has won a high reputation in Chicago's busi- 
 ness circles. He was born in Kentucky and 
 became a resident of Chicago when he was three 
 years old. On graduating from Rensselaer Poly- 
 technic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1879 he 
 became a member of the firm of Waller & Co., 
 real estate dealers. He also is president of the 
 Waller Coal company, a director of the Oliver 
 Typewriter company and of the Orangeine 
 Chemical company. In business life he always 
 has kept himself closely in touch with affairs of 
 the day and the matters which pertained to build- 
 ing Chicago for future greatness. He is a member 
 of the University, Athletic, Washington Park, 
 Saddle and Cycle, Onwentsia, Exmoor, Glen View 
 and Chicago Golf clubs.
 
 JOHN M. ROACH 
 
 FROM the position of street car conductor 
 to president and manager of the Chicago Con- 
 solidated Traction company has been the busi- 
 ness rise of Mr. Roach. He entered the employ 
 of the North Chicago Street railway company in 
 1872 and became assistant superintendent in 1887, 
 superintendent three years later and 2nd vice- 
 president and general manager in 1893. Since 
 1897 he has been vice-president and general man- 
 ager of the West Chicago Street railway company 
 and president of the Cicero C8> Proviso and Subur- 
 ban street railway companies during the same 
 time. There is no part of a street railway system 
 from its practical operation to its financiering to 
 which Mr. Roach has not given long and intelligent 
 study.
 
 ANDREW J. GRAHAM 
 
 IF Mr. Graham no longer lived on the 'West Side 
 or continued his banking business there that 
 section of the city would hardly seem the same. 
 He is a marked entity of that part of Chicago. He 
 was born in this city and at fourteen began his 
 business career as a boy in the furniture store of 
 John M. Smyth. After some years in this employ- 
 ment he established with his father the present 
 banking house of Graham 8, Sons. Gov. Altgeld 
 honored him in 1893 when he was appointed a 
 member of the West Park board. To him as much 
 as to any one else has been due the rapid develop- 
 ment of the beauties of the West Park system 
 during the last twelve years.
 
 ROBERT W. HUNT 
 
 CAPT. HUNT is the leading metallurgical 
 engineer of the West. His life's work began 
 in a rolling mill at Potts ville, Pa., in a practical 
 way, learning puddling, heating, rolling and the 
 other technical portions of the molder's business. 
 Analytical chemistry received his attention for a 
 number of years and in fact until he entered the 
 army in defense of the Union. He served from 
 1861 to 1865 and then represented the Cambria 
 Iron Works in Michigan. Since 1888 he has been 
 the senior member of the firm of Robert W. Hunt 
 & Co., consulting engineers, iron inspectors, etc., 
 with offices in Chicago, New York and London. 
 Capt. Hunt has written many papers on the 
 metallurgy and manufacture of steel and is a 
 member of a number of prominent scientific 
 societies.
 
 LOUIS MOHR 
 
 6 7l/fR MOHR, like his brother, who is asso- 
 Q^X r JL ciated with him in business, has made 
 a life study of the mechanical science of construct- 
 ing boilers and those mechanisms which go with 
 the development and control of steam in industrial 
 work. The Mohr name now is known throughout 
 the nation as a synonym for sterling productions, 
 this being largely due to the patience and skill the 
 father and the sons succeeding him have put to 
 the work before them. The Mohrs have created 
 a typical Chicago institution, not to be separated 
 under any circumstances from any graphic history 
 of the foundations on which the business fame of 
 the city has risen.
 
 JOSEPH MOHR 
 
 TV/TANUFACTURING enterprises have marked 
 A.YA the successful business career of Mr. Mohr. 
 He was born in Chicago in 1855 and educated in 
 the public schools, from which so many notable 
 men have come. His apprenticeship in work 
 began with the Excelsior Iron Works in 1870 as a 
 boilermaker and he was foreman of his own 
 department by 1877. Resigning in 1882 he joined 
 with his father in forming the boiler manufacturing 
 business of John Mohr and Son which was 
 incorporated in 1892 as John Mohr and Sons. Mr. 
 Mohr held the position of general manager and 
 treasurer until 1903 when, upon the death of his 
 father, he became president and treasurer. He is 
 a prominent member of the Chicago Athletic club 
 and of the Chicago Engineers.
 
 W. J. CALHOUN 
 
 FROM labor on a farm to arbiter of the fate of 
 nations this is the epitome of the career 
 of Mr. Calhoun, who was chosen by President 
 Roosevelt to make an examination of the condition 
 of affairs in Venezuela. For President McKinley he 
 performed a similar service in Cuba, before the out- 
 break of the Spanish-American War. At the same 
 time he established the record that he was not an 
 office-seeker. 'When he became an Interstate 
 Commerce commissioner in 1898 it was on the 
 direct solicitation of the president himself that he 
 accepted. His life work began upon an Ohio farm, 
 but he began the study of law at the same time 
 the then Major McKinley did. Later, he served in 
 the Union forces in the civil war and ten years after 
 the war ended was admitted to the bar of Illinois 
 at Danville. From that time on his advance was 
 rapid. After two years' service on the Interstate 
 Commerce commission he resumed the practice of 
 law in Chicago with Pam, Calhoun C& Glennon.
 
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 HIRAM R. McCuLLOUGH 
 
 AS third vice-president of the Chicago CS, North- 
 western railway and with a wide railway 
 experience Mr. McCullough is one of the best 
 known traffic managers of the country. His early 
 experiences began in the general freight offices of 
 the Illinois Central company, he leaving that road 
 to connect himself with the the Northwestern in 
 1882 and rising rapidly on the official staff of that 
 corporation year by year. The practical side of 
 traffic management always has appealed to Mr. 
 McCullough and he has made it a life-long study 
 to the enhancement of his own fame and the 
 reputation of the system he serves. His home in 
 Lake Forest is one of the leading social circles of 
 the beautiful North Shore.
 
 ISRAEL P. RUMSEY 
 
 WHEN President Lincoln called for troops 
 in 1861 Mr. Rumsey, then only twenty- 
 five years old was one of the first Chicagoans to 
 respond. He assisted in organizing Taylor's 
 Chicago Battery, and became junior second lieu- 
 tenant of Company B., of the 1st Illinois Light 
 Artillery. Before the war ended he was a captain. 
 Since 1864, with the exception of two years, he has 
 been in the grain commission line, representing one 
 of the largest receiving houses on the board. In 
 reform politics he always has been active, espec- 
 ially in the work for high license and the 
 suppression of the sale of liquor to minors and 
 drunkards. He is a trustee of the Presbyterian 
 League and was chairman of the finance committee 
 that raised the funds for building the Grace and 
 Sixth Presbyterian churches. Socially and finan- 
 cially he holds a pre-eminent position in Chicago.
 
 DARIUS MILLER 
 
 three years in the start of his railway 
 career Mr. Miller was a stenographer in the 
 general freight offices of the Michigan Central 
 railway. Then he started on the gamut of rail- 
 way work that leads into the financing and 
 operating of great transportation properties. He 
 served so well in subordinate positions through 
 the West and South that by 1890 he was traffic 
 manager of the Queen and Crescent route and in 
 1896 vice-president of the Missouri, Kansas C&, 
 Texas railway. He was elected to the first vice- 
 presidency of the Chicago, Burlington CS, Quincy 
 system and accepted the office January 1, 1903. 
 Mr. Miller is one of the most popular and public- 
 spirited railway officials of the Northwest, a strong 
 executive and close in touch with public needs.
 
 FRANKLIN H. HEAD 
 
 FAMOUS Dr. North, of Hamilton college, had 
 much to do with the early education of Mr. 
 Head. The latter was a graduate from Hamilton 
 in 1846 and left college to enter on a manufactur- 
 ing and banking business. While he practiced law 
 in Kenosha as early as 1858 and was in business 
 on the cattle ranches of Utah for more than four 
 years, his natural inclinations to greater financial 
 enterprises brought him to Chicago where he has 
 been intimately connected with the Continental 
 Casualty company, the Fay-Sholes company, 
 Street's Western Stable Car line and other enter- 
 prises. He is honored as well as a literateur 
 through his works on "Shakespeare's Insomnia and 
 the Causes Thereof, " "A Notable Lawsuit," etc. 
 In 1901 he received the decoration of a Chevalier 
 of the Legion of Honor of France.
 
 FREDERIC W. UPHAM 
 
 THE genial president of Cook county's Board 
 of Review has led an active business life. 
 Leaving college in 1880 he connected himself with 
 the Upham Manufacturing company, of which his 
 uncle, 'William H. Upham, afterward governor of 
 Wisconsin, was president. Removing to Chicago 
 in 1894 he organized the Fred W. Upham Lumber 
 company, of which he is still the president. He is 
 president of the Busse-Reynolds Coal company 
 and the Wisconsin Oak Lumber company; vice- 
 president of the Peabody Coal company and Paw- 
 nee railway company and director in a number of 
 other corporations. In politics he is one of the 
 leading Republicans of the city, sitting in the 
 national Republican convention of 1892, alderman 
 from the twenty-second ward in 1898 and now 
 president of the Board of Review since 1899.
 
 WALTER H. WILSON 
 
 MR. WILSON is an authority on Chicago real 
 estate and has been for the last seventeen 
 years. He was born in Massachusetts and fitted 
 himself for Harvard College at a preparatory public 
 school but gave up his studies for business in 1873. 
 He entered the wholesale crockery and glassware 
 house of Abram French C&, Co., Boston, advancing 
 from a minor to a responsible position and in 1879, 
 when the firm established a branch house in 
 Chicago, he was made a partner. His interest was 
 disposed of in 1888 when he engaged in the real 
 estate business and later in banking. He is a 
 governing member of the Art Institute, vice-pres- 
 ident of the Western Trust CS, Savings Bank and 
 of the Chicago Union Traction company. He has 
 taken a conspicuous part in the developement of 
 the purposes of the Chicago Commercial 
 Association.
 
 HENRY C. LYTTON 
 
 /^O-OPERATION has been the spirit of the 
 ^^ business career of Mr. Lytton. He mastered 
 the understanding of it through his own long 
 experience in reaching a culmination in " The Hub." 
 At fourteen he graduated from the public schools 
 of New York into the College of New York and 
 then entered business life as an entry clerk in a 
 wholesale business house. Between eighteen and 
 twenty-one he was bookkeeper for a retail store. 
 For fifteen years afterward he was a merchant in 
 Grand Rapids, Michigan, leaving that field to 
 establish the corporation of which he is now the 
 president. Sympathetic questions of the relations 
 of employer to employe and of a business man to 
 the community in which he lives have always 
 entered into Mr. Lytton's life. Part of his annual 
 profits as a merchant he divides with his clerks. 
 Part of his daily life is given to the interests of the 
 Chicago Historical Society and the Art Institute.
 
 NOBLE B. JUDAH 
 
 OLD VINCENNES with its memories of 
 "Sweet Alice" and the many important 
 events of the past that occurred there was the 
 birthplace of Mr. Judah and he left it to complete 
 his education at the Indiana State University and 
 Brown University, being graduated from the latter 
 in 1872. His law studies were prosecuted in 
 Chicago and in the law department of the University 
 of Michigan, and on their completion he entered 
 on the active practice of the law in Chicago. In 
 the city council he served the city with great 
 intelligence for a number of years and in legal 
 circles he long since won permanent recognition of 
 his abilities as a master of jurisprudence.
 
 PAUL BROWN 
 
 T TlSTORIC McHenry county was the birth- 
 JL JL place of Mr. Brown, a son of Dr. Henry T. 
 Brown, a noted physician of the early Illinois 
 days. Mr. Brown was educated in the common 
 and high schools of McHenry county and began 
 his effective study of the law in Chicago in the 
 office of Hoyne, Horton & Hoyne. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1885 and a few months 
 later was appointed master in chancery of the 
 Circuit court of Cook county, an office which he 
 held until 1893. In 1889 he joined Clarence A. 
 Knight in the firm of Knight & Brown and since 
 1903 has been one of the firm of Horton C&> Brown. 
 He is a member of the Union League and 
 Hamilton clubs and has his residence at Glencoe.
 
 ORRIN W. POTTER 
 
 MR. POTTER taught himself in higher math- 
 ematics and civil engineering in his boyhood 
 life in New York State. He was born in 1836 and 
 removed to Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1856, where 
 he clerked in a rolling mill. One year afterward 
 he was connected with Ward's rolling mill in 
 Chicago and when it was incorporated in 1865 as 
 the Chicago Rolling Mill company he became its 
 secretary and general superintendent. In 1871 the 
 corporation was changed to the North Chicago 
 Rolling Mill company, of which Mr. Potter was 
 the president for over twenty -five years. When 
 it was consolidated with the Illinois Steel 
 company he retired. In the iron and steel indust- 
 rial development of Chicago Mr. Potter was one of 
 the leaders.
 
 MASON B. STARRING 
 
 HEREDITY has its influence in determining 
 the careers of the sons of men. Mr. Starring 
 is the son of a prominent railway man of the early 
 days who devised the American system of checking 
 baggage. The former after the death of his father 
 perfected the system and then turned to the law 
 as his chosen profession. Of Illinois birth and after 
 being admitted to the bar he became assistant 
 general counsel under Julius S. Grinnell, then of the 
 Chicago City Railway Company. Upon the death 
 of Mr. Grinnell he became general solicitor of the 
 company and in 1 904 was made general manager 
 of the corporation which controls the surface 
 transportation of the South Side of Chicago. From 
 the law Mr. Starring has by force of environment 
 passed into the active field of surface transpor- 
 tation electrical and cable until he has made 
 himself a recognized authority on the subject 
 throughout the nation.
 
 ALBERT E. ZIEHME 
 
 ENGAGING in the mercantile business when 
 22 years old, at Kensett, Iowa, Mr. Ziehme in 
 1891, became a traveling salesman for a wholesale 
 jewelry house and, coming to Chicago in 1895, 
 organized the jewelry firm of A. E. Ziehme S> Co. 
 In the growth of his affairs and his intimate con- 
 nection with the financial circles of Chicago Mr. 
 Ziehme has become president and director of the 
 Ravenswood Exchange bank, a director of the 
 Western Trust <3& Savings Bank, president and 
 director of the Western Telephone Manufacturing 
 company, and trustee of the Ravenswood Metho- 
 dist Episcopal church as well as a life member 
 of the Hamilton club.
 
 HENRY A. BLAIR 
 
 THE father of Mr. Blair founded the Merchants 
 National Bank, of Chicago, and it was there in 
 1871 that the son began his business career. He 
 was vice-president until 1902 when the bank 
 consolidated with the Corn Exchange National 
 bank. He is a receiver and director of the North 
 Chicago Street Railway Company and of the West 
 Chicago Street Railway Company; and a director 
 of the Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock 
 Company, of the Elgin National Watch Company, 
 the West Division Railway Company and the 
 Chicago Edison Company. Mr. Blair has given 
 much of his life to the upbuilding of Chicago and 
 the furtherance of civic movements that would 
 advance the government of the municipality.
 
 JOHN F. STEVENS 
 
 THE Panama canal probably will be the 
 monument which perpetually will stand to 
 the honor of Mr. Stevens. He now is the chief 
 engineer of that stupendous work and was selected 
 by President Roosevelt on the merit of his past 
 achievements. Of Maine origin his entire life has 
 been given to railway construction work the 
 details and methods of building for endurance. In 
 his progress he has been assistant city engineer of 
 Minneapolis, chief engineer of the Sabine Pass C& 
 Northwestern railway work, an engineer with the 
 Denver &> Rio Grande and the Milwaukee system 
 and served with the Canadian Pacific, the Great 
 Northern and the Rock Island systems until he 
 became second vice -president of the latter road. In 
 practical building work he ranks with the first 
 engineers of the country and his prompt accept- 
 ance of the Panama canal work marks his ability 
 to complete it.
 
 JOHN A. ROSE 
 
 AS A lawyer and street railway official Mr. 
 Rose has won a wide and enviable reputa- 
 tion in Chicago. He was born in 'Will county and 
 was graduated from Northwestern University in 
 in 1882 with the degree of LL. B. Admitted to 
 the Illinois bar in 1882, he began his practice in 
 Chicago the same year. In 1895 he became gen- 
 eral attorney for the North Chicago Street railway 
 company and the West Chicago company. In 
 four years more he was president and director of 
 the Chicago West Division railway company, the 
 Chicago Passenger Railway company, the West 
 Chicago Railway Tunnel company, the North 
 Chicago City Railway company, and director of 
 the Chicago Consolidated Traction company. He 
 is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of 
 Apollo Commandery, Knights Templar. He also 
 is a prominent Mystic Shriner and a member of 
 the Union League club.
 
 RUDOLPH ORTMANN 
 
 MANUFACTURING has been the ambition 
 of Mr. Ortmann and he successfully has 
 prosecuted work along that line for twenty years. 
 He was born in Vienna but educated in the public 
 schools of Saginaw and Detroit, completing a 
 thorough course in the Polytechnikum, of Vienna. 
 He afterward entered the employ of the Market 
 bank of Detroit as a messenger and in 1884 went 
 to Duluth to represent large timber interests. In 
 1887 he connected himself with the Ajax Forge 
 company of Chicago and is now vice-president of 
 the concern. He also is first vice-president of the 
 Griffin 'Wheel company, a director of the American 
 Trading and Storage company and of the Sellers 
 Manufacturing company. He is prominent in the 
 life of the clubs of Chicago, Kansas City, St. Paul 
 and Detroit.
 
 FRED A BUSSE 
 
 FORMER Treasurer of Illinois, Mr. Busse, as a 
 Chicago product, has steadily risen in life. 
 Engaged in the hardware business with his father 
 for years he finally opened a coal establishment 
 being secretary and treasurer of the Northwestern 
 Coal company and later president of the Busse- 
 Reynolds Coal company which was succeeded by 
 the Busse Coal company, of which he is the head. 
 Mr. Busse always has been a Republican and active 
 in politics. He has been town clerk of North 
 Chicago one term; four years in the sheriff's office 
 and after that chief clerk in the North Town collect- 
 or's office. He was elected to the House of Rep- 
 resentatives in the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
 General Assemblies and in 1898 was chosen for 
 the state Senate. He was elected state treasurer 
 in 1902. He is a member of the state Republican 
 committee.
 
 CHARLES H. THORNE 
 
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 i career. He is the treasurer and director 
 of Montgomery Ward CS, Co., and one of the great 
 factors in the direction of the business of a world- 
 famous mail order house. Aside from his deter- 
 mination in undertaking any project Mr. Thorne is 
 noted for his advocacy of and adherency to a 
 system. This may explain why his firm, through 
 thoroughness and attention to the most minute 
 details, has acquired a reputation that extends 
 through China and Japan, into every agricultural 
 section of the United States and Canada, south to 
 the Argentine and Chile, east into all divisions of 
 Europe. Mr. Thorne has a winter residence at 
 Thomasville, Georgia.
 
 HOMER H. PETERS 
 
 GRAIN and all that may be produced from it 
 has been the active work of Mr. Peters. His 
 business career was begun in the grain office of 
 Alexander Lewis & Co., of Detroit. Later he was 
 employed by Gilet & Hall of the same city; and in 
 1889 was invited by Bartlett, Frazier <$, Co., who 
 were just opening their Chicago offices, to join with 
 them, which he did, continuing in business with 
 that firm until his voluntary retirement, January 
 1st, 1903. He is vice-president of the First 
 National Bank of San Diego, California, president 
 of the Buffalo, Dunkirk &, Western railway, presi- 
 dent of the Crescent Oil, Asphalt fSt, Gas company 
 and a director of the San Diego-Eastern railway and 
 of the Pacific Steel company. In recreation he is 
 extremely fond of yachting and a conspicuous 
 member of the Chicago Yacht and the San Diego 
 Yacht and Corinthian Yacht clubs of the Pacific 
 coast.
 
 JACOB NEWMAN 
 
 ALTHOUGH Germany was his birthplace 
 Mr. Newman came to the United States 
 with his parents when he was four years old and 
 began life on an Ohio farm. From there he 
 removed to Noblesville, Indiana, having in mind 
 that he would some day be a lawyer of repute. 
 After working at various callings there he came to 
 Chicago in 1867, saving his money, attending the 
 University of Chicago, and working out of school 
 hours. Leaving college he became associated 
 with Judge Graham in the firm of Graham CS, 
 Newman, a partnership which continued until 
 Judge Graham removed to the West. He after- 
 ward was for eight years with Adolph Moses 
 and now is the senior of Newman, Northup, 
 Levinson & Becker. He is an active member of 
 both the Union League and the Standard clubs.
 
 HERMAN PAEPCKE 
 
 T TERMAN PAEPCKE is a lumberman. As 
 A. A. a member of the Paepcke-Licht Lumber 
 company he has brought to market the wood of 
 which scores of mid-western towns are built, 
 His saw mills are at work in half a dozen southern 
 states and the employes of his firm are numbered 
 by the hundred. For his recreation Mr. Paepcke 
 draws heavily upon the golf links and old Colonel 
 Bogie never fails to meet the drafts. The colonel 
 thinks that lumbermen are pretty good people 
 anyhow, because they clear so much ground for 
 future putting greens. At his Glencoe residence 
 Mr. Paepcke spends the summer, and in winter he 
 is a familiar figure at the Chicago Athletic Asso- 
 ciation, the Mid-day and the Germania clubs. He 
 lives at Pearson Street and the Lake Shore Drive.
 
 JOHN FINDLEY WALLACE 
 
 MR. WALLACE is one of the foremost civil 
 engineers of the world. Connected with the 
 Civil Engineers organization of Great Britain he 
 is also past president of the American Society of 
 Civil Engineers, of the American Railway 
 Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association 
 and of the Western Society of Civil Engineers. 
 His practical engineering work began as a rodman 
 on the line of the Carthage & Quincy railway. 
 His advancement during thirty years of active 
 work was rapid. From 1901 to 1904 he was 
 general manager of the Illinois Central railway 
 and in 1904 was appointed chief engineer of the 
 Panama Canal, a position which he resigned in 
 1905 to return to active work in this country. In 
 private life Mr. Wallace is fond of golf and the 
 recreations of outdoors.
 
 W. A. LYDON 
 
 AS A contractor and a master of dredges Mr. 
 Lydon has won his fame. He understands 
 all the difficulties and dangers in scooping out the 
 bed of a river, widening a stream, creating a 
 harbor, overcoming a sand bank or blowing up a 
 reef. Of the Chicago river and the harbors of 
 Lake Michigan he is the expert master in keeping 
 them to navigable depths, safe for all kinds of 
 shipping. His firm is known over the entire Great 
 Lakes district as that of Lydon &, Drews. His 
 monster dredging apparatuses are visible where - 
 ever a channel is to be created. All of the 
 important work required by the United States 
 government to bring the Chicago river to its legal 
 navigable depth has been performed under the 
 direction of Mr. Lydon.
 
 A. B. SCULLY 
 
 THE Scully family has been of noted reputation 
 in Chicago for two or more decades as 
 workers in steel and iron the product of the 
 Scully Steel and Iron company, of which Mr. 
 Scully is the chief. The mysteries of metallurgy 
 always have attracted Mr. Scully, and as he has 
 solved them he has given the benefit of his dis- 
 coveries to the world. He always has shown a 
 scientific interest in the relative values of tensile 
 strengths and the application of these to mechan- 
 ical forms to be used in commercial and manufac- 
 turing plants. His occupation, to Mr. Scully, is 
 not only a profit-making work but one in which 
 the ancient methods of Tubal Cain still may be 
 profitably followed the knowing the wherefore 
 and whyfore of the molding and shaping of iron 
 and steel.
 
 FRANCIS J. DEWES 
 
 THE father of Mr. Dewes was a member of 
 the first German Parliament held at Frank- 
 fort in 1848. He himself graduated from Real- 
 schule, Cologne, in 1861. In 1868 he came direct 
 from Germany to Chicago and was immediately 
 employed by the Rehm & Bartholomae company 
 as a bookkeeper. He was so capable in the dis- 
 charge of his duties that he became a stockholder 
 within two years and nine years later was able to 
 establish the F. J. Dewes Brewery company, now 
 the Standard Brewery company, of which he is 
 president. His interest in the developement of 
 Chicago's artistic attractions was manifested 
 through his gift of the statue of Alexander Von 
 Humboldt to Humboldt Park. In the affairs of the 
 German-American citizens of Chicago and the 
 welfare of newcomers from the Fatherland he has 
 always been conspicuous.
 
 MARSHALL E. SAMPSELL 
 
 MR. SAMPSELL was appointed clerk of the 
 Circuit Court of the United States for the 
 Northern District of Illinois in 1902 and still holds 
 that important office. He also is one of the re- 
 ceivers of the Chicago Union Traction company 
 and of the North and West Chicago Street railway 
 companies. He was born in Texas in 1874 and 
 educated in the University of Chicago and the 
 Chicago College of Law, graduating from the latter 
 with the degree of LL., B. Traction questions have 
 interested him for a number of years past and he 
 has given their solution long and valuable study. 
 In politics he is a Republican and a member of the 
 Union League, Hamilton, Washington Park and 
 Exmoor clubs, having his residence in Highland 
 Park.
 
 ALBERT G. WHEELER 
 
 THE produce transportation business in New 
 York City gave Mr. Wheeler his first inspira- 
 tion on the proper disposal of surface freight in the 
 great cities. Leaving this work he became 
 interested in the construction of new telegraph 
 lines, building railways and development of new 
 enterprises including the underground electric trac- 
 tion systems of Washington and New York, the 
 introduction of automatic switchboards for tele- 
 phone service and the building of the tunnels under 
 the streets of Chicago to be used as a transfer system 
 for freight and as a terminal for steam railroads. 
 He is president and director of the Illinois Tunnel 
 company, the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph 
 company, the Illinois Telephone Construction com- 
 pany, and a director of the Automatic Electric 
 company, and interested in many other corpora- 
 tions.
 
 WILLIAM GRACE 
 
 MR. GRACE has scattered monuments to his 
 reputation all over Chicago. Huge piles 
 like the Lake Shore station and other structures 
 rise on every hand to bear testimony to his ability 
 as a builder. Since early life Mr. Grace has been 
 engaged in contracting construction work on the 
 motto "That a thing to be done at all must be 
 well done." Thoroughness has marked all the 
 great enterprises he has undertaken. Foundation 
 work, one of the most difficult problems a Chicago 
 builder confronts, is sanely understood by him, 
 and once he has laid his base, the superstructure 
 follows harmonious with the whole. He is 
 acknowledged throughout the West to be one 
 of the ablest and most modern contractors in 
 the field.
 
 GEORGE W. JACKSON 
 
 BORING tunnels, conquering the interior of the 
 earth and making it useful to man, has been 
 the life work of Mr. Jackson. He is ranked to-day 
 as one of the first subway engineers in the United 
 States. Educated in Chicago and Oxford, England, 
 his engineering and contracting work began in 
 1882. He bored the Strickler Tunnel through 
 Pike's Peak; gave Reading, Pa., its subway; built 
 the pneumatic tube system for the Associated 
 Press in Chicago; established the Wentworth 
 avenue drainage system and built about 90 per 
 cent of the underground system in this city of the 
 Chicago Telephone company, Postal Telegraph 
 company and Western Union company. He has 
 been the engineer and contractor for the entire 
 subway system of the Illinois Telephone company 
 and consulting engineer for Chicago's local trans- 
 portation committee in its study of the traction 
 problem and high pressure system.
 
 FRANK J. LOESCH 
 
 RAILWAY, telegraph and corporation law have 
 been made special studies in the legal life of 
 Mr. Loesch. He is now counsel at Chicago for the 
 Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg; general coun- 
 sel for the Western Division of the same system; 
 and counsel for the Postal Telegraph-Cable comp- 
 any. Mr. Loesch was born in New York and 
 graduated in law from Union College of Law with 
 the degree of LL., B. He was admitted to the 
 Illinois bar in 1874. He is the senior member of 
 the law firm of Loesch Bros. 35, Howell. In 1898 
 he was appointed a member of the city's board of 
 education and re-appointed for a second term after 
 having given splendid service in support of the 
 public school system. He is a member of the 
 Illinois and the Chicago bar associations.
 
 GEORGE R. PECK 
 
 MAKING his own life busy and radiating the 
 sunshine of good humor has been the career 
 of Mr. Peck. His middle name is " Record " and he 
 has been making it good since his birth in New 
 York in 1843. He is twice an LL.D., once an A.M. 
 and a past master of wit and natural oratory. In 
 the civil war he began as a private and rose to a 
 captaincy. He practiced law in Wisconsin and 
 became United States attorney general for the dis- 
 trict of Kansas. He was general solicitor for the 
 Santa Fe system, refused to become a United States 
 senator for Kansas to fill an unexpired term, came 
 to Chicago in 1893 and for ten years has been the 
 general counsel of the Chicago, Milwaukee &, St. 
 Paul Railway. As a raconteur and after-dinner 
 speaker he has few equals in the country. As a 
 friend he is unrivaled.
 
 JAMES FRANCIS MEAGHER 
 
 WHEN George C. Campbell was general 
 solicitor for the Chicago, Rock Island C&, 
 Pacific railway Mr. Meagher entered his service 
 as an office boy and advanced from that position to 
 be stenographer for the law firm of Lawrence, 
 Winston, Campbell C& Lawrence. Through his 
 early years and while engaged in the most laborious 
 work he gave his spare hours to study of the law 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1881. Five years 
 later with Frederick S. Winston he organized the 
 firm of Winston &, Meagher, which later became 
 Sears, Meagher &, Whitney. Mr. Meagher was 
 born in Brooklyn but received his education in 
 Chicago. He is conspicuous in the circles of 
 eminent corporation lawyers.
 
 JAMES B. MCMAHON 
 
 AS VICE-PRESIDENT of the N. K. Fairbank 
 company and director of the American 
 Cotton Oil company, Mr. McMahon has won 
 enviable success in the business world. Retiring 
 in disposition but genial in nature, he has given the 
 best of his life to the building up and extension in 
 influence of the vast businesss interests intrusted 
 to his care. He is a member of the Chicago, the 
 Calumet, the Washington Park and Chicago 
 Athletic clubs, but devotes the greater part of his 
 time to the financial affairs in his controL During 
 his life in Chicago Mr. McMahon has done much 
 toward furthering the commercial development of 
 its manufacturing interests.
 
 JULIUS W. BUTLER 
 
 T\ /TR. BUTLER'S career as a paper merchant 
 LV.L has been one of the most interesting of any 
 of Chicago's leading men. When he was 13 years 
 old and living in Vermont he was apprenticed to a 
 harness and trunk maker at Hinesburg, to remain 
 until his majority, at a remuneration of $30 a year 
 and three months' schooling each year. At 18 he 
 had become expert at his trade and made a set of 
 carriage harness and trunk, both of which took first 
 prize at the state fair. At 20 in consideration of 
 exceptional services he was given a year of his 
 time and came to Illinois, entering the employ of his 
 brother who had a paper mill at St. Charles. He 
 established a paper warehouse in Chicago about 
 1855 and incorporated the J. W. Butler Paper 
 company in 1872. He is president of this company 
 and also president of the Standard Paper company, 
 of Milwaukee. Mr. Butler was born in 1828.
 
 WILLIAM B. BIDDLE 
 
 FROM the position of brakeman to the impor- 
 tant duties of third vice-president of a great 
 railway corporation has been the life advance of 
 Mr. Biddle. He is one of the sons of the Middle 
 West who has made good wherever he was put. 
 Born in Wisconsin he began work in the least 
 important position a train operator can hold, 
 advancing to a station master's title and then to 
 the office of assistant freight agent with the 
 Santa Fe system. In the end he became freight 
 traffic manager to be promoted eventually to the 
 Rock Island system, where he still is prominently 
 identified. He is ranked as one of the most 
 practical traffic managers in the West and an 
 authority on all freight movements.
 
 WILLIAM J. BRYSON 
 
 CIVIL engineering attracted Mr. Bryson from 
 his earliest days and until 1900 when he retired 
 from the service of the Chicago 8> Alton railway as 
 assistant engineer he gave it the best of himself. 
 He began the practice of civil engineering in 1865 
 in the employ of the United States government on 
 fortification work at Washington, D. C., and in 
 1867 was engaged on municipal work for the city 
 of Chicago. When this was completed he was for 
 seven years again with the government on work in 
 Chicago, Appleton, Wis., and Oshkosh. He then 
 was appointed assistant engineer of the Alton 
 system. He is a director of James B. Clow & Sons 
 and of the Joliet CBt, Chicago railway company.
 
 JOHN V. CLARKE 
 
 LIKE most of the prominent bankers of Chicago, 
 Mr. Clark started his financial education at 
 the bottom. Chicago-born and educated at St. 
 Ignatius college he entered the Hibernian bank in 
 1880 as a messenger and for fidelity to duty was 
 promoted step by step until on the death of his 
 father in 1892 he became president of the insti- 
 tution. His metal was tried when he successfully 
 carried the bank through the panic of 1893-95 
 bringing it to new financial strength and promi- 
 nence. His father, John V. Clark, was the founder 
 in 1867 of the Merchants Association which two 
 years later became the Hibernian Banking Asso- 
 ciation. In social circles of the North Side, where 
 he resides, Mr. Clark is one of the leading factors.
 
 FRANK BAACKES 
 
 MR. BAACKES is the general sales agent of 
 the American Steel and Wire company. 
 He was born in Germany and spent a year in the 
 works of the wire nail mills at Oberbilk-Dusseldorf 
 before coming to Cleveland, where he joined his 
 brother at the H. P. Nail Co.'s works. He was 
 superintendent of this plant by 1881. His exten- 
 sive experiments led him to the invention of what 
 is now known as the Standard Wire nail, which 
 has grown rapidly in popular favor. After his 
 organization of the Salem Wire Nail company it 
 was absorbed by the American Steel and Wire 
 company and he became the general sales agent, 
 a director and vice-president of the latter. He 
 has a delightful summer home at Baackes Lodge, 
 Lake Content, Eagle river, Wisconsin.
 
 E. H. PETERS 
 
 WHEN E. H. Peters, of Peters, Fetzer C& 
 Co. is not engaged with any of his num- 
 erous real estate and other business affairs he 
 never is at loss to find a place to put in a few hours 
 of rest down town. He is a member of the 
 Chicago Athletic Association, the new Illinois 
 Athletic Club, the Chicago Yacht Club and the 
 Hamilton club. Near his home at Jackson bou- 
 levard and Central Park avenue there is the 
 Illinois Club of which he also is a member. In the 
 rear of Mr. Peters' residence, overlooking Garfield 
 Park, is an ample stable and there, if he has a 
 fad, it may be found in his horses. While Mr. 
 Peters was raised in New York and has spent the 
 greater part of his life in Chicago he has a breadth 
 of shoulder and strength of arm that any country- 
 man might be proud of.
 
 GILBERT B. SHAW 
 
 FOR Mr. Shaw the tall pines and the hard 
 maples have always called. Although much 
 of his life has been given to financiering his earliest 
 and best memories are of the days when his work 
 lay with the great lumber rafts of the Mississippi. 
 It was shortly before the Chicago fire that he came 
 to this city and became a book-keeper and later 
 engaged in the lumber business in Kankakee. This 
 developed into a retail lumber business in Kansas 
 that eventually controlled sixty yards. In 1878 
 the G. B. Shaw Lumber Company owned seventy- 
 five retail yards. During his career Mr. Shaw has 
 been vice-president of the Metropolitan National 
 Bank and president of the American Trust and 
 Savings Bank. He is still a director in both 
 institutions and vice-president of the E. E. Naugle 
 Tie Company.
 
 ALBERT J. HOPKINS 
 
 TX7HERE the Fox river flows by Aurora 
 V V United States Senator Hopkins has made 
 his home and his successful legal and political 
 career for thirty-five years. Although born in 
 De Kalb county, his public career has been insep- 
 arable from that of Kane county, where he first 
 became a state's attorney in 1872. Identifying 
 himself strongly with the Republican party he 
 became a presidential elector in 1884 and a mem- 
 ber of congress from 1885 until his election to the 
 national senate. In the successful practice of the 
 law and in national affairs at Washington he 
 always has been recognized as a conservative. 
 He was born in 1846, and since the beginning of 
 his public career has been recognized as one of 
 the strongest state characters in furthering the 
 material and governmental development of Illinois.
 
 GEORGE HOOPER TAYLOR 
 
 GEORGE HOOPER TAYLOR, who for 
 twenty years has been associated with the 
 banking and bond house of E. H. Rollins 8, Sons, 
 is an enthusiastic automobilist. He is a native ot 
 Maine, having been born at South Norridgewick. 
 His early business career was in the direction of 
 railroad construction. He had charge of the 
 construction of some of the more important 
 bridges on the line of the New York Central rail- 
 road and later was one of the contractors who 
 built the Colorado Midland road. He is vice- 
 president of E. H. Rollins &. Sons and general 
 manager of the Chicago office. It has been his 
 custom for years to spend his winters in California.
 
 THEODORE OEHNE 
 
 MR. OEHNE is vice-president of the Conrad 
 Seipp Brewing company. In his long 
 business career in Chicago he has concerned him- 
 self largely with the welfare and the social and 
 personal development of the German-American 
 population of the city. Liberal in views, a per- 
 sistent student of the financial conditions of the 
 city, interested in all progressive movements that 
 might extend the sphere of influence of the munici- 
 pality, Mr. Oehne has brought to himself the 
 sincere respect and admiration of all who have 
 known him. High political honors frequently 
 have been offered him, but he has preferred the 
 security and comfort of private and business life.
 
 HENRY M. BYLLESBY 
 
 IN the early days of the electric lighting of New 
 Jersey, Mr. Byllesby was associated with 
 Thomas A. Edison and has been identified with 
 many movements and advances in electrical 
 enterprises. Receiving his early education 
 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., he has 
 given all his after years to the science of electrical 
 engineering. He now is president of the Mans- 
 field, Ohio, Light and Power company, the Mans- 
 field and Shirley railway company and Granite City 
 Electric company, vice-president of the Zanesville 
 Railway Light and Power company, Fort Smith, 
 Arkansas, Traction and Light company, Oklahoma 
 Gas and Electric company, and president of H. M. 
 Byllesby $, Co. He is a member of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers and of the American 
 Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
 
 JESSE A. BALDWIN 
 
 THE year he was admitted to the bar (1877), 
 Mr. Baldwin became assistant United States 
 attorney and held that office seven years, resigning 
 to enter private practice. He never has sought po- 
 litical honors but when the nomination, unasked, 
 came to him from the Republican party in 1903 for 
 Circuit Court judge of Cook County he came with- 
 in 298 votes of election, a total vote of nearly 260, 
 000 having been cast. He is a foremost citizen of 
 Oak Park, having been town attorney, president of 
 the board of education and trustee of the Library 
 Institute. He also is trustee of the University of 
 Chicago, Rush Medical College, member of the 
 American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar 
 Association and the Chicago Patent Law Associ- 
 ation. In clubs he associates with the Union 
 League, Hamilton, City and Chicago.
 
 JOHN F. SMULSKI 
 
 MR SMULSKI'S ambitions always have 
 vibrated between use of the pen as an 
 editor and study of the statutes as a lawyer. His 
 final choice has been the law, but he still looks back 
 with pleasure to the days when editorial rooms held 
 him. He was born in Poland and educated in the 
 schools of Germany and the United States. After 
 his education was completed he engaged 
 for five years in the newspaper and publishing 
 business with his father who established in 
 1869 the first Polish newspaper in the United States. 
 He has been three times an alderman and twice 
 city attorney by popular vote. In American as 
 well as local Polish circles he is extremely popular 
 and highly respected.
 
 ALVIN C. McCoRD 
 
 "PRINCETON University is the Alma Mater of 
 -t^ Mr. McCord and after he left her famous halls 
 he took a year's course in law at the University of 
 Minnesota. When free from study he entered 
 upon the manufacturing business as vice-president 
 of the Drexel Supply Company, railway supplies, 
 and eventually became president and a director of 
 the company. He also is president and a director 
 of McCord C8, Co., and president of the Western 
 Steel Car C& Foundry Company. To his business 
 activity and ingenuity the railway companies of the 
 country owe much. Socially his interests lie with 
 the Chicago, University, Union League and Glen 
 View Clubs, of Chicago, and the Princeton, of 
 New York.
 
 WILLIAM H. DAMSELL 
 
 IN 1864 Mr. Damsell became a messenger for 
 the Adams Express company and five years 
 later was a route agent. Twenty-six years after 
 that he became a member of the board of managers 
 of the company and in 1903 vice-president. Before 
 his entering on express work Mr. Damsell served 
 in the civil war with the Third Ohio regiment but 
 aside from this the last forty years of his life have 
 been given to the practical study of the express 
 business. He has made himself a master of the 
 transportation science and is so recognized East 
 and West. When he forgets business Mr. Damsell 
 gives his time to his charming home circle on the 
 Sheridan Road, Evanston.
 
 DANIEL WILLARD 
 
 MR. WILLARD has been one of the railway 
 builders of the nation. Now second vice- 
 president of the Chicago, Burlington 8. Quincy 
 company, he entered railway life in 1879 in the 
 track department of the Central Vermont railway, 
 and the same year was employed by the Passump- 
 sic railway as a locomotive fireman. He remained 
 with that company four years as fireman and 
 engineer, leaving to become a locomotive engineer 
 with the Lake Shore system. On the Minneapolis 
 CS, Sault Ste. Marie system he served fourteen 
 years as conductor, engineer, trainmaster and 
 superintendent, leaving that company in 1899 to 
 become assistant general superintendent of the 
 Baltimore &, Ohio company. A year after he was 
 assistant to the president of the Erie railroad, then 
 third vice-president, first vice-president and gener- 
 al manager, positions which he resigned to take his 
 present high office.