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 Chicago 
 
 Pre-eminently 
 
 A Presbyterian City 
 
 Andrew Stevenson
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 PRE-EMINENTLY A 
 PRESBYTERIAN CITY 
 
 ANDREW STEVENSON 
 
 President Young Men's Presbyterian Union of Chicago 
 With Supplementary Sketches of 
 
 McCormick Theological Seminary 
 
 By The Rev. Jas. G. K. McClure. D. D., LL. D.. President 
 
 Lake Forest University 
 
 By Prof. John J. Halsey, LL. D., Acting President 
 
 Presbyterian Hospital 
 
 By Albert M. Day, President 
 
 JANUARY. 1907 
 
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 Chicago Illinois
 
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 PUBLISHED 190? 
 
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 CHICAGO
 
 To the Memory 
 
 Of my friend and closest associate in work 
 for young men, 
 
 Frank \VTiite 
 
 A Christian gentleman, whose life was a constant 
 inspiration to the young men of the City of 
 
 Chicago, and whose unselfish devotion 
 
 to the Preshyterian Church endeared him to 
 
 the great host, for whose inspiration chiefly these 
 
 facts have been prepared.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Foreword 9 
 
 Chicago Pre-eminently a Presbyterian City 
 
 Introduction 15 
 
 Six Key Men 22 
 
 The Bankers 25 
 
 Railroad Men 30 
 
 Prominent Bible Class Teachers 31 
 
 Lawyers and Politicians 33 
 
 Packers 37 
 
 Wholesale Grocers 38 
 
 Lumbermen 39 
 
 Varied Industries 41 
 
 Wholesale Dry Goods Merchants 44 
 
 Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers 45 
 
 Retail Merchants 49 
 
 Newspaper Men 50 
 
 Insurance Men 51 
 
 Architects 54 
 
 La Salle St. Financiers 54 
 
 Educators 55 
 
 Publishers, Printers, Etc 57 
 
 Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists, Etc 59 
 
 Engineering and Constructing Experts 63 
 
 Retired Merchants 64 
 
 Capitalists 65 
 
 Some Deductions 68 
 
 The Young Men's Presbyterian Union 69 
 
 The Presbyterian Brotherhood 70 
 
 Conclusion 71 
 
 Sketch of McCormick Theological Seminary 72 
 
 By Rev. James G. K. McClure, D.D., LL.D. Pres.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAM 
 
 Sketch of Lake Forest University 76 
 
 By John J. Halaey, Ph.D., LL.D., Acting-Pros. 
 
 Sketch of Presbyterian Hospital 80 
 
 By Albert M. Day, President 
 
 Directory of Institutions and Organizations in and about 
 Chicago having Presbyterian officers, directors or trus- 
 tees and referred to in the Index of Presbyterians ... 85 
 
 Index of Men identified with the Presbyterian Church in the 
 Presbytery of Chicago and prominent in their lines of 
 business or profession 88 
 
 Directory of Presbyterian Churches and Missions (with their 
 
 pastors) in the Presbytery of Chicago Ill 
 
 Directory of the Executive Committee of Young Men's 
 
 Presbyterian Union of Chicago 115 
 
 Rank of Churches in Presbytery of Chicago in actual member- 
 ship 119 
 
 Real Growth of Churches in Presbytery of Chicago 120 
 
 Presbytery of Chicago compared with leading Presbyteries of 
 
 the United States 123 
 
 Growth of Chicago Churches and Sunday Schools during the 
 
 last thirty years 124 
 
 Growth of the larger Presbyteries during the last thirty 
 
 years 124
 
 <f Te are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its 
 savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good 
 for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under 
 foot of men. 
 
 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a 
 hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and 
 put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth 
 light unto all that are in the house. 
 
 *'Let your light so shine before men, that they may see 
 your good works, and glorify your Father which is in 
 Heaven." 
 
 ST. MATTHEW, 5: 13-16.
 
 o r e w o r 
 
 FOREWORD 
 
 In the preparation and editing of an article for publi- 
 cation no one could ever be happier than the writer of 
 this paper has been during the past few weeks. No au- 
 thor could be prouder of his subject than I am of mine. 
 Nevertheless, it is doubtful if anyone ever experienced 
 .quite the same feeling of anxiety in letting his document 
 go to press for it is fully realized that risks are being as- 
 sumed in the publication of an article of this character. 
 
 First: There is the danger of glorifying man rather 
 than God. Should anyone read these pages without 
 feeling how great is the responsibility resting upon those 
 who are mentioned herein because of the prominence of 
 the places they occupy, that one has missed the key-note 
 of the book. The hope which goes out with these words 
 is that they may be used to show, after all, how insig- 
 nificant man is and how great is the goodness of God, and 
 how, without Him we can do nothing that is worth while. 
 Oh ! that the Presbyterian men of Chicago might come to 
 see how little their lives have really counted for all these 
 years and how much may be accomplished if they will 
 "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness" 
 and trust Him for seeing that they are properly cared for 
 in material prosperity. 
 
 Second: There may be those who will interpret this 
 as a boastful presentation of Presbyterian strength in the 
 
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 Foreword 
 
 city of Chicago. Certainly no such thing is intended. 
 An effort is now being made to prevail upon the proper 
 Congregationalist and the proper Episcopalian to under- 
 take a similar investigation for their respective denomi- 
 nations and it is hoped others will do the same. No one 
 will welcome more than I their findings. Many of 
 Chicago's strongest and ablest business men are to be 
 found in the other denominations. 
 
 Third: The risk of mentioning those whose lives, 
 some may think, are far from being what they should be 
 and whose influence in business as well as in church circles 
 would retard rather than aid the progress of young men 
 who may be seeking inspiration and encouragement in 
 their every day lives. If there be those included herein 
 who do not stand for the best and highest there is 
 in life if there should happen to be those who, for ex- 
 ample, own or control property which is rented or leased 
 to saloons or for immoral purposes, no one will be quite 
 so sorry as I yet possibly this very publicity may set 
 them thinking and the result may be very gratifying after 
 all. 
 
 Fourth: The risk of including those, who though ap- 
 parently well fo-unded now, may fall by the wayside in the 
 near future and whose lives may be the subject of front 
 page newspaper scandals any day. 
 
 Fifth: The probability of having omitted the very 
 names of the men who are entitled to first recognition but 
 who, for some unaccountable reason, have been over- 
 
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 looked. No claim is made for this booklet that it is 
 anywhere nearly unabridged it is only a feeble attempt 
 to start something in this general direction. 
 
 All the possible risks and errors are realized; so it may 
 be seen, very readily, how great is the responsibility of 
 presenting such a list of facts and names. Yet over and 
 above it all it is because of the lack of information on 
 the part of most Presbyterians of the possible strength of 
 the men of the church, if once united, that such a pub- 
 lication is necessary and important at this time. There 
 are hundreds of our most prominent business men who 
 do not know that their closest associates are Christians, 
 let alone the fact of their being Presbyterians. There are 
 those who, if they knew of the influence which might be 
 exerted along right lines by unity of action on various oc- 
 casions, would do their best to bring these interests to- 
 gether to accomplish something really worth while, where- 
 as at the present time when a difficult problem presents 
 itself, they lack the courage, the strength and the vision 
 to accomplish or even attempt to bring about results 
 which might be attained. There are still those who, if 
 they had known all the while that a large percentage 
 of their employes were in men's bible classes or clubs 
 in the various churches and were doing their utmost, as 
 employes, to carry their Christian principles into business, 
 would doubtless have been a trifle more careful of their 
 own conduct and their own personal influence as the 
 heads of the institutions, remembering these employes
 
 Fo 
 
 r e wo r 
 
 have a right to expect a reasonable representation of the 
 religion these so-called Captains of Industry and finan- 
 ciers profess. Then there are employes who, if they only 
 knew the real genuineness of the lives of their employers, 
 would have an increased incentive to do their best and be 
 something more than mere driftwood in business. 
 
 Now it may be all this exposition of facts and names is 
 going to help a little; it may be some of the Christian em- 
 ployers and employes can carry their Christian profes- 
 sions into business with less fear of one another here- 
 after and thus be a little more helpful one to the other. 
 That is my hope. 
 
 It should be added that should anyone misuse this 
 information it would be evident that that person has 
 no desire to build up strong character in business and 
 to add his own influence in the effort to make 
 Chicago the Imperial Christian city of the world. 
 It is hoped this booklet will always be used for the purpose 
 for which it was originally intended namely to edu- 
 cate, stimulate and inspire greater loyalty and devotion 
 to the -first and greatest of all causes the Kingdom of God 
 and the salvation of all mankind. 
 
 Probably the most curious question that has confronted 
 me throughout this work is that of the place the ministers 
 should be given. My heart has yearned for the oppor- 
 tunity to say a word of appreciation for the lives of 
 those faithful leaders of men who have been so much to 
 this Presbytery and who have helped so materially in 
 
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 making the city what it is. I have so longed for the chance 
 to tell of the encouragement and assistance given me when 
 coming to the city as a boy, by my esteemed friend and 
 former pastor Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston. How his 
 influence and leadership were augmented by our beloved 
 Secretary of the College Board at New York, Dr. E. C. 
 Ray, who was then in Chicago and who made many of the 
 accomplishments of the Young Men's Presbyterian Union 
 possible. How I would like to tell of the inspiration 
 received from that great leader of men Dr. William J. 
 Chichester who while pastor of the Old First Church, was 
 never too busy to help and inspire some of us younger 
 men. And then, I would like to write a whole book on 
 the ministry of my dear pastor Dr. Cleland B. McAfee, 
 now of Brooklyn, under whose preaching and by whose 
 life I was brought to see my Saviour in a clearer light and 
 understand what it is to preach Christ and lead men 
 to Him. 
 
 Twelve years of life in Chicago have brought me 
 into such a close relationship with the active pastors of 
 the city that it would be quite impossible to say the word 
 that is upon my heart for each one whose life has been a 
 help and inspiration to me. Possibly some day an op- 
 portunity will offer itself so that I can do it. In the mean- 
 time I do want to testify to the unselfish devotion and 
 self-sacrificing service of the pastors of some of the smaller 
 and less favorably situated churches and missions. It 
 is easy to serve the Master under some conditions but it 
 
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 takes real genuine faith and work to keep things moving 
 in the right direction in some sections of our city. These 
 pastors need more encouragement than they ordinarily 
 receive from us laymen, yes and even from some pastors. 
 When we all become filled with unselfish love for the 
 Master and our fellow-men there will be no more dis- 
 couragements anywhere, and certainly there will be no 
 need then for considering the question of discontinuing 
 our work in some parts of the city because of the lack of 
 workers and funds. 
 
 ANDREW STEVENSON. 
 Buena Park, Chicago, 
 
 January 20, 1907. 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 I HERE is much food for thought in the 
 articles appearing almost daily in the 
 newspapers, concerning men occupying 
 positions of prominence. To a person 
 who is inclined to be pessimistic there is 
 much to justify his belief that there are 
 some things in the business world that are all wrong; 
 on the other hand, to a person who is at all optimistic 
 there are facts upon facts to prompt him to believe 
 that there never was a time when things were in 
 quite such a fair way towards adjustment along proper 
 lines. Over and above all this, to the Christian who is 
 wide-awake and alive to the situation as it actually exists, 
 there can be no question but that the present age offers 
 many genuine facts upon which to base the claim that the 
 cause of righteousness is making greater strides forward 
 than in any previous period in history. To the stalwart 
 Presbyterian Presbyterian, the "signs of the times" all 
 
 laity indicate that the Presbyterian laity are 
 
 awakening. . , . . . 
 
 awakening to their opportunities and 
 
 privileges and are making a steady advance in their 
 efforts to do their full share and more to rectify things 
 which have gone wrong, and to lead the forces for good 
 with greater enthusiasm and zeal than ever. Just as they 
 are taking the leading part in most sections of the land, 
 they are doing so in Chicago, but it is almost amazing to 
 witness the utter lack of knowledge on the part of the 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Presbyterians of this city, concerning the great men of 
 finance, directors of corporations and leaders of religious 
 and philanthropic work, who are, as a matter of fact, the 
 bone and sinew of our own church here at home. Perhaps 
 
 strength tm ' s * s P art i a lty due to the absence of a good 
 apparently healthy Presbyterian Social Union to bring 
 together these strong men of ability and 
 influence; possibly it may be attributed to modesty on 
 their part, but it appears to be due chiefly to the failure of 
 those few who do understand the power and the possi- 
 bilities of the men in the Presbyterian ranks to disseminate 
 this information throughout the church at large, thus 
 stimulating a desire on the part of the members to unite 
 in a great effort to bring together all these different ele- 
 ments and to mold them, so far as it is possible, into one 
 great unit. It is almost inconceivable what would be ac- 
 complished by this one great arm of the Christian Church 
 were every member of it to seriously consider his duty, 
 then declare himself and march forward with the pur- 
 pose to do his very best in the service of the Master. We 
 have seen evidences of the possibilities of this great 
 army in our splendid Presbyterian history. We 
 have just recently had demonstrations of what can 
 be done in Chicago and other large cities on special 
 occasions by bringing the men together in the interest 
 of evangelistic work, cleaner Christian citizenship, 
 and other important lines of effort, but never have 
 we had the opportunity to really measure the strength 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 of the church as we should have, and as we will have, 
 God willing. 
 
 Chicago appears to have been blessed with a good start. 
 Even back in the time of Old Fort Dearborn, Providence 
 seems to have looked upon this part of the land as 
 
 one peculiarly well located for the plant- 
 gooefstart. i n g an d developing of this great church 
 
 of ours. 
 
 In the second story of a building erected at the corner 
 of South Water and La Salle Streets by P. F. W. Peck in 
 the spring of 1833 (reputed to have been the third frame 
 building in the place) Chaplain Jeremiah Porter of Fort 
 
 Dearborn organized the First Presbyterian 
 First church. Church on June 26th, of that year. Nine 
 
 citizens and twenty-five members of the 
 garrison took part in the first service. Mr. Porter came 
 here with the troops in 1833. I* is a matter of history 
 that the first edifice of our denomination was erected on 
 the west side of Clark Street, north of the alley, between 
 Lake and Randolph Streets. While the Presbyterian church 
 was the first religious society in Chicago, the Catholics 
 completed their building a short time before. 
 
 In the old First Church, we are told, many other de- 
 nominations received their start, so that First Presby- 
 terian Church may well be called the "mother church" of 
 Chicago. One cannot help becoming very thoughtful 
 when he stops to consider how large a factor this church 
 has been, but more particularly the part some of its faith- 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 ful members have had, in the life of Chicago. The 
 strength of the denomination lies in its strong, courageous 
 and aggressive body of business men, backed up, and in 
 many instances led, by one of the finest bodies of women 
 a denomination, or a city for that matter, ever 
 possessed. It is fitting here to refer to the 
 helper"." remarkable zeal and splendid accomplish- 
 ments of these faithful women who have, 
 year by year, done more in the interest of both home and 
 foreign missions in and around this section than it will 
 ever be possible to tabulate here below. It is not making 
 too broad an assertion to state that the success of the 
 Presbyterian business men of this city is largely due to 
 their home influences. 
 
 What is true in most large cities, is true in Chicago, al- 
 though perhaps to a greater degree. Practically every un- 
 denominational movement for philanthropic 
 Presbyterians, work, in fact any cause which has for its 
 purpose the up-lifting of mankind, or the 
 cleansing of a community, is largely dependent upon the 
 generosity of the members of the Presbyterian church. But, 
 better yet, these same movements are even more dependent 
 upon Presbyterians for their volunteer workers and for their 
 faithful supporters. A man who has for years been one 
 of possibly a dozen to head every subscription list for such 
 projects and undertakings, told me that out of the seventy- 
 five names which could always be found upon such lists, 
 three-fourths of them were those of men in the Presby- 
 
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 terian church. He furthermore stated that were it not 
 for the Presbyterians many of the great philanthropies and 
 charities of the city, such as the libraries, museums, and 
 hospitals, would not and could not exist. Whether this 
 statement is exactly correct or not I am unable to say but I 
 do know that it is true in a great many instances. Later on 
 in this article an opportunity is given to judge of the part 
 many of our Presbyterians are taking in these various 
 enterprises which number over one hundred. It will 
 be observed that in some cases the boards of directors or 
 trustees are almost wholly composed of Presbyterians. 
 
 It is not necessarily a sign of narrowness or of selfish 
 pride when we speak of the part our church takes in such 
 movements, nor do I believe that those of other denomina- 
 tions, who are carrying on such splendid religious and 
 educational work, feel the Presbyterians unduly proud or 
 egotistical in occasionally recalling these facts. On the 
 other hand, when a certain educational institution of an- 
 other denomination recently received from a Presbyterian 
 a very munificent sum toward its endowment fund, a 
 man of that denomination remarked that even they, them- 
 selves, felt that the members of the Presbyterian church 
 generally displayed unusual virility and generosity in 
 helping the brothers and sisters of other branches of the 
 Christian church who were, perhaps, here and there, not 
 quite so fortunately situated. 
 
 One has but to casually look over the records of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association in Chicago', or 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 throughout the state for that matter, to see that without 
 a remarkable change in the attitude of the "Giver of all 
 Young Men's Sd gifts" the Association work could not 
 
 Christian exist on its present high standard without 
 Association. ,, . . , ,, , , , 
 
 the assistance of the Presbyterian church. 
 
 The reports from different cities differ somewhat, 
 although it is a very conservative estimate to say 
 that fifty per cent of the income is derived from 
 the one denomination. Departing for a moment from 
 the financial standard, it has been a serious prob- 
 lem at times when, by reason of certain constitu- 
 tional clauses where not more than half of the 
 membership of any committee can come from any one 
 strong m denomination, it became necessary to find 
 committee a man properly qualified (who was not a 
 Presbyterian) to take the place of a commit- 
 teeman who had just recently moved away or died. Fur- 
 thermore, as an indication of the training of the Presby- 
 terians, it has been an amusing observation on the part 
 of the "faithful" to see, time and again, when committee 
 meetings of the different sections of work are called, five 
 out of six, six out of seven, or eight out of ten present, Pres- 
 byterians, the others being absent for some reason or 
 other. 
 
 Another thing worth mentioning is the responsibility our 
 Presbyterian men seem to feel in the undertakings of an 
 undenominational sort with which they find themselves 
 connected. It seems to fall to the lot of some 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Presbyterian with a startling regularity to have to 
 act as chairmen of committees on finance or to lead 
 some special activity, when men accustomed 
 to undertaking some unusual or large task 
 are required. This can be stated as a fact, 
 not only in religious work or philanthropic work, but in 
 the business world itself, where, surprising as it may 
 seem, a Presbyterian seems to have a peculiar faculty of 
 leadership and executive ability. 
 
 Notwithstanding the surprise expressed by the editor 
 of a certain paper recently when reading an announcement 
 of a two weeks campaign of meetings of an undenomina- 
 tional sort, he found that eleven out of 
 speakers. twelve speakers were Presbyterians, it never- 
 theless is true that the men of this church 
 seem to possess, other things being equal, the ability to 
 face their business associates fearlessly and consistently 
 in a way that is most gratifying, although it should be 
 stated very emphatically that some of the greatest leaders 
 and most God-fearing men in this city to-day belong to 
 the other denominations. For obvious reasons it would 
 From not be well to go into detail here as to the 
 
 generalities to practices and influence of the Presbyterian 
 Individuals. f . , . . T , 
 
 business men of this city. It may, however, 
 help to substantiate the generalities of the pre- 
 ceding paragraphs by giving some concrete examples 
 of men who are, first of all, Christians; second, 
 Presbyterians and third, the most successful men, in 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 the eyes of the world, that this city, and in fact this 
 land, possesses. 
 
 All the while it should be borne in mind that in this 
 city of over 2,000,000 people there are but slightly over 
 18,500 Presbyterians. 
 
 It is difficult to decide who should have first place in 
 this list of Presbyterians who are prominent in the affairs 
 of the city at the present time. But when the previous 
 Cyrus H generation is considered the choice logically 
 
 Mccormick, falls upon Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, the 
 president of the International Harvester 
 Co., and a director and trustee in many religious and 
 philanthropic organizations. Few there are who do not 
 know of his father, the late Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, 
 founder of the McCormick Theological Seminary and 
 the inventor of the famous harvesting machine bearing 
 his name. Mr. McCormick's membership is in the Fourth 
 church although his time is almost equally divided be- 
 tween this church and the one at Lake Forest. 
 His untiring devotion to the interests of the semi- 
 nary and the Young Men's Christian Association is 
 well known to most Chicagoans. It is said that when 
 the new Central Department of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association was built, Mr. McCormick made 
 a personal canvass of the city raising over $250,000 
 of the building fund himself. It is indeed fitting 
 that Mr. McCormick should have been chosen a 
 member of the Council of Twenty-one in whose hands 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 the management of the new Presbyterian Brotherhood 
 has been placed. 
 
 Naturally the second to be mentioned is Mr. John V. 
 Farwell, Sr., one of the city's first and foremost merchants, 
 the head of the concern bearing his name in which the late 
 Marshall Field received his start. Mr. Farwell is an 
 elder in the Lake Forest Presbyterian church ; he was the 
 chief instrument in establishing the Young Men's Chris- 
 john v ^ an Association in old Farwell Hall, and, 
 
 Farweii, subsequently, gave the present property 
 
 on La Salle Street, on which stands 
 the greatest single Young Men's Christian Association 
 of the world. This lot was the former site of Mr. Far- 
 well's residence, in which the present president of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion of Chicago, Mr. John V. Farwell, Jr. (now a member 
 of the Lake Forest Presbyterian church), was born. 
 Mr. Farwell, Sr., is interested in many enterprises 
 calculated to uplift men, chief among which are Chicago 
 Tract Society, Citizens' League and The Gideons. Mr. 
 Farwell, Jr., is also president of the Employers' Association 
 of Chicago, vice-president of the Commercial Club and 
 a trustee in Lake Forest University. 
 Marvin No man in the railroad world, in the 
 
 rauf oafd* opinion of young men, stands out as more 
 
 president. o f a nero than Mr. Marvin Hughitt, presi- 
 dent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and 
 for many years an elder in the First Presbyterian 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 church, a trustee of the John Crerar Library, the Chicago 
 Home for the Incurables, and the Chicago Home for the 
 Friendless and a director in many different enterprises. 
 
 No less a factor in all movements for the up-building of 
 men, is Mr. Henry P. Crowell, the president of the Amer- 
 ican Cereal Company, a member of the Fourth Presby- 
 terian church, who has for some time been President of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Moody Bible Institute. 
 Henry p That, under Mr. CrowelFs direction, this 
 
 croweii, institution has come out into a place of 
 
 manufacturer. ,, . , * 
 
 usefulness in the life of the city and 
 
 the land, we must and do gladly recognize. No 
 institution planned by man is perfect but it would do 
 most of us good to get into the atmosphere of 
 the Chicago Avenue church and the Institute where 
 they are really planning and working to bring men to 
 Christ. 
 
 With him should be mentioned Mr. Henry S. Osborne, 
 a fellow trustee of Moody Institute, a trustee of Beloit 
 Henrys College, a lawyer of eminence and well 
 
 Osborne, known for his active part in various business 
 
 leader of men. . ,. , A1 , , ,, 
 
 enterprises of the city. Although an elder 
 in and one of the founders of the Buena Memorial church, 
 Mr. Osborne's chief distinction comes from the almost 
 unparalleled work for young men which he built up in 
 the Forty-first Street church and the outgrowth of which 
 was the Young Men's Presbyterian Union of Chicago. 
 Perhaps no layman in Chicago has been used to a greater 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 extent in leading young men to the Master than has Mr. 
 Osborne who is now leader of the young men's class in 
 the Buena Memorial church. 
 
 The next name on the list the name of the man who, in 
 the opinion of the great throng present at the First Presby- 
 terian Brotherhood convention held in Indianapolis, is 
 one of the ablest presiding officers and leaders the church 
 possesses is that of Mr. Charles S. Holt. As he 
 Charles s. proved a leader at Indianapolis so has he 
 andmaiTot* always stood in Chicago. Few men have 
 affairs. been more to their own local church, their 
 
 presbytery and their city than has Mr. Holt. Aside 
 from being the senior member of the law firm of Holt, 
 Wheeler & Sidley he is a director in many different enter- 
 prises, an elder and leader of the Young Men's Bible 
 Class in the Second church, a director of McCormick 
 Seminary, and treasurer of the Presbyterian league. Mr. 
 Holt, with Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, is a member of the 
 Council of Twenty-one of the new Presbyterian Brother- 
 hood of which he is vice-president. 
 
 It may be that the opportunity will offer itself at some 
 future time to speak more definitely of the power and 
 influence of these men in Chicago's life, but here we must 
 simply let what has gone before, coupled with what the 
 term "true, sincere, earnest, Christian business men" 
 means, classify these and the others we are mentioning as 
 being men upon whom in reality the present and the fu- 
 ture of this city largely depends. It must be remembered, 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 however, that some of those included are not members of 
 Chicago churches, although they are supporters thereof. 
 
 Presbyterians seem to be especially good bankers and 
 bankers prove to be entirely acceptable to the Presbyterian 
 church. 
 
 Of the long list of bank presidents there are three who 
 stand out prominently because of their unusual interest 
 in religious and philanthropic movements. First, Mr. 
 Ernest A. Hamill, president of the Corn Exchange 
 National Bank, trustee in the First Presbyterian church, 
 ex-president the Presbyterian Hospital, treas- 
 Bankers. urer The Art Institute of Chicago, treasurer 
 
 Commercial Club of Chicago, treasurer 
 Chicago Relief and Aid Society and director of many 
 other institutions. Second, Mr. James H. Eckels, presi- 
 dent The Commercial National Bank, ex-comptroller of 
 the currency, former president of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Chicago, a member of the Fourth Pres- 
 byterian church. (Formerly superintendent of the Sunday 
 school in the church at Ottawa, 111.) Among the many 
 outside interests of Mr. Eckels may be counted the re- 
 ceivership of the Union Traction Co., the treasurership of 
 the Religious Educational Association, the Chicago Tuber- 
 culosis Institute and the Woman's Temple and the presi- 
 dency of the Home for Destitute and Crippled Children. 
 Third, Mr. Byron L. Smith, president The Northern 
 Trust Co., for many years identified with both the First 
 and the Lake Forest churches. Mr. Smith is president 
 
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 of the Chicago Clearing House, treasurer The Field Mu- 
 seum of Natural History, treasurer The Chicago Home 
 for Incurables, honorary life member of the Chicago His- 
 torical Society, trustee of the Chicago Orphan Asylum 
 and many other philanthropies. 
 
 Mr. James B. Forgan of the Fourth Presbyterian 
 church, president of The First National Bank and the 
 First Trust & Savings Bank, is treasurer of the Lincoln 
 Park Commissioners, a member of the Advisory Com- 
 mittee of the Chicago Home for the Friendless, and is 
 connected with many other of the city's charities. Mr. 
 David R. Forgan, his brother, for some years the vice- 
 president of both the First National and the First Trust & 
 Savings Banks, now president of the new National City 
 Bank, a trustee in the First church of Evanston, has made 
 an indelible impression upon the lives of many young 
 men in the city by his practical and helpful talks on re- 
 ligious topics. Mr. Forgan is president of the Chicago 
 Commercial Association, vice-president of the Deep 
 Waterways Association and treasurer of the Citizens 
 Street Cleaning Bureau. 
 
 Mr. George M. Reynolds, the president of the Conti- 
 nental National Bank comes from one of the oldest Pres- 
 byterian families in the state of Iowa, formerly being 
 treasurer of the Central church at Des Moines, and Mr. 
 W. H. Reid, the vice-president of the Illinois Trust and 
 Savings Bank, is a member of the Second Presbyterian 
 church of Chicago. Mr. T. P. Phillips, president of the 
 
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 former Federal Trust and Savings Bank, and now vice- 
 president of the American Trust and Savings Bank, is also 
 from Second church. Mr. Solomon A. Smith, the second 
 vice-president of the Northern Trust Company, treasurer 
 of the Children's Hospital Society, is in the Lake Forest 
 church. Mr. W. H. Brintnell, the president of the Drov- 
 ers' Deposit National Bank, was for years an elder in the 
 Third Presbyterian church. Mr. Charles B. Pike, the presi- 
 dent of the Hamilton National Bank comes from one of 
 the oldest families of the Second Presbyterian church and 
 is a member there himself. Mr. John C. Craft, vice-presi- 
 dent, Bankers National Bank, is a trustee in the Hyde 
 Park Presbyterian church. Mr. J. Elliott Jennings, 
 president Jennings Real Estate Loan and Trust Co., is a 
 member of the First church of Evanston, as is also Mr. 
 David R. Lewis, vice-president of the Hibernian Banking 
 Association. Mr. Nathaniel R. Losch, cashier of the 
 Commercial National Bank is in the Fourth church while 
 Mr. Robert M. McKinney cashier of the National Bank of 
 the Republic is another Presbyterian. Mr. John G. 
 Orchard, cashier of the Merchants Loan and Trust Co., 
 is a member of the First church of Evanston. Mr. Ralph 
 C. Otis, vice-president of the Chicago Savings Bank 
 and Trust Co., is a member of the First Church, while 
 Mr. Leverett Thompson, secretary of the same bank is a 
 member of the Second church. Mr. F. H. Gansbergen, 
 secretary of the Mutual Bank, is a trustee in Fullerton Ave- 
 nue church. Mr. Charles B. Rice, vice-president of the 
 
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 Highland Park State Bank is in the Highland Park church. 
 Another Presbyterian prominent at the Union Stock Yards 
 is Mr. Robert B. Thomson, president of the Calumet Trust 
 and Savings Bank. Mr. Louis Boisot, Trust officer of the 
 First Trust and Savings Bank is an elder and trustee in the 
 La Grange church. Mr. Arnold J. Lethen of the Illinois 
 Trust and Savings Bank is an elder in the Campbell Park 
 church. Mr. Benjamin M. Hair in addition to his other 
 interests is president of the Cook County State Savings 
 Bank, and is in the Second church of Evanston. Mr. 
 Lucius Teter, cashier of the Chicago Savings Bank is in 
 the Hyde Park church. Mr. Alexander Robertson, vice- 
 president of the Continental National Bank is another 
 Presbyterian banker. Mr. Robert M. Wells, the newly 
 elected vice-president of the Bankers National Bank, 
 has been in First church for years. Mr. Alfred L. 
 Baker, vice-president of the National City Bank, is in 
 the Lake Forest church, while Mr. Frank R. Elliott, 
 cashier of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, the other 
 new bank, is in Fourth church. 
 
 On a recent count it was found that all but three of the 
 forty-eight state and national banks in Chicago have 
 Christian directors, while all but seven of 
 directors them have Presbyterian directors. The 
 first fourteen in size had Presbyterian offi- 
 cers while the foregoing paragraphs show exactly how 
 many of these have Presbyterian presidents. 
 
 Leaving the bankers, we will pass on to the Railroads.
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Mr. Marvin Hughitt, president of the Chicago & North- 
 Western Ry. has been mentioned previously, so in this 
 list the first will be Mr. B. L. Winchell, president of the 
 
 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, 
 official*. f r years active in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 Mr. H. D. Judson, general superintendent 
 of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway, is a 
 Presbyterian of long standing. Mr. H. R. McCullough, 
 vice-president of the Chicago & North-Western Ry., 
 is in the Lake Forest church. Mr. A. C. Bird, vice- 
 president of the Gould System of Railways, has for many 
 years been an active member of the First Presbyterian 
 church of Evanston. In this same church may be found 
 a number of other railroad men, for instance, Mr. John 
 Sebastian, passenger traffic manager of the Rock Island 
 and Frisco Systems, and Mr. M. Cochrane Armour who 
 in addition to being president of the Iroquois Iron Co., 
 and the resident partner of the pig iron firm of Rogers, 
 Brown & Co., is president of the Chicago Short Line 
 R. R. Mr. John A. Spoor, president of the Chicago 
 Junction Railway, and the Union Stock Yards and Transit 
 Co., Mr. Lloyd W. Bowers, general counsel of the Chi- 
 cago and North-Western Railway, Mr. Sidney F. An- 
 drews, general attorney of the Illinois Central Railroad 
 and Mr. J. M. Dickinson, general counsel for the Illinois 
 Central Railroad are all in the Fourth church. Mr. A. 
 F. Banks, president of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern R. R. 
 is in the First church of Evanston. Mr. R. B. Campbell, 
 
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 general manager of the road is in the Joliet Central church, 
 while Mr. F. W. Sutton, the auditor is in the Forty-first 
 Street church. Mr. Ashbel B. Newell, vice-president and 
 general manager of the White Pass and Yukon Rail- 
 road is in the Fourth church and Mr. George W. Ristine, 
 the former president of the Colorado Midland Railroad 
 and the now well known railroad expert is in the Second 
 church. In the traffic department there are many Presby- 
 terians, one of the most prominent being Samuel P. 
 Shane, freight traffic manager of the Erie R. R. Mr. J. 
 F. Titus, the new fourth vice-president of the Illinois 
 Central R. R. is a member of Second church and treasurer 
 of the Presbyterian Hospital. Mr. William L. Tarbet, 
 tax commissioner of the same railroad is an elder in Wood- 
 lawn Park church. 
 
 Were we to include in this list of railroad men the Chi- 
 cago directors of the various western railroads we would 
 have to mention some fifteen or twenty names which appear 
 elsewhere as bank presidents and corporation directors. 
 
 In addition to Messrs Osborne and Holt, whose bible 
 classes have been referred to above, many notable ex- 
 prominent amples of prominent business and profes- 
 
 Bibie-ciass sional men leading bible classes can be 
 teachers. .. . . . _ . . , , 
 
 found in the Presbyterian church. Few 
 
 men are more respected and have greater influence upon 
 the lives of men under their leadership than Mr. Arthur 
 D. Wheeler, president of the Chicago Telephone Com- 
 pany, a trustee in the Fourth church, leader of the Young
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Men's Bible Class of that church and a member of the 
 firm of Holt, Wheeler & Sidley. Mr. William A. Peter- 
 son owner of the Peterson Nurseries, one of the largest 
 and best known in the world, a director of the State Bank 
 of Chicago, a man whose interests are unusually extensive, 
 is an elder in and teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class 
 of the Edgewater Presbyterian church. Mr. Thomas A. 
 Hall, president of Thos. A. Hall & Co., and president of 
 the Office Building Manager's Association of Chicago, is 
 teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class of the Woodlawn 
 Park Presbyterian church. Prof. John M. Coulter, head 
 master of the School of Botany of the University of Chicago 
 ex-president of the Lake Forest University, is an elder in 
 and teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class of the Hyde 
 Park Presbyterian church. Prof. Walter D. Scott, profes- 
 sor of pedagogy of the Northwestern University, is an elder 
 in and teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class of the 
 First Presbyterian church of Evanston. Mr. James W. 
 Janney, manager of the Provident Life and Trust Com- 
 pany, is an elder in and teacher of the Young Men's Bible 
 Class of the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Nolan R. 
 Best, editor of the Interior, is an elder in and teacher of 
 the Young Men's Bible class of the La Grange Presby- 
 terian church. Honorable Charles G. Neely, ex-judge 
 of the circuit court, is a teacher of the adult Bible Class 
 in the First Presbyterian church of Evanston. Judge 
 Judson F. Going is teacher of the Young Women's Bible 
 Class of the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian church. Mr. 
 
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 Charles A. Heath of the firm of Albert Dickinson & Co., 
 leads the Young Men's Class of Forty-First Street church, 
 while Mr. William Francis, president of the Francis & 
 Nygren Foundry Co., shares the leadership of one of the 
 bible classes in the First church of Evanston. Mr. John 
 S. Ford, president of the furniture manufacturing con- 
 cern of Ford & Johnson Co., is teacher of the Young 
 Women's Class in the Sixth Presbyterian church. Mr. 
 Nelson Willard, assistant to the president of the A. T. & 
 S. F. Ry., is leader of the Young Men's Class in the River- 
 side Presbyterian church. Mr. Frederick P. Vose, a prom- 
 inent corporation lawyer, leads the Vose Bible Class in 
 the Second church of Evanston. 
 
 In addition to those referred to above who are identified 
 with the bar or whose lives are counting in the adminis- 
 tration of the city government there are many who should 
 Lawyers, De mentioned although the space for them 
 
 Judges, alder- 
 men and is limited : Justice Henry V. Freeman, of 
 
 government . . _ . , , 
 
 officials. the Appellate Court, is an elder in 
 
 the Hyde Park church. Mr. Charles Ailing, Jr., presi- 
 dent of the Chicago Business Law School, a 
 deacon and for many years superintendent of the 
 Sunday school of the First church, did much to 
 bring about the present very gratifying condition 
 of the city council while he was alderman of the 
 Second Ward. With him should be mentioned Mr. 
 Wm. S. Jackson, president of the board of trustees 
 of Sixth church, who although being president of 
 
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 the Board of Trade and the head of the grain firm of 
 Jackson Bros. & Co., found time to wield a mighty in- 
 fluence for good while representing the Sixth Ward in the 
 council. Mr. Walter C. Nelson, an elder in Hyde Park 
 church, served the Seventh Ward as alderman, at the same 
 time. Few members of the council have stood out more 
 conspicuously of late years than alderman Winfield P. 
 Dunn of the Twenty-fifth Ward. Under his leadership 
 the committee on license, assisted by the city press and 
 the great host of Christian people, carried through safely 
 the ordinance increasing the saloon license from $500 to 
 $1000. Mr. Dunn is an elder in the Fullerton Avenue 
 church and is head of the W. P. Dunn, Printing & Pub- 
 lishing Co. Alderman Frank I. Bennett of the Seventh 
 Ward, a member of the Hyde Park church who is chairman 
 of the committee on finance, is the man who provided for 
 the increasing of the police by some eleven hundred men. 
 Alderman Linn H. Young, of the Sixth Ward, secretary 
 and treasurer of the Gregg School is another of the long 
 list of Presbyterians taking a prominent part in the city 
 council. 
 
 Mr. John R. Thompson, the man whose restaurants 
 are more familiar to Chicagoans than any others, recently 
 elected county treasurer, is a trustee in the Forty-first 
 Street church. Judge McKenzie Cleland, of the new 
 Municipal Courts, a prominent lawyer for years, al- 
 though an elder and superintendent of the Sunday School 
 of the Second United church, is treasurer of the Young 
 
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 Men's Presbyterian Union. Judge Cleland has long 
 been the recognized head of the Adult Bible Class move- 
 ment of Cook county. Mr. William C. Lawson, clerk of 
 the Criminal Court, president of the Marlboro Portland 
 Cement Co., is in the Hyde Park church. Mr. Francis 
 T. Simmons, president of the Lincoln Park Board of Com- 
 missioners, secretary and treasurer of the wholesale glove 
 firm bearing his name, is a member of the Presbyterian 
 church. Mr. F. H. Gansbergen, another member of the 
 Lincoln Park Board is a trustee in the Fullerton Avenue 
 church, while still a third of the Park Commissioners, Mr. 
 Amos Pettibone, vice-president of P. F. Pettibone & Co., 
 Stationers, is a trustee in the church of the Covenant. 
 Mr. James B. Forgan, previously referred to, is treasurer 
 of the Board. 
 
 Few men have had a larger part in the making of genuine 
 progress and real manhood in our city than the Honorable 
 Luther Laflin Mills, lawyer, orator and civic reformer. 
 Mr. Mills, in addition to being a member of the Board of 
 trustees of Lake View church, is president of the Chicago 
 Boy's Club and the Chicago Tract Society and as indi- 
 cated elsewhere is interested in many of the city's chari- 
 table movements. His son, Mr. Matthew Mills has long 
 since made a prominent place for himself in the hearts of 
 the people. As president of the Young Men's Republican 
 Club he proved himself of such value that the north shore 
 district has elected him as their representative in legisla- 
 ture this fall. Mr. Matthew Mills is teacher of the Young 
 
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 Men's Bible Class in the Lake View church. Mr. Nathan 
 G. Moore, an elder in the First church of Oak Park, vice- 
 president of the former Federal Trust and Savings Bank, 
 is one of the three Presbyterians making up the corpora- 
 tion law firm of Wilson, Moore & Mcllvaine. Mr. Eph- 
 raim Banning, a member of one of the best known patent 
 law firms in the city, Banning & Banning, is an elder in the 
 Eighth church, and one of the most active men in the 
 Presbytery. Another representative in the state legisla- 
 ture is Mr. W. H. McSurely, a member and deacon in the 
 Hyde Park church. Ex-judge Thomas Dent, of the firm 
 of Dent & Whitman, vice-president of the Chicago His- 
 torical Society is an elder in Second church. Mr. Conrad 
 H. Poppenhusen, of the First church of Evanston and 
 treasurer of Association House is secretary and chief ex- 
 aminer of the Civil Service Commission. General John 
 
 C. Black, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic and president of the United States Civil Service 
 Commission is in the Fourth church. In the same church 
 will also be found Mr. Frederic W. Crosby, a prominent 
 lawyer, a director in many different institutions and a 
 trustee of Lake Forest College. Fourth church is con- 
 spicuous for the counsel it furnishes the large corporations 
 of the city and country as the foregoing would indicate. 
 But there are many others who must be mentioned to 
 make the list anywhere near complete. Judge Benjamin 
 
 D. Magruder, associate justice of the supreme court of 
 Illinois; Mr. W. W. Gurley, general counsel for the Union 
 
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 Traction Co., and many other corporations; Mr. Cyrus H. 
 Bentley, general counsel of the International Harvester 
 . Co., are all identified with this church. So is Mr. John 
 Maynard Harlan, of the firm of Harlan & Harlan son 
 of Justice John Marshall Harlan of the United States 
 Supreme Court. Mr. William Penn Nixon collector of 
 the Port of Chicago and a journalist of prominence is a 
 pew holder also. Mr. Rudolph Matz, a member of the 
 firm of Matz, Fisher & Boyden, a director of the United 
 States Shoe Machinery Company and the Chicago Sav- 
 ings Bank, is in Second church. Mr. Melvin Elmore 
 Patterson, chief deputy, U. S. marshal, Northern District 
 of Illinois, who is vice-president of the Brown Company 
 and secretary and treasurer of the Columbia Conservatory 
 of Music and Art, is in Third church. Another west side 
 Presbyterian is congressman Charles McGavin. Mr. 
 Thos. E. D. Bradley, a lawyer of prominence, an elder 
 in and superintendent of the Sunday school of Third 
 church for years, is president of the Cook County 
 Sunday School Association. 
 
 Presbyterians have large interests at the Stock Yards. 
 First of all the president of the Union Stock Yards and 
 Transit Co., Mr. John A. Spoor, as previously recalled, is 
 
 in the Fourth church. Mr. Louis F. Swift, 
 Packers. president of the great packing firm of Swift 
 
 & Co., and a trustee of Lake Forest 
 College, is in the Lake Forest church. Mr P. A. Valentine, 
 vice-president of Armour & Co., is a member of the Sec- 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 ond church. Mr. A. I. Valentine, president of the Armour 
 Grain Co., is also in the Second church. Mr. Arthur 
 Meeker, general manager of the Armour interests is a 
 pew holder in the same church. Mr. Thomas E. Wells, 
 formerly president of the Continental Packing Co., vice- 
 president of the American Cereal Co., and president of 
 the grain firm of T. E. Wells & Co., is a trustee in the 
 Forty-first Street church. Many of the most prominent 
 commission firms at the yards such as Wood Bros., and 
 Byers Bros. & Co., are made up wholly of Presbyterians. 
 
 The wholesale grocery interests are peculiarly Presby- 
 terian. For instance Sprague, Warner & Co.; Mr. A. 
 A. Sprague, who is in the Second church, is the head of the 
 concern. Incidentally Mr. Sprague has a large part in 
 the philanthropies of the city. Mr. Ezra Warner of the 
 same firm is in the Lake Forest church, 
 wholesale Mr Charles H. Bolster of this company 
 is a trustee in the Buena Memorial church. 
 Mr. Thomas Murdoch, President of Reid, Murdoch & Co., 
 is in Second church. Mr. Frank H. Armstrong, secre- 
 tary of the concern is one of the most active men in the 
 First church of Evanston. Mr. E. J. Learned, treasurer, 
 is in the Lake Forest church. Of the Durand & Kasper 
 Company, Mr. Calvin Durand, the president, and Mr. 
 Henry C. Durand, the second vice-president, are in the 
 Lake Forest church, while Mr. W. B. Downs, the secretary, 
 is in the River Forest church. Mr. Calvin Durand's gener- 
 ous gift of a Commons to Lake Forest College is noted 
 
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 in Professor Halsey's sketch which follows. Mr. Henry 
 Durand, in addition to being superintendent of the 
 Sunday school at Lake Forest, is president of Associa- 
 tion House the settlement work which most Christian 
 people consider the ideal enterprise of its kind to be 
 found anywhere. He is also vice-president of the 
 Commercial Exchange; a trustee of the Presbyterian 
 Hospital and one of the leaders in the Young Men's 
 Presbyterian Union a rare man in the service of the 
 Kingdom. Mr. Walter T. Chandler, of the firm of Frank- 
 lin MacVeagh & Co., is a trustee in the Sixth church. 
 And many other grocers are Presbyterians as will be seen 
 by a glance at the index. 
 
 Prominent lumber interests are well represented in the 
 church. First, Mr. James E. Defebaugh, owner and 
 editor of the American Lumberman, the great trade journal 
 
 of this branch of commerce, is an elder and 
 Lumbermen, trustee of the Forty-first Street church. 
 
 Mr. Defebaugh has for some years been 
 the head of the religious work of the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association of Chicago and is also one of the board of 
 managers. He has been a willing and generous supporter 
 of the Young Men's Presbyterian Union from its inception 
 and stands as a notable example of a young man's friend 
 in business. Mr. George H. Holt, of Lake Forest, presi- 
 dent of the Holt Lumber Company, the American Lumber 
 Company of Wisconsin and the Policy Holders Union of 
 Chicago, is also vice-president of the Columbian National 
 
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 Life Insurance Company of Boston, senior member of 
 the real estate firm of Holt, MacChesney & Cheney, and 
 owner of the Manhattan Building. Mr. Moses F. Kitten- 
 house, president of the Rittenhouse & Embree Lumber 
 Co., and the Arkansas Lumber Company and vice-presi- 
 dent of the Chandler Lumber Company, comes next. 
 Mr. William E. Kelley, a trustee in First church, is presi- 
 dent of the lumber firm of William E. Kelley & Co. Mr. 
 John B. Lord, president of the Ayer & Lord Tie Co., 
 a Presbyterian of long standing, is in the Kenwood church. 
 Mr. Jacob Mortenson, a lumber dealer of prominence, is an 
 elder in the First church of Oak Park. Mr. S. O. Knud- 
 son, president of the Knudson & Mercer Lumber Co., is in 
 Forty-first St. church, and is superintendent of the Sun- 
 day school at Bethlehem Chapel. Mr. Edward Browne, 
 president of the Edward Browne Lumber Co., is an 
 elder in the Second church. Mr. Benjamin F. Richard- 
 son of the firm of Crandall & Richardson is still 
 another Presbyterian lumberman. Mr. William L. 
 Sharp, vice-president of E. L. Roberts & Co., whole- 
 sale dealers in sash, doors and blinds could very 
 properly be included here. He is also president of the 
 window glass concern of Sharp, Partridge & Co. Mr. 
 I. R. Krum (an elder in Third church), is president 
 of Krum, Griffith & Co., lumber merchants. Mr. 
 Thomas R. Lyon, president of the Lyon Cypress Lumber 
 Company, and Mr. James P. Soper, vice-president of 
 the Soper Lumber Company and vice-president of the 
 
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 Menominee Bay Shore Lumber Company concludes 
 this section. 
 
 The heads of the varied industries which center in 
 Chicago, who are generally called in present-day language 
 "Captains of Industry" are large supporters of and workers 
 in the church. Reference has been made 
 industries. already to many of them under other sub- 
 jects. Mr. Samuel M. Hastings, president 
 of the Computing Scale Company of America and a di- 
 rector of many other corporations as shown in the index 
 is a trustee in the Buena Memorial church. Mr. Hugh 
 McBirney, president of the National Lead Company is 
 a trustee and one of the most faithful supporters of the 
 Second church. Mr. David B. Jones, president of the 
 Mineral Point Zinc Company divides his time between 
 the Fourth and Lake Forest churches. He is a trustee 
 of both Lake Forest College and the Presbyterian Hospi- 
 tal. Mr. Turlington W. Harvey, president the Acme Gas 
 Co. (an elder), Mr. J. Harley Bradley, president of the 
 Bradley Manufacturing Co., Mr. Charles L. Bartlett, 
 president of the Orangeine Chemical Company (a trustee) 
 and Mr. Lucius G. Fisher, president of the United States 
 Bag and Paper Company, owner of the Fisher Building 
 are all in the Fourth church. Mr. Benjamin M. Hair, 
 president of the Northwestern Yeast Company is in the 
 Second church of Evanston. Mr. William G. Holbrook, 
 president of the Union Drop Forge Company, Mr. Archi- 
 bald W. Houston, vice-president Republic Iron & Steel
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Company, Mr. Otho H. Morgan, president Chicago Var- 
 nish Company, Mr. Anson C. Morgan, secretary, (a 
 trustee in Highland Park church), Mr. W. S. Potwin, 
 treasurer of this company (an elder in Fourth church), 
 Mr. Augustus R. Richardson, vice-president of the Richard 
 son & Boynton Co., furnace and stove manufacturers, 
 Mr. C. Alfred Smith, president Mclntosh Battery & 
 Optical Company, Mr. Frederick M. Steele, president 
 and treasurer of the Chicago Forge and Bolt Company 
 (an elder in Highland Park church), Mr. Towner K. 
 Webster, president of the Webster Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, elevating and conveying machinery, and Mr. Robert 
 J. Zorge, president of the American Corn Milling Com- 
 pany all have their part in their own local churches. 
 
 Mr. Henry M. Ralston, president of the North American 
 Iron Company is the faithful clerk of the session at the 
 Second church, Mr. Harold F. McCormick, vice-presi- 
 dent of the International Harvester Company, a trustee 
 of the University of Chicago and the Theodore Thomas 
 Orchestra and Mr. Stanley McCormick, comptroller of 
 the International Harvester Company both reflect credit 
 on the names they bear in the Fourth church. Mr. 
 Robert Stuart, secretary and a very large factor in the 
 American Cereal Company, is a trustee of the Hyde Park 
 Presbyterian church. Mr. Frank P. Sawyer, vice-presi- 
 dent of the Great Western Cereal Company is a member 
 of the same church. Mr. Albert B. Dick, president of 
 the concern bearing his name which manufactures the 
 
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 Edison Mimeograph, is in the Lake Forest church and 
 and is a trustee of both the college and hospital. Mr. 
 Edward P. Baird, president of the Telephone Equipment 
 concern, called the Baird Manufacturing Co., is in the 
 First church of Evanston. Mr. Samuel E. Barrett, chair- 
 man of the board of the Barrett Manufacturing Co., roofers, 
 is in the Fourth church. Mr. Thomas Kane, president 
 of Thomas Kane & Co., school and church furniture, 
 president of the American Spiral Pipe Works, presi- 
 dent of the Winona Assembly and Summer School in- 
 terests and vice-president of the Lewis Institute, is an 
 elder and trustee in the Third church. Mr. Thomas 
 G. McCulloh, vice-president and treasurer of the 
 National Linseed Oil Company, president of the Fed- 
 eral Manufacturing Company, is an elder in the Hyde 
 Park church. Mr. Charles H. Fitzhugh, president of the 
 Fitzhugh, Luther Locomotive Co., is a deacon in the Lake 
 Forest church. Mr. John McKinnon, president of the 
 Illinois Straw Products Company is prominent in many 
 interests throughout the city. Mr. Mark Morton, treas- 
 urer of the International Salt Company, treasurer of the 
 United States Sugar Refinery and director in many other 
 interests is a trustee in the Lake Forest church. Mr. 
 Frederick F. Peabody, vice-president of the shirt and 
 collar concern of Cluett, Peabody & Co., is in the First 
 church of Evanston, in which church is also one of the 
 best known elders in the presbytery, Mr. Frank S. Shaw, 
 president of the Cable Piano Co. Mr. E. P. McPherson, 
 
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 second vice-president of the Cable Co., is an elder in 
 Third church. It is impossible to include in this section 
 all the heads of the varied industries who are identified 
 with the Presbyterian church but their names together 
 with other information appear in the index. 
 
 The Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers, who 
 are Presbyterians, would fill a volume themselves, so only 
 a few will be referred to here. The first two houses to be 
 wholesale mentioned are Marshall Field & Co., and 
 dry goods Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., because they 
 have both wholesale and retail branches. 
 Although Mr. Field himself never joined the church, he 
 was for years a trustee in and one of the most regular at- 
 tendants at the First church. He seemed especially 
 inclined toward Presbyterians in his selection of partners 
 from the beginning Mr. John V. Farwell, Mr. Henry J. 
 Willing, Mr. Lafayette McWilliams and Mr. Thomas 
 Templeton, four of them being Presbyterian elders. So 
 down to the present time men of this type manage the 
 affairs of this, the greatest institution of its kind in the 
 world. Mr. John G. Shedd, president of the company, 
 is in the Kenwood church. Mr. Arthur B. Jones, one of 
 the trustees of the estate, is in the First church of Evanston. 
 Mr. Stanley Field and Mr. Philip L. James, nephews of 
 Mr. Marshall Field, are in the First church. Mr. James 
 Simpson, vice-president of the company is from the oldest 
 and staunchest type of Scotch Presbyterianism. Mr. 
 Lindsay T. Woodcock, general manager of the retail end 
 
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 of the business is an elder in the First church of Oak Park 
 while Mr. W. F. Hypes of the wholesale section is in the 
 First church of Evanston. There are many other prom- 
 inent department managers and officers to be found 
 in the various churches throughout the city. 
 
 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., is much the same in its 
 make up. Of the founders of the concern but one or two 
 are left. Mr. Samuel S. Scott, long an elder in the church, 
 although spending most of his time in the south now, at- 
 tends the Buena Memorial church. Mr. John W. Scott 
 of the younger generation, but one of the leaders now is 
 in the First church of Evanston. Mr. John T. Pirie, Jr. is 
 in the Lake Forest Church. 
 
 It is interesting to observe in both the wholesale and 
 retail sections of the city, the buildings, the signs and the 
 advertisements of concerns headed by, owned or con- 
 trolled by Presbyterians. First we will con- 
 ^ ne ourselves to the wholesale district 
 including some of the manufacturers. 
 
 The John V. Farwell Co. The founder, Mr. John V. 
 Farwell, Sr., and the present treasurer and general 
 manager, Mr. John V. Farwell, Jr., have been referred 
 to before. Mr. Arthur L. Farwell, second vice-presi- 
 whoiesaie president, and Mr. Francis C. Farwell, 
 merchants and secretary, of the company, are in the Lake 
 
 manufacturers. _, , , , .. T , , T7 
 
 Forest church. Mr. John W. Sweet, presi- 
 dent of Sweet Dempster & Co., wholesale hats, is in 
 Evanston First church. Mr. Moses D. Wells, president 
 
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 of the wholesale shoe firm of M. D. Wells & Co., is in 
 the First church. Mr. Charles Smith, president of the 
 wholesale paper concern of Bradner Smith & Co., is in 
 Fourth church. Mr. Walter L. Parrotte, president of the 
 wholesale hat concern of Parrotte, Beals & Co., is in Hyde 
 Park church. 
 
 Mr. William H. Bush, president of Wm. H. Bush & Co., 
 wholesale hats and caps, and president of Francis T. 
 Simmons & Co., wholesale gloves, is a member of Fourth 
 church. Mr. A. C. Becken, president and Mr. Walter 
 Frazer Brown, vice-president and treasurer, of the whole- 
 sale jewelry house of A. C. Becken & Co., are both in 
 Evanston First church. Mr. Hamilton Borden, president 
 of the Borden & Selleck Co., Howe Scales, is an elder in 
 First church. Mr. Henry W. Dudley, president of the 
 H. W. Dudley Coffee Co., is also an elder in First church, 
 while Mr. E. A. Downs, the vice-president of the com- 
 pany, is an old-time Presbyterian. Mr. W. D. Messenger, 
 president of the wholesale paper firm of W. D. Messenger 
 & Co., is an elder in the Highland Park church. Mr. 
 Arthur B. Cotton, president of the Brydon Trimmed Hat 
 Co., is an elder in Eighth church. Mr. John S. Ford, 
 president of the great chair and furniture manufacturing 
 concern of Ford & Johnson Co., is an elder and Bible 
 class teacher in the Sixth church. Mr. Melancthon 
 Smith, president of the Star Gelatine Company, and of 
 M. Smith & Co., wholesale grocers and packers supplies; 
 Mr. J. D. Haggard, president of Haggard & Marcusson 
 
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 Company, manufacturers of spring beds and mattresses; 
 Mr. L. W. Flershem, vice-president of the jewelry concern 
 of Lapp & Flershem ; Mr. John F. Jelke, president of the 
 butterine concern of Braun & Fitts; Mr. James B. Clow, 
 president and William E. Clow (for years a trustee in the 
 Lake View church), vice-president of Jas. B. Clow & Co., 
 wholesale plumbers and plumbers' supplies; Mr. E. B. 
 Moore, president of the wood carpet concern of E. B. 
 Moore & Co.; Mr. James L. Mead, president of the 
 Mead Cycle Co. ; William H. Warren, president of W. H. 
 Warren & Co., bank and office furniture; Mr. J. H. Whit- 
 ing, president, Whiting Foundry & Equipment Co. ; Mr. 
 Robert Vierling, president and Mr. Louis Vierling, sec- 
 retary and treasurer of the Vierling, McDowell Iron 
 Works; Messrs. J. W., a trustee, and H. W. Allen, an 
 elder, in the Campbell Park church, of the J. W. Allen 
 Co., bakers and confectioners supplies; Mr. Clyde M. 
 Carr, vice-president and secretary of Joseph T. Ryerson 
 & Co., heavy iron and steel merchants and Mr. Robert 
 F. Carr, vice-president and general manager of the Dear- 
 born Drug and Chemical Works; Mr. Robert Russell, 
 president of the Russell Carpet Co.; Mr. William D. 
 Collyer, president of W. D. Collyer & Co., butter and egg 
 merchants United States inspector of dairy exports all 
 these are Presbyterians. Both Messrs. John C. Crofts 
 and Corydon A. Reed, of the soap manufacturing concern 
 bearing their name, are active in the church. The former 
 in the Austin First church and the latter an elder in 
 
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 Oak Park First church. The present beautiful edifice of 
 the Eighth church is no doubt due to Mr. Reed's gen- 
 erosity and untiring efforts. Mr. L. P. Moore, secretary 
 and treasurer of the varnish concern of Benj. Moore & 
 Co., is in Evanston Second church. Mr. A. E. Coleman, 
 president Chicago Ornamental Iron Co., is an elder and 
 a trustee in the Hyde Park church. Mr. Geo. M. Bard, 
 president of the Norwall Mfg. Co. (steam supplies), is a 
 trustee in the same church. 
 
 Mr. Charles B. Ford, president of the Ford & Howard 
 Company, produce merchants, is in Oak Park First 
 church. Mr. Edward H. Smith, treasurer of the Oliver 
 Typewriter Company is a trustee in the Fourth church. 
 Mr. John E. Wilder, of the firm of Wilder & Co., tanners 
 and leather merchants, and ex-state president of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association is in Evanston First church. 
 Mr. Carlton Moseley (a trustee), a partner in the great 
 coffee firm of Chase & Sanborn, and Mr. Samuel Parlia- 
 ment, a wholesale cheese merchant are both in the High- 
 land Park church. Mr. Jonathan W. Brooks, Jr., vice- 
 president of the china and glassware house of Pitkin & 
 Brooks; Mr. C. M. Trowbridge, vice-president of Burley 
 & Co., china and glassware (a trustee in Lake Forest 
 church), Mr. Henry Faurot, vice-president and treasurer 
 of the Western Felt Works; Mr. John D. Hibbard, presi- 
 dent of John Davis Co., plumbers' supplies, and president 
 of the Davis Construction Co. ; Mr. L. M. Bushnell, of the 
 firm of Vaughan & Bushnell, hardware manufacturers; 
 
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 Mr. W. T. Bussey, president of the Chicago Stove Works, 
 Mr. E. G. Clark (an elder in Fourth church and presi- 
 dent of the Chicago Foundlings Home), treasurer of Hib- 
 bard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., wholesale hardware, and 
 Mr. Robert M. Wells, of the wholesale hardware concern 
 of Wells & Nellegar, for years an elder in First church, 
 conclude this list. 
 
 The retail merchants contain such names as Mr. F. M. 
 Atwood, the clothier, a trustee in the Hyde Park church. 
 Mr. N. B. Holden, the shoe dealer, who is a trustee in the 
 Third church. Mr. Alexander H. Revell, and Mr. W. K. 
 
 Cowan, prominent furniture dealers, are both 
 merchant!. m ^ Fourth church. Mr. C. E. Graves, 
 
 the jeweler, is in the First church of Evans- 
 ton, and at the time of his death another prominent 
 jeweler, Mr. C. D. Peacock, was a member of First 
 church. Mr. William L. Campbell, vice-president 
 of the Economical Drug Co., Mr. F. W. Gerould, the 
 resident partner of A. G. Spalding & Co., sporting 
 goods, a trustee in First church of Evanston, Mr. Platt 
 P. Gibbs, president of the Chicago Music Co., and Mr. 
 A. H. Abbott, of A. H. Abbott & Co., artists' supplies, 
 are all Presbyterians. 
 
 It is a somewhat delicate matter to classify the newspaper 
 men of Chicago so far as their religious affiliations are 
 concerned. There are, however, notable examples of 
 Christian manhood connected with the press. Mr. Fred- 
 erick Driscoll, commissioner The American Newspaper 
 
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 Publishers Association, is in the Lake View church. 
 Mr. Victor F. Lawson, owner and publisher of the 
 Chicago Daily News, was for years in the Fullerton 
 Avenue Presbyterian church, but has since his removal to 
 LaSalle Avenue been in the New England Congregational 
 church. Mr. Robert W. Patterson, the editor and pub- 
 Newspaper lisher of the Chicago Tribune, makes 
 editors and his church home while in Chicago in the 
 Fourth church. Many will remember the 
 strong and abiding impression his father Dr. Robert 
 W. Patterson, made upon this city of ours while he 
 was pastor of Second church, during which time 
 he was instrumental in establishing Lake Forest 
 College. Mr. John C. Eastman, publisher of the 
 Chicago Daily Journal and Mr. George W. Hinman, 
 publisher of the Inter-Ocean are both identified 
 with the church. Mr. Samuel R. Wells, business 
 manager of the Daily News is a deacon in Second church. 
 Mr. Everett Sisson, publisher of the Interior, the great 
 Presbyterian paper of this section, is in the Oak Park 
 First church. Mr. Harry Wilkinson, publisher of the 
 Chicago Banker, is a Presbyterian, very appropriately. 
 Mr. Samuel Eberly Kiser, whose inspiring columns in the 
 Chicago Record-Herald we read daily, is in the Evanston 
 First church. Mr. James E. Defebaugh, of the American 
 Lumberman and Mr. Nolan R. Best of the Interior are 
 referred to elsewhere. Mr. S. E. Gruenstein of the Chi- 
 cago Evening Post, has for years been organist in the Lake 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Forest church. Many of the leading editors of and con- 
 tributors to the Chicago daily papers are in the church. 
 Perhaps this accounts for the attitude of the press towards 
 the various movements for civic righteousness. 
 
 The Insurance business fire, life, marine, accident 
 and casualty is well cared for by our denomination 
 in fact Presbyterians are away in the lead so far as the 
 number of companies represented is con- 
 men'* cerned. To begin with, the president of 
 the Chicago (Fire) Underwriters Associa- 
 tion is Mr. Edward M. Teall, an elder and trustee in the 
 Third church. He is also president of the underwriting 
 firm of Edw. M. Teall & Co., president of the Chicago 
 Relief and Aid Society and president of the board of 
 trustees of the McCormick Theological Seminary. The 
 secretary of the same association, Mr. Ralph N. Trim- 
 mingham another fire underwriter is in the Oak Park 
 church. Mr. Fred S. James, president of Fred S. James 
 & Co., one of the oldest and largest fire insurance agencies 
 in the city, is in the First church of Evanston. Mr. 
 Francis C. Waller a prominent fire underwriter; Mr. 
 Horatio N. Kelsey, western manager of the Sun Fire In- 
 surance Company; Mr. Thomas S. Chard, manager of the 
 Firemen's Fund and Union Fire Insurance Companies, 
 are all Presbyterians. Mr. W. F. Cameron, of the con- 
 cern of P. F. Cameron & Co., is a trustee in the Hyde 
 Park church. 
 
 Mr. F. M. Steele, president of the American Guaranty 
 
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 Co.; Mr. E. C. Waller, president of the North American 
 Accident Insurance Co.; Mr. Franklin H. Head, vice- 
 president, Continental Casualty Co., and W. J. Aiken, 
 general manager of the Preferred Accident Insurance Co., 
 are a quartette of Presbyterians interested in other 
 branches of the insurance business. Mr. George L. 
 McCurdy, of the Forty-first Street church, president of Geo. 
 L. McCurdy & Co., and Capt. Chas. W. Elphicke, of 
 the Evanston First church, president of Chas. W. El- 
 phicke & Co., and a large vessel owner, are largely in 
 control of the marine insurance business of the great lakes. 
 The president of the Life Underwriters Association of 
 Chicago Mr. L. Brackett Bishop, is a member of the 
 Edgewater church. He is manager of the Massachusetts 
 Mutual Life Insurance Co., is largely interested in 
 the Chicago Young Men's Christian Association, and is 
 one of the most highly respected men in the life insurance 
 business. Mr. George H. Holt, the vice-president of the 
 Columbian National Life Insurance Co., of Boston, has 
 already been mentioned. This company has, as its active 
 leader of its western agencies, one of the most capable 
 and best-known directors of men in the entire country, 
 Mr. Howard H. Hoyt, of the First church of Evanston. 
 Mr. Hoyt's title is assistant director of agencies. Mr. 
 Raymond W. Stevens, vice-president of the Illinois 
 Life Insurance Company is a trustee in the Forty- 
 first Street church. Mr. Walter Z. Brown, treasurer 
 of the same company is a deacon in the church 
 
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 of the Covenant. Mr. Isaac B. Snow, superintendent of 
 agencies of the Massachusetts Mutual Life, is a trustee in 
 Forty-first Street church. Mr. Charles D. Norton, gen- 
 eral agent of the North- Western Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of Milwaukee, is in the Lake Forest church. 
 Mr. James W. Janney, general agent of the Provident 
 Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, is also men- 
 tioned earlier. Mr. E. H. Elwell, general agent of the 
 Michigan Mutual Life, is another trustee in the Forty- 
 first Street church. Mr. William T. Van Arsdale, general 
 agent of the Mutual Benefit of New Jersey, and Mr. Elihu 
 D. Watt, general manager of the National Life Insurance 
 Company, U. S. A., are also Presbyterians. There should 
 follow here naturally reference to Mr. Thomas R. Wed- 
 dell, assistant editor of the Insurance Post and insurance 
 editor of the Chicago Record-Herald, who is a member of 
 the Hinsdale church. 
 
 Many of Chicago's most prominent architects are 
 
 Presbyterians. Mr. Charles S. Frost, of the firm of 
 
 Frost & Granger, is an elder in the Lake Forest church. 
 
 Mr. H. B. Wheelock is an elder in the Evanston First 
 
 church. Mr. Howard Van Doren Shaw is a 
 
 Architects. trustee and treasurer in the Second church. 
 
 Mr. James Gamble Rogers, Mr. Robert 
 
 Thorne Newberry and Mr. George W. Maher three of 
 
 the leading architects of Chicago are also in the church. 
 
 La Salle Street has always been aware of the strength 
 of the Presbyterian church from the Stock Exchange 
 
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 and Chamber of Commerce down to the Board of Trade. 
 Many of the leaders of the financial and insurance 
 community have been included under other 
 captions. Mr. Granger Farwell, president 
 of the stock and bond house of Granger, 
 Farwell & Co.; ex-president of the Stock Exchange, 
 and president of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, is a 
 trustee in Lake Forest church. Mr. Alfred L. Baker, 
 president of the financial institution bearing his name is 
 also in Lake Forest and is the faithful and efficient presi- 
 dent of the board of trustees of Lake Forest University. 
 Mr. Baker's interests, so far as outside charities and phil- 
 anthropies are concerned, are doubtless as numerous as 
 any Presbyterian in the city, as the index will indicate. 
 Mr. Ferry W. Leach, of the firm of A. B. Leach & Co. 
 is in the First church of Oak Park. Others active in the 
 church and of great influence in stocks and bonds are 
 Charles M. Howe, an elder in Evanston First church, 
 Samuel M. Meek, president of the Fidelity Trust Co., 
 and Mr. Martin A. Devitt, of the firm of Devitt, Tremble 
 & Co. Mr. William A. Douglass, manager of the Mer- 
 cantile Agency of R. G. Dun & Co., is a trustee of Oak 
 Park First church and has been a trustee of the Presby- 
 terian Hospital from its inception. Mr. Israel P. Rumsay, 
 head of the firm of Rumsay & Co., is an elder in the Lake 
 Forest church. Aside from being a man of untiring ef- 
 forts in behalf of the church he has ever been devoted to 
 the cause of the Citizen's League, for the suppression of 
 
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 the sale of liquor to minors and drunkards, which move- 
 ment he originated and was its president for some twenty- 
 five years. Mr. Albert M. Day, for years in the firm of 
 Counselman & Day, like many others divides his time 
 between the Fourth and Lake Forest churches. Since 
 assuming the presidency of the Presbyterian Hospital he 
 has devoted almost all his time thereto, bringing the in- 
 stitution up to its present high standard of efficiency 
 the best in its history. Mr. Day's sketch of the hospital 
 appears elsewhere. 
 
 The Educational Institutions in and around Chicago 
 owe much to the Presbyterian church. McCormick 
 Theological Seminary, is, of course, denominational in 
 character. Dr. McClure's sketch which 
 Educator. follows later on will show, however, the 
 wide influence of the institution. Doctor 
 McClure's long pastorate at Lake Forest seemed to 
 peculiarly fit him for the presidency of the seminary 
 which, under his leadership, is destined to be one of the 
 greatest training schools for the ministry the whole nation 
 possesses. If it were not for the rule adopted at the be- 
 ginning whereby reference was not to be made to the in- 
 dividual ministers in this particular book certainly an 
 opportunity would here be taken to pay the tribute to 
 president McClure which the writer, in common with 
 every one in the country who knows him, would like to 
 have recorded. 
 
 Lake Forest University the College, the Academy and 
 
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 Ferry Hall are Presbyterian too, although not narrowly 
 so. There could be no more logical person to write the 
 sketch about that institution than Prof. John J. Halsey, 
 the acting president. When it is read, one should bear 
 in mind the life behind it, that of a man who through all 
 the years, under various administrations and conditions 
 has striven to make Lake Forest worth almost everything 
 to the young people who have come under its influence. 
 Professor Halsey, is an elder of the Lake Forest church 
 and active in the life thereof. Lake Forest is the home 
 of Dr. Clifford W. Barnes, one of the foremost educators 
 of the present time. His training while president of 
 Illinois college and more recently as general secretary 
 of the Religious Educational Association very naturally 
 led up to the special research work he is engaged in at 
 this time, both at home and abroad. 
 
 The North- Western Military Academy at Highland 
 Park has at its head, Col. H. P. Davidson, a member of 
 the Highland Park church and a manly man. 
 
 The University of Chicago (Baptist) has one Presby- 
 terian trustee and many Presbyterians in its faculty. 
 Among them, Prof. John M. Coulter, dean of the School 
 of Botany, an elder in Hyde Park, who has been men- 
 tioned. Prof. Henry H. Belfield, also an elder in the 
 same church is dean of the University High School 
 formerly the Chicago Manual Training School. 
 
 North- Western University (Methodist) although more 
 denominational in character than the University of Chi- 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 cago, finds room for Presbyterians here and there, three 
 being on the board of trustees. 
 
 Mr. Orville M. Powers, founder and president of the 
 Metropolitan Business College, is a trustee and treasurer 
 of the Hyde Park church. Prof. John C. Grant, principal 
 of the Harvard school, is an elder in the Second church. 
 Prof. Charles D. Lowry, assistant superintendent of 
 schools, is an elder in the Third church and active at 
 Foster Mission. Mr. William M. Roberts, another as- 
 sistant superintendent of schools, is a Presbyterian, al- 
 though beyond one member of the school board (Mrs. 
 Emmons Elaine) Presbyterians do not claim much of 
 the glory coming to the present public school system in 
 Chicago. 
 
 Presbyterians prove to be especially successful as pub- 
 lishers, printers, stationers, lithographers and engravers. 
 Mr. Fleming H. Revell, president and Mr. George H. 
 Doran, vice-president of the Fleming H. Revell Co., are 
 in the First church of Evanston. Mr. Joel C. Lininger, 
 president The Winona Publishing Company, is in the 
 Buena Memorial church. Mr. Wentworth W. Tewksbury, 
 Publishers secretary and treasurer of the same corn- 
 printers, pany, is leader of the Fellowship Class for 
 
 stationers, etc. __ ' ,, , ~ , . , __ 
 
 Young Men m the Second church. Mr. 
 
 Hugh A. Foresman, vice-president of Scott, Foresman & 
 Co., is in the Hyde Park church. Mr. John S. Goodman, 
 president of J. S. Goodman & Co. (an elder in Third 
 church), Mr. George W. Ogilvie, president of George W. 
 
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 Ogilvie & Co. and Mr. John W. Wilcox, secretary and 
 treasurer of C. M. Barnes Co., are three prominent pub- 
 lishers in the Presbyterian church. Mr. R. Scott Miner, 
 manager of the Educational Book Department of the 
 American Book Co. and vice-president of the Young Men's 
 Presbyterian Union, is in the Woodlawn Park church. 
 Mr. Jerome A. Smith, president of the S. D. Childs Print- 
 ing and Stationery Co., is an elder in the First church of 
 Evanston. Mr. J. Harry Jones, secretary of the Marshall- 
 Jackson Stationery Co., is a trustee in the La Grange 
 church. Mr. Amos Pettibone, one of the vice-presidents 
 of P. F. Pettibone & Co., printers and stationers, is a 
 trustee in the church of the Covenant (previously men- 
 tioned). Mr. R. S. Pettibone, another vice-president of 
 this company is an elder in the First church of Austin. 
 Mr. Carroll H. Sudler, vice-president of the Ketterlinus 
 Lithographic Manufacturing Co., a vice-president of the 
 Young Men's Presbyterian Union and actively interested 
 in the Young Men's Christian Association, is an elder in 
 the Fourth church. Mr. J. H. Barnett, president of J. H. 
 Barnett & Co., engravers, is in the First church of Austin, 
 and Mr. A. R. Barnes, president of A. R. Barnes & Co., 
 is in the First church of Evanston. 
 
 It is even more difficult to determine who of the medical, 
 surgical and dental professions shall receive recognition 
 in this book. It may be safely said that the majority 
 of the leaders in these vocations are in the Presbyterian 
 church; and more interesting still is the fact that men of 
 
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 this type are generally picked for membership in the 
 session and on the boards of trustees. Because of the 
 peculiarly conspicuous place he occupies in the life of 
 Physicians, Chicago we will mention first the blind 
 dentists'and heart specialist, Dr. Robert Hall Babcock, of 
 opticians. the Fourth church. Aside from being a spe- 
 cialist in unusual demand, Doctor Babcock has found time 
 to publish an exhaustive work on "Diseases of the Heart 
 and Arterial System." He was one of the founders of the 
 Post- Graduate Medical School of Chicago, is a professor 
 in the college of Physicians and Surgeons, and on the staff 
 of the Cook County Hospital. Dr. Alexander H. Fergu- 
 son, a member of the First church, a surgeon and author 
 of rare ability, is the president of the Chicago Hospital. 
 Dr. Daniel A. K. Steele, also a member of First church, 
 one of the founders of, president of and professor in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, president and profes- 
 sor the Chicago Clinical School, president the West Side 
 Hospital, professor Post Graduate Medical School, is also 
 vice-president of the Chicago Surgical Society. Dr. Wil- 
 liam T. Montgomery of Evanston, president of the board 
 of trustees of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear In- 
 firmary, oculist and aurist to Cook County Hospital and 
 professor in the Woman's Medical College, is also oculist 
 to the Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Theodore J. Knudson, 
 a deacon in the Forty-first Street church, is the chief sur- 
 geon of the South Side Elevated Railroad. Dr. John 
 Leeming, president of the Men's club of the same church 
 
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 is chief surgeon of the Chicago City Railway. Dr. Robert 
 D. Mac Arthur is vice-president of the Chicago Clinical 
 Hospital. Dr. Frank S. Johnson, an elder and trustee 
 in Second church, is emeritus dean and professor of 
 Medicine in North-Western University and is con- 
 sulting physician of the Woman's Hospital and Mercy 
 Hospital. Dr. Arthur D. Bevan, a member of the 
 Second church and for some time president of the 
 Presbyterian Hospital, is a professor in Rush Medical 
 college and professorial lecturer on surgery, University 
 of Chicago. 
 
 Dr. E. Wyllis Andrews, another Second church member, 
 has been a professor in surgery in North-Western Uni- 
 versity since 1883, and United States Surgeon, Bureau of 
 Pensions, since 1889, is author of "Surgery of the Stomach" 
 as well as other important works and is president of the 
 Chicago Surgical Society. Dr. Walter H. Allport of the 
 Fourth church, is assistant chief surgeon of the Illinois 
 Central Railroad and surgeon St. Luke's Hospital. Dr. 
 Frank Allport, one of the leading Eye and Ear surgeons in 
 Chicago, is a professor in North-Western University, 
 Eye and Ear surgeon in St. Luke's and Wesley Hospitals 
 and consulting Eye and Ear surgeon to Chicago Board of 
 Education, C. & N. W. Ry. and C. & E. I. Ry. Dr. 
 William M. Harsha of the Forty-first Street church, is 
 professor of operative and clinical surgery in the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Henry W. Gentles of 
 Hyde Park is professor of general medicine in the Post- 
 
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 Graduate Medical School and trustee of the Chicago 
 Hospital. Dr. Philip P. S. Doane, attending surgeon 
 Cook County Hospital, assistant in surgery, Rush Medical 
 College, an author on surgical subjects, is another north 
 side Presbyterian surgeon. Dr. William Cuthbertson 
 of the Forty-first Street church has been attending gyne- 
 cologist of St. Luke's Hospital for years, and is chief ex- 
 aminer of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
 Dr. Samuel P. Hedges, perhaps the leading Homeopath 
 in Chicago, captain in the ii2th Regiment New York 
 Volunteer Infantry and a practitioner in Chicago since 1867, 
 professor in the Chicago Homeo. Medical College, attend- 
 ing and consulting physician of Chicago Nursery and 
 Half Orphan Asylum, has been an elder in the church 
 since 1868 and is now in the Buena Memorial church. 
 Dr. E. lies Kerlin, another elder of the Buena church, 
 and for years one of the pillars in the church of the Cove- 
 nant, is one of the most highly esteemed physicians and 
 surgeons on the north side. Dr. Arthur H. Reading, of 
 the Woodlawn Park church, is district county physician, is 
 professor of diseases of chest, throat and nose in the 
 American College of Medicine and Surgery, and is presi- 
 dent of Chicago Eclectic Medical and Surgical Society. 
 Dr. L. N. Barlow, one of the founders and directors of the 
 People's Hospital Training School for Nurses is in 
 the Forty-first Street church. Dr. R. N. Isham is in the 
 Fourth church. Dr. G. P. Head, director and professor 
 of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases in Chicago Post-Gradu- 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 ate Medical College, an editor of the year book on the 
 Nose, Throat and Ear, is a west side physician of promi- 
 nence. Dr. John C. Warbrick, instructor in Medicine, 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Naturalist, Orni- 
 thologist, is also a contributor to various medical and 
 literary journals. Dr. John A. Robison, secretary of the 
 Medical Board of the Presbyterian Hospital and on 
 the staff from its inception, is consulting physician of the 
 Mary Thompson Hospital. Dr. Nathan P. Colwell, as- 
 sistant in Diseases of Chest, Nose and Throat, Rush 
 Medical College, and assistant to the deans of the same 
 institution the past few years, is a'specialist of prominence 
 in this particular line. Dr. William L. Copeland, another 
 west side Presbyterian, is the professor of Anatomy in the 
 College of Dental Surgery. Dr. Stephen W. Cox of the 
 Third church, has been connected prominently with many 
 Chicago institutions and is now surgeon-in-chief of St. 
 Stephen's Sanitarium. Dr. Charles H. Grain, an elder 
 in the Woodlawn Park church and teacher of the Young 
 Women's Bible Class there, is assistant in Ophthalmology, 
 Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College. He is also 
 a member of the firm of Grain Bros., wholesale dealers 
 in drugs, chemicals, paints and oils. Dr. Truman W. 
 Brophy, one of the best known men in the dental profes- 
 sion, is in the Third Presbyterian church, while Dr. James 
 O. Ely, another dentist of equal prominence, is a North 
 Shore Presbyterian. There are three prominent Presby- 
 terian opticians who should be mentioned here, First, 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Mr. Aimer Coe, president and treasurer of the concern 
 bearing his name, manufacturers and retailers of optical 
 goods. Mr. Ernest S. Fowler of the firm E. S. & W. S. 
 Fowler is in the First church of Oak Park while Mr. 
 Arthur R. MacDougall, president of the optical firm of 
 A. R. MacDougall & Co., is in the Forty- first Street 
 church. 
 
 Many of the great engineering and constructing feats 
 in Chicago have been and are daily being accomplished 
 by Presbyterians. 
 
 Mr. John M. Ewan, president the John M. Ewan 
 Construction Company; Mr. Van Wagenen Ailing, presi- 
 Engineering dent ^ t ^ ie Ailing Construction Company; 
 and construct- Mr. Frederick C. Austin, president The 
 
 Ing experts. ,. .. . . , . . _ 
 
 Municipal Engineering and Constructing 
 
 Company; Mr. William E. Dorwin, vice-president and 
 general manager the United States Engineering & Con- 
 structing Company; Mr. David Sloan (a trustee in Wood- 
 lawn Park church), chief engineer McArthur Bros. 
 Constructing Company; Mr. Paul Albert Poppenhusen, 
 president the Green Engineering Company; Mr. William 
 Goldie, president Goldie Bros., general contractors; Mr. 
 Onward Bates (an elder and trustee in the Church of the 
 Covenant), president the Bates & Rogers Construction 
 Co. ; Mr. George A. Yuille, president Chicago Engineering 
 & Construction Company; Mr. Thomas Rankin, president 
 and Mr. Dixon C. Williams, vice-president Chicago 
 Building and Manufacturing Company; Mr. John W, 
 
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 Alvord, Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineer; Mr. George 
 Welsby Scott (a trustee in Buena Memorial church), 
 consulting engineer, and Mr. Samuel G. McMeen, 
 electrical engineer, are all identified with the church. 
 
 As aids in making some of the engineering and con- 
 structing feats possible, Messrs Thomas P. Phillips, 
 president and William E. Phillips, vice-president and gen- 
 eral manager, of the Dolese & Shepard Company, 
 quarrymen and- stone contractors, and Mr. Burton H. 
 Atwood, president of the Atwood- Davis Sand Company, 
 should be mentioned. 
 
 Of those Presbyterians who have retired from business 
 or their professional life there are some who are still the 
 active leaders and supporters of their local 
 me'SSnts. churches. Mr. Watts De Gollyer, a re- 
 tired varnish manufacturer, is an elder in the 
 Riverside church. Mr. Lucien G. Yoe, a retired syrup 
 manufacturer, is an elder in the Fourth church, although 
 he resides in Highland Park, Mr. Caryl Young, founder 
 of the once indispensable C. Y. Transfer Company (now 
 the Arthur Dixon Transfer Company), is a trustee in First 
 church. Mr. George E. Purington, a retired ship chand- 
 ler, is an elder in Fourth church. Mr. Orrin W. Potter, 
 for years president of the Chicago Rolling Mill Company, 
 and Mr. W. J. Chalmers, formerly vice-president of the 
 Allis-Chalmers Company, are also in this church. Dr. 
 Henry P. Merriman, although now in California, has been 
 one of the chief supporters of the Second church for years. 
 
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 The capitalists very fittingly conclude this brief classi- 
 fication. Practically every one mentioned is a director 
 in one or more of our Chicago banks; many of them di- 
 rectors in numerous corporations; some 
 Capitalists. have had much to do with the shaping of 
 Chicago's earlier history, and to them is due 
 a large share of the credit of Chicago's present condition. 
 It is interesting here to note that of the twenty-eight to be 
 mentioned, eight of them are in the First church, five of 
 them in the Second, one in the Third church, Eight in 
 the Fourth, one in Lake Forest, one in Evanston First, 
 one in Sixth church, two in Forty-first St. church and 
 one in Buena Memorial. 
 
 The First church men are Mr. John B. Drake, Jr., Mr. 
 Tracy Drake, a deacon, Mr. Ebenezer Buckingham, Mr. 
 Charles T. Otis, a trustee, Mr. Philo A. Otis, an elder, 
 director of the music in the church for twenty-five years 
 and secretary of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, Mr. 
 George H. Laflin, Mr. Louis E. Laflin and Mr. Charles 
 B. Shedd. 
 
 In the Second church we find Mr. Eugene S. Pike (a 
 trustee), who is now erecting the new Mentor Building 
 at the corner of State and Monroe Streets, Mr. Albert 
 Keep, formerly president of the Lake Shore and Michigan 
 Southern Railway, Mr. Norman B. Ream, said to be a 
 director in more corporations and varied industries than 
 any other Chicago man, Mr. Charles W. ReQua, and 
 Mr. James R. Walker, a trustee. Mr. Thomas Templeton, 
 
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 formerly a partner in Marshall Field & Co., is an elder 
 in Third church. The Fourth church is represented by 
 Mr. Albert M. Day, Mr. Abram Poole, Mr. Charles B. 
 King, president of the Commercial Safe Deposit 
 Company, Mr. James C. Peasley, Mr. Mark S. Willing, 
 Mr. H. H. Forsyth, an elder, Mr. D. Mark Cummings, 
 and Mr. Moses J. Wentworth, one of the trustees 
 of the church. Mr. Delevan Smith, owner of the 
 Indianapolis News and a number of other newspapers, 
 one of the controlling factors in the Oliver Typewriter 
 Co., and formerly president of the board of trustees of 
 Lake Forest University, is in the Lake Forest church. 
 Mr. James A. Patten a trustee and president of the 
 Men's Club of the First church of Evanston, still a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Bartlett, Frazier & Carrington, has built 
 perhaps more of the large manufacturing buildings in the 
 southern portion of the business district than all others 
 put together. Mr. Lafayette McWilliams, an elder in 
 the Sixth church, was for years one of the leading part- 
 ners of Marshall Field & Co. Messrs. Lincoln M. Coy, 
 and Alfred C. Tyler, both prominent in financial circles, 
 are in the Forty-first St. church. The concluding name 
 is that of Mr. James B. Waller, one of the founders of the 
 Buena Memorial church. Mr. Waller's father whose 
 name he bears, was one of the strongest factors in 
 Chicago's earlier Presbyterianism. It is only natural 
 therefore that Mrs. Waller should have wished 
 that her memorial for her husband should take 
 
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 the shape of a Presbyterian church in the heart 
 of Buena Park, which community the elder Mr. 
 Waller founded. 
 
 This section just concluded was originally intended to 
 be merely a short sketch of some of the more prominent 
 men in the city's activities who are identified in some way 
 with the Presbyterian church. The plan of classifying 
 them in any respect at all developed as the facts were 
 written. It is obvious the interior of the book could not 
 go into detail as to the church connection and the outside 
 interests of all of the 540 Captains of Industry and profes- 
 sional men shown in the index. But for convenience it 
 may be said here that of the 374 men mentioned in 
 the preceding twenty sub-divisions of the story, 61 are 
 manufacturers and wholesale merchants; 30 are bankers; 
 19 are railroad officials; 40 are lawyers, judges, aldermen 
 and government officials; 10 are packers; 10 are wholesale 
 grocers; 14 are lumbermen; 37 heads of varied industries; 
 
 10 well known retail merchants; 12 newspapermen; 24 in- 
 surance men; 6 architects; 10 La Salle Street financiers; 
 
 11 educators; 16 publishers, printers, stationers, engravers, 
 etc.; 34 physicians, surgeons, dentists and opticians; 13 
 engineering and constructing experts; 7 retired mer- 
 chants and 28 are those ordinarily classified as capitalists.' 
 This can only mean something to those who know for 
 what the men, whose names are mentioned, stand. To 
 any real Chicagoan it means much. 
 
 A study of the index reveals even more interesting facts: 
 
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 of the 540 included, 190 are presidents of the institu- 
 tions named; 53 are vice-presidents; 47 are secretaries 
 and treasurers; 60 are directors and 70 are owners 
 thereof. But it should be remembered these presidents, 
 directors, owners, etc, may represent five times as 
 many enterprises as these figures would indicate. Some 
 are interested in only the one line of business re- 
 ferred to. Many are owners, directors or leaders in from 
 five to ten, while several are in as many as twenty-five 
 different concerns or corporations. Of these, 
 
 deductions 2I ^ are omcers i n tne church 115 being 
 elders, 88 trustees and 15 deacons. About 
 185 (over, I think) of these men are officers, directors 
 or trustees in the various charities, philanthropies and 
 outside agencies calculated to up-lift manhood, which are 
 mentioned on pages 85, 86 and 87 ; 106 are in only one; 45 
 in two; 15 in three; 12 in four; 5 in five and 2 in six. From 
 the figures and the fact that these 540 of Chicago's 
 most representative citizens are identified with the 
 church, does it not bear out the statement recently made, 
 by my friend, Mr. Lloyd E. Harter, president of the 
 Young Men's Congregational Union of Chicago, one 
 of the most vital agencies for good the city possesses, 
 to the effect that, "with rare exceptions, no man who 
 amounts to anything in the way of real business success; 
 who has really built up a business and a reputation that 
 will endure throughout the coming years; who holds the 
 genuine respect and confidence of his fellowmen, is with- 
 
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 out some outside interest which has for its purpose the 
 up-lifting of manhood and the bettering of the condition 
 of the suffering in our city." Is this so? Are we all un- 
 selfishly interested in something outside our fearful race 
 for money, for social standing and a big name in the 
 community ? 
 
 Although comparatively a young organization, it is con- 
 fidently believed the Young Men's Presbyterian Union of 
 Chicago has done and is doing much to develop and 
 Young Men's strengthen the Presbyterian forces of this 
 
 Presbyterian great ^ Qf QU ^ ^ how ^ .^ ^ M 
 
 of Chicago. filled its mission just how much good it has 
 really done, remains to be seen. This much may be said 
 in its favor, however, it has gradually brought the men of 
 the various local churches together in such a natural and 
 friendly manner that they are looking at the larger prob- 
 lems of the church in the city in a way that forecasts bright 
 things for the future. The broad Christian fellowship 
 that now exists between some 1 200 of the nearly 5000 men 
 enrolled in the men's organizations within the Presbytery 
 of Chicago is a direct outgrowth of the steady and per- 
 sistent determination on the part of the Union to help the 
 church see its great opportunity and make the most of it. 
 The condition of the work for men in many of the churches 
 is far from ideal but most of them are doing something 
 and it will be recalled there were only two strong 
 organizations for men in the Presbytery less than ten 
 years ago. 
 
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 How large a factor the Chicago Union has been in the 
 newly organized Presbyterian Brotherhood can only be 
 imagined. Chicago lays no claim to the introduction at 
 
 the General Assembly of 1905 of the overture 
 Brotherhood. ^ or ^ e l ar g er movement for men throughout 
 
 the church. That came by way of Ohio 
 from Rev. R. R. Bigger, Ph.D., pastor of the First church 
 of Massillon, to be definite. But Chicago men are 
 mightily interested in the Brotherhood and mean to 
 make it something worth while if they can. Already 
 the plans provide for a re-organization of the Young Men's 
 Union so that a place will be made for all Presbyterian 
 men in its various activities. There is every reason to 
 believe that, in due time, they will largely come in and 
 then the fondest expectations of the Pioneer Presbyterians 
 and the foundation layers of Chicago may come to pass. 
 other With the Presbyterian men lined up in ear- 
 
 denominations nest; with the Congregationalists already 
 
 organizing. 3 e. *. r 
 
 close up to us in denmteness of purpose 
 and organization; with the Episcopalians in march- 
 ing order; the Baptists planning; the Lutherans 
 even beyond that point and the Methodists surely 
 thinking well, why isn't Chicago ready for the 
 final conflict with the forces of evil that have so 
 long hampered us, so tarnished our otherwise clean 
 name, and given us the reputation we have in other 
 parts of the land? 
 This incoherent and incomplete presentation of some
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 of the real facts of Chicago life may not appeal to many. 
 They ought to set most people thinking. It is very certain 
 the people of the world who make no professions what- 
 ever, who do not rent pews in the church and thus consider 
 their religious duties discharged, or who do not even care 
 whether their wives are in the church and their children 
 in the Sunday school, will have reason to ask some ques- 
 tions trying to reconcile some everyday occurrences with 
 the Christian professions and wondering whether Chris- 
 tians are really in earnest or not. They will see there are 
 many mentioned with whom they associate daily who 
 differ in no way from those who make no professions at 
 all. But the saddest thing will be the absolute denial 
 of Christ by many of our leading business men when some 
 unbelieving man or some shallow society woman jeers 
 at the Christian religion, or when some doubter raises a 
 question about the Bible and the divinity of Christ. 
 Surely above all, this should make professing Christians 
 deeply thoughtful when we realize that we may be stand- 
 ing as a positive barrier in the Christianizing and 
 purifying of our city because of our inconsistency or 
 apathy.
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 McCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
 BY PRESIDENT JAMES G. K. MCCLURE, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 McCormick Theological Seminary is situated at the 
 very heart of the human needs of a great city. Its history 
 has kept pace with the recognition of the social conditions 
 of mankind. The seminary originated in the purpose of 
 the nine ministers who constituted the Presbytery of 
 Salem (that Presbytery embraced almost the entire state 
 of Indiana and much of Illinois) to establish in their 
 territory a collegiate and theological school. It was in 
 January, 1827, in a log loom-house at Hanover, Indiana, 
 that a grammar school was opened with six boys in at- 
 tendance. This little school, solemnly dedicated to Al- 
 mighty God as a nursery for the ministry, was the nucleus 
 both of Hanover College and of the Indiana Theological 
 Seminary, as McCormick Theological Seminary was then 
 called. 
 
 In due time the seminary department passed from the 
 village of Hanover to the city of New Albany, Indiana, 
 where by reason of the greater population, there was 
 larger opportunity for acquaintance with the experiences 
 of humanity. Still later, through the offer of Mr. Cyrus 
 H. McCormick to donate an endowment fund the semi- 
 nary was removed from the comparatively small city to 
 the thickly settled city of Chicago. 
 
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 In entering upon its connection with the multitudes of 
 this rapidly growing city the seminary saw fit to place it- 
 self near the outskirts, and on what was then open prairie 
 erected its first buildings. But the seminary was not to 
 dwell apart from the lives of a populous community, for 
 little by little the city planted its dwellings and homes 
 close to the seminary until now the students who reside 
 within its halls find themselves, not in reclused retirement, 
 but in actual contact with the joys and sorrows, the weal 
 and woe of humanity. 
 
 Earnestness of spiritual life has characterized the work 
 of the seminary from its inception. While it has always 
 sought, and to-day continues to seek, scholastic develop- 
 ment, that scholastic development is sought, not as an end, 
 but as a means. Those who constitute its faculty desire 
 its student body to be composed of as bright minds as 
 they can find; and they desire to inculcate in such minds 
 the clearest possible thinking and to impart to such minds 
 the most accurate information. They believe that the 
 Gospel can only be preached worthily as men bring to it 
 trained intellects, but they never intend that the training 
 of the intellect shall interfere with, but rather stimulate, 
 spirituality of life, ardor of purpose, and adaptation of ef- 
 fort. The seminary holds that there is no greater need in the 
 world to-day than the need for consecrated men who lay all 
 their talents at the feet of Christ, and then go forth with lov- 
 ing devotion to the hearts of men, to be the unselfish friends 
 of their fellows and to be persuasive prophets of God. 
 
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 The seminary stands for profound convictions. It 
 holds to the infallibility of the Bible as the teacher of life's 
 meaning and the interpreter of God to man. It intends 
 to keep abreast of all the discussions of the age and it 
 places at the disposal of its instructors the latest literature 
 and places also at their disposal opportunities for travel 
 upon the continent and in the lands of the Bible. 
 
 In this union of earnestness and scholarship lies the 
 hope of the seminary. It exalts every sphere of evan- 
 gelistic effort. Its students are connected with missionary 
 operations in the Churches and Institutional Associations 
 of Chicago. They respond, as fully as faithful attendance 
 to their studies will allow, to the opportunities for help- 
 fulness that confront them in their environment. It is 
 intended that when they graduate and pass out to their 
 respective spheres of labor each man of them shall carry 
 with him acquaintance with humanity as it is, as well as 
 carry with him the heart of love and abiding confidence 
 in the Gospel. 
 
 The graduates of the seminary are scattered every- 
 where throughout America. They occupy influential 
 pulpits both along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 
 In village, town and city between these coasts they 
 are doing a work that helps and blesses and 
 glorifies humanity. And beyond the seas, in all 
 the mission stations of our church, China, Japan, 
 Africa, India, Korea, Chile, and other countries they 
 are living lives of exemplary piety, are contributing 
 
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 to the succor of mankind and are glorifying their Lord 
 and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. 
 
 (NOTE: The Seminary is located on North Halsted Street, 
 Belden to Fullerton Avenues. It may be reached by the North- 
 Western Elevated Railroad to Fullerton Avenue Station, or by 
 the North Halsted or Lincoln Avenue surface cars.) 
 
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 LAKE FOREST COLLEGE 
 BY ACTING PRESIDENT JOHN J. HALSEY, LL.D. 
 
 In 1855 the Rev. Dr. Robert W. Patterson, Enos Ayers, 
 Amzi Benedict, William Blair, William Bross, S. L. 
 Brown, T. B. Carter, Thomas R. Clarke, Rev. Dr. Harvey 
 Curtis, Calvin DeWolf, C. B. Farwell, Peter Gage, John 
 High, Jr., D. R. Holt, S. J. Learned, Sylvester Lind, 
 Hiram F. Mather, Claudius B. Nelson, Dr. Charles H. 
 Quinlan, Benjamin W. Raymond, Franklin Ripley, Jr., 
 Horatio G. Shumway, Mark Skinner, C. R. Starkweather, 
 S. D. Ward, Rev. Ira M. Weed, Jesse C. Williams, 
 and Peter L. Yoe, prominent citizens of Chicago 
 and vicinity, conceived the idea of establishing an 
 educational institution that should be near to Chicago 
 and yet retain always the great advantages of a situation 
 in the country. 
 
 In February, 1856, they organized the "Lake Forest As- 
 sociation," and purchased thirteen hundred acres of land 
 twenty-eight miles from Chicago on the bluffs of Lake 
 Michigan. Half of this land was permanently set 
 apart as association property, and the plat of the 
 town of Lake Forest was recorded July 23rd, 1857, 
 every alternate lot being assigned for a university 
 endowment, and sixty-two acres were set apart as an 
 inalienable campus. 
 
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 The State Legislature on February I3th, 1857, granted 
 a charter for the proposed institution under the title of 
 Lind University. In 1865 an act of the legislature changed 
 the name to Lake Forest University. 
 
 In the fall of 1858 the first step was taken, under the 
 charter, in the establishment of Lake Forest Academy as 
 a preparatory school for boys. A similar school for girls 
 was established in 1869, by means of a $35,000 legacy 
 from the Rev. William Montague Ferry of Grand Haven, 
 Michigan, and it was named, in his honor, Ferry Hall. 
 
 On September 7th, 1876, instruction began with the 
 first class entered in Lake Forest college, containing eight 
 young men and four young women. At that time there 
 was no collegiate institution of high grade, not under 
 state control, in which a woman could obtain an educa- 
 tion such as men were offered. Lake Forest college 
 was intended to supply this lack, through co-education, 
 accepting a condition of things already created by nature, 
 and looking forward to better results for both men and 
 women in an education pursued together. 
 
 The college campus consists of nearly fifty acres of 
 beautiful forest land in the center of Lake Forest, and is 
 intersected by a large ravine, and bounded on two sides 
 by others. The larger area contains two dormitories for 
 men, a thoroughly equipped gymnasium, a college com- 
 mons and the beautiful memorial buildings of the Reid 
 family the Lily Reid Holt Chapel, and the Arthur 
 Somerville Reid Library. The smaller section of the 
 
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 campus contains the fine dormitory for women Lois 
 Durand Hall the H. C. Durand auditorium, and the most 
 useful Alice Home Hospital. Farwell Field, at some 
 little distance, is devoted to athletics. The academy 
 and Ferry hall each has its own group of commodious 
 buildings on its own reservation of the original campus. 
 A new dormitory for men, costing $30,000, is in process of 
 erection, and a large college commons, costing nearly as 
 much, has been provided for, while $30,000 toward a 
 science hall has been secured. The college library con- 
 tains 21,000 volumes. 
 
 The presidents of Lake Forest have been : 
 
 Rev. Robert W. Patterson, D.D., 1875-1878. 
 
 John H. Hewitt, LL.D. acting president, 1878. 
 
 Rev. Daniel S. Gregory, D.D., 1878-1886. 
 
 Rev. William C. Roberts, D.D., LL.D., 1886-1892. 
 
 Rev. James G. K. McClure, D.D., LL.D., (pro tempore) 
 1892-1893. 
 
 John M. Coulter, Ph.D., 1893-1896. 
 
 John J. Halsey, LL.D. (acting-president), 1896-1897. 
 
 Rev. James G. K. McClure, D.D., LL.D., 1897-1901. 
 
 Rev. Richard D. Harlan, D.D., LL.D., 1901-1906. 
 
 John J. Halsey, LL.D. (acting- president), 1906- 
 
 Lake Forest is admirably located under its trees and 
 along its ravines between the great prairie and the great 
 lake. It is sufficiently removed from the neighboring 
 city to avoid its temptations and near enough to enjoy its 
 advantages. It lies in the midst of a community of re- 
 
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 finement and culture whose influence for social education * 
 is felt, through mere residence in such a place. The 
 charter of the town, granted nearly half a century ago, has 
 eliminated the open saloon from the place, and in many 
 ways the environment is an ideal one for the education of 
 young men and young women. The college is satisfied 
 to remain a small one, through the recognition of the op- 
 portunity that comes, in such an institution, for personal 
 work and personal influence, resulting in the building of 
 character as well as of brain the making of men as well 
 as of thinkers. 
 
 Lake Forest is broadly and generously Presbyterian, 
 in so far as that denomination stands for the working out 
 of Christianity in broad culture and noble conduct. It is 
 in no sense a sectarian institution. Its graduates, nearly 
 four hundred in number, have been drawn from the white, 
 the black and the yellow races. Every evangelical de- 
 nomination has given its quota, and the Church of Rome, 
 and the race of Israel have helped to swell the numbers. 
 Not a few distinguished men and women are on this roll 
 of honor, but, while Lake Forest is proud of these, she takes 
 deep satisfaction in the knowledge that in nearly every 
 profession and occupation that calls for skill and energy, 
 her sons and her daughters are nearly every one contribut- 
 ing to the progress of the communities in which they live. 
 
 (NOTE: Lake Forest College is located at Lake Forest, 111., twenty- 
 eight miles north of Chicago on the Chicago & North- Western Ry. It 
 may also be reached by the trolley cars of the Chicago & Milwaukee 
 Electric Ry.) 
 
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 THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF THE 
 
 CITY OF CHICAGO 
 Bv ALBERT M. DAY, PRESIDENT 
 
 The Presbyterian Hospital was organized December 
 1 3th, 1883. The following gentlemen were present at 
 the meeting: 
 
 Henry W. King, William Blair, Henry Waller, Joseph 
 P. Ross, R. C. Hamill, D. K. Pearsons, H. M. Lyman, 
 Willis G. Craig, George W. Hale, James M. Horton and 
 W. A. Douglass. The following officers were elected: 
 
 President, Daniel K. Pearsons; vice-president, Charles 
 M. Henderson; treasurer, George W. Hale; corresponding 
 secretary, C. H. McCormick, Jr. ; recording secretary, W. 
 A. Douglass. 
 
 At that time there were but 1,749 beds in all hospitals 
 in this city. The first hospital erected is now known as 
 the Ross-Hamill Building, and had a capacity of eighty 
 beds. 
 
 Although inaugurated and still conducted as a Presby- 
 terian Hospital, it is denominational only in name. Its 
 doors have always been wide open to people of every 
 name, race and religion. 
 
 At present the hospital has a capacity of two hundred 
 and thirty-five beds. During a great portion of the year 
 every bed is full. For eight months in the year there is 
 
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 hardly a day that many patients are not turned away for 
 lack of room to care for them. 
 
 There is in connection with the hospital a training 
 school for nurses, which has been in existence over three 
 years, the first class from which graduated last April. The 
 course of this training school is three and one-half years, 
 which is the longest course given by any school in the 
 country conducted by a general hospital. The require- 
 ments for applicants are of the highest standard, and the 
 course is as thorough as that of any training school in the 
 country. Its pupils have the advantage of lectures from 
 the very strong staff of the Rush Medical College. Every 
 effort is made to educate and train the pupils so that when 
 they graduate, they shall be equipped in the best possible 
 manner in every branch of their profession. This train- 
 ing school is a great educational institution, and as such 
 is entitled to the hearty support of all who are interested 
 in educational matters. 
 
 For something over a year past, a subscription commit- 
 tee from the board of managers has been engaged in an 
 effort to raise a sufficient amount of money to erect a 
 private pavilion, to rebuild the first building known as 
 the Ross-Hamill Building, and to thoroughly repair the 
 Jones Building. $400,000.00 has been raised. From 
 this amount $25,000.00 has been given to thoroughly 
 equip the Jones Building. It is now in perfect order. 
 
 The hospital revenues have been insufficient for its 
 maintenance for a number of years past, and the result 
 
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 has been a slowly increasing debt from year to year. A 
 part of this has been occasioned by the cost of the Training 
 School, which must always require a considerable out- 
 lay. It is an educational institution; it has no means of 
 revenue; and there will always be a deficit in its manage- 
 ment. The debt arising from these different sources, 
 and running for some years, amounted to $65,00.000, 
 which debt has now been paid. There remains $3 10,000.00. 
 With this, a private pavilion will be commenced at an 
 early date, which is expected to cost in the neighbor- 
 hood of $250,000.00. We expect a revenue from this 
 building of not less than $15,000.00 a year, which amount 
 will go to the general revenues of the hospital, and enable 
 us to increase our free work. 
 
 The entire income from endowment funds and all do- 
 nations last year was $32,823.31. Charity work, free and 
 partly paid, cost the hospital $52,609.54. Every dollar 
 that the hospital received from the public and $20,000.00 
 additional was given away in charity work. Our endow- 
 ment has never been commensurate with our work. But 
 year by year the revenue from it has declined with the de- 
 crease in interest return. The operating expenses have 
 in the same time steadily increased with the enhanced 
 cost of labor, food and all materials required and used. 
 The opportunity for usefulness was never greater. There 
 is a constantly increasing demand on us for the care of 
 the sick and disabled. The needs and claims of such 
 people appeal to us strongly. The Presbyterians of this city 
 
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 and vicinity, should feel greatly increased interest, and 
 manifest it by a more generous financial response, to enable 
 us to care for those who are so eager to come to us for help. 
 
 The utmost care is used in every expense, and our funds 
 are administered with every regard for economy that is 
 consistent with a proper service. The expenses during 
 our present fiscal year, commencing April ist, are within 
 our income, and the hospital is being run without debt, 
 including the cost of maintaining the Training School. 
 
 It is imperative that the Ross-Hamill Building should 
 be torn down and rebuilt, and to do this we need to in- 
 crease the building fund already mentioned by at least 
 $100,000.00. If this amount can be obtained, the hos- 
 pital will be thoroughly equipped and capable of doing 
 the best grade of work and caring for a large number of 
 charity patients. 
 
 Outside of private rooms, there is not a bed in our hos- 
 pital which does not cost more to maintain than the rev- 
 enues received from it. Our ward price is $8.75 per week; 
 in small wards of three or four beds, $12.25 P er week. 
 We take patients who are properly vouched for on what 
 they can afford to pay, as low as $2.50 per week in rare 
 cases. This, in addition to that part of our work which 
 is absolutely free. The cost to us is something in excess 
 of $14.00 per week. 
 
 During the past year the number of patients admitted 
 was 3,063. The hospital is always open for visitors, and 
 nothing would please the management better than to have 
 
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 examinations made at any and all times of the work which 
 is being done here. 
 
 We are sadly cramped for funds. It is impossible to do 
 the charity work which is pressing upon us, and which we 
 are anxious to do, unless our income is largely increased. 
 This Presbyterian hospital is a direct responsibility of the 
 Presbyterians of this city and it is a responsibility which 
 has not been fully met in the past, and which we hope will 
 receive more generous attention in the future. The fol- 
 lowing are the names of the Board of Managers at the 
 present time : 
 
 Edward T. Blair. John B. Lord. 
 
 F. H. Rawson. Albert A. Sprague. 
 
 Thomas Templeton. William A. Douglass. 
 
 Edward A. Halsey. Charles L. Hutchinson. 
 
 Thomas Kane. Eugene S. Pike. 
 
 Joseph F. Titus. Thomas Dent. 
 
 Albert B. Dick. Henry C. Durand. 
 
 N. B. Holden. Everett Sisson. 
 
 Albert M. Day. James B. Forgan. 
 
 Ernest A. Hamill. David B. Jones. 
 
 Byron L. Smith. Arthur D. Wheeler. 
 
 Managers Ex-Officio: 
 
 Rev. William J. McCaughan, D.D. 
 Rev. William Robson Notman, D.D. 
 Rev. John A. Morison, Ph.D. 
 Rev. John Balcom Shaw, D.D. 
 
 (NOTE: The Presbyterian Hospital is located on the West Side at 
 the corner of Congress and Wood Streets. It is most convenient to the 
 Harrison Street trolley cars and may be reached by the Metropolitan 
 Elevated Railroad to Marshfield Avenue Station.) 
 
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 ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, 
 SOCIETIES, ETC. 
 
 HAVING PRESBYTERIAN OFFICERS, TRUSTEES OR DIRECTORS, OR 
 
 WHICH ARE IN WHOLE OR IN PART SUPPORTED 
 
 BY PRESBYTERIANS. 
 
 0. American Bible League. 
 
 1. American Bible Society. 
 
 1J. American Home Finding Association. 
 
 2. American National Red Cross Illinois Branch. 
 2J. American Sunday School Union. 
 
 3. American Tract Society. 
 3$. Amateur Musical Club. 
 
 4. Anti-Cruelty Societies. 
 
 5. Apollo Musical Club. 
 
 6. Armour Institute of Technology. 
 
 7. Art Institute of Chicago. 
 
 8. Association House. 
 
 9. Bereans. (Christian Printers Association.) 
 
 10. Chicago Academy of Sciences. 
 
 11. Chicago Anti-Cigarette League. 
 
 12. Chicago Bible Society. 
 
 13. Chicago Boy's Club. 
 
 14. Chicago Bureau of Charities. 
 
 15. Chicago Charity Hospital. 
 
 16. Chicago Commons Association. 
 
 17. Chicago Flower Mission. 
 
 17J. Chicago Free Kindergarten Training School. 
 
 18. Chicago Historical Society. 
 
 19. Chicago Home for Convalescent Women and Children. 
 
 20. Chicago Home for the Friendless. 
 
 21. Chicago Home for Incurables. 
 
 21 $. Chicago Institute of Social Science. 
 
 22. Chicago Law and Order League. 
 
 23. Chicago Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary. 
 
 24. Chicago Nursery and Half -Orphan Asylum. 
 
 25. Chicago Orphan Asylum. 
 
 26. Chicago Polyclinic Hospital. 
 
 27. Chicago Refuge for Girls. 
 
 28. Chicago Relief and Aid Society. 
 
 [8 5 ]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 29. Chicago Tract Society. 
 
 30. Chicago Union Hospital. 
 
 31. Children's Hospital Society. 
 
 31 J. Citizens' Association of Chicago. 
 
 32. Citizen's League of Chicago. 
 
 33. Citizens Street Cleaning Bureau. 
 33J. City Club. 
 
 34. Civic Federation of Chicago. 
 
 35. Cook County Sunday School Association. 
 
 36. Commercial Association of Chicago. 
 
 37. Chicago Christian Endeavor Union. 
 
 38. Commercial Exchange. 
 
 39. Chicago Manual Training School. 
 
 40. Chicago Hospital. 
 
 41. Chicago Clinical School. 
 
 42. Chicago Tuberculosis Institute. 
 
 43. Commercial Club. 
 
 44. Chicago Foundling's Home. 
 44J. Deep Waterways Association. 
 
 45. Englewood Law and Order League. 
 
 46. Employers Association of Chicago. 
 
 48. Francis E. Clark Settlement. 
 
 49. Field Museum of Natural History. 
 
 50. Florence Crittendon Anchorage. 
 
 51. Forward Movement Settlement. 
 
 52. Gideons. (Christian Traveling Men's Association.) 
 
 53. Garfield Park Protective Association. 
 
 54. Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People. 
 
 55. Hyde Park Improvement Association. 
 
 56. Hyde Park Protective Association. 
 
 57. Home for Destitute Crippled Children. 
 
 58. Hull House. 
 
 59. Illinois Anti-Saloon League. 
 
 61. Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. 
 
 62. Illinois Humane Society. 
 
 63. Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society. 
 
 64. Illinois Manual Training School Farm. 
 
 65. John Crerar Library. 
 
 70. Lake Forest University. 
 
 71. Legal Aid Society. 
 
 72. Lewis Institute. 
 
 73. Lincoln Park Commissioners. 
 
 75. Merchant's Club. 
 
 76. Margaret Etter Cre"che. 
 
 77. Mary Thompson Hospital. 
 
 78. McCormick Theological Seminary. 
 
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 79. Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases. 
 79 J. Metropolitan Business College. 
 
 80. Moody Bible Institute. 
 
 81. Municipal Art League of Chicago. 
 
 82. Municipal Museum of Chicago. 
 
 83. Municipal Voters League. 
 
 84. Musical Arts Society. 
 
 85. National Temperance Hospital. 
 
 86. Newberry Library. 
 
 87. North- Western University. 
 
 88. North Side Law and Order League. 
 
 89. Olivet Institute. 
 
 90. Old People's Home. 
 
 91. Orchestral Association. (Theodore Thomas Orchestra.) 
 
 92. Presbyterian League. 
 
 93. Pacific Garden Mission. 
 
 94. People's Hospital Training School for Nurses. 
 
 95. Passavant Memorial Hospital. 
 
 96. Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. 
 
 97. Presbyterian Hospital. 
 
 98. Provident Hospital and Training School. 
 
 99. Presbyterian Social Union. 
 
 100. Religious Educational Association. 
 
 104. Secretarial Training School Young Men's Christian Assn. 
 
 105. South Park Improvement Association. .. 
 
 106. South Park Commissioners. 
 
 107. University of Chicago. 
 
 108. Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. 
 
 110. Washingtonian Home. 
 
 111. West Side Civic League. 
 
 112. Woodlawn Improvement Association. 
 
 113. Woman's Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 114. West Side Hospital. 
 
 115. West Park Commissioners. 
 
 116. Woman's Hospital. 
 
 120. Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 121. Young Men's Presbyterian Union. 
 
 122. Young Women's Christian Association. 
 
 123. Young Peoples' Christian Temperance Union. 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 INDEX OF PRESBYTERIANS 
 
 This list, lengthy though it may be, does not commence to 
 give all of the information of this character which is necessary to 
 make this article complete. The records obtainable in the short 
 period of time allotted were of great assistance, but not by any 
 means exhaustive, consequently there will be many of those 
 prominent in the city's activities, and who are perhaps bearing 
 largely the responsibilities of their own local churches, omitted, 
 and there may be some included who have left Chicago or 
 who have changed their church home. It is therefore hoped that 
 the list will be accepted in the spirit in which it was compiled 
 and it must be understood that the writer will welcome sug- 
 gestions and corrections which would enable him in a future 
 edition to send out complete and authentic information. It is 
 just possible some name may have been handed in which should 
 not be here. If such is the case the compiler is extremely sorry, 
 especially if any inconvenience or embarrassment is caused thereby. 
 It should be explained that there are those included herein 
 whose membership is not in churches of this city, while there 
 are others who are closely identified with the church in various 
 ways who are not members of it. 
 
 * Indicates person named is an ordained elder in the church. 
 
 X Indicates person named is a deacon. 
 
 t Indicates person named is a trustee. 
 
 The numbers refer to the outside institutions and organizations in which 
 the person named is a director, trustee or officer. The list of such organiza- 
 tions will be found on pp. 85, 86 and 87. 
 ABBOTT, A. H. Artists' Materials, etc. 
 
 ADAMS, CYRUS H. Retired Merchant. 
 
 (78) 
 
 ADAMS, EDWARD S. Commission Merchant. 
 
 fADAMS, JOHN B. Grain Merchant. 
 
 AIKEN, WM. J. Genl. Manager Preferred Accident Insur- 
 
 ance Co. 
 *ALDRICH, WM. A. President, The Bereans. Printer. 
 
 (9) 
 
 [88]
 
 Chicago: A 
 
 Presbyterian City 
 
 X ALLING, CHARLES, JR. 
 
 President, Chicago Business Law School. 
 
 (35, 71) 
 
 Ex-Alderman, 2nd Ward. 
 
 ALLINQ, VAN WAGENEN 
 
 President, Ailing Construction Co. Build- 
 
 
 ing Contractors. 
 
 * ALLEN, HARHY W. 
 
 Vice-President, J. W. Allen Co. Manufac- 
 
 
 turers of Bakers' Supplies. 
 
 tALLEN, JOHN W. 
 
 President, J. W. Allen Co. Mfgs. of Bakers' 
 
 
 Supplies. 
 
 ALLPORT, FRANK, M.D. 
 
 Eye and Ear Specialist. 
 
 ALLPORT, WALTER H., M.D. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 ALVORD, JOHN W. 
 
 Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineer. 
 
 ANDREWS, E. WYLLIS, M.D 
 
 Surgeon. 
 
 (98) 
 
 
 ANDREWS, SIDNEY F. 
 
 General Attorney, Illinois Central R. R. 
 
 t ARMOUR, M. COCHRANE 
 
 Resident Partner, Rogers, Brown & Co. 
 
 (78) 
 
 Pig Iron Merchants. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, FRANK H. 
 
 (14, 23) 
 ATWOOD, BURTON H. 
 
 (89) 
 fATWOOD, F. M. 
 
 (93) 
 
 AUSTIN, CHARLES O. 
 AUSTIN, FREDERICK C. 
 
 BABCOCK, ROBERT H., M.D. 
 
 (19) 
 BAIRD, EDWARD P. 
 
 BAKER, ALFRED L. 
 
 (33*. 64, 70, 82, 83, 98) 
 
 BAKER, LUTHER E. 
 
 * BAKER, SAMUEL 
 
 (92) 
 
 *BAKER, WM. M. 
 XBALLOU, A. PERCY 
 
 (121) 
 BANKS, A. F. 
 
 * BANNING, EPHRAIM 
 
 (92) 
 
 President, Iroquois Iron Co. 
 President, Chicago Short Line R. R. 
 Secretary, Reid, Murdoch & Co. 
 
 President, Atwood, Davis Sand Co. 
 Clothing Merchant. 
 
 Banker. Director, Railway Exchange Bank. 
 President, Municipal Engineering & Con- 
 structing Co. 
 Physician Heart Specialist. 
 
 President, Baird Mfg. Co. Telephone Equip- 
 ment. 
 
 President, A. L. Baker <fe Co., Stocks and 
 Bonds. 
 
 Vice- President, National City Bank. 
 
 Vice-President, Macdonell, Baker, Collendar 
 Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Ross Constructing Co. 
 
 Spaulding & Merrick Co. 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 Vice-President, International Copper A 
 
 Gold Mining Co. 
 
 President, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern R. R. 
 Banning & Banning. Patent Attorneys. 
 
 [89]
 
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 tBAHD, Geo. M. 
 BARLOW, L. N., M. D. 
 
 (94) 
 BARNES, A. R. 
 
 tBARNETT, J. H. 
 
 BARRETT, SAMUEL E. 
 
 (7) 
 *tBATE8, ONWARD 
 
 fBARTLETT, CHARLES L. 
 
 (83) 
 BECKEN, ALBERT C. 
 
 XBELFIELD, A. MILLER 
 
 (8, 120) 
 *BELFIELD, HENRT H. 
 
 (39) 
 
 fBENTLEY, CHARLES S. 
 BENTLEY, CYRUS H. 
 
 (24) 
 BENNETT, FRANK I. 
 
 (56) 
 
 BENTLEY, FRANK T. 
 BELSHE, EDWIN L. 
 *BEST, NOLAN R. 
 
 (33^, 100, 120, 121) 
 tBEST, WILLIAM 
 
 (106) 
 
 BEVAN, ARTHUR D., M.D. 
 *BINGHAM, CHARLES L. 
 
 (92) 
 BIRD, A. C. 
 
 xBiRD, CHAS. W. 
 
 (120) 
 BIRKHOFF, GEO., JR. 
 
 BISHOP, L. BRACKETT 
 (120) 
 
 President, NorwallMfg. Co., Steam Supplies. 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 President A. R. Barnes & Co., Printers and 
 Publishers. 
 
 President, J. H. Barnett & Co. Engravers. 
 
 Chairman of Board, Barrett Mfg. Co. Roof- 
 ing Materials. 
 
 President, Bates & Rogers Construction Co. 
 
 President, Orangeine Chemical Co. 
 
 Director, Hamilton National Bank. 
 
 President, A. C. Becken & Co., Wholesale 
 Jewelers. 
 
 Patent Attorney. 
 
 Dean, The University High School Chicago 
 
 Manual Training School. 
 Grain Merchant. 
 
 Director, International Harvester Co. 
 Lawyer. 
 Lawyer Alderman 7th Ward. 
 
 Traffic Manager, Illinois Steel Company. 
 Secy, and Manager, Chicago Portrait Co. 
 Editor, The Interior. 
 
 President, Best & Russell Co. 
 
 Physician. 
 
 Manager, S. S. White, 
 
 Dental Supply Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Wabash R. R. 
 
 Vice-President, Missouri Pacific Ry. 
 
 Vice-President, St. Louis, Iron Mt. & South- 
 ern Ry. 
 
 Vice-President, Texas & Pacific Ry. 
 
 Vice-President, Denver & Rio Grande R. R. 
 (Gould System) 
 
 President, Chas. W. Bird & Co., Mfrs. of 
 Druggists' Sundries. 
 
 W. D. Kerfoot & Co. Real Estate. 
 
 Counsel of The Netherlands in Chicago. 
 
 Director, Chicago Title & Trust Co. 
 
 Manager, Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co. 
 
 President, Life Underwriters Association of 
 Chicago.
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 BLACK, GBNL. JOHN C. 
 BLEB, JOSEPU Mc.H. 
 
 BLAIR, EDWARD T. 
 
 (97) 
 fBoDMAN, LUTHER W. 
 
 (24) 
 
 *tBO!8OT, LOUIS 
 
 *fBoLSTER, CHARLES H. 
 *BORDEN, HAMILTON 
 
 XBoswoRTH, FRANK F. 
 BOWERS, LLOYD, W. 
 (24) 
 
 *BOWMAN, LOUIS A. 
 
 (0, 120, 121) 
 BOWMAN, WILLIAM H. 
 *tBoYCE, S. LEONARD 
 
 (90) 
 
 BRADLEY, J. HARLEY 
 *BRADLEY, THOS. E. D. 
 
 (35, 44) 
 
 BRIGHT, MATTHEW M. 
 *BRINTNALL WILLIAM H. 
 
 (56, 120) 
 BROPHY, TRUMAN W., D.D.S. 
 
 (85, 120) 
 BROOKS, JONATHAN W., JR. 
 
 *BROWN, WALTER FRAZER 
 
 (121) 
 
 X BROWN, WALTER Z. 
 *BROWNE, EDWARD 
 BUCKINGHAM, EBENEZER 
 BUTLER, John S. 
 
 BUSENBARK, WM. R. 
 
 BUSH, WILLIAM H. 
 (81) 
 
 BUSHNELL, LEMUEL M. 
 BUSSEY, WILLIAM T. 
 BYERS, JOHN W. 
 
 President, U. S. Civil Service Commission. 
 Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R. 
 Auditor and Treasurer, Whitebreast Fuel Co. 
 Treas. and Asst. Sec., Cardiff Coal Co 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Milmine, Bodman & Co., Grain Merchants. 
 
 Trust Officer, First Trust and Savings Bank. 
 Manager, Sprague Warner & Co., Wholesale 
 
 Grocers. 
 President, Borden & Selleck Co.. The Howe 
 
 Standard Scales. 
 
 President, Chicago Printing & Embossing Co. 
 General Counsel, Chicago & North-Western 
 
 Ry. 
 Lawyer. Jones & Bowman. 
 
 Real Estate. 
 Lawyer. 
 
 President, David Bradley Mfg. Co., Plows. 
 Lawyei, Foster, Bradley & Stetson. 
 
 President, International Gas and Fuel Co. 
 President, Drovers' Deposit National Bank. 
 
 Dentist. 
 
 Vice-President, Pitkin & Brooks Co., China 
 
 and Glassware. 
 Vice-President and Treas., A. C. Becken & 
 
 Co., Wholesale Jewelers. 
 Treasurer, Illinois Life Insurance Company. 
 President, Edward Browne Lumber Co. 
 Capitalist and Corporation Director. 
 Lawyer and Corporation Director. 
 Grain Merchant. 
 
 President, Wm. H. Bush & Co., Wholesale 
 Hats and Caps. 
 
 President, Francis T. Simmons & Co. 
 Wholesale Gloves. 
 
 Vaughan & Bushnell Mfg. Co., Hardware. 
 President, Chicago Stove Works. 
 President, Byers Bros. & Co., Com. Merchants 
 
 U. S. Yards.
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 tCAMERON, W. F. 
 
 CAMPBELL, R. B. 
 CAMPBELL, WILLIAM L. 
 CARR, CLYDE M. 
 
 (14) 
 CARE, ROBERT F. 
 
 X CARPENTER, HARRY L. 
 
 CARTER, DONALD M. 
 
 (121) 
 CHALMERS, WILLIAM J. 
 
 (49) 
 
 tCHANDLER, WALTER T. 
 
 CHARD, THOMAS S. 
 
 CHURCH, WILLIAM E. 
 
 (56) 
 *CLARK, EDWARD G. 
 
 (44) 
 CLARK, JOHN M. 
 
 (25, 65) 
 *CLELAND, McKENziE 
 
 (35, 121) 
 
 CLOUGH, HARRY S. 
 CLOW| HARRY B. 
 CLOW. JAMES B. 
 
 , WILLIAM E. 
 (46, 75) 
 COE, ALMER 
 COFFIN. CHARLES P. 
 
 *fCOLEMAN, A. E. 
 
 COLLYER, WILLIAM D. 
 
 COLLINS, LORIN C. 
 
 (87) 
 
 *COLVIN, WM. G. 
 COLWELL, NATHAN P., M.D. 
 COOPER, CHARLES B. 
 COPELAND, WILLIAM L., M.D. 
 fCoRMACK, JOSEPH 
 "COTTON, ARTHUR B. 
 
 "COULTER, JOHN M. 
 (8, 100, 120) 
 
 P. F. Cameron & Co., Insurance. 
 General Manager, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry. 
 Vice-President, Economical Drug Co. 
 Vice-Pres. & Secy., Joseph T. Ryerson A Son. 
 
 Heavy Iron and Steel Merchants. 
 Vice-Pres. and Genl. Mgr., Dearborn Drug 
 
 & Chemical Association. 
 Byers Bros. & Co., Commission Merchants, 
 
 U. S. Yards. 
 Parker & Carter, [Lawyers. 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 Firm of Franklin MacVeagh & Co. Whole- 
 sale Grocers. 
 
 Manager, Firemen's Fund & Union Insur- 
 ance Companies. 
 
 Lawyer, Church, McMurdy & Sherman. 
 
 Treasurer, Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 
 
 Wholesale Hardware. 
 Merchant and Capitalist. 
 
 Judge, The Municipal Court. 
 
 Rounds & Clough. Real Estate. 
 
 Secy., Jas. B. Clow & Sons. Mfg. Plumbers. 
 
 President, Jas. B. Clow & Sons. Mfg. Plum- 
 bers. 
 
 Vice-President, Jas. B. Clow & Sons. Mfg. 
 Plumbers. 
 
 Optician. 
 
 Director and Credit Man. Illinois Steel Co. 
 
 President, Chicago Ornamental Iron Co. 
 
 Collyer & Co. Butter & Eggs. 
 
 U. S. Inspector of Dairy Exports. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Treasurer, Continent Shoe Co. 
 
 Chest, Nose and Throat Specialist. 
 
 Genl. Agent, Nor. Pac. and Nat. Express Co. 
 
 Physician. 
 
 Contractor and Builder. 
 
 President and Treasurer, Brydon Trimmed 
 
 Hat Co. 
 Dean, School of Botany. University of 
 
 Chicago. 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 COT, LINCOLN M. 
 COWAN, WILLIAM K. 
 
 Cox, STEPHEN W., M.D. 
 , JOHN C. 
 , CLAYTON E. 
 
 *CROFTS, JOHN C. 
 CRAQIN, H. B. 
 
 *CRAIN, CHARLES H., M.D. 
 CRAMER, AMBROSE 
 
 CRANE, EDWARD C. 
 CRANE, SIMEON H. 
 CROSBY, FREDERICK W. 
 
 (70, 78) 
 CHOWELL, HENRY P. 
 
 (78, 80) 
 
 *CRIQHTON, JAMES 
 
 (44) 
 CUMMINOS, D. MARK 
 
 CUTHBERTSON, WlLLIAM, M.D, 
 
 DAVIDSON, H. P. 
 DAVIS, Louis H. 
 DAWES, RUFUS C. 
 
 DAY, ALBERT M. 
 (62, 97) 
 
 *tDEFEBAUQH, JAMES E. 
 
 (56, 99. 120) 
 *DENT, THOMAS 
 
 (18, 78, 97) 
 DUELL, HARRY W. 
 DEVITT, MARTIN A. 
 
 *DEGOLLYER, WATTS 
 DICK, ALBERT B. 
 (70, 97) 
 
 Lawyer and Capitalist. 
 
 Pres. & Ganl. Mgr. W. K. Cowan Co. Furni- 
 ture. 
 
 Physician. 
 
 Vice-President Bankers National Bank. 
 
 Ex-Speaker, House of Representatives. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Crofts & Reed, Soap Manufacturers. 
 
 Broker. 
 
 Vice-President, Legal Aid Society. 
 
 President, Easton Oil Co. 
 
 Crain Bros., Wholesale Drugs & Chemicals. 
 
 Mining Machinery. Trustee of the Estate of 
 Henry J. Willing. 
 
 Real Estate and Investments. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., Moffatt Bearing Co. 
 
 Lawyer and Corporation Director. 
 
 President, American Cereal Co. 
 
 President, Quaker Oats Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Cleveland Foundry Co. 
 
 President, Jas. Crighton & Co., Commission 
 Merchants. 
 
 Bank Director. 
 
 President, New Pittsburgh Coal & Coke Co. 
 
 Vica-Pres., South Chgo. City Railway and 
 Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Ry. 
 
 Physician. 
 
 President, North- Western Military Academy. 
 
 Lawyer and Underwriter. 
 
 President, Union Gas and Electric Co. 
 
 Director of Corporations. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 President, Presbyterian Hospital. 
 
 Owner and Editor, The American Lumber- 
 man. 
 
 Lawyer Ex-Judge. 
 
 President, Federal Shirt and Collar Co. 
 Banker and Director, Devitt, Tremble & Co. 
 
 Bankers. 
 
 Retired Varnish Manufacturer. 
 President, A. B. Dick Co., Manufacturers of 
 
 Mimeographing Machine. 
 Director, Royal Trust Co. Bank. 
 
 [93]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 DICKINSON, JOHN McG. 
 DICKSON, JAMES T. 
 
 DOANE, PHILIP P. S., M.D. 
 DORAN, GEO. H. 
 
 DOHKANCE, CHARLES A. 
 DORWIN, WILLIAM E. 
 
 *tDouGLASs, WILLIAM A. 
 
 (2*. 97) 
 
 DOWNS, EBENEZER A. 
 *DOWNS, Walter B. 
 
 *DOWNS, JAMES E. 
 
 (77, 92) 
 
 DRAKE, JOHN B., JR. 
 X DRAKE, TRACY 
 DRISCOLL, FREDERICK 
 
 DUDLEY, HENRY W. 
 (1, 12, 92) 
 
 *DtTNN, WlNFIELD P. 
 
 DURAND, CALVIN 
 
 *DURAND, HENRY C. 
 
 (8, 38, 97, 121) 
 EASTMAN, JOHN C. 
 *ECKELS, JAMES H. 
 
 (42,57,95, 100, 113, 120) 
 
 ECKHART, BERNARD A. 
 (3H, 77, 81, 115) 
 EIKEN, CHAS. F. 
 
 ELLIOTT, FRANK R. 
 ELPHICKE, CHAS. W. 
 
 General Counsel, Illinois Central R. R. 
 
 Treas. and Manager, Confectioners and 
 Bakers Supply Co. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Vice-President, Fleming H. Revell Co., Pub- 
 lishers. 
 
 President, The Dorrance Co., Smokeless 
 Furnaces. 
 
 W. E. Dorwin & Co., Railway Contractors. 
 
 Vice-Pres. & Genl. Mgr., U. S. Engineering & 
 Constructing Co. 
 
 Manager, R. G. Dun & Co., Mercantile 
 Agency. 
 
 Vice-President, H. W. Dudley Copper Co. 
 
 Secretary, Durand & Kasper Co., Wholesale 
 Grocers. 
 
 Retired Merchant. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Commissioner, American Newspaper Pub- 
 lishers Association. 
 Corporation Director. 
 President, H. W. Dudley Coffee Co. 
 
 President, W. P. Dunn Co., Printers & 
 Publishers. 
 
 Alderman, 25th Ward. 
 
 President, Durand & Kasper Co. Wholesale 
 Grocers. 
 
 Director, State Bank of Chicago. 
 
 Vice-President, Durand & Kasper Co. 
 
 Director, State Bank of Lake Forest. 
 
 Publisher, Chicago Daily Journal. 
 
 President, Commercial National Bank. 
 
 Vice-Pres., Hewitt Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Receiver, Chicago Union Traction Co. 
 
 Treasurer, Featherstone Foundry & Ma- 
 chine Co. 
 
 President, Eckhart & Swan Milling Co. 
 
 President, West Park Commissioners. 
 
 President and Genl. Mgr., Pioneer Fire Roof- 
 ing Co. 
 
 Cashier, Harris Trust and Savings Bank. 
 
 Vessel Owner and Marine Insurance. 
 
 [94]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 ELMORE, WILLIAM E. 
 
 , EDWABD H. 
 ELY, JAMES O., D. D. S. 
 * EMERY, COL. J. M. 
 
 (11) 
 EWAN, JOHN M. 
 
 (19) 
 *FALES, DAVID 
 
 (2*. 16) 
 FARWELL, ARTHUR L. 
 
 (14, 95) 
 FARWELL, FRANCIS C. 
 
 (24) 
 tFARWELL, GRANGER 
 
 (14) 
 *FARWELL, JOHN V. 
 
 (li, 18, 29, 32, 52) 
 FARWELL, JOHN V., JR. 
 
 (43, 46, 70, 83, 120) 
 FAUHOT, HENRY 
 FENTRESS, JAMES 
 FERGUSON, ALEX. H., M.D. 
 
 (40) 
 FIELD, STANLEY 
 
 (23, 49) 
 fFiNDLEY, GEORGE 
 
 tFisHBURN, EUGENE H. 
 
 (18, 78) 
 FISHER, Lucius G. 
 
 FISK. D. MILTON 
 XFiTZHUGH, CHAS. H. 
 FLERSHEM, LEMUEL W 
 FORD, CHARLES B. 
 *FORD, JOHN S. 
 
 tFoRGAN, DAVID R. 
 (33, 36, 44V4, 100) 
 
 Vice-President, Durant & Elmore Co. Grain 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 Vice-President, Oconto Milling Co. 
 Manager, Michigan Mutual Life Ins. Co. 
 Dentist. 
 Publisher. 
 
 President, John M. Ewan Construction Co. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 2nd Vice-President, J. V. Farwell Co. 
 
 Secretary, J. V. Farwell Co. 
 
 President, Granger Farwell & Co. Bankers A 
 
 Brokers. 
 Founder, John V. Farwell Co. Wholesale 
 
 Dry Goods. 
 
 Treas. & Genl. Mgr., John V. Farwell Co. 
 President, First State Fawners Society. 
 Vice-Pres. & Treas., Western Felt Works. 
 President, Chicago Tubing and Braiding Co. 
 President, Chicago Hospital. 
 
 Vice-President, Marshall Field & Co. 
 
 Genl. Manager, Capitol Freelock Land and 
 
 Investment Co. 
 Ogden, Sheldon & Co., Real Estate. 
 
 President, U. S. Bag & Paper Co. 
 
 Owner Fisher Building. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Pres., Fitzhugh- Luther Co., Locomotives. 
 
 Lapp & Flershem, Wholesale Jewelers. 
 
 Pres., Ford & Howard, Produce Merchants. 
 
 President, Ford & Johnson Chair Co., Fur- 
 niture Manufacturers. 
 
 President, Western Cane Seating Co. 
 
 President, National Chair Mfrs. Assn. 
 
 President, Chicago Furniture Mfrs. Assn. 
 
 President, National City Bank. 
 
 Author, Orator and Western Golf Champion 
 of United States, 
 
 [95]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 FORGAN, JAMES B. 
 (20, 73, 97) 
 
 FORESMAN, HUGH A. 
 *FOHSYTH, HENRY H. 
 
 (92) 
 
 *FORSYTH, W. HOLMES 
 *FRANCIS, WILLIAM 
 
 (8, 35) 
 
 tFowLER, ERNEST S. 
 FREEMAN, CHAS. YOE 
 
 *FREEMAN, HENRY V. 
 
 (78) 
 *FROST, CHARLES S. 
 
 (92) 
 
 FULLER, CHARLES H. 
 FULLER, Lucius C. 
 
 (5) 
 
 GALT, AZARIAH T. 
 
 tGANSBERGEN, F. H. 
 
 (73) 
 
 GARRETT, MYERS A. 
 tGEER, IRA J. 
 
 (10, 24, 78) 
 GENTLES, HENRY W., M.D. 
 
 (40) 
 tGEROULD, FRANK W. 
 
 (104) 
 GIBBS, PLATT P. 
 
 GLESSNER, J. G. M. 
 *GOING, JUDSON F. 
 
 (13, 30) 
 
 GOLDIE, WILLIAM 
 *GOODMAN, JOHN S. 
 * GRANT, JOHN C. 
 GRAVES, CHAS. E. 
 GROSS, HOWARD H. 
 
 President, First National Bank. 
 President, First Trust & Savings Bank. 
 President, National Safe Deposit Co. 
 Corporation and Railroad Director. 
 Vice-Pres., Scott, Foresman & Co., Publishers. 
 Retired Capitalist. 
 
 Secretary, Curtain Supply Co. 
 President, Francis & Nygren Foundry Co. 
 
 Optician. 
 
 Secy, and Asst. Treas., 111. Car. & Equipment 
 
 Co. 
 Justice of Appellate Court. 
 
 Frost & Granger, Architects. 
 
 President, C. H. Fuller Advertising Agency. 
 
 Treasurer, C. H. Fuller Advertising Agency. 
 
 Director, Colonial Trust & Savings Bank. 
 
 2nd Vice-Pres., Northern Liquidation Co. 
 
 President, Union Electrotype Foundry. 
 
 President, Advertisers Printing Co. 
 
 President, The Tribune Co. 
 
 Director, Nor. Chgo. S. R. R. Co. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Secretary, The Mutual Bank: 
 
 Lincoln Park Commissioner. 
 
 Vice-Pres., Farlow Draft Gear Co. 
 
 Lawyer, 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Western Genl. Mgr., A. G. Spalding A Bros. 
 
 Sporting Goods. 
 
 Pres. and Mgr., Chicago Music Co. 
 Pres., Chicago Piano & Organ Assn. 
 Mgr. Utility Div. International Harv. Co. 
 Judge, The Municipal Court. 
 
 Goldie Bros., General Contractors. 
 
 Pres. J. S. Goodman & Co., Book Publishers. 
 
 Headmaster, The Harvard School. 
 
 Pres. C. E. Graves A Co., Jewelers. 
 
 Paving Materials. Corporation Organizer. 
 
 [96]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 GRUENSTEIN, S. E. 
 
 GtTRLEY, W. W. 
 
 (57) 
 HAGGARD, JOHN D. 
 
 HAIR, BENJ. M. 
 
 *HALSEY, EDWARD A. 
 (97, 120) 
 
 *HALSEY, PROF. JOHN J., L.L.D, 
 
 (70) 
 
 fHALL, ROBERT W. 
 *HALL, THOMAS A. 
 
 (56, 99) 
 
 , ERNEST A. 
 (7, 28, 43, 97) 
 
 HARLAN, JOHN MAYNARD 
 (23) 
 
 fHARRINGTON, STEPHEN H. 
 
 HARSHA, WILLIAM M., M.D. 
 
 (40, 120) 
 
 HARVEY, ALBERT A. 
 HARVEY, PAUL S. 
 *HARVEY, TURLINGTON W. 
 
 HASTINGS, SAMUEL M. 
 
 HEAD, FRANKLIN H. 
 
 (18, 71, 86) 
 HEAD, G. P., M.D. 
 
 (96) 
 
 , EUGENE K. 
 
 * HEATH, CHAS. A. 
 
 (10) 
 
 "HEDGES, SAMUEL P., M.D. 
 tHESTER, ALBERT W. 
 HIGH, GEORGE HENRY 
 
 HINMAN, GEO. W. 
 
 Editorial Staff, Chicago Evening Post : 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 President, Haggard & Marcusson Co., Spring 
 
 Bed Manufacturers. 
 President, North- Western Yeast Co. 
 President, Cook Co. State Savings Bank. 
 Ex-Comptroller City of Chicago. 
 Expert Appraiser Real Estate. 
 Pres. Illinois Young Men's Christian Assn. 
 Acting President, Lake Forest University. 
 
 Carson, Pirie Scott & Co. 
 Pres. Thos. A. Hall & Co., Real Estate. 
 Pres. Office Building Managers Assn. 
 Manager, Dearborn Power Co. 
 President, Corn Exchange National Bank. 
 Vice-President, Elgin National Watch Co. 
 Treasurer, Chicago Board of Trade. 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Pres., Harrington & King Perforating Co. 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Treas. and Genl. Mgr. Acme Gas Co. 
 Vice-Pres. and Secy., Acme Gas Co. 
 President, Acme Gas Co. Corporation Di- 
 rector. 
 
 President, Computing Scale Co. of America. 
 Secy, and Treas., Moneyweight Scale Co. 
 Vice-Pres., Computing Scale Co. of Canada. 
 President, Moneyweight Scale Co. of Europe. 
 Director of Corporations. 
 President, Bush Temple Conservatory. 
 Vice-Pres., Continental Casualty Co. 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Pres., Herrick, Son & Co., Com. Merchants, 
 
 U. S. Yards. 
 Albert Dickinson & Co., Seed Merchants. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 Real Estate and Investments. 
 Geo. H. High & Co., Real Estate. 
 Pres. Masonic Temple Association. 
 Publisher, Chicago Inter-Ocean. 
 
 [97]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 HOLBROOK, WILLIAM G. 
 HOLDEN, JOSEPH S. 
 tHoLDEN, NELSON B. 
 
 (97) 
 *HOLLOWAY, HORACE G. 
 
 *HOLT, CHARLES S. 
 
 (25, 78, 92, 100) 
 HOLT, GEORGE H. 
 
 HOUSTON, ARCHIBALD W. 
 *HOWE, CHAS. M. 
 
 (71, 78) 
 
 *HOWELL, C. D. B. 
 HOYT, HOWARD H. 
 
 *HUBBARD, JOHN S. 
 
 (57) 
 *HUGHITT, MARVIN 
 
 (2*. 20, 21, 65) 
 
 *HUNTER, WM. C. 
 
 HURD, HARRY B. 
 HYPES, WILLIAM F. 
 IRWIN, CHAS. P. 
 ISHAM, RALPH 
 
 ISHAM, R. N., M.D. 
 t JACKSON, WILLIAM S. 
 
 JAMES, FRED S. 
 X JAMES, PHILIP L. 
 
 Pres. and Treas., Union Drop Forge Co. 
 Secy, and Treas. Middleby Oven Mfg. Co. 
 Pres., N. B. Holden, Inc. Shoe Dealers. 
 
 President, H. G. Holloway & Bro., Whole- 
 sale Boots and Shoes. 
 
 Lawyer, Holt, Wheeler & Sidley. 
 Corporation Director 
 
 President, Holt Lumber Co. 
 
 President, Amer. Lumber Co. of Wisconsin. 
 
 President, Policy Holders Union. 
 
 Vice-Pres., Columbian National Life Ins. Co. 
 
 Owner Manhattan Bldg. 
 
 Senior Member, Holt, MacChesney & Cheney, 
 Real Estate & Bonds. 
 
 Vice-Pres., Republic Iron & Steel Co. 
 
 Banker. 
 
 President, Illinois Brick Co. 
 
 Assistant Director of Agencies Columbian 
 National Life Ins. Co. 
 
 Moore, Jones, Lyman & Herrick, Fire Under- 
 writers. 
 
 President, Chicago & North- Western Ry. 
 
 President, Chicago, St. Paul, Minn. <fe 
 Omaha Ry. 
 
 Railroad & Corporation Director. 
 
 Secy., W. D. Boyce Co., Newspaper Pub- 
 lishers. 
 
 Secy., W. D. Boyce Paper Mills Co. 
 
 President, Hunter Publishing Co. 
 
 Lawyer., Pam & Hurd. 
 
 Manager, Marshall Field & Co. Wholesale. 
 
 Irwin, Green & Co., Genl. Grain Merchants. 
 
 Treasurer, Chicago Union Transfer Co. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., Chgo. Transfer <fe Clearing 
 Co. 
 
 Physician. 
 
 Senior Mem., Jackson Bros. & Co. Com- 
 mission Merchants. 
 
 Ex-Alderman, 6th Ward. 
 
 Ex-President, Chicago Board of Trade. 
 
 President, F. S. James & Co. Fire Under- 
 writers. 
 
 Marshall Field & Co. 
 
 [98]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 *JANNET, JAMES W. 
 
 (92) 
 
 "JEFFREY, JOHN 
 JELKE, JOHN F. 
 JENKINS, JOHN E. 
 
 JENNINGS, J. ELLIOTT 
 
 ""(JOHNSON, FRANK S. t M.D. 
 
 (65) 
 JOHNSON, WM. FORD 
 
 JOHNSTON, ROBERT S. 
 JONES, ARTHUR B. 
 
 (49, 120) 
 JONES, DAVID B. 
 
 (70, 86, 97) 
 tJoNES, J. HARRY 
 
 (121) 
 JONES, THOMAS D. 
 
 (65) 
 
 JUDSON, HALE D. 
 *fKANE, THOMAS 
 
 (72, 78, 92, 97) 
 
 KEEP, ALBERT 
 
 (21, 65) 
 fKELLEY, WILLIAM E. 
 
 (17*) 
 
 tKELSEY, HORATIO N. 
 KENLY, D. B. 
 *KERLIN E. ILES, M.D. 
 KETCHAM, IRA C. 
 
 KINO, CHARLES B. 
 *KIMBALL, CHARLES L. 
 
 (120) 
 
 KISER, SAMUEL EBERLY 
 *KNAPP, FRED H. 
 
 *KNUDSON, SAMUEL O. 
 XKNUDSON, THEODORE J. 
 M. D. 
 
 Genl. Agent, Provident Life and Trust Co. 
 
 Contractor and Builder. 
 
 President, Braun & Fitts, Butterine Mfrs. 
 
 Jenkins, Kreer & Co. 
 
 Secy, Great Western Tin Plate Co. 
 
 President, Jennings Real Estate Loan and 
 
 Trust Company. 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Secy. & Treas., J. S. Ford, Johnson & Co. 
 
 Furniture Mfrs. 
 
 President, Star & Crescent Milling Co. 
 Marshall Field & Co. 
 
 President, Mineral Point Zinc Co. 
 Secretary, Marshall Jackson Stationery Co. 
 Lawyer and Capitalist. 
 
 Genl. Supt., Chgo, Burlington & Quincy Ry. 
 
 President, Thos. Kane & Co., School and 
 Church Furniture. 
 
 President, American Spiral Pipe Works. 
 
 President, Winona Assembly and Summer 
 School. 
 
 President, Winona Electric Light & Water Co. 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 President, William E. Kelley & Co., Whole- 
 sale Lumber. 
 
 Western Manager, Sun Fire Insurance Co. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 President, Ketcham & Rothschild, Furniture 
 Manufacturers. 
 
 President, Commercial Safe Deposit Co. 
 
 Asst. Genl. Passenger Agent, Pennsylvania 
 Lines. 
 
 Author and Editor. 
 
 President, Fred H. Knapp Co., Labeling Ma- 
 chines. 
 
 President, Knudson & Mercer Lumber Co. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Chief Surgeon, South Side Elevated R. R. 
 
 [99]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 KBEBS, WILLIAM S. 
 KNOTT, HENRY A. 
 
 *KBUM, I. R. 
 
 LAFLIX, GEO. H. 
 LAFLIN, Louis E. 
 
 (10) 
 LAWSON, WILLIAM C. 
 
 *LAZEAB, GEO. C. 
 LEACH, FEHKY W. 
 LEARNED, E. J. 
 LEEMINQ, JOHN, M.D. 
 
 *LETHEN, ABNOLD J. 
 LEWIS, DAVID R. 
 "fLEWis, WALKER O. 
 *LININQER, JOEL C. 
 *LORD, JOHN B. 
 
 (56, 97) 
 
 LOSCH, NATHANIEL R. 
 LOWE, JOHN M. 
 
 *LOWRY, CHAS. D. 
 (5) 
 
 fLuDLOW, GEO. MCMURTRY 
 
 (8) 
 
 LUNDY, AYERS P. 
 LUNHAM, ROBERT T. 
 LYON, THOMAS R. 
 
 MACCHESNEY, NATHAN W. 
 (121) 
 
 MAcDouoALL, ARTHUR R 
 MACKAY, JAMES 
 
 XMAoiE, WM. A. 
 MAQRUDER, BENJ. D. 
 MAKER, GEO. W. 
 MARTIN, JOHN D. 
 
 Manager, McCormick Estates & Properties. 
 
 President, Knott, Chandler & Co., Real Es- 
 tate and Loans. 
 
 President, Krum, Griffith <fe Co., Lumber 
 Merchants. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Capitalist. Bank and Corporation Director 
 
 President, Marlboro Portland Cement Co. 
 Clerk of the Criminal Court. 
 Fire Insurance. 
 
 A. B. Leach & Co., Bankers & Brokers. 
 Treasurer, Reid, Murdoch & Co. 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 Chief Surgeon, Chicago City Railway. 
 Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. 
 Vice-President, Hibernian Banking Assn. 
 Asst. Treasurer, Sears, Roebuck & Co. 
 President, The Winona Publishing Co. 
 President, Ayer & Lord Tie Co. 
 
 Cashier, Commercial National Bank. 
 Vice-President, Corwin Coal Co., Smith 
 
 Lowe Coal Co. 
 Asst. Supt., Schools. 
 
 President, Money weight Scale Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Computing Scale Co. of 
 America. 
 
 Sargent & Lundy. Mechanical and Elec- 
 trical Engineers. 
 
 Secy. & Treas., Boyd-Lunham Co., Packers 
 U. S. Yards. 
 
 President, Lyon Cypress Lumber Co. 
 
 Lawyer, Holt, MacChesney & Cheney, Real 
 Estate and Loans. 
 
 Secretary, Office Building Managers Assn. 
 
 Secretary, Excelsior Printing Co. 
 
 Pres., A. R. MacDougall & Co., Opticians. 
 
 Secy., Kellogg, Mackay, Cameron Co., Boilers 
 and Radiators. 
 
 President, Magie Bros., Lubricating Oils. 
 
 Asso. Justice, Supreme Court of Illinois 
 
 Architect. 
 
 Holmes, Martin & Co., Fire & Plate Glass 
 Underwriters,
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 MARSHALL, FIELDING 
 *MATHXSON. GKO. W. 
 tMxTz, RUDOLPH 
 
 (71) 
 McARTHUR, ROBERT D., M.D. 
 
 (26) 
 
 fMcBiRNEY, HUGH 
 McCoRMicK, CYRUS H. 
 
 (18, 49, 70, 78, 120) 
 McCoRMicK, HAROLD F. 
 
 (78, 91, 107) 
 MCCORMICK, R. HALL, 
 
 (7) 
 McCoRMicK, STANLEY 
 
 (7, 14, 79, 81) 
 *McCuLLOH, THOS. G. 
 
 (5, 99) 
 
 McCuLLOuGH, HIRAM R. 
 McCuRDY, GEO. L. 
 
 McGAViN, CHARLES 
 McKiNNEY, ROBERT M. 
 
 (13, 32) 
 McKiNNON, JOHN W. 
 
 MCLAREN, JOHN 
 McMEEN, SAMUEL G. 
 
 *McPHER80N, E. P. 
 MCSUHELY, WM. H. 
 
 *McWiLLiAM8, LAFAYETTE 
 
 (2*. 92) 
 
 MEAD, JAMES L. 
 MEEK, SAMUEL L. 
 
 *MERRIMAN, HENRY P., M.D. 
 
 (1, 12) 
 *MESSINGER, WILLIAM D. 
 
 *MILLER, BRYCE A. 
 (110) 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Corporation Director, Lawyer. 
 
 Director, Chicago Savings Bank. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 President, National Lead Co. 
 
 President, International Harvester Co. 
 
 Railroad and Bank Director. 
 
 Vice-President, International Harvester Co. 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 Capitalist, Trustee, Leander J. McCormick 
 
 Estate. 
 
 Comptroller, International Harvester Co. 
 Corporation Director. 
 Vice-Pres. and Treas., National Linseed Oil 
 
 Co. 
 
 President, Conf. and Bakers' Supply Co. 
 President, Federal Manufacturing Co. 
 Vice-President, Chicago & North-Western 
 
 Ry. 
 President, Geo. L. McCurdy & Co., Marine 
 
 Insurance. 
 Congressman. 
 Cashier, National Bank of the Republic. 
 
 President, Illinois Straw Products Co. 
 Director, Chicago Title & Trust Co. 
 Vice-President, Central Storage Warehouse 
 
 Co. 
 
 President, International Audit Co. 
 Electrical Engineer. Telephony Expert. 
 2nd Vice-President, Cable Piano Co. 
 Congressman. 
 Oil Merchant and Capitalist. 
 
 President, Mead Cycle Co. 
 President, Fidelity Trust Co. 
 General Counsel for Corporations. 
 Retired Capitalist. 
 
 President, W. D. Messinger Co., Wholesale 
 
 Paper Dealers. 
 Retired Ship-builder. 
 President, Washingtonian Home Association. 
 
 [101]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 tMn.Ls, LUTHER LAFLIN 
 
 (13, 30, 62, 29, 32) 
 MILLS, MATTHEW 
 MINER, R. SCOTT, 
 
 (121) 
 
 MITCHELL, JOHN H. 
 MONTGOMERY, WM. T., M.D. 
 
 (61) 
 
 MOORE, E. B. 
 MOORE, L. P. 
 
 (120) 
 *tMooRE, NATHAN G. 
 
 , ANSON C. 
 MORGAN, OTHO H. 
 
 *MORTEN8ON, JACOB 
 
 tMoRTON, MARK 
 (15) 
 
 fMosELEY, CARLTON 
 
 "Moss, WILLIAM L. 
 X MOVER, ELA B. 
 MULLIKEN, ALFRED H. 
 
 *MULLIKEN, CHARLES H. 
 
 (1, 12) 
 
 XMuNOER, CHAS. L. 
 *MUNGER, HENRY H. 
 MURDOCH, THOS. 
 
 (2*) 
 
 NEELY, CHARLES G. 
 NELSON, ROBERT 
 *NELSON, WALTER C. 
 
 (56, 55) 
 
 NEWBERRY, ROBERT T. 
 NEWELL, ASHBEL B. 
 
 tNicHOLS, GEO. R. 
 
 NlTCHIE, JOSEPH H. 
 
 NIXON, WM. P. 
 
 (62) 
 NORTON, CHAS. D. 
 
 (23, 70, 75) 
 
 Lawyer, Orator and Ciric Reformer. 
 
 Congressman. 
 
 Manager, Educational Book Dept., American 
 
 Book Company. 
 
 Manager, Pressed Steel Car Company. 
 Oculist. 
 
 President, E. B. Moore & Co., Wood Carpet. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., Benj. Moore & Co., Paints 
 and Varnishes. 
 
 Lawyer, Bank and Corporation Director. 
 
 Wilson, Moore & Mcllvaine. 
 
 Secretary Chicago Varnish Co. 
 
 President, Chicago Vanish Co. 
 
 Wholesale Lumber Merchant. 
 
 Joy Morton & Co. 
 
 Treasurer, International Salt Co. 
 
 Treasurer, U. S. Sugar Refining Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Morton, Gregson Co., Packers. 
 
 Vice-President, Western Cold Storage Co. 
 
 Firm of Chase & Sanborn. Importers of 
 Teas and Coffees. 
 
 Executor of Estates. 
 
 Asst. Secy., National Life Ins. Co. of U. S. A. 
 
 President, Pettibone, Mulliken & Co., Rail- 
 way Supplies. 
 
 C. H. Mulliken & Co., Real Estate. 
 
 Hardware. 
 
 Hardware Specialties. 
 
 President, Reid, Murdoch & Co., Wholesale 
 
 Grocers. 
 
 Ex-Judge, Cook County Circuit Court. 
 Vice-President & Manager, In't'l. Audit Co. 
 Lawyer, Ex-Alderman 7th Ward. 
 
 Architect. 
 
 Vice-President and Gen'l Manager, White 
 
 Pass and Yukon Ry. 
 Young & Nichols, Grain Merchants. 
 Secy., Columbus Safe Deposit Co. 
 Collector, Port of Chicago. 
 Journalist. 
 Genl. Agent, North-Western Mutual Life 
 
 Insurance Go, 
 
 [102]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 OOILVIB, Gao. W. 
 
 ORCHARD, JOHN G. 
 *OSBORNE, HENRY SL 
 
 (80) 
 
 tOris, CHARLES T. 
 *OTIS. PHILO. A. 
 
 (91) 
 OTIS, RALPH C. 
 
 PAGE, CHARLES T. 
 
 PARLIAMENT, SAMUEL 
 PARROTTE, WALTER L. 
 
 t PATTEN, JAS. A. 
 (87) 
 
 PATTERSON, MELVIN E. 
 
 PATTERSON, ROBERT 
 
 PEABODT, FREDERICK F. 
 PEASLET, JAMES C. 
 PETERS, HOMER H. 
 
 *PETEHSON, WILLIAM A. 
 (121) 
 
 fPETTIBONE, AMOS 
 
 (51, 73) 
 
 *PETTIBONE, ROBERT S. 
 
 PHILLIPS, THOS. P. 
 
 PHILLIPS, WILLIAM E. 
 PIKE, CHARLES B. 
 
 Pres. and Trees., G. W. Ogilvie ft Co. Pub- 
 lishers. 
 
 Cashier, Merchants Loan and Trust Co. 
 Lawyer and Corporation Director. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 Real Estate. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Vice-President, Chicago Savings Bank & 
 Trust Co. 
 
 President, Madison Building Co. 
 
 Real Estate Operator and Director of Corpo- 
 rations. 
 
 Cheese Merchant, Parliament & Esper. 
 
 President, Parrotte, Beals & Co., Wholesale 
 Hats. 
 
 Bartlett, Frazier & Carrington, Grain Mer- 
 chants. 
 
 Capitalist and Loft Building Owner. 
 
 Chief Deputy, U. S. Marshall, N. W. Dist. of 
 Illinois. 
 
 Vice-President, The Brown Co. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., Columbia Conservatory of 
 Music Co. 
 
 President, The Tribune Co. 
 
 Editor-in-Chief, The Chicago Tribune. 
 
 President, City Press Association of Chicago. 
 
 Vice-President, Cluett, Peabody & Co. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 President, Crescent Oil, Asphalt & Gas Co. 
 
 President, Buffalo, Dunkirk & West R. R. 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 President, The Peterson Nursery. 
 
 Director, State Bank of Chicago. 
 
 Vice-President, P. F. Pettibone & Co. Sta- 
 tioners. 
 
 Vice-President, P. F. Pettibone & Co. Sta- 
 tioners. 
 
 Vice-President, American Trust & Savings 
 Bank. 
 
 President, Dolese & Shepard Co., Quarry- 
 men and Stone Contractors. 
 
 Vice-President and Genl. Manager, Dolese & 
 Shepard Co. 
 
 President, Hamilton National Bank. 
 
 President. Merchants Safe Deposit Co.
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 tPiKE, EUGENE 8. 
 
 (21,92,97) 
 PIRIE, JOHN T., JR. 
 
 (33. 83) 
 POOLE, ABRAM 
 POPPENHUSEN, CONRAD H. 
 
 (8) 
 
 POPPENHTJSEN, PAUL A. 
 POTTER, OHHIN W. 
 *POTWIN, W. S. 
 
 (44, 78) 
 fPowERS, ORVILLE M. 
 
 (79k) 
 
 , RALPH, E. 
 
 PRICE, CHAS. R. 
 PRIDE, JOSEPH F. 
 PRINQLE, ROBERT 
 
 *PURINQTON, GEO. E. 
 * RALSTON, HENRY M. 
 (2*) 
 
 , THOS: 
 
 RAUCHFUSS, CHAS. F. 
 
 READING, ARTHUR H., M D. 
 REAM, NORMAN B. 
 
 (49) 
 
 *REED, CORYDON A. 
 REID, WM. H. 
 REQUA, CHAS. W. 
 
 REVELL, ALEXANDER H. 
 
 (19, 34, 87) 
 REVELL, FLEMING H. 
 REYNOLDS, GEO. M. 
 RICE, CHAS. B. 
 
 RICHARDSON, AUGUSTUS P. 
 
 Capitalist and Bank Director. 
 
 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Dry Goods Mer- 
 chants. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Secretary and Chief Examiner, Civil Servic* 
 Commission. 
 
 Alderman of Evanston. 
 
 President, Green Engineering Company. 
 
 Retired Manufacturer. 
 
 Treasurer, Chicago Varnish Co. 
 
 President, Metropolitan Business College. 
 
 President and Treas., Pratt Cereal Oil Co. 
 Vice-Pres. American Hominy Co. 
 Wholesale Coal Merchant. 
 President & Treasurer, Junction Coal Co. 
 Secy. & Treas., The Platt Co., Baltimore 
 
 Oysters and Canned Goods. 
 Pringle, Fitch & Rankin, Stock and Grain 
 
 Merchants. 
 Retired Merchant. 
 President, North American Iron Co. 
 
 President, Chicago Building and Manufactur- 
 ing Co. 
 
 Secy., Liquid Carbonic Co. 
 Secy.,C. L. Bastian Mfg. Co., Brass Founders. 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 Capitalist and Corporation Director. 
 
 Crofts and Reed, Soap Manufacturers. 
 
 Vice-Pjesident, 111. Trust & Savings Bank. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Director, Amer. Trust <fe Savings Bank. 
 
 President, Alex. H. Revell & Co. Furniture. 
 
 President, Fleming H. Revell Co., Publishers 
 President, Continental National Bank. 
 Vice-President, Highland Park State Bank. 
 Real Estate. 
 
 Vice-President, Richardson & Boynton Co., 
 Mfrs. of Furnaces, Ranges and Stoves. 
 
 [104]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 RICHARDSON, BENJ. F. 
 RICKCORDS, GEORGE E. 
 RISTINE, GEORGE W. 
 
 RlTTENHOUSE, MOSES F. 
 
 ROBBINS, HENRY S. 
 ROBERTS, WM. M. 
 ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER 
 ROBISON, JOHN A., M.D. 
 
 JROCKWELL, F. W. 
 
 (55) 
 
 ROGERS, JAS. GAMBLE 
 Ross, HUGH R. 
 *RUMSAY, ISRAEL P. 
 
 (32) 
 RUSH, G. FRED 
 
 (105) 
 
 RUSSELL, ROBERT 
 SANDERSON, GEO. A. 
 
 (27) 
 
 SAWYER, FRANK P. 
 SCOTT, JOHN W. 
 *SCOTT, SAMUEL S. 
 fScoTT, GEORGE W. 
 
 (121) 
 
 *SCOTT, WALTER, D. 
 fSEARLE, GIDEON D. 
 
 SEBASTIAN, JOHN, 
 
 SHANE, SAMUEL P. 
 SHARP, WILLIAM L. 
 
 *SHAW, FRANK S. 
 
 (44) 
 tSHAw HOWARD VAN DOREN 
 
 (7, 82) 
 SHAW, THEO. A., JR. 
 
 Crandall & Richardson, Wholesale Lumber 
 
 Merchants. 
 Bank Director. 
 
 President, Lake Co. Title & Trust Co. 
 Consulting Railway Expert. 
 Ex-Pres., Colo. Midland R. R. 
 President, Rittenhouse & Embree Lumber Co. 
 President, Arkansas Lumber Co. 
 Vice-President, Chandler Lumber Co. 
 Director, Drovers' Deposit National Bank. 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Asst. Supt. Schools. 
 
 Vice-President, Continental National Bank. 
 Physician. 
 Manager, National Lead Co. 
 
 Architect. 
 
 President, Chicago Wood Finishing Co. 
 
 President, Rumsay & Co., Grain Merchants. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 President, Russell Carpet Co. 
 Investments. 
 
 Vice-President, Great Western Cereal Co. 
 
 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. 
 
 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. 
 
 President, Stewart Food Co. 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 Professor in Pedagogy, North- Western Univ. 
 
 President, G. D. Searle & Co., Importers A 
 Com. Merchants. Heavy Chemicals. 
 
 Passenger Traffic' Manager, Rock Island- 
 Frisco System. 
 
 Freight Traffic Manager, Erie R. R. 
 
 Vice-Pres. and Treas., L. E. Roberts <fe Co., 
 Wholesale Sash, Doors and Blinds. 
 
 President, Sharp, Partridge & Co., Plate & 
 Window Glass. 
 
 President, Cable Piano Co. 
 
 Director, Mason <fe Hamlin Co. 
 
 Architect. 
 
 T. A. Shaw A Co., Wholesale Dry Goods 
 Jobbers. 
 
 [I0 5 ]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 SHEDD, CHAS. B. 
 
 tSHIELDS, WM. S. 
 
 SILK, EDWARD E. 
 
 SI880N, EVEBETT 
 
 (97) 
 
 SIMMONS, FRANCIS T. 
 (73) 
 
 SIMPSON, JAMES, 
 
 (33) 
 
 tSLOAN, DAVID 
 SMITH, BYRON L. 
 
 (18, 21, 25, 49, 97) 
 
 SMITH, C. ALFRED 
 SMITH, CHARLES 
 
 SMITH, DELEVAN 
 (70) 
 
 , EDWARD H. 
 (78) 
 
 SMITH, FRANKLIN P. 
 *SMITH, JEROME A. 
 
 fSMITH, J. R. 
 
 SMITH, MELANCTHON 
 
 SMITH, SOLOMON A. 
 
 (31) 
 *SMITH, WM. M. 
 
 EDGAR M. 
 
 ISAAC B. 
 SNOW, TAYLOR A. 
 
 SUPER, JAMES P. 
 
 SPOOR, JOHN A. 
 (2, 14, 62, 86) 
 
 Capitalist and Bank Director. 
 
 Civil Engineer. 
 
 Secy, and Genl. Mgr., The Holland Co., 
 
 Railway Supplies. 
 Publisher, The Interior. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., F. T. Simmons & Co., Im- 
 porters and Jobbers of Kid Gloves. 
 Secy., Wm. H. Bush & Co. 
 President, Lincoln Park Commissioners. 
 Vice- President, Marshall Field & Co. 
 
 Chief Engineer, McArthur Bros. Co. 
 President, Northern Trust Co. 
 1st Vice-Pres., Chicago Telephone Co. 
 Director, C. & N.-W., A. T. & S. F., and C.- 
 
 M. & St. P. Rys. 
 
 President, Mclntosh Battery & Optical Co. 
 President, Bradner Smith & Co., Wholesale 
 
 Paper Merchants. 
 Capitalist. Owner Indianapolis News and 
 
 other Dailies. 
 
 Director, Oliver Typewriter Co. 
 Treasurer, Oliver Typewriter Co. 
 
 President, F. P. Smith"Wire and Iron Works. 
 
 President, S. D. Childs & Co., Stationers 
 Engravers & Printers. 
 
 Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Wholesale Gro- 
 cers. 
 
 President, Star Gelatine Company. 
 
 President, M. Smith & Co., Wholesale Gro- 
 cers' and Packers' Supplies. 
 
 Vice-President, Northern Trust Co. 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 President, Edgar M. Snow & Co., Real Estate. 
 Supt. of Agencies, Mass. Mutual Life Ins. Co. 
 President, Taylor A. Snow Co., Real Estate. 
 Director, Austin State Bank. 
 Vice-President, Soper Lumber Co. 
 Vice-President, Menominee Bay Shore Lum- 
 ber Co. 
 
 President, Chicago Junction Ry. 
 President, Union Stock Yards and Transit Co. 
 Director of Corporations. 
 
 [106]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 SPHAGUE, ALBERT A. 
 (7. 35, 97) 
 
 STEARNS. EDGAR G. 
 
 STEABNS, WILLIAM P. 
 
 STEELE, D. A. K., M.D. 
 (41, 114) 
 
 *STEELE, FREDERICK M. 
 tSTEVENS, RAYMOND W. 
 
 STOCKTON, WILLIAM E. 
 fSTONE, GEORGE W. 
 STONE, HORACE G. 
 fSTUAHT, ROBERT 
 *SUDLER, CARROLL H. 
 
 (120, 121) 
 BUTTON, FREDERIC W. 
 
 SWEET, JOHN W. 
 
 SWIFT, Louis F. 
 
 (70) 
 
 *TARBET, WILLIAM L. 
 Taylor, J. Hall 
 *tTEALL, EDWARD M. 
 
 (19, 28, 78) 
 
 *TEMPLETON, THOMAS 
 
 (2i, 29, 97, 120) 
 TETER, Lucius, 
 TEWKSBURY, WENTWORTH W. 
 , JOHN R. 
 
 THOMPSON, WILLIAM C. 
 
 THOMPSON, LEVERETT 
 
 (28, 83, 120) 
 THOMSON, ROBERT B. 
 
 President, Sprague, Warner A Co., Whole- 
 sale Grocers. 
 
 Bank and Corporation Director. 
 
 President, & Treas., Chgo. Rubber Shoe Co., 
 Wholesale Rubber Boots, Shoes and Cloth- 
 ing. 
 
 President and Treasurer, Stearns & White 
 Co., Manufacturing Chemists. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 President, West Side Hospital. 
 
 President, Chicago Clinical School. 
 
 President and Treas., Chgo. Forge & Bolt Co. 
 
 President, American Guaranty Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Illinois Life Insurance Co. 
 
 Director, Western Trust & Savings Bank. 
 
 Iron and Steel Merchant. 
 
 Grain Merchant. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Treasurer, American Cereal Co. 
 
 Vice-President, Ketterlinus Lithographic 
 Manufacturing Co. 
 
 Auditor, Chgo. Lake Shore & Eastern Ry. 
 
 Auditor, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry. 
 
 President, Sweet, Dempster & Co., Whole- 
 sale Hats. 
 
 President, Swift & Co., Packers. 
 
 Corporation and Bank Director. 
 
 Tax Commissioner, Illinois Central R. R. 
 
 Vice-President American Spiral Pipe Works. 
 
 President, E. M. Teall & Co., Fire Under- 
 writers. 
 
 President, Chicago Underwriters Assn. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Cashier, Chicago Savings Bank. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., The Winona Publishing Co. 
 
 Owner of Thompson's Restaurants, Grocer. 
 
 County Treasurer. 
 
 President, Wm. C. Thompson & Co., Bond 
 
 Dealers. 
 
 Vice-Pres. <fe Treas., Kellogg Harvester Co. 
 Secy, and Treas., American Grain Shocker Co. 
 Secy., Chgo. Savings Bank & Trust Co. 
 
 President, Calumet Trust A Savings Bank. 
 Secy, and Treas., U. S. Yards & Transit Co. 
 Secy, and Treas., Chicago Junction Ry.
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Trros, JOSEPH F. 
 
 (97) 
 THIMMINOHAM, RALPH N. 
 
 fTROWBRIDGE, C. M. 
 
 TWEEDY, OSBORNE S. 
 (TYLER, ALFRED C. 
 UPHAM, FRED W. 
 (14. 95) 
 
 VALENTINE, ALASTER I. 
 VALENTINE, P. ANDERSON 
 
 (6) 
 
 tVAN ALEN, BENJ. T. 
 VAN ARSDALE, WM. T. 
 
 VlERLING, LOUIS 
 
 VIERLING, ROBERT 
 fVosE, FREDERIC P. 
 (120) 
 
 , JAMES R. 
 
 WALLER, EDWARD C. 
 
 WALLER, FRANCIS C. 
 WALLER, JAMES B. 
 WALLER, WILLIAM 
 
 WARBRICK, JOHN C., M.D. 
 *WARE, LYMAN, M.D. 
 WARNER, EZRA J. 
 (2*. 38) 
 
 WARNER, EZRA J., JR. 
 
 (21i, 63) 
 WARREN, WM. H. 
 tWATT, ELIHU D. 
 WEBSTER, TOWNER K. 
 
 (33*) 
 WEDDELL, THOMAS R. 
 
 Vice-President, Illinois Central R. R. 
 
 Fire Underwriter. 
 
 Secretary, Chicago Underwriters Assn. 
 
 Vice-President, Burley & Co., China and 
 
 Glassware. 
 
 Chicago Manager, Diamond Rubber Co, 
 Capitalist. 
 
 President, F. W. Upham Lumber Co. 
 President, Busse- Reynolds Coal Co. 
 Vice-President, Peabody Coal Co. 
 President, Cook County Board of Review. 
 President, Armour Grain Co. 
 Vice-President, Armour & Co., Packers. 
 Corporation and Bank Director. 
 C. F. Boehringer & Loehne, Chemicals. 
 Genl. Agent, Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. 
 Secy, and Treas., Vierling, McDowell Iron 
 
 Works. 
 
 President, Vierling, McDowell Iron Works. 
 Corporation Lawyer. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Treasurer, Tacoma Safe Deposit Co. 
 
 Real Estate. 
 
 President, North American Accident In- 
 surance Co. 
 
 Secy. -Treas., Central Safety Deposit Co. 
 
 Coal Merchant. Fire Underwriter. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 President, Waller Coal Co. 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Vice-President, Sprague, Warner & Co. 
 Wholesale Grocers. 
 
 Bank and Corporation Director. 
 
 Treasurer, Sprague, Warner & Co., Whole- 
 sale Grocers. 
 
 President, Wm. H. Warren Mfg. Co. 
 
 Genl-Mgr. Natl. Life Ins. Co. of U. 8. A. 
 
 President, Webster Mfg. Co., Elevating and 
 
 Conveying Machinery. 
 
 Asso. Editor, The Insurance Post. 
 
 Insurance Editor, The Chgo. Record-Herald. 
 
 [108]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 WELLS, MOSES D. 
 
 (62) 
 *WILL, ROBERT M. 
 
 X WELLS, SAMUEL R. 
 S, THOMAS E. 
 
 tWENTWORTH, MOSES J. 
 
 (86) 
 
 t WHEELER, ARTHUR D. 
 (75, 92, 97, 104) 
 
 *WHEELOCK, HENRY B. 
 
 (92) 
 
 *WHITE, FRANK B. 
 WHITEHEAD, H. C. 
 WHITING, JOHN H. 
 
 (19) 
 WILCOX, JOHN W. 
 
 WILDER, HENRY W. 
 WILDER, JOHN E. 
 (36) 
 
 WILKINSON, HARRY 
 WILLARD, NELSON 
 
 *tWlLLIAMS, DlXON C. 
 
 WILLIAMS, LAWRENCE 
 WILLIAMS, NORMAN, JR. 
 
 (2J) 
 WILLIAMS, THEO. H. 
 
 WILLING, MARK S. 
 WILSON, JOHN P. 
 
 (86) 
 *WINCHELL, BENJ. L. 
 
 President, M. D. Wells & Co., Wholesale 
 Shoes. 
 
 Vice- President and Treas., Wells <fe Nellegar 
 Co., Wholesale Hardware. 
 
 Vice-President, Bankers National Bank. 
 
 Business Manager, Chicago Daily News. 
 
 President, T. E. Wells & Co., Grain Mer- 
 chants. 
 
 Corporation Director. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Director, Merchants Loan & Trust Co. 
 
 Director, State Bank of Chicago. 
 
 President, Chicago Telephone Co. 
 
 Chairman of Board, Central Union Telephone 
 Co. - 
 
 Director, Western Electric Co. 
 
 Director, Fay-Sholes Co. 
 
 Architect. 
 
 President, F. B. White Advertising Co. 
 Consulting Auditor, A. T. & S. F. Ry. 
 President, Whiting Foundry Equipment Co. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., C. M. Barnes Co., School 
 and Text Books. 
 
 Secy., Chicago Bridge and Iron Works. 
 
 Wilder & Co., Tanners and Leather Mer- 
 chants. 
 
 Secy, and Treas., Wilder-Manning Tanning 
 Co. 
 
 Pres. Editor and Publisher, The Chicago 
 Banker. 
 
 President's Office, A. T. &. S. F. Ry. 
 
 Vice-Pres., Chgo. Bldg. & Mfg. Co. 
 
 Director of Corporations. 
 
 President, Oliver Typewriter Co. 
 
 Chalmers & Williams, Railway and Mining 
 Machinery. 
 
 Secy, and Genl. Mgr., International Gas and 
 Fuel Co. 
 
 Pres. Southern Development & Realty Co. 
 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Lawyer. Wilson, Moore & Mcllvaine. 
 
 President, Chicago, Rock Island <fe Pacific Ry. 
 Director Corporations. 
 
 [I0 9 ]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 *WISHARD, LUTHER D. 
 
 (104) 
 WOLFE, ADOLPHUS 
 
 WOOD, JAMES 
 
 (56, 92) 
 
 *WOODCOCK, LINDSAY T. 
 *YOE, LUCIEN G. 
 tYouNO, CARYL. 
 
 (25) 
 
 YOUNQ.'LlNN H. 
 
 (56) 
 YUILLE, GEO. ALLEN 
 
 ZlEOFELD, WM. K. 
 
 ZOROE, ROBERT J. 
 
 President, Wishard, Langan Co., Land and 
 
 Lumber Dealers. 
 President, Kehoe Co. 
 Vice-President, Coke Dandruff Cure Co. 
 Wood Bros. & Co., Com'n. Merchants, U. S. 
 
 Yards. 
 
 Genl. Manager, Marshall Field & Co., Retail. 
 Retired Syrup Manufacturer. 
 Capitalist. 
 
 Secy.-Treas., The GregglSchool. 
 Alderman, 6th Ward. 
 
 Pres., Chgo. Engineering ^'Construction Co. 
 Manager, Chicago Musical College. 
 President, American Corn Milling Co. 
 
 [HO]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 ROLL OF CHURCHES 
 THE PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 NOTE: The Presbytery of Chicago includes, in addition to the 
 whole of Cook County, approximately the counties of Lake, Du- 
 Page, Will and Kankakee, with a church or two in Grundy and 
 Ford Counties. The membership is shown for both the Churches 
 and the Sunday Schools as reported to the General Assembly of 
 1906. The addresses given are the locations of the churches not 
 the addresses of the pastors. 
 P. indicates Pastor. 
 S. S. indicates Stated Supply. 
 
 THE CHURCHES AND PASTORS Memberehip Membership 
 
 Arlington Heights (Rev. James T. Ford, P.) . . Ill 190 
 
 Austin (Rev. Robert H. Beattie, P.) 589 449 
 
 Avondale (Rev. John A. Gallaher, P.), N. Al- 
 bany Ave. and School St 167 378 
 
 Belden Ave (Rev. Wm. E. McLennan, P.), 
 
 Belden and Seminary Aves 422 743 
 
 Berwyn (Rev. B. Scott Bates, P.) " 124 225 
 
 Bethany (Rev. Charles A. Wilson, P.), Hum- 
 
 boldt Boulevard, near Cortland St 215 350 
 
 Braidwood 76 83 
 
 Brighton Park (Rev. James Maclaughlan, S. S.), 
 
 38th St., near Sacramento Ave 80 113 
 
 Brookline (Rev. Earl B. Hubbell, P.), Jackson 
 
 Ave. and 73rd St 432 441 
 
 Buckingham (Rev. Geo. E. Young, P.) 35 64 
 
 Buena Memorial (Rev. Robert J. Young, P.), 
 
 Evanston Ave. and Sheridan Road 153 115 
 
 Cabery (Rev. Hiram A. Stinson, S. S.) 55 65 
 
 Calvary (Rev. William I. Stewart, P.), Congress 
 
 St. and 42nd Ave 280 421 
 
 Campbell Park (Rev. Philip F. Matzinger, P.), 
 
 Leavitt St. south of Harrison 538 385 
 
 [ill]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 THE CHUBCHES AKD P AST O. 
 
 Central Park (Rev. Frank A. Hosmer, P.), 
 
 Warren and Sacramento Aves 450 495 
 
 Chicago, First (Rev. John A. Morison, P.), In- 
 diana Ave. and 21st St 724 403 
 
 (b) Chicago, Second (Rev. John Balcom Shaw, 
 
 P.), Michigan Ave. and 20th St 1200 1224 
 
 (c) Chicago, Third (Rev. Wm. J. McCaughan, 
 
 P.), Ashland Boul. and Ogden Ave 1371 2025 
 
 Chicago, Fourth (Rev. William Robson Not- 
 
 man, P.), Rush and Superior Sts 552 317 
 
 Chicago, Sixth (Rev. William P. Merrill, P.), 
 
 Vincennes Ave. and 36th St 638 492 
 
 Chicago, Seventh (Rev. Howell Isaac, S. <S.), 
 
 86th and Sangamon Sts 120 200 
 
 Chicago, Eighth (Rev. Wm. T. Wilcox, P.), 
 
 Washington Boul. and Robey St 420 329 
 
 Chicago, Ninth, S. Ashland Ave. and Hastings St. 87 125 
 
 Chicago, Tenth (Rev. Frank N. Riale, P.), 
 
 Emerald Ave. and 46th St 283 221 
 
 Chicago, Eleventh (Rev. Alexander C. Manson, 
 
 P.), Washtenaw Ave. and Crystal St 178 375 
 
 (a) Chicago, Forty-First St. (Rev. Wm. C. 
 
 Covert, P.), Grand Boul. and 41st St 1270 1294 
 
 Chicago Fifty-Second Ave (Rev. George B. 
 
 Safford, P.), 52nd Ave. and Fulton St. ... 230 478 
 
 Chicago Heights (Rev. Jacob B. Fleming, P.) . 186 144 
 
 Christ, Orchard and Center Sts 271 751 
 
 Covenant (Rev. W. S. Plumer Bryan, P.), Bel- 
 den Ave. and N. Halsted St 480 380 
 
 Deerfield (Rev. J. C. Engel, S. S.) 45 85 
 
 Douglas Park, 1725 12th St 40 
 
 DuPage (Rev. Matthew B. McNutt, P.) 141 150 
 
 Edgewater (Rev. Louis Perkins Cain, P.), Ken- 
 more and Bryn Mawr Aves 230 504 
 
 Elwood (Rev. Ralph H. Nye, P.) 65 90 
 
 [112]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Church Sunday School 
 THE CHURCHES AND PASTORS Membwship Ifomberihip 
 
 Emerald Ave. (Rev. James M. Eakins, P.), 
 
 Emerald Ave. and W. 67th St 273 475 
 
 Endeavor (Rev. Edward N. Ware, P.), Cornelia 
 
 Ave. and Paulina St 124 332 
 
 Englewood (Rev. Willard H. Robinson, P.), 
 
 Yale and 64th Sts 836 495 
 
 Evanston, First (Rev. John H. Boyd, P.), Chi- 
 cago Ave. and Lake St 952 594 
 
 Evanston, Second (Rev. Stuart M. Campbell, 
 
 P.), Main St. and Hinman Ave 262 243 
 
 Faith (Rev. Emil L. Winterberger, P.), Cornelia 
 
 St., near Willow Ave., Austin 86 232 
 
 Fullerton Ave (Rev. George Dugan, P.) , Fuller- 
 ton Ave. and Hamilton Court 394 358 
 
 Gardner (Rev. Henry W. Burger, P.) 78 252 
 
 Garfield Boulevard (Rev. R. Keene Ryan, P.), 
 
 5505 S. Halsted St 130 275 
 
 Grace (Rev. Moses H. Jackson, P.), 3407 Dear- 
 born St 152 274 
 
 Harvey (Rev. Clyde L. Lucas, P.) 159 145 
 
 Herscher (Rev. George E. Young, P.) 69 101 
 
 Highland Park (Rev. Albert A. Pfanstiehl, P.) 208 237 
 
 Hinsdale (Rev. T. D. Wallace, P.) 79 151 
 
 Homewood 38 91 
 
 Hyde Park (Rev. Joseph A. Vance, P.), Wash- 
 ington Ave. and 53rd St 871 566 
 
 Immanuel (Rev. Ernest W. Symonds, P.), Bon- 
 field and 31st Sts 174 -292 
 
 Italian (Rev. Filippo Grilli, S. S.), 71 W. Ohio St 134 120 
 
 Itasca 17 52 
 
 Jefferson Park, Adams and Throop Sts 252 216 
 
 Joliet, Central (Rev. Robert Yost, P.) 564 337 
 
 Joliet, First (Rev. Clarence G. Reynolds, P.) . . 472 330 
 
 Joliet, Second 93 168 
 
 Joliet, Willow Ave. (Rev. Alexander Lewis.'P.) 88 143 
 
 Kankakee (Rev. David Creighton, P.) 440 347 
 
 ["3]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Church Sunday School 
 THE CHUBCHES AND PASTORS Mtmbenhip Membenhip 
 
 LaGrange (Rev. Frank H. Hays, P.) 187 132 
 
 Lake Forest (Rev. W. H. W. Boyle, P.) 450 193 
 
 Lake View (Rev. Frank M. Carson, P.), Evan- 
 
 ston Ave. and Addison St 437 425 
 
 Libertyville 79 150 
 
 Logan Square (Rev. Duncan C. Milner, P.), 1088 
 
 Hayes St 51 128 
 
 Manteno (Rev. Warren F. Goff, P.) 120 131 
 
 Maywood (Rev. Edgar Beckwith, P.) 153 180 
 
 Millard Avenue (Rev. Abram J. Van Page, P.), 
 
 Millard Ave., near Ogden 137 190 
 
 Morgan Park (Rev. Alexander Patterson, P.) . 147 210 
 
 New Hope (Coal City) 107 176 
 
 Normal Park (Rev. J. A. Rondt baler, P.), Yale 
 
 Ave. and 71st St 402 483 
 
 Oak Park, First, (Rev. George N. Luccock, P.), 
 
 Lake St. and Kenilworth Ave 765 892 
 
 Oak Park, Second (Rev. James T. Marshall, P.), 
 
 Washington Boul. and 64th Ave., Oak 
 
 Park 117 137 
 
 Olivet Memorial (Rev. Norman B. Barr, P.), 
 
 Penn and Vedder Sts 316 887 
 
 Onward (Rev. Wm. M. Eaton, P.), Leavitt and 
 
 W. Ohio Sts 92 407 
 
 Peotone 150 130 
 
 Pullman (Rev. Henry S. Jenkinson, S. S.) 127 175 
 
 Ravenswood (Rev. Frederick L. Selden, P.), 
 
 Montrose and Hermitage Aves 317 285 
 
 Ridgeway Ave. (Rev. T. Walker Malcolm, P.), 
 
 233 Ridgeway Ave., near Huron St 224 260 
 
 River Forest (Rev. W. W. Johnstone, P.) 153 174 
 
 Riverside (Rev. Hermon D. Jenkins, P.) 180 135 
 
 Roseland, State and 112th Sts 97 102 
 
 Roseland, Central (Rev. Maurice Grigsby, P.) 106 143 
 Scotch ' Westminster, (Rev. James MacLagan, 
 
 S. /S.), Adams and Sangamon Sts 72 40
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 THE CHURCHES AND PASTORS Membership 
 
 South Chicago (Rev. A. Golden Work, S. S.), 
 
 Exchange Ave. and 91st St 86 120 
 
 South Park (Rev. C. Harmon Johnson, P.), 4817 
 
 Michigan Ave 185 192 
 
 South Waukegan (Rev. J. Homer Kerr, S. S.), 
 
 N. Chicago, Lake County 18 90 
 
 St. Anne 274 150 
 
 Waukegan (Rev. Samuel W. Chidester, P.) ... 167 202 
 
 West Division St., W. Division St. and Marion 
 
 Court 101 529 
 
 Windsor Park (Rev. Charles N. Wilder, S. S.), 
 
 7621 Bond Ave 70 80 
 
 Wilmington (Rev. J. Wallace MacGowan, P.) . . 77 100 
 
 Woodlawn Park (Rev. Edward H. Curtis, P.), 
 
 Kimbark Ave. and 64th St 827 978 
 
 Zion (Rev. Henry J. Wiegand, P.), Wheeling. . 77 54 
 
 Total 26,071 29,690 
 
 Of this number the following are within the Chicago City 
 Limits: 
 
 Church Sunday School 
 Membership Membership 
 
 Churches 54 18.513 22,202 
 
 Missions 19 
 
 FORMER CUMBERLAND CHURCHES 
 
 Church of Providence (Rev. A. H. Stephens, P.), 
 
 1193 Sheffield Ave 280 225 
 
 Drexel Park (Rev. A. G. Bergen, P.), W .64th 
 
 St., N. E. corner S. Marshfield Ave 150 325 
 
 Hope Church, ( P.) S. 
 
 Peoria near W. 62nd St 35 75 
 
 Marlboro Church (Rev. Light, P.), W. 68th St. 
 
 corner S. Oakley Ave 60 125 
 
 Grand Ridge (Rev. C. J. Wilson, P.) 150 200 
 
 Total 675 950 
 
 ["Si
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 ROLL OF MISSIONS 
 
 Belden, 819 Clybourn Ave. 
 
 Belmont Ave. Chapel, Belmont Ave., near Clybourn. 
 a Bethlehem Chapel, Fifth Ave. and 52nd St. 
 
 Bohemian, 461 W. 18th St. 
 
 Chinese, Michigan Ave. and 21st St. 
 
 Chinese, Warren Ave. and Robey St. 
 
 Chinese, Halsted St. and Belden Ave. 
 
 Chinese, 122 E. Lake St. 
 b Crerar Chapel, 5831 Indiana Ave. 
 
 Edgewater Branch, Granville and Perry Aves. 
 c Erie Ckapel, 312 W. Erie St. 
 
 Emerson Street, Evanston. 
 
 Foster, Jackson Blvd. and Peoria St. 
 
 Grant, Grant Locomotive Works. 
 
 Gunn Chapel, Joliet. 
 
 Italian, Grand and Western Aves. 
 
 Italian, Taylor St., near S. Desplaines. 
 
 Lake Forest, Lake Forest, West Side. 
 
 Mosely, 2529 Calumet Ave. 
 
 Mt. Greenwood, Mt. Greenwood. 
 
 North Kankakee, Kankakee. 
 
 Pioneer, Harlem. 
 
 Railroad Chapel, 3825 Dearborn St. 
 
 State Street, 6552 State St. 
 
 West Hinsdale, Hinsdale. 
 
 Woodlawn Branch, 60th St., near Madison Ave. 
 
 a Bethlehem Chapel membership included in 41st St. Church 
 figures. 
 
 b Crerar Chapel membership included in 2nd Church figures' 
 c Erie Chapel membership included in 3rd Church figures. 
 
 NOTE: In order that the same basis be used in showing the 
 membership of all the organizations, the three larger Chapels re- 
 ferred to above, which ordinarily are reported separately, as 
 churches, are included with the churches with which they are 
 affiliated. 
 
 [116]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 YOUNG MEN'S PRESBYTERIAN UNION OF 
 
 CHICAGO 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 PRESIDENT 
 
 ANDREW STEVENSON, 1937 Kenmore Avenue, (Buena Memorial 
 Church.) 
 
 GENERAL VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 NOLAN R. BEST, 69 Dearborn Street (La Grange Church). 
 P. F. AHRENS, 738 West Adams Street (Eighth Church). 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 Devotion CARROLL H. SUDLER, 423 Monadnock Building (Fourth 
 Church). 
 
 Education A. PERCY BALLOTJ, 922 Merchants Loan and Trust 
 Building (Forty-first Street Church). 
 
 Fealty Louis A. BOWMAN, 814 Tacoma Building (Oak Park 
 Church). 
 
 Citizenship DONALD M. CARTER, 1410 Marquette Building 
 (Hyde Park Church). 
 
 Organization R. SCOTT MINER, 521 Wabash Avenue (Woodlawn 
 Park Church). 
 
 Fellowship ARTHUR B. HALL, 1675 Old Colony Building (Wood- 
 lawn Park Church). 
 
 SECRETARY 
 
 LEON M. BETTS, 42 Dearborn Station (Englewood Church). 
 
 TREASURER 
 
 McKENZiE CLELAND, 934 Stock Exchange Building (Second 
 United Presbyterian Church). 
 AND 
 
 REV. GEORGE L. ROBINSON, 4 Chalmers Place (McCormick Theo- 
 logical Seminary). 
 
 REV. WILLIAM C. COVERT, 367 Oakwood Boulevard (Forty-first 
 Street Church). 
 
 REV. GEORGE DUGAN, 746 Fullerton Avenue (Fullerton Avenue 
 Church).
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 REV. J. A. GALLAHER (Avondale Church). 
 
 WILLIAM A. PETERSON, 1301 Stock Exchange Building (Edge- 
 water Church). 
 
 J. HARRY JONES, 142 Monroe Street (La Grange Church). 
 
 WALTER F. BROWN, 156 Wabash Ave. (Evanston First Church). 
 
 HENRY C. DURAND, 22 North Union Street (Lake Forest Church.) 
 
 HARRY P. COFFIN, 240 Wabash Ave. (Third Church). 
 
 FRANCIS L. BOGGS, 69 Dearborn Street (Calvary Church). 
 
 NATHAN W. MACCHESNEY, Stock Exchange Building( Hyde Park 
 Church). Chairman Finance Committee. 
 
 W. H. ROBERTSON, 210 Western Union Bldg. (Austin Faith 
 Church). Chairman Publication Committee. 
 
 REV. HOWARD W. JOHNSON, 108 East 20th Street (Second Church). 
 Chairman Committee on Homes for Young Men. 
 
 [118]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 RANK OF CHURCHES IN THE PRESBYTERY OF 
 CHICAGO IN ACTUAL MEMBERSHIP 
 
 1. Third (inc. Erie Chapel) . . .1371 33. 
 
 2. Forty-first Street 1029 34. 
 
 3. Evanston, First 952 35. 
 
 4. Second 884 36. 
 
 5. Hyde Park 871 37. 
 
 6. Englewood 836 38. 
 
 7. Woodlawn 827 39. 
 
 8. Oak Park, First 765 40. 
 
 9. First 724 41. 
 
 10. Sixth 638 42. 
 
 11. Austin 589 43. 
 
 12. Joliet, Central 564 44. 
 
 13. Fourth 552 45. 
 
 14. Campbell Park 538 46. 
 
 15. Covenant 480 47. 
 
 16. Joliet, First 472 48. 
 
 17. Lake Forest 450 49. 
 
 18. Central Park 450 50. 
 
 19. Kankakee 440 51. 
 
 20. Lake View 437 52. 
 
 21. Brookline 432 53. 
 
 22. Belden Avenue 422 54. 
 
 23. Eighth 420 55. 
 
 24. Normal Park 402 56. 
 
 25. Fullerton Avenue 394 57. 
 
 26. Ravenswood 317 58. 
 
 27. Olivet Memorial 316 59. 
 
 28. Crerar Chapel 316 60. 
 
 29. Tenth 283 61. 
 
 30. Calvary 280 62. 
 
 31. St. Anne 274 63. 
 
 32. Emerald Avenue 273 64. 
 
 65. Seventh 120 83. 
 
 66. Oak Park, Second 117 84. 
 
 67. Arlington Heights Ill 85. 
 
 68. New Hope (Coal City) 107 86. 
 
 69. Roseland Central 106 87. 
 
 70. West Division Street 101 88. 
 
 71. Roseland 97 89. 
 
 72. Joliet, Second 93 90. 
 
 73. Onward 92 91. 
 
 74. Joliet, Willow Avenue 88 92. 
 
 75. Ninth 87 93. 
 
 76. Faith 86 94. 
 
 77. South Chicago 86 95. 
 
 78. Libertyville 79 
 
 79. Hinsdale 79 
 
 80. Gardner 78 
 
 81. Zion (Wheeling) 77 
 
 82. Wilmington 77 
 
 Christ 271 
 
 Evanston, Second 262 
 
 Jefferson Park 252 
 
 Bethlehem Chapel 241 
 
 Fifty-second Avenue 230 
 
 Edgewater 230 
 
 Ridgeway Avenue 224 
 
 Bethany 215 
 
 Highland Park 208 
 
 La Grange 187 
 
 Chicago Heights 186 
 
 South Park 185 
 
 Riverside 180 
 
 Eleventh 178 
 
 Immanuel 174 
 
 Avondale 167 
 
 Waukegan 167 
 
 Harvey 169 
 
 River Forest 153 
 
 Maywood 153 
 
 Buena Memorial 163 
 
 Grace 152 
 
 Peotone 150 
 
 Morgan Park 147 
 
 Du Page 141 
 
 Millard Avenue 137 
 
 Italian 134 
 
 Garfleld Boulevard 130 
 
 Pullman 127 
 
 Endeavor 124 
 
 Berwyn 124 
 
 Manteno 120 
 
 Braidwood 76 
 
 Scotch Westminster 72 
 
 Windsor Park 70 
 
 Herscher 69 
 
 Elwood 65 
 
 Cabery 55 
 
 Logan Square 51 
 
 Deerfield 45 
 
 Douglas Park 40 
 
 Homewood 38 
 
 Buckingham 35 
 
 South Waukegan 18 
 
 Itasca 17 
 
 Average size of Church . .274.4 
 No. above the average ... 30 . 
 No. below the average ... 66 .
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 REAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHURCHES 
 
 IN THE PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO 
 
 YEAR ENDING APRIL, 1906 
 
 This table shows the development of the churches 
 during the last year on the basis of additions to member- 
 ship on confession of faith the standard generally ac- 
 cepted as the one indicating the spiritual life and growth 
 of the church. 
 
 Number added 
 
 on confession of 
 
 Rank Church faith 
 
 1. Olivet Memorial 66 
 
 2. Third (inc. Erie Chapel) ... 62 
 
 3. Oak Park, First 58 
 
 4. Second 54 
 
 5. Tenth 53 
 
 6. Forty-First Street 44 
 
 7. Crerar Chapel 41 
 
 8. First (inc. R. R. Mission) . . 40 
 
 Normal Park 40 
 
 Fifty-Second Avenue 40 
 
 11. Ravenswood 37 
 
 12. Evanston, First 36 
 
 13. Brookline 35 
 
 14. Millard Avenue 31 
 
 Central Park 31 
 
 16. Lake View 30 
 
 17. Austin 28 
 
 18. Belden Avenue 27 
 
 Campbell Park 27 
 
 Lake Forest 27 
 
 21. Oak Park, Second 25 
 
 Berwyn 25 
 
 Eleventh 25 
 
 24. Joliet, Central 24 
 
 25. Woodlawn Park 23 
 
 Italian 23 
 
 Ninth 23 
 
 West Division Street 23 
 
 29. Englewood 22 
 
 Bethlehem Chapel 22 
 
 Grace 22 
 
 32. Kankakee 21 
 
 Sixth 21 
 
 34 Avondale 20 
 
 Christ 20 
 
 36. Hinsdale ... 16 
 
 Number added 
 
 on confession of 
 
 Rank Church faith 
 
 36. Covenant 19 
 
 Joliet, First 19 
 
 39. Immanuel 17 
 
 Emerald Avenue 17 
 
 41. Harvey 16 
 
 Ridgeway Avenue 16 
 
 43. Fourth 15 
 
 44. Morgan Park 14 
 
 Joliet, WiDow Avenue 14 
 
 South Park 14 
 
 47. Hyde Park 13 
 
 48. Manteno 12 
 
 Seventh 12 
 
 50. Edgewater 11 
 
 Bethany 11 
 
 Scotch Westminster 11 
 
 53. Calvary 10 
 
 Endeavor 10 
 
 Du Page 10 
 
 56. Eighth 9 
 
 Buena Memorial 9 
 
 Waukegan 8 
 
 58. 
 
 Highland Park 
 
 Herscher 
 
 Garfield Boulevard 
 
 Libertyville 
 
 63. Arlington Heights 
 
 Maywqod 
 
 65. Riverside 
 
 Chicago Heights . . 
 
 St. Anne 
 
 68. Logan Square 
 
 Evanston, Second , 
 
 Fullerton Avenue . 
 
 Faith 
 
 72. Onward 
 
 [120]
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Number added 
 on confession of 
 
 Rank Church faith 
 
 72. Joliet, Second 4 
 
 Jefferson Park 4 
 
 Braidwood 4 
 
 Roseland 4 
 
 77. Windsor Park 3 
 
 Cabery 3 
 
 Wilmington 3 
 
 Buckingham 3 
 
 South Chicago 3 
 
 Itasca 3 
 
 La Grange 3 
 
 84. Roseland Central 2 
 
 Deerfield 2 
 
 86. New Hope (Coal City) 1 
 
 Number added 
 
 on confession of 
 
 Rank Church faith 
 
 86. Peotone 1 
 
 88-95 South Waukegan none 
 
 Elwood none 
 
 Pullman none 
 
 River Forest none 
 
 Gardner . . . .' none 
 
 Zion (Wheeling) none 
 
 Homewood none 
 
 Douglas Park none 
 
 Average additions on confession 
 
 of faith, per church 16.6 
 
 No. churches above average ... 40 
 No. churches below average ... 55 
 
 PERCENTAGE ADDITIONS ON CONFESSION OF FAITH 
 BEARS TO ENTIRE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP 
 
 Table giving the percentage of additions on confession 
 of faith to the present church membership which is 
 perhaps the most accurate way of determining the con- 
 dition of the churches' spiritual life. 
 
 Rank Church Per cent. 
 
 1. Ninth 26.4 
 
 2. Hinsdale 24 . 
 
 3. West Division Street 22 .7 
 
 4. Millard Avenue 22 . 6 
 
 5. Oak Park, Second 21 .3 
 
 6. Olivet Memorial 20 .6 
 
 7. Berwyn 20 .1 
 
 8. Tenth 18.7 
 
 9. Itasca 17.6 
 
 10. Fifty-Second Avenue 17 .3 
 
 11. Italian 17.1 
 
 12. Joliet, Willow Avenue 15.9 
 
 13. Scotch Westminster 15.2 
 
 14. Grace 14.4 
 
 15. Eleventh 14 .0 
 
 16. Crerar Chapel 12 .9 
 
 17. Avondale 11.9 
 
 18. Ravenswood . . . r-. 11.6 
 
 19. Herscher 11.5 
 
 20. Libertyville 10.1 
 
 21. Harvey 10.0 
 
 22. Manteno 10 .0 
 
 23. Seventh 10 .0 
 
 24. Normal Park 9.9 
 
 25. Logan Square 9.8 
 
 26. Immanuel 9.7 
 
 Rank 
 
 Church 
 
 Per cent 
 
 27. Morgan Park 9.5 
 
 28. Bethlehem Chapel 9.1 
 
 29. Buckingham 8.5 
 
 30. Brookline 8.1 
 
 31. Endeavor 8.0 
 
 32. Oak Park, First 7.5 
 
 33. South Park 7.5 
 
 34. Christ 7.3 
 
 35. Ridgeway Avenue 7.1 
 
 36. Du Page 7.0 
 
 37. Central Park 6.8 
 
 38. Lake View 6.8 
 
 39. Belden Avenue 6.3 
 
 40. Arlington Heights 6.3 
 
 41. Emerald Avenue 6.2 
 
 42. Second 6.1 
 
 43. Garfield Boulevard 6.1 
 
 44. Lake Forest 6.0 
 
 45. Buena Memorial 5.8 
 
 46. Faith 5.8 
 
 47. First 5.5 
 
 48. Cabery 5.4 
 
 49. Braidwood 5.2 
 
 50. Bethany 5.1 
 
 51. Campbell Park 5.0 
 
 52. Austin 4.8 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 Rank Church Per cent. 
 
 53. Waukegan 4.7 
 
 54. Edgewater 4.7 
 
 65. Kankakee 4.6 
 
 56. Maywood 4.5 
 
 67. Third 4.5 
 
 68. Joliet, Central 4.4 
 
 59. Deerfield 4.4 
 
 60. Onward 4.3 
 
 61. Joliet, Second 4.3 
 
 62. Forty-First Street 4.2 
 
 63. Windsor Park 4.2 
 
 64. Roseland 4.1 
 
 65. Joliet, First 4.0 
 
 66. Covenant 3.9 
 
 67. Wilmington 3.8 
 
 68. Highland Park 3.8 
 
 69. Chicago Heights 3.7 
 
 70. Calvary 3.5 
 
 71. Evanston, First 3.5 
 
 72. Sou+h Chicago 3.4 
 
 73. Riverside 3.2 
 
 74. Sixth 3.2 
 
 75. Woodlawn Park 2.7 
 
 76. Fourth 2.7 
 
 77. Enslewood 2.6 
 
 Rank Church Per cent. 
 
 78. St. Anne 2.1 
 
 79. Eighth 2.1 
 
 80. Evanston, Second 1 .9 
 
 81. Roseland Central 1 .8 
 
 82. La Grange 1 .7 
 
 83. Jefferson Park 1.5 
 
 84. Hyde Park 1.4 
 
 85. Fullerton Avenue 1.2 
 
 86. New Hope 0.8 
 
 87. Peotone 0.6 
 
 88. South Waukegan 0.0 
 
 89. E'wood 0.0 
 
 90. Pullman 0.0 
 
 91. River Forest 0.0 
 
 92. Gardner 0.0 
 
 93. Zion (Wheeling) 0.0 
 
 94. Homewood 0.0 
 
 95. Douglas Park 0.0 
 
 Average percentage new addi- 
 tions on confession of faith 
 
 is of entire membership .... 6.0 
 
 No. churches above average ... 44 
 
 No. churches below average ... 61 
 
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 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CHICAGO COMPARED WITH LEAD- 
 ING PRESBYTERIES 
 
 (Those having over 10,000 members.) 
 
 
 Churches 
 
 _c. 
 
 Average size 
 of Church 
 
 Additions on 
 Confession of 
 Faith 
 
 Average addi- 
 tions per 
 Church 
 
 ftjlt 
 llj! 1 
 
 Presbyterian Church in U. S. A. 
 
 8,118 
 95 
 
 1,158.662 
 26.071 
 
 142.7 
 274 4 
 
 79,589 
 1,585 
 
 9.0 
 16 6 
 
 6.8 
 6 
 
 Chicago above the average by 
 
 
 
 131 7 
 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 Chicago below the average by 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Presbytery of 
 1. Philadelphia 
 
 79 
 
 40,751 
 
 515 8 
 
 2,561 
 
 32 4 
 
 6 2 
 
 2. Pittsburgh 
 
 83 
 
 29,415 
 
 354 4 
 
 2,050 
 
 24 2 
 
 6 9 
 
 3. New York 
 
 54 
 
 28,996 
 
 536.9 
 
 1,627 
 
 30 1 
 
 5 6 
 
 4, Chicago ,.,,,., 
 
 95 
 
 26,071 
 
 274 4 
 
 1,585 
 
 16 6 
 
 6 
 
 
 43 
 
 17,301 
 
 402 3 
 
 1264 
 
 29 4 
 
 7 3 
 
 6. Lackawanna 
 
 100 
 
 17,254 
 
 172 5 
 
 983 
 
 98 
 
 5 7 
 
 7. Philadelphia. North 
 8. Newark 
 
 64 
 39 
 
 16,526 
 13,960 
 
 258.2 
 357 9 
 
 812 
 908 
 
 12.7 
 23 2 
 
 4.9 
 6 5 
 
 9. Rochester 
 
 49 
 
 13,336 
 
 272 1 
 
 583 
 
 11 9 
 
 4 3 
 
 10. Huntington 
 
 78 
 
 12,264 
 
 157 2 
 
 826 
 
 10 6 
 
 6 7 
 
 ll. Erie .T 
 
 66 
 
 12,169 
 
 184 3 
 
 615 
 
 9 3 
 
 5 
 
 12. Detroit 
 
 49 
 
 11,845 
 
 241 6 
 
 619 
 
 12 6 
 
 5 2 
 
 13. Allegheny 
 
 49 
 
 11,621 
 
 237 1 
 
 698 
 
 14 2 
 
 6 
 
 14. Cincinnati 
 
 66 
 
 11,529 
 
 174 6 
 
 684 
 
 10 3 
 
 5.9 
 
 15. Buffalo 
 
 53 
 
 11,521 
 
 217 3 
 
 791 
 
 14 9 
 
 6 8 
 
 16. Chester 
 
 55 
 
 11,181 
 
 203 2 
 
 907 
 
 16 4 
 
 8 1 
 
 17. Los Angeles 
 
 65 
 
 11,119 
 
 171 
 
 852 
 
 13 1 
 
 7 6 
 
 18. Morris and Orange 
 
 44 
 
 11020 
 
 250 4 
 
 432 
 
 9 8 
 
 3 9 
 
 19. Blairsville 
 
 51 
 
 10,948 
 
 214 6 
 
 692 
 
 13 - 5 
 
 6 3 
 
 20. Cleveland 
 
 41 
 
 10,949 
 
 267 
 
 688 
 
 16 7 
 
 6 7 
 
 21. Elizabeth 
 
 33 
 
 10,659 
 
 323 
 
 735 
 
 22 2 
 
 6 8 
 
 22. Albany 
 
 51 
 
 10,657 
 
 209 
 
 423 
 
 8 2 
 
 3 
 
 23. Steubenville 
 
 62 
 
 10,124 
 
 163 2 
 
 496 
 
 8 
 
 4 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 23 leading Presbyteries 
 
 1.369 
 59 
 
 361,216 
 15,705 
 
 263 i 
 
 12,841 
 558 
 
 6's 
 
 4 i 
 
 Chicago above average by ... 
 
 36 
 
 10,366 
 
 11.1 
 
 1,027 
 
 7!a 
 
 1.0
 
 Chicago: A Presbyterian City 
 
 For convenience the following table showing the growth 
 of the larger churches and Sunday Schools from 1876 to 
 1906 is included. Only those having a membership of 
 over 500 in 1906 are given. 
 
 GROWTH OF THE CHURCHES AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS 
 
 
 19 
 
 06 
 
 18 1 
 
 )6 
 
 18! 
 
 56 
 
 IK 
 
 '6 
 
 Church. 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 02 
 
 02 
 
 ,a 
 J 
 
 02 
 02 
 
 
 1 
 
 02 
 02 
 
 i 
 1 
 
 00 
 OS 
 
 1. Third . 
 
 1371 
 
 2025 
 
 1200 
 
 2941 
 
 2300 
 
 2100 
 
 1093 
 
 625 
 
 2. Forty-First Street 
 
 1270 
 
 1294 
 
 982 
 
 1124 
 
 151 
 
 227 
 
 32 
 
 250 
 
 3. Second 
 
 1200 
 
 1224 
 
 797 
 
 696 
 
 720 
 
 641 
 
 562 
 
 960 
 
 
 952 
 
 594 
 
 701 
 
 542 
 
 445 
 
 314 
 
 226 
 
 290 
 
 b. Hyde Park 
 
 871 
 
 566 
 
 572 
 
 547 
 
 414 
 
 514 
 
 201 
 
 360 
 
 6. Englewood 
 
 836 
 
 495 
 
 475 
 
 535 
 
 310 
 
 482 
 
 202 
 
 450 
 
 7. Woodlawn Park 
 8 Oak Park, 1st 
 
 827 
 765 
 
 978 
 892 
 
 326 
 271 
 
 260 
 233 
 
 54 
 
 138 
 
 110 
 113 
 
 
 
 9. First 
 
 724 
 
 403 
 
 721 
 
 200 
 
 1062 
 
 842 
 
 710 
 
 800 
 
 10. Sixth 
 
 638 
 
 492 
 
 531 
 
 529 
 
 576 
 
 643 
 
 191 
 
 424 
 
 
 589 
 
 449 
 
 368 
 
 675 
 
 111 
 
 165 
 
 63 
 
 125 
 
 12. Joliet Central 
 
 564 
 
 337 
 
 646 
 
 318 
 
 410 
 
 465 
 
 203 
 
 230 
 
 13 Fourth 
 
 552 
 
 317 
 
 579 
 
 400 
 
 435 
 
 1145 
 
 260 
 
 600 
 
 14. Campbell Park 
 
 538 
 
 385 
 
 270 
 
 350 
 
 135 
 
 270 
 
 
 
 Total . . .... 
 
 11 697 
 
 
 8439 
 
 
 7261 
 
 
 3743 
 
 
 Average membership 
 
 835 
 
 
 602 
 
 
 515 
 
 
 340 
 
 
 GROWTH OF THE LARGER PRESBYTERIES DURING 
 THE LAST THIRTY YEARS 
 
 
 1 
 
 m 
 
 U 
 
 96 
 
 1 
 
 386 
 
 18 
 
 76 
 
 
 Rank 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Rank 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Rank 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Rank 
 
 Mem. 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 1 
 
 40751 
 
 1 
 
 32792 
 
 1 
 
 27 444 
 
 1 
 
 22048 
 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 2 
 
 29415 
 
 4 
 
 18804 
 
 5 
 
 10 734 
 
 5 
 
 8719 
 
 New York 
 
 3 
 
 28996 
 
 2 
 
 24872 
 
 2 
 
 19590 
 
 2 
 
 16 881 
 
 Chicago 
 
 4 
 
 26071 
 
 3 
 
 19455 
 
 4 
 
 12489 
 
 7 
 
 7235 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 5 
 
 17,301 
 
 6 
 
 13588 
 
 3 
 
 14250 
 
 4 
 
 9 406 
 
 Lackawanna 
 
 6 
 
 17254 
 
 5 
 
 14645 
 
 7 
 
 9 110 
 
 g 
 
 5932 
 
 Philadelphia, North .... 
 Newark 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 16,526 
 13960 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 11,478 
 11 437 
 
 10 
 9 
 
 7,204 
 7 555 
 
 9 
 
 g 
 
 5,932 
 6 157 
 
 Huntington 
 
 9 
 
 12264 
 
 10 
 
 11038 
 
 6 
 
 9585 
 
 3 
 
 10 125 
 
 Erie 
 
 10 
 
 12,169 
 
 9 
 
 11 158 
 
 g 
 
 8 141 
 
 6 
 
 7236 
 
 Detroit 
 
 11 
 
 11,845 
 
 11 
 
 9,707 
 
 12 
 
 6294 
 
 11 
 
 4830 
 
 Allegheny 
 
 12 
 
 11,621 
 
 12 
 
 9,480 
 
 Jl 
 
 6,530 
 
 10 
 
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