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 Contents. 
 
 Biographical Sketch 
 
 Proceedings of Public Bodies: 
 
 '   City Council 30 
 
 County Board 32 
 
 Bar Association 33 
 
 Appellate Court " 
 
 Iroquois Club •. 5?' 
 
 Chicago Historical Society .' 78 
 
 Public Library 81 v 
 
 Union College of Law 83 
 
 Faculty of the College of Law -84 
 
 ' Cniversitv of Chicago '. 85 
 
 Astronomical Society ._...^.^.i 87 
 
 Hahnemann Medical College • 88 
 
 Calumet Club .' 88 
 
 Memori.\l Sketch by Prof. Swing , J.. 89 
 
 Letters of Condqi.ence: • -. .   . 
 
 • Moses B. ISLaclay .\... 93 
 
 William F. Vilas 9.1 
 
 E. B. Washbuine .■....., 97 
 
 John Wentworth ..;. 97 
 
 ^- H. W. Blodgett , .;..?   98 
 
 Samuel M. Moore '. 99 
 
 Lambert Tree.. 100 
 
 Perry H. Smith ^ 101 
 
 S. M. CuUom :,.:.... 103 
 
 Memorial Service: 
 
 - • Discourse by Rev. Dr. Burroughs '. '. 103' 
 
 Address of Rev. Dr. Lorimer .....:..„. 123 
 
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 ^T IS LITTLE that written or spoken memorials 
 can do to preserve or reflect the traits of so 
 strong and original a character as the late Thomas 
 ' Sm Hoyne. More than most men, Mr. Hoyne was, •:"■' .. , ■• 
 * in all things, characterized by a strong and strik- -• . 
 
 J ing individuality. It was an individuality that per- \' ••■■ 
 
 vaded his entire character; it gave "form and . . 
 
 pressure" to his thought; it inspired his words, often of .' - / • 
 wonderful eloquence, and transformed his action and .■ .' ' 
 .'presence. Except in the memory of those who have- - i ^^jj^S 
 been personal witnesses of it, and have experienced its ■; . ; ' . 
 spell, that individuality has forever vanished. Death has ■" . , •: r 
 done his work too surely to allow arty power to snatch .-. ' 1 .; ; 
 back from its grasp- the noble gifts v^hich it has con-   . • /■. 
 
 signed forever to the silence of the tomb. But not all " '. 
 
 that made up the life of our lamented friend has death ■.-;:■■.;' 
 thus extinguished. He '■'■ rests, fr-om his labors, but his ■'■■■ 
 works do follozu him.''' The principles that he advocated, •, ' - .';V., 
 the deeds that he wrought, live after him. Incorporated ,'',■"■ .- .■; 
 into the life of the state, the municipality, the nation,- '.;   '. ,^,\ 
 they will continue to be vital and fruitful through sue- *■'■ .'-. ' 
 ceeding generations. '•;'';' ! / ^ '■.'•■ J'-'.-; 
 
 The addresses and memorial notices called forth by his J . ,. '; 
 deatli, which are brought together in the following pageSj 
 present a very full and able review of Mr. Hoyne's char-   •' . : 
 
 acter•^and life work. From the different standpoints of ..' .- 
 
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dirterent professions, men who had known him long and 
 intimately have placed in varying lights different phases 
 of his character and the salient events of his career. 
 No higher evidence of the exalted place which he held 
 in public confidence and affection was possible than these 
 spontaneous tributes in which men so well qualified to 
 speak, gave utterance, not only to their own, but to the 
 universal sentiment of the community in which he passed 
 his life. With little to add to what is contained in those 
 tributes, and at the risk of seeming only to repeat what 
 had been better said, it is still thought best that a con- 
 nected outline of Mr. Hoyne's life should here be given. 
 
 Thomas Hoyne was born in the city of New York, on 
 the 1 ith day of February, A. D. 1817. His parents had 
 emigrated to this country, from Ireland, two jears pre- 
 viously. His father died in 1829, and his mother the year 
 foUowinif. Thomas was the elder of seven children. He 
 attended St. Peter's school, in New York, till the death 
 of his parents made it necessary for him to work for his 
 own livelihood. He was therefore apprenticed in 1830 
 to a manufacturer of fancy goods. He remained in this 
 position for four or five years, during ail of wliicli time hi.s 
 strong desire to tit himself for something higher, and a 
 natural taste for books, led him to devote ever}' spare 
 moment to mental improvement. lie marked out for 
 himself a course of study in those branches in which he 
 thought he was most deficient, and applied himself with 
 patience and energy to the task, the accomplishment of 
 which he then felt to be necessary to his future success in 
 life. In this he was^ncouraged b}- the' kindl}' interest of 
 the late Rev. Archibald Maclay and his^Jaffiilh-, whose 
 friendship and sympath}' in this time of need he never 
 'torgot, and to the last loved to refer to with expressions 
 
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 of gratitude. Writing in June, 1882, to Mr. Robert fi 
 
 Maclay, of New York, on the occasion of the death of ;i ' ., 
 the late Hon. Wm. B. Mdclay, Mr. Hoyne referred to ' j^ 
 
 this early friendship as follows: ..• 
 
 "Among the njany early, and most of them distinguished, 
 associates of my early life, I know of no one to whom I was . ;   . -; ••' 
 personally more indebted for that friendship which assisted my 
 
 fortunes at their greatest need than to your highly distinguished ,'fl- 
 uncle, the late Hon. William B. Maclay. He first encouraged ^ 
 my dearest youthful aspirations to study the law as a profession-.- 
 He aided me also in the acquirement of an education which I 
 lacked, and he always tendcred'me a cordial, kind and 'generous .• ., 
 support. ' 
 
 "You knmy, .perhaps, . that at a veryearlj age I was left an . . 
 orphan in New York, destitute of resources. I had no means 
 whatever, and I had no family of friends to whom I 'could look 
 for a support Qr dependeiice. In other words, my future depended • 
 
 upon any unknown qualifications I might be found to develop, 
 if I ever found my place in life, by entering upon some career -.   ;. 
 of usefulness. Having never been trained in any regular school, 
 and having therefore attained to no ]jlace of education, 1 had 
 before me the stupendous undertakingito qualify my.self to enter , 
 upon the study of a profession, such as-the law, without a defi- . 
 
   nite hope 6f success. A happy train of coincidences (not neces- ,; 
 sary to relate) threw me into the society of your uncle William, 
 his brother Moses, still living, and your fatjier, the late Robert 
 
 . Maclay; and I found a home under their father's roof. Your . '; 
 grandfather (Rev. Dr. Archibald Maclay) waskriownand revered i ' 
 throughout the United States before Chicago had a municipal '   
 beginning or name, as one of the most eminent Baptist divines, 
 as well as learned expositors of the Bible. He lived on East 
 Broadway in 1835, when I was in the family for a period of two . 
 years, and up to the time I left New York to try my fortunes in 
 Chicago. During those two years I enjoyed the friendship and • 
 intimacy of the large and intelligent family that, as yoii know, 
 at that time comprised the Maclay household Among thAi I 
 
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was, enabled to cultivate, througn their intercourse, the rneans 
 that obtained me some knowledge of the classics, and the rudi- 
 
 ' ments of a sound English education. And upon that knowledge 
 I afterwards qualified myself in yhicago to enter the legal pro- 
 
 . fession in 1839." • . ]. 
 
 : While yet an apprentice his thirst for knowledge led 
 
 him to join a " literary association," which at that time 
 included in its list of members a company of poor young 
 men and boys who were afterwards known to fame as 
 Judge George Manierre, Horace Greeley, Judge Charles 
 P. Daly, Hon. W. B. Maclay and Moses B. Maclay. An 
 association with such minds could not but be of great 
 benefit, and it was in their company that Mr. Hoyne laid 
 the foundation of his power as a speaker, and saw open- 
 ing before him an honqrable life career. He boldly 
 decided to prepare for the bar. To this end he attended 
 night school, studied Latin, Greek and the English 
 branches, and faithfully applied himself to the task of de- 
 veloping his mental powers to a fitness for the profession 
 he had in view. His apprenticeship ended in 1835, and 
 he then entered a jobbing house on a salary sufficient to 
 enable him to pursue his studies. 
 
 In 1836 Mr. Ho\'ne formally began his career by en- 
 tering the office of the late Judge Brinkerhoft", of New 
 York. He remained there till late in the summer of 
 1837, when he left New York for what was then the " Far 
 West," and at the end of a month's journey landed at the 
 
   almost unknown city of Chicago. In an address deliv- 
 ered before the Chicago Bar Association on the evening 
 of February loth, 1881, entitled, " The Lawyer as a Pi- 
 onee^r," he thus graphically describes his arrival: 
 
 '" I left New York City while a student at law, on the i ith day 
 orAugust, 1837, and 1 reached Chicago on the nth day of Sep- 
 
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 tember. One month was consumed on the way, witho^t^BAkifn? ■* 
 
 any unnecessary delay at any point except at Detroit, wijg^f)» 
 took passage on tlie brig jf^ohn H. Kinzie, which landed 
 after a two week's tempestuous passage, at one of the two only 
 docks then ujwn the Chicago River I 
 
 "These docks were on the north side, immediately adjoin- 
 ing the site of the present Rush Street bridge. Here was 
 then the great tavern or hotel known as the Lake House, just 
 erected. There was also to be seen the tower of St. James Epis- 
 copal church — then the only brick meeting house in Chicago. 
 Just previous to the great fire, you might have seen the same 
 tower covered over with commercial signs — -advertising flour and 
 provisions — not that heavenly food for whose dispensation it was 
 originally built. At that day, all the fashionable storea, the 
 leading society people, and the handsomest dwelling-houses, 
 were on the north side. It indeed strongly insisted upon being 
 the main ^ide and future City. 
 
 "But 'I did not stay long on that side. Chicago River was 
 crossed at Dearborn Street by the only bridge, with a draw 
 raised by chains and a crank ; and to that bridge I hurried ujwn 
 that September afternoon. My objective point was the Chicago 
 ,ttourt house, or clerk's office, where I was to find the earliest 
 friend and companion of my boyhood, the late George Manierre, 
 who was then deputy of the Circuit court clerk, Col. Hamilton. 
 We had parted in sorrow from each other, two years betbre, at a 
 dock in New York. As I sped on my way, on foot, with satchel 
 in hand, along the high, rank grass of streets newly opened, I 
 was fain to observe the length of the streets laid out without 
 either sidewalk or house. I stood upon that antique bridge. I 
 looked toward the junction of the streams, up to what is now 
 West-Water street, and for the first time, caught glimpses of that 
 mighty land — ' the far-off West' of my imagination — it had gilded 
 my dreams of the future, and bfaunded every possibility of my 
 life. I stood upon that antique bridge, and recalled Byron's 
 Bridge of Sighs, but instead of ' a prison and a palace,' here was 
 a bridge with a past and future upon each hand. 
 
 " All along these level banks and beyond these river shores 
 
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 >-hone the brightest of skies, b3nding down upon those unten- 
 anted fields — wild in their vastness and glory — the same as they 
 had appeared to human eyes for thousands of years ! Here was 
 the dreamland of the poet Bryant ! and here those prairies he 
 had enshrined forever in immortal song. Here was the Garden 
 City: — 
 
 "These arc the gardens of the desert — • ' ^ 
 
 These the unshorn fields,   j " 
 
 Where lingers yet the beauty of the earth ' 
 
 'Ere man had sinned. 
 
 I bclield them lor the first, and my lieart swelled \ 
 
 While the dilated sight took in the encircling vastness I j 
 
 Lo! they stretch in airy undulations far away, 
 As if Ocean, in her gentlest swell, stood still 
 With all her rounded billows fixed and motionless forever! ' 
 
 •' I reached that corner of Randolph and Clark streets — the 
 open field, or court-house scjuare ! which appeared like an out- 
 lying forty-acre tract of this day in some addition or suburb. 
 .\nd here stood boldly out the columned Greek portico of the 
 court-house, or clerk's office, clear pine and white lead, in class- 
 ical outline. It was as near a sketch of the Parthenon at Athens 
 as a boy's sketch in charcoal would resemble an original. The 
 main front faced upon Clark street. Its broad stairways and 
 double doors led up into a long room, fifty feet wide. Here 
 was my old friend, George Manierre, deputy derk, alone among 
 the papers and records of the clerk's office, of which he seemed 
 sole custodian. We had a joyous meeting." 
 
 On his arrival in Chicago Mr. Hoyne at once found 
 cmplo\'ment in the Circuit court clerk's office with his 
 \oung yet old friend, Judge Manierre, at the munificent 
 salar\' of ten doUars per week, which stood to him in place^,^-" 
 of a fortune. Here he found time to pursue his study of 
 the law, and opportunities for becoming acquainted with 
 its practical workings. How well he improved these 
 opportunities is shown bj' his subsequent career. There 
 was little in the Chicago of that early day to distract the 
 
attention of a mind bent on stud}'. Isolated as they were 
 from the rest of the world, iis residents were thrown 
 upon their own resources for entertainment and instruc- 
 tion.' But some of them were men of abilit}-, education, 
 and even genius. These leading minds had formed a 
 literary society, with which Mr. Hoyne soon connected 
 himself,, and ere long his voice was often heard in their 
 discussions; liis genial manner, evident sincerity, and the 
 mental vigor that found expression in his speeches, win- 
 ning for him a high place in the esteem of his fellow 
 members. In the year 1838 he taught a public school, 
 one of the first organized in Chicago. But an experience 
 of four months sutliced to convince him that nature had 
 not intended him for that vocation, and he retired. His 
 name still stands out, however, in prominent as well as 
 permanent identification witii the educational interests of 
 Chicago, the "Thomas Iloyne" public school, on Illinois 
 street, having been named in his honor. Leaving the 
 school room in 1838, he resumed his legal studies, enter- 
 ing the office of Hon. J. Young Scammon, with whom he 
 formed a friendship that continued unbroken till the end 
 of his life. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and com- 
 menced the practice of his chosen profession. 
 
 Mr. Iloyne had brought with him a letter from his 
 friend, Rev. Archibald Maclay, to Dr. John T. Temple, 
 one of the pioneers of Chicago. He was received with 
 great cordiality, and became a frequent visitor at the 
 Temple home, a two-story frame house, built by Dr. 
 Temple, on Lake street, near FrankHn, which, in those 
 early days, ranked as an elegant mansion. Dr. Temple 
 was a highly educated and accomplished gentleman, who 
 came from Washington in 1S33 to tr\' the invigorating 
 air of the frontier on impaired health. Bringing with him 
 
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 a moderate capital, he entered into contract with the gov- 
 ernment to carry the United States mails from Chicago to 
 Springfield, and afterwards was largelj' interested in con- 
 tracts in the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne's acquaintance with Dr. Temple's family 
 ripened into a permanent relation by his marriage to 
 Leonora, the eldest daughter, on September 17, 1840, a 
 relation to which he was ever wont to refer as the found- 
 ation of what was happiest in his life, and a chief factor 
 in the success to which he attained. 
 
 In 1840 Mr. Hoyne was elected on the democratic 
 ticket as city clerk. The salary of the office at that time 
 was only four hundred dollars, per j-ear, but in those 
 primitive days this was a sum sufficient for a comfortable 
 family living. The expenses of living then were very 
 small, as compared with the necessaries of life to-day. 
 The products of the farm were brought b}' ihe farmers 
 themselves to the doors of the people in the oft-described 
 " prairie schooner," and the vendors were only too glad 
 to dispose of their wares at prfces that would suffice to 
 supply very modest wants at'home. 'There were then no 
 middlemen to take a large share of the profits, and no 
 railroads to carry away the surplus supply to an eastern 
 HTarket. The Chicago citizen of that day was perforce 
 simple in his habits. He could not be extravagant if he 
 would, as what are now regarded as the luxuries of life 
 could not be obtained at any price, and the same was true 
 of not a few things which are looked upon as necessaries 
 to civilized existence in the present day. Nevertheless the 
 people were happy. The experience of those early set- 
 tlers, as since related by themselves, shows that they 
 understood the philosophy which was voiced by an 
 English poet, who wrote: j 
 
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 " 'Tis not in titles nor in rank,   ' . 
 
 'Tis not in wealth in London bank, 
   j " . To ease the soul's unrest. ' , 
 
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 And centre in the breast, s . ; 
 
 We may be wise, or rich or great, .^v • 
 
 Bui never can be blest." . " • .". y.   
 
 In 1 84 1, Mr. Hoyne, as city clerk, wrote the memorial 
 which was presented to Congress, asking for increased 
 appropriations for the improvement of the Chicago har- 
 bor, a document which is full of interest, giving in brief a 
 picture of the commercial importance of the cit}% and the 
 business distress which prevailed here, in the first few 
 years that followed the municipal organization. The dis- 
 tress he then so graphically portrayed seems to have dis- 
 couraged him, as in the fall of 1842 he removed to 
 Galena, whose mining enterprises were then attracting 
 many seekers after fortune, and promised to make it the 
 great city of the west. After a two years' trial, however, 
 he returned to Chicago, and never thenceforth swerved 
 in allegiance to the cit}' of his earlier adoption. The ne.\t 
 two 3ears of his life present no incidents that call for 
 special mention here. During 1847-48-49 he held the 
 office of probate justice of the peace, but the duties of the 
 office did not interfere with the practice of his profession, 
 the probate business of the count}- being then so small 
 that all the records and papers were kept in a few pigeon- 
 holes in an ordinary desk. In 1853 he received from 
 President Pierce an appointment to the office of United 
 States District Attorney for Illinois, and in 1859 ^^^ made 
 United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illi- 
 nois, in place jof a defaulting incumbent. The last named 
 appointment was made without the knowledge or consent 
 of Mr. Hoyne, and it was at the personal request of 
 
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 Judge Drummond that he was induced to accept the 
 office for the unexpired term and assume the task of 
 bringing order out of the confusion which his predecessor 
 had left behind. As marshal he superintended the taking 
 of the census of i860 in the Northern district of the state. 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Hoyne grew with the growth of the 
 city. While yet a young attorney he was recognized as 
 a man of intense earnestness and unbending will. What- 
 ever he assumed to do, l)e did with all his might. In 
 those days the interests involved in litigations were not 
 often large, in a pecuniary sense, and the practice was 
 necessarily a general one, there being no specialties. 
 Every lawyer was ready and glad to devote his attention 
 to criminal, patent or admiralty cases. The criminal prac- 
 tice was very different then from what it is to-daj'. In 
 that branch the rising j'oung men of the profession in 
 Chicago saw their best opportunity to attain distinction, 
 and in that arena were made the brilliant displaj's of 
 oratory which attracted tlie attention of the people. Mr. 
 Hoyne took his full share of the practice, and his reputa- 
 tion as a successful criminal lawyer extended through the 
 state. His forcible style of speaking, and the animation 
 of his whole figure, his emphatic gestui^e and flashing 
 eyes carried with them the conviction of earnestness and 
 sincerit}- on the part of the orator — a conviction always 
 potent with the jury as well as with the popular audience. 
 But as the population of the city increased, the criminal 
 practice gradually look on new phases that were not 
 agreeable with his methods as a lawj'er, or his sense of 
 right, and he left that field to others, preferring to devote 
 his attention to a business involving important questions 
 of commercial and real estate law. But his power as an 
 advocate did not diminish, and he never yielded his place 
 
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 in the front rank of orators. His jjreat strength, how- 
 ever, lay in that complete mastery of a case which is 
 generally achieved at tlie desk, and by a survey of the 
 authorities whose wisdom is found crystallized in the 
 volumes of the law library. In the latter part of his life 
 his energies were devoted to work of much more than 
 temporary interest, the value of which is least understood 
 by the world outside, but is recognized by the profession 
 as the most valuable and enduring part of a lawyer's life 
 work. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne always took a deep interest in the politics 
 of his country. He read much and thought much on all 
 the great questions that were discussed in his time, and 
 was one of the few men who, through a long life, are true 
 to their principles and consistent in their conduct. First 
 of all, he was a tiioroughlj- patriotic American citizen. 
 The good of his country was the foundation stone upon 
 which he built, and he advocated those principles and 
 measures that he believed to be for her best interests. 
 He was an earnest advocate of the Mexican war; but on 
 the passage of the Wilmot proviso, prohibiting the exten- 
 sion of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, he 
 became what was then known as a •' free soiler," and 
 supported Van Buren and Adams on the Bufi'alo platform 
 in the presidential campaign of 1848. He was a presi- 
 dential elector on the ticket, and was the leading advocate 
 of it during that campaign, especiallj^ in the northern half 
 of Illinois. As chairman of a committee appointed for 
 that purpose, he had previously read at a mass meeting 
 an able address to the people on the issues of the day, 
 which was widely circulated. In that address he pro- 
 tested, in bold and outspoken language, against the further 
 encroachments of human slavery, appealing to the demo- 
 
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 tratic masses of the States with all his earnestness and 
 power of argument. The attitude which he then assumed 
 on this great national issue he maintained consistently to 
 the last. At the same time when, in 1857, the Kansas- 
 Nebraska bill and the bill for the abolition of the Missouri 
 compromise were brought forward bv Mr. Douglas, he 
 ■became an earnest advocate of those measures, holding in 
 common with many able anti-slavery men, that the effect 
 would be to restrict instead of e.xtending the domain of 
 slavery. In the campaign of 1856, he took an active part, 
 traveling throu<fh the northern counties of Illinois and 
 making ringing speeches in favor of the democratic cause, 
 often speaking in company with Douglas, who was hisin- 
 limate friend. It was during this campaign that his fame 
 «s a political orator reached its zenith, and he rose to 
 national recognition as one of the leaders of his part}'. 
 
 The breaking out of the war of the rebellion found Mr. 
 Hoyne in exact accord with his friend Douglas in regard 
 to the duty of a citizen in that crisis. The question was 
 for or against the constitution and the old flag, not as be- 
 tween republicans and democrats, and he felt it to be his 
 duty to join with other good citizens in sustaining the 
 government. He responded to the call in all sincerity, 
 and no man in Chicago was more earnest or more ener- 
 getic in the effort to arouse public sentiment to a deter- 
 mination that the Union must be preserved, and direct 
 the popular opinion towards the ignoring of minor mat- 
 ters when great issues were at stake. ' As a prominent 
 and influential democrat, he was invited to address the 
 people at mass meetings, and in company with the other 
 leading men of his party he urged all good citizens, with- 
 out distinction of political creed, to sustain the govern- 
 ment and assist in the prosecution of the war. The value 
 
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 of his services at that critical time was recognized and 
 appreciated by his fellow citizens. He was appointed a 
 member of the Union Defense Committee, and wrote the 
 well known appeal which was addressed by that body to 
 the people of the State. He was on the committee that 
 visited President Lincoln to urge a campaign down the 
 Mississippi in 1862. He was unswerving in his advocacy 
 of the cause of the Union till the perpetuity of that 
 Union was established by the surrender of the Southern 
 armies. During the whole of that long, dark period of 
 civil war, every emanation from his pen, and every word 
 from his mouth, had the unmistakable ring of patriotism and 
 loyalty to the government. It is but justice to his memor\' 
 that this fact should be emphasized; as a few 3'ears after- 
 wards, when the heat and burden of the strife were over, 
 and the issues of war had given place to the great ques- 
 tions involved in the reconstruction of the government, 
 Mr. Hoyne, in common with man}' whose loyalty, like his, 
 had been tried as by fire, incurred the odium of the 
 opposite party, and in the heat of partisan contest, such 
 terms as "copperhead" and "traitor" fell thickly but 
 harmlessly about him. We scarcely need to add that he 
 lived long enough to see the wisdom of his course ampl^' 
 vindicated, and his name honored as borne by a man whose 
 loyalty and patriotism had never wavered. 
 
 In the controversy between Congress and President 
 Johnson, Mr. Hoyne's sympathies were with the latter. 
 He was a delegate to the Conservative Convention held 
 at Philadelphia in 1866. He supported Horace Greele\" 
 in 1872, and represented the First Illinois District in the 
 electoral college. Two years later he acted with the 
 so-called " opposition," and aided in drawing up the call 
 of the Democratic State Comhiittee in Chicago embody- 
 
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 ing a specie plank, free commerce-, civil rights and other 
 issues, which was received with great favor by the lead- 
 ing journals of his; party. In 1S70, he was nominated by 
 acclamation for Congress, but declined to run, whereupon 
 Hon. John Wentworth was nominated in his stead. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Hoyne was elected mayor of Chicago. He 
 had been nominated for the oftice b}- an overwhelming 
 ^ majority at a time when the citv had suffered so severelv 
 frpm the rule of corruptionists as to be threatened with 
 financial ruin, and the good men of all parties joined in 
 an effort to cleanse the Augean stable. In choosing him 
 as the man for the work, they paid him the highest com- 
 pliment that can be bestowed upon an American citizen, 
 and it was regarded by him as the best possible approval 
 of liis life and character, which had been an open book 
 to the people of the cit^' for nearly forty 5'ears. A sketch 
 of his life, published bv the Chicago Alliance of April 4, 
 1881, refers to this election in the following complimen- 
 tary terms: 
 
 Thurc was a time when this great city, with all its unexamijled 
 growth and prosperity, was in danger of financial ruin and moral 
 bankruptcy. In 1876 Chicago was a,wakened to the fact that 
 she had long been ruled by an unscrupulous ring of thieving 
 ])oliticians. which received its support from a class of the com- 
 munity not unlike that which kept Tweed in ])ower in New York 
 City for so long a time, and saddled that city with a financial 
 burden, and gave its government a notoriety that has passed 
 into a ])roverl). We say that Chicago was awakened to her 
 danger, awakened only just in time to avert ruin, awakened 
 mainly by the efforts of the man whose name stands at the heail 
 of this sketch. 
 
 The story is an interesting tliough familiar one. H. D. Col- •^ 
 vin was mayor of the city at the time. He had inherited from 
 -preceding administrations a he(|uest of debt and had manage- 
 

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 ment, and was hedged about by precedents wliich he liad not 
 the wisdom or energy to set aside. Precedents- involving large 
 running expenses, extravagant appropriations, and a reckless 
 financial ))olicy. His administration inaugurated the system of 
 meeting the illegal debt of the city by an equally illegal issue of 
 scrip, but was unequal to the broad statesmanship of immediate 
 retrenchment of municipal expenses and refunding the debt so 
 that it might comfortably be carried. - ' ; J, . 
 
 As we have said, ruin star.ed Chicago in the face. Extrava- 
 gance and incompetence and rascality threatened the city. Tax- 
 ation had become too heavy to be borne. . The'name of Chicago, 
 prosperous and lusty as the city was, was fast becoming a by- 
 word for misrule. It was a crisis in her history. Had the 
 reigning state of affairs continued, there is no manner of doubt 
 but that some other city would have become the metropolis of 
 the west. Capital and enterprise do not gravitate to any city 
 overburdened with taxation, cursed by misrule and threatened 
 with financial trf)ubles. There is always a man for every emer- 
 gency, and in Chicago's hour of need Thomas Hoyne came to 
 the front. Through his efforts the Municipal Reform Club was 
 organized, and in a very short t^me it succeeded in arousing the 
 people to a sense of the dangers which threatened them. An 
 American community, and especially a Chicago community, en- 
 grossed with their private business affairs, are slowly aroused to 
 a sense of public danger ; but when they are aroused, no people 
 in the world act so quickly or so effectively.' 
 
 Tiie Reform Club called a mass meeting of the citizens, in the 
 Exposition building. Nearly 50,000 men of every political faith 
 gathered at that meeting, which resolved to take energetic mean.s 
 to abate the growing evil of municipal misrule. Mr. Hoyne ' 
 was, at the meeting, nominated for mayor on a reform platform, 
 and in the election'that followed was nearly unanimously-elected 
 to the office. He received a majority of over 33,000, the largest 
 majority ever given a municipal chief magistrate in Chicago. 
 There were but eight hundred votes cast against him. Mayor 
 Colvin, the incumbent of the office, however, contested the 
 
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 legality of the election, and appealed to the courts. The Cir- 
 cuit court, which really had no jurisdiction in the case, decided, 
 by a vote of three to two, that the election was illegal. Mr. 
 Hoyne could, with every prospect of success, have appealed to 
 the Supreme court, but, as his object was to cleanse the city of 
 corruption, and not to secure honor or place for himself, and as 
 the Colvin administration agreed to resign if another election 
 were permitted without appeal, Mr. Hoyne, for the sake of the 
 public good, assented, and refusing to allow the use of his name, 
 Monroe Heath was elected mayor, and Mr. Jloyne retired to 
 private life, after having been de facto mayor for six weeks. 
 
 But the line of policy marked out by his inaugural address 
 has been followed, not only by his successor, but by the doughty 
 Harrison, and Chicago's prosperity and place in the nation is, 
 doubtless, due to the unselfish and wise action of Mr. Hoyne. 
 
 In his early years distinguished as a criminal lawyer, but of 
 late confining his practice to the courts of chancery and supreme 
 courts, he has a reputation as a lawyer second to few ; as a poli- 
 tician wise antt influential, and as a citizen public spirited, he 
 will chiefly be remembered, when the history of this city comes 
 -to be written, as the man who saved Chicago. " ' .. 
 
 The ground on which the court held the election illegal 
 was brielly that the call for an election hatl^hol been 
 issued by the common council, as required by law. While 
 strongly urged to appeal the question to the Supreme 
 court, Mr. Hoyne was too good a lawyer not to see that 
 the decision was correct, and he declined further contest. 
 
 In regard to his conduct as mayor we quote the follow- 
 ing resolutions which were passed by the r-eform council 
 when about to close its year's work: i 
 
 " Resolved, That to Hon. Thomas Hoyne, our excellent mayor, 
 de facto, for the month of May last, belongs the credit of start- 
 ing our municipal reform. 
 
 '^Resolved, That we tender to the Hon. Thomas Hoyne our 
 thanks for the bold and state>manlike inaugural address delivered 
 
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 before us, and believe that the sentiments therein contained have 
 tended to guide this council in measur^ <of reform ; and while 
 we are not able, legally, to return him a compensation in money 
 for his good advice, we do tender him our sincere thanks as 
 members of the common council." . •■ 
 
 Active as Mr. Hoyne was, in politics, he was never an 
 office seeker. Blest with an intellect that was ever on the 
 alert and never knew fatigue, possessing a large fund of 
 information gathered from extensive reading as well as 
 from close association with the best men of the day, hav- 
 ing an ardent love of liberty and an unbounded devotion 
 to his country- and its institijtions, he naturally took a deep 
 interest in politics, as in every movement which co;icerned 
 the public welfare. But he had no selfish motives, and 
 sought no personal advancement. Had he really >desired 
 office he could have attained the highest place it was in 
 the power of the people to bestow, and that with less of 
 effort on his part than that which he exerted in behalf of 
 other men whom he deemed worth}', and of measures which 
 he thought would benefit the people of the city, state, or 
 nation. He held no office except such as came to him in 
 the natural course of events, and such as the urgency of 
 his fellow-citizens and his own convictions of duty com- 
 pelled him to accept. He was frequentl}' urged to take 
 the nomination for Congress. His name was regularly 
 mentioned for years, at each succeeding convention in his 
 district; and in 1881, when he could undoubtedly have 
 been elected, he firmly declined. He never for a moment 
 entertained the thought of sacrificing his principles, or 
 catering to popular whim, for the sake of office; and hi,s 
 innate nobleness was best shown in his ability to refuse 
 that which is the goal of ambition with not a few of those 
 whom the world has delighted to honor. 
 
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 Mr. Hoyne showed less hesitancy in taking the; lead in 
 other directions, though always willing to follow, where 
 good was to be accomplished. He was often ahead, not 
 for the sake of distinction, but, because his natural fervor 
 carried him to the front, like tiie soldier who is first in 
 the fray simply because his comrades are less rapid tiian 
 he in the rush to meet the enemy. As early as 1850 we 
 find him elected president of the Young' Men's Associa- 
 tion, which was then the leading literary society of the 
 city. It had collected a considerable library, and filled the 
 place now occupied b\' our Public Library'. It secured 
 prominent men to deliver lectures during the winter and 
 supply the demands of early Chicago for literary food. 
 Many of the older citizens will remember the conspicuous 
 place in tiie public mind which this association then occu- 
 pied, and that its presidency was a post of no small im- 
 portance in the community. Mr. Uoj"ne was also a life 
 member of the Mechanics' Institute, the Academ}' of Sci- 
 ences, and tlie Chicago Historical Society.   ^-'' 1 
 
 When the University of Chicago was founded in 1857, 
 Mr. Hoyne took a deep interest in the project. He was 
 elected a member of the board of trustees, and continued 
 to act in that capacity till the time of his death. For 
 some years succeeding the late Hon. Wm., B~Ogden, 
 he was president of the board. Through aU the struggles 
 of tiie institution his time, advice and experience were at 
 its service, and he labored faithfully to place it upon a 
 firm foundation. He was also prominent in the founda- 
 tion of the law department, contributing $5,000 to its 
 fund, and otherwise laboring in its behalf. In recognition 
 of his services in this direction the trustees of the Univer- 
 sity, in September, 1859, established a chair in the fac- 
 ulty' under the name of " The Hoyne Professorship of 
 
International and Constitutional Law." He was one of 
 the few gentlemen who took the first step in the move- 
 ment to found an astronomical observatorj' in Chicago, 
 and on the organization of the Astronomical Society was 
 elected its secretary, a position which he held continu- 
 ously till the year 1875. To him belongs a large part of 
 the credit of securing for Chicago the great Lalande 
 prize telescope manufactured by Alvin Clarke & Sons, of 
 Boston. The object-glass of that instrument, eighteen and 
 a half inches in diameter, was at the time the largest and 
 best in the world, and has now very few superiors. It had 
 been manufactured to the order of the State University of 
 Mississippi, but, the war intervening, the State had failed 
 to make payment, and the great glass awaited a pur- 
 chaser. Within a few days of the time when they be- 
 came acquainted with these facts the small knot of gen- 
 tlemen who afterwards formed the Chicago Astronomical 
 Society had authorized Mr. Hoyne to proceed to Boston, 
 and arrange for the purchase of the instrument. He went 
 there in February, 1863, and found that the news of the 
 movement in the West had stimulated the circulation of a 
 subscription in the interest of the observatory at Cam- 
 bridge. He at once called upon Mr. Clarke and enquired 
 the price of the glass. This Mt^. Clarke hesitated to state, 
 as he had set his heart on having his " master-piece " set 
 up near his own home. He did name it, however, and 
 Mr. IIo}-ne instantly replied that he would take it for 
 Chicago, thus securing for his own city a position of the 
 first importance in the world of astronomical research. 
 His action was endorsed b)^ a speedy raising of the monev 
 required to pay for the instrument and erect the building 
 needed for its reception. The telescope was set up in 
 [866, and has since then abundantly demonstrated the 
 
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 wisdom of his choice by the noble work it has done in the 
 cause of science. In consideration of his eminent services 
 in the founding and equipment of the Observatory, he was 
 made an honorary Hfe director of the Astronomical 
 Society. i ' 
 
 After the great fire of 1871, and while a large part of 
 the city was still a heap of smouldering ruins, the sym- 
 pathy of the world was extended to Chicago and ex- 
 pressed in many practical forms of relief. Among others 
 the literary men of Europe tendered material aid in re- 
 pairing the loss of public and private libraries. Thomas 
 Hughes, and other leading men of letters in England, ap- 
 pealed to autiiors and publishers to contribute of their 
 abundance to establish a librarv in Chicagfo. The re- 
 sponse was such a generous one that it soon became 
 necessary to organize a free public library, as no such in- 
 stitution had existed in the city previous to the great 
 calamity. Mr. Iloyne threw himselfainto the movement 
 with his customary energy. He spoke in its favor at sev- 
 eral public meetings, in company with Ma\'or Medill and 
 others; conducted the correspondence with the old world 
 promoters of the enterprise: helped to secure the passage 
 of the necessary legislation at Springfield ; presided at the 
 first meeting called to organize the " Free Public 
 Librar}-," and was chosen president of its first board of 
 directors. He served in that capacity for several years, 
 and was unremitting in his efforts to promote the objects 
 of the library and establish it on a solid foundation. He 
 resisted all attempts to cut down the appropriations for 
 its support, and took advantage of every opportunity to 
 present its cause to the favorable consideration of the 
 people, as an institution which he regarded as one of the 
 greatest blessings that had ever been bestowed upon 
 
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 them. The part which he took in this great work, is in 
 itself an enduring monument to his memory, and entitles - 
 him to the lasting gratitude of tiie people of the cil\'. In 
 1877 he wrote a history of the library up to that date, 
 which will be invaluable as a work of reference in tiie 
 future. He lived long enough to see the librjuy estab- 
 lished on an enduring basis, though at times crippled by . 
 scant appropriations, and assailed by some who appeared 
 to be jealous of its influence or fearful of its power. 
 
 It has already been remarked, that Mr. Hoyne was a 
 man of literary tastes, and large information on a great 
 variety of subjects. His well filled and carefully selected 
 library was not merely an ornament. He was familiar . 
 with its contents. He was a reader of books in wide 
 variety, and thought well upon what he read. Poetry, 
 history, science, philosophy and religion, all claimed him 
 as a student. He was more familiar with the history and 
 literature of ancient Greece and Rome than are many of .. 
 those who pride themselves upon the advantages of a 
 classical education. He was a lover of Shakespeare, anil 
 ever ready with an apt quotation from his favorite author. -, 
 He had committed many passages to memory in his •: 
 youth, and thev ever continued to form a part of his-, 
 mental furniture. But his studies were far from being 
 confined to the domain of ancient thought. He kept 
 well abreast with the literary current. On his table 
 could always be found the standard serials of the dayi^ 
 and he was ever read}' to discuss and express his opinion 
 upon the articles of special interest which they contained. ' 
 He had also read the standard works of fiction. .It was 
 a matter of frequent surprise to his friends that, so en- 
 grossed as he always was with active business, he found 
 so much time to read. But to those who knew his habits 
 
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 it was no m3'stei"v. When worn and wearied by the cares 
 ._ of the day, he walked off his mental languor, and came 
 
 - home refreshed bv vigorous exercise to seek in his books 
 . J, that relaxation which formed a foil to his daily labors. 
 
 Scarcely an evening passed without the acquisition of 
 
 some item of knowledge not possessed before, and he was 
 
 often occupied with his books till a late hour; seldom 
 
 \ indeed retiring before midnight, and not infrequently 
 
 v spending some of the small morning hours in his study. 
 
 It is not surprising that a man so fond of books should 
 
 have himself helped to make them. He wrote often, 
 
 and on a great variety of subjects. He was a rapid 
 
 writer, but generally exerted himself only on the spur of 
 
 - some special occasion. At such times his ideas poured 
 in upon him in such torrents that his pen could scarcely 
 
 • keep pace with his thoughts, and for this reason his com- 
 positions sometimes lacked that polish which results from 
 careful pruning, but at the same time diminishes the fire 
 
   and force of an argument. He left behind him a large 
 mass of material, comprising political speeches, literary 
 addresses, legal reports and arguments, etc. No adequate 
 
 • view of the broad field of discussion embraced in these 
 remains of his active pen is here possible. We cannot, 
 however, refrain in this connection, from alluding to a 
 paper prepared by him in 1848, as chairman of a com- 
 mittee consisting of himself, Dr. Brainard, Judge Skinner, 
 and Judge Manierre. It was an address to the Democ- 
 racv of the state in the interests of free soil, and against 
 the aggressions of slavery. Probably no other production 
 that ever issued from his pen bore in such full measure the 
 stamp of his abilitj' and genius, and his friends may here- 
 . after yield to a widely expressed wish, that this paper with 
 others might be given to the public in permanent form. 
 
The private life of Mr. Ho3Tie was one of iHiexcepUon- 
 able kindness and purity. In all the contests and antag- 
 onisms of his professional and political career, the bre.ith 
 of scandal never touched his good name. He wHs not onl} 
 , above reproach, but above suspicion. He was vei^ foici- 
 ble in his language when denouncing a wrong, as some of 
 those who suffered from the lash of his tongue can jet 
 testify. But in his anger he did not forget that he was a 
 man; and never, even in pleasantry, did he lose sight of 
 his duty as a Christian to abstain from impure allusions. 
 Few ever presumed to use an indelicate expression m hi> 
 presence, and those who essaj-ed it found no encourage- 
 ment to repeat. And even the impetuosity of manner, 
 that was so marked a feature of his outer life, seemed to 
 take to itself wings at the door of his home. In the 
 family he was uniformly mild and unrutfled, and in an 
 unusual degree deferential to the opinions and wishes of 
 its members. The few who were privileged with an inti- 
 macy close enough to permit them to observe it, know 
 that his wife was to a marked extent his friend and coun- 
 selor, and that he took no important step, political or 
 otherwise, without her full understanding and approval. 
 In fact, his love for home was so great, that a sigh of 
 regret would escape him on leaving for a brief absence, 
 and he seemed to have a premonition that the end would, 
 overtake him when away from the loved ones. Had he 
 seen the finger of divine providence pointing out his 
 death, he could scarcely have been more tender in his 
 farewell than he was the afternoon that he stepped forth on 
 his last journev, which proved to be a passage to the 
 tomb. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne left his home in this city Thursda}^ July 
 26, 1883, full of health and vigor. He set out on his 
 
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 annual summer vacation, and was on his way to C'gdens- 
 hurgh, intending tiience to make the tour of the St. Law- 
 rence and the White Mountains, and finally an extended 
 visit to Saratoga. The evening of Friday, the train on 
 which he was traveling dashed into a freight car at Carl- 
 ton station, on the' Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh 
 railroad, and in a moment the engines and coaches were 
 lying in a shapeless mass. The dead body of Mr. Hoyne 
 was rescued from the debris a few hours later, and arrived 
 In Chicago the following Monday. It was received at the 
 depot bv a committee of the Iroquois Club, and on the 
 following day taken from his home, at No. 267 Michigan 
 avenue, to St. Mary's Church. 
 
 Seldom has Chicago seen an assemblage of men more 
 representative of the highest forms of citizenship than the 
 congregation which gathered that morning in St. Mary's 
 Church. Seldom has the whole community thus joined 
 in manifestations of respect for the memory and sorrow 
 for the loss of one of its citizens. All the public offices 
 were closed, as well as many private places of business. 
 All the .streets and avenues leading to the church were 
 blocked with carriages, and the sacred edifice was filled 
 to overflowing with friends and admirers of the deceased. 
 A list of those*present would include many hundreds of 
 those most prominent in the law, politics and commerce 
 of Chicago. The officials of Cook county attended in a 
 body; the common council was represented by a majority 
 of its members; all the directors of the library board were 
 present — there was no public body that did not add sorhe 
 tribute to the significance of the occasion. There were 
 also to be seen the leading lights of the Chicago bar, mourn- 
 ing the death of an honored colleague, and the distin- 
 guished judges of the Chicago bench paying the last mark 
 
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 of respect to their associate and friend. The professors ot 
 Hahnemann College and of tlie Chicago University, the 
 directors of the Chicago Astronomical Society — in fine,' 
 leading men from all the' institutions of learning with 
 which the deceased was identified in his life — gave the 
 silent testimony of their presence in appreciation of a 
 useful life. And the social organizations of the city, the 
 Calumet, Iroquois, Irish-American, and other clubs, sent 
 large delegations in remembrance of the genial influence 
 of the kindly heart that slept beneath the fragrant weight 
 of flowers. But more significant than all the other fac.es 
 present were those that seemed like written scrolls, so 
 deeply were they furrowed, the faces of Chicago's early 
 settlers, with whom Thomas Hoyne had stood shoulder 
 to shoulder in those endeavors of the past which made 
 possible the achievements of the present. The crowning 
 feature of the solemn scene was the presence of that bod\- 
 of venerable men, each one of whom showed how keenly 
 he felt that he had lost a comrade, and that one more 
 name had been stricken from the roll of Chicago's 
 pioneers. 
 
 Father Arthur Lonergan was the celebrant of the im- 
 pressive requiem high mass. 'Fathers Cashman, John 
 Waldron and Patrick Waldron were seated within the 
 chancel, and Fathers Ambrose, Gaulet and Foster took 
 the place of the regular choir and sang the Gregorian 
 chants. After the Celebration of the mass, Father Lon- 
 ergan stood beside the coffin and delivered a short eulogy 
 on the deceased, and a sermon on the importance of being 
 always prepared for death. 
 
 At the close of the service the procession left the 
 church while the organist pUiyed a funeral march, and a 
 very huge numbei of those who had attended tlie serMce 
 
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 look carriages for Rosehill. The scene at the cemetery 
 
 was very impressive. The open grave was so thickly 
 
 draped with evergreens as to conceal the earth, and when 
 
 the coffin was lowered to its last resting place, and dust 
 
 committed to dust, the mound was covered with the 
 
 wealth of floral offerings. Prayer was offered by Rev. 
 
 Dr. Burroughs, and the cortege turned sorrowfully from 
 
 the grave of Thomas Hoyne with a deep sense that 
 
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 " He was a man, take him for all in all, 
 Thev woulii not look upon bis like again." 
 
 d^ity (Council. 
 
 A meeting of the common council of the city of Chicago 
 was held July 30, 1883, when the following communica- 
 tion was received from his Honor the Maj'or: ^ I ' 
 
 Gentlemen: It is eminently fit and projier that your honor- 
 able body should take some appropriate action upon the death of 
 Thomas Hoyne. Mr. Hoyne has for over forty years been iden- 
 tified with the history of Chicago. He has held here the positions 
 of city clerk, judge, United States district-attorney, ynited States 
 marshal, and, for a short time in 1876, that of mayor. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was of marked characteristics, energetic and posi- 
 tive. He was an honest man, whose uprightness of character 
 earned for him the respect of all. 
 
 In his public and professional life he was noted for his elo- 
 ([uence, his energy, his ability, and the integrity of all his acts 
 and deeds. He took great interest in all public improve- 
 
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ments, and his earnestness and positiveness rendered his influence 
 in whatever he entered upon of very great weight. He was .1 
 public-spirited citizen whose energetic character has lieen of the 
 ■-greatest service to the city of Chicago. It is the lot of all men 
 of decided force of character to make enemies of some. He was 
 not an exception to the rule ; yet even those who, differed with 
 him in opinion alwa^'s conceded the purity of purpose,, antl 
 honesty of aim by which Mr. Hoyne was ever actuated. In 
 private life he was a man of sterling integrity and nToral upright- 
 ness ; one who made strong friends and stood by them. 
 
 The tragic suddenness of his death has shocked the community. 
 While he was upwards of sixty years of age, his vigorous con- 
 stitution and his healthful habits gave promise of many-years yet 
 of life, and the terrible tragedy of his taking off seems too sud 
 den a close to a life so useful to the community, so dear to his 
 friends and family. 
 
 As a man so closely connected with our public interests, s^j^ 
 long identified with the city and its affairs, it is becoming that 
 you should pass suitable resolutions of tribute and respect upon 
 his death. 
 
 I have prepared the accompanying resolutions, which I here- 
 with submit for your approval and action. ;.■•-. , '■■,;■•'•■'■' 
 
 Alderman Sanders moved that the resolutions be adop- 
 ted and that the council attend the funeral in a body. "; ' 
 The motion prevailed by unanimous vote. -■ 
 
 The following are the resolutions as adopted: 
 
 Whereas, There was killed in the late railroad disaster in New 
 York state, a citizen of Chicago whose close connection with the 
 interests of the city and faithful services in behalf of the people, 
 render his death a public misfortune. 
 
 Resolved, That ^n the death of Thomas Hoyne, the City of 
 Chicago has lost one of its most patriotic, public spirited and 
 honorable citizens; a man whose efforts in behalf of all that 
 he believed to be best for the interests of his community, en- ' 
 titled him to the respect and admiration of .ill good citizens 
 
Resolved, That all city offices be closed during the hours of 
 the funeral, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, Tliat these resolutions be duly published in the pro- 
 < eedings of this body, and copies hereof be furnished the press 
 for publication and sent the family of the deceased. 
 
 ttounty Board. 
 
 At a meeting of the county board of commissioners 
 held July 30, 1883, the following resolutions were offered 
 and adopted: i 1 
 
 This community has sustained an irreparable loss by the 
 sudden death of our most eminent fellow-citizen, Hon. Thomas 
 Hoyne. His life in Chicago, since 1837. has been charac- 
 terized by a public zeal which has contributed largely to our 
 educational, scientific, and patriotic reputation both at home 
 and abroad. He has been the eminent friend, counselor and 
 associate of three generations of men, among whom he has been 
 conspicuous for his fearless and incorruptible integrity. Age 
 left no mark to distinguish Mr. Huyne from our most active and 
 enterprising young men, and his name and works will forever 
 adorn the history of Chicago, where his face was so familiar. Be 
 it therefore 
 
 Resolved, That this board attend in a body the funeral ser- 
 vices of our distinguished dead, and that the chairman appoint 
 a committee to make suitable arrangements for such attendance. 
 That these resolutions be entered upon and printed in our 
 records, and that an engrossed co))y thereof be furnished the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
Bar Association. 
 
 A large meeting of the Chicago bar was held in Judge 
 Drummond's court room on Tuesdaj- of this week, in 
 relation to the untimely death of Hon. Thomas Hoj^ne, 
 who was, perhaps, more than any other lawyei , the con- 
 necting link between the bar of the past and the bar of 
 the' present. 
 
 The meeting was called to order by Judge Drummond, 
 a life-ldng friend of the lamented deceased, who bi iefl\ , but 
 with much feeling, stated the object of the meetmg, and 
 concluded by saying that a committee had been appointed 
 at a previous meeting to draw up a memorial to the iirem- 
 ory of Thomas Hoyhe, and that the Hon. J. Young 
 Scammon had-beefr'requested by the committee to pre- 
 pare and present the memorial. ' ~ 
 
 The meeting was organized by electing the \enei able 
 ex-chief justice of the Supreme court, John D Caton, *> 
 chairman, and A. M. Pence, as secretary. 
 
 Judge Catox, in taking the chair, said: 
 
 Gentlemen: The occasion which has brought us 
 together to-day is one of solemn import, and lemmds u^ 
 that our stay here is short. The death of Mi Ho\ne, 
 which came upon us so suddenly, produced a shock 
 throughout the whole community; and those who ha\e 
 known him longest and known him best, and theiefoie 
 knew best how to appreciate him, felt their sensibilities 
 awakened to a degree which words fail to express Few 
 living have known Mr. Hoyne longer than I did, oi have 
 
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 appreciated his virtues and his excellencies more than I 
 have. When I heard of his untimely death, a chord was 
 struck of deep feeling and sensibility, which but few who 
 have not attained the 3'ears that I have — but few who 
 have not known him as well as I have -(and few have 
 had more opportunities of appreciating his virtues than I 
 have) could experience. I would like to detain you in 
 speaking of the history of Thomas Hoyne; but you have 
 known him, some longer, some shorter, so well that to do 
 so is unnecessary. I am sure that all who have known 
 him, and those who knew him best, have respected his 
 virtues, his excellencies in every walk of life, and deeply 
 feel his untimely taking off. Pardon me, therefore, that I 
 say no more. 
 
 The Hon. J. Young Scammon then read the following 
 paper prepared in memory of Mr. Hoyne: | 
 
 The members of the legal profession in a free republic 
 always occupy a prominent and influential position in 
 public consideration. They are the forensic instructors of 
 the people, the guardians of personal rights, and the 
 defenders of individual liberty. When one of its old and 
 distinguished members is called from his earthly duties, 
 a chasm in society marks his exit. When by a frightful 
 casualty such a one is suddenly hurled into the eternal 
 world, the whole community is shocked. | 
 
 The sudden catastrophe in which the life of Thomas 
 Hoyne was sacrificed, on the Rome, Watertown and 
 Ogdensburg railroad, near Carlj'on, New York, on the 
 night of Jul}' 27, 1883, has awakened in the hearts of his 
 brethren of the Illinois bar the most profound emotions 
 and the deepest sympathies for his b^eaved widow and 
 family. 
 
 The departure of such a man from our midst demands . 
 
that we should place on record an appropriate minute, 
 while the numerous testimonials from other associations 
 with which he was connected admonish us to confine this 
 minute to Mr. Hoyne as a member of our profession. 
 
 Thomas Hoyne was born in the city of New York, 
 February ii, iSr^. He remained there till 1837, when, 
 listening to the prophetic-poetic voice of Bishop Berkley, 
 he followed the course of empire to the then extreme 
 west, and landed in Chicago. Meeting here an early and 
 devoted friend, the late Judge Manierre, he renewed his. 
 personal acquaintance, and found employment from him 
 in the office of the clerk of the Circuit court of Cook 
 count}', where the latter was acting as deput3^ He had 
 commenced the study of the law in New York, but, like 
 so many other successful members of the ba;r, he had no 
 means beyond his own personal exertions to support him 
 while seeking his legal education. He had known the 
 meaning of the struggles of impoverished orphanage 
 from an early age; but his ambition, will, and determina- 
 tion would brook no obstacles. He entered the office of 
 J. Young Scammon, one of the earliest practitioners at 
 the Chicago bar, read his profession there, and was ad- 
 mitted to practice in 1839. With the exception of about 
 two years passed in Galena, he has ever since resided in 
 Chicago. He soon became prominent, was invited to 
 become a law partner of Mark Skinner, and remained 
 such partner till the election of the latter gentleman to 
 the bench. In 1847 he was elected to the office of Pro- ^ 
 bate Justice. In 1853 he received the appointment of 
 District Attorney of the United Statfes for the District of 
 Illinois, and in 1859, of United States Marshal. The 
 duties of these offices he discharged with credit to him- 
 self, and acceptably to the government, ■-.'■i 
 
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   . The many other places of distinction which he occupied 
 are elsewhere commemorated. It is of him as a lawj'er 
 and legal associate that we desire to speak — of him as a 
 brother and a man intimately associated with us in our 
 department of the great drama of hunjan life. 
 
 He knew and appreciated the obligations which he 
 assumed in entering the legal profession. A man of the 
 most ardent temperament and intense earnestness, and 
 remarkable fidelity to both friends and duty, his oath of 
 office was no mere form of words. Duty to his client was 
 engraved upon his heart. Industry and diligence were 
 displajed in all his acts. He attained reputation and posi- 
 tion, which brought business to his chambers, and emolu- 
 ment to his coffers. His professional life has been long 
 and successful. He was a prudent counselor, an earnest, 
 enthusiastic and successful advocate. He was a man of 
 acknowledged ability. If his ardor and zeal sometimes 
 e.xceeded the measure of his cooler judgment, they left no 
 sting behind. If he erred, he endeavored to redress any 
 injur\- he might, in the excitement of the moment, have 
 committed, and to do away with the force of any un- 
 guarded expressions. Men of his temperament can not 
 always sail in smooth waters, but they arc compensated 
 by being relieved froiTi hypocrisy, sham or pretense. They 
 show what they are, are estimated for their worth, and 
 relied upon at all times as just, fearless and honest men. 
 
 In iiis professional intercourse he was kind and accom- 
 modating, though always exacting as to what in his esti- 
 mation was just and right. Of integrity unquestioned, 
 he had deep convictions as to the duty every man owes to 
 his profession, and ever}- successful man to the commu- 
 nity in which he lives. E ■pliirihiis tinum was not more 
 permanently engraved upon our national escutcheon than 
 
deeply impressed upon his soul. In his estimation he was 
 only one of the man}-. The Chicago law school con^ ^ 
 nected with the universities, he was greatly influential in 
 establishing. He endowed its first professorship, wiiith. 
 in recognition of his services and liberality bears the name 
 of "The Hoyne Professorship of International and Con- 
 stitutional Law." He was greatly desirous of promoting 
 thorough education in a profession to which was commit- 
 ted the highest truths in relation to the lives, liberties and 
 property of the citizen. . . ; ': 
 
 He has set an example of industry' and independence to 
 the voung, and of generous liberality and dut\ to his 
 prosperous associates. He ha-ted idleness and dependence. 
 In his needy di\ys he did not hesitate to accepi any le- 
 spectable available employment, until he could obtain that 
 more suited to his ability and taste. He made his fortune 
 not by speculation, but by diligent labor and economy, and 
 careful and judicious investment. 
 
 After being associated as a partner with several promi- 
 nent members of the bar, Mr. Hoyne formed with two of 
 his students, the firm of Hoyne, Horton & Hoyne, com- , 
 posed of himself, Oliver H. Morton, and his son, Thomas 
 M., whose established business character and reputation 
 is one of the heir-looms he leaves behind him. 
 
 His life is another illustration of the oft-repeated asser- 
 tion that no profession is more worthy than the legal, and 
 no life more honorable or successful than that of dn 
 upright, able, conscientious, faithful and public spirited 
 lawyer. 
 
 Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, in rising and moving the 
 adoption of the minute, reported by Mr. Scammon, said" 
 
 Ossian, a poet of other daj's, whose sentiment often , 
 touched the soul of our deceased comrade, speaking of 
 
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 one of lliosc old htToes, whom he immortalized, said: 
 "No bard shall be waruini^ at ih}- tomb svhen ihou art 
 lowlv laid," and again, •■ Raise mv tomb — grev stones 
 and a mound of earth shall send mv name to other times." 
 
 Thus the ancient hard j^ave expression to the almost 
 universal feeling that when we are laid away in the grave, 
 some kind words shall be spoken over our remains. And 
 the desire to place upon the green sod which covers the 
 remains of our friends some tribute of alfection, is equallv 
 luiiversal. 
 
 Wlien I last met Mr. Iloyne, on an occasion like this, 
 ills stalwait frame and physical vigor suggested the 
 thought. " lie will survive most of his old associates of 
 the bar, and his kindh' voice will speak friendlv words 
 at our departure." Tiie order has been reversed; the   
 younger and more vigorous hiis been taken, while we sur- 
 vive. 
 
 More perhaps than any other, he united the past and 
 the present. Contemporarv with the members of the old 
 bar of Chicago, he was an associate with the present 
 members in active practice. 
 
 It is not mv purpose to speak of him to-dav at any 
 length. Arrangements lia\e been made, which will re- 
 sult, I hope, in a full biographical memoir of him before 
 the Chicago Historical Societv, of which he had long 
 been a member, and f)f which, at the time of his death, 
 he was vice-president. I will speak brietlv of him to-day 
 as a lawyer and a citizen. He has long occupieil a promi- 
 nent position at this bar. For nearly fortv vears his 
 manly form and eloquent voice has been familiar in all our 
 courts. During all this long period his professional char- 
 acter was without a blemish. Ardent, impetuous and 
 zealous, he made the cause of his client his own to an 
 
extent rarely equaled, but his eager desire for success never 
 tempted him to seek it by improper means. His sense of 
 professional -honor was nice, clear and decided. .Ml who 
 met him in forensic battle, or who were associated with 
 him, knew that the battle would be fought with fair 
 weapons, with clean hands. There would be no foul 
 blows ijiven, no tricks, nothing underhanded. Su I think 
 it may be truly said that no corrupt means ever dimmed 
 the glor}' of his professional victories. He was a good 
 lawyer, industrious and careful, and he thoroughly studied 
 and prepared his cases. He was a vehement, an impas- 
 sioned and sometimes an eloquent advocate. His temper 
 was quick, impulsive and at times irritable, but he was 
 magnanimous, generous and forgiving, and where he erred 
 most ready to acknowledge and repair his error. ,"•''..■ 
 His victories were won with the downright blows of 
 the battle-ax of Richard of the Lion Heart, rather than 
 the scimiter of Saladin. I recall as among the most not- 
 able cases in which I was ever associated with him, the 
 defense of voung Busch,'a boy scarcely eighteen years 
 old, indicted for murder. He had shot and ihstantlv 
 killed a carpenter on State street. Mr. Hoyne was my 
 associate in the defense, and a most careful and efficient 
 one he was. The case, as nearly as I can now recall it, 
 after a lapse of over twenty years, was this: The father 
 of young Busch was living in a wooden house on State 
 street. The owner of the adjoining lot claimed that the 
 buildinij of Busch encroached a few inches over the line. 
 There was a conflict in the surveys. The owner of the 
 lot adjoining that of Busch began the erection of a brick 
 building and found he could not build up to his line, as he 
 claimed it, without cutting a few inches off the house and 
 home of ]3usch. Without waiting to bring an ejectment, 
 
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 the builder and his woricmen undertook to cut down 
 Busch's house. Young Buscii was instructed to protect 
 his father's iiouse and home. As the carpenter, standing 
 on a ladder, was cutting down a part of Busch's house, 
 the boy ascended the ladder, and with a pistol shot and 
 killed the carpenter. Our defense was that it was justi- 
 fiable homicide, in nrotecting his father and house — his 
 castle. Judge John M. Wilson presided, and qualified our 
 law, so that the result was likely to be a verdict of man- 
 slaughter. But in the examination of the eye-witnesses 
 there arose a conflict of evidence as to whether, at the 
 moment the pistol w'as tired, the carpenter was not in the 
 very act of striking with his broad-ax at the head of 
 Busch, a blow which would have caused instant death. 
 And if so, whether voun"! Busch did not save his own life 
 by taking that of the carpenter. On careful examination 
 it was fotmd that the carpenter dropped his ax the 
 moment the pistol was fired, and that the blade had struck 
 and penetrated the platform on which the ladder was 
 raised, and a diagram showing the position of the parties, 
 and the cut in the platform demonstrated that the ax was 
 in actual motion toward the head of Busch when the lad 
 fired; and that it did not fall in a straight line toward the 
 earth, but described an arc in the direction of Busch, 
 and the boy was acquitted on the ground of self-defense. 
 1 recall the incident as illustratin<r the zeal, intelli- 
 gence, and ability with which Mr. Iloyne aided in the 
 defense. | - I . 
 
 As a citizen Mr. Ho3'ne was a model. He never 
 shirked his duty, hut was ready and willing to make 
 sacrifices, and to work to promote whatever was good 
 and useful, and to antagonize and resist wrong. He was 
 full of courage and zeal, and ready to make vigorous war 
 
upon corruption and fraud. No corporation was ricli 
 enough to buy or silence him. No combination of politi- 
 cal demagogues could seduce him with oflice, or frighten 
 him from e.xposing and denouncing wrong. He was 
 never mi.xed up in any of the jobs by whicli the history 
 of our pt}' has been disgraced, and which have besmirched 
 so many otherwise fair reputations. Against all such, 
 and all schemes of plunder, he was ever recognized as a 
 bold, open and unflinching enemy. He was a Tribune of 
 the people, staunch, faithful and ever reliable, so that it is 
 not too much to say tliat the plunderers of the public, the ' 
 rings and cliques eager to steal, to grQW rich out of the 
 corrupt jobs which abound in our great cities, all felt 
 relieved at his death. They realized that a bold, zealous 
 and incorruptible watch-dog of the public would no longer ~ 
 expose and defeat their sciiemes of plunder and spoliation. 
 The " Tweeds " of our city felt that they could pursue 
 their schemes with less damage. ' They felt more safe 
 when Iloyne was dead. They realized that there will 
 now be more safet}' in offering or accepting a bribe. The 
 security of public and private property is lessened by his 
 death. This is the highest praise that can be bestowed 
 on a citizen, but Hoyne has earned it. .^ 
 
 He was also liberal with his means, apd ever ready to 
 open his purse for all wortlW objects. The Chicago 
 University, the Astronomical Observator}-, the Public 
 Librar}' and the Historical Society,' were each the recipi- 
 ents of liberal contributions of (money, as well as of his 
 care and labor in administration. 
 
 If we lift the veil of his private life, we find everything 
 to respect, and admire, and love, and nothing to condemn, 
 and so we can say, our brother was an upright, able and . 
 most honorable lawyer, a model citizen, a pure Christian, 
 
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 and in eveiy rehuion an lionest and noble man. As such, 
 let us cherish and honor his memory. i 
 
 Hon. J. R. Ddoi.iTTLE, in secondinj^ Mr. Arnold's mo- 
 tion, said: Words fail to tell how deep and sharp the pang 
 which the death of Thomas Ho\'ne brought to the heart 
 (jf this cit\- — not onlv to tlie bar, of which he had long 
 been one of the best and noblest, but to all classes of its 
 citizens; all, all knew him; and many thousands had 
 known him long and well. His friends nearly idolized 
 him, the masses loved him, and his foes respected and 
 honored him, not only for the strength of his mind and the 
 force of his will, for his noble and commanding presence 
 and mysterious personal magnetism, but for that frank, 
 open, manly courage, which always sa\s what it means 
 and means what it says; and, above all, for that stalwart 
 vigor, that hatred of wrong and trick and sham, that in- 
 tense love of right, that fearless enthusiasm for justice, 
 which, in him, seemed to lean upon and to take hold of 
 the Almighty for its strength — that supreme quality of 
 the .-ioul whicii inspires others and makes one a born 
 leader and prince among men. 
 
 I repeat, not the bar alone, but this whole city felt that 
 death-stroke. I doubt ifHhe death of any other of the 
 600,000 here could have moved it more deeply, or caused 
 
 more universal grief. 
 
 As has been truly said, he was eminent in his profes- 
   sion, a wise counselor, an eloquent advocate, and a suc- 
 cessful man of aflairs. He stood in the front rank, and 
 . yet, jierhaps, he was more eminent still as a citizen, 
 among the foremost of those whose character and achieve- 
 ments have been identified with the history and growth 
 of this great city. 
 
 Horn in the city of New York, to toil and to poverty, 
 
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 at tlie age of twelve lie lost his father, and, a year later, 
 his mother. At thirteen, an orphan, the eldest of seven, 
 he was bound out as an apjirentice, and worked (ivi- 
 vears, until he was eighteen vears of age. Jjut, in the 
 midst of toil, he showed a thirst for knowledge, ;tnd more 
 than that, the self-denial and industry to educate himself. 
 He attended night schools and literary societies, llv then' 
 showed the natural gifts of logic and eloquence, which, it 
 trained, would fit him for the master profession, to which 
 he soon turned all his thoughts. At the age of nineteen 
 he began the study of the law in the otlice of Judge 
 Brinkerhoff, in the chy of New York. The year after, 
 at the age tif .twenty, lie cruue here, when Chicago was a 
 mere village, at a time wiien it was crushed under the 
 panic of j8:57. Biit work was no stranger to liim, ami 
 hard times did not appall him. To support himself, lu- 
 worked in the clerk's office at ifio a week. In 1838 he 
 taught a public school- -one of the first organized here— ^ 
 and resumed his legal studies in the office of Hon. J. Y. 
 Scammon. At the age of twent^'-two he was adfiiitted to 
 the bar of Illinois, in the autumn of 1839., In September, 
 1840. he was married to Leonora Maria Temple, a 
 daughter of Dr. Tt;mple, one of the earliest and foremost 
 of tiie settlers of Chicago. 
 
 With the exception of a brief residence at Galena, 
 Chicago has alwa^'s been his home. And in all things he 
 has been identified with its progress. ' He grew ,with its 
 growth, and strengthened with its strength. I can add 
 nothing to what has been said of his public spirit and 
 works of charity; of what he has done in aid of .its insti- 
 tutions of learning, the University, the Dearborn Observ- 
 atory, the founding of the College of Law, and endowment 
 of a professorship- in all these things he was as gener- 
 
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 ous, catholic and liberal as he was known to be in relig- 
 ious opinions — cherishing his own, yet respecting the 
 opinions of others. I 
 
 Like the city of his choice, full of ambition, energy, in- 
 dustry, courage and enthusiasm, his bj'oad, generous 
 nature saw in every man a brother man, and recognized 
 liis equal right to live, and to toil, and to enjoy the fruits 
 of his labor. In no inan that breathes did the warm pulse 
 of human brotherhood beat truer or stronger than in him. 
 He sometimes was impulsive, blunt, violent, and almost 
 offensive, and spoke in no measured words, but he was 
 always true true to his friends and true to his enemies. 
 Endowed with a wonderful memorv of men, for manj' 
 years he personally knew every citizen of Chicago. And 
 after it had grown too large for him to know every citizen, 
 verj' few could be found here who were not familiar with 
 his tiame and character, and could not recognize him as 
 he so lately walked these streets in full vigor — every inch 
 a man. 
 
 The whole cit}- mourns the death of Thomas Hoyne. 
 But beyond the city, the State of Illinois and the Nation 
 mourn the loss of an able lawyer, an honest man, an ar- 
 dent patriot, an eminent citizen. 
 
 It may not be out of place for me to say a few words of 
 him as a citizen of the United States. 
   His political convictions, his strong sense of justice, his 
 love of the equal rights of men, reared as he was in the 
 school of Jefferson and Jackson, made him an earnest 
 democratic republican. He maintained the equal rights 
 of the states in the Union, under the Constitution, to reg- 
 ulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, 
 not onlv the relations of parent and child, husband and 
 wife, master and apprentice, but the relations of master 
 
and slave. At the same time, b}' every conviction of his 
 reason and every instinct of his nature, he was utterly 
 opposed to human slavery. 
 
 Therefore, after the close of the Mexican war, which 
 brought to the United States large free territories, we 
 find him utterly and inflexibly opposed to the extension of 
 slavery into free territory. That idea severed him from 
 the democratic party, then under the lead of General Cass, 
 in 184S, who, in the Nicholson letter, favored the diffusion 
 of slavery as a mode of extinguishing it; just as if the 
 diffusion of polj-gamy from Utah into the territories of 
 Arizona, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming would be thr 
 best means of overthrowing it. 
 
 With all the earnestness and force of his character he 
 supported the free soil party of 1848, and was named a 
 presidential elector for Van Buren and Adams. The dif- 
 fusion theory of General Cass was defeated with his own 
 defeat. California was admitted as a free state in 1851, 
 giving to the free states a majority in the Senate. ' i . 
 
 In 1852, as both of the great parties had come to a 
 finality, as they supposed, upon the slavery question, and 
 no further question as to its extension was involved, he 
 gave his support to General Pierce, and acted with the 
 democratic party until 1861, when the leaders at the south 
 attempted secession, and to overthrow the Union under 
 the Constitution. Then, as in Senator Douglas, the great 
 democratic leader of Illinois, " his patriotism rose to a 
 white heat." As a member of the Union Defense Com- 
 mittee, he wrote tiiat appeal to the people of Illinois vviiich 
 did so much to fill its regiments with democrats as well as 
 republicans. As one of the committee, he visited Presi- 
 dent Lincoln to urge the campaign down the Mississippi 
 river in 1862. And until the civil war was ended and 
 
 
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 every soldier in arms against the government had surren- 
 dered, he gave to the administration his constant and un- 
 flinching support. 
 
 When the war was over, he responded to the call for 
 the Union Convention, held in Philadelphia in 1866. With 
 William B. Ogden, another of Chicago's greatest citizens, 
 he attended it as one of the delegates at large from Illi- 
 nois. It was an extraordinary convention. I have seen 
 several great conventions, but never one equal to that. As 
 I have said, Hoyne and Ogden were delegates at large 
 from this state. From Pennsylvania, every man who had 
 been a governor was there, except one, and he was un- 
 able to go by reason of his great age ; every man that had 
 been a judge of the Supreme court was there; and men 
 equally distinguished from many other states. 1 
 
 It was the first meeting of the north and the south after 
 the war was over. It was the first reunion — the first 
 coming together to strike hands across the bloody chasm 
 of a civil war, which cost the lives of near 500,000 of the 
 bravest and the best, and a waste and destruction of more 
 than $5,000,000,000 of values. 
 
 Mr. Iio3ne with Mr. Ogden was there, and witnessed 
 that famous meeting of the delegations of Massachusetts 
 and South Carolina — the former headed by General Couch 
 of the Union army, the other by General Orr, of the Con- 
 federate army — both stalwart and Splendid-looking men. 
 He saw those delegations as they marched arm in arm 
 through the aisles of that immense wigwam, where over 
 15,000 were assembled. He heard those cheers — cheers 
 such as he never heard before or since — cheers that went 
 up to heaven, in gratitude to Almighty God because the 
 war was over, because no more blood was to flow, be- 
 cause no more sons and brothers were to go down to 
 
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 battle and to death, because peace, blessed peace, had 
 come, and come to stay, because hereafter there would be 
 but one Union, one Constitution, one Country, and that 
 country forever free from human slavery. 
 
 No act of his life- gave to him more satisfaction than to 
 have been a delegate to that convention in 1866, and to 
 the principles and declarations, unanimously adopted by 
 that convention, he always rem'ained true and steadfast. 
 
 While Mr. Hoyne had all the elements of popularity, 
 he seldom allowed his name to be presented for the 
 people's suffrages. 
 
 When once nominated for Congress, and at a time when 
 he was reasonably certain of election, he withdrew from 
 the canvass, in favor of a personal friend. j".' : - 
 
 In the spring of 1876, in a great emergency, rising' 
 above party, he was elected mayor of this city by 33,000 
 majority. 
 
 Generally acting with the democratic party, because he 
 believed it to be generally right, there were times when 
 his conscience would not allow him to be bound by the 
 acts of its caucuses and conventions, when they were 
 clearly wrong. 
 
 Weak men go with their party, right or wrong. They 
 fear the charge of inconsistency, or of treason to the 
 party. They tremble at the lash of the party whip. But 
 not so with Mr. Hoyne. In mere matters of form or 
 expediency he was ready to yield. But in a matter of 
 clear principle, it was with him a matter of conscience in 
 which he knew no master, and would submit to no dic- 
 tator. He acted with his party when he believed it to 
 be right, against it when he believed it to be wrong. In- 
 stead of being weak, changing or inconsistent in doing so, . 
 he was strong, for he was guided by the light of truth ; 
 
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 and his course was as straight and direct to his object as 
 ' a ray of sunlight which shines across the clouds of a 
 changing sky. 
 
 The motion to adopt the minute was unanimously car- 
 ried, and on motion of Mr. Arnold, it was voted that the 
 proceedings of the meeting be published, and that individ- 
 ual members of the bar be appointed to move the various 
 courts of this cit}', and the Supreme court that they 
 spread upon their records a copy of the minute; and also 
 that a cop3' of the same be sent to the family of the 
 deceased. |   | 
 
 Judge Caton appointed as such committee the following 
 named gentlemen: 
 
 The Hon. J. Y. Scammon, to the Supreme court; the 
 Hon. Judge Skinner, to the United States courts; the 
 Hon. O. H. Horton, to the Appellate court; Hon. B. F. 
 Ayer, to the Superior court; the Hon. E. B. McCagg, to 
 the Circuit court, and the Hon. M. R. M. Wallace, to the 
 Probate court. 
 
 In putting a motion to adjourn, the chairman, Judge 
 Caton, said : 
 
 The time cannot be far distant when, for some of us, the 
 bar will be called together to say words good or bad in 
 regard to us. There are but few left^ of what may be 
 called the old Chicago bar. Most of our associates have 
 gone before us. A few of us are left as monuments, or as 
 witnesses of that old Chicago bar. We look about us 
 and see a new generation of lawyers, who have come up 
 and taken upon themselves the duties of the profession; 
 and I can say for myself, and I think I can say for m}- old 
 associates, that it is with great satisfaction that we see 
 liovv ably and how honorably our successors are discharg- 
 ing the duties which once rested upon us. Our friend 
 
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 was of that old number, and, probably, the most vi<:foious, 
 the most promising for long life of all those who sui\i\ed 
 up to his time, of all his contemporaries. Yet, m the 
 administration of a wise Providence, inscrutable, it is tiue, 
 he has been called away, and we are left. His voice shall 
 be no longer heard among us, but his name will sui\ive 
 in our memories while memorylasts. 
 The meeting then adjourned. 
 
 Appellate iDourt. 
 
 In the Appellate court of Illinois, First district, Mi O 
 H. HoRTON, the partner of Mr. Hoyne, in presenting the 
 memorial of the Bar Association, made the .following 
 address: 
 
 May it please the Court: I hold in mj' hand a 
 copy of a memorial adopted at a meeting of the bar of 
 this city to the memory of the late Thomas Hoyne. By 
 that meeting, and in my absence from the city, I was 
 requested to present the same to this court, and ask that 
 it be spread upon the records. 
 
 It may be proper for me to add a few words. Nearly 
 a quarter of a century since I entered the office of Mr. 
 Hoyne, and for twenty years immediately preceding his 
 death, I was associated with him as a partner. Few, 
 if any, outside of the members of his own immediate 
 famil}-, have had equal opportunities to know his real 
 character and the motives and impulses which controlled 
 
him. TliL' numerous official positions held by him, as 
 well as his connection with the various worthy and in- 
 fluential local organizations, and the more public acts of 
 his life, have been referred to by others since his decease. 
 I ma\', therefore, be permitted to speak more especially 
 of his character and life as known to tliose in the more 
 intimate relations with him. 
 
 Nearly the whole of Mr. Hoyne's life was devoted to 
 the practice of his loved profession. To him there was 
 no calling more honorable. He was not a lawyer merely 
 for gain — that was secondary. He regarded his profes- 
 sion as the best possible avenue of obtaining a broad, 
 liberal and practical knowledge of men and things as they 
 are, rather than as they may be made to appear bv 
 theorists.' He was proud of the profession, and at all 
 times, and on all occasions a defender of it from what- 
 ever source it might be assailed by sneer or ridicule, in- 
 sinuation or denunciation. To discredit or deride it was 
 to him a personal insult. ^ \ 
 
 And yet no lawyer ever regarded the unworthy mem- 
 bers of the profession with more genuine contempt than 
   did he. The professional pretender had no more uncom- 
 promising adversary'. To the one, however, v\ ho was 
 honestly mistaken, or who failed after an industrious and 
 faithful effort, none were more charitable or ready to ex- 
 tend a helping hand. He was the especial friend of the 
 worthy and struggling young lawyer — for him he always 
 had a word of encouragement and good cheer. | 
 
 In the practice of his profession Mr. Ho^-ne first at- 
 tempted to ascertain the equity and justice of the question 
 involved. The final settlement of this question, in his 
 mind, determined his course, and it required very^strong 
 and convincing proofs to change his convictions. His 
 
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 fidelity to his client, and what he believed to he his client's 
 interest, could never be pioperlv questioned. Indeed, so 
 strong did this consideration become, and so completely 
 did it take possession of him, that an}- opposition or an\' 
 intimation that it was wrong was received almost as per- 
 sonal. 
 
 In the practice of his profession he knew no artifice. 
 Here, as in all other matters, he drove directly and openly 
 at the substance. In a general sense all pleadings were 
 to him alike and of little consequence. -J ■-.. 
 
 As an advocate he was especially and deservedly known 
 and recognized as a leader. He possessed a command- 
 ing presence and a good gift of language. Being not 
 onl}' an observer of the doings of the day, but an exten- 
 sive and retentive general reader, he drew for his illus- 
 trations with equal ease and readiness from iiistor\', biog- 
 raphy, mythology and fiction, or from the incidents of 
 every day life, and especially those of early local historj-. 
 These qualities used in presenting the facts in a case, 
 which was done with an earnestness and skill rarely 
 equaled and never excelled, and reinforced with the abid- 
 ing and unswerving conviction that he was in the right, 
 which conviction he usually imparted to those whom he 
 addressed, aided largely in making him the powerful and 
 convincing advocate that he was. 
 
 In all the affairs of life with which he was connected, 
 and in all the issues which he considered, whether pro- 
 fessional, political or otherwise, he had the courage of his 
 convictions. This was true in politics, whether local, 
 state or national. His personal regard for individuals, oi 
 candidates for office was never allowed to swei\e hun 
 from what he believed to be right and for the best Interest 
 of the people. Being a man of convictions, and bold and 
 
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 fearless both in words and actions in sustaining his con- 
 victions, and being at all times ready to take an active 
 part in denouncing and resisting trickery and corruption, 
 he was relied upon by all who knew him, and confidence 
 in him was the most implicit in those who knew him best. 
 " What can be more honorable than to have courage 
 " enough to execute the commands of reason and co'n- 
 " science? " 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was no dissembler. To him shams, shoddy 
 and pretense were s\-nonymous with fraud, dishonesty and 
 deception. And this was not the result of prejudice or 
 caprice, but was the natural result and outgrowth of his 
 convictions; that tiie outward life should be, and usu^ally 
 is, a correct index of the inward purpose. The purpose 
 being to deceive, to appear to be or to have what the 
 facts would not warrant, was not honest, and therefore to 
 be openly and unreservedly condemned. While he was 
 bold, fearless and relentless in his denunciations, j'et, if he 
 fell or believed that in tiie heat of argument he had 
 wounded or done injustice to another, especially a brother 
 member of the bar, he could not rest contented until he 
 had sought to make reparation. There was but one way 
 in which his opposition could be removed, or his denunci- 
 ation silenced, and that was by convincing him that his 
 conclusions were wrong. While he retained the convic- 
 tion that he was right, opposition but nerved him to bolder 
 and more determined and active resistance. He was not 
 onl}- honest, but he alwa3's stood upon the higher plane of 
 true honor. j j 
 
 Mr. Hovne was in the fullest sense of the term a self- 
 made man. Nearly his whole life from bo^'hood onward 
 was spent in this cit\'. No great improvement, no step 
 forward in the interest of tiie municipality, or of the per- 
 
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 sons composing it, was conceived or advanced but that he 
 took an active interest in, and was an active supporter of 
 it, if it commended itself to him. No history of this city 
 or of this state can be proper!}- written, or be complete, 
 which shall fail to recognize him. 
 
 Feelings of personal admiration and love may not be 
 here expressed by me. A noble and genuine man is gone. 
 The community has lost one of its oldest and best known 
 and truest citizens. Our profession has lost one' of its 
 ablest and purest and most devoted members. 
 
 I now move that, as an additional tribute to his mem- 
 or}^ said memorial of his professional brethren be spread 
 at length upon the records of this court. 
 
 3roquois iDlub 
 
 At a meeting of the Iroquois Clup on Tuesday evening, 
 August 7, 1883, the following proceedings were had in 
 reference to the death of the late Thomas Hovne: 
 
 Mr. Erskixe M. Phelps, president of the club, said: 
 The death of the Honorable Thomas Hoyne will form 
 one of the saddest chapters in the histor}' of our club. 
 He was known to three generations — to the old settler, 
 to the men in middle life, and to the 3'oung men — and his 
 name will be remembered in the far distant future as one 
 of the grandest characters of his time. He always used 
 his influence to advance and perpetuate the best in- 
 terests of his fellow-citizens, and the state, the citv and 
 
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 this club have met witli a great loss. lie was one that 
 feared nothing except to do wrong, and his heart was as 
 great as the world, though there was no room in it to hold 
 the memory of an injury. I will not detain you longer, 
 as there are many present who can eulogize his character 
 much better and more appropriately than myself. Hav- 
 ing been appointed in my absence chairman of a commit- 
 tee to prepare a paper to be submitted for record, I pre- 
 sent, on their behalf, the following, which the secretary 
 will now read: ' • i I 
 
 In commemoration of the affectionate regard of its members 
 for tlieir late brother, Thomas Hoyne, of their appreciation of 
 liis worth, their sense of the loss sustained in his death, and their 
 respectftil sympathy with his bereaveti family, the Iroquois Club 
 places on its record the following minute : |' 
 
 Thomas Hoyne was born in the city of New York, February 
 II, i<Si7,and was left an orphan at an early age, dependent upon 
 his own unaided exertions. He engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 with energy and success, but in 1836, commenced the study of 
 the law for which he had the strongest predilection, and in 1837 
 followed his friend, George Manierre, to Chicago, where he con- 
 tinued his legal studies, and being admitted to practice in 1839, 
 eiUered at once u[)on that career of distinction as a lawyer, which 
 placed and retained him to the day of his death among the fore- 
 most in the profession in his city and state. He was city clerk 
 in 1840; probate justice in 1847, 1848 to 1849; United States 
 district attorney in 1853; United States marshal in 1859; presi- 
 dent of the Yoimg Men's Association, of the law department and 
 of the board of trustees of the University, of the Public Library 
 Board; secretary of the Chicago .\stronomical Society; life 
 member of tiie Mechanics' Institute, the .Academy of Sciences 
 and the Chicago Histoiical Society; vi<;e-i)resident of the board 
 of the Hahnem;<nn College; president of the Jeffersonian Club; 
 
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 vice-president of the B.ir Association ; acting mayor of Cliicago, 
 etc., etc. Mr. Hoyne in these and other positions displayed 
 great ability and the highest degree of public spirit. 
 
 For more than forty years his eloquence has illuminated the 
 bar and the hustings; while his numerous published addresses 
 evince learning, culture, elegance of diction and soundness of 
 reasoning. He has been a prominent citizen of Chicago during 
 the whole life of the municipality, devoted to its interests, as- 
 sisting in sustaining its burdens, proud of its marvelous growth 
 and prosperity, and anxious for its good name. He has for so . 
 long been a part of its wonderful history that his unexpected 
 _ death falls with the weight Of a personal blow upon the entire 
 communitv. - 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was a democrat upon conviction. He professed 
 that creed which holds among its essential principles " the sup- 
 ]jort of the state governments in all their rights as the most com- 
 petent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest 
 bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies ; the preservation of 
 the general government in its whole constitutional vigor ds the 
 sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ;" economy 
 in the public expense and taxation limited to governmental wants, 
 that labor may be lightly burdened and not be despoiled of its 
 fruits ; the diffusion of information and the arraignment of all 
 abuses at the bar of public reason ; freedom of religion, of the 
 press, of thought and opinion, freedom of the person, of com- 
 merce and of avocation ; a jealous care of the right of election by 
 the ])eople and of the eijual rights of all men imvexed by mo- 
 nojjoly ; that creed which declares for a wise and frugal govern- 
 ment, confined to the protection of the rights of the citizen and 
 the ])reservation of social order, and having as little to do with 
 the general business and interests of the people as possible. 
 
 But while these principles placed hini in the school of con- 
 stitutional strict constructionists, no strictness of constitutional 
 construction could close his ears to the moan of the sh\c, or 
 weaken the force of his adherence to the cause of an undivided 
 union, in its darkest hour.   • ": 
 
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 He was a democrat, but not necessarilj' a partisan. His be- 
 lief was in first principles, and therefore the mere machinerj' of 
 party never obscured with him the great purposes, to subserve 
 which such machinery can only have legitimate existence. 
 
 And as above all things he abominated dishonesty, and could 
 not see why a man's life should not be as pure and a man's 
 heart as tender as a child's life and a child's heart, so he loathed 
 |)olitical corruption and shrank with abhorrence from that des- 
 pair of the republic which treats such corruption as inevitable 
 and to be tolerated accordingly. ;   j 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was one of the founders of this organization, and 
 largely instrumental in the achievement of the success which has 
 attended its efforts. He saw in it a means of elevating the tone 
 of party, of disseminating correct principles of government, and 
 of exerting a salutary influence upon the public welfare. 
 
 His wise counsels, his facile peu, his eloquent voice and his 
 delightful companionship will be sadly missed. | 
 
 His virtues will live in the recollections of his comrades, and 
 the remembrance of what he was and what he did will be trans- 
 mitted to those who will come after us, to be ever held in 
 honored memory. , , 
 
 Following the memorial, addresses were made b}' a 
 number of gentlemen, which, as an expression of the esti- 
 mate in which Mr. Hoj'ne was held by those who knew 
 him best, and as presenting varied views of his many- 
 sided character are appended. 
 
 Mr. M. W. Fuller: - 
 
 " Men must endure 
 Their soing hence, even as their coming hither. 
 Ripeness is all." 
 
 When the final summons came, our brother Hoyne re- 
 sponded, bringing his sheaves with him; the sheaves of a 
 well spent life, the garnered harvest of honorable profes- 
 
sional and business toil, and iiigh minded and public 
 spirited endeavor; of affectionate devotion to family and 
 friends, and of that upright walk and conversation, which 
 leaves a memory the world does not willing)}- let die. No 
 better illustration of the career open to all men under re 
 publican institutions can be imagined than is furnished by 
 the story of the orphaned bo}- who became the distin- 
 gbished, useful and beloved man whose departure wt- 
 now deplore. 
 
 Intellectual ability did much for Thomas Hoyne, bui 
 indomitable courage and perseverance, and unswerving 
 inteffritv did more. These enabled him to descrzr thf 
 success which that commanded, and to them were added 
 an intrepidity of utterance and a sincerity of conviction 
 so remarkable as in themselves to insure distinction. ..' ." 
 
 The tendency of the time, notwithstanding the roar of 
 much speaking, is to absolute silence or half inarticulate 
 expression on the part of man}- of the wise and thought- 
 ful. " Silent they are, though not content, and wait to see 
 the future come." But this tendency is rather natural 
 than commendable. To speak out is worth a great deal 
 Whatever the value of the utterance, there can be no ques- 
 tion of the value of having an utterance. Mr. Hoyne 
 was one of those who spoke out. I do not mean that he 
 indulged in talk for the mere sake of talking^ but that 
 having decided convictions upon subjects concerning the 
 public weal, he did not ponder in his tent, but gave open 
 and manly battle in support of his opinions. His repu-   
 tation was not diminished b}' this, but increased. ;. 
 
 A castle — to use the comparison of another — a castle 
 ma}' be defended by dropping the portcullis and drawing 
 up the bridge, or by sallying out upon the surrounding 
 country. Mr. Hoyne did not maintain his high charactei 
 
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 Ii}- taking refuge behind the entrenchments of caution, 
 but by attacking the enemy in the open field. The simple 
 honesty of his character \\as as marked as its fearlessness. 
 lie, in a just sense, kept himself unspotted from the world. 
 I le haled corruption, fie could not comprehend how 
 men could come to wear their spots as if they were jewels. 
 He absolutely abjured the theory that in politics or busi- 
 ness results cannot be reached except bj- processes that 
 stain. He refused to regard public or business aflairs as 
 pitch that could not be handled without defilement. Im- 
 petuous in action, his instincts naturally led him in the 
 right direction. Impetuous in speech, his speech was 
 naturally in support of that which was true and honest, 
 and of good report. ; ! 
 
 This is not the occasion on which to speak of Mr. 
 Hoj-ne's professional merits and standing. Tliis associa- 
 tion to whose organization and progress he contributed so 
 much, though largely social, is distinctively political. The 
 wise maxim, '• that is the best government that governs 
 least," found in Mr. Hoyne an ardent adherent. He was 
 opposed to centralization and in favor of individualism. 
 Helieving in local self-government, he was opposed to the 
 destruction of tiie rights of the States; a sincere lover of 
 the Union he utterlv rejected tiie idea of an inherent 
 power of dissolution among its members. With views of 
 political economy based upon the profound work which 
 with the declaration of independence signalized bv mon- 
 umental land-marks the close of the last century, he in- 
 dignantly denounced the doctrine which would interpose 
 artificial barriers to the beneficent action of commerce and 
 the intercourse of men and nations with each other. 
 Opposed to making a written constitution blank paper by 
 construction, he did not assent to improvements at the 
 
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 expense of the general government unless for objects of 
 distinctively national importance, and was, in any view, 
 against extravagant governmental expenditure. 
 
 He believed in the equal rights of all men before the . 
 law; the repression of monopoly; the purging of tiie pub- 
 lic service of corruption and inefficiency, and the applica- . 
 tion of the tests for admission to office of honest}' and 
 capacity. He was a Jeffersonian democrat, and died hi 
 . the conviction that the party to which he belonged would 
 be ultimately restored to power, having trampled under 
 its feet the follies, the blunders and the weakness which 
 for a time may have rendered it undeserving of the entiroT 
 confidence of the people. While to that party his death 
 is a sensible deprivation, he has left to it a bright example, 
 through the imitation of which his hopes will yet find full 
 realization. .; . ■, , ,. , 
 
 And so, Mr. President, we must bid him good-bye, but 
 in tiie sure and certain hope that we shall see him again. 
 This loving husband and father, this aflectionate brother 
 and friend, this good citizen, exemplified in himself that 
 need of loving and of being loved, which allouK an mi- 
 pregnable ground on which to base the glorious doctiitu 
 of immortalit}-. 
 
 The circle narrows as we go, 
 
 But only here; " * 
 
 Comrades in life to every heart most dear, ' 
 
 In the eternal realm we yet shaill know, 
 
 With a diviner knowledge than helovv. 
 
 
 Hon. Lv.m.\n Trumbull. 
 
 Mr. Presidknt: I came here this evening more out 
 of respect to the memory of our departed fi lend, and to 
 hear what should be said by others, than expecting to say 
 
6o 
 
 anything myself that would be new or of interest to those 
 ihat hear it. My acquaintance with Mr. Hoyne, although 
 it dates back, many years, was not intimate until recently, 
 .md never as intimate, probablj-, as that of many others. 
 I knew him as a lawyer many vears ago. I do not 
 remember now when I first met him, but for the last fif- 
 teen or twenty years I have met him more frequently and 
 known more of him. The characteristics of the man which 
 always struck me were his earnestness and frankness. 
 There was no concealment about him. He was out- 
 spoken. He was an enthusiastic man, an independent 
 man, a man of convictions, and a fearless man. He was 
 not afraid to avow his opinions. You always knew where 
 to find him. 
 
 The minute which has been prepared here shows he 
 has held various public positions, and I think it maj- be 
 said of him that he discliarged the duties of every one of 
 them satisfactorily, without any blemish upon his reputa- 
 tion. I did not know him as a lawyer as well as some 
 others, but he was a public-spirited man. Whatever was 
 started in the community where he lived, calculated to 
 benefit mankind, to relieve suffering, to improve society, 
 to advance education, had his hearty support. He was a 
 liberal man, liberal in his views, and with his means; and 
 as an evidence of the esteem in which he was held b\' those 
 who knew him, we saw at his funeral one of the largest 
 assemblages that ever convened on such an occasion — an 
 assemblage drawn together not by anj- imposing ceremo- 
 nies of military display or of societies to which he may have 
 belonged, but an outpouring of the people — which reminded 
 me of the most remarkable funeral which I ever attended, 
 where I saw the largest assemblage which f have ever 
 seen; where there was no military parade, no organized 
 
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 societies to swell the crowd, but where the streets for fivr 
 miles were lined with vast multitudes of people, drawn 
 together out of respect to the departed. Not a bell was 
 tolled, not a drum was beat, not a gun was fired, bui 
 with uncovered heads two hundred thousand people stood 
 silent as the bod\' was borne along to its last resting place. 
 I thought of this as I witnessed the large concourse of 
 people that assembled to pay their last respects to our 
 departed friend the other day. 
 
 So far as I know, Mr. Hoj-ne had no enemies, and that 
 is singular. That a man of his positive character, of his 
 decided opinions, of his open declaration of what he 
 thought, should have no enemies, is wonderful. A man 
 of that character is apt to create antagonism, and I can 
 only account for his not giving offense b}' the fact that 
 in the expression of his opinions and of his convictions, 
 he always carried with their declaration to his hearer 
 the conviction that he was sincere and honest in what 
 he said. He was permitted to ditier with others and 
 antagonize them in strong and decided language, ami 
 the}' put up with it without offense, for they knew he ' 
 was honest in his convictions. He was true; he was 
 fearless; he was liberal, and the world is better for his 
 havinjj been here. 
 
 As has been said here to-night, he was connected with 
 three generations; he belonged to that older class of the 
 community which is rapidl}' passing avva}'. Perhaps I 
 appreciate this more than some of the younger members 
 of the legal profession, and some of the y-ounge^ of his 
 acquaintances. One after another those with whom I 
 have been contemporary are parsing awa}'; but few arc 
 left, and it will be fortunate for the rest of us, whose end 
 draweth nigh, if, when our time comes, it can be said of 
 
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 US, as we may say to-day of Mr. Hovne — he was an 
 upright, an honest, a truthful man; he served his country 
 well, and has left an example worthy of imitation for all 
 ^vho follow him. 
 
 Mayor Harri.son. 
 
 Genti.emen: I hardly feel as if I were capable of say- 
 ing anything of Mr. Ho}-ne that would be of any interest 
 to this assemblage; I am not one of those who believe in 
 idle or empty panegyric. I believe it is too often the 
 habit of men to utter fulsome praise, following the old 
 maxim of " Dc niortnis nil nisi bonum.''^ I have known 
 Mr. Hoyne for many years. It is twenty-seven or twenty- 
 eight years since I first met liim, yet I can say probabl}- 
 that I never knew him intimately. I should judge from 
 his manner and bearing that but few men could know 
 him intimately; his bearing, manner and character had 
 that dignity tliat could be called severe; a reserve that 
 was almost hard; that would prevent many from ap- 
 proaching too closel\- to liim, and allowing but a ver3- few 
 to become intimately his friends. Though meeting him 
 quite often socially, a great many times in ordinary gath- 
 erings of men and women — not infrequently on public 
 occasions, and quite often in discussions and consultations 
 regarding the affairs of the city, or on business, I arrived 
 at this conclusion as to his character: that his was an 
 earnest character — so earnest that it mijxht be called 
 intense. 
 
 It is some twenty-seven years ago, I think, that I 
 happened to be passing by some place here in this locality, 
 where there was public speaking going on. I was com- 
 
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 paratively a new comer. I went in, and Mr. Hoj-rt^^Wiq 
 making a speech. The impression that he convej^e 
 me then has never left me; that is, the impression of u 
 man (rreatlv in earnest in whatever he said and what - 
 ever he did. All of my intercourse with him since then 
 has rather increased the feeling that I then had. I can 
 say this for Mr. Hoyne, that his earnestness was that of oni; 
 never giving his talents to anything that was little, anti" 
 always for the good of the public. As Mr. Leitet 
 remarked in his letter, he was an intense hater of shams; 
 so intense that he oftentimes thought things were shams 
 simply because he had not looked into them, and despised 
 the thing so much, that many things were shams to hini 
 that probably were not really so. I have had a good 
 deal of intercourse with him in connection with city 
 aflairs and public affairs. I never knew one in all my • 
 life more earnest than he was in his desire to see th;U 
 done which was for the good of this city and this people. 
 He would often approach me with almost vitupei-ations 
 about something that was going on not according to whai 
 he thought was just right, but after talking for awhile 
 and showing him that he might be mistaken, I always 
 found that he was readv to concede to artjument thai 
 which was due to argument. 
 
 He was always ready to look within, even though h( 
 came with the intention of smashing what appeared to him 
 to be a wrong, but when he saw that it was right, ho 
 readily conceded it, although sometimes it was a little- 
 difficult for him to acknowledge it for some time. I do 
 not think I know of a man who has lived in Chicago since 
 I have been here, who could be said to be more sincereK * 
 patriotic than he was. He admired Chicago, he loved it; 
 and his irftscibility was aroused to its highest pitch when 
 
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 lie thought any one was intending to do that which he 
 thought was wrong, or which would trench on the rights 
 i)f the people and upon the rights of this city. 
 
 That he was an honest man, none that knew him well 
 could for a moment doubt. With great prejudices; yet I 
 never knew his prejudices, when we were together, not 
 readily yielding to that which he thought was honest, 
 and he always despised and reprobated that which 
 was dishonest. I am one of those who believe that the 
 proudest feeling a man can have when approaching his 
 end, is that his fellow-men can say, when they approach 
 his tomb: " Here lies an honest man." All other charac- 
 teristics fall as nothing in weight compared to that: 
 I believe Mr. Hoyne was of that character. He was 
 blunt in the extreme; yet there was, with all of his 
 bluntness and his reserve, a warmth of heart that, when 
 he took \ou by the hand, even though he said but little, 
 made j'ou Jeel that there was the grasp of a warm heart 
 behind. | 
 
 But few men have lived here who will leave a better 
 record than he has left. His example is one that all 
 should follow; a kind father — that I know, for I have 
 seen him among his famil}' — a loving nusband, a patriotic 
 citizen and an honest man. Write that epitaph upon his 
 tombstone — and no one can have that epitaph written in 
 letters more bold and more brilliant. 
 
 We all know that he was a man of strong intellect. He 
 was critical, 3-et the characteristic of his mind was 
 strength more than anything else. He was a strong man. 
 A strong and earnest man. We here, as members of 
 this club, may well regret his untimely taking ofT. As 
 citizens and as democrats, members of this brotherhood, 
 we shall always regret the man who was taken from us. 
 
because we regarded him as one of the strong, earnest 
 inen of our city and of our club. I- *• ' ' ■', 
 
 I am glad the club has met together to express in reso- 
 lutions their admiration of his character, and I only regret 
 that I cannot sa}' sometiiing that would make stronger 
 what has already been expressed. 
 
 Judge Thos. A. Moran. ..• 
 
 Mr. Chairman: It is natural for a law^-er, when he 
 comes to speak of a deceased brother in the profession, to 
 speak of him from a professional standpoint, as he is more 
 likely to know him from that than from any other point 
 of view. As has been well said by a gentleman who pre- 
 ceded me, however, his professional character and stand- 
 ing, so high and eminent at this bar, will be more appro- 
 priatelv spoken of at a meeting of his professional 
 brethren. Here the aspect in which we are to call to 
 recollection the characteristics of our deceased friend is in 
 that view of his character that pertains more particular!}' 
 to him as a citizen. 
 
 It has been well said that he was the friend and adviser 
 of three generations of men, the old settlers, the middle- 
 aged men, and the young men of to-da}'. I suppose I 
 may fairl}' class mjself among those of the middle age. 
 My acquaintance with Mr. Iloyne commenced about the 
 year 1866, but it was not intimate until the occasion when 
 he was elected by such an overwhelming majorit\- of the 
 people as acting mayor of this city. Circumstances threw 
 me into familiar relations with him during the time that 
 he administered the affairs of the city, and from that time 
 to this I have regarded myself as one of his close and 
 
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 warm friends. Much has been said, and all that has been 
 said is true, with reference to the character of Mr. Hoyne, 
 and much that I would have said myself, has been said, 
 and it is left, therefore, only for me to allude to one 
 or two aspects in which I think he is to be remembered; 
 and one is this: one of the dangers of to-day, one of the 
 things that thoughtful men, it seems to me, in this time 
 have their attention most directed to, and are seeking 
 most carefully to guard against, is what may be known as 
 infamous political methods. j 
 
 Now, one of the impressions that Mr. Hoyne always 
 made upon me, in all the intercourse that I had with him, 
 political and otherwise, was this, he saw a principle 
 clearl}', he was a strong believer in his part}' faith, he 
 ardently desired to have that party creed carried into 
 political action by the success of his part}'; but he utterly- 
 abhorred and detested the idea that that political faith 
 should ever be carried into political action by anything 
 like a dishonest political method. There was nothing 
 about him that was sly. He was not a manager; he was 
 not a wirepuller. There was no chicane or intrigue about 
 him. He did not know how to make such a fight as 
 that. As has been well said, he walked out into the open 
 fields where there was plenty of room all around him, 
 and there he invited the attack of his enemy, and there 
 he stood and maintained his ground. That was his char- 
 acteristic in political action. He made, a square, manly, 
 upright fight for political principle, and he had an utter 
 detestation and intense abhorrence of everything like 
 political chicane, political intrigue, or infamous political 
 methods or action. 
 
 Now, in losing iiim at this time, when there is so little 
 — so little, I may be permitted to say, without intending 
 
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 to enter upon the domain of party politics — so little 
 that in principle divides the parties, when it seems 
 to me it is more a question of political methods, honest 
 political methods, than anything else, the loss of such a 
 man at this time is a great loss. Let us as democrats 
 remember and profit by the example of our dead friend. 
 Let us recollect that no matter how ardently we maj* 
 desire the control of the government, that our principles 
 may be carried out, and that, as we believe, honest 
 methods may be introduced, we can never afford from the 
 standpoint of our dead friend — we can never afford to take 
 the control of the government through any other than 
 honest and American methods. That was one phase of his 
 character that has impressed itself upon me so strongl}- 
 that, if I never had read the lesson elsewhere in my 
 life, I never should be able to forget it. ' ' : . 
 
 Another thought occurs to me. Thomas Hoyne has, 
 in my opinion, without attempting to give him any ful- 
 some or e.xtraordinary praise, impressed himself more 
 upon the city of Chicago as a city, than any other man 
 within my knowledge. I know of no man now, I can 
 think of none, living or dead, who has impressed himself 
 on the city of Chicago so strongly and so markedly as 
 Thomas Hoyne. Fellow citizens, just reflect for a moment, 
 how many things have been done, have been accomplished 
 that would not have been accomplished if he had not been 
 a citizen of Chicago, and how many things are left undone 
 that would have .been done if he had not been a citizen 
 of Chicago. Why, you can imagine it gentlemen, but it 
 cannot be computed. He was to his political enemies a 
 terror, and man}' schemes, many efforts to despoil the 
 public, would have come to the front and have been suc- 
 cessful, if it had not been for fear of the Hon -like indigna- 
 
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 tion oft Thomas Hoyne. He was a terror to his political 
 enemioS in that respect, and he was a mentor, sir, to his 
 political friends. Wiiy, I can almost see, as the news 
 came to him that some scheme was under way — as the 
 idea came to him that something was going to be done 
 to injure tlie character of the citv, to bring disgrace upon 
 it, or to put him or his political friends in a wrong atti- 
 tude — I can almost see him as with Jove-like front he 
 assailed the first man that he met upon the streets whom 
 he thought connected with it, and he assailed him in terms 
 tiiat were not to be misunderstood; and he assailed him, 
 as Judge Trumbull says, with an air and with language 
 that imparted to the individual that whether Hojme was 
 rigiit or wrong, Hoyne was honest and in earnest. 
 
 These were the characteristics of Thomas Ho^-ne, and 
 I say he has left his impression on the city of Chicago. 
 He was an ideal citizen of Chicago. He heartily par- 
 ticipated in everything that was undertaken ^or the benefit 
 of the city. He helped it along, and he was a hot and 
 heavy antagonist of everything that he regarded as being 
 against its interest, and nothing of that kind triumphed 
 witliout a figlit with Tiiomas Ho3-ne. I cannot help 
 thinking that when some scheme of plunder is devised in 
 this cit}-; when some intrigue comes to light — as it may- 
 come in the future — winding itself about the municipality, 
 shall we not stand and sa\-, " O, for thirty minutes of 
 honest Thomas Hoyne's liot indignation to arouse honest 
 men, and to strike terror to schemers!" I 
 
 Such allusions may be out of place on an occasion like 
 this, but what I wish to emphasize is this, such a man as 
 Mr. Hoyne ought not to be let live and die without teach- 
 ing his lesson. Quick in temper, perhaps sometimes 
 hasty in judgment, but always honest in speech and in 
 
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 action, he did not, as many citizens do, who are intelligent, 
 and see as clearly as he did, he did not sit quietly by and 
 criticise in a whisper. There are two kinds of good citi- 
 zens, sir. There is the good, intelligent citizen who goes 
 down to his business every day, who pays his debts hon- 
 estly, who pays his taxes when the bill is presented, who 
 reads his newspaper, and who in his family or with his 
 next door neighbor criticises the public acts, denounces 
 public corruption and abuses a public officer who has been 
 guilty of some wrong, but who does not attend political 
 meetings, does not go to the primary, frequently neglects 
 to cast his vote, and thus makes no impression whatever 
 upon the politics of his time. 
 
 There is the other citizen who is a model citizen, who 
 thinks intelligently, who is informed in public affairs, who 
 sees what is going on, who, whether he is in office or out 
 of office, perceiving that something must be done, does 
 not whisper in the ear of his neighbor, does not secretly- 
 think in his own heart, but goes out and goes into action 
 at once. And such a model citizen was Thomas Hoyne, 
 and such was his example for us, and Mr. President, in 
 the hope that such an example shall not be lost, in the hope 
 that among the citizens of Chicago who knew him, among 
 those who are left, some man may be found to in part take 
 his place, and give honest expression ta such thoughts as 
 were frequently expressed by Mr. Hoyne, not seeking 
 self, not seeking office, but seeking merely the public 
 weal, and expressing to friend and to foe alike, honest con- 
 victions, outspoken and manly, in the hope and belief that 
 his life will have taught this lesson, I, can safely say no 
 better example could be set, no higher lesson taught by 
 the life of any citizen. 
 
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 ' Judge M. F. Tuley. 
 
 Gentlemen : I expected to be silent on this occasion. 
 I knew that there were many others here who could better 
 speak of Mr. Hoyne, and I, myself, feel so deeply his loss 
 that I am unable to properly express my feelings in 
 regard thereto, and my high appreciation of him as a man 
 and as a citizen. I have known Mr. Hoyne for many 
 years, quite intimatel}- since 1869, when I occupied the 
 position of corporation counsel,_and was drawn in connec- 
 tion with him in the various matters relative to the inter- 
 ests of the city. I, like many others, admired his sturd\- 
 independence of character, and his great devotion to the 
 public interests. He was an extraordinary man in this 
 particular, that with him the public interest was alwa3's 
 first, his private interests secondary, and he was one 
 of the few men of my acquaintance that appeared to 
 have a proper appreciation of his duties to society, his 
 relative duties as a member of society and a citizen. He 
 was not absorbed entirely in the pursuit of self-gratifica- 
 tion or self-interest, but he recognized that his first duly 
 was to the public. Eie was the enemy of all kinds of 
 corruption. He hated all kinds of cunning, artifice and 
 treachery. I have many times discussed public matters 
 with him and always with great profit. 
 
 I learned in our many long walks together, not onl\' to 
 admire him, but to have a strong affection for him. Lean 
 only add, Mr. President and gentlemen, that I concur in 
 all the eulogy that has been passed upon him, and that 1 
 join with all present in deploring his loss. 
 
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 Mr. C. P. Kimball. " ,v 
 
 Mr. President and Gentlemen: It would hardly 
 seem fit for me to attempt to add anything to what has 
 already been so ably and admirably said regarding our 
 deceased friend. 
 
 I came to Chicago to make this my future home seven 
 3'ears ago the coming November. Within a ver\' few 
 weeks after I came here I was invited to spend the even- 
 ing with a friend, and there for the first time met Mr. 
 Ho^-ne, and all of you people who have changed your 
 residence at anything near middle life, will remember the 
 impression that every man makes upon j'ou when you first 
 see him. There is not a public man or a prominent 
 business man in Chicago with whom it has been my 
 good fortune within the last seven years to become 
 acquainted, and mj' business makes my acquaintance in 
 that wa}', that has not left an impression of some kind on 
 my mind. 
 
 I often think that the impressions I first receive are too 
 strong, that I ought to be more careful, and not form so 
 positive an opinion upon a man's character upon so short 
 an acquaintance, but I generally find that the first impres- 
 sion is the correct one. Mr. Hoyne made a marked 
 impression on my mind the first time I met him; he was 
 so cordial, so kind, so generous, that before I parted with 
 him that evening it seemed to me he had been my life- 
 long friend, and from that moment I formed a friendship 
 for him that I seldom form for any tnatj. I admired, and 
 soon learned to actually love him. 1 ' " • . .• - 
 
 A.S he passed back and forth from his business he often 
 called at my place of business. Only a few days before 
 he, left for the east he called and we had. a delightful chat 
 
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 together, which I enjoyed immensely. I never met Mr. 
 Hoyne and parted from him when I did not feel that I 
 had learned something. I always say when I go to church 
 and hear a minister preach, if I do not know a little more 
 when I go home than I did when I went to church, it was 
 time lost. I do not think I ever left Mr. Hoyne when I 
 did not feel that I knew a little more than when I met 
 him. There was that peculiar characteristic about him 
 that ingratiated him into your heart at once; and every 
 word that has been said here to-night about his marvel- 
 ous character struck me forcibly in all respects. I never 
 saw a man in my life that more thoroughl)' impressed me 
 with the purity of his character, the high and lofty aims 
 and aspirations in every sense of the word than Thomas 
 Hoyne. He was as pure as a child. He was earnest and 
 unyielding against ever3'thing that he thought was wrong, 
 and as earnest and unyielding for everything he thought 
 was right, and no man, however gifted he may be, and 
 we have Chicago's most gifted sons here to-night, and no 
 one of tiiem, in my judgment, has over-estimated his 
 characteristics, or has over-praised his good qualities and 
 his good character, and no one can possibly express the 
 terrible loss that this state, this city, this club, and his 
 friends have met in the death of our dear, good friend. 
 
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 Col. Shirley. 
 
 Mr. ChaiRi^ian: I feel most deeply the solemnity of this 
 occasion, and bring here these wild flowers of affection as 
 my offering to the memory of our departed brother. Per- 
 haps no member of this club has known the deceased 
 longer than I have in the city of Chicago. In the fall of 
 
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 1849 I bore a letter of introduction to now Judge Mark 
 Skinner, who was then a partner with Mr. Hoyne, and 
 became acquainted with Mr. Hoyne at that time; and 
 since then up to the time of his death, my acquaint- 
 ance with him was of such a character that I knew him 
 and understood him thoroughly. There was scarcely a 
 week when he was in Chicago that I did not meet him 
 and talk with him. I believe I understood his character; 
 and of all the men I have ever known anywhere at any 
 place I never have known a more bold, fearless, just and 
 upright man. He did nothing for popularity's sake. 
 He did not care when he had espoused a cause and was 
 battling against what he believed to be wrong, whether it 
 pleased the populace or not. He did not think what this 
 man would say or that man would say about him, and 
 how they would vote if he should become a candidate 
 before the people; and in this day of demagogism, of 
 sham, hj'pocrisy and pretense, it is refreshing to contem- 
 plate such a character as Thomas Hoyne's. It is good to- 
 think about it. It is good for us here to talk about it. It 
 is good for us to remember it. It is a lesson that many 
 men who may esteem themselves wise in this world might 
 profit by. 
 
 He was not a plumed knight, because he disdained the 
 pomp and pageantry of show. What he loved of knight- 
 hood was its cause — its cause! He cared nothing about 
 the show, he cared nothing about the plaudits, but when 
 he saw the cause, when there were wrong-doers, wher> 
 an injury was about to be inflicted upon his country or 
 his cit}', or individuals or persons, whether it came from 
 a titled tyrant or a legalized monopoly, Thomas Hoyne, 
 as a true knight, despising the tinsel of show, but seizing 
 the weapons of warfare, the battle-ax, the spear, the 
 
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 shield and the sword, like Richard of the Lion Heart, he 
 was ever where the fight was the fiercest, dealing stun- 
 ning blows right and left, thick and heavy, upon the 
 i-nemy. Ah! he was a true man! and there are very few 
 iA them. There are so few that we cannot afford to lose 
 them, and when we do lose them we should come and 
 mingle our tears at the loss, and deplore that there are so 
 few left of such men. 
 
 It is a very remarkable thing in this day, when we find 
 men who are always ready to defend the right, regard- 
 less of consequences. He would not go in a political 
 convention and see a bad man nominated because it would 
 be for the partA's benefit to have him on the ticket. He 
 would denounce that man. He would denounce him so 
 that the people would drop him. Everything with him 
 was for principle, nothing for show, and I say we want 
 a great many such men now. His whole career from the 
 very day that I met him — and what a splendid, magnifi- 
 cent man he was — the very impersonation of manly man- 
 hood, and the very first day that I saw him, up to a few 
 days before he left, when I conversed with him on the 
 street, he was ever the bold champion of the people's 
 rights, their protector and their defender under all circum- 
 stances, whether it was popular or unpopular! 
 
 Now, such a man is a great loss; not only a loss to 
 this club, and a loss to the count}', and a loss to the city, 
 but a loss to the great north-west. He did not care any- 
 thing about political office. He cared nothing about it. 
 If he thought that he could serve the people, if he thought 
 he could serve the interests of Chicago, and it was for 
 them and not for himself, he might take an'office, but it 
 was an office that was thrust upon him. He never sought 
 it: he did not want it; he would not have it. And why? 
 
Because he wished to be in an independent position, 
 where he could defend the people's rights, and where he 
 would not have to look behind him to see what this or 
 that man was saying about him. He cared nothing for 
 what was said. He may have done wrong, he may have 
 made mistakes, but he always intended and aimed to do 
 w^at was right. -. _ . C.. 
 
 Now, we should indeed mourn the loss of such a man. 
 O sir, let the sod rest lightly upon his manly form! Let 
 the summer flowers bloom and shed their fragrance on 
 his grave! Let the falling leaves of Autumn sigh a re- 
 quiem! Let the vernal showers weep over his grave, 
 and when seasons come and go, and go and come^ let 
 them point to the hallowed spot where rest the remain.s 
 of a man — 
 
 — " take him for all in all, • ♦".", 
 
 We shall not look upon his like again." , -.:   
 
 Judge H. M. Shepard. • . - 
 
 Mr. Chairman: I shall not detain the club very long, 
 and I should say nothing except for what Colonel Shirley 
 has said, that it is good for us to talk about such a man. 
 
 It is pleasing always to speak of the good qualities of 
 others. It is not often we have an occasion such as we 
 have here to-night, to speak of the memory of a man so 
 great, so truly great as Mr. Hoyne was. I do not esteem 
 it essential at all, that a man shall hold lofty public posi- 
 tion to be great, or considered great, although in daijy 
 _ j)arlance we only speak of men as great who fill exalted 
 stations. . We forget that in private life a station as exalted 
 as that of Mr. Hoyne bears fruit much richer than that 
 which comes perhaps from public trusts. 
 
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 It is not appearances, not so much what men do, as it 
 is the results produced from their doings, that consti- 
 tute greatness; and measured by such a test Mr. Hoyne 
 stands high in the ranks. Resistless in energy, he was 
 typical of this city, which he loved so zealously, and whose 
 broad foundations he so materially helped to lay. That 
 broad-minded, far-sighted, courageous set of men who, in 
 a single generation, created this great city, included no 
 man of clearer purpose, higher resolve, or more deter- 
 mined action, than Thomas Hoyne, and the results of 
 their labors will outlast the deeds of many who, accord- i 
 ing to the maxims of the world, are styled great. 
 
 There is one thing that I have not heard mentioned 
 about Mr. Iloyne to-night that I think should not be 
 passed over even by this club, although there has been 
 so much said in his praise, and that is the versatility of 
 the man. lie seemed to know something about almost 
 everything. He was a student^ and although his educa- 
 tion was so limited in early years, by persistent applica- 
 tion he had learned more than most men know, even of 
 books; and of all things he knew far more than not only 
 the average man, but far more than many men who make 
 professions of great knowledge. 
 
 Speaking of him politically, and perhaps that is what 
 this club would naturally address itself to more than to 
 any other pha.se or part of his character — for there will 
 be scientific associations that will speak of him in his 
 capacity as a patron of the sciences — there will be insti- 
 tutions of learning that will pass resolutions commending 
 his endeavors to advance learning, and there will be 
 meetings of his professional brethren, where encomiums 
 will be passed upon his career as a member of the bar, 
 but this club, as was said by th& gentleman who first 
 
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 spoke this evening, this club, perhaps, is the place to 
 speak of him politically, and a great deal, has been said 
 about his honesty in politics, in all of which I concur. , . 
 
 That honesty went through all his life, in ever3-thing 
 that he did. So far as I have ever seen or heard, he 
 was remarkable in that respect, and the impression made 
 upon me at his funeral was one of the universal love felt 
 for the man here among all classes of people. 
 
 I never saw at a funeral of anybody, unless it was 
 some funeral where crowds were attracted by display — I 
 never was at a funeral in my life where there seemed to 
 be all grades and classes of society represented as there 
 was at his. St. Mary's Church was filled with the richest 
 and the humblest of Chicago's citizens. There were serv- 
 ant girls there, and laboring men there, millionaires Were 
 there, judges were there, and all classes^ of men came 
 there upon the shortest notice. And why did they come.- 
 It was a question that presented itself to me at the time, 
 and I could not help but think they came because his 
 career was such, and his friendliness for all classes of 
 humanit}', so to speak, was so great, that they could not 
 help coming. It was a little tribute they wanted to pay, 
 and they had come from all parts of the city to do it. He 
 liked the people perhaps better than the}' knew, although 
 he seemed always to be reserved and a little beyond ap- 
 proach, and the people alwaj-s loved him because I think 
 the}' had such great confidence in him. 
 
 He believed the people were the proper source of curb- 
 ing wrong. He believed, so to speak, in that paternalism 
 in government where the paternity rested in the people. 
 He believed that the source of power went from the peo- 
 ple to the government, and not from the government to 
 the people. He believed that in order to make this nation 
 
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 great it was better to have the people strong than to have 
 a strong government. That was the principle that I have 
 no doubt actuated him. In all that he did and in all 
 public measures he wanted the people to be the source of 
 strength. He believed in that thoroughly, and in that 
 way was a bright example, and we should keep that 
 thing in mind, I think, when we see so many looking to 
 the government for protection and not to the people. 
 
 I had not made any sort of preparation to make any 
 remarks here, and I had no expectation of doing so. I 
 was only led to do so because of Colonel Shirley's saying 
 it is good to talk about such a character. 
 
 Mr. A, F. Seeberger, in response to the call of the 
 president, declined extended remarks, but expressed the 
 fullest concurrence with the expressions of the meeting, 
 and in few words paid a feeling and appreciative tribute 
 to the memory of the deceased. 
 
 A letter was also received from Mr. L. Z. Leiter, re- 
 gretting his necessary absence and ex'pressing his high 
 regard for the character, and sorrow for the loss of Mr. 
 Hoyne. 
 
 Ithicago Historical Society. 
 
 The Historical Society, at its next meeting after the 
 death of Mr. Hoyne, appointed a committee to prepare a 
 memorial. Owing to the ill-health of the chairman of the 
 committee, the Hon. John Wentworth, the report was 
 delayed until the meeting of the society in October, 1884, 
 
when an extended biographical sketch and tribute to the 
 character and public services of Mr. Hoyne was reported 
 by Mr. Wentworth and accepted by the society. As the 
 memorial has already been published by the Historical 
 Society, it is not repeated here, but the following extract 
 indicates the societj-'s appreciation of Mr. Ho3-ne, and re- 
 flects some phases of his character and public services 
 not so fully presented elsewhere:   ...... 
 
 Whereas, During the vacation of this society, on the night of 
 the 27th of July, 1883, by an accident upon the Rome, Water- 
 town and Ogdensburg railroad, near Carlyon, in the State of New 
 York, Chicago lost one of its oldest and most valuable citizens, 
 the cause of Chicago's early history one of its most ardent de- 
 votees, and this society one of its most active members, it 'is 
 responsive to the sentiments of his colleagues in this body that 
 the following expression should be placed upon its record. 
 
 Thomas Hoyne was born in New York City, February 11, 
 181 7. At the age of thirteen he was an orphan without means. 
 He arrived at Chicago September i, 1837. In the autumn of 
 1838 he was a school teacher near the corner of Lake and Canal 
 streets, and the district committee-men who employed him, 
 Asahel Pierce, Francis H. Taylor and Anson S. Sherman, still 
 live, as well as the school inspector, John Wentworth, who first 
 met him there. Chicago's highly respected old citizen, and for 
 a long time Justice of the Peace and Alderman, Calvin DeWolf, 
 was his predecessor in the school. Previous to him was C. S. 
 Bailey. He early distinguished himself as an organizer of 
 lyceums and as a participant in the debates therein. In 1840 he 
 was elected City Clerk. During this year (September 1 7) he mar- 
 ried, when he was at the age of 23, Leonora, the daughter of Dr. 
 John T. Temple, one of our oldest and most respected citizens. 
 In 1847 he was Judge of Probate, United States District Attor- 
 ney in 1853, United States Marshal in 1859, and ad interim and 
 de facto Mayor, elected by an almost unanimous vote during the, 
 timeof our city's greatest emergency, in 1876. 
 
 During a residence of over forty years he was an active, use- 
 
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 fill and exemplary citizen, always fearlessly outspoken in the 
 cause of economy, honesty, liberty and progress. Honest 
 money, equivalent to its fiice in gold, never had a more devoted 
 champion than Thomas Hoyne. His word was as good as his 
 note, and he never sought or used a charter to cloak his in- 
 dividual dishonor. He ever rejected the doctrine that a man 
 should not be held responsible in this world or in the next for 
 his acts inside of a corporation, always regarding his corporate 
 honor as sacred as his personal. He could never understand how 
 one and the same person could be a saint in his individual 
 capacity and a demon in his corporate capacity. He was an ac- 
 tive member of the Union Defense Committee during the war, 
 ami of tlie Municipal Reform Qlub after it closed. He was one 
 of the earliest protestants against the encroachments of the slave 
 power upon our free territories. 
 
 As an early and ardent advocate of our park system there may 
 be those who may contest priority with him. But to him belongs 
 the undis[)uted credit of originating the idea of a continuous 
 line of boulevards around our city. | • 
 
 As a preventer of corporate encroachments upon individual 
 rights, Chicago has not had an abler inan than Thomas Hoyne. 
 He was always a man for an emergency, abounding in moral 
 courage and having jniblic confidence at his back. The people 
 could ever trust Thomas Hoyne, and he never abused this trust. 
 He was a leading member of the Chicago Bar, and no man was 
 more highly respected by the judiciary or his professional 
 brethren. 
 
 His personal activity and strength of mind increased with age, 
 and he has left to his seven children (of every one of whom any 
 jjarent could be proud) a rich legacy in his doctrine, illustrated 
 by his example, that personal, professional, corporate, religious, 
 financial and political honor is identical and inseparable. As an 
 impromptu orator to miscellaneous crowds suddenly met in pub- 
 lic places, Chicago has had no equal to Thomas Hoyne, and no 
 man has ever lived to question the sincerity of>his motives in his 
 unstudied efforts to arouse the masses to a sense of the injustice 
 inflicted upon them. 
 
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 Thii society, recognizing the value of the services and ex- 
 ample of such an early and long-tried citizen as Thomas Hoyne, 
 does hereby as token of deserved and heart-felt respect, 
 
 Resolve, That a copy of this preamble and testimonial be 
 entered upon its records and a copy thereof be forwarded to his 
 bereaved family ; and furthermore, that a portrait of him be re-, 
 quested of them to be hung upon the walls of this institution, to 
 remain as a memorial to posterity of one of the brightest orna- 
 ments of Chicago's early history. 
 
 Public Library. 
 
 At a special meeting of the board of directors of the 
 Chicago Public Library, held July 31, 1883, the following 
 resolutions were unanimously adopted: 
 
 Whereas, death has suddenly removed from our midst the 
 Hon. Thomas Hoyne, who was president of the board of direct- 
 ors of the Chicago Public Library during all its early years, the 
 present board of directors desire to record their high apprecia- 
 tion of his eminent abilities, his great worth of character, and 
 his untiring labors for the public good. - ., - 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Hoyne the Public Library 
 has lost its most able supporter, to whose wisdom and adminis- 
 trative ability the library is largely indebted for its successful or- 
 ganization and permanent prosperity. 
 
 Resolved, That in his death we mourn the loss of a large- 
 souled, philanthropic, gifted and honored citizen, who. has con- 
 tributed in a very marked degree to the growth and success of 
 our institutions of learning and science and philanthropy, and 
 
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 the influence of whose noble and active life is deeply enstamped 
 upon the heart and life of the city itself. 
 
 Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his afflicted family, 
 and will attend the funeral services in a body. \ 
 
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 Union ttoUege of Lauj. 
 
 At a calted meeting, June 14, 1883, the Union College 
 of Law took the following action: 
 
 Soon after our last annual meeting, our esteemed presi- 
 dent was suddenly taken from us by one of those frightful 
 railroad disasters, which too frequently desolate our 
 homes; and now, not simply on account of his office in 
 this board, but pre-eminently on account of his great 
 worth, as a man, and the value of his services for many 
 years to this college of law, we feel impelled to record our 
 high estimate of him, that those who, in future years, shall 
 read these records, may know how true and how great a 
 man shaped the policy of this school during the first years 
 of its history. ] 
 
 Connected, as he was, almost from its beginning, vyith 
 the University of Chicago, as one of its trustees, he was 
 the first to insist that a department of law should be 
 created, and when his purpose was realized he laid the 
 foundation of its endowment by a contribution of five 
 thousand dollars; and when, with characteristic enterprise, 
 the Northwestern University determined to create a law 
 department, such was the catholicity of Mr. Hoyne, that 
 
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 he at once proposed that the University of Chicago and 
 the Northwestern University should unite in sustaining 
 the same school of law, and thus avoid the unnecfessarx^ 
 multiplication of law schools in our city. From this wise 
 and liberal suggestion there sprung our Union College of 
 Law, of whose joint board of management Mr. Hoyne 
 was for so many years president. , .• , ■•   .• ." 
 
 As to his characteristics, as a man, we wish to make 
 record of what seems to us to be the universal verdict; he 
 was strictly honest and frank, often to his own personal 
 detriment — one of those sincere souls through which the 
 sunlight streams, so that nothing is hidden. He held his 
 opinions firmly without a trace of bigotr}', and he was 
 liberal without extravagance. He was thoroughl}' devoted 
 to the public good, and nothing seemed to stir the depths 
 of his righteous indignation so much as any selfish 
 measure or scheme that might militate against the wel- 
 fare of his adopted city. Take him all and in all, he was 
 a rare man, and it will be no easy task to fill his place. 
 In view of his great personal worth and of his invaluable 
 service to this college of law, be it ■;■ ,;:. 
 
 Resolved, That while we bow in humble submission to the 
 providence of God, we deplore the immeasurable loss to this 
 college of law of its founder and most enthusiastic and devoted 
 benefactor. 
 
 Hesoh'eii, That we will endeavor by our liberality of senti- 
 ment, and by our devotion and zeal to imitate our departed 
 brother, and to supply, so far as we are able, by renewed effort 
 on our part, the service of which we have been deprived by his 
 lamented death. 
 
 Rseolved, That a copy q£ this statement and of these resolu- 
 tions be sent to the family of the deceased, with whom we pro- 
 foundly sympathize in their great sorrow, and to both of our 
 universities. 
 
Faculty of the (Dollege of Lauj. 
 
 The faculty of the College of Law unanimously adopted 
 the following minute prepared by Judge Booth, Dean of 
 the faculty: I 
 
 The faculty of the Union College of Law desire to join in 
 the universal expression of grief that has found utterance upon 
 the sudden death of our much esteemed fellow-citizen, Thomas 
 Hoyne, to bear testimony to the rare excellence of his character, 
 and to convey to the relatives of the deceased our heartfelt 
 sympathy in this great calamity. 
 
 In the death of Mr. Hoyne, the people of our city have lost 
 one of their most active and public-spirited citizens, a leader in 
 every worthy enterprise, a man of unswerving integrity, of whom 
 it can be said with peculiar emphasis, that : 
 
 " Even his failings leaned to virtue's side." I 
 
 As the founder of this College of Law, and at all times the 
 constant friend and supporter, who gave his money freely for its 
 endowment, and has always been ready to contribute his time 
 and wise counsel in its behalf, we feel that a debt of gratiude is 
 due to him as to none other, and we shall bear his noble gener- 
 osity and zeal in the promotion of legal education in loving, 
 grateful and lasting remembrance. 
 
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 Umuersity of Ithicago. 
 
 At a special meeting of the board of trustees of the 
 University of Chicago, held at the Grand Pacific hotel, 
 at three o'clock p. m., Monday, July 30, 1883, the Hon. 
 James R. Doolittle in the chair, and the Rev. Justin A. 
 Smith, secretary, the president of the university stated 
 that he had called the meeting to take appropriate action 
 in relation to the death of Mr. Thomas Hoyne, one of the 
 trustees, and had requested Mr. J. Young Scammon, an 
 old and special friend of Mr. Hoyne, to prepare a paper 
 to be submitted to the meeting. 
 
 Mr. Scammon then presented the following memorial 
 and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 
 
 1. The sudden removal from this life of the Honorable 
 Thomas Hoyne, LL. D., by one of those frightful railroad ca- 
 lamities, which alike shock our sensibilities and demand greater 
 vigilance on the part of those engaged in the transportation or 
 carriage of human beings, which occurred on the Rome, Water- 
 town and Ogdensburgh railroad, at Carlyon, New York, on the 
 night of the 27th of July, A. D. 1883, demands from the trus- 
 tees of the University of Chicago more than a passing tribute.   
 
 2. Mr. Hoyne has occupied so large a space in the public 
 history of our city and state, in official positions of great promi- 
 nence and responsibility, that it may be becoming to us, the 
 representatives of a purely educational institution, to confine 
 this memorial to him as a member of this board and as a patron 
 of the university. Nevertheless, we may be permitted to put 
 
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 among the archives of our seat of learning, the historical fact 
 
 " that besides his prominence as a citizen and lawyer, he has been 
 
 clothed with both judicial and magisterial power by our state, 
 
   and has represented the national government both as its ofificial 
 
 counselor and attorney and its judicial executive ofificer, while 
 
 we especially commemorate his relations and services to our 
 
 institution and the cause of liberal education in this great cen- 
 
 . tral portion of our national domain. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was, at the time of his lamented death, a trustee 
 of this institution, and a life director of the Chicago Astronomi- 
 cal Society, an institution intimately connected with the uni- 
 versity, and one of its aids in scientific instruction. He had 
 been connected with the first for many years, and was at one 
 time president of this board. He made the first endowment to 
 the college of law connected with this institution, and was one 
 of the original founders and officers of the astronomical society. 
 He has been the professional right arm of this board as its re- 
 liable counselor and the most faithful and reliable friend of the 
 institution, and sustainer of those called to administer its affairs. 
 
 Should we be called to express sententiously our estimate of 
 the man, we should say : In the christian religion he had faith 
 and undoubted trust, mingled with the broadest charity and 
 universal toleration and respect for differences of views. 
 
 As a politician he was bold, courageous, ever sympathizing 
 with freedom and the down trodden or op])ressed, without agra- 
 rian violence or disregard of established rights, though always 
 enthusiastic for the just and right. 
 
 As a cifizen, honestly faithful, conscientious and incor- 
 ruptible. I 
 
 As a man he possessed that fidelity to friendships which could 
 not be shaken, and that noble courage which is the highest of 
 virtues without tincture of that cowardly weakness which is 
 always nearly allied to the meanest of vices. 
 
 As a man he has filled the measure of his earthly life with use- 
 fulness and honor. 
 
 We treasure his memory and sympathize with his noble widow 
 and family in their great afiliction, while we mourn our separa- 
 
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 tion even from an associate of whom we can truthfully say, well 
 done, good and faithful servant. ,.•.?.■,.■. . 1' 
 
 Resolved, That the foregoing memorial be entered upon the 
 records of this board and a copy thereof be sent to the widow 
 and family of our lamented associate. 1 
 
 Resolved, That members of this board and other officers of 
 this institution be requested to be present at the funeral of our 
 late associate. 
 
 Astronomical Society. 
 
 The following was adopted at a meeting of the Chicago 
 Astronomical Society, held July 30, 1883, at the Dear- 
 born Observatory: 
 
 "Thomas Hoyne, LL. D., was one of the founders of the 
 society, its first secretary, and a life director thereof. In the 
 organization and early history of our association his zeal and 
 enthusiasm were manifest on all proper occasions. He visited 
 Cambridge, Massachussetts, and secured the purchase of our 
 great Equatorial, and was indefatigable in promoting the estab- 
 lishment of the observatory. In so doing he illustrated a great 
 trait of his character — a love of aiding the establishment of in- 
 stitutions to promote science and learning, and for the public 
 weal. 
 
 " In his sudden removal from our midst, by a deplorable 
 accident, we are compelled to mourn the death of a public spir- 
 ited citizen, of acknowledged and renowned worth." . ; - 
 
Hahnemann 31Fle5ical (tollege 
 
 Adopted the following resolutions: 
 
 Whereas, A peculiarly painful calamity has taken from us 
 the Hon. Thomas Hoyne, who for twenty-eight years has been 
 an active and efficient member of the board of trustees of Hahne- 
 mann medical college and hospital ; and 
 
 Whereas, Its success and growth are largely due to his labors 
 and influence ; 
 
 Therefore, The faculty of this college desires to place upon 
 record its tribute of respect to his memory and its appreciation 
 of his constant fidelity to this as one of the oldest charitable and 
 educational institutions of this city, and also to tender its sym- 
 pathy to the bereaved family, and especially to our colleague. 
 Prof. Temple S. Hoyne. 
 
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 (Dalumet (Dlub. 
 
 The old settlers' committee of the Calumet club, at a 
 meeting held July 30, 1S83, adopted the following reso- 
 lutions: ' I 
 
 The old settlers' committee of the Calumet club are reminded 
 of the uncertainty of life by the sudden death of one of its 'most 
 honored members, the Hon. Thomas Hoyne, who was so sud- 
 denly killed by a railway collision on the Rome, Watertown and 
 Ogdcnsburgh railway on the night of July 27, 1883. All who 
 knew him mourn deeply his loss, but none mourn it more deeply 
 
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 and sincerely than those who have known him longest and best' 
 — the old settlers of Chicago. On behalf of the old settlers of 
 , Chicago, we, the sorrowing members of the old settlers' commit- 
 tee of the Calumet club, unanimously 
 
 Resolve, i. That in the early struggles of our cherished city 
 none rendered it more ready assistance with a brighter intellect 
 than our deeply lamented companion and friend, the Hon. 
 Thomas Hoyne. 
 
 2. From 1837 to the present time he has always been first and 
 forenlost in measures tending to promote the city's well being, 
 either material, educational or religious, ever ready to respond 
 to the public call when danger threatened. 
 
 3. As a citizen, neighbor and friend, all who knew him re- 
 spected and honored him, and nearly all loved him. He was 
 able, genial, generous and kind. All will miss him. All will 
 mourn deeply his sudden death. 
 
 4. That this committee attend his funeral in a body in behalf 
 of the old settlers of Chicago. 
 
 5. That this committee extend their heartfelt and deepest 
 sympathy to the bereaved widow and family of the departed, and 
 that these resolutions be sent to them and a copy be furnished to 
 the secretary of the Calumet club to be spread upon the records 
 of the club. 
 
 Professor Sujing. 
 
 [In the Weekly Magazin-e.] 
 
 Eight days upon the Servia with I'homas Hoyne as a 
 room-mate were, as it now proves, a group of good-by 
 days for him and me. He was soon to cross over quite 
 another flood and leave behind a rich memory of acts and 
 
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 words of kindness. Rooming together for a week upon 
 the ocean might make men further away in heart from 
 each other, for such nearness might disclose imperfections 
 of character which would have remained concealed in the 
 common intercourse of the street or of social life; but 
 when minds are congenial and need only the time and the 
 opportunity for growing friendship's harvest, then to room 
 together upon a grand steamship is to kindle a spark into 
 a flame, and to turn acquaintances into brothers. Think- 
 ing over such days my heart is full of the feeling that the 
 railway calamity of Friday night removed from life a 
 great, good, glorious soul when it crushed to death 
 Thomas Ilovne. He was a true child of this world. His 
 affections were most powerful as toward his family, and 
 wife and daughters were as accustomed to kind words as 
 to daily sunlight or daily air. There were no moods, no 
 wiiims, no paternal greatness or dignity, no assumption of 
 a domestic scepter and crown; the flow of kindness and 
 solicitude was deep and uniform. The sentiment of many 
 public men is weakest at home, and leaving that garden 
 to the weeds it begins to show life when outside the four 
 walls of the private castle. Other public men reveal no- 
 where any great amount of sentiment, but this poor vic- 
 tim of last week loved this world and all its contents, and 
 making home a starting point he gave his love to man 
 and fields and hills and sky and ocean. In common daily 
 life he seemed onl}- a citizen of a large metropolis or he 
 seemed only a lawyer or only a true, broad democrat, but 
 besides being all of these, he was a human being, and like 
 the ideal of Terrence, " Nothing that was human was 
 foreign to him." 
 
 The isolation of a ship is wonderful. The world seems 
 to have gone from you or j-ou from it. The ocean as- 
 
sumes the proportions of immensit}-. You do not wonder 
 that the companions of Columbus grew impatient and 
 asked permission to turn around and go back. The da3-s 
 seem twice their usual length. Instead of being in a 
 hurr\- when you meet a friend on deck or in the great 
 dining-room, you each seem to have an eternit\' on hand 
 of which you would love to make some fair, honorable 
 use. The temptation is therefore not to sum up the 
 history of the world in a sentence, nor to plead that you 
 cannot stop just then to talk or to listen, that you have an 
 engagement up town or down town at two or four or six 
 o'clock. For once in life one has time for all forms of 
 talk upon all forms of subjects, and thus talk becomes a 
 luxury. To be imprisoned nine days with intelligent and 
 lovable people, to have the sea on hand all the while b}- 
 day and b\' night, to be a mystery and a music of the 
 spirit's temple, is a situation that calls up the long hidden 
 thoughts of many who thus slovvl}' sail from shore to shore. 
 This warm-hearted Iloyne was equal to such times of 
 isolation. His sixty years had been well spent. Labor, 
 poverty, study, exercise, success, wisdom, had all com- 
 bined in the magical shop of life and had formed a man. 
 The vivacity and feeling of bojhood were never absent 
 for an hour. The heart paid no heed to the gra}'' hairs. 
 He would walk the length of the ship to tell his room- 
 mate that some porpoises were pla3'ing or some steamer 
 was on the horizon; and the room-mate saw nothing new 
 or strange or common without feeling that Tom Hoyne 
 must be informed and dulj' summoned to the deck. When 
 about eight days out we took to our beds quite certain 
 that we should see the coast of Ireland at daybreak. At 
 about three a. m. I could see from the \vindow far off dark 
 outlines which seemed nothing else than the shores of the 
 
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 older world. I called the good sleeper and asked him if 
 we were not nearing Ireland at last? He soon settled the 
 question and pointed out a coast-light and the twin peaks 
 called "The Cow and Calf." Our journey was almost 
 over. The sea had been crossed. [ 
 
 Death invites to a discussion of religion — that perplex- 
 ing philosophy of the bej'ond. Upon the deck of the 
 steamer late at night we watched for a long time a lunar 
 rainbow. It was an arch on the horizon, upon a cloud, 
 the moon being behind us. It was a white bow, dim, but 
 manifest and beautiful. We watched it long, for we had 
 nothing better io do than watch and watch and wait. We 
 counted as lost all the hours in bed. From lunar rainbows 
 we passed to the general topic of the sky, and then to 
 what might be beyond the mortal ken. Mr. Hoyne had 
 passed from Romanism and even from Protestantism to 
 that faith which is greater than either or both. The 
 blessed religious sentiment flashed up more distinctly than 
 the lunar rainbow and more richly colored; but the senti- 
 ment was not to be all expressed in words. It was above 
 words, like the heavens we had studied— deeper than 
 eloquence, like the sea under us. The talk of the hour 
 left me all full in heart of the conviction that the souls of 
 such men as my room-mate are all journej'ing toward an 
 empire greater than England, and shall land one by one 
 upon a sublime sliore. Loving this world, indeed they 
 seem conscious of being borne toward another which also 
 they will love when the}' shall have passed within its gales. 
 
 . » "The only avenue of bliss we have 
 
 Is bv the calmer by-ways of our lives, 
 111 service oC our duties traveled well 
 With steady toot of kindly household faith. 
 The ea<^le could not poise his \\ ings on air 
 Without an eve on earth to sleadv them." 
 
A rapidly flying train with engines toiling hard to 
 transfer a group of mortals from the grandeur of Niagara 
 to the beaut}' of the St. Lawrence is reaching out and 
 onward, mile after mile, as a great projectile hurled at 
 some mark two hundred miles away. A crash! a heap 
 of timbers and men and iron and women, and then screams 
 and groans. Thomas Hojne is among the dead. He is 
 lamented outside of the stricken home. A heart that 
 loved all good has looked upon its home and loved ones 
 and friends for the last time. He has crossed the more 
 mysterious sea. . . 
 
 Letters. 
 
 August 2j 18S3. . 
 My dear Mrs. Hoyne: ««• 
 
 Leaving Chicago so suddenly I did not see you again. 
 
 How terrible a blow to you was the loss of such a man 
 I can well appreciate. 
 
 As for myself I simply felt wretched. 
 
 I could not return to the springs, and am, as 3-ou see, 
 home. 
 
 None knew him better than L None knew better how 
 great and noble he was. . • ,   
 
 During an intimacy of nearly fifty years, I never knew 
 him to be guilty of a mean action or to harbor an ungen- 
 erous thought. 
 
 Of a wonderfully open and candid nature himself, he 
 never looked for dissimulation in others. . , 
 
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 For an action founded on honest but mistaken motives 
 lie was full of charit)', but to one springing from "motives 
 of dishonesty or self-interest he was an uncompromising 
 foe. 
 
 Mis own honorable nature detested the shifts and tricks 
 b)- which men strive to attain position at the cost of their 
 honor and integrity. 
 
 I never saw a man so intensely imbued with a love for 
 his adopted city. Growing up in her midst, seeing her 
 rise from an obscure village to the Queen City of the 
 West he felt an almost paternal interest in her welfare. 
 
 lie had indeed the true ideas of a citizen — his duties 
 did not end with simply casting his ballot; he watched 
 with jealous eye to see that those principles of honor and 
 probity which influenced his own career, were active 
 agents in the administration of public trusts. It was no 
 merely selfish motives, no mere desire for notoriety that 
 urged him on, but an innate love of honesty and right, a 
 jealous care for the welfare of the city of his adoption, i 
 
 Of his kindness as a husband and a father it is scarcely 
 necessary to speak; you know it so much better than I. 
 
 You were the subject of frequent conversations be- 
 tween us. I 
 
 Of his love for you, and his tender solicitude for your 
 welfare, I can well bear testimony. Be sure he did not 
 underrate your love and affectionate regard. 
 
 He placed the utmost confidence in your judgment and 
 care of the family. 
 
 Indeed, I may say, he realized the fact that no small 
 part of his own success as a man was attributable to the 
 fact that he possessed that greatest of all earthly boons — 
 a good wife and mother to his children. | 
 
 I know that in the weight of so terrible a calamity 
 
words seem almost idle, but if honesty and integrity meet 
 a reward — if the just men in this life are rewarded in the 
 next — I know of none more deserving than Thoinas 
 Hoyne. ^ 
 
 His life was but the shadow of the soul that lay be- 
 neath, and a purer, better man, take him for all in all, I 
 never knew. 
 
 Appreciating your irreparable loss, and extending my 
 heartfelt sympathies in j-our deep affliction, 
 
 Believe me your friend, , 
 
 Moses B. Maclay. 
 
 Mrs. Hoyne. ■.'■'■ ' \; " '. -■ 
 
 Madison, Wisconsin, July 29, 1883. 
 My Dear Madam: How can I find words to express 
 the horror, the grief, the distressful sympathy, which the 
 dreadful news I receive from the morning paper has filled 
 all our hearts with! Heaven help you now, with all- the 
 power of Divine Love! It is impossible to realize the 
 lamentable and harrowing truth that our venerable and 
 splendid friend, in whom we had such pride and pleasure, 
 has suffered so agonizing and sorrowful an end. No 
 event, since my own father's death, has so moved me to 
 sorrow. And how heavy and insupportable the afflicting 
 calamity falls upon you, and upon your happy and de- 
 lightful family circle, I can hardly bear to think of. How 
 and where, on earth, can j'ou find consolation? There is 
 but one great spring, and for his loss more than for most 
 men it is a fountain of gratifying thought; he has lived a 
 life of such good works that they remain a monument of 
 remembrance and praise. In the hearts of thousands who 
 admired, respected, nay, venerated him, many of whom 
 
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 like myself loved him, the swelling testimony of his 
 worth and excellence bursts to-day. His state and his 
 city mourn him as the fearless and honest man whose 
 wisdom was always at their true service. But for you, 
 turn to the supporting hearts of your splendid sons, your 
 loving daughters. They will help you now as no other 
 human power could. Never was man happier in such 
 possessions than he, never mother could rejoice with more 
 confidence and pride than 3'ou, in these highest rewards 
 of life. Alas! that ever such ties must be loosed, that 
 such ba^s must be broken. Yet, but a few years more, 
 and in the certain course of Nature the feebleness of age 
 must have subdued that magnificent form and withered 
 the power of his majestic manhood. It lias fallen to him 
 to go before his natural day, yet onl}' after a long life, a 
 long, splendid and glorious career of the highest type and 
 form. Happy that he was spared so long, to do so much. 
 And, I trust that we shall hear — what 1 dread lest we 
 may not— that his death was not in protracted suffering, 
 but with little trial. 
 
 But I may not too much intrude upon you. Mrs. 
 Vilas wishes her tenderest sympathy expressed for you 
 and for your daughters. We can hardly endure to think 
 of our sweet Gertie, whom he allowed us to claim in part 
 ownership. Nellie shares her grief, as we all do, and 
 laments that she cannot help her bear the sorrow. It is a 
 source of mournful pride and gratification to us, I feel it 
 deeply, that we were honored by his short visit here; 
 tho' it greatly adds to our sense of loss. I never saw him 
 appear to better advantage, nor felt a warmer pleasure in 
 his friendship, always so kind and cheering. I hoped to 
 have many times again had him for my honored guest. 
 Alas! 
 

 We trust and pray you may be sustained in your heavy 
 sorrow, by the Hand which with strength unseen, but 
 only surely can bring relief. Our deepest feeling is with 
 you and your family. Would that it were possible to 
 help! For Mrs. Vilas and mj'self accept our affectionate 
 sympathy for j'ou and yours, and permit us to share the 
 sorrowful burden of this dispensation in some feeble de- 
 gree. 
 
 Very respectfully and truly, your friend, _ 
 
 Wm. F. Vilas. 
 Mrs. Thomas Hoync. . 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn., July 31, 1883. 
 Mrs. Thos. Hoyne, No. 26 j Michigan Ave: » 
 
 I am inexpressl)' grieved in hearing at this moment 
 of the shocking death of your beloved husband. Mr. 
 Hoyne and myself had been warm friends for more than 
 forty years, and his death comes to me as a great personal 
 loss. His captivating personal qualities, his generous dis- 
 position, the nobility of his character, bound his friends 
 to him as if by hooks of steel, while his vehement hon- 
 esty, his public spirit and his devotion to the general good 
 will forever honor his name and memory. 
 
 E. B. Washburne. 
 
 Portsmouth, N. H., August 7, 1883. 
 My Dear Mrs. Hoyne: Ever since the sad news of 
 the terrible accident to your beloved husband reached me, 
 I have been trying to calm my lacerated feelings suffi- 
 ciently to write you in such a succinct manner as not to 
 
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 be tedious to you. But it is hard to condense tiie emo- 
 
 tions that naturally arise as I review over forty-five years 
 
 of intimate friendship atid mutual confidence. There is 
 
 now no one left with whom I could talk so understand- 
 
 ingly and sympathetically as I al\vaj-s could with him. 
 
 M}' most reliable landmark has gone. Whilst I most 
 
 heartily sympathize wiih you and your family, in 3'our 
 
 affliction, I know that you have the sympathy not onl^' of 
 
 myself, but of all who knew the good and honored husband 
 
 and father, of whose services you have been so suddenl}' 
 
 bereft. A more unselfish and iionest man never walked 
 
 the streets of Chicago. | 
 
 I will stop here, although I would like to dwell more 
 
 particularly upon his many traits of long-time endearment 
 
 to me. I know no human power can assuage grief like 
 
 yours; yet consolation can be found in the fact that, whilst 
 
 death is the common lot of ail, God alone can decide the 
 
 question of precedence. It is not for mortals to say win" 
 
 or when one shall be taken whilst others are permitted to 
 
 tarry a while longer on the inevitable road to eternity. 
 
 Yours in sympathy, j 
 
 John Went worth. 
 Mrs. Leonora Temple Hoyne. 
 
 Chicago, August 7, 1883. 
 Mrs. Thoimis Hoyne. 
 
 Dear Madam: My relations to your husband for 
 manj- years have been so intimate, and my high esteem 
 for him was so thoroughly fixed and understood, that I 
 hardly need assure yourself and family that j'ou have the 
 most earnest sympathy of myself and family in your sud- 
 den and irreparable bereavement. 
 
  A friend of j'ours told me the day of the funeral that 
 this is the first time death has entered your family. If so 
 30U have been most exceptionall}- fortunate. Our home 
 has not been so favored, but our e.xperiences have at least 
 taught us to " mourn with those who mourn," and we can 
 more fully appreciate the great sorrow which is upon 
 3'our household. -,'-;■ 
 
 Yours most sincerely, 
 
 H. W. Blodgett. 
 
 Chicago, Jul}' 30, 1883. 
 AJrs. Thomas. Hoyriic, 26 J Michigan Ave., City. ; '.'. 
 
 My Dear Mad^m: "Worlds are inadequate, when we 
 come to speak of such grief , as I know now weighs down 
 you and 3'our dear family. 'J can only tell you that you 
 have the sincerest sympathy of all in my house. 
 
 There has left us a true and devoted husband and 
 father and friend. The city, state and country has no 
 more true and valued citizen to lose. He was a brave, 
 manly man, that had the courage to speak the truth at all 
 times, and in all places. I feel that I have lost a personal 
 friend, whose words of cheer and kindness ofttimes en- 
 couraged me when in the path of duty. He was a true 
 and noble lawyer, who advised and counseled and defended 
 only the right. Take him all in all, we may never see his 
 like again. He was true, kind, affectionate, brave, manl}', 
 noble. He was impulsive, but his very impulses were for 
 truth and richt. No man will we miss more in the walks 
 of life in our city, that owes so much to him. May our 
 Heavenly Father bless and sanctify to you and yours this 
 severest-t)f bereavements. 
 
 I am truly, etc., 
 
 Samuel M. Moore. 
 
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 347 Dearborn Ave., Thursday, Aug. 2, 1883. 
 
 My Dear Mrs. Hoyne: While I am aware there 
 are no words which friends may utter that can in the 
 least mitigate the overwhelming grief endured by you 
 at this time, yet I cannot resist the impulse of writing 
 to 3'ou to sa}' how profoundl)' Mrs. Tree and myself 
 sympathize with you and 3'our children in your great 
 bereavement. It having been my good fortune to make 
 the acquaintance of Mr. Ho^'ne almost immediately after 
 my arrival in this city, mj' knowledge of him runs over 
 a period of nearly thirty years, and I can say with all 
 sincerity, that the longer I knew him the more I learned 
 to admire him and appreciate the sterling traits of his 
 character. It seems to me that he was the embodiment 
 of all those qualities which constitute the good citizen. 
 He was honest, able, public spirited and fearless in his 
 dealings with men and the affairs of life, while his hearty 
 hospitality and the sweetness of his domestic life as a 
 husband and father, as it appeared to his friends, made 
 him an example for other men to follow. • \ 
 
 The grief of the whole community at his loss, is per- 
 haps the best evidence of the success which his life had 
 been as a citizen. If at libert}' to speak of my own 
 sorrow to one whose sorrow is tenfold what all others 
 can possibly feel, I may say with all my heart that I 
 mourn, not only that this community has been deprived 
 of one of its most valuable citizens, but also because I 
 have lost a friend in whom it was always safe to confide, 
 and whose counsel was sure to be prompted by honest 
 motives and characterized by solid wisdom. 
 
 Permit me to express the hope, my dear Mrs. Hojme, 
 that as time advances it maj^ mellow the shock of the 
 dreadful calamity by which your dear husband lost his 
 
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 life, and that in the sweet memories of the past Ufe, of 
 which there is no earthly power that can deprive you, as 
 well as in the development in your children of those 
 qualities of their father which made him distinguished, 
 respected and beloved among his fellow-men, j^ou will 
 derive consolation and peace of heart. 
 
 With assurances again of the heartfelt sympathy of 
 Mrs. Tree and myself with you and yours, believe me 
 with great respect,   , 
 
 Faithfully your friend, 
 
 Lambert Tree. 
 Mrs. Thomas Hoyue, Chicago, III. ': '. 
 
 ' . Roberts' Summer Resort, 
 
 ^ •• Neenah, Wis., July 31, 1883. 
 
 My Dear Mrs. Hoyne: The sad intelligence of the 
 sudden taking off of your dear husband comes more 
 nearly to myself and mine than all the world beside save 
 3'our own grief stricken family. It is only a short time 
 since, when driving through Lincoln Park, we suddenly 
 came upon him in his accustomed walk, and stopping the 
 horses, he gave me such a warm, heartfelt shake of the 
 hand, and congratulated me upon my recovery in such 
 cheering heartfelt words and tone, that I can never forget 
 the incident. He was a man of true, firm, honest con- 
 victions, and always had the courage to maintain them, 
 fearless of results. His kindness to me under the most 
 trying circumstances of my life will never be forgotten 
 by myself or mine. His friendship when extended was 
 warm, genuine, from the heart. Hypocrisy was to him 
 a stranger. Always more nearly correct than most of 
 
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 his fellows in his convictions of the right, he never 
 hesitated to maintain them under any and all circum- 
 stances. He was a true man in every sense of the word 
 — to his family, to the city of Chicago, to the State of 
 Illinois, to the Nation. His loss will be felt and mourned 
 by all. i , 
 
 Please remember me kindly to ti;e famil}-, and with 
 assurances of my highest respect, 
 
 I remain yours truly, 
 
 P. H. Smith. 
 
 Springfield, Ills., July 30, 1883. 
 Major Frank G. Hoync, Chicago. 
 
 My Dear Friend: I cannot express to you the 
 grief which each member of my family feels, and that I 
 feel, on account of the death of ^our father. No shock 
 has come upon me with greater force than the one pro- 
 duced by the telegraphic announcement that he had been 
 killed in a railroad disaster in the east. I felt that it 
 might be a mistake, and, as I could not hear anjthing 
 definite, telegraphed our friend Mr. McKindley, hoping 
 that I might hear that the first report was not true; it 
 was, however, confirmed by a telegram from him in a 
 little time. 
 
 In the death of your father I have lost a highly es- 
 teemed and beloved friend. His death makes a vacant 
 place in Chicago which no one left can so well fill. He 
 was public spirited, always at the front in favor of im- 
 portant enterprises, improvements and reforms. He was 
 generous as a citizen, kind and aflectionate as a father, 
 and the personification of honor. 
 
 The manner of his death seemed sad indeed, and is 
 
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 an oft repeated evidence that " in the midst of TS^i^fi Ire 
 " in death." ^*^^^/.3i 
 
 I fully intended to be present, with my family, 
 funeral ceremonies, as a slight evidence of our sympathy 
 and affection, but could not learn of the day in time. 
 
 Please to convey to your good mother and sister our 
 deep sympathy in your terrible affliction, and believe me, 
 very truly yours, . . 
 
 S. M. CULLOM. 
 
 '^y 
 
 The death of Mr. Hoyne having occurred whe?^ many 
 of his friends were absent from the city for the summer, 
 a special memorial service was held at the Immanuel 
 Baptist Church, in September following. A very large 
 assemblage filled the spacious audience room. The Rev. 
 Dr. Lorimer, pastor of the church, conducted the intro- 
 ductorj' services, after which a memorial discourse was 
 given by Rev. Dr. Burroughs, followed by a brief 
 address by Dr. Lorimer. The sermon and address are 
 given below: 
 
 " Do incn gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so every 
 good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringetli forth 
 evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a 
 corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 
 
 "Every tree that bringeth not fortli good fruit is hewn down and 
 cast into the fire." 
 
 Those who have been absent from the city during the 
 summer, upon their vacation, return to miss one wiio for 
 man}' 3-ears, — many more indeed than any, or any but very 
 few of us who are present, have lived here, — has been a 
 
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 familiar figure to the people of Chicago, whose face was. 
 probably known to more of our six hundred thousand 
 people than any other, and was looked into bs' the people 
 of this city with a feeling ditlerent from that with which 
 any other face among us was regarded. It would be 
 difficult to describe or characterize that feeling. It 
 was a feeling, first of all, perhaps, that he was one of 
 us — on the part of the older people that he was an 
 elder brother, on the part of the young as if he were a 
 father, on the part of all that he was a friend — a true, 
 genial, loving, sympathizing friend. He knew and 
 was known by almost everybody here. No matter 
 whether it was strictly a personal acquaintance or not, 
 he knew the people of Chicago, as such. They 
 belonged to a family, for all of whom he felt an interest 
 and an affection. Friendly recognition of all whom he 
 met in the long daily walks in which he was wont for 
 years to thread every street and suburb of the city, was 
 his habit, the cordial " good morning," the hearty " how 
 do you do!" accompanied by the kindly smile and the 
 direct and sincere look into the face, which made every 
 one feel that he was not merely passing the compliments 
 of the day, but rather expressing the greetings of real 
 friendship. I say those whom the summer has taken 
 away from the city, have returned to miss a long familiar 
 figure. These few months have blotted out a phase, of 
 our life here, that had been prominent through almost its 
 whole extent, so prominent that it seemed almost insepar- 
 able from it. The few graphic words of Prof. Swing 
 sum up the sad realities of the storj". " Eight days upon 
 the Servia, with Thomas Iloyne as a room-mate," he 
 says, referring to a European journey of last year, " were 
 as it now proves a group of good-by days for him and me; 
 
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 he was soon to cross over quite another flood and leave 
 behind a rich memory of acts and words of kindness. A 
 rapidly flying train, with engines toiling hard to transfer 
 a group of mortals from the grandeur of Niagara to the 
 beauties of the St. Lawrence, is reaching out and onward 
 mile after mile as a great projectile hurled at some mark, 
 two hundred miles awa)-. A crash! a heap of broken tim- 
 bers and iron and men and women, and then screams and 
 groans. Thomas Hoyne is among tlie dead. He is la- 
 ment^ outside his stricken home. A heart that loved all 
 good has looked upon its home and loved ones and friends 
 for the last time. He has crossed the more mysterious 
 sea!" And so we who staid behind during the summer, 
 while so man}- of you have been away, gathered up thu 
 dust of our common friend and sadly laid it in its resting 
 place in Rose Hill, and come to join you this morning as 
 all our hearts move us in some words of remembrance and 
 love. It is fitting that after the lapse of these few weeks 
 since his death, he should be thus recalled to our memo- 
 ries. It is a fault incidental to the intense and changing 
 life that we lead here, that those who laid our foundations 
 and who have long been a part of our social and political 
 being are too soon forgotten. In his beautiful tribute to 
 Judge Manierre, Mr. Ho^'ne himself has noted this trail 
 of our character. " It happens," he says, " in all cities ot 
 so great size as our own, a city so rapid in growth and of 
 so recent rise into the rank of great cities, that the deeds 
 and even the names of the leaders of the past are soon 
 forgotten or overlooked. It is especially true of this citj", 
 whose whole existence is nearlj- comprised within the 
 limits of the present generation. Instability in social and 
 family life seems to be characteristic of our rapid rise anil 
 incessant activity. The leaders of opinion of a quarter of 
 
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 a century ago are to three-fourths of the present people 
 of the cit)', the same as if they had never lived here. The 
 recollection of such early settlers as became men eminent 
 in virtue and enterprise, men who on the frontier line be- 
 tween savage and civilized life first carried to the wilder- 
 ness the culture and institutions of civilization, fades into 
 a dim past no more distinctive of individual character than 
 the traditions that center about the Mayflower or the Half 
 Moon. Individual names indeed are generalized into the 
 chronological order of events, but the identit)^ of individual 
 character is lost in the rapid transition of tiie ever shifting 
 scenes of western life." ( 
 
 Let us hope that these words, in which Mr. Hoyne'fif- 
 teen 3'ears after the death of Judge Manierre, soughl to 
 call back the remembrance of his life long friend, are not 
 a presage that the bonds by which he has been bound so 
 closely to this community will be speedily broken. 
 
 There is a special fitness also that the memory of Mr. 
 Hoyne should be cherislied by our church and denomi- 
 nation. It is true that he was never formally of us, that 
 in many things, he was remote from our faith and ecclesi- 
 astical usages. But it is also true that he had much, very 
 much in common with us. Domestic ties, always cherished 
 and sacred in his iieart, linked him to the history and 
 destiny of our church. An incident of the early daj-s of 
 our church in this city naturally connects itself hero, and 
 at this semi-centennial anniversary of our origin may be 
 interesting to rememlier. In July, 1832, Dr. John T. 
 Temple arrived here from Washington with his wife and 
 four children. Understanding that there was no church 
 or settled minister here, he had solicited and received the 
 promise from the American Baptist Home Missionary So- 
 ciety that a Baptist minister should be sent here. Accord- 
 
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 ingly on August, iS, 1833, the Rev. Allen B. Freeman, 
 whose saintly impress on this community the fifty inter- 
 vening years have not effaced, arrived here. Dr. Temple 
 had already begun the building of a house of worship, 
 containing also rooms for a school on the corner of Franklin 
 and SouthWater streets, and here the 3'oung preacher be- 
 gan his ministry, and on the 19th of October following, 
 organized the First Baptist Church. One of the first, 
 probably the first baptism was the wife of Dr. Temple. 
 I find a memorandum of the incident preserved by Mr. 
 Hoyne among his papers. A numerous company of citi- 
 zens of the village gathered upon the banks of the river, 
 then running nearly half a mile south in front of what is 
 now Michigan avenue. Mrs. Temple rode down to the, 
 water in a stage coach brought here by Dr. Temple in 
 the course of his business. Mr. Freeman read from the 
 scriptures the history of the baptism of the Ethiopian, who 
 descended from his chariot at the word of Philip to re- 
 ceive baptism on profession of his faith in the Messiah of 
 God, and in like manner, baptized Mrs. Temple on pro- 
 fession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. With that 
 Christian family, Mr. Hoyne, a few years later, became 
 identified by marriage with the eldest daughter and thus, 
 as we have said, while himself never a member of the 
 Baptist church, he was bound to it by a strong and 
 sacred bond, and came to seek its advancement and to 
 give time and monej' to it and its institutions as if it were 
 his own. Other circumstances also had influence to the 
 same end. In his boyhood, left an orphan in New York, 
 he had been received as a boarder into the family of the 
 Rev. Dr. Archibald Maclay, then one of the most emi- 
 nent ministers of our denomination, and whose name will 
 always live as that of one of our greatest and noblest men. 
 
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 The relations thus formed ripened into a cherished friend- 
 ship and veneration, and the influence of this eminent man 
 of God upon the boy bore fruit in the man to his latest day. 
 
 With such relations to our church, he always took an 
 active interest in whatever pertained to its progress, and 
 was always generous in his appreciation of whatever he 
 believed to be good in its teachings and practice. He 
 admired the spirit of liberty that has distinguished it, the 
 great and successful battle which it has fought in favor of 
 liberty of conscience and against the tyranny of a state 
 church, as well as its independence of state aid in the 
 building up of its institutions. He formed friendships 
 with and was earnest in his appreciation of many of our 
 leading men, ministers as well as laymen, and I believe I 
 commit no impropriety in saying that for the pastor of 
 this church he had come to entertain a strong regard, 
 and for the church itself a deep, interest as well as confi- 
 dence in its future. 
 
 So much I have thought it not improper to say with 
 reference to the special circumstances which bring us this 
 morning, as a people and a part of the people of this city,' 
 to pay our tribute to the memory of Thomas Hoyne. 
 
 I have read as a guide to thoughts to which the occa- 
 sion leads us, a passage of the \vord of God, a fragment 
 of the Sermon on the Mountain, and with no attempt at 
 a formal exposition of the inspired words, or indeed of a 
 sermon upon them, I think these fundamental truths are 
 here plainly contained. I ' I . 
 
 Principles of action in themselves bad can not, in 
 the nature of things, produce a life or character, the ten- 
 dencies and fruits of which are good ; and conversely, A 
 life or character, the tendencies of which are good, can 
 not issue from principles of action which in themselves 
 
are bad. Therefore, the standard of moral estimate, the 
 test by which moral condition and character are to be tried 
 and judged, by which every one is to test and judge him- 
 self, and, we may add, by which the Supreme judge will 
 try and judge every man, is the life, the deeds, the fruits, 
 the tendencies, which have issued from that condition and 
 character. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of 
 thistles? Was the noxious plant, no.xious in its nature 
 and constitution, was the worthless and pestilent weed, 
 ever known to produce sweet and healthful fruit? Nour- 
 ish and cherish it by choicest and most assiduous culture, 
 plant it in mellow and generous soil, let rains and dews 
 and sunshine, year after j-ear expend their wealth of 
 fructifying power upon it, it is all the same. Stock and 
 leaf, it is true, may start- to fuller growth, the flower may 
 assume brighter tints, and even a semblance of fruit may 
 tempt the unwary to believe that grapes have at length 
 grown upon the thorn, and figs upon the thistle, but 
 when hungry for that which is good and healthful and 
 life giving, they have stretched out the hand to pluck and 
 eat, they have found that the bough which the}' grasped 
 was thorny and lacerating, and the fruit was but apples 
 of Sodom, of which they could not taste. 
 
 Applying now the figurative illustration of the text. 
 Principles of human life and character in their own nature 
 bad, do never, can never produce lives and characters 
 that are sound and healthful and beneficent. Lives and 
 characters rooted in selfishness and sensuality, in greed of 
 wealth and power and fame, have often stood out before 
 the world surrounded by the seductive halo of genius, of 
 splendid endowments and rich and varied culture, and men 
 have been dazzled and charmed by their brillianc}' and 
 grasped at the products of their genius expecting to find 
 
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 food for the hungry soul, and support and strength to life 
 and heart and hope, but the final result has been disap- 
 pointing and bitter. The weary and hungry soul has 
 found no final rest under the shadow, no satisf3'ing fruit 
 on the branches of the fair, but deceitful tree. 
 
 Again seeking to apply the figure of the text, lives and 
 characters, the aggregate tendencies of which are seen to 
 be good, which in the language of Matthew Arnold " make 
 for righteousness," make for truth and purity and love, for 
 peace on earth and good will to men, for reverence of God 
 and God's law, such lives and characters do not, in the 
 nature of things cannot proceed from a principle, from a 
 root or basis, in its own essential nature bad, false, cor- 
 rupt. It will be seen that the text justifies the double 
 assertion that a good life neither does nor can proceed 
 from a bad heart or moving principle. Every good tree 
 bringcth forth good fruit; a good tree cannot bring forth 
 evil fruit. A corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit, neither 
 can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Tliis is a 
 fundamental law, which in the nature of things, admits of 
 no exception. It will be remembered how exactly the 
 statement of the law by our Saviour harmonizes with the 
 later expression of St. Paul, or rather how exactly the 
 latter catches up and echoes the teaching of his Divine 
 Master. " For," he saj's, " the natural man " — Paul's ex- 
 pression for a bad man — "the natural man discerneth not 
 the things of the Spirit, neither can he know them, for 
 tliey are spirituall)' discerned." And again he tells us 
 " love, joy, peace, long sufl'ering, gentleness, goodness, 
 faith, meekness, temperance" — grand epitome of a good 
 and noble life — these are the fruit of the Spirit. 1 
 
 John puts the same truth in a different and vivid light: 
 " He that doelh ritrhteousness is righteous even as God is 
 
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 righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil. Who- 
 soever is born of God doth not commit sin," /. c, does not 
 with the consent of his own free will, liis own unfettered 
 volition, the real man, commit sin. And John gives the 
 reason, " for," he adds, ",his seed"- -the seed of God^ 
 '• remaineth in him, neither can he sin, because he is born 
 
 of God." ^ :.-.:/;:^-' ■:,'-• /■   ' -: . '■ r,:.. • 
 
 Some years ago I had planted a flower-garden, and for 
 some seasons had delighted in its wealth of bloom, and 
 beauty. But ciianges came, and grass and weeds and 
 brambles were allowed to overrun the beds, and choke 
 and smother the flowers, so that for years none had been 
 seen. Coming back after, it must have been, ten years, I 
 again opened the soil to the spring sunshine and rains, 
 thinking, after a little, again to plant the seeds of 
 favorite flowers; wlien, lo! in coming back after unex- 
 pected dela}- to my task, I found that my favorites of 
 years ago had anticipated my coming. The verdure of 
 the plants that I used to love, just as I had seen them 
 years before, alread}' covered the ground, and the early 
 kinds were already putting forth flowers. The seed had 
 remained buried and overgrown and hidden, but vital and 
 potent, and its nature unchanged by time, or darkness, or 
 overlying weeds. So the seed of God once planted in the 
 soul remains there. Rank growths of temptation, of 
 human passions and earthly affections may overspread it, 
 but its essential nature is unchanged, and it will in due 
 time bring forth fruit in its kind, and when that fruit is 
 seen, we know that it is not the fruit of any other seed, 
 but of the seed of God, because it is God-like. 
 
 Let not the language of John be pressed too far, as if 
 he would accept nothing less than absolute perfection, as 
 a claim to sonship with God. The stream, in its course 
 
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 from its mountain source, makes many windings, may 
 seem at times lost in inextricable mazes, but he who sur- 
 veys its whole sweep, will see that its trend is still and 
 always oceanward. 
 
 Again, we said it follows from our text that the only 
 right standard of judgment of man and of all the works 
 of men — their institutions, their laws, their literature — is 
 their fruits. Do real grapes, and not bitter and poisonous 
 semblance of grapes, grow on the tree, let that tree, un- 
 promising and gnarled and scraggy though it looks, be 
 pronounced good. Let it stand and grow. Its fruit is 
 its title to the right to live. On the other hand is the 
 tree fair and flourishing, but the fruit bitter and noxious, 
 let no fairness of form, or luxuriance of foliage, or beauty 
 of blossom spare it; let it be hewn down and cast into 
 the fire. 
 
 Let men be tried and judged by this standard. Let no 
 mere professions count for anything. Opinions, beliefs, 
 which pass for orthodox, count only zero in this scale. 
 " By their fruits ye shall know them." " Many shall say unto 
 me. Lord, Lord, in that day " — that day when the scale 
 shall be held up in the unwavering hand of the Supreme 
 Judge — "but then will I say, depart from me; I never 
 knew you. Depart from me, ye that tvork iniquity." 
 
 Let churches be tried by this standard. They may be 
 great and rich and powerful, their ecclesiastical organiza- 
 tion may be skillfully devised, may enfold all the elements 
 for rapid and wide extension, but what have they done, 
 what are they doing for man and for God? Their creeds 
 may embody skillfull}' drawn and profound formularies of 
 substantial and fundamental truth. As such they may be 
 helpful to the intellect, but in themselves they touch not 
 the soul. They miiy live in the intellect forever and never 
 
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 reach the springs of action and character, and so ma^- 
 never bear one fruit to bless men or glorif3- God. Let 
 churches, then, be tried by this standard, not by the ortho- 
 doxy of their doctrinal formularies, but by what they are 
 actually doing to honor God, while they do good to those 
 whom God would uplift and save. If the tree bear such 
 fruit, it is good; otherwise, whatever its name or its pre- 
 tensions, let it be hewn down and cast into the fire. It is 
 good onl}' to be burned, that in its burning it may afford 
 a lurid illustration of the hollowness and emptiness of 
 mere profession, especially when clad in the sheep's 
 clothing of the Christian name. 
 
 Let laws and constitutions be tried b}' this standard. 
 They may be the product of the noblest intellects, they 
 may embody the loftiest maxims of political wisdom, the}' 
 ma}' be held in idolatrous admiration and reverence, but 
 if even at only one point they make against humanity, 
 that whole humanity which God loves, and to save which 
 the Son of God died, there is corruption in the tree, it 
 brings forth evil fruit. Under that government that never 
 in the final event loses sjght of the ends of justice, that 
 tree, sooner or later, shall be hewn down and cast into 
 the fire. 
 
 It will be anticipated that we have thus glanced at these 
 elementary truths, because we hold them to be applicable 
 to a just estimate of the character of him whose memory 
 we recall in these services. It will be anticipated tJiat we 
 mean that, judged by the fruits and tendencies of his life, 
 the governing principles and motives that moulded and 
 swayed the character of our lamented friend, were good 
 and beneficent and noble, that the life which resulted was 
 a blessing to those whom it reached, that the ends 
 which he sought, based on the imperishable foundations 
 
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 of truth and justice and love, will endure and will follow 
 him, and be to him a crown of joy in the higher life upon 
 which he has entered. I believe such to be the universal 
 verdict of those among whom he has spent his life. I be-" 
 lieve that even an enemy, if he had such, would concede 
 that the ends for which Mr. Hoyne labored were intended, 
 by him to be, and in their aggregate were, for the benefit 
 of his fellow-men, and that the course of life which he 
 marked out for himself tended steadily and strongly not 
 towards what was groveling and sensual and selfish, but 
 towards whatsoever was pure and lovely and of good re- 
 port. 
 
 Were we to attempt lo trace the evidence of this in an 
 extended review of his life we should need to begin back 
 to his bo3'hood, where we find the orphan apprentice of 
 fifteen years toiling at his bench by day, and at night on 
 the benches of the night school, or joined in association 
 with others like himself for mutual aid in the search for 
 knowledge and improvement. The bent towards the no- 
 ble, rich manhood that was to come was already in the 
 boy. We should need to follow him, as at twenty-one 
 years of age he seeks in the j'oung city of Chicago 
 a field wherein to work out the destiny which was then 
 an ideal, but which he lived to make a reality. His own 
 vivid picture of the feelings with which, two years before, 
 his friend Manierre had taken the same step, was evi- 
 dently drawn largely from his own experience, and doubt- 
 less portrays the tlioughts and impulses of his own mind 
 in that eventful crisis. " Thus," he writes, " we have Judge 
 " Manierre at the early age of eighteen entering on his 
 " life career in Chicago. From New York to Chicago, 
 '= then! The contrast was something startling. The pop- 
 " ulation was estimated at barely one thousand, living not 
 

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 "exactly in huts, but by no means elegantly housed. It is 
 "stated, indeed, that in 1835, there were only three brick 
 "tenements in the whole village. But what mattered it! 
 " Here was the inland sea on the one side, on the other 
 " the boundless, unbroken prairie, the prairies of which 
 " Bryant had sung: .;.-,.:• • - ;' 
 
 'Those unshorn fields where lingered ^et • " 
 
 The beauty of the earth, ere men had sinned,' ':": 
 
 "and where, with prophet's ear, he had heard 'the sound 
 "of the coming multitude that was soon to fill these popu- 
 " lous borders.' " Another local historian writing of the 
 Chicago of that daj-, says: At that day all that remained 
 to support Chicago was hope. The povertj' of the place 
 was visible and unfeigned. Money and the people had 
 long been strangers, and the more land a man had the 
 worse off he apparently was. Nevertheless, there were 
 few who despaired; the genius of the place forbade it. 
 " Yes," adds Mr. Hoyne, " and it was this hopefulness 
 which inspired each citizen from the beginning — which 
 gave fortitude to bear, and courage to undertake, what- 
 ever was proposed as possible to human execution." The 
 words are a clear reflection of his own heroic spirit — the 
 spirit that in his 3'outh bore him into the manly struggle 
 with destin}', and that made him alwaj's the man of enter- 
 prise that he was, and the fearless and untiring champion 
 of whatever cause he espoused. Pursuing still our search 
 for the fruits which his life has borne, we should follow 
 him to that stage where the battle with his own fortunes 
 had been fought and won, and he might have rested on 
 his laurels, in assured possession of fortune, reputation, 
 and all the means of selfish indulgence. In such a life he 
 would have been in the company of manv men who 
 clutch greedily at all that society has to bestow, but who 
 
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 have no conception that they owe anj^thing to society in 
 return for what they receive from it. Mr. Hoyne was 
 not one of these. If any one sentiment pervaded and 
 dominated his Hfe, it was that of a large and generous 
 public spirit. If there was any earthly thing that, next to 
 his family, he loved supremely, it was the city in which he 
 had reaped success and fortune. For the good of Chicago 
 he labored with untiring and passionate devotion. He 
 had a clear perception of the necessary elements of social 
 progress and prosperity, and he sought earnestly to in- 
 corporate them into our city's life and institutions. He 
 deprecated the idea that the city should be " a mere citv 
 of traders." So far back as 1840, when he had been but 
 three years here, an address of his before a j'oung men's 
 literary society, which he and his friend Manierre had 
 organized, was printed. In it I find this passage: "It is 
 true that the elements of prosperity surround us; but let 
 us remember that mere phj'sical greatness is as nothing 
 compared with moral and mental culture. Especially 
 should we promote the interests of religion, morality and 
 education. Then, indeed, shall we arrive at true great- 
 ness, and our children- will point with honest pride to the 
 annals of Chicago." To what he thus earl}' expressed 
 Mr. Hoyne remained true to the last. Schools, colleges, 
 churches, universities, literary and historical societies, 
 libraries, institutions of charity, wise and sound laws, and 
 pure and clean administrative methods, these were the gifts 
 that he earnestly coveted for his cit}', and towards them all 
 he held out an open hand, and freely gave to them his time, 
 his counsels, and his influence. Into the details of the 
 part he bore in the organization and conduct of such insti- 
 tutions, we may not now enter; but I cannot refrain from 
 mention of his connection with one of them to which our 
 
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 denomination holds intimate relations. The University of 
 Chicago had no truer or more magnanimous friend than 
 Thomas Hoyne. The first line that was penned for it, and 
 which had much to do with giving it being, was written 
 by his hand. Over every day of its history he watched with 
 deep, and often painful, solicitude. The last hour I ever 
 spent with him, a few days before his death, he returned 
 to the theme on which we had so often talked, and with 
 deep feeling he repeated that he could not give it up that 
 help would come to the university, that some man or men 
 would yet rise to the appreciation of the great possibili- 
 ties for good that were in that institution. God grant that 
 these, probably his last, words on this subject, may prove 
 prophetic, and issue in speedy realization. 
 
 Turning away now, as we must, from all consideration 
 of Mr. Hoyne's more public character, his political and 
 professional career, in which, could we pursue it, we should 
 find at every step ripe and rich fruits of the principles 
 which governed his life, as well as enduring monuments 
 of the intellectual strength and the manh* eloquence for 
 which hr .s distinguished; turning from all this, we 
 glance ' lor one moment at his own individual per- 
 sonality . Were the question proposed to those who have 
 known him longest and best, what was Mr. Hoyne's 
 strongest trait, I tliink the answer would not be long in 
 coming. Uprightness, an integrity pervading every 
 phase and movement of his life, and entering into the 
 ver}- fibre of his being. This it was which, above all 
 other things, marked the man. On all questions involv- 
 ing a principle of right and wrong, men knew just where 
 to find him, and for this thp friends of right sought and 
 trusted him, its enemies shunned and dreaded him. 
 There is testimony also to the purit}' and chastity of his 
 
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 life and words. I have before me a note written bj' one 
 who had been intimately related to him professionally and 
 socially for nearly fifty }-ears, emphasizing the fact that 
 in all those years no word or allusion offensive to strictest 
 chasiity had been heard to pass the lips of Mr. Hoyne, or 
 uttered b\- others had escaped his frown. Such testi- 
 monies show how sweet and healthful is the fruit that 
 fjrows upon the tree that takes root in reverence and love 
 for the law of God. 
 
 Beyond these more outward phases of his character 
 there was also a deeper one, one that had its seat in the 
 inmost depths of his being, whose sphere was in the con- 
 sciousness, the affections, the volitions and struggles of 
 his soul. He himself never sought to open that sanctuary 
 to the gaze of men; he held it rather as" a meeting place 
 between himself and his God, and if ever, in the 
 intimacy of personal friendship, he drew back the veil of 
 that sanctuary, the solemnity* and awe of his manner 
 showed that the feeling of his heart was, " — take thy 
 shoes from otV thy feet, for the place whereon thou 
 standest is holv ground." He never made a public and 
 form.d profession of religion, but those who knew him 
 best had fullest assurance that he was not a stranger to a 
 deep and earnest religious life. More, I believe that 
 the most potent motives, the deepest springs of his 
 action and character, the force that dominated his being, 
 and made his life the noble life that it was, were 
 essentially religious, and took root in deep seated 
 reverence for the law of God. I have referred to the 
 bent of his boyhood. Beyond doubt that bent was 
 ■liven bv the reli<rious instruction and training of his home 
 life in childhood by his parents, who were devoted mem- 
 bers of the Catholic communion. It received also, there 
 
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 is reason to believe, confirmation and strength under the 
 teachings and personal influence of Dr. Archibald Maclay, 
 in whose family, we have noticed, he passed some years, 
 and whose memory he ever held in deepest veneration. 
 
 These two streams of influence, seemingly opposite 
 and conflicting yet united, in the thought and character 
 of the young man, as a common current fed from the 
 fountain of faith in One God and Father, and in the 
 Divine Son as the only Savior of sinners. And so, with 
 little-interest in the differences between the ecclesiastical 
 systems to which these truths were common and funda- 
 mental, he yet firmly and clearly grasped the truths them- 
 selves and they were, especially in his later years, a sure 
 foundation on which his faith and hope abidingly rested. 
 
 An incident is recalled in this connection which it is 
 pleasant to remember. A few days before his death I 
 stood with Mr. Hoyne at the grave side of the latfe Mrs. 
 J. H. Woodworth, and as he strewed flowers upon the 
 coffin, with words of warm appreciation of the life and 
 character of the deceased, hb added: " How strange that 
 any should believe that such powers were buried forever 
 in the grave! No!" he exclaimed, "this life is but the 
 beginning of our existence. It will reach its perfection 
   only in its immortal state"; and as he spoke his face was 
 aglow as those who have heard him speak when deepl3' 
 aroused have seen it, and his e3'e was uplifted as if he 
 caught sight of the shores of the eternal world of which 
 he spoke, and on which he was so soon to stand.   .. • ! 
 
 But with faith and hope thus clear, no one realized 
 more keenly how sharp is the conflict between the natural 
 and the spiritual life, and no longing of his soul was 
 stronger than to overcome in that conflict. Even his 
 most intimate friends had little idea of this side of his 
 
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 character. In all that related to it he was undemonstra- 
 tive and even reticent, and it is only as by records 
 which he left we follow him away from his intense and 
 sometimes stormy interest in this life to the retreat 
 where he holds communion with his own soul and with 
 his God, that we catch <riimpses of that inner life of 
 his spirit, more earnest and intense than the outer life 
 which we knew. At the risk of seeminjf to profane 
 what should be held sacred, I can not withhold one such 
 expression of his inner life, a paper carefully folded in 
 the drawer of his study-table, and marked " A Medita- 
 tion and a Prayer," which had evidently been the med- 
 ium of frequent communion with God, when at close of 
 busy and oftentimes turbulent days, he would '• enter into 
 his closet and shut tiie door and pray to the Father 
 which is in secret." . 
 
 '•Oh God! Source of all things created — the greatest 
 mystery of existence — Thou hast given us knowledge 
 according to our ability to comprehend it; and we knoii.' 
 that th\- service and the doing all that is just and right 
 according to the light given, is the principal cause of all 
 human happiness. In sin and transgression according 
 to that knowledge lies all our danger as well in this world 
 as the next. Yet, oh Lord and God, though we offend 
 against this knowledge and against our own sense of 
 duty, against thee, and seriously jeopardize our lives, in- 
 vite misfortunes and bring upon ourselves the most dread- 
 ful risks of punishment, of death, and the loss of our 
 salvation and all that is involved in thy displeasure; yet, 
 oh God! lliy mercy exceedetli all! The forbearance of 
 no earthlj- parent equals thy long sutVering and toleration 
 of the sins we commit. Our secret sins are not hidden, 
 but their very concealment constitutes a part of our 
 
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 crimes. Had we no hope, no assurance of thy mercy 
 forgiveness, to live in the knowledge of what we have 
 done against thee, would be utter despair! Our lives 
 would be a torment in prospect of death I But, oh! 
 Father, who hast sent a divine mediator to redeem a lost 
 ivorJd, and raise fallen human nature from so terrible a 
 state of wretchedness, let rne think of my repeated trans- 
 gressions, that I may find forgiveness of the past, and be 
 fortified against temptations in the future. 
 
 It is written that thv great Son, during his life, recog- 
 nized the condition of our fallen nature and extended th)' 
 mercy and forgiveness to jmany sinners. Peter denied 
 him thrice against his own resolution to maintain his in- 
 tegrity, but was forgiven. The Mary Magdalene was 
 pardoned, and the dying thief on the cross was promised 
 a meeting in Heaven. It is in this merciful blending 
 of the human and divine that we can only be consoled. 
 
 Our sins oppress us, we are depressed on their account, 
 and turn away from ourselves with disgust of our natural 
 proneness to commit them, but remembering this love we 
 take comfort in the hope of forgiveness and pardon. 
 
 Oh, holy Lord God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 
 grant us the strength to avoid sin, so that we may at all 
 times be assured of our peace! Hear us, oh Father. Take 
 not away thy favor; let thy wisdom guide us; may every 
 enemy we have find favor in thy sight; and ma}' we for 
 the future so live as if in preparation for the judgment. 
 
 Amen." ' ■■•'j'--^ "v:"'- •- ' " "' ' ■.-■ 
 
 It is thus that he, who to outward seeming is mindful 
 of no interest but those of this life, is seen to turn away 
 from all this life's concerns, and from the conflicts and 
 ambitions of his professional and political career, to hold 
 converse with God and to seek for peace with him as the 
 
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 highest good. It is thus that he, whose fiery denuncia- 
 tions of wrong-doing has made him seem to be the 
 enemy of wrong-doers, is seen in the spirit of tenderness 
 and love, to seek for them that forgiveness of God which 
 he craves for himself. It is thus that he, whose spirit 
 before men was proud and fearless, in the presence of 
 God becomes as the spirit of a little child, and bows at 
 the altar of the common Father, by the side of the hum- 
 blest of his fellow-men and the bitterest of his enemies, 
 in brokenness of heart for his-unworthiness, and in plead- 
 ings for mere}", forgiveness and love. And if in these 
 struggles of his soul for duliverance from the burden of 
 sin and death, our brother seeks the altars of another 
 church than ours, let us not feel that we must part from 
 him there, but bow by his side, and with him look up to 
 his God and ours for the victorv of faith that overcomes 
 the world. 
 
 Ab6re$s of Dr. Lorimer. 
 
 It may seem strange to those who do not appreciate 
 the catholicity of the people worshiping here, that a 
 member of another denomination should be honored* with 
 memorial services such as these. The ecclesiastical and 
 sacerdotal system to which the deceased subscribed, this 
 church has no sympathy with; and yet she has never 
 failed to recognize the saintly characters of many who 
 have grown up under its shadow. She discerns the fact 
 that goodness, and faith in Christ, are not bound to the 
 
narrow limits of any sect; and these she would acknowl- 
 edge everywhere, though they may be intermixt with 
 what she cannot but regard as perilous error. In the 
 case of the departed, however, something more is to be 
 said in explanation of these commemorative ceremonies. 
 They are peculiarly fitting, not merely on account of 
 family relations with this church, but on account of his 
 own interest in matters associated with her work. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne, though a Catholic in belief, was to a great 
 extent a Protestant in practice, holding to liberty of 
 conscience, the right of all to study the Bible and to 
 approach God in pra3er, rights which he exercised dail\-, 
 and laboring to advance the cause of sound education and 
 higher learning in an institution which, though un- 
 sectarian, and certainl}^ not Romanist in tendency, is 
 decidedly and avowedly Christian. As j'ou have already 
 learned from the eloquent lips of the founder and first 
 president of Chicago University, Mr. Hovne was deeply 
 concerned in its welfare, toiled for its advancement, and 
 had the greatest confidence in its future. Under these 
 circumstances we feel that we have part and lot in the 
 life which was ended so sadly and suddenly, and that in 
 this place its merit should be recognized. 
 
 My acquaintance with Mr. Hoj'ne was exceedingly 
 slight and limited. I met him for the first time on the 
 platform of Central Music Hall, on the evening when an 
 effort was made to arouse public interest in the erection 
 of a suitable memorial of the great fire. On that occasion 
 he spoke, graphicallj' describing the terrible conflagration, 
 and appealed urgently and cogently to the audience that 
 proper steps be taken to perpetuate the sympathy of the 
 world which was abundantly expressed in that heart- 
 rending scene of calamity. Subsequently I heard him 
 
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 before the board of trustees of the university, reviewing 
 its history, arraigning its enemies, and defining its 
 poHcy, or ratiier what ought to be its policv. In those 
 speeches I was impressed by his power of analj-sis, his 
 ability to grasp a subject in all of its bearings, and by the 
 ft!rvency and nervousness of his delivery. His thoughts 
 seemed to be clearly before his mind as pictures, which 
 he unrolled with panoramic-like system, and his whole 
 manner suggested the deepest conviction. His words 
 were living and burning; his conclusions were hurled 
 with Titanic force at his hearers, and he appeared to 
 revel and luxuriate in the consciousness that he was 
 moulding the opinions and deciding the actions of others. 
 I felt on both of these occasions that I was in the pres- 
 ence of an honest man, and one whose enthusiasm age 
 had hardl}- abated. Consequently I was drawn to him. 
 Our acquaintance grew througii personal intercourse, 
 rendered possible by one or two meetings of a social and 
 society character, and by casual walks with him when 
 seeking exercise. My first impression was deepened by 
 this intercourse, but as jet I had obtained no insight into 
 the more genial and devout side of his nature. Indeed, I 
 must confess that at the bejfinninj:' I was inclined to look 
 upon him as comparatively a stranger to the gentler and 
 tenderer feelings, and considered him more as a man of 
 head than of heart — more a man of affairs than of senti- 
 ment. This erroneous estimate, however, was happily 
 removed. He had frequently invited me to spend an even- 
 ing with him at his home, and a few months since, not very 
 long before my departure for Europe, I availed myself of 
 the privilege. When I arrived he was alone, and he 
 extended a warm, sunny welcome which immediately put 
 me at my ease. We conversed together, mainl}' on religious 
 
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 subjects, and I was surprised to find that he had read 
 extensively in these directions. He dwelt particularly on 
 prayer and on Providence, avowing his belief in both, 
 deplored the free-thinking tendencies of the times, and I 
 thought was unusually interested in what I told him, of 
 the conversion of Heine, and of some other celebrated 
 Germans. His conversation throughout was reverent 
 and devout, with just a flavor of mj'sticism about it, and 
 j'et not enough lo mar the soberness of his faith. We 
 were interrupted by the arrival of a distinguished gentle- 
 man, and our minds were directed to other channels, par- 
 ticularly to the interests of the university. What was 
 said is of no importance, but he maintained, in view of 
 Chicago's present and future greatness, that the mone3-ed 
 men of the city should rally round that struggling institu- 
 tion, and should place it on such a foundation as to com- 
 mand the support of students throughout the north-west. 
 He had no hesitancy in declaring that the refining and 
 elevating influences of a noble seat of learning on the 
 entire community would Ue worth infinitely more than 
 the money it would cost, r rom this prolonged interview 
 I rose with a clearer knowledge of my host, appreciating 
 what I had not discerned?' before — that in his character 
 met and blended the gentleness of the dawn and the 
 strength of the storm, the ruggedness of the sea and the 
 serenity of the azure, the sturdiness of the oak, and the 
 gracefulness of the flower, the intensity of fire and the radi- 
 ance of light, the vigor and reasoning force of a man, with 
 the simplicity and faith of a child. Happy union, blessed 
 fellowship of sterling and beautiful qualities, which endear 
 while living, and which forever render sacred the mem- 
 ory when dead. • j • ;   ' J 
 The termination of such a career as his cannot but be 
 
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 regarded as a public loss. When the l3-re is out of tune 
 we miss the harmony, but when its strings are broken, 
 w'e weep tliat its music shall be heard no more forever. 
 When the gleaming meteor falls through the sW we are 
 amazed at its passing splendor, and grieve that it should 
 so soon be eclipsed in darkness; but were the sun to rush 
 from its centre, through all our homes we would feel 
 indeed the vastness of our loss. So when the youth of 
 . promise dies we deplore what might have been, but when 
 the matured man of genius, ability and faith departs, we- 
 feel that light has gone from our dwellings and our souls 
 are enshrouded in measureless gloom. Especially is this 
 the case when to the bereavement is added circumstances 
 of peculiar terror under which it has taken place. Such 
 circumstances were not wanting to intensify our grief 
 when the messenger " death " summoned our friend to 
 stand before his Judge. 
 
 "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
 trump," it is written, shall they who live at our Lord's 
 second coming be changed, passing without decay into 
 the immortal blessedness. Frequently has this wonderful 
 transformation beert foreshadowed and anticipated. By 
 sea and land, in ways without number, in storm, collision, 
 accident and violence, or in the peaceful suspension of ^he 
 heart-beat — "in the twinkling of an eye " — has the spirit 
 been emancipated into the glorious liberty of the sons of 
 God. Imagination cannot refrain from heightening the 
 horrors attending this transition, especially when accom- 
 panied by the crash, the wreck, and agony of a scene 
 such as marked the close of Mr. Hoyne's career. Yet 
 though such feelings are natural at the time of the event, 
 and though the character of the event cannot fail then to 
 sliock and make us realize more deeply the extent of our 
 
loss, with the lapse of da3's and weeks should come u 
 soberer judgment and a calmer spirit. In truth it is of 
 little matter how we die, so long as we are prepared. At 
 the best " the bodv lives but a pulse's stroke," and if the 
 climax comes without note of warning, if " in the twink- 
 ling of an eye " the end comes, it should never be for- 
 gotten — 
 
 — " that moments like to these 
 Rend men's lives into immortalities." 
 
 When I hear of the sudden " taking off" of one ap- 
 proaching age, whose past has been full of honor, and 
 whose future is still full of promise, I cannot but think of 
 the poet's words, which, with some modification, are appli- 
 cable to our bereavement: | .   ;..   '. 
 
 " Death is but jealous of thj mild decay, ■• 
 
 Which gently wins thee; exulting age . !' 
 
 Provokes the ghastly monarch's sudden stride . • .   
 And makes his horrid fingers quick to clasp 
 His shivering prey at eventide." 
 
 The sharpness and suddenness of Mr. Hox'ne's end has 
 fulfilled its purpose. The lurid background has served 
 to bring into clearer relief the excellencies of his char- 
 acter, and it has added intensity to our grief and apprecia- 
 tion ; but it should neither lead us to regard him who met 
 such a death as unfavored and forsaken by the Supreme, 
 nor lead us morbidly to mourn as those who have no 
 hope. : I   . ' /. 
 
 Mrs. Browning in one of her sonnets asks tenderly — 
 
 " When some beloved voice that was to you 
 Both sound and sweetness, failelh suddenly, 
 And silence against which you dare not cry 
 Aches round you like a strong disease, and now-^ 
 What liope .' what help 1 what music will undo 
 That silence to vour sense .'" 
 
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 ?x'pardcd as a public loss. When the lyre is out of tune 
 wc miss the harmony, but when its strings are broken, 
 \\i- \v« -n that i;s music shall be heard no more forever. 
 When the jjleaming meteor falls through the sky we are 
 iimaretl at its passing splendor, and grieve that it should 
 so <irNin be eclipsed in ilarkness: but were the sun to rush 
 from its centre, through all our homes we would feel 
 ind<H-d the vastness of our loss. So when the vouth of 
 promise- dies we deplore what might have been, but when 
 the matured man of genius, ability and faith departs, we 
 feel that light has gone from our dwellings and our souls 
 are tfishroutk-d in mt'asureless gloom. Especiallv is this 
 the case when to the bereavement is added circumstances 
 of jxvuliar terror under which it has taken place. Such 
 tircumstances weie not wanting to intensify our grief 
 when the messengi'r -death" suiiimoned our friend to 
 •'land K-fore his Judgi-. 
 
 "In .1 momeni. in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
 trump." it i^ written, shall the\' \\ h<i live at our Lord's 
 MHond coming be changed, passing without decay into 
 the immortal blessedness. F?equentlv has this wonderful 
 transformation been foreshadowed and anticipated. By 
 s«a antl land, in ways without number, in storm, collision, 
 acc»<icnt ,ind \ ioK-nci-. or in the jieaceful suspension of the 
 heart-K-at "in the twinkling of an eve " — has the spirit 
 N-en emancipated into tlie glorious libert)' of the sons of 
 «tih1. Ima::ination cannot refrain from heightening the 
 liorrors attending this transition, especiallv when accom- 
 ]>ani»Hl b\ tlu' crash, ilu- wreck, and agonv of a scene 
 such as marked the close of Mr. Hovne's career. Yet 
 though sucli feelings are natural at the time of the event. 
 .\ni\ though the character of the event cannot fail then to 
 ^hock ami m.ike us rt'alize more deejilv tiie extent of our 
 
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 loss, with tlie lapse of days and weeks should come -i 
 soberer judgment and a calmer spirit. In truth it is of 
 little matter how we die, so long as we are prepared. At 
 the best " the body lives but a pulse's stroke," and if the 
 climax comes without note of warning, if " in the twink- 
 ling of an eye " the end comes, it should never be for- 
 gotten — 
 
 — " that moments like to these " 
 
 Rend men's lives into immortalities." ■: 
 
 When I hear of the sudden " taking oft"" of one ap- 
 proaching age, whose past has been full of honor, and 
 whose future is still full of promise, I cannot but think of 
 the poet's words, which, with some modification, are appli- 
 cable to our bereavement: | .. . • • 
 
 " Death is but jealous ot" thy mild decay, 
 , Which gently wins thee; exulting age •.   
 
 Provokes the ghastly monarch's sudden stride 
 And makes his horrid fingers quick to clasp . 
 
 His shivering prey at eventide." 
 
 The sharpness and suddenness of Mr. Ho3'ne's end has 
 fulfilled its purpose. The lurid background has served 
 to bring into clearer relief the excellencies of his char- 
 acter, and it has added intensity to our grief and apprecia- 
 tion; but it should neither lead us to regard him who met 
 such a death as unfavored and forsaken by the Supreme, 
 nor lead us morbidly to mourn as those who have no 
 hope. \ '"; 7-   • 
 
 Mrs. Browning in one of her sonnets asks tenderly- - 
 
 " When some beloved voice that was to you - 
 
 Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, 
 And silence against which you dare not cry 
 Aches r<jund you like a strong disease, and now — . • 
 
 What hope .' what help .' what music will undo 
 That silence to vour sense .'" 
 
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 Xor does she leave the inquiry unanswered. She shows 
 that friendship then will not suffice, nor the subtleties of 
 thought, nor melody, nor songs of poets and of birds; no, 
 none of these can repair the silence, — * 
 
 — " nor yet the spheric laws 
 Self-chantccl, nor the angels' sweet ' All hails,' 
 Met in the smile of God. Nay, none of these. 
 Sjpeak Tiiou, availing Christ! and fill this pause!" 
 
 She says truly. Human words, however soft and elo- 
 quent, can never sound to the bereaved like the voice 
 that is hushed and dumb. Nor can earthl}' consolations 
 a\ail to reconcile the stricken soul to God's afflicting prov- 
 idence. Christ alone can fill the pause. To that Christ 
 ^we affectionately commend this widowed wife and these 
 fatherless children, knowing that He who ever succored 
 the sorrowing on earth will not be deaf to their entreaties. 
 We would have them remember that He knows how to 
 sympathize with us, for He tasted our griefs. He Him- 
 self entered into the darkness, and cried " My God, my 
 "God, why hast thou forsaken me?" in the dreary hour 
 of the cross, feeling that the Father's face had been with- 
 drawn, and he abandoned to His terrible agon}^ But it 
 was not so. That Father was not afar off. The morning 
 of His countenance broke through and dispersed the en- 
 shrouding night, and emerging from its gloom the Master 
 triumphantly exclaimed, " It is finished " — finished the 
 doubt, the anguish and the fear. So j'ou, my friends, in 
 this hour of your trial, may fear that the All Father has 
 a controversy with you, that His love for you has grown 
 cold, and His care of you relaxed. But it is not so. You 
 are in the darkness; but He is in the darkness too. Draw 
 near to that Jesus who went there before you seeking the 
 Father's face, and, after the moment's loneliness and 
 
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 desolation found it; and He will sustain you and comfort 
 j'ou, and will kindly lead j'ou into the light where you 
 will see the countenance divine lit up with love and grace, 
 and where you will read the solution of this mystery. 
 Then will you take up the exulting cry of Jesus, " It is 
 finished!" Finished forever these painful doubts, and 
 finished forevermore this sense of weary solicitude. Anil 
 by and by, when life itself shall be completed, and you 
 meet the loved one on the radiant shore, then will you 
 confess that though the Father led you by ways which 
 you knew not here, and sometimes made the light dark- 
 ness about your feet, He never really left or forsook you 
 in the time of need. 
 
@(l7Ct»tt»s l^ogtnjft* 
 
 Bx Eugene J. Haix. 
 
 I hold that one who lives and dies, 
 Who leaves an impress on his time 
 
 For good, beyond the grave shall rise 
 To heights more splendid and sublime ; 
 
 That what is great and good on earth. 
 In heaven shall yet more brightly shine ; 
 
 That every soul of honest worth 
 Shall live immortal and divine; 
 
 That every noble human mind, 
 That leaves a worldly record fair, 
 
 Beyond this life shall be refined, 
 And shine with fadeless lustre there. 
 
 To-day a good man died, whose name 
 And face familiar many knew — 
 
 Not great in what the world calls fame. 
 But great in manhood, strong and true. 
 
 With generous hand his means he gave 
 To benefit and bless his kind ; 
 
 And, while he slumbers in the grave. 
 He will not fade from sight and mind — 
 
 For men who pass where hushed he lies 
 In death's mysterious twilight gray, 
 
 Shall read his name with grateful eyes — 
 Shall reverently pause and say : 
 
 Here sleeps, in undisturbed rejjose, 
 Here with the dust in silence blends, 
 
 A man whose manhood made his foes 
 His strongest and most steadfast friends. 
 
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