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 LAWYERS AND JUDGES 
 
 OF THE CITY AND SUBURBAN TOWNS. 
 
 BY F. B. W ILK IE, (POLIUTO.) 
 
 FOURTH (REVISED) EDITION. 
 
 CHICAGO : 
 
 THE WESTERN NEWS COMPANY 
 1872.
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, 
 
 BY F. B. WILKIE, 
 in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
 
 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. 
 
 The subject-matter herewith given, was written for, and pub- 
 lished in, THE SUNDAY TIMES of this city. The sketches are now 
 presented in book form, after having received important revision, 
 alteration and addition. 
 
 CHICAGO, May, 1871. 
 
 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 
 
 THE present edition has been made up since" the Great Fire, 
 
 and contains many names and includes much matter that were 
 not in the former edition. 
 
 CHICAGO, June, 1872. F. B. W.
 
 I. 
 WILLIAM K. MCALLISTER. 
 
 ALTHOUGH Judge McAllister has been recently promoted to the 
 bench of the Supreme Court of Illinois, at the present time of writing 
 it is deemed best to notice him as a lawyer. Up to a very recent 
 date, he has been identified with the legal fraternity ; and his charac- 
 ter as a lawyer is yet too fresh in the minds of all to permit his being 
 passed over as not belonging to this branch of the legal profession. 
 
 Judge McAllister is now about fifty-two years of age, and he was 
 born on a farm, in Salem, Washington county, New York. He 
 remained on the farm until he was about eighteen years of age, when 
 he entered college, and was obliged to leave without graduating, 
 owing to ill health. He then devoted some time to hunting and fish- 
 ing, and a general out-door life, in order to recuperate. At the age 
 of twenty-one he began the study of law in Wayne county, under a 
 lawyer named Henry, finished his studies in Yates county, and then 
 removed to Albion, where he resided some ten years. 
 
 While in Albion he steadily followed his profession, and was 
 brought into contact with some of the best legal minds of the State, 
 and thereby secured an experience and a discipline which, to a young 
 lawyer, were invaluable. In 1854 he came to Chicago, and since 
 that period until his promotion to the Supreme bench, he followed 
 his chosen profession. His official life is easily summed up. He ran 
 against Jameson as a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court in 
 1866, but was unsuccessful. In 1868 he ran for Judge of the Recor- 
 der's Court, and was overwhelmingly elected. In 1870 he was 
 elected a Judge of the Supreme Court, which position he now 
 occupies. 
 
 In personal appearance Judge McAllister is attractive. He is of 
 medium height, has a well-rounded figure, and a massive forehead, 
 whose character is not detracted from by the intense humaneness of 
 the face and womanly eyes below. His mouth is small and sensitive,
 
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 his eyes large, lustrous and blue, and his cheeks clean shaven. There 
 is nothing effeminate in the face, yet it is so fine and kindly that it 
 becomes benignant in some of its expressions. This fineness, this 
 sensitiveness, this warm humanity, are major qualities in his make-up, 
 and are potent in their consequences with reference to every act of 
 his private and his professional life. 
 
 As may be inferred, these generous elements in his character very 
 largely influence him in the practice of his profession. He is too 
 kindly to be unjust, too humane to be ever found save on the side 
 which he conscientiously believes to be right. A result of this is that 
 he has always gone before a court or a jury with such a profound 
 conviction of the justice of his cause that this fact alone has carried 
 great weight, and has been a prime element in the success which has 
 attended him. 
 
 As a lawyer, he possesses great industry, a very comprehensive 
 knowledge of the law, and a logical ability, the general result of which 
 is that he rarely if ever makes any blunders. His decisions, while on 
 the Recorder's bench, when taken to the Supreme Court, with a single 
 exception, came back sustained. He combines in himself the better 
 qualities of an attorney and an advocate. He can prepare his own 
 brief with a perfection that permits of no flaw, and then try it in so 
 masterly a manner that the success of his client has nearly always 
 been assured when he agrees to accept a retainer. Before a jury, he 
 always was effective from the sincerity before spoken of, and which, 
 with his entire truthfulness, his complete avoidance of anything like 
 trickery or buncombe, his clear knowledge of the case, has given him 
 an eloquence whose power was infinitely in excess of that of any pro- 
 fessed and pretentious elocutionist. 
 
 No lawyer in Chicago stands higher than Judge McAllister. His 
 integrity, humanity and sincerity have become proverbial ; and so 
 high is his personal character, that he has escaped even the attacks of 
 political partizanship. In his private life he is no less elevated than 
 in his professional career. He is fond of the society of personal 
 friends ; and when he unbends himself from the official strain he has 
 all the elasticity and freshness of boyhood. He rarely goes into general 
 society, but has intense domesticity, and finds no place so attractive 
 as home, with its luxuries, its music, its affections and its beauties. 
 In fine, whether regarded as an official or a private citizen, Judge 
 McAllister is a gentleman whose intellect is superior, and whose 
 life and motives are absolutely above all reproach.
 
 JOSEPH KNOX. 
 
 JOSEPH KNOX. 
 
 THIS gentleman belongs to the former generation, but he also 
 belongs to the profession both of Chicago and the West, and therein 
 is entitled to a place in the present group of celebrities. He was 
 born in Blanford, Massachusetts, in 1805. He studied law with his 
 brother, General Alanson Knox, in his native town, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1828. He then removed to Worcester county, in the 
 same State, and commenced the practice of his profession, and while 
 there was thrown into competition with such men as Hon. John Davis, 
 Rejoice Newton, Charles Allen, Ira Barton, Pliny Merrick and Emory 
 Washburne, all of whom are now dead save the last named. 
 
 In 1837 he removed West with his family to Stephenson, now 
 Rock Island county, Illinois, where he continued in the practice of 
 law for twenty-three years. During the most of that period he was 
 associated with Hon. John W. Drury, under the name of Knox & 
 Drury, a firm whose name has been heard and made familiar through- 
 out the entire West. During most of the time, the Rock Island cir- 
 cuit embraced some ten adjacent counties, in addition to practicing in 
 all of which, Mr. Knox's professional labors carried him into Peoria 
 and Knox counties, in which he met such men as Judges Purple and 
 Peters, L. B. Knowlton and Julius Manning, who were his associates 
 or competitors in all these districts, and among whom there sprang 
 into existence a deep personal attachment and intimacy, as was also 
 the case at Rock Island with Judge I. O. Wilkinson, now of Chicago, 
 and his partner, Judge Pleasants. 
 
 Mr. Knox removed to Chicago in 1860, and soon after was made 
 State's Attorney, a position which he held for four years, until it 
 passed by election to his then partner, the present incumbent, Charles 
 H. Reed. Since that period, Mr. Knox has been in general practice, 
 and now, although sixty-six years of age, he walks daily a distance of 
 four miles to and from his office, and has not seen a day's illness in 
 thirty years. Mr. Knox is a trifle below medium height, is slender, 
 with gray hair and beard, and blue eyes. His head is large, and filled 
 with a brain of enormous power. His great success in his profession
 
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 is so well known that more than mere allusion to it here would be 
 superfluous. He is an advocate, and it was said of him by Judge 
 McLean : " He is the most powerful jury advocate I ever had before 
 me." 
 
 Among the many highly important cases in which he has been 
 engaged, and the trial of which has made his name prominent on the 
 list of leading lawyers in the West, may be mentioned the trial of the 
 murderers of Colonel Davenport, at Rock Island, in 1846 ; the suc- 
 cessful defense, at Iowa City, in 1857, of the nine men charged with 
 the murder of Boyd Wilkinson, and which trial lasted an entire month ; 
 the successful defense, in the United States Court held in Chicago by 
 Justice McLean, some twelve years ago, in the case of the owners of 
 the steamer Effie Afton against the Rock Island Bridge Company ; 
 the Frink and Walker case ; the Hopps murder trial ; the case against 
 Judge Scates ; and many others of like importance.
 
 THOMAS HOYNE. 
 
 THOMAS HOYNE. 
 
 MR. HOYNE is scarcely now in the active practice of the profession 
 of law. He has had a long and active as well as brilliant career in 
 Chicago and the West as a lawyer, a politician, and an official. Just 
 now he is rather reclining upon his honors, and is bringing to the 
 front members of his own family, whom, in the liberal professions, he 
 proposes to make as prominent as he has been, or is himself. Al- 
 though somewhat withdrawn from the practice of his chosen profes- 
 sion, he has been so long identified with the bar of Chicago, and the 
 political interests of the West, that an omission of his name in an 
 article of the present character would leave it noticeably incomplete. 
 His life is of value as teaching what may be accomplished by indus- 
 try and a determination to permit no obstacle to interfere with a 
 rapid progress. 
 
 Mr. Hoyne was born in New York city in 1817, and he there at- 
 tended school until 1830. He was then apprenticed to a manufac- 
 turer of fancy goods, and remained at the business until 1835. 
 Having, during his apprenticeship, found time to cultivate his intel- 
 lect, and the acquaintance of some eminent men, he determined to 
 study law. He worked in a wholesale grocery in the day time and 
 studied at night, during a year. He then entered the law office of 
 Hon. John Brinkerhoff, and remained another year. In 1837 he 
 came to Chicago, then in the first year of its existence under a city 
 charter. He obtained employment in the Circuit Clerk's office, studied 
 hard all the while, taught for a time in one of the public schools, took 
 up Latin and French in addition to law, and in 1839 completed his 
 legal studies in the office of Hon. J. Y. Scammon, and was very soon 
 after admitted to the bar. 
 
 From that period down to the present time, Mr. Hoyne has been 
 prominently before the people of Chicago. He was elected City 
 Clerk in 1840, to which office he was reflected the succeeding year. 
 In 1841 he drew up a memorial to Congress praying for the comple- 
 tion of the harbor of this city an exhaustive and able document. 
 To this was attached a schedule of all the mercantile firms which had
 
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 been engaged in business up to that time. This was an undertaking 
 requiring indomitable energy and perseverance, there being at that 
 early day neither Custom House or Board of Trade Registry, in con- 
 sequence of which all information was obtained by personal applica- 
 tion to the parties. At this time the population of Illinois was prin- 
 cipally Southern in birth and taste, with strong prejudices against 
 New England habits. Notwithstanding, the Common Council decided 
 to get up a local and pocket edition of Thanksgiving in Chicago, and 
 Mr. Hoyne, as City Clerk, drew up the first proclamation ever issued 
 in Illinois. 
 
 He removed to Galena for two years and then returned to Chica- 
 go, and was elected Probate Judge in 1847 ; and after the election of 
 Pierce he was made United States District Attorney for the District 
 of Illinois. In 1859 he was made United States Marshal for the 
 Northern District of this State. 
 
 In 1851 he was elected President of the Young Men's Association 
 (late Library Association), which had maintained a precarious exist- 
 ence since 1842, drew up a charter, provided for a building, estab- 
 lished a lecture course, and delivered before the society a lecture 
 upon "Trial by Jury." He was reflected in 1852, the only instance, 
 with one exception, where the same person has held the office two 
 consecutive years. 
 
 He was the first to make an effort to establish a law school in this 
 part of the country, and procured at great personal expense the first 
 Professor, the present Judge Booth, beside making a contribution of 
 five thousand dollars as an endowment fund to establish in the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago a chair of constitutional and international law. 
 He has been an officer of the Institution in various capacities from 
 its organization to the present time. The total destruction of the 
 library and records of the Law Institute in the fire of October, 1871, 
 rendered an immense amount of labor necessary to its reestablish- 
 ment. Mr. Hoyne was Chairman of the Committee on Correspond- 
 ence, in which capacity his untiring efforts were successful in 
 procuring large and valuable contributions from the various States to 
 the library of the Institute. In the work of building up the Chicago 
 University he has been an efficient laborer and a munificent patron. 
 He was an active agent in the purchase of the great telescope, the 
 largest refractor on the globe ; and has been Secretary of the Astron- 
 omical Society since its organization. He was also, at the time of 
 the destruction of its archives and buildings, Vice-President of the
 
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 Historical Society. In fine, in all the monuments of law, literature 
 and politics erected in Chicago, there appear material elements, which 
 are the handiwork of the subject of our sketch. 
 
 In other respects Mr Hoyne has been very prominent and active. 
 He has given his personal influence in every national canvass which 
 has occurred since his residence in Chicago. He has been a speaker 
 and writer of incessant activity on every question of importance that 
 has come before the public. 
 
 During the war he was, with Judges Drummond, John M. Wilson, 
 Arrington and others, a member of the Union Defense Committee ; 
 and it was he who wrote the celebrated address that was issued over 
 the signature of John M. Wilson as chairman. Among his later 
 efforts, his oration at Ottawa, Illinois, on the 4th of July, 1871, on 
 the " New Departure," was a production which added greatly to an 
 already brilliant reputation as an orator. In September of the same 
 year, at the Democratic State Convention, as Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee on Resolutions, he drafted the platform which was adopted, 
 and has since become the basis of the Liberal movement. 
 
 As a lawyer, he has occupied a position second to but few, 
 which fact, in connection with his vast labors in other directions, 
 proves his great industry and his high ability. Among the notable 
 trials in which he has been engaged, are the celebrated Bush case ; 
 and a litigation involving nearly half a million of dollars, which he 
 brought to a successful termination in favor of his client. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Hoyne is a very marked man. His 
 eyes are black and piercing, his countenance swarthy, his features 
 regular, and his hair jet black and curly. . He is erect, rather haughty 
 in his carriage, and resembles more than anything else, an intellectual 
 and aristocratic outgrowth of southern Europe. His appearance is 
 changing, sometimes being sunny and genial, and at other times 
 haughty and distrait, with a hint of savagery, as if he were about 
 going on the war-path. He is a man of an irascible disposition, but 
 who, while quick to resent, is equally ready to pardon, or to confess 
 an error when one has been committed. He is eminently chivalrous 
 in all his feelings, and is one of the most thorough and finished gen- 
 tlemen at the Chicago bar. He is impulsive to a very high degree, 
 and while acting from these motives is always prepared to review his 
 course in his cooler moments, and to pronounce as dispassionately 
 with reference to himself as to another. He is thoroughly respected, 
 not only as a lawyer, but as a citizen. His quick, impetuous nature
 
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 inclines him to warm attachments ; and he is one whose positive views 
 of everybody incline him either to like or dislike everything with 
 which he comes in contact. He is indifferent in his regard to but 
 few people whom he knows, and for this reason he includes every- 
 body among his friends or enemies. That the latter are the few, and 
 the former the many, is proof positive of his geniality and his just 
 discrimination of character. In his life he has furnished a model 
 which every young man of Chicago can study and imitate with profit.
 
 WILLIAM C. GOUDY. 13 
 
 WILLIAM C. GOUDY. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in Indiana in 1824, and eight years 
 afterward removed to Illinois, and has resided here ever since. He 
 graduated at the Illinois College in 1845, and read law at Springfield 
 under Judge S. T. Logan. He began his professional career in 1848 
 in Fulton county, and remained there until 1860. During this period 
 he practiced in several adjacent counties of the Military Tract, in the 
 Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Springfield. He 
 was a partner of Judge Wead, now of Peoria, until that gentleman 
 was elected Judge in 1853. When he commenced practice he encoun- 
 tered Archibald Williams, O. H. Browning, Julius Manning, Judge 
 Purple, Chief Justice Lawrence, Cyrus Walker, Thomas L. Harris, 
 the late President Lincoln, and other distinguished lawyers of central 
 Illinois, and in that school was compelled to triumph or fail. His 
 progress was rapid, so that he was the acknowledged leader of that 
 portion of the bar when he made this city his home. In 1856 he was 
 sent to the State Senate from the counties of Fulton and McDonough, 
 and he served the State in this legislative capacity for four years. 
 From 1852 to 1855 he was State's Attorney of the Tenth Judicial 
 District, but resigned his office to give his attention more largely to 
 civil practice. 
 
 The positions of Senator and State's Attorney are the only official 
 ones Mr. Goudy has ever held, although he has been presented for 
 other offices. He was a candidate for United States Senator in 1863, 
 and the year before was also a candidate for the Constitutional Con- 
 vention, but was unsuccessful in both cases. At the close of 1859 he 
 removed to Chicago, since which he has resided here, and has prac- 
 ticed his profession in the Federal and State Courts, and also in the 
 Supreme Court at Washington. The reports of the Supreme Court 
 of Illinois show Mr. Goudy to have been an extensive practitioner 
 from 1853 to the present time, and his cases may be found in every 
 volume of the forty volumes since he argued his first case before that 
 tribunal. There is no practitioner in the State who has had a greater 
 number of cases before the Supreme Court than Mr. Goudy, and of 
 these many are of the greatest importance. In closing this outline of 
 his public life, it may be added that Mr. Goudy once took an active
 
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 personal interest in politics ; and while doing so achieved a reputation 
 second to no amateur politician in Illinois. Latterly he has totally 
 abandoned politics, and he now devotes himself exclusively to his 
 profession. 
 
 Mr. Goudy is of medium height and build. He has blue or gray 
 eyes and regular features, whose expression when in repose, or in the 
 presence of strangers, would seem to rather repel intimacy. Still, 
 sometimes in conversation, or during the delivery of a speech, the 
 face lights up and glows, and then becomes genial, expressive and 
 inviting. 
 
 As a general practitioner and real estate lawyer, Mr. Goudy takes 
 no second position at the Chicago bar. He wastes no words in pre- 
 senting a case, but goes directly to the point, and holds himself to it 
 until the subject is completely exhausted. Thoroughly posted on 
 authorities, he presents them clearly and in logical order ; and thus, 
 while scarcely ever rhetorically brilliant, he is thoroughly effective. 
 His opinions on real estate matters are the result of an extended 
 knowledge of authorities, an intimate acquaintance with the routine 
 and practice involved in such business, and an observation sharpened 
 by long experience. He unravels without seeming difficulty the most 
 intricate questions, and patiently but surely reaches conclusions that 
 are rarely other than sound and complete. 
 
 One of his marked qualities is an intense secretiveness. He is 
 reticent, and is always a sort of locomotive enigma. In the prepara- 
 tion of a charter or legislative act, he evinces vast foresight, and in 
 any litigation which may grow from any such charter or acts, he is 
 able, with almost entire certainty, to anticipate the decision of the 
 higher courts. As a counsellor he is a very prudent man, and he will 
 never give a client an opinion that will be likely to involve him in a 
 losing litigation. He prepares a case with the utmost care, tries it 
 closely, discusses legal questions arising with great clearness, is per- 
 fectly unmoved during its progress, and accepts defeat or victory with 
 a passionless face and an imperturbability that are adamantine in 
 their character. 
 
 In his private life Mr. Goudy is characterized by a large develop- 
 ment of domestic qualities of a high order. He has acquired a fortune 
 from the practice of his profession, and possesses a home to whose 
 adornment he gives all the time which can be spared from his office 
 life. He is a competent lawyer, a respected citizen, and a gentleman 
 who fully appreciates and enjoys the comforts of a luxurious home.
 
 CORYDON BECKWITH. 15 
 
 CORYDON BECKWITH. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in Vermont in 1823. He was educated 
 in Providence, Rhode Island, and in Brentham, Massachussetts. He 
 studied law in St. Albans, Vermont, and was admitted to the bar of 
 that place in 1844; and two years later he was admitted to the bar of 
 Maryland. He commenced the practice of law in St. Albans in 
 1847, and remained there until 1853, when he removed to Chicago. 
 Since residing here he served a limited term on the Supreme bench, 
 having been appointed to that position by Governor Yates. 
 
 In personal appearance, Judge Beckwith is not what would be 
 considered an Adonis, although his looks indicate intellect and energy. 
 He is of very substantial build, with a large, well-balanced head, 
 prominent and large black eyes, a swarthy complexion, black hair, 
 and a clean-shaved face. His whole appearance suggests strength, 
 resolution and secresy. His face is strong rather than refined ; and 
 his mental characteristics seem the reflection of his massive, strong- 
 built physical organization. He is more of the weaver's beam, the 
 pile-driving class of mechanicism than that of a music-box. 
 
 In his mental development, Judge Beckwith is a remarkable man. 
 He is universally conceded to be, in many essential particulars, the 
 very strongest lawyer at this bar. As a lawyer, he has very profound 
 learning. He is one who is governed by principles, and not cases. 
 He is a man who always presents what he has .to offer to a court and 
 jury in a novel and forcible manner. He is, perhaps, less a mere 
 advocate than some others in the profession ; but his chief ability lies 
 in a different and higher direction. It is entirely safe to say of him 
 that, as an opponent, he is the most dangerous lawyer in the West. 
 
 Perhaps there is no member of the legal profession in this city 
 whom it is not more easy to accurately describe than Judge Beckwith. 
 He is, above all things, reticent and secretive, and is none the less so 
 than at times, when necessity demands, he seems boyishly frank, and 
 ingenuously communicative. He has the frankness of a Talleyrand, 
 who communicates to one just what he desires to say, and no more. 
 It is for this reason that a faithful description of him is a matter of
 
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 supreme difficulty. One does not always know him, who apparently 
 is in a position to know him best. These peculiarities are not asserted 
 to be a defect in his composition ; they may be, and undoubtedly are, 
 a necessary development of his character as a great manager. 
 
 It is as a manager, a director of operations, that he assumes a grand 
 position. He is a man who can originate a line of offense or defense 
 better, probably, than any lawyer in Chicago. He has also the ability 
 to execute ; but perhaps this quality in his character does not 
 receive the recognition it deserves, for various reasons. Principally is 
 this the case from the fact that he is oftener called upon to plan than 
 to carry out what he has designed. He is somewhat in the position 
 of a leader of a great army whose corps d'armee are operating over 
 an extended country. In such a case, the leader is not called on to 
 execute. He directs movements, and leaves their execution to subor- 
 dinates. Constantly consulted in cases of all icinds, by all classes, 
 and more especially by lawyers, Judge Beckwith devises operations 
 for them, lays out the plan of carrying them through, and then leaves 
 the minutiae to their action. From this fact has grown the impression 
 that he can not execute, whereas the truth is that he has demonstrated 
 the exact contrary in many cases, while it is further true that he has 
 not the time to, nor is there a necessity for, his devoting himself to 
 details. It may also be added that he is often the hidden inspiration 
 in many a case in which others appear as the prominent figures, while 
 they are in reality but instruments, moved by wires whose termina- 
 tion and moving power are not seen or suspected by the public. 
 
 The inference is unavoidable from this statement, that he acts 
 frequently by indirection. This is true. He seems to often prefer 
 this method of attack and defense. It leaves the real origin of the 
 forces in operation a mystery, and therein baffles those against whom 
 they are directed. From this fact may have grown the impression 
 that he is a lobbyist in politics ; but in this respect it is entirely safe 
 to say that he is not a success, whatever may be his aspirations in that 
 direction. He may occasionally be seen about the outer circle of the 
 halls of legislation, but, whatever he may desire there, or whatever 
 may be his success, it is certain that he belongs to judicial rather than 
 legislative departments, and that his true role is that of the legal man- 
 ager. In this line of effort he has few rivals and no superior. He 
 is not only a very profound lawyer, but he is a diplomatic lawyer in 
 addition. He adds to his exhaustive knowledge of law, a thorough 
 knowledge of all its mechanism, of human nature such as may be
 
 CORYDON BECKWITH. If 
 
 required to be operated upon in a legal direction and of all the 
 appliances which must be employed to achieve success. 
 
 Present defeat does not baffle, nor does a sudden, unexpected and 
 pressing emergency unnerve or discompose him. He is so fertile in 
 invention, and so experienced in details, that nothing can find him 
 unprepared, or throw him from his balance. He has not only a great 
 legal mind, but he has the mind, the secretiveness, the resolution, the 
 nerve of a diplomat. He can not only operate all the tremendous 
 machinery of law, but he can bring to its aid, in any desired direction, 
 the powerful mechanism of secret influences, remote personal efforts, 
 and a complication of agencies, that are the more potential in that 
 they are invisible, and almost always unsuspected. Men who have 
 him as an opponent, have not merely to combat the lawyer who is 
 familiar with all principles and precedents, and rules of practice, but 
 also a supreme and sagacious management, whose character and 
 power are never known until the moment of their development. 
 There is no more industrious member of the legal profession than 
 Judge Beckwith, and there rarely occurs a case of more than average 
 importance in which he is not retained. He excels in the preparation 
 of condensed, pertinent briefs, and in the handling of cases in which 
 there are no precedents, and in which he originates or discovers the 
 legal principles necessary to their successful disposition. As an orig- 
 inator he is just as remarkable as he. is a manager, and in both these 
 respects he probably stands without a rival. 
 
 Socially, Judge Beckwith is very agreeable. His knowledge of 
 men is vast, and in this he possesses a never-ending fund of interest- 
 ing information. He is much liked by those who are intimate with 
 him, and he adds to his personal popularity the renown of being among 
 the very first lawyers, not merely of Chicago, but of the country. ' He 
 is a man of very generous impulses and actions, is large-hearted and 
 large-souled, and his kindness to young lawyers has not only been 
 frequent, but it has been of material value to them, and forms a sub- 
 ject to very many of them of grateful remembrance.
 
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 SAMUEL W. FULLER. 
 
 THIS lawyer is one of those men who are popularly known as self- 
 made. He has risen to his present position, not by the aid of wealth, 
 or of great natural abilities, but by a perseveringly studious life, and 
 entire dependence upon himself for the means to secure his educa- 
 tional advancement. 
 
 He is now about forty-eight ^ears of age, and is a native of Ver- 
 mont, where he was admitted to the bar and married. He came to 
 this State with only his education and his hands, and supported him- 
 self for a while as school-teacher, until he could secure practice as a 
 lawyer. It was while he was thus combining the. pedagogue and the 
 lawyer, that he resided in Tazewell county, in this State. He was 
 there admitted to the bar, and from that place he was sent to the Illi- 
 nois Senate, where his abilities first attracted the notice of J. Y. Scam- 
 mon, with whom Mr. Fuller is now in partnership. In time, he came 
 where a majority of all the great lawyers of the Northwest come, to 
 Chicago. The distance between the Tazewell county school-teacher 
 and the prominent member of the law firm of Scammon, McCagg & 
 Fuller, is broad, and that it has been traversed in comparatively so 
 short a space of time, is in the highest degree complimentary to the 
 endurance and perseverance of the gentleman whose name heads this 
 article. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Fuller is a study. He is tall, slender, 
 with sandy whiskers and moustache, light gray eyes, a very broad and 
 prominent forehead, and abundant hair. His countenance is as fine 
 as a proof, and has the delicacy of a close-worked steel engraving. 
 It is a face whose salient indications are refinement, intelligence, and 
 a sort of timid diffidence that is almost girlish. It is a face which, in 
 addition to these indications, shadows forth a singularly legible ex- 
 pression of honesty and candor. Were one to conclude from the study 
 of the face that its owner were a clergyman, or a literary man, as he 
 probably would, he would think that it had no failure ; but were he 
 told that its possessor were a lawyer, he might be of the opinion that 
 a few coarser lines in it would be of advantage. In brief, it is rather
 
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 too fine a face for the popular estimate of the character of a lawyer. 
 It would do for some scientist, who requires patient investigation, and 
 not imagination, or for any other class of professional men who do not 
 need any inherent driving power, and whose business is of a character 
 that demands no enthusiasm, only a calm and undeviating apprecia- 
 tion. 
 
 The mental processes of Mr Fuller are slow, and remarkably cor- 
 rect and sure. He has a very excellent knowledge of law, but not 
 sufficient to make him devoted to its letter in contra-distinction to its 
 spirit. He has a very thorough comprehension of legal principles, 
 and the knowledge of books requisite to give those principles authori- 
 tative force. His role is not that of an advocate to any considerable 
 extent. His presentation of a case is never fervid, or forcible in a 
 rhetorical sense. Nevertheless, his comprehension of principles and 
 authorities, together with a clear habit of thought, enables him to 
 present a case with great logical force. If he has a failure in his 
 character as an advocate before a jury, it is found in the fact that he 
 seems to over-estimate their intelligence. He addresses them with 
 the terseness that he would employ were he addressing a judge, or 
 men of his own intellectual level. He will present them a point in the 
 fewest possible words, and then leave it. He never insists upon their 
 comprehending it. He does not amplify it, and present it to them in 
 different lights, as should be done in the case of a jury of men of 
 ordinary capacity, and of whom no two can, by any possibility, see the 
 same thing from the same point of view. Either Mr. Fuller pays the 
 jury too high a compliment in intentionally confining his statements 
 to mathematical brevity and precision, or else he commits a blunder 
 in not better comprehending the necessities of the situation occupied 
 by a jury lawyer. His addresses have all the nakedness of mathe- 
 matical propositions. They never glow or melt, but they convince, 
 providing they are given to minds that have the capacity to compre- 
 hend his statements, and the honesty to decide according to their 
 convictions. He presents his propositions calmly and modestly, but 
 rather in the style of a clear-headed collegiate professor, enunciating 
 propositions of a high order to men of his own profession. He knows 
 no such thing as engineering or figuring a case. He regards it from 
 a standpoint which includes the legal principle, the evidence, and the 
 interests of his clients. If he wins a case, it is done straight-forwardly, 
 and upon its merits, and if he conducts his case in such a manner
 
 20 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 that he is defeated, he always retires with the honors of war and the 
 entire respect of his opponents. 
 
 Mr. Fuller strengthens himself as a thinker, and adds elements 
 of dignity to his mental character by an indulgence in the better 
 class of literary productions. He is a reader and a thinker outside 
 of his profession. He is not a good manager in the sense of con- 
 ducting the financial affairs connected with his professional services, 
 and herein he is most admirably complemented by one of his partners, 
 E. B. McCagg, who is himself a lawyer of very great ability, and 
 who is a close business man, and who carefully gathers up the 
 raveled financial threads which are upon the fringe of Mr. Fuller's 
 professional actions. These two men are admirably adapted to each 
 other. Mr. McCagg has a very thorough knowledge of the world, 
 which Mr. Fuller has not ; and in this, as in various other ways, he 
 assists in giving the firm a roundness and completeness of great per- 
 fection. In many respects he contrasts beneficially with Mr. Fuller. 
 He is, as has been said, practical in directions where the other dis- 
 plays no particular ability; he is a close business man, a good collec- 
 tor, and withal, just enough cynical to relieve the unvarying quietness 
 and unruffled affability of the other. 
 
 Mr. McCagg is also a noted man in other respects. He is possessed 
 of great wealth, and he lives in a style whose luxuriance has few or no 
 equals in Chicago. He has a large amount of public spirit, has a 
 great number of very excellent qualities whose possession secures him 
 a universal and very thorough respect. Mentally he is in no respect 
 the inferior of Mr. Fuller, and were he obliged to resort to the more 
 public practice of his profession he would be a successful advocate as 
 well as what he now is, a sound and careful lawyer. The two, how- 
 ever, pull well together, and while both have an abundance of positive 
 qualities in a high order of excellence, each supplies a certain class of 
 equally desirable qualities which the other lacks ; or presents such a 
 combination of characteristics that each modifies, brings out, or other- 
 wise improves those of the other. The Hon. J. Y. Scammon is still 
 the senior member of the firm, and while now giving no attention to 
 the law, he has a high reputation as a lawyer which remains to him as 
 a consequence of a highly successful career. Mr. Scammon's entire 
 time is occupied with the care of private interests which are enormous ; 
 but his reputation as a superior lawyer, and his wealth, social conse- 
 quence, and extended commercial relations, are well reflected in the 
 firm of which himself and McCagg and Fuller are members.
 
 ROBERT HERVEY. 21 
 
 ROBERT HERVEY. 
 
 MR. HERVEY was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1820, and was 
 educated at the grammer school and university of the same city. He 
 graduated in 1837, and studied law in Toronto with Hon. Henry 
 Sherwood, formerly Attorney-General of Canada, and was admitted to 
 the Canadian bar in 1842. He practiced in Ottawa, Canada, for ten 
 years, and in 1852 removed to Chicago, and was the partner of Judge 
 Morris until 1856. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Hervey is rather distingut. His form 
 is medium height, very erect and well proportioned. His complexion 
 is fresh, his whiskers are gray and worn in the English fashion, his 
 hair is silvery, his head well-shaped, his eyes gray and keen, and the 
 tout ensemble that of a very pronounced Scotchman. In his demeanor 
 he is very affable and courteous, and before a jury, and in the exami- 
 nation of a witness, as well as in his treatment of opposing counsel, 
 he is always gentlemanly and considerate. He is regarded as well- 
 posted on authorities, and a very competent man, whether in the office 
 or before a jury. He is industrious, careful of the interests of his 
 clients, and conservative in his mental processes. 
 
 In his oratory he is dignified, and after warming up he becomes 
 forcible, but never robustious. He rises to a certain moderate height, 
 both of thought and declamation, but his average level is a trifle lower. 
 When under full pressure as a speaker, he has a certain mannerism, 
 which is probably the result of habit, and is not the outgrowth or the 
 inspiration of his thoughts. He then buttons his coat across his well- 
 shaped chest, closes his eyes as if in a rhapsody, thrusts one hand 
 into his bosom, and gracefully emphasizes with the other. His jury 
 efforts are of a good average quality. They are clear, logical, and 
 always given with effective empressement. 
 
 Socially, Mr. Hervey is quite popular. He is somewhat Chester- 
 fieldian in his manners; and, on the streets is what, in a younger man, 
 might be termed nobby. He is a standing model of a polite, court- 
 eous gentleman, and as such he is very generally liked by the mem- 
 bers of his profession, by the community at large, and the more 
 especially among his Scotch fellow-citizens, by whom he is regarded 
 as a leading orator and a representative man.
 
 22 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 JAMES M. WALKER. 
 
 IN many respects Mr. Walker stands at the very head of the legal 
 profession in the West. This refers more especially to the magnitude 
 of the interests which he has been intrusted with, and which include 
 some of the largest corporations in the country. His reputation may 
 not be a popular one, like that of Charles O'Conor, or James Brady; 
 but among great moneyed corporations, and in directions where 
 acquaintance is fame, and esteem a fortune, Mr. Walker is both known 
 and esteemed. 
 
 He was born in Claremont, N. H., and is now about fifty years of 
 age. . He studied law at Ann Arbor, in Michigan, and began the 
 practice of law at that point. He afterward removed to another 
 portion of Washtenaw county, in the same State, where he speedily 
 secured a very large practice, and filled the office of prosecuting 
 attorney. He removed to Chicago in 1854, at which time he was the 
 attorney of the Michigan Central railway. He first occupied an 
 office with James M. Joy, and later formed a legal connection with 
 Mr. Sedgwick, and subsequently he entered into partnership with 
 Wirt Dexter ; and soon after took the position of attorney for the 
 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway, which important position 
 he still holds, and it may be added that he is to the Burlington and 
 Quincy railway company what Joy is to the Michigan Central 
 a very king. 
 
 In personal appearance he is slender, of medium height, with a 
 small, active brain, gray eyes, and gray hair and goatee. His coun- 
 tenance bears the evidence of a laborious life. He evidently has more 
 soul than body, and all his life has overdriven the latter in order to 
 execute the demands of the former. In manner he is rather abstracted 
 and reticent, and goes about wrapped in a species of semi-isolation. 
 This is not so much the result of coldness as of the preoccupation of 
 thought. 
 
 As a lawyer he occupies a very conspicuous position. His forte 
 lies in the mastering of the great problems connected with corpora- 
 tions ; and in this direction he has been eminently successful. Before
 
 JAMES M. WALKER. 23 
 
 a jury or a court he does not occupy so elevated a grade, for several 
 reasons, among which is prominent the fact that a man who devotes 
 his entire energies to the mastery of great problems has not the leisure 
 to cultivate the graces and blandishments of oratory. Another reason 
 is possibly found in the additional fact that, as is not uncommon with 
 hard students like himself, he is very pertinacious when he has once 
 formed a conclusion, and is very apt to insist that juries and others 
 shall see the matter at issue in the same light. This trait is conviction 
 and something more. It is rather a positive belief that admits of no 
 contradiction, and is not disposed to accept a difference of opinion. 
 He devotes so much time and strength to the examination of a question 
 that he believes his conclusions are not simple convictions, but they 
 are absolute axioms which must not and cannot be disputed. 
 
 Among other of his traits his industry is not the least remarkable. 
 When he once takes hold of a question of importance, it becomes an 
 absorbing one, and to its solution he gives every energy. Nature, 
 time, labor, pain are nothing. He hesitates at no sacrifice, and pushes 
 his investigations till he either reaches their solution or his health 
 gives way under the exertion. Two or three times in his life has he 
 thus driven himself to the verge of the grave by his persistence in labor 
 long after labor had ceased to be a duty or a virtue. Apart from his 
 professional duties he is gentlemanly and considerate. His reading is 
 extensive. He has a very exquisite taste in fine art ; his benevolence 
 is very great ; and his general information of an extended character. 
 What he lacks is more regard for himself, and a more leisurely per- 
 formance of the duties of his profession. Were this defect remedied, 
 he would be no less successful than he is and has been, while he 
 would enjoy that physical energy and elasticity without which any 
 existence is incomplete and unsatisfactory.
 
 24 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 LEONARD SWETT. 
 
 Mr. SWETT was born in Oxford, Maine, in 1825. He graduated at 
 Waterville, and read law at Portland, after which he entered the army 
 and served as a private during the Mexican war. He removed to 
 Bloomington, in this State, in 1849, and was admitted to the bar the 
 same year. At one time he was a member of the legislature, and has 
 been prominently before the public in other capacities. He removed 
 to Chicago in 1865, and has since resided in this city. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Swett very much resembles the late 
 Abraham Lincoln. He is tall, angular, dark, with prominent features, 
 and in fact he so generally resembles the late Mr. Lincoln that any 
 detailed description of him would be useless. This coincidence with 
 respect to physical similitude extends in a considerable degree to the 
 mental characteristics of the two men. Mr. Swett is more polished 
 than was his antetype ; he is more finished, but this makes the differ- 
 ence between them one of- degree rather than of kind. He possesses 
 the same class of humor peculiar to the late President, and often 
 employs the same quaint, epigramatic method of expression which 
 was peculiar to Mr. Lincoln, and so familiar to the man. Of course, 
 these resemblances are mere happenings. Neither Mr. Lincoln nor 
 Mr. Swett made a study of each other with a view to imitation. Nor 
 is their anything strange in the coincidence. When one considers 
 how many men there are born every year, the wonder is, not that two 
 men are found who closely resemble each other, but that there are so 
 many varieties in the workmanship. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. Swett takes a very high rank, both in Chicago 
 and the State. In his professional character he possesses a fair allow- 
 ance of versatility, but his special excellencies lie in the direction of 
 the trial of cases, and, possibly, in the handling of criminal business. 
 He has a very clear, analytical mind, and a very comprehensive view 
 of a subject, and is, therefore, in this respect well fitted for office 
 business. But his tendencies seem to be in the direction of the trial 
 of cases, for the reason, perhaps, that office business brings into activity 
 few or none of the emotional qualities of the soul. Mr. Swett has
 
 LEONARD SWETT. 25 
 
 imagination, humor, pathos, and an abundance of similar qualities 
 whose exercise is as essential to his enjoyment as the use of his muscles 
 is to a strong, vigorous man. It requires a mind from which the 
 warmer qualities have been eliminated, and a mechanism which has 
 been reduced to a mathematical variety of construction, to produce a 
 lawyer who will prefer the investigation of dry authorities to the 
 warmth, the poetry, the excitement, the elasticity, the cunning of a 
 trial. Mr. Swett is an orator ; and in this fact is found the explana- 
 tion of his preference. 
 
 As a speaker he has few or- no superiors at the bar. He requires 
 scarcely any preparation to make a speech on any subject. He sees a 
 case clearly, and he has the faculty of presenting it with equal clear- 
 ness. He presents it forcibly because he feels intensely. He has that 
 tendency toward amplification found in all true orators, and by whose 
 aid he presents a single point in so many salient aspects that it becomes 
 as apparent as sunlight to his auditory. This ability to not only clearly 
 present a point, but to restate it and reiterate it under a slightly 
 changed form up to a boundary where it becomes thoroughly under- 
 stood, and yet which is not carried beyond into the region of verbosity 
 and tiresome and useless reiteration is one of a high order, and it is 
 one which Mr. Swett seems to possess to perfection. Its due and 
 judicious exercise requires an accurate knowledge of the men whom 
 it is employed upon, and the precise ideas and illustrations which are 
 demanded by their comprehension. Mr. Swett has all these qualities, 
 and the additional one of being an excellent logician and an admirable 
 manager, who thus not only knows what should be presented, but the 
 very best form in which the presentation should be made. 
 
 Possibly the not least remarkable feature of his oratorical power is 
 found in his ability to employ pathos. Herein, when the occasion 
 requires, he rises to a most effective level. He is both rhetorical and 
 natural in this direction the former being, to some extent, a sequence 
 to the latter, in that he feels what he says, and therein, as usually 
 happens, is eloquent. He is exceedingly happy in the vise of this 
 powerful element. When in this mood he smites the rock of men's 
 hidden emotions, and obediently, as in the case of Moses, the waters 
 gush forth in response to the summons. From the possession of this 
 subtle power to touch effectively men's emotional natures, Mr. Swett 
 has what the world would suspect from seeing him, and that is, a 
 powerful element of poetry in his character. This is true ; and its 
 existence is not only the source of his power to touch the hearts of
 
 26 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 others, but it refines his nature, and gives him a chivalry that exhibits 
 itself in a lofty regard for women, an integrity in business matters that 
 can not be disturbed, and a kindly consideration that leavens all his 
 intercourse with others. In fine, the poetical quality, while it intro- 
 duces no element of effeminacy in his character, while it does not 
 detract from his masculine vigor, or interfere with his comprehensive 
 ability, softens his naturally rugged make-up, and gives him a needed 
 and efficient refinement. In short, Mr. Swett is a gentleman who, as 
 a lawyer, and more especially in the labor of conducting the trial of 
 a case, occupies a very high and a very enviable position.
 
 JOHN VAN ARMAN. 27 
 
 JOHN VAN ARMAN. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in Plattsburgh, New York, in about 
 1818. He removed thence to Marshall, Michigan, and there began 
 the practice of law. In 1859 he removed to Chicago. 
 
 He first obtained prominence some years ago in Michigan at the 
 time of the notorious conspiracy against the Michigan Central rail- 
 way. He was employed by the company to work up the case, and 
 to assist in its prosecution. He went to work and got into the confi- 
 dence of the leaders of the movement, joined the organization, shared 
 in their councils and plans, and in this way possessed himself of all 
 the secrets of the conspirators. At the time of trial, he assisted in 
 the prosecution of the case, and alternated his duties in this direction 
 by taking the stand as a witness for the State. 
 
 Since his residence in Chicago, Mr. Van Arman has taken a 
 quite prominent position as a criminal lawyer. He is a man of very 
 marked personal appearance, and of equally marked personal charac- 
 teristics. He is of slender build, slightly round-shouldered, and of 
 medium height. His head is small and narrow, indicating more 
 force than comprehensive breadth. His eyes are small, black, glit- 
 tering, and cunning in expression. His lower jaw is immense in 
 breadth, and heavily armored with a convolute skin. His clean- 
 shaven face is of a swarthy hue, which, with his small eyes, high 
 cheek-bones, and stoical expression, gives him the appearance of an 
 Indian parentage. His mouth is large, with heavy lips, and is occa- 
 sionally parted in a smile which reveals rows of uneven teeth. 
 
 Mentally, he is sui generis. He is, perhaps, not an originator, 
 but he seizes with instantaneous appreciation anything which may be 
 found by others ; and when he once closes upon anything, his bull- 
 dog nature never lets it go. To speak in the style of the aborigines 
 whom he so closely resembles, he can not often find a trail himself, 
 but let it once be pointed out to him, and he will never lose it, or 
 cease to follow it till the prey is overtaken. 
 
 It is doubtful that his veins run with warm blood. He is cold 
 and passionless. His mental qualities may glisten, but it is not from
 
 28 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 the sheen of a flame, but from the reflection of icy surfaces. His 
 intellect is clear, finely finished but frosty. His voice is dry and 
 metallic, and his utterances before a jury are often venomous, always 
 pointed and strong, but never warm or genial. Thawing the sympa- 
 thies of a jury is something that he never attempted, nor would he 
 know how to do it if he wished. 
 
 This glacial mechanism of his soul is never out of repair or work- 
 ing order. It has all the lubricity of ice, and moves powerfully, and 
 without noise or friction. To these qualities he adds an industry in fol- 
 lowing up a case that never tires, that goes over a subject, no matter 
 how vast, and omits no details, however numerous they maybe or 
 how microscopic. The law, the facts, the circumstances of a case, 
 are each, in turn, made the subject of an examination that leaves 
 nothing untouched, and hesitates at no labor or time which may be 
 necessary to secure the investigation. He is a man that rarely laughs, 
 and whose smile is not a smile, but a drawing back of the lips to 
 show his teeth. He is a giant in industry, a Colossus in his patience, 
 has indefatigable energy, is unrelenting in his stealthy and untiring 
 pursuit of an enemy. Give him an end, and if patience, perseverance 
 and industry can attain it, he will reach it ; but it is a question as to 
 his ability to provide a new plan in case his designed one be ruined. 
 It is said by Judge Wilson that no man in Chicago is quicker than he 
 to adapt himself to a sudden and unexpected change of circum- 
 stances. In any case, he is a very marked man one whose great 
 ability, coldness of nature, and success in his efforts, leave him with 
 scarcely a rival. 
 
 With more warmth, more kindliness, he would take a high 
 position in the world of legal and moral efforts.
 
 JOHN N. JEWETT. 29 
 
 JOHN N. JEWETT. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in Maine. While very young, he re- 
 moved to Wisconsin, but returned East, and graduated at Bowdoin 
 College. He afterward came -West again, and read law at Galena. 
 In 1857 he removed to Chicago, and formed a partnership with 
 Scates & McAllister. 
 
 Mr. Jewett is a gentleman of about forty-two years of age, 
 although he looks five years younger. His hair is brown, and his 
 beard the same. He is of medium height, slim, active, and well put 
 together. He has keen, blue, very handsome eyes, and which are 
 indicative, in many respects, of his character. His features are small, 
 regular and attractive. His head is also small, but is filled with a 
 brain of great activity. Intellectually, he is keen, sharp, quick. 
 
 As a lawyer, he is a general practitioner is at home almost every- 
 where. He has himself always well in hand, and like a battery of 
 light artillery, is always ready for attack or defense, or a change of 
 position. His resources are always within reach. His mind is clear 
 and incisive. W r hile mild in conversation and oral argument, in 
 writing he is pungent, severe and sarcastic, so much so that he has 
 often reached the verge of toleration in his arguments before the 
 Supreme Court. He is logical and strong, and his analytical powers 
 are very great. His integrity is undoubted, and he is rigidly honest, 
 not only with reference to himself, but his client and the opposing 
 counsel. He is not rough or uncouth in his contact with others, 
 with the exceptions above noted, but he has a manner which, while 
 not being in the least effeminate, is almost womanly in its gentleness. 
 His speeches are in keeping with his appearance easy, fluent, grace- 
 ful, deliberate and intellectual. He is ornate without being either 
 florid or commonplace. What he has to say he says tersely, and in 
 an attractive, forcible manner. As said, he is rather better in the 
 office than before a jury, for the reason that he is painstaking, indus- 
 trious and conscientious. Possibly there are few lawyers of his age 
 who stand as well as he, or whose prospects are more promising. At 
 present he is attorney for the Illinois Central Railway. He is also a 
 member of the State Senate, the only public office he has ever filled.
 
 30 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 H. G. MILLER. 
 
 MR. MILLER is about fifty-five years of age, and in personal ap- 
 pearance he is quite marked, and rather distingue, both in his appear- 
 ance and demeanor. He is tall, well-proportioned, and very erect, 
 with a somewhat stately bearing. His features are regular; his eyes 
 blue, full and expressive ; his forehead high and pyramidal ; his hair 
 gray, abundant, and thrown directly back. His mouth is small, and 
 indicates a character of a good deal of resolution. The whole ex- 
 pression of his face is rather kindly, and withal dignified. 
 
 As a lawyer, he is very much respected by the profession. He is 
 a man who, without being a profound legal scholar albeit, a very 
 excellent one attains ends by his patient industry which men with 
 a greater knowledge might fail to reach. His industry is one of the 
 most important elements in his character, for the reason that by its 
 aid he does many things which men more gifted by nature than him- 
 self do not often accomplish. He never reaches anything by flying 
 to it, or by miraculous leaps. Whatever he attains he does by slow, 
 patient, plodding, persistent effort. In some respects, he is an intel- 
 lectual tortoise, who, like the one in the fable, not unfrequently 
 reaches the goal far in advance of swifter-footed competitors. He 
 is a man whose preparation of a case may be relied on as complete, 
 thorough, exhaustive, providing it can be done by unremitting and 
 pains-taking effort. 
 
 As a speaker, he makes no pretensions to a high order of elocution. 
 He speaks more effectively to a judge than a jury. He has not a 
 particle of imagination ; and what is singular in this connection, is 
 that in his speeches he sometimes essays the humorous. His grave 
 mien, judicial deportment, slow-and-sure order of mental processes, 
 form a combination from which one would suppose all ideas of the 
 mirthful would be necessarily excluded. There is another inconsis- 
 tency in his character, which this fact suggests. It is that, although 
 patterned after the heavy artillery style, he is able to shift his position 
 with considerable ease and speed, to meet an attack from an unex- 
 pected quarter. In meteorological parlance, he is weather-wise. He
 
 H. G. MILLER. 31 
 
 reads the skies which surround a case with great precision. He 
 knows what a small cloud, or a change in the wind portends, and he 
 is prompt in knowing what should be done to meet the forthcoming 
 change. Heavy, and somewhat cumbersome in his mental opera- 
 tions, he yet possesses a surprising agility, when there occurs a sud- 
 den and pressing demand, for a shifting of position. 
 
 A faithful analysis of Mr. Miller's character necessitates the state- 
 ment that he does well whatever he undertakes, but that he would 
 have done just as well in in any other department of effort. Nature 
 does not seem to have especially intended him for a lawyer. Had he 
 been a wood-sawyer, he would have been just as patient, industrious, 
 indefatigable, and gentlemanly in his manners as he now is. There 
 are lawyers whom one could not imagine filling any other position, 
 without their being out of place. In the case of Mr. Miller, it does 
 not seem possible to imagine him in any position that he would not 
 fill just as well as the one he now occupies. He would have made a 
 stately and efficient President of a bank, or Superintendent of a rail- 
 way, or diplomatist at some fpreign court, or judge upon the bench, 
 and in each instance he would have been just as stately and efficient 
 as he is now in his position as a lawyer, and as a very respected and 
 very estimable member of the bar of the Garden City.
 
 32 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 VAN H. HIGGINS. 
 
 THIS gentlemen, one of the oldest and best known of the Chicago 
 bar, is now about fifty years of age. He was born in Genesee county, 
 New York. He came to Chicago in 1839, and was admitted to the 
 bar in Iroquois county. He went to Galena in 1845, and practiced 
 there with Judge Scott until 1853, when he removed to Chicago, and 
 has always since been a resident. In the fall of 1858 he was sent to 
 the Legislature, and the following spring he was elected Judge of the 
 Superior Court. He served until the year 1863, when he resigned, 
 and commenced the practice of law with Leonard Swett, his present 
 partner. 
 
 In personal appearance, Mr. Higgirjs has a fine natural judicial 
 presence. He is tall, well-formed, and of rather a commanding fig- 
 ure. His eyes are light-blue and deep-set, his complexion clear, and 
 his forehead a regular three-story structure. His hair is tinged with 
 gray, and his mouth is compressed and secretive. His entire face is 
 sensitive, and yet it shadows forth indications of a character that 
 may be iron-willed in case of necessity, and that may be or is, dog- 
 matic and resolute under the majority of circumstances. In fine, 
 this gentleman is one whom a stranger would regard as a man of fine 
 appearance and great intelligence, while a muscular opponent would 
 do no more than right if he hesitated somewhat before grappling with 
 his erect, well-knit and stalwart frame. 
 
 The ability of Mr. Higgins as a lawyer, is not susceptible of a 
 difference of opinion. Before he was Judge of the Superior Court 
 his practice was one of the largest and most lucrative in the city. 
 Since that time he has attended more or less to legal matters, but is 
 not as active in his profession as he was before he went upon the 
 bench, for the reason that he has very extended private interests of 
 his own to attend to. 
 
 His head, which is that of a man of intellect, is additionally, in 
 this direction, indicative of mechanical and mathematical tendencies. 
 He is an inventor of no mean rank, and has several patents on orig- 
 inal inventions or improvements. He is a fine theoretical as well as
 
 VAN H. HIGGINS. 33 
 
 practical mechanician, and his judgment upon the merits of any new 
 mechanical discovery is equal to that of the best practical mechanic 
 in the West. Whether he is now the more lawyer or inventor is a 
 nice question. It is certain, however, that his love for mechanical 
 pursuits has grown almost to a mania; and that it absorbs a large 
 share of his time, so that a biographical sketch of him would quite 
 as properly belong to the Mechanics as the Lawyers of Chicago. 
 
 His style in the workshop is not pertinent to this article, although 
 it would doubtless be of great interest. In his other capacity he is 
 dignified, copious, and ponderous and incessant in his citations 
 When he appears in court he carries always both arms full of law 
 books, and has a porter who is heavily laden with the same material. 
 His objections are frequent, and when arguing them he rises, and 
 with his eyes fixed dreamily above the judge's head, he proceeds in a 
 calm, self-possessed, unimpassioned manner to state his objections, 
 and to present his authorities. He is an epitome of all the decisions 
 that have ever been written, and what few he does not remember, he 
 refers to readily, and reads in extenso. His quotations of authorities 
 bearing on any point are only limited by one thing the limits of 
 the authorities themselves. 
 
 Judge Van Higgins is very generally respected, and is a man of 
 fine intellect, great cultivation, and the possessor of many substantial 
 qualities, both of heart and soul. The only doubt with the present 
 writer is as to whether or not he should be classed as an inventor who 
 is spoiling a good lawyer, or as a lawyer who is interfering with the 
 progress of a superior inventor.
 
 34 'I'HE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 CHARLES CARROLL BONNEY. 
 
 THIS gentleman is a native of Hamilton, New York, one of the 
 most beautiful places in the Chenango Valley, and widely known as 
 the seat of Madison University. He spent his childhood on his 
 father's farm on Bonney Hill, where his habits of thought were formed, 
 and his ambition stimulated by meeting, among other visitors at his 
 father's house, students from the University ; and the prominent poli- 
 ticians, lawyers and divines of the locality. 
 
 When about seventeen years of age he commenced teaching, and 
 began the study of the law. He continued to teach district and 
 academic schools, and to pursue the study of his chosen profession 
 until nearly ready for admission to the bar. 
 
 He removed to Illinois in 1850; located at Peoria; established an 
 academic school called the Peoria Institute ; was admitted to the bar 
 at the age of twenty-one ; commenced practice in the office of Judge 
 Onslow Peters; and continued a successful general practice till 1860, 
 when he removed to Chicago. 
 
 During his residence in Peoria the bar of Central Illinois, led by 
 Purple and Manning, was one of the ablest in the West ; and the 
 practice thorough and exacting. 
 
 Since being a resident of Illinois, Mr. Bonney, until quite lately, 
 has been very prominently before the State in some public capacity. 
 In connection with Gov. French, Prof. Turner, Judge Skinner, and 
 some other noted gentlemen, he was active and prominent in estab- 
 lishing the present educational system of Illinois. Since 1854 he has 
 advocated a convention to secure uniformity of the statutes "of the 
 several States in relation to negotiable paper, conveyances, etc. He 
 was one of the first to advocate in speeches and letters the constitu- 
 tional prohibition of special legislation; and, some years before the 
 war, procured the passage of resolutions in popular conventions in 
 favor of a national currency, under a national law, in place of a wild- 
 cat system of State banks. 
 
 In 1857 he took a leading part in defeating the project of giving 
 to a private corporation the control of the Illinois river ; and he was
 
 CHARLES CARROLL BONNEY. 35 
 
 engaged in some of the earlier cases on municipal subscriptions to 
 railroads, taking the ground that they were unconstitutional. Since 
 1 86 1 he has repeatedly advocated commissioners to represent the 
 people, as to railroad and other private corporations, with summary 
 judicial determination of questions concerning their respective rights 
 and duties. It was he who first raised and argued the constitution- 
 ality of the excise tax on judicial process, and other State proceed- 
 ings. He was also the first who stated the powers of the courts 
 under the suspension of the habeas corpus^ and presented the view 
 which was reproduced two years later by Mr. Binney, of Philadelphia. 
 
 In his politics Mr. Bonney is a democrat, and he was very active 
 in this direction, both as a speaker and a writer, until he left Peoria 
 and removed to Chicago, since which he has given up all active par- 
 ticipation in political matters. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. Bonney has a wide reputation, his character as 
 an advocate, and his legal writings, having frequently been the subject 
 of favorable comment, in the public press of this, and of other States. 
 He is a general practitioner, with a fondness for the specialties in- 
 volved in inter-State law, and the legal relations connected with real 
 estate, patents, and private corporations. 
 
 His preference seems to be for probate and equity business, rather 
 than that of the common law, and it may be added that, though skilled 
 in arts of pleading and practice, he is a lawyer whose tendency is 
 toward settlement rather than litigation. He is an author of some 
 note, having written and published a treatise on the Law of Railway 
 Carriers ; another on the Law of Marine, Fire and Life Insurance ; 
 and has works on several other subjects in course of preparation. He 
 also edited, in a very finished and scholarly manner, the poetical works 
 of the late Judge Arrington. His published addresses embrace ora- 
 tions on Freemasonry, and a variety of educational, political and legal 
 subjects; and he is a frequent contributor to the public press of articles 
 of a legal, financial, and literary nature. 
 
 Mr. Bonney's versatility is thus shown to be very great. A lover 
 of his profession, he has acquired a competence by its practice, and 
 has for it a devotion that finds its equal in the case of but few of the 
 legal fraternity in the West. He is industrious in the extreme, and, 
 although laboring hard as a lawyer, he yet finds time to cultivate 
 literature, and to inform himself thoroughly concerning all the cur- 
 rent questions of the day. In age he is about forty years, and in 
 personal appearance he bears the marks of hard study, although he
 
 .36 THK CHICAGO RAR. 
 
 finds leisure to be courteous in his demeanor and affable in his con- 
 versation. His present associates are J. Edwards Fay and Charles 
 W. Griggs, who occupy a leading position among the younger mem- 
 bers of the Chicago bar. 
 
 In style Mr. Bonney is precise, incisive and clear, and withal a 
 ready if not a redundant speaker, writer and conversationalist. His 
 political speeches demonstrated the possession of an impassioned 
 oratory, based upon a clear and comprehensive knowledge of the 
 issues involved, and their germane facts. In the character of a poli- 
 tician, no speaker with whom he came in contact was more popular 
 or more influential; and had he devoted himself to this department 
 of effort, he might have attained almost anything within the gift of 
 the people. 
 
 Mr. Bonney is a Swedenborgian in religion, is very active in his 
 connection with Sabbath-schools, and has published a small pamphlet 
 on the interpretation of the Bible. He is a Freemason of the rank 
 of Knight Templar; and some years ago he received from the Ma- 
 sonic University of Kentucky the degree of Doctor of Laws. 
 
 He is domestic in his habits, and likes to gather about his fireside 
 a congenial company for the elaboration of literary ideas, and the 
 more graceful of the social qualities. A widely known and respe'cted 
 literary club is identified with his name; and he finds in literature a 
 delightful recreation from the exhausting labors of professional life. 
 
 Although yet comparatively a young man he has already attained 
 an enviable position as a lawyer, and author, and litterateur, and he 
 has before him a future which promises still more flattering and 
 enviable results.
 
 CHARLES HITCHCOCK. 37 
 
 CHARLES HITCHCOCK. 
 
 MR. HITCHCOCK was born in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, 
 in 1827, and is consequently now about forty-five years of age. He 
 was educated in Hanover, New Hampshire, and graduated at that 
 place in 1851. He took the law course at the Cambridge Univer- 
 sity, graduated in 1854, and came West, and has resided here, and 
 devoted himself to the practice of his chosen profession, ever since. 
 Within the time of his residence here, he has advanced himself to 
 the front rank of the legal fraternity. 
 
 A stranger would scarcely take him to be a professional man. He 
 is rather one who would be regarded as a moderate bon vivant, who 
 has but little in life to trouble him, and who is in the enjoyment of 
 an ample fortune. He is tall, has a large, portly figure, and is what 
 would be termed an imposing, fine-looking gentleman. His face is 
 not particularly indicative of intellect. His eyes are gray, and rather 
 sleepy in expression, and his countenance promises latent rather than 
 an active, belligerent energy. His hair and whiskers are gray, and 
 his forehead receives additional height and expression from a slight 
 premature baldness. Take him as he sits, and he seems a large kind 
 of a locomotive, with powerful stroke and high driving-wheels, but 
 with the steam low and the fire smoldering. One would conclude 
 that all he needs to achieve great speed and vast power is firing up. 
 There are men whose nervous temperament keeps them in perpetual 
 motion, whether there is any demand for it or not. He, however, 
 seems to be a sort of animal that has his seasons of hibernation, when 
 he is torpid, and when he seems to be undergoing no other process 
 than that of digesting his over-accumulated adipose matter. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Hitchcock is among the best known and 
 esteemed in the Northwest. His ability in this direction is not 
 marked in any one direction at the expense of any other. He is not 
 one of those men in whom some particular quality enlarges by feed- 
 ing upon others. Thus it happens that, in mental character, social 
 abilities and morals, he has undergone a remarkably even develop- 
 ment. The same evenness is exhibited in his professional character.
 
 38 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 He has, apparently, no specialty. He is equally good, and equally 
 to be trusted, whether he be employed in chancery or admiralty, or 
 as an advocate or a counsellor. He has, therefore, a very marked 
 and unusual versatility, which seems to extend to every legitimate 
 department of effort in his profession, and to a very thorough and 
 even knowledge of men and things outside of it. 
 
 This universal evenness is disarranged somewhat in the surface 
 of his professional character. While a very excellent advocate, he is 
 not as good in this respect as he is as an attorney. His opinion in 
 his office on the legal and other merits of a case is worth a certain 
 number of dollars more than an address on the same matter before 
 a jury. This is not because he is not a logical and thoroughly intelli- 
 gent speaker, but it is because he is more of a logician than an orator. 
 He argues well ; but his argument lacks that divine fire which fuses 
 the facts of a discourse irrevocably into the mind of a listener. He 
 is not an unpleasant speaker. On the contrary, he is what is popu- 
 larly known as a fine speaker. He has a clear voice, an imposing 
 presence, and a graceful style. He, however, lacks imagination. He 
 has no emotional development. He addresses the reason and never 
 the feelings of a jury. He is cold and phlegmatic, and his speeches 
 to a jury are like himself in this respect. He seems incapable of 
 experiencing any of the more powerful emotions, and equally incapa- 
 ble of influencing in others these important elements in the human 
 soul. 
 
 As the attorney needs no imagination, as its presence would be 
 rather a hindrance and a nuisance than otherwise, the lack of it by 
 Mr. Hitchcock makes him of more value when in the office than 
 when before a jury. In his office, he is a very superior lawyer. His 
 mind is very clear, active and accurate, and very pertinacious when 
 he has once made up his conclusions. He is very methodical in his 
 habits, and is remarkable for terse and clean-cut expressions his 
 papers always being in the fewest words, and always conveying the 
 exact idea. Perhaps it may be* said that his opinions on commercial 
 law have no superior anywhere. He has a high notion of honor, and 
 it is not probable that he would engage in an unjust cause, unless 
 deceived by his client with reference to the facts. His opinion is of 
 value, because it is based upon a very thorough knowledge of the law, 
 and is reached by a singularly clear series of mental operations. He 
 never becomes involved in obscurities. He is able to take a dozen 
 apparently antagonistic authorities and reach the just conclusion
 
 CHARLES HITCHCOCK.. 39 
 
 without embarrassment or labor. He is not easily confused. He 
 can reconcile conflicting situations and reach the desired end without 
 difficulty. It is possible that, in taking a view of the bearings and 
 merits of any case, he will primarily ascertain what is its technical 
 character. After he has made up his mind as to what the authorities 
 have to do with it, it may occur to him to examine its moral qualities. 
 These, however, he would, as just said, subordinate to the legal value 
 of any case. Not that he would lend himself to assist in the perpe- 
 tration of any palpable wrong ; but he is so much' the more a lawyer 
 than a moralist, that the first will naturally assert its precedence over 
 the other. 
 
 It is thus seen that despite the assertion that he is very evenly bal- 
 anced, he has some qualities that are subordinate to others. He is 
 more of a lawyer than a moralist in the sense above referred to; 
 and a better attorney than an advocate, although he is both a high 
 moralist and a fine advocate. Perfect balance in any character is 
 fatal. Its result is to place the human mechanism in the condition 
 of a wheel whose crank is " on a centre," and whose opposing forces 
 are so alike that there can be no motion whatever. All great charac- 
 ters are a trifle off " the centre " ; and hence, while Mr. Hitchcock is 
 a superior conversationalist, advocate, attorney, chancery, real estate, 
 and criminal lawyer, and a business man although he is excellent 
 in every one of these characters, he is, in some of them, better than 
 in others; and thereby receives that mechanical preponderance in 
 one direction or another which is essential to continuous motion. 
 
 Outside of his profession as well as in it, Mr. Hitchcock is greatly 
 respected. He has fine social qualities, has an available fund of val- 
 uable general information, apart from his legal knowledge ; and is 
 believed to be the possessor of qualifications that would not be mis- 
 placed on the judicial bench. He was President of the late Consti- 
 tutional Convention ; and as such, his versatility came to his aid, and 
 made him a dignified, able, and impartial officer. 
 
 Charles A. Dupee, a partner of Mr. Hitchcock, is a grave, quiet 
 young man, of fine abilities, and fills a very important place in the 
 firm of which he is a member.
 
 4 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 SIDNEY SMITH. 
 
 THIS lawyer is one of the notabilities of the Chicago bar. He is 
 noted as possessing very excellent ability, and also many personal 
 peculiarities which render him what a scientific man would call, not 
 the member of any species, but a "variety." He was born in New 
 York, studied law with Church & Davis in the western part of the 
 State, and was admitted to the bar in Albion, N. Y. He came to 
 this city about fifteen years ago. 
 
 In personal appearance he is very marked. He is well and heavily 
 built, and has in reality the physique of a prize-fighter. His face is 
 regular and very swarthy. He has heavy, black hair, a thick, black 
 moustache and piercing black eyes, whose upper lids, cut squarely 
 across, add additional effect to their piercing character. His lower 
 jaw is very heavy, and gives him a belligerent expression that is well 
 supported by his pronounced chest, savage eyes, and shaggy hair. 
 His voice is of the same noticeable character as the rest of him. As 
 a lawyer he has some peculiarities, but he stands well. He has a 
 high order of conscience, and does not regard one side of a suit just 
 as good as the other. He is not apt to give his services in any case in 
 which he thinks he will have to work against the interests of justice. 
 He is very truthful and very bold, and one always knows just what 
 he means simply by knowing what he says. He prepares a case with 
 great care, and is very successful in cases whose decision turns on 
 logic, evidence, preparation, management. Where there is anything 
 emotional in a case he can not use it. In fine, in the preparation of a 
 case he brings to bear upon it indefatigable industry, a comprehensive 
 knowledge of the principles of law and of the authorities, and a logi- 
 cal appreciation of what is needed. 
 
 He tries a case a good deal with his external arrangements his 
 heavy jaw, his piercing eyes, and the elephantine roar of his voice. 
 When he commences a suit he constitutes himself an Ishmaelite who 
 looks upon all human kind as his enemy. This mannerism is the 
 more singular and inexplicable in that Mr. Smith is at heart a very 
 genial, kind-hearted gentleman, who has a thousand admirable qual-
 
 SIDNEY SMITH. 4! 
 
 ities. But before a jury he is all muscle. Take him out of the court- 
 room, and he enjoys a good story in the hearing or telling as well as 
 any man. Before a jury, the thing is too serious for anything like 
 humor. He will laugh and be jolly when off a case, but once on it, 
 he is on the war-path, and he brandishes his tomahawk and goes 
 for scalps. 
 
 His speeches are logical, but sometimes so enveloped in thunder, 
 and so barred with a network of ferocious gesticulations, that one is 
 apt to lose sight of their real purpose in the stunned dismay with 
 which he views their surroundings. Outside of the performance of 
 his professional duties he is very popular among those who know 
 him; but once in his war-paint, he is prepared and anxious to lift the 
 hair of his best friend. 
 
 The legal profession has no more devoted lover of law than Mr. 
 Smith. He is a man who hates shams, and who has no toleration for 
 cant or humbug of any kind. He is as sincere in all his ways and 
 beliefs as he is rugged, boisterous, and muscular in his developments 
 before a jury. He is not a malicious man, for he has a trick of 
 laughing with his eyes that is never seen save in one who is thor- 
 oughly good-natured and kindly at bottom. He has brains in abun- 
 dance, and the judgment to use them effectively. What he needs 
 more than anything else is toning down. He is keyed too high by 
 several octaves. However, the abrading effects of time will wear off 
 his rough edges. He is a diamond in the rough, and requires cutting 
 and polishing. Time will doubtless accomplish these results, and 
 then, in Mr. Smith, the bar of Chicago will have a finished diamond 
 of the first water, for, despite all his personal peculiarities, he is uni- 
 versally recognized as one of the ablest and most successful lawyers 
 in the profession in the Northwest.
 
 42 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 WILLIAM H. KING. 
 
 MR. KING was born in Saratoga county, New York, about fifty 
 years ago. He entered Union College, and graduated in 1846. He 
 studied law under Hon. John K. Porter, of Waterford, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1847. He practiced law in Waterford till 
 1853, when he removed to Chicago, and has been a resident here 
 since that time. He is now President of the Board of Education, 
 and a member of the Illinois legislature. 
 
 Mr. King is a trifle below medium size, with keen black eyes, a 
 good forehead, a pleasant, intellectual face, and a quick, energetic, 
 nervous manner. His general appearance is suggestive of kindness, 
 and of an active, restless character. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. King occupies a very excellent position. His 
 practice is general, and his development very uniform. He is a good 
 lawyer, whether in preparing a case, in trying it, or in presenting it 
 either to a court or jury. He is a lawyer whose integrity is above all 
 suspicion. He will only engage in just litigation, and once engaged 
 he is on who gives the case a most thorough and conscientious treat- 
 ment. He stands among the very first of those of his profession who 
 may be relied on for indefatigable industry, pains-taking preparation 
 and conduct of a case, unvarying courtesy towards everybody with 
 whom they come in contact, and thorough and conscientious discharge 
 of their duty to their client. These qualities has given him a excel- 
 lent standing, and a lucrative and successful practice. 
 
 Apart from his profession, Mr. King is an affable, courteous gen- 
 tleman. He has secured a competence from the practice of law, and 
 he is sufficiently cultivated to permit him to enjoy life very thoroughly 
 in his character as a private citizen. 
 
 Mr. George Payson, one of his partners, is a gentleman of about 
 forty-five years of age, and is a son of the well-known Rev. Edward 
 Payson. He is a very reliable lawyer in every department of legal 
 practice, whether his duties be connected with the office or with the 
 trial of a case in the courts. 
 
 The remaining partner, Ira Scott, is about forty-five years of age, 
 is a student also of Hon. John K. Porter, is a very superior office 
 lawyer, and a master in chancery.
 
 M. F. TULEY. 43 
 
 M. F. TULEY. 
 
 THIS gentleman, now corporation counsel, is forty-four years of 
 age, and was born in Louisville. He removed to Chicago in 1843, 
 and studied law here, and attended the law school in Louisville in 
 1846. He was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1847. During the 
 Mexican war. he served three years in the volunteer service as First 
 Lieutenant of Company F. of the Fifth Illinois Infantry. At the close 
 of the war he went into New Mexico, and remained till 1854. 
 During his residence there he filled the position of attorney general, 
 and served two terms in the legislature. Since 1854 he has been 
 practicing his profession in Chicago. He was elected to his present 
 office in 1869. 
 
 Mr. Tuley is of medium size, with grey hair, blue eyes, and an 
 older appearance than would be supposed from his age. He has seen 
 very much of the world, and is a gentleman of considerable cultivation 
 outside of his profession. He is very highly regarded, both as a gen- 
 tleman and a lawyer. In his latter character, he is better in an office 
 or in the conduct of a case than before a jury. He is not a fluent 
 speaker, but he makes a very excellent argument before a judge, and 
 in any instance in which the bare, logical presentation of facts are all 
 that is demanded. In the preparation of a case he is very careful and 
 pains-taking, and never presents anything until it has become all that 
 laborious preparation can make it. As a manager he is very shrewd 
 and cunning, much more so than would be supposed from his quiet 
 face and demeanor, and more so even than is generally suspected by 
 those who have long possessed his acquaintance.
 
 44 'I'HE CHICAGO BAK. 
 
 WIRT DEXTER. 
 
 MK. DKXTEK comes of a legal stock. His grandfather, his uncle, 
 and his father were all distinguished members of the legal profession. 
 In his celebrated speech against Hayne, Webster spoke of Samuel 
 Dexter as " that great man of whom the gentleman has made honor- 
 able mention. He was a lawyer and he was also a statesman. A 
 question of constitutional law was of all subjects that one which was 
 best suited to his talents and learning. Aloof from technicality, and 
 unfettered by artificial rule, such a question gave opportunity for that 
 deep and clear analysis, that mighty grasp of principle, which so much 
 distinguish his higher efforts. His very statement was^argument ; his 
 inference seemed demonstration. The earnestness of his own convic- 
 tion wrought conviction in others. One was convinced, and believed, 
 and assented because it was gratifying, delightful, to think, and feel, 
 and believe in unison with an intellect of such evident superiority." 
 This gentleman was a member of John Adams' Cabinet, and was 
 the grandfather of Mr. Dexter. His father Samuel, and his uncle 
 Franklin Dexter, were lawyers of great prominence, so that Mr. Dexter 
 is royally descended with respect to the legal standing of his ancestors. 
 Mr. Dexter's father \vas a territorial judge in Michigan, after which 
 he resumed the practice of law in the town of Dexter, which he 
 founded. Wirt Dexter was born in that place, and always resided 
 there until his removal to Chicago. 
 
 He is now about thirty-eight years of age, and hence his birth must 
 have occurred about the year 1833. He went more or less to adjacent 
 schools, and spent some little time at Ann Arbor, but left before 
 obtaining his degree and entered an Eastern college. The other por- 
 tions of his life before he came to Chicago were spent, in part, in the 
 lumber regions, where he was engaged in reducing pine to the neces- 
 sities of civilization, and in addressing his fellow citizens from the 
 stump upon the political issues of the day. He is said to have been a 
 young man whose maiden efforts at oratory were lofty and emphatic 
 a cross between the fervid pulpit efforts of a sincere Methodist
 
 W1RT DEXTER. 45 
 
 preacher, and the gorgeous overflow of a young bird of freedom whose 
 home is near the setting sun. 
 
 Mr. Dexter came to Chicago from Michigan about thirteen years 
 ago, where, for awhile, he was engaged in the lumber business. He 
 then commenced the study of law in the office of Sedgwick & Walker. 
 In due time he was admitted to the bar, and within this period he has 
 progressed from a raw youth from the lumber regions into one of the 
 leading lawyers of the Northwest, and from intellectually nobody 
 in particular, into one of the most influential and respected citizens 
 of Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Dexter is tall, with a massive chest, and an athletic form 
 which nothing less than the gymnastics of log-rolling could have de- 
 veloped. He has an open face, large, blue, expressive and kindly 
 eyes, a high, broad forehead, and a full, dark-brown beard. His ex- 
 pression is one of refinement and intelligence, combined with a genial 
 and dignified frankness. Taken in all respects, he is what most men 
 would term a handsome man. With his grand torso, and long arms, 
 he would have made a cavalry officer of most magnificent presence. 
 But what the cavalry service has lost the legal profession has gained, 
 for he stands in the very front rank of the latter. 
 
 As a lawyer he is both a superior advocate and a very excellent 
 counsellor. In his latter character he is a student; and yet the stu- 
 dent rather of general principles than of authorities. He has a very 
 powerful intuitive ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and 
 if he applies himself to the books it is for the purpose, not of ascer- 
 taining their conclusions, but of finding in them evidence to sustain 
 the conclusions which his intuitions have already constructed. He 
 seems to regard the law book as a means rather than an end ; a some- 
 thing to be used as a witness to establish a certain case, and not as a 
 judge whose decision is final. 
 
 This intuitive appreciation of what should be, without a slavish 
 dependence upon authorities, is a fine and very excellent mental pecu- 
 liarity. It is akin to an intelligent conscience ; and a man who is 
 guided by it will rarely never kncfwingly become involved in a 
 wrong. This is the case with Mr. Dexter. It does not seem possible 
 that he would take any case which he does not believe to be right. 
 From the inspiration of these tuitions he has grown to abhor wrong, 
 trickery, and even litigation itself, whose existence he believes unnec- 
 essary save as a very last resort. 
 
 As an advocate he stands well. His speeches always mean some-
 
 46 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 thing, for they are always underlaid by the conviction that he is 
 right. He always speaks with an earnestness which convinces a 
 listener that he believes what he is saying. The tone of his speech 
 is elevated, clear, and comprehensive. He occasionally introduces a 
 humorous illustration, but never descends to buffoonry. Always it 
 is evident that it is a gentleman who speaks. He talks with entire 
 readiness, and is fond of interspersing his sentences with epigram- 
 matic utterances from noted authors. His better efforts are classical 
 in their purity, their clearness, and their sharp-cut outlines. 
 
 In his legal character, Mr. Dexter is influential for the reason that 
 his .firm is one of brains and cultivation, and because his personal 
 influence in a case is of great weight. Men have confidence in him, 
 because they know he will not advise them to commence a suit unless 
 their cause is right, and that there is no remedy for them save litiga- 
 tion. It is a very strong indorsement that a man's case is perfectly 
 just, and a substantial earnest that he will win it, when it is known 
 that it is being carried by Mr. Dexter. 
 
 This gentleman has very fine social qualities. He is not of one 
 idea, but converses easily and eloquently upon all ordinary topics. 
 In his private life he is genial and affable, occupies a high social po- 
 sition, is luxurious in his habits, and artistic in his tastes and sur- 
 roundings. He is liberal to the last degree, and his personal 
 cooperation and that of his check-book may always be relied on in 
 any case of public or private suffering. His generosity, intelligence, 
 and geniality make him as much respected in private life, as he is in 
 his professional character for his probity, dignity, eloquence and 
 ability.
 
 E. G. ASAY. 47 
 
 E. G. ASAY. 
 
 MR. ASAY was born in Philadelphia, and must be now somewhere 
 in the vicinity of forty-five years of age. He enjoyed very good edu- 
 cational advantages in his youth, the which, with an enthusiastic dis- 
 position and a fine ability, he resolved to devote to the sacred calling 
 of the ministry of the pulpit. He connected himself with the Meth- 
 odist denomination, mainly, one who knows him would fancy, be- 
 cause it furnishes an outlet for a mercurial disposition and a springy, 
 impetuous nature, such as is found in no other denomination. 
 
 He occupied himself for a time in the work of saving wandering 
 sheep that were outside the fold, and in other pastoral duties, and 
 was then taken from the pulpit and placed in the desk of a professor, 
 at the head of an institution of learning connected with the Metho- 
 dist church. How long he remained in this position, or why he con- 
 cluded to change his profession, is not known to the writer ; but it is 
 known that, after a time, he transferred himself to the bar. From 
 the pulpit to the bar is no great distance. The pastor who saves sin- 
 ners from the damnation of sin, and the lawyer who saves criminals 
 from the damnation of their offences, are not greatly removed from 
 each other. These changes from the pulpit to the bar, and vice versa, 
 are not uncommon. In fact, pulpit and bar are, in many respects, 
 interchangeable terms ; and he who practices in the Supreme Court 
 established some eighteen hundred years ago, is not undergoing an 
 ill-judged course of preparation for the mundane courts of chancery 
 or of criminality. 
 
 Mr. Asay studied law in New York, and came to Chicago in 1856, 
 since which time he has been actively engaged as a general practi- 
 tioner, with a very decided tendency toward, and attachment for, 
 criminal law and its practice. In respect to the latter branch of his 
 profession, he has attained a first-class position. He has been prom- 
 inent in many noted causes ceTcbres that have occurred in the West, 
 among which the defense of Mollie Trussell, for the killing of the 
 gambler Trussell, and the defense of the alleged conspirator, Charles 
 Walsh, at Cincinnati, are best known to the public. His success in
 
 48 THK CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 the practice of criminal law is proven by the fact that in Chicago he 
 has had the charge of the defense of some forty capital cases, and in 
 no instance have any of his clients ever suffered a capital conviction. 
 In personal appearance, Mr. Asay is prepossessing, with the air 
 of a cosmopolite. He is a little above medium height, with a mas- 
 sive, well-developed form. His head is broad, denoting a fine intel- 
 lectual development ; his eyes are a kindly blue, his lips full, and his 
 countenance one expressive of great intelligence, geniality, and 
 energy. 
 
 This quality of energy seems to pervade him most thoroughly. He 
 is always wide-awake, and apparently driven, by a high-pressure, 
 manifold horse-power mechanism. In conversation and in speech he 
 dashes ahead with the flan of a French zouave in a. pas de charge. 
 He never appears to go wer a subject he goes through it, and sends 
 obstructions flying in every direction, like a locomotive going at sixty 
 miles an hour through a snow-drift. 
 
 He is an undoubted logician, but he forces convictions by his im- 
 petuosity. He does not so much reason things from his path, but he 
 dashes them aside. Quick as a flash to catch a point, to detect a 
 flaw, or avail himself of any sudden exigency, he is invaluable in the 
 conduct of a case in which vigor, determination, and instantaneous 
 comprehension of a character of a juror or witness are requisite 
 qualities. 
 
 He is as genial in manner and conversation as can be desired. He 
 is at home on all subjects ; has an opinion on anything, or will have 
 one, in a fraction of a second, on every topic that is presented ; he 
 reads and analyzes character with a surprising readiness and accu- 
 racy; he has a large fund of fine humor, and is full of illustrations 
 and reminiscences ; he possesses an under-current of poetical ideas, 
 that are always rising to and sparkling at the surface of his conversa- 
 tion; and he is a very general favorite with the bar and the public. 
 In his private life he is noted for being fond of a luxurious domes- 
 ticity, and as being a devoted bibliophilist, whose bibliolatry has 
 brought together the finest and rarest private library in the West, if 
 not on the continent.
 
 THOMAS DENT. 49 
 
 THOMAS DENT. 
 
 MR. DENT was born in Putnam county, Illinois, November 14, 
 1831. At twelve years of age he became assistant, for a short time, 
 in the Clerk's office of that county. He occasionally acted in that 
 capacity during three years following, and acquired a taste for legal 
 business and studies. At fifteen he was withdrawn from school to 
 assist his father in the public offices of the county. In 1854 he was 
 admitted to the bar, and was soon called to a full share of work in 
 the county and upon the circuit. In the spring of 1856 he removed 
 to Chicago and became associated in business with M. R. M. Wallace, 
 now County Judge of Cook county. In 1857 he removed his office 
 to Peoria, but he returned to Chicago the next year, and in the fall 
 of 1860 entered into partnership with the late Judge Arrington, which 
 association continued until the death of the latter. At present he is 
 of the firm of Dent & Black. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Dent is delicate and feminine. His 
 face is small and pale, with lines furrowing it in every direction, indi- 
 cating severe study. His countenance is one that shows a very high 
 order of intelligence. In his physical character there seems little 
 of him. He is so slender that one almost feels a pity that one with 
 so refined a face should be obliged to encounter the dangers of the 
 streets without a guide and a protector in the person of a stalwart 
 companion. 
 
 Physically, nature has done nothing for Mr. Dent. In an intel- 
 lectual sense, what he is he has made himself. He is a student in 
 the most comprehensive sense of the word. He looks as though he 
 had neglected and exhausted his physical frame in building up his 
 intellect. As a lawyer possessing a great knowledge of law, he stands 
 very high. In his plodding, studious career, he has attended to a 
 large number of cases in the Supreme Court of the State, and other 
 courts of record, laboring assiduously in his calling, to which he is 
 much attached. He presents a case always clearly and pointedly, 
 and comprehensively, and when he has finished he has made every 
 point that the case contains. 
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 SO THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 Socially, Mr. Dent's standing is very high. He is a prominent 
 and influential member of the Third Presbyterian church, and is 
 there, as in all his social relations, admired and respected. He has 
 no enemies at the bar. They all admire his industry and respect his 
 knowledge. Were he possessed of more physical energy, could his 
 mental efforts be reinforced by a strong, vigorous frame, were he a 
 trifle less a man of talent, 'and more a man of genius, he would take 
 a very high rank. As it is, he stands well, and if patient, persevering 
 industry can carry him to the front, he will surely, in time, attain that 
 position.
 
 MELVILLE W. FULLER. 51 
 
 MELVILLE W. FULLER. 
 
 MR. FULLER is a lawyer by descent as well as education. He is 
 the son of a lawyer, and the grandson, on one side, of a lawyer, and 
 on the other of Nathan Weston, at one time Chief Justice of the 
 Supreme Court. He was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1833, and grad- 
 uated, where all Maine men now graduate, at Bowdoin, in 1853. He 
 commenced the study of law in Augusta, and finished in the Harvard 
 law school. He was president of the common council of Augusta in 
 1856; and the same year left there and came to Chicago, where he 
 has since resided. Since here he has taken quite a prominent position 
 as a public man. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention 
 in 1862, a democratic member of the Legislature in 1863, and a dele- 
 gate to the National Democratic Convention in 1864. Although very 
 devoted to his chosen profession, Mr. Fuller has always found time to 
 be a democrat, and to do his share of the labors of the organization. 
 
 In person, he is a trifle less than medium height, with broad shoul- 
 ders and a well-knit frame. He has a large, intellectual head, with 
 intelligent gray eyes, a strong mouth, a luxurious moustache, and 
 abundant hair slightly sprinkled with gray, and is a very good- 
 looking gentleman, with a pleasant, intellectual face. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Fuller has achieved a very high reputation /rom 
 his legal services in general, and from the prominence with which he 
 was brought before the public by his connection with the Whitehouse- 
 Cheney case an ecclesiastical proceeding whose details have become 
 world-wide. Tn his profession he is a man of many resources, and is 
 usually esteemed a manager whom it is no small labor to handle. He 
 is very vigilant and active. He is a ready speaker, and has great 
 fluency and speaks well. He is perhaps a better advocate than an 
 attorney, for the reason that, in addition to his oratorical ability, there 
 is more opportunity for adroit management in trying a case than in 
 preparing it ; nevertheless, he is industrious to the extreme, and he 
 spares no pains, time or labor in bringing his cases to the very highest 
 state of preparation. He is able to bring a very large amount of 
 general learning into his speeches, and his use of the classics is at 
 
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 52 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 once extended and elegant. He is a bull-dog in pertinacity, never 
 surrenders, and always pushes his cases to the last extremity. He 
 gained notoriety as a lawyer in many important cases, and which 
 involved great constitutional and political questions. Of late he has 
 attracted attention in the Cheney case, and his oral argument before 
 the Supreme Court in that case is regarded as of the very highest 
 order. 
 
 His ambition, which is great politically as well as in his profession, 
 spurs him into making the most of law and his ability. He is very 
 cool in trying a case, and keeps his temper well, and therein has a 
 great advantage over a more impetuous opponent. His tactics in 
 such cases are good, for the reason that, whenever practicable, he 
 never awaits to receive an attack, but always anticipates, by charging 
 himself and putting the other party on the defensive. He is nervous 
 without being timorous; and is very apt to indulge in flank or other 
 movements in directions that are not watched by the opposing coun- 
 sel. Perhaps the best evidence that he is devoted to the law is found 
 in the fact that he continues its practice although sufficiently wealthy 
 to live comfortably without it.
 
 B. F. AVER. 53 
 
 B. F. AVER. 
 
 THIS lawyer, the middle member of Beckwith, Ayer & Kales, was 
 born in Rockingham county, New Hampshire, in 1825. He fitted 
 himself for college at Albany, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. 
 He studied law two years at Manchester, one year at Harvard, and 
 was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, in 1849. He practiced 
 there until 1857, and was, during that time, Prosecuting Attorney for 
 three years. He came to Chicago in 1857, and has since practiced 
 law in this city. He was Corporation Counsel from 1861 to 1865, 
 and filled the position most acceptably. At the present time, in 
 addition to his other duties, he is the attorney for the South Park 
 Commissioners. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Ayer occupies a prominent position. He is 
 better adapted for office business than for the trial of cases. He 
 possesses very clear perceptions and great industry, so that he is not 
 only entirely competent to go carefully through a case, but to reach 
 with almost entire certainty, exact and correct conclusions. His 
 integrity is as undoubted as his judgment is beyond dispute. He is 
 regarded as very close, or, in other words, very exact and mathemat- 
 ical, in his mental processes. He has a very fine analytical mind, and 
 has his ability in this direction so nicely adjusted that he can split a 
 hair, with entire accuracy every time, " twixt south and southwest 
 side." He is modest, reticent, undemonstrative, and unostentatious. 
 As a speaker, he is easy, polished, fluent, forcible, but not imaginative. 
 
 Mr. Ayer looks much younger than his real age. He is of medium 
 height, has a fine, intellectual head, blue eyes, regular features, abun- 
 dant light hair, and a clean-shaved face. His looks indicate intelli- 
 gence and refinement. He is a gentleman of cultivation outside of 
 his profession, and is very much respected, both by his brother mem- 
 bers of the bar and by the general public.
 
 54 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 EMORY A. STORKS. 
 
 THIS well-known advocate was born in Cattaraugus county, New 
 York, in 1834. He read law with his father and Marshall R. Cham- 
 plain, now Attorney General of the State of New York. He was 
 admitted to the bar in Buffalo, in 1855 ; and practiced law in New 
 York city until 1859, when he came to Chicago. 
 
 Mr. Storrs is in many respects one of the most noted men at the 
 Chicago bar. In thus having attained prominence, his shining qual- 
 ities are not of an unmixed character. There is in him much to ad- 
 mire, and elements which would improve his character were they 
 omitted. He has better qualities in abundance, and an ability which, 
 if evenly developed, would place him at the very head of the legal 
 profession in the West. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Storrs has, as has been said, some qualities 
 which have few equals and no superiors in the legal profession, either 
 in Chicago or the country. As a jury lawyer, there is a domain in 
 which he has no rival. His command of language is something mar- 
 velous * and his powers of ridicule and sarcasm, and his development 
 of the humerous phases of any case, are unapproachable. He is, in 
 these respects, brilliant and successful to an extreme. His compre- 
 hension and appreciation of the ludicrous are vast, and his ability to 
 employ them is equally extensive. His efforts are always sparkling, 
 intensely brilliant, and sometimes evanescent. What is strange in his 
 oratorical character, is the fact that he is rarely pathetic. The man 
 who has a keen appreciation of the humorous, rarely is unaccompanied 
 by a corresponding susceptibility to its opposite. He who will laugh 
 heartily will generally cry when due cause for tears is presented. If 
 a jury whom Mr. Storrs addresses ever find themselves with their eyes 
 filled with tears, is is from the fact of laughing over his funny presen- 
 tation of some point, or his scoriation of some opposing lawyer or 
 some unfortunate witness. 
 
 But these defects are the exception, possibly, rather than the rule 
 in Mr. Storrs' forensic efforts. Many of his good things are born of 
 the occasion, and this occasional spontaneity is a redeeming clause
 
 EMORY A. STORKS. 55 
 
 in Mr. Storrs' efforts as an advocate; and its results are often of a 
 fineness, a pertinency, a superiority that indicate that their originator 
 has in him many of the better-qualities of the artist. In addition to 
 these occasional risings above his commonplace and average efforts, 
 Mr. Storrs possesses other excellent qualities. He is a hard student 
 when necessity demands application, and he has riot only the industry 
 to work up a case, but the ability to comprehend it. He is willing 
 to work, zealous in the cause of his client, and able to accomplish a 
 good deal. 
 
 As a political speaker, Mr. Storrs has gained considerable position, 
 and he, in this rSlf, carries some weight. In this domain of effort, 
 motives are not so much considered, and sincerity is not of so essen- 
 tial consequence. 
 
 In personal appearance, Mr. Storrs is below the medium height, 
 is slender, with light hair and complexion, and blue eyes. He is 
 quick in movement, and has a nervous style, that indicates an active 
 organization. He has, in fine, many of the elements of a great man, 
 and is a lawyer who is very successful, and who has more admirers 
 and more haters than any other member of the profession in Chicago.
 
 $6 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 STEPHEN A. GOODWIN. 
 
 THIS well-known member of the Chicagobar was born in 1807, in 
 Geneva, New York. He passed his extreme youth in Geneva, and 
 in time removed with his father to Detroit. He entered Hamilton 
 College in 1826, and passed from there to Union College in 1828, and 
 graduated the following year. It may be mentioned in this connec- 
 tion that one of his classmates at Union College was Robert Toombs, 
 between whom and young Goodwin there was no end of wordy war, 
 Toombs being then an ardent champion of States' rights, and all the 
 rest of the budget of extreme Southern views. He studied law with 
 Hon. Geo. B., and E. T. Throop afterwards Governor of New York 
 and was admitted to the bar at Auburn in 1831. Some time after 
 this, he combined politics with law, taking an active interest in cur- 
 rent political events. During the campaign accompanying Jackson's 
 second nomination, he conducted a journal in the interest of Old 
 Hickory, in which department of effort he succeeded not merely in 
 distinguishing himself, but in doing excellent service for the party. 
 For fifteen years prior to the abolition of Chancery practice in New 
 York he was Clerk of the Seventh Circuit of the Chancery Court un- 
 der the late Chancellor Walworth, and with which distinguished man 
 he sustained extremely friendly and intimate relations. 
 
 During his practice of law in New York, the men with whom he 
 was almost daily brought into professional contact, were Hon. Wm. 
 H. Seward, Hon. Jno. C. Spencer, Hon. B. Davis Noxon, Hon. F. G. 
 Jewett, Ex-Gov. Selden ; and from which contact he was necessarily 
 obliged to develop his legal faculties with more than average rapidity 
 and excellence. 
 
 In 1855 he removed to Detroit, and began the practice of his pro- 
 fession in that place, in company with his brother, who is now Judge 
 of the Mackinaw Circuit. He remained there four years, and then 
 removed to Chicago, in order to better accommodate the business 
 which had grown up for him in this locality. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin is of marked personal appearance. He is quite tall, 
 slender, erect, with dark complexion, high forehead, hair black, and
 
 STEPHEN A GOODWIN. 57 
 
 slightly tinged with gray, regular features, and a countenance which 
 is fine in detail, but ploughed with lines indicative of severe labor, 
 and possibly somewhat care-worn and anxious in its expression. 
 
 There is, perhaps, no lawyer at the bar of the Northwest who has 
 so varied an experience, and so extended a practice in every depart- 
 ment of law, as Mr. Goodwin. In criminal, chancery, and admiralty 
 practice, common law, and ecclesiastical matters, he has had a busi- 
 ness which has extended over nearly half a century. At the present 
 time he devotes himself mainly to patent law practice, and in this de- 
 partment he has achieved a very large success and constructed a busi- 
 ness of great dimensions. 
 
 He is very evenly developed as a lawyer. Perhaps he is now more 
 of a counsellor than an attorney, for the reason that his labors now 
 mainly confine him to judicial, rather than jury arguments. For- 
 merly, when his duties called him to lay a case before a jury, he was 
 very highly successful, and had few superiors in this line of effort. 
 He is a man of the greatest possible industry ; and when once he has 
 made the case of a client his own, he spares no effort to achieve suc- 
 cess. His learning as a lawyer is profound and exhaustive ; and in 
 the matter of integrity, one more unimpeachable nowhere exists. His 
 experience of men is varied almost beyond comprehension. He has 
 studied them under every possible circumstance, having, while at 
 Auburn, had a practice which extended not only over the entire State, 
 but also over a^great part of New England. Since leaving the East 
 his territorial efforts have been quite as extended, and embrace opera- 
 tions in every State in the Northwest. In fine, it may be said that 
 he is a gentleman who, professionally and socially, is thoroughly esti- 
 mable, and this fact is recognized universally by those with whom he 
 is thrown into contact.
 
 58 THK CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 ISAAC N. ARNOLD. 
 
 THIS gentleman, who has tor many years occupied a prominent 
 position before the public as a lawyer and politician, was born in 
 Hartwick, Otsego County, New York, November 30, 1815. He had 
 the customary educational advantages of the county schools and 
 village academy, which he improved to such an extent as to give 
 him a very fair preparation for the duties of practical life. 
 
 At the early age of fifteen he found himself thrown upon his own 
 resources, and from that time began his struggle with the stern facts 
 of existence, which served to strengthen and develop those mental and 
 moral characteristics which have made him so much a man of influ- 
 ence and note. From seventeen to twenty he divided his time 
 between academic study, teaching, and reading law, earning enough 
 mo ney by teaching half the year to enable him to pursue his studies 
 the other half. He first entered the law office of Richard Cooper, of 
 Cooperstown, N. Y., a nephew of the celebrated author, J. Fenni- 
 more Cooper, and subsequently became a student of Judge K. H. 
 Morehouse. By assiduous application he soon acquired sufficient 
 knowledge of law to make his services in the office available toward 
 paying his expenses. In 1835 he was admitted to the Supreme 
 Court of the State of New York, and immediately entered into 
 partnership with Judge Morehouse, with whom he remained until he 
 came West, in 1836. 
 
 In 1837 he entered into partnership with Mahlon D. Ogden, and 
 afterwards became connected with E. C. Lamed and Geo. W. 
 Lay. During this year, Chicago having become an incorporated 
 city, he was elected City Clerk, but his professional business 
 increased so rapidly, that he resigned his Clerkship before the year 
 expired, and confined himself exclusively to the practice of law. 
 In 1842 he first took a prominent part in the politics of the State. 
 At that time the question of State finances was the exciting topic. 
 Public improvements, which were as yet unproductive of revenue,
 
 ISAAC .V AKNOLb. 59 
 
 having brought the State deeply in debt, many prominent men were 
 zealously advocating repudiation. 
 
 W.ith the nice sense of honor for which Mr. Arnold has always 
 been noted, he at once raised his voice in protest, and entered the 
 field an active and efficient opponent of so questionable a proceeding. 
 He was a delegate to the State Democratic Convention, and was also 
 elected to the Legislature the same year, as the recognized champion 
 of anti-repudiation. 
 
 In 1844 he was nominated as one of the Electors by the 
 State Convention, and in 1848 was elected delegate to the Buffalo 
 Convention, supporting with great earnestnes the Free Soil 
 movement, and rendering substantial aid in organizing the 
 new party, which had its birth at that time. In 1855 Mr. Arnold 
 was again elected to the Legislature, and \\ as the Free Soil candidate 
 for Speaker, lacking only three or four votes of being elected. In 
 1858 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress before the 
 Republican Convention of the then second district, John F. Farns- 
 worth being his opponent. In 1860 he was elected to Congress over 
 Mr. Farnsworth, by an overwhelming majority. 
 
 Up to this time, although taking an active part on the anti- 
 slavery side of politics, in every campaign, State or National, Mr. 
 Arnold had devoted himself assiduously to the practice of his pro- 
 fession, by which means he had won a leading place among the noted 
 and successful lawyers of the West, having a professional income of 
 $24,000 when he went into Congress. Retiring entirely from his 
 profession, he gave himself up to his public duties, and for six years 
 remained at Washington, expending each year $5,000 more than 
 his compensation. In 1864 he declined a re-nomination to Congress, 
 but received the appointment of Auditor of the Treasury for the 
 Post-office Department, which position he resigned under Mr. 
 Johnson's administration. Since that time Mr. Arnold has with- 
 drawn from politics entirely, and devoted himself to the practice 
 of his profession and literature. 
 
 He is a very excellent lawyer, very methodical in his habits, dig- 
 nified before a Jury, and forcible and convincing when arguing before 
 a Judge. He has made a specialty of criminal practice. His first 
 important case of this kind was the trial of a negro named Dacit, in 
 Otsego county, who was accused of murdering his brother. Mr. 
 Arnold being satisfied of his innocence, volunteered to defend him, 
 and procured his acquittal. This was the beginning of an extensive
 
 60 THE CHICAGO BA. 
 
 criminal practice, during which no man defended by him was ever 
 convicted. Among other noted causes in which he has appeared as 
 counsel, that of Taylor Driscoll, charged with the murder of John 
 Campbell, the leader of a band of' " regulators," in Ogle county, is 
 perhaps the most celebrated ; while the cases of Henry Bridenbecke, 
 and German, both charged with murder, in McHenry county, and of 
 Green, in this city, are of equal interest. 
 
 Mr. Arnold has a keen, analytical mind, is a close observer, and, 
 without possessing genius, possesses so much talent that it is difficult 
 to draw the line. He is wiry, shrewd and untiring, a deep thinker, 
 and a speaker of fluency and ability. 
 
 As an author Mr. Arnold has also achieved signal success. His 
 " Life of Lincoln" is generally conceded to be the most complete 
 and faithful record of that great man's career, and of the history of 
 the overthrow of slavery ever given to the public. His close and 
 intimate relations with Mr. Lincoln gave him advantages which, with 
 his appreciative admiration of his subject, combined with a facile 
 pen, enabled him to give with accuracy, as well as elegance of diction, 
 the history of the most interesting and exciting times of our late 
 war. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Arnold is tall, slender, and stately. 
 He has a high, prominent forehead, thin grey hair, an aquiline nose? 
 keen, grey eyes under heavy brows, a thin, closely shut mouth, and 
 a full beard, well trimmed and grey. In manner he is courtly, affable 
 and rather elaborate, after the manner of the old regime, and always 
 looks and acts the polished, courteous gentleman.
 
 GEORGE C. BATES. 6l 
 
 GEORGE C. BATES. 
 
 THIS Nestor of the Western bar is a native of Canandaigua, New 
 York, and was born in 1814. He studied law in the office of Hon. 
 John C. Spencer, reading with him three years. In 1834 he went to 
 Detroit, and was there admitted to the bar. He soon obtained a large 
 collecting practice, which extended to Indiana and Northern Illinois. 
 In 1841, he was appointed United States District Attorney by General 
 Harrison, but resigned at Harrison's death. He was re-appointed to 
 the same position by Taylor ; and he held the office until 1852, when 
 he resigned and went to California, and there filled the position of 
 assistant counsel in government cases. Five years later, he returned 
 to Detroit, having accumulated a large fortune during his California 
 career. In 1861 he came to Chicago, and since that time he has been 
 in general practice. He was admitted to the bar cotemporaneously 
 with Hon. Thomas Hoyne and the late Judge George Manierre, of 
 this city, and is, therefore, one of the oldest members of the bar in 
 the West. While his line of practice is general, he has had a good 
 deal to do with revenue and admiralty matters, for which he is emi- 
 nently fitted from his long connection with official positions. 
 
 Mr. Bates is of medium size, with gray hair and moustache, keen, 
 handsome dark eyes, and a pleasing, intelligent face. He has been 
 very prominently identified with political matters, and as a speaker 
 has been in very constant demand. He is an advocate rather than an 
 office lawyer, and as such he has achieved a very marked success. 
 He is a gentleman of the old school, very affable and courteous, is the 
 possessor of a very large amount of genuine esprit de corps, and, it may 
 be added, is very generally respected by those who know him.
 
 62 THK CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 IRA O. WILKINSON. 
 
 HON. IRA O. WILKINSON was horn in Virginia, and is about fifty 
 years of age. In 1835 he became a resident of Jacksonville, Illinois, 
 where he was educated and studied law with Judge William Thomas. 
 On being admitted to the bar he formed a copartnership with Hon. 
 Richard Yates, which was relinquished when he removed to Rock 
 Island in 1845. Here he built up an extensive and successful prac- 
 tice, and was elected and served for two terms as Judge of the Sixth 
 Judicial District, in which position he obtained an enviable record 
 and gave very general satisfaction. In 1867 he removed to Chicago, 
 and is now the senior partner of the firm of Wilkinson, Sackett & 
 Bean. 
 
 Judge Wilkinson is unassuming in his manners, dignified and 
 courteous in his deportment, and, without the circle of his intimate 
 friends, somewhat inclined to reticence. He has a vigorous and well- 
 balanced mind, trained and developed by liberal professional and 
 general culture. He possesses undoubted integrity, and in his prac- 
 tice unites the probity and fairness of the judge with the acumen and 
 fidelity of the lawyer. He is thoroughly familiar with the general 
 principles of the law, and in argument he reasons from his own 
 premises, deduces his own conclusions, and uses cases only so far as 
 they illustrate principles. He is a counselor rather than an advocate, 
 and, as such, is a. very safe adviser.
 
 ISRAEL N. STILES. 63 
 
 ISRAEL N. STILES. 
 
 GENERAL STILES was born in 1833, in Suffield, Connecticut, on 
 a farm, where he remained till sixteen years of age, working in sum- 
 mer and attending the district school in winter. At the age of nine- 
 teen he removed to Lafayette, Indiana, and commenced reading in a 
 law-office, having read law the year before coming West. Soon after 
 he took a school a few miles out of town. At night he taught sing- 
 ing school, and the while carried on his law studies. The next year 
 he opened a private school, and continued reading law until 1855, 
 when he was admitted to the bar. About this time, Lawrence, in 
 Kansas, was burned, and at a public meeting, young Stiles developed 
 an oratorical ability that astonished every one. Thereafter he rose 
 rapidly into prominence. During the Fremont- Buchanan campaign 
 he made sixty-six regular speeches through the country, one of which 
 was given in Music Hall, Boston, and another in Augusta, Maine. 
 He was prosecuting attorney for two years, and subsequently was 
 elected to the State Legislature. 
 
 He was beginning to get ahead in law practice when the war 
 broke out. He raised a company, although married the same month. 
 Somebody else received the captaincy of his company, and then he 
 enlisted as a private, but was made Adjutant to the 2oth Indiana. 
 He was captured at Malvern Hill, and was in Libby six weeks, and 
 was then exchanged. He was made Major of the 63d Indiana, then 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of the same regiment, and finally Brigadier Gen- 
 eral, his commission dating from the battle of Franklin, Tennessee. 
 After the war he came to Chicago, and practised law alone until he 
 entered into partnership with Judge McAllister, in 1867. Two years 
 later he was elected City Attorney, which position he now holds. 
 
 This sketch of the life of General Stiles has been made thus ex- 
 tended, because its incidents prove better than any mere assertion, 
 his extraordinary versatility, and the energy of a character by whose 
 aid he has raised himself from obscurity to his present position. 
 
 As a lawyer he is rather more of an advocate than an attorney, 
 and it may safely be added that, in the trial of cases he has few supe-
 
 64 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 riors at the bar of Chicago. He is very adroit in the management of 
 a case, and has a power and a quickness of repartee, and an ability to 
 avail himself of emergencies that are singularly effective in his clients' 
 interests, and uncomfortable for the plans of opposing counsel. 
 Whenever he presents a case to the court, he is always prepared with 
 the authorities which support the legal propositions involved, and in 
 this particular he is usually clear and complete in his preparation. 
 As an advocate he has much ability. He always seems sincere, and 
 wields a most effective, pathetic power ; and as a public speaker, one 
 who is ready, fluent and logical, and who can tell an apt story with 
 incomparable mimetic power, he has few or no equals of his age in the 
 Northwest. As he is yet a comparatively young man, he has before 
 him a future of great promise. 
 
 In appearance he is slender, of medium height, rather swarthy in 
 complexion, with keen, full, dark eyes, and dark beard worn full. So- 
 cially he is much liked. He converses well on all general subjects, and 
 has just a flavor of satire in his conversation sufficient to render it 
 palatable. He is profuse in his illustrations, possesses a fine fund of 
 anecdote and humor, which renders intercourse with him a matter of 
 great social and intellectual enjoyment ; and as a post-prandial ora- 
 tor he is happy, humorous, and effective far beyond the average in 
 this class of efforts. With reference to his course as City Attorney, 
 his success may be best comprehended from the character of a re- 
 mark, made a few days since in court, by an eminent lawyer who was 
 opposing him in a city case, and who warned the jury that his appa- 
 rent fairness in arguing a case, and which was calculated to mislead 
 them, had saved the city, since he had become City Attorney, thou- 
 sands of dollars.
 
 CHARLES H. REED. 65 
 
 CHARLES H. REED. 
 
 MR. REED was born in Strykersville, Wyoming county, New 
 York, in 1834. He attended school and worked on a farm during 
 his younger days ; and later, taught school, and attended an academy 
 until he entered Yale College. He studied law, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1858, in Henry county, in Illinois. He removed from that 
 place to Rock Island, and, in 1860, in company with Hon. Joseph 
 Knox, he removed to Chicago. He practiced law till 1864, when he 
 was elected District Attorney, an office which he still holds. 
 
 Mr. Reed is tall, broad-shouldered, well-formed, with light hair, 
 moustache and imperial, regular and intelligent features, and blue 
 eyes. In his movements he is quick, nervous, and therein indicates 
 his character. He is a well-read lawyer, has a great deal of positive 
 character, and is a very shrewd manager. He possesses as much in- 
 fluence as any man in Chicago ; employs a vast amount of energy ; 
 and pushes everything forward with resistless force. In his character 
 as a public prosecutor, he has shown himself the possessor of great 
 industry, and the ability to dispose of a vast quantity of work within 
 a very short time. In this direction, he is indefatigable and indus- 
 trious ; and the result is that he is universally acknowledged to be a 
 thorough, efficient, and economical official. 
 
 Notwithstanding the immense amount of labor which his official 
 position, in addition to his private business, entails upon him, he finds 
 leisure to devote to study ; and in addition to his attainments as a 
 lawyer, he is one of the finest classic scholars in the northwest. His 
 translations from the Greek have won him an enviable reputation as 
 a close student, while his contributions to general literature stamp 
 him as a writer of undoubted merit. 
 
 Socially he is very genial, and is very much liked by all who know 
 him ; and he is at once a capable, intelligent and industrious public 
 officer, and a popular, much-esteemed gentleman. 
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 66 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 WILLIAM B. SNOWHOOK. 
 
 THIS well-known gentleman was born in Ireland, in 1817, and 
 came to New York without the aid of relatives or friends, when but 
 eight years of age. His life from that time has been a very eventful 
 one in many respects. He early commenced reading law, but all the 
 time carried on some other business. He was a contractor while in 
 the East, and later, was the same in connection with William B. 
 Ogden and others on the Lake Michigan canal. He has been in the 
 commission business, and various other pursuits, but always kept up 
 his legal studies. He was Collector of Customs under Polk and 
 Pierce, and has also held other public offices of trust and consequence. 
 In 1857 he was admitted to the bar, after which he spent two years 
 in the law department of the Chicago University, and graduated 
 with honor. 
 
 It is gratifying to be able to state that all this persistence has had 
 its reward. Mr. Snowhook is now not only a very able and respected 
 lawyer, but a very successful one. He has obtained a very good 
 scholastic education, in addition to his legal one ; and by his energy 
 has secured a very handsome competence. He is a very hard worker, 
 coming to his office at six in the summer and seven in the winter, and 
 his habit is to devote himself to his business until night without 
 intermission. As an example of what energy, determination and 
 perseverance can accomplish, Mr. Snowhook stands, at the Chicago 
 bar, with scarcely a rival.
 
 LAMBERT TREE. 67 
 
 LAMBERT TREE. 
 
 MR. TREE is a graduate of Columbia College, in Washington. 
 He studied law with James Carlyle, who is now a leading practitioner 
 before the Supreme Court at the national capital. He read law two 
 years, and then graduated at the University of Virginia, in the law 
 department. He came to Chicago in 1855, and in time became a 
 member of the firm of Tree & Clarkson. 
 
 Mr. Tree is a very affable and scholarly member of the legal pro- 
 fession. He has fine abilities, and, prior to his late visits to Europe, 
 he was a close student and a ready practitioner. He is in the posses- 
 sion of a very ample fortune, and his time is much occupied by the 
 management of his private interests, but nevertheless he gives his 
 attention to office business, and in this direction is very constantly 
 engaged. He goes into court but little, and has a large business in 
 the line of real estate practice, and the management of the legal affairs 
 of several heavy corporations. He is an easy, fluent conversational- 
 ist, a gentleman of fine general cultivation, and a very respected citi- 
 zen. Were he thrown on his own resources, and obliged to make his 
 way in life by his own abilities, he would achieve a decided success 
 in the legal or any other department of effort.
 
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 D. L. SHOREY. 
 
 THIS gentleman takes a very excellent rank as a lawyer, and he is 
 a man who is very much respected and trusted by those who know 
 him. He is a native of Maine, graduated in the class of 1851 
 at Dartmouth College, and came West in 1855. He studied law 
 at Cambridge, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, in 1854. 
 He removed to Chicago in 1865. For three years, while in Daven- 
 port, Iowa, he was City Attorney, which is the only office he has ever 
 held, although since being here he has been spoken of in connection 
 with a judicial position. He prepares and tries his own cases, is a 
 lawyer of a high order of character, and has established a fine repu- 
 tation since his short residence in Chicago. He is regarded as a very 
 able man ; is very quiet, and has very high judicial abilities.
 
 JOSEPH B. LEAKE. 69 
 
 JOSEPH B. LEAKE. 
 
 MR. LEAKE is essentially a Western man, although of Eastern 
 birth, having been a resident of various Western States since eight 
 years of age. He was born in Cumberland county, New Jersey, on 
 the ist day of April, 1828. In 1836 the family removed to Cincin- 
 nati, and from that time Mr. Leake has been identified with the West. 
 
 He received his preparatory education in the schools of Cincin- 
 nati ; graduated at Miami College, Oxford, Ohio, in the class of 
 1846; studied law in the office of Groesbeck & Telford, of Cincin- 
 nati ; was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio Janu- 
 ary 16, 1850; and practiced law in Cincinnati until 1856. Induced 
 by failing health to seek a change of climate, he removed to Daven- 
 port, Iowa, and opened an office, devoting himself with great assi- 
 duity to building up a lucrative business. At the special war session 
 in May, 1861, he was elected to the House of Representatives, and 
 the same fall was elected member of the Senate. He served through 
 the session commencing January, 1862, and at the close was elected 
 President of the Senate pro tern. 
 
 At the second call of the President in the summer of 1862 for 
 more men, Mr. Leake resigned his seat in the Senate, recruited a 
 company, of which he was elected Captain, and mustered into the 
 2oth Iowa Infantry. He was immediately afterward commissioned 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, and as such commanded the regiment until the 
 close of the war, serving in the Army of the frontier at Vicksburg, 
 and then with the Army of the Gulf until the capture of Mobile. 
 Mr. Leake's war record is a good one, he having been breveted Brig- 
 adier-General of volunteers for bravery on the field. In July, 1865, 
 he was mustered out of service, and returned to his home in Daven- 
 port. He had no sooner removed his uniform than he was again in 
 the office, and was ready to resume professional business. At the 
 general election held the same fall, he was again sent to the Senate, 
 and served through the session, commencing January, 1866, as Chair- 
 man of the Judiciary Committee. In 1867, the lawyer getting the 
 ascendancyover the politician, Mr. Leake resigned his seat in the
 
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 Senate and retired to private life, devoting himself, with a good deal 
 of quiet energy, to the law, which in return gave him a large and 
 remunerative practice. He was elected attorney for the county, 
 and served in that capacity until his removal to Chicago in Novem- 
 ber, 1871. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. Leake occupies a good position, both as a coun- 
 selor and an advocate. His opinions are reliable and his judgment 
 correct. He is well read, and devotes himself entirely to his profes- 
 sion. As yet he has developed no specialty in practice, but does a 
 general business, and is considered equally good in any branch of 
 the law. In personal appearance, Mr. Leake is a tall, well-built, 
 handsome blond, still young, and looking younger than figures would 
 indicate to be his age. He is quiet, unobtrusive and courteous in 
 manner, and is equally at home in the role of lawyer or dispensing 
 the general amenities of social life.
 
 GRANT GOODRICH. 71 
 
 GRANT GOODRICH. 
 
 THE subject of this sketch is the youngest of twelve children, and 
 was born in Milton, Saratoga county, New York, August 7, 1812. 
 When four years old, his father moved to Chautauqua county, pur- 
 chased a large tract of land and settled upon it. Being a man of 
 great energy and spirit, and especially active in the promotion of 
 education, he had a school taught in his own house two winters, 
 which, with his own and a few of the neighbors' children, had a very 
 respectable roll-call. 
 
 Until fifteen he attended the county schools, when symptoms of 
 consumption a hereditary disease showing themselves, he aban- 
 doned school and went on to the lakes. He had since boyhood been 
 enamored with the ideal sailor's life, but this little experience in the 
 actual duties of a seaman not only cured his lungs but his relish for 
 the water, and he returned from his trip converted to a full belief in , 
 the substantial superiority of land over water. 
 
 He immediately, upon his return, entered the academy at West- 
 field, and remained two years and a half; then went into the law 
 office of Dixon & Smith, staying with them until he came to Chicago, 
 in 1834. 
 
 He first entered into partnership with A. N. Fullerton, but at the 
 expiration of a year dissolved it, and formed a copartnership with 
 Judge Spring, which continued until shortly previous to his election 
 as Judge. In the crash of 1837 Mr. Goodrich was heavily involved, 
 but by hard work and an invincible honesty these obligations were 
 met, and not only principal but interest were paid. He was very 
 successful professionally, and until 1857 his practice grew constantly 
 larger and more profitable; but in 1858 he was obliged to relinquish 
 it and go abroad to recuperate, the severe labors of the preceding 
 years having told heavily on his health. 
 
 As a lawyer and Judge, Mr. Goodrich's reputation is unsurpassed. 
 He is positive, radical and unflinching in everything he undertakes, 
 and if success be secured by energy, determination and hard work, it 
 it is a foregone conclusion.
 
 72 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 At present he devotes himself to office business mainly, retiring 
 on his well earned laurels and wealth to an easier life. 
 
 He is an earnest Methodist, and attends to spiritual matters with 
 the same earnestness and energy that have characterized his treat- 
 ment of temporal things. In fine, he is a good lawyer, a just Judge, 
 a genial gentleman, and being wealthy, enjoys himself without allow- 
 ing anything to greatly trouble him. 
 
 E. B. SHERMAN. 
 
 MR. SHERMAN is a native of Vermont, passed his early years upon 
 a farm. Graduated in 1860 at Middlebury College with honors, and 
 subsequently from the Chicago Law University. He engaged for a 
 time in teaching, in which he became distinguished, and was in the 
 army during the war. He is a hard worker, a gentlemen of a very 
 high order of attainments, and a finished scholar. Thoroughly hon- 
 est and reliable, and entering with great energy and enthusiasm upon 
 whatever he undertakes, he has built up a large practice, and is rising 
 rapidly in the profession. He is well known as a public speaker in 
 many parts of the State, has had some experience in journalism, and 
 perhaps fine oratorical and literary abilities. Immediately after the 
 great fire, he was selected by the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows as a 
 member of the Relief Committee, and as its Secretary he performed 
 an immense amount of labor, discharging the difficult and perplex- 
 ing duties of the position with eminent ability, and received therefor 
 the most flattering commendations of the highest officers of that 
 fraternity.
 
 BENJAMIN D. MAGRUDER. 73 
 
 BENJAMIN D. MAGRUDER. 
 
 THIS gentleman is a native of Mississippi, having been born 
 near Natchez, but in Jefferson County, Sept. 27, 1838. His 
 early boyhood was spent on his father's plantation, which had been 
 in the family since the early part of the present century. His father, 
 W. H. N. Magruder, a graduate of the Wesleyan University, of Mid- 
 dletown, Connecticut, and college professor, was his preceptor, and 
 prepared him for college at the early age of fourteen, at which time 
 he went to New Haven, Connecticut, and entered Yale College. He 
 was graduated in the class of 1856, and immediately after returned 
 to his Southern home. His father in the meantime had opened a 
 private collegiate institute at Baton Rouge, and the three years fol- 
 lowing were spent in teaching, and studying law. The last year, Mr. 
 Magruder attended the Law School of the University of Louisiana 
 at New Orleans, and graduated, valedictorian, in 1859. In August 
 of the same year, he went to Memphis, Tennessee, and opened a law 
 office, having barely attained his majority. His extreme youthfulness, 
 which had not prevented his passing a brilliant examination, was res- 
 ponsible for a tardy practice, and in 1860, he accepted a situation in 
 the office of Master of Chancery, which position he occupied till the 
 war broke out in 1861. Fifteen days after the fall of Sumpter he 
 left Memphis and went to New Haven, Conn., where, in the home of 
 his grandfather, Rev. Dr. Heman Bangs, he found a warm welcome. 
 This course was most seriously criticised by his Southern friends, but 
 the principles, imbibed from old Yale and his New England grand- 
 parents, and his convictions of right, were stronger than ties of blood 
 or partisan feeling, and Mr. Magruder, with the conscientiousness 
 which is so characteristic of the man, maintained his loyalty to his 
 country, and came North. 
 
 In June, 1861, he came to Chicago, commenced the practice of 
 law, and since that time has devoted himself entirely to his profession. 
 During the war, when sectional feeling ran so high, Mr. Magruder, 
 whose political convictions were radical in the extreme, but who was 
 bound by ties of blood to the South, could not bring himself to take
 
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 up arms against them, and, therefore, avoided all political notice and 
 discussion, and confined himself exclusively to business. Upon the 
 death of Judge William Mather in 1868, he was appointed his suc- 
 cessor as Master of Chancery, which office he now holds, and in 
 addition to the onerous duties of the office, attends to a large and 
 constantly increasing practice. 
 
 Mr. Magruder is still a very young man, but with the position he 
 has already achieved, and the more than ordinary ability he pos- 
 sesses, there is not a fairer prospect before any member of the pro- 
 fession. He is a very acute reasoner, and a diligent student, and 
 especially happy in the selection of facts and cases which illustrate a 
 point or prove a precedent. 
 
 Mr. Magfuder's personal appearance is pleasing, and his manner 
 polished and courteous. He has the jetty hair and beard, piercing 
 black eye, and colorless olive skin which we associate with warm 
 climates ; and he has also the quick temper, the genial hospitality 
 and open generosity which characterizes the well bred Southerner. 
 
 GEORGE HERBERT. 
 
 HE is a native of Maine, and is about fifty years of age. He 
 comes of a legal family, which reaches back through several genera- 
 tions, while his father was one of the most prominent lawyers of his 
 native State. He graduated at Amherst, and soon after commenced 
 the practice of law, and at once took a leading position in the pro- 
 fession. About twenty years ago he came to Chicago. For a time, 
 he engaged in the lumber business, but of late years has devoted him- 
 self exclusively to law practice. He is a thoroughly well-read law- 
 yer, and possesses eminently a legal mind, which comprehends legal 
 principles, as it were, by intuition, and is quick to apply them to the 
 case in point. He is very prominent and influential in the Congre- 
 gational Church, and a gentleman who has superior cultivation and 
 very fine social qualities.
 
 HENRY S. MONROE. 75 
 
 HENRY S. MONROE. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in Baltimore, and is now about forty 
 years of age. He read law in the office of the well-known Henry R. 
 Mygatt, at Oxford, in Chenango county, New York. He was 
 admitted to the bar at that place in 1854, and immediately after 
 removed to Chicago, and has, since that time, been a resident of this 
 city, and has devoted himself wholly to the practice of his profession. 
 
 Mr. Monroe is one of our best-known and most popular citizens. 
 He is very affable in his manners, is a bibliopholist of some consider- 
 able note, and occupies a very superior position as a lawyer. In this 
 respect he has achieved a very decided success, and has succeeded in 
 acquiring a very handsome fortune by his industry in his profession. 
 He has devoted himself very largely to real estate law ; and herein 
 has proved himself not only thoroughly reliable, of excellent judg- 
 ment, but a manager of no second-rate ability. He is very shrewd, 
 far-seeing and calculating ; a man of wondrous industry, knows what 
 legal principles are applicable to the case in hand, prepares all his 
 cases with the utmost care, and knows what external influences are 
 to be met, controlled or conciliated. He has risen to his present 
 position solely by his own energy ; and now that he has secured it, 
 he holds it easily, and makes the most of his surroundings. He is 
 as good a judge of a horse as of a piece of real estate, which is pay- 
 ing his knowledge of the former the highest possible compliment. In 
 fine, he is an excellent lawyer, a very popular gentleman, and a man 
 of fine tastes, and given to the pursuit of rational enjoyments.
 
 76 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 EDWARD ROBY. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in Brockport, N. Y., in 1840. In 
 1857 he entered an office in Lockport, N. Y., and applied him- 
 self closely to the study of the law, and in 1861 was admitted to the 
 bar in Albany, N. Y. In 1862, his health failed, accompanied by 
 a serious affection of the eyes, which necessitated an entire with- 
 drawal from study. He left the office and went to the oil regions, 
 where he engaged in manufactures and other general business until 
 1865, when he again commenced his professional work, came to Chi- 
 cago, and opened an office. 
 
 Like all large cities, Chicago was full of struggling young lawyers, 
 who were to rise or fall as their own ability should determine; but 
 Mr. Roby, undaunted by the unsuccessful numbers who had come 
 and gone, remained, determined to succeed, and succeed in Chicago. 
 He possessed none of the dash which pushes a man into sudden 
 notoriety or success, and three years passed without his having 
 gained more than ordinary success. During this time he had specu- 
 lated some in real estate. By this means his attention was first 
 called to the loose and, as he believed, illegal way in which the 
 revenue laws were administered. He applied himself to the study of 
 the law pertaining to the subject, and mastered every detail, decid- 
 ing that here was a field of action which could be successfully 
 worked. In 1868 he was retained as counsel in his first tax suit, 
 and in the fall of the same year won his first case in the Supreme 
 Court of Illinois. The next year he had twenty-one cases, the fol- 
 lowing year eighty-three, and in 1871 one hundred and seventeen, 
 all of which were carried through successfully, with the exception of 
 fifteen. Among the most noted of these was that of Rich vs. Chicago, 
 which became the leading case on special assessments and eminent 
 domain, reversing, on constitutional grounds, all the special assess- 
 ment cases found in the ordinary records, with four or five exceptions. 
 
 As a lawyer, he is considered well read, competent and industri- 
 ous ; an opponent, who, if patience, persistence and hard work will 
 win a case, is hard to beat. He makes no pretensions as a speaker ;
 
 EDWARD ROBY. 77 
 
 in fact, never makes an argument before a jury, but in any matter 
 which requires minute investigation, exact knowledge of the law and 
 authorities, unwearied industry, and a pertinacity which never yields 
 a point without strenuous resistance, he is, perhaps, without a rival. 
 
 In personal appearance Mr. Roby looks more like a college pro- 
 fessor or literateur than the wiry, hard-working lawyer. He is of 
 medium height and slender build. His face is thin, an incipient 
 baldness giving an appearance of additional height to the forehead 
 and a long look to the face. Keen, small, dark eyes restlessly take 
 observations on everything passing. A projecting chin and square 
 jaw give an expression of force and character to a face otherwise 
 almost feminine in its delicacy. 
 
 His mental qualities are as marked as his features. He is a close 
 observer, an indefatigable worker, keen, cool and persistant ; a man 
 who will not stay beaten until every court in the land has given his 
 case a hearing. He drives a good pair of horses, but gives little 
 time to social enjoyments, devoting himself to the particular lines of 
 his profession of which he has made a specialty, and in which he has 
 achieved very substantial success.
 
 78 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 JAMES B. BRADWELL. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in England in 1828, and came to this 
 country when but sixteen months old. He removed to Illinois in 
 1834, and has been in the West and South since that time. He 
 began the study of law in Memphis, and was admitted to the bar in 
 Chicago in 1853. He is a tall, fine-looking gentleman, with dark eyes, 
 beard and hair. He is widely known for his progressive views on 
 some of the prominent questions of the day, and is thoroughly liked 
 and respected by those who know him. 
 
 He served as Probate Judge for eight years, and while in this 
 position he collected a library of probate law that is second to but 
 one or two in this country. In his knowledge of probate law especi- 
 ally, he has no superior in this place or any other, and his moral 
 courage, like his thorough honesty, is of the very highest order. 
 
 EVARTS VAN BUREN. 
 
 JUDGE Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York, in 1803. 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1827, when he removed to Penn Yan, 
 where he was thrown among some of the best legal and political men 
 of the day. In 1836 he removed to Buffalo; in 1840 he went back 
 to Penn Yan ; in 1856 he came to Chicago, and in 1861 he was elected 
 Judge of the Recorder's Court. After serving one term, he resumed 
 the practice of law, in which he is now engaged. He is one of our 
 oldest and best known practitioners, and has passed an eventful life, 
 in which he has taken a prominent part in politics, and in some crim- 
 inal suits, which, at the time of their occurrence, attained a world- 
 wide notoriety. In his private life he is a very genial gentleman, 
 and as such he is very much liked by those who have his 
 acquaintance.
 
 JOSEPH P. CLARKSON. 79 
 
 JOSEPH P. CLARKSON. 
 
 THIS lawyer is a graduate of St. James College, Maryland, and 
 studied law in Hagarstown, in the same State. He came to Chicago 
 in 1851, and was admitted to the bar, and then entered into partner- 
 ship with Buckner S. Morris. After a while Robert Hervey was 
 added to the firm, and it thus remained until Judge Morris went on 
 the bench. At the present time, Mr. Clarkson is the senior member 
 of the firm of Clarkson & Van Schaack. 
 
 Mr. Clarkson is a gentleman about fifty years of age, with a 
 countenance indicative of great energy and intelligence. He is a 
 very capable and excellent lawyer, who prepares a case with extreme 
 fidelity, regardless of the amount of labor involved or the time to be 
 consumed. He also tries it carefully and thoroughly, and although 
 effective before a jury, his chief excellence lies in the direction of a 
 legal argument before a court. He is the only lawyer in Chicago 
 who has ever done anything in the line of dramatic and trade-mark 
 copyright cases. He has handled several very important ones that 
 have occurred in Chicago courts, and, it may be added, in each case 
 with entire success. In fine, he is a gentleman, who, in his profes- 
 sional and private life is entitled to, and who receives a very general 
 and very cordial support.
 
 80 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 ELLIOT ANTHONY. 
 
 THIS lawyer is an author of some note, and a gentleman of very 
 considerable ability in many respects. He has industry, and will 
 work up everything there may be in a case. He spares nothing in 
 this direction, and can be relied on for perseverance, and a conscien- 
 tious performance of whatever he may have to do. He leaves nothing 
 unfinished. His preparation of the complicated details growing from 
 a litigation to prevent the consolidation of the Galena and North- 
 western railroads is a marvel in its completeness and elaboration, and 
 as such has received recognition by the entire bar of the country. 
 
 E. F. RUNYAN. 
 
 THIS gentleman is probably one of the most active citizens of 
 Chicago, and one of the most busy men in the legal profession, in 
 which character he probably tries more cases than any other lawyer in 
 Chicago. As a lawyer he has a great amount of shrewdness, and is 
 excellently well posted on rules of practice. He is about forty years 
 of age, is nervous, angular, and always tremendously occupied. He 
 is a member of the Board of Education, and of several other boards, 
 and of almost everything else of a public character in Chicago ; and 
 he finds time to attend to them all, and to adequately care for the 
 duties of his profession.
 
 JOHN LYLE KING THOMAS PARKER, JR. 8l 
 
 JOHN LYLE KING. 
 
 MR. KING was born in Madison, Indiana, in 1823 ; and he resided 
 there until 1856. He was admitted to the bar in 1847 by the Supreme 
 Court of Indiana. He was a member of the " Long Session" of the 
 Indiana Legislature, and voted for all the reforms which were char- 
 acteristic of that session. He was city attorney in Chicago in 1860, 
 under John Wentworth's administration ; and since that time has 
 devoted himself exclusively to his profession. Mr. King is tall, 
 slender, with light complexion and blue eyes. He is a man of a 
 good deal of brains, has a very lucrative general practice, ranks high 
 as a jury lawyer, and is very much liked by those who know him. 
 
 THOMAS PARKER, JR. 
 
 THIS gentleman may be said to be a Western man, although born 
 in Pennsylvania, as he was a child when removed to the West. He 
 is now about twenty-six years old, and for twenty-four years has been 
 a resident of Chicago. He received the best advantages the city 
 afforded, then entered the University of Michigan, where he remained 
 two years, but finished his education at the University of Chicago. 
 Upon his graduation, he entered the Fifth National Bank as clerk, 
 where he remained about a year, but a man of his mercurial temper- 
 ament could not be long kept posting books and accounts. He 
 threw up his situation, and entered the Chicago Law School, and in 
 eight months from the time he began study, was admitted to the bar, 
 and began the practice of the law. About four year since he became 
 the junior partner in the firm of Ela & Parker. 
 
 The nervous temperament predominates; he is quick and lithe 
 in movement, sharp in speech, apt in detecting an error, and rather 
 6
 
 8z THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 merciless in exposing it. He is polished and refined in manner, is 
 affable and social in a high degree, and possessing an ample fortune, 
 enjoys life to the utmost. As a lawyer, he is shrewd and active, and, 
 although a very young man as yet, has taken a good position as an 
 acute and prompt business manager. His firm confines itself almost 
 entirely to commercial law, and in its specialty is favorably known in 
 other cities as well as Chicago. 
 
 JOHN W. ELA. 
 
 MR. ELA was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, and is about 
 forty-five years of age. He received a liberal education in his native 
 State, and entered the law school of Harvard, Mass., and graduated 
 before he was twenty-one. On his. return home, he became a partner 
 of Judge Burroughs, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, with whom he 
 remained until 1862, when he entered the army as Captain of the 
 i5th N. H. Infantry. He was in active service about eighteen 
 months, seeing in the time some of the hottest battles of the war, and 
 was then appointed Provost Judge in the Gulf Department, which 
 position he held until the close of the war. 
 
 At that time he came to Chicago and entered upon the practice of 
 law. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Ela occupies a prominent position, not only in 
 Chicago, but throughout the State. He is equally good either in pre- 
 paring a case, presenting it to a court, or before a jury. He is among 
 the first of the profession as a man of integrity, industry and ability ; 
 and in Real Estate and Bankruptcy Law, of which he makes a spec- 
 ialty, he has perhaps few superiors. That he is successful, is shown 
 by the fact that he is a real estate owner to some considerable extent 
 in this city. 
 
 In private life Mr. Ela is highly esteemed for the many amiable 
 qualities he possesses, no less than among the fraternity as a lawyer 
 fo integrity and ability.
 
 ISAAC G. WILSON. 83 
 
 ISAAC G. WILSON. 
 
 JUDGE WILSON is a native of Western New York, and was born 
 in 1816. He graduated from Brown University, Providence, R. I., in 
 1838. While in College, his father, Judge Wilson, removed to the 
 West and settled in Northern Illinois. Upon his graduation, the son 
 followed, and entered the office of Butterfield and Collins as a stu- 
 dent. After remaining with them a year, he went to Cambridge, 
 Mass., and entered the law school there. In 1841 he was admitted 
 to the bar of Massachusetts, and immediately after returned to the 
 West, to practice his profession. Finding Chicago possessed too 
 large a proportion of professional men he pushed into the country 
 and located at Elgin, in this State. In 1850, the I3th Circuit 
 known as the Kane Circuit was created, and Mr. Wilson elected 
 Judge, which office he continued to occupy until r867, in all, seven- 
 teen years. Since leaving the bench Judge Wilson has been practic- 
 ing in Chicago, and at present is senior of the firm of Wilson, Perry 
 & Sturgis. 
 
 Such is the brief outline of a successful and honorable career. 
 As lawyer, Judge and citizen, Mr. Wilson has possessed the unvary- 
 ing esteem and confidence of all classes. He is a superior lawyer, 
 well learned in the profession, and a notably successful chancery law- 
 yer. He has no especial gifts as an advocate, but as counsellor is 
 safe and reliable, and inclined to be pacific rather than belligerent. 
 He seems to have a natural aptness for the duties of the judge in a 
 mental organization that weighs and balances rather than originates 
 and invents ; and he can write an opinion better than he can make a 
 speech. 
 
 He is well read, and converses fluently on any and all topics. 
 He is inclined to be humorous, and relates the varied experiences 
 which a long residence in the country, and many terms upon the 
 bench have given, with an evident enjoyment. 
 
 Judge Wilson's social standing is fully equal to his professional 
 status; and whether in public or private life, he commands the 
 respect and wins the regard of the professional as well as the social 
 world.
 
 84 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 DANIEL GOODWIN, JR. 
 
 THIS gentleman was born in New York City in 1832, and is the 
 son of John W. and Lucretia Goodwin Woolsey, but at two years of 
 age, losing his mother, he was adopted by his maternal uncle, Judge 
 Daniel Goodwin, for whom he was named, and reared by him as his 
 own son. He was prepared for college at Auburn, N. Y., entered 
 Hamilton College in 1848, and graduated in 1852, taking the prizes 
 in a class many of whom have achieved prominent positions at the 
 bar, on the bench, and in the pulpit, as well as in politics and com- 
 merce. He studied law with Judge Goodwin in Detroit till 1853, 
 then went to Auburn, N. Y., and in 1854 was admitted to the bar. 
 He remained with his uncle, S. A. Goodwin, in Auburn, until 1855, 
 when they both removed to Detroit, and formed a partnership with 
 Judge Goodwin. In 1858 they came to Chicago, and entered at 
 once into a large and lucrative practice. In 1864 Mr. Goodwin 
 withdrew from the firm and practiced alone until 1867, when he 
 formed a connection with A. L. Rockwell, which still exists, under 
 the name of Goodwin & Rockwell. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin's practice has been general in character, but he has 
 a decided preference for real estate law. Although he distinguished 
 himself at college as an orator, he has a distaste for the wrangles of 
 the court-room and the artifices of politics, which has had a tendency 
 to keep him in the office rather than enter the noisy but more showy 
 fields of labor. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin is somewhat distinguished as a writer, his pen never 
 having been idle since his college days. He is noted also for his 
 charitableness. There is not a movement of this nature which has 
 applied to him in vain. 'His hand and brain and money are always 
 ready, and in private charities his generosity is proverbial. He has 
 been trustee of several institutions, and has occupied many positions 
 of trust and importance both under the city and State governments, 
 and has, under all circumstances, acquitted himself with honor and 
 hlat. 
 
 His personal appearance is pleasing. He is refined in manner,
 
 MARLAND LESLIE PERKINS. 85 
 
 polished in conversation, and at all times is a genial, courteous gen- 
 tleman, whose intellectual attainments are admired by all who know 
 him, while his kindness and generosity have endeared him to hosts 
 of friends, and made him one of the most popular men at the Chi- 
 cago bar. 
 
 MARLAND LESLIE PERKINS. 
 
 THIS young gentleman is the son of Dr. Perkins, of Fremont, 
 Tazewell county, Illinois, and is now about thirty-five years old. 
 He is tall, straight, and very dark, with straight black hair, which he 
 wears thrown back, a keen, black eye, Roman nose, and high cheek 
 bones Mr. Perkins claims a Mayflower-Indian princess pedigree, 
 and looking at his strongly marked but handsome features, his erect, 
 well-developed figure, swarthy, colorless complexion, and piercing 
 eye, one may easily imagine they can recognize the mark of the In- 
 dian progenitor. 
 
 He was ready for college at the precocious age of twelve years, 
 and entered the Freshman Class of Jubilee College, Illinois, at thir- 
 teen. He did not remain to graduate, deeming the studies pre- 
 scribed by the Senior Course unnecessary and of no practical benefit. 
 Leaving at the expiration of the Junior Course, he went to Blooming- 
 ton and taught school a short time, then commenced the study of the 
 law. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, and began practicing in 
 Chicago, where he remained until September, 1861, when he enlisted 
 in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, winning a brilliant reputation as a 
 faithful and daring officer. The last six months of his term of ser- 
 vice was spent at Memphis, as J'ldge Advocate of the District of 
 West Tennessee. In 1864 he was mustered out of the service, his 
 term having expired, and remained in Memphis, determined to reside 
 there and practice his profession. Soon after, he was tendered by 
 General Washburn, Commander of the District of Tennessee, the 
 office of Judge of the Civil Commission, which in the disorganized 
 state of affairs during the war, took the place of the Common Law 
 Court, which he accepted and filled acceptably until the re-establish-
 
 86 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 ment of the regular courts. In 1867 he was appointed United States 
 District Attorney by President Johnson, but his appointment was not 
 confirmed by the Senate. In 1871 Mr. Perkins returned to Chicago 
 and resumed practice in this city. He is now of the firm of Merriam, 
 Alexander and Perkins. 
 
 As a lawyer Mr. Perkins is well spoken of by his seniors and asso- 
 ciates, and is looked upon as a man who is making his mark among 
 the thousand aspirants for pre-eminence in the profession. His 
 tastes incline toward admiralty and real estate practice, in which he 
 is very successful. He is a fluent speaker, witty in conversation 
 quick at repartee, elegant in dress, and rather elaborately courteous 
 in manner. 
 
 DANIEL GOODWIN. 
 
 JUDGE GOODWIN, who for more than forty years occupied a dis- 
 tinguished position as lawyer and Judge, and before whcm many of 
 the Chicago bar have practiced in the courts of Michigan, is one 
 whose learning, ability and purity have been admired by all who 
 were brought in contact with him. He was the eldest child of Dr. 
 Daniel Goodwin, of Geneva, N. Y. ; graduated at the head of his 
 class in 1820; studied law with J. C. Spencer, of New York. He 
 removed to Detroit in 1828, and was United States Attorney under 
 Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. In 1843 he was made Judge of 
 the Supreme court of Michigan. In 1850 was President of the Con- 
 stitutional Convention, and member of the convention of 1865. In 
 1855 he was re-elected Judge of the District Court for the upper 
 peninsula of Michigan, and again in 1856, in 1862, and in 1868. 
 
 He is a man of remarkable astuteness as a lawyer and unblem- 
 ished probity as a Judge and politician. In private as in public life, 
 his name has been untarnished by so much as a breath, and his life a 
 monument of good deeds.
 
 EDWARD J. HILL. 87 
 
 EDWARD J. HILL. 
 
 MR. HILL, who is perhaps more remarkable as a writer than a 
 practitioner, is a native of New York, and is now about forty years 
 old. He graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of 
 1843. He then read law, but turned his attention to banking, then 
 to general merchandise, forwarding and shipping, by which means he 
 acquired a thorough understanding of commercial matters. 
 
 His practice as a lawyer did not commence until about 1859 or 
 1860, when he opened an office at Milwaukee. He succeeded 
 admirably, and soon won an enviable reputation as a -skillful and 
 persistent lawyer. In 1869 he came to Chicago, and bids fair to 
 attain eminence in the two-fold character of writer and practitioner. 
 As a counselor he is much esteemed by his clients, and he avoids 
 rather than seeks litigation. 
 
 More recently, Mr. Hill has left the beaten track, the practice in 
 the courts, and turned his attention to theoretical law. He has 
 already given to the public three volumes which ccmpetent judges 
 pronounce the most thorough and practical works ever produced this 
 side of the Atlantic. They constitute a complete set of practice 
 works, adapted to the Law of Procedure in this State. No other 
 State has adhered more closely to English practice than Illinois. 
 The practice here is, therefore, of great practical value, for it rests 
 on English precedent, and involves the entire scope and history of 
 English jurisprudence. 
 
 In style Mr. Hill is terse and vigorous, apt in his illustrations, 
 accurate and concise in statement, with no unnecessary repetition 
 an incredible statement to the uninitiated reader of legal lore. 
 
 In this brief notice of Mr. Hill's books is sketched the mental 
 characteristics of the man. He is studious and industrious, and pos- 
 sesses a patience and coolness temperamentally that finds pleasure in 
 exhuming, analyzing, comparing and deducing, a most laborious 
 mental process unless adapted to it by nature.
 
 88 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 HAMILTON N. ELDRIDGE. 
 
 GENERAL ELI>RIDGE was born in South Williamstown, Berkshire 
 county, Massachusetts, and is now thirty-eight years of age. His 
 father was a farmer, and during the Mexican war held the rank of 
 Colonel. His son, fitted for college at East Hampton, in Massachu- 
 setts, entered Williams in 1852, and graduated four years later, taking 
 the first prize of his class for elocution. He studied law under Judge 
 Ira Harris, and his brother, Hamilton Harris, in Albany, New York, 
 and graduated at the law school in the same place in 1857. He came 
 to Chicago the same year, and went into the office of Baker & Hyatt, 
 after which he began practice by himself. In 1858 he formed a part- 
 nership with F. W. Tourtellotte, and with whom he has been asso- 
 ciated ever since, under the name of Eldridge & Tourtellotte. 
 
 In 1862 he entered the volunteer service as Lieutenant-Colonel of 
 the i27th Illinois infantry; and three weeks later he took command 
 of the regiment, and was promoted to Colonel in the same year. At 
 the battle of Arkansas Post, he and his regiment were first inside the 
 Confederate works ; and at the battles before Vicksburg, in May, 1863, 
 he took the colors, after all the color-guard had been shot down, and 
 led his regiment, for which act of gallantry he was made a Brevet 
 Brigadier-General. Since his retirement from the army, General 
 Eldridge has assiduously devoted himself to the practice of the legal 
 profession. 
 
 He is above medium height, with light hair and eyes, regular 
 features and full beard. In his manners he is very finished, and 
 possesses affability and sociability in a very high degree. He has a 
 decided literary taste, and is not only especially fond of poetry, but 
 a poet of no mean order, finding in pursuits of this nature rest and 
 recreation. He has also a remarkable memory, and can repeat ver- 
 batum et literatum from all the classic poets, to a degree limited only 
 by his leisure and inclination. 
 
 As a lawyer, he occupies a very conspicuous position. His prac- 
 tice, and that of his firm, is a general one, embracing every variety 
 of cases; in a single morning may be seen in their office the million-
 
 HAMILTON N. ELDRIDGE. 89 
 
 aire and the day laborer, the doctor of divinity and the professional 
 swindler, each waiting for advice or to pay a retainer. He has been 
 engaged in a good many very important cases, among which the most 
 notorious one was the suit of Amanda J. Craig against Elisha C. 
 Sprague, for breach of promise, and in which the firm of which he is 
 a member obtained the largest verdict ever known in suits for dam- 
 ages $100,000. His success in this suit was won by the same 
 indefatigable industry, the same care in the preparation of the case, 
 and the same devotion which he shows to the interests of his clients 
 in all his practice. He is not only a successful practitioner, but a 
 thoroughly intelligent lawyer, and a liberal, courteous gentleman.
 
 90 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 F. W. TOURTELLOTTE. 
 
 THIS gentleman is of the old French Hugonot stock ; his ances- 
 tors having been driven to America in the seventeenth century by 
 reason of religious persecution and intolerance. He was born in 
 Windham county, Connecticut, and received a thorough classical 
 and scientific education in the best schools of his native State and 
 of Massachusetts. He afterwards graduated with high honors at the 
 Albany Law University. Immediately thereafter, in 1857, he removed 
 to Joliet and commenced the practice of law ; from whence, on the 
 following year, he removed to Chicago and formed a law partnership 
 with General H. N. Eldridge, where he has remained in the active 
 practice of his profession, with scarcely an exception, until the pres- 
 ent time, having succeeded, in the meanwhile, in establishing and 
 maintaining an exceedingly remunerative and extensive legal busi- 
 ness, an achievement in this city requiring other elements of success 
 than mere luck. 
 
 Mr. Tourtellotte was elected Major of the izyth regiment of Illinois 
 volunteers, during the late war of the Rebellion, but was compelled, 
 much against his wishes, to decline the commission. He has never 
 been a partisan politician, and has always steadily refused all official 
 patronage. 
 
 Mr. Tourtellotte is wholly absorbed in the business of his profes- 
 sion, into which he directs all his energies and skill. He is in the 
 general practice, so called, making a specialty, as yet, of no particu- 
 lar branch of the law, if we may except commercial law, and perhaps 
 cases arising under insurance and bankrupt laws. One of his chief 
 characteristics as a practicing attorney is the versatility of his legal 
 talents. Whether in the Circuit Courts of the United States, in the 
 argument of an abstruse question of constitutional law, in the courts 
 of Admiralty, in the various courts of the State, or before a jury, he 
 seems equally ready and efficient. 
 
 He never allows the claims of a client to suffer at his hands, if 
 hard work, and all his legal skill can prevent it, for he prepares his 
 cases with great care, and thoroughly masters the legal principles
 
 F. W. TOURTELLOTTE. 91 
 
 involved therein. As an advocate, and in the trial of a cause, 
 whether civil or criminal, his reputation is excellent ; and his effi- 
 ciency therein is nowhere more particularly exemplified than in his 
 ability to frustrate the positions of his antagonist, and to turn them 
 to his own advantage. 
 
 He is a close student, and has the reputation among his legal 
 brethren of possessing an extensive acquaintance with nearly all 
 branches of the law ; he is familiar with the details of practice, and 
 has a thorough knowledge of business and men. 
 
 Mr. Tourtellotte is painstaking and laborious in whatever direc- 
 tion his professional services may be employed ; and he has proved 
 himself an indispensable auxiliary in the important and extended 
 interests committed to the firm of which he is a member. As a 
 lawyer he has a rising reputation, which the large number of import- 
 ant causes constantly being committed to the care and management 
 of the firm to which he belongs abundantly proves. Nor is his repu- 
 tation a local one. The docket of his firm contains the names of 
 clients from all parts of the great Nprthwest, and in nearly every 
 State court therein. 
 
 This gentleman is thirty-five years of age, over six feet in height, 
 with an erect figure, and an agreeable and expressive countenance. 
 He is dignified in his bearing, affable in his manners, fluent in his 
 speech, active and graceful in his movements, and ambitious of suc- 
 cess. A little energetic, it may be, sometimes, in his gestures and 
 expressions, when, in the heat of debate, or otherwise, an opponent 
 is to be rebuked, ignorance to be exposed, or craft to be thwarted, 
 but never aggressive or unnecessarily severe. Sociability and a fault- 
 less generosity are distinguishing traits in his character. 
 
 In the management of the celebrated case of Craig vs. Sprague 
 he took an active and prominent part, and it was owing to his indus- 
 try and superb management, as also the firm to which he belongs, 
 that a result was achieved than which there has been none more 
 remarkable or successful in the record of litigation.
 
 92 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 E. W. EVANS. 
 
 MR. EVANS was born in Fryburg, Oxford county, Maine ; received 
 a preparatory course at the Fryburg Academy, and graduated at Dart- 
 mouth College in the class of 1838. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation he entered the law office of 
 Judge Chase, in Hopkinton, N. H., where he remained until he was 
 admitted to the bar. 
 
 In 1840, he came West, where he has since remained, devoting 
 himself to the practice of law with a singleness of purpose and indus- 
 try that have placed him at the head of the profession, and secured 
 him a very substantial pecuniary position. There is probably not 
 another man among the fraternity who is so thoroughly the lawyer as 
 Mr. Evans. Although possessing every qualification requisite to the 
 successful politician, he has persistently refused every inducement to 
 enter the political field, and prides himself upon the fact that he has 
 never allowed himself to be a candidate for any political office. In 
 October, 1871, he received a letter, couched in the most complimen- 
 tary language and signed by many of the prominent lawyers of the 
 city, asking him to become a candidate for the office of Judge of the 
 Circuit Court of Cook County. 
 
 Mr. Evans is a very decided character, as well as a lawyer of very 
 excellent ability. In manners, dress and appearance, he belongs to 
 the old school of gentlemen, so few of whom now remain. 
 
 He is genial and courteous in his personal and professional rela- 
 tions. In these he stands so well with the brethren of the bar that 
 he is frequently retained, at their instance, to lead them in their own 
 cases. He is always earnest, forcible and effective as a speaker, 
 sometimes rises into eloquence, and knows how to wield the weapon 
 of invective to a purpose. He summons and commands his resources 
 readily for an emergency, and especially is skilled in cross-examina- 
 tion and in eliciting the full truth from any witness, however deter- 
 mined he may be to conceal the same; and, generally, with his ability 
 and success in trying cases, is a first-class jury lawyer. Some of his 
 later cases evince this fact conspicuously. Particularly the noted
 
 . W. EVANS. 93 
 
 cases of Wilkinson vs. The Chicago Tribune, a libel suit in which his 
 printed speech remains to attest his oratory, and the Zeigenmeyer 
 murder case, in which he distinguished himself. He has been very 
 successful in suits for damages growing out of personal injuries, and 
 brought against corporations, railroad and municipal; and there are 
 few at the bar who can aspire to rival him in this class of cases. 
 
 His arguments in the Supreme Court are as effective, generally, as 
 his speeches to the jury. In these he displays the finest specimens 
 of his logic and the amplest stores of his learning, and he may well 
 pride himself on the success which usually attends him in the court 
 of last resort. He is a great reader, and a gentleman of culture out- 
 side of his profession, and devotes all his leisure moments to general 
 literature.
 
 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 THOS. J. TURNER. 
 
 THOMAS JOHNSTON TURNER was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, 
 on the 5th day of April, A.D. 1815. The country at that time was 
 almost an unbroken forest, yet with the enterprise which character- 
 ized the " Western Reserve," the log school-house followed the pio- 
 neer into the deepest recesses of the wilderness, and at the age of 
 ten years Mr. Turner had acquired something of a common-school 
 education. At that time he removed, with his parents, to Butler 
 county, Penn., where, owing to the necessities of the family, he was 
 put to work at farming. At the age of eighteen he left home, and 
 traveled on foot to Chicago, ariving there about the ist of May, A.D. 
 1833, but finding Chicago little else than a swamp, he returned to 
 La Porte county, Indiana, where he remained until he was twenty- 
 one years old, when, mainly by his efforts, his father's family were 
 removed to the West and comfortably settled. This done, he struck 
 out for himself. He spent one year in Dubuque and Western Wis- 
 consin, engaged in mining and building bellows for the first blast 
 furnaces built in the lead mines. In the spring of 1836, having 
 accumulated a little money, he settled in Stephenson county, Illinois, 
 and engaged in the building of mills, but in the fall of 1837, the 
 floods having swept away his mills and left him largely in debt, he 
 turned his attention to the study of law. At this time he had picked 
 up a sort of general education from close study of such books as 
 came within his reach. In the spring of 1840 he was admitted to 
 the bar, and settled in Freeport, where he soon secured an excellent 
 practice, and held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Probate 
 Justice. About this time Mr. Turner was appointed State's 
 Attorney by Governor Ford, and he at once entered upon the 
 discharge of its duties, and became very successful in bringing 
 to justice offenders. During his term of office the gang of thieves 
 and robbers which infested the Rock River country were broken 
 up, and the murderers of Colonel Davenport tried and executed. 
 In 1846 Mr. Turner was elected to Congress upon the Democratic 
 ticket, where he served one term, and then retired to the practice of
 
 . THOS. J. TURNER. 95 
 
 law. In 1854 he was elected to the State Legislature, and made 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the 
 Peace Conference in 1861 ; returning from Washington, he was made 
 Colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and had the 
 first three years' regiment mustered into the service. He soon after 
 took command of a camp of instruction at Alton ; afterwards com- 
 manded a brigade, and then the First Division of the Army of the 
 West. He remained in the service until the fall of 1862, when he 
 was forced to resign on account of ill health. After his health was 
 restored he resumed the practice of law. He was elected a member 
 of the Convention to revise the Constitution of Illinois in 1870, and 
 rendered efficient service in the adoption of most of the reforms in 
 that instrument. In 1871 he was elected to the lower house of the 
 General Assembly, and was the Democratic candidate for United 
 States Senator against General Logan, the Republican candidate. 
 In July, 1871, Mr. Turner opened an office in Chicago, where he 
 now resides. Until coming to Chicago his practice extended over a 
 number of counties, and included all classes of cases. His tastes 
 and habits incline him to 'chancery, in which department he has had 
 an extensive practice. As a lawyer, Col. Turner is careful, pains- 
 taking and reliable. 
 
 He has a refined, scholarly face, and in manner he is dignified and 
 suave. He is a devoted reader still, and a good deal of a bibliophil- 
 ist, having possessed, at the time of the fire, one of the best selected 
 libraries in the West.
 
 96 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 JOHN V. LE MOYNE. 
 
 This gentleman is a native of Pennsylvania, and is now about forty- 
 five years of age. His father was a prominent politician and an old 
 resident of Washington county, and Mr. Le Moyne received the two- 
 fold advantage of good scholastic training and the early association of 
 cultured, thinking men. He graduated from Washington College in 
 1847 ; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Pittsburgh, Penn- 
 sylvania, and came directly to Chicago, where he has been long and 
 favorably known as a lawyer of excellent standing and ability. He 
 is thoroughly well read, and is equally effective before a jury or pre- 
 senting an argument before a court, and is a very assiduous and suc- 
 cessful practitioner. 
 
 Mr. Le Moyne is rather over the medium size, and rather heavily 
 built. He has black hair and eyes, and a countenance indicative of 
 force of character, and in manner he is agreeable and cultivated. 
 
 JOHN J. McKINNON. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and 
 received his preparatory education there. He is a graduate of the 
 Jesuit College of Georgetown, District of Columbia, also of St. 
 Rheims, France. Upon his return from Europe, he studied law with 
 Nicholas Hill, of Albany, New York, and then with Christian Rozi- 
 lius, of New Orleans, and finally with Swett & Orme, in Blooming- 
 ton, Illinois. He came to Chicago from New York in 1848, and has 
 since resided in the West. 
 
 Mr. McKinnon is a lawyer of very superior abilities, who is well 
 versed in his profession, and who has been intrusted with several very 
 important cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is 
 accorded by the fraternity a fine legal mind, and is probably one of 
 the most cultured gentlemen at the bar. He converses fluently in 
 several languages, and is thoroughly familiar with the classics. His 
 face is intelligent and pleasing, and his manner has the courtly finish 
 for which educated Southerners have been so long and justly cele- 
 brated.
 
 RICHARDSON MOORE. 97 
 
 I 
 
 WILLIAM H. RICHARDSON. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was born in Strykersville, New York, in 1840. 
 He was educated at Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated from 
 college in 1861. Soon after he came to Chicago and entered the 
 office of Knox, Eustace & Reed, as a law student, and in 1863 was 
 admitted to the bar. In 1865 he entered into a partnership with Mr. 
 Reed, which continued until the election of Mr. Reed as District 
 Attorney. Upon the dissolution of the firm, Mr. Richardson suc- 
 ceeded to the business, and by close attention and his superior attain- 
 ments has not only kept but added to the large practice. 
 
 Mr. Richardson has a predilection for criminal practice, and in 
 his chosen field is particularly successful. In conducting a case he 
 prefers to quietly accomplish by strategic flank movment, outside, 
 what others attempt by direct assault with a flourish of trumpets in 
 open court. Mr. Richardson has also a very happy faculty of giving 
 his clients such satisfaction that, although still a comparatively young 
 man, there are few members of the bar who have a more lucrative 
 practice. 
 
 SAMUEL M. MOORE. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky. He studied 
 law at Cynthiana, in that State, under the Hon. James Curry, one of the 
 oldest and most accurate lawyers in the State. Judge Moore com- 
 menced his professional career in 1843. In 1845 he removed to 
 Covington, Ky., and soon became one of the ablest and most emi- 
 nent members of the bar of that city. 
 
 In 1856 he was elected Judge of the ninth judicial circuit of Ken- 
 tucky. In becoming a candidate for this office, he refused to accept 
 the nomination of any political party, or to electioneer for it, and 
 while on the bench, studiously avoided taking any part in party 
 politics, believing that the purity and impartiality of the judiciary 
 demanded that, as far as practicable, it should be kept aloof from the 
 contamination of partisan political influences. On the bench Judge 
 Moore was distinguished for the soundness of his decisions and re- 
 markable industry and rapidity in the dispatch of business. It was 
 his custom, when the state of the docket required it, to devote the 
 day to the trial of law causes, and a large portion of the night to 
 the hearing and decision of chancery cases, and such was his 
 
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 98 TH1E. CHICAGO 
 
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 rapidity that he would often hear and dispose of a half dozen cases in 
 one night, and the next morning bring his decrees in all of them into 
 court, written out with his own hand, which he preferred to do to 
 avoid the possibility of error, and these decrees were seldom appealed 
 from or reversed. In this way the business of all his courts was con- 
 stantly kept up, to the great satisfaction of the bar and the benefit of 
 the community. 
 
 At the close of the late war, his judicial term having expired, he 
 removed to Chicago and entered into his present law partnership 
 with the Hon. B. Caulfield, then in full practice. At the bar he has 
 also been distinguished by the same untiring industry, and by a clear 
 comprehension of legal principles, and an accurate application of 
 them to the facts of a case. His firm enjoys a large practice. 
 
 Judge Moore is a fine specimen of Kentucky growth, with a large 
 and massive head, and a countenance beaming with intelligence and 
 amiability. He has long been a prominent and influential member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, filling the office of a ruling elder, and 
 regarded by his Church as a man of sterling piety and integrity of 
 character. In politics he has been a life-long Democrat, and in 
 Kentucky was one of the most influential leaders of his party, though 
 since his location in Chicago he has declined to take any active part 
 in political matters, devoting himself exclusively to the business of 
 his profession. He is now about fifty years of age. 
 
 JOHN H. PECK. ; 
 
 This gentleman was born in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1832. He 
 received a good general education in the schools of his native town, 
 and studied law at the Yale Law School, New Haven. He was 
 admitted to the bar at Norwich, Connecticut, in November, 1852. 
 In 1853 he came to Chicago and entered upon the practice of his 
 profession. In 1861 he entered the army as Lieutenant, and served 
 four years. He was mustered out of the service in August, 1865, as 
 Colonel, with an unblemished record, and immediately resumed his 
 professional labors in this city. 
 
 Mr. Peck has a very extensive practice as the result of many years' 
 close application to business. He is an acute lawyer, active and influ- 
 ential in politics, and genial in conversation and manner.
 
 ATWOOD WINDETT. 99 
 
 JULIUS P. ATWOOD 
 
 was born in Monkton, Vermont, in 1825 ; was educated at the Nor- 
 wich University; read law- with Judge Rich, of the Supreme Court of 
 that State, and commenced its practice with Hon. Wm. C. Wilson, 
 afterwards Judge of the same court; and was for two or three years, 
 and until he removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1861, Professor in 
 the Franklin Law School at Bakersfield, Vermont. In 1854 he was 
 appointed Judge of the Dane County Court, and held that position 
 for two and a half years, when ill health compelled him to resign. 
 He was Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and 
 in 1859 was named by the Democratic members of the Legislature as 
 candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, but he declined to run 
 and in 1860 was Democratic candidate for State Attorney; was 
 Democratic candidate for Mayor at the first municipal election at 
 Madison. He organized the Governor's Guard in 1857, and soon 
 after went to the Potomac as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth Regi- 
 ment, infantry, but was early disabled and compelled to leave. For 
 two years he was partially paralyzed, and after his recovery settled 
 in Chicago, and returned to the practice of the law. Judge Atwood 
 is a well educated lawyer, and a gentleman of more than ordinary 
 literary attainments. In argument he is direct, close and severe, but 
 it is the severity of logic. He is eminently courteous at the bar, and 
 incapable of doing any one injury. In popular addresses he is terse 
 and methodical, often impassioned and sometimes eloquent. The 
 lawyers from Wisconsin, resident here, with unanimity requested him 
 to run for Circuit Judge last fall, but he declined the honor. He is 
 of medium height, affable and dignified, and his professional and 
 personal character is one that commands universal respect. 
 
 A. W. WINDETT. 
 
 This lawyer is one of the best read, accurate and acute members 
 of the Chicago bar ; and in the department of Chancery practice he 
 has few equals and no superiors. At heart, Mr. Windett is a very 
 thorough gentleman ; in the practice of his profession it sometimes 
 happens that his zeal leads him into a mannerism which, to say the 
 least, is almost aggressive. He is very forcible and determined. His 
 practice is a large one, and includes many cases of very high impor-
 
 106 THE CHICAGO "BAR. 
 
 tance. While there may be other lawyers who are more popular in the 
 profession, there are none whose abilities command a wider respect. 
 He is about forty-three years of age, and has been here since 1857. 
 
 EDWIN C. LARNED, 
 
 of the firm of Goodwin, Lamed & Towle, is a well-known lawyer of 
 great ability. He was United States District Attorney under Mr. 
 Lincoln. At present he remains much away from Chicago, and gives 
 but little attention to general practice. He is a man of great wealth 
 and cultivation, and once occupied a very distinguished position as a 
 member of the legal profession. 
 
 A. H. LAWRENCE 
 
 is a partner of E. G. Asay, is a native of Massachusetts, is a tall, good- 
 looking gentleman, twenty-eight years of age, and a young man of 
 very decided promise. He devotes himself closely to his profession, 
 and will, in due season, be heard from as a member of the bar in 
 this city. 
 
 D. K. TENNEY. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Plattsburgh, N. Y., on the last day of 
 the year 1834, and is the tenth and youngest child of his parents. In 
 his infancy he was carried " in arms " to northern Ohio, then a wil- 
 derness. At the age of eight he entered the "poor boy's college,"- 
 a printing office and continued there with little interruption until 
 fifteen years of age, when he removed to Madison, Wisconsin, and 
 entered the University at that place. Here, with the pittance earned 
 in vacations, as a printer, he struggled through three years of study, 
 taking high rank as a scholar. Becoming tired of his penniless con- 
 dition, he deserted his alma mater and commenced the study of law. 
 In 1855, at the age of twenty, he was admitted to the bar at Madison, 
 and opened an office there. From that time until his removal to 
 Chicago, in 1870, he continued to enjoy an active, successful, and 
 lucrative practice, and acquired, through an honorable career, and 
 without adventitious aid, a handsome competence, which he still 
 enjoys. 
 
 Mr. Tenney is a self-made man, and of a peculiarly Western
 
 BONFIELD. 101 
 
 type. He wears his rough side out, having an unpolished manner, 
 and paying little regard to conventionalities, or to a choice of fine 
 language to express himself. He may be said to be a " lion " or a 
 " lamb," as the occasion requires, for beneath the rough exterior he 
 possesses and is governed by as fine feelings, and is as emotional and 
 gentle as a woman. He is considerably above the average stature, 
 has a fine physical construction, a large and intensely active brain, 
 and a fine nervous temperament. Is open hearted, generous and 
 kind, eminently social, when at leisure, and is possessed of a readi- 
 ness of wit and fund of anecdote, and a unique manner of giving 
 utterance to them which render him quite notable among his inti- 
 mate friends. He is not lacking in public spirit, but despises politics 
 and politicians, yet usually backs his favorite candidate with a 
 reasonable figure. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Tenney is thoroughly practical, and is noted for 
 his keen perception of what the law ought to be. He entertains a 
 poor opinion of the slow processes of courts, and leaves the trial of 
 causes mainly to his partners more able in that direction. He excels 
 in the office as a manager of the business, and as a counselor and 
 negotiator, and prefers an amicable settlement upon fair terms to the 
 procrastination and doubtful result of a trial. Where a grace cannot 
 be negotiated, he is most vigilant and untiring in marshalling the 
 facts and the witnesses to sustain his cause, leaving the law more 
 especially to his colleagues. As a negotiator and counselor in mer- 
 cantile difficulties, and as a collector of doubtful and desperate debts, 
 his long experience and success have won him truly great fame. He 
 has no superiors and probably few equals in this branch of the pro- 
 fession, as many of our merchants and business men testify. In fine, 
 he is a sound business lawyer, of scrupulous honor and integrity, a 
 warm friend, and an outspoken enemy. 
 
 Mr. Tenney is of the firm of Tenney, McClellan & Tenney, one 
 of the leading ones of the city in commercial law. 
 
 JOSEPH F. BONFIELD, 
 
 who is indigenous to Chicago, having been born here, and having 
 acquired the profession in this city, is a young man of liberal, general 
 education, an excellent lawyer, apt before a jury, and has a very ex- 
 tended practice, which is largely made up of real estate litigation.
 
 IO2 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 With him is associated Warren J. Durham, who was formerly con- 
 nected with Hon. Henry Fuller, of Racine. Mr. Durham is a well- 
 read, accurate lawyer; and is a fine linguist, and a classical scholar 
 of a very peculiar kind. 
 
 DANIEL J. SCHUYLER. 
 
 This gentleman was born near Amsterdam, N. Y. He is the son 
 of a wealthy faimer, and as his name indicates, a member of one of 
 the oldest of the Knickerbocker families, so well known in the his- 
 tory of New York. He received a liberal education, being a gradu- 
 ate of Union Colleee; studied law with the Hon. Francis Kernan, of 
 Utica, N. Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and immediately after 
 came to Chicago to enter upon the practice of his profession. 
 
 His personal appearance is prepossessing. He is about thirty 
 years of age, is of average height, and compactly built. His features 
 are regular and clear cut, indicating reticence, niceness of percep- 
 tion and perseverance rather than aggressive power, while his manner 
 shows the quiet, well-bred gentleman. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Schuyler is well liked by other members of the 
 bar, and is universally spoken of as a rising man. There is nothing 
 of the meteoric in his course, but a steady progress that promises 
 much for his future; and while his present attainments, both as a 
 scholar and a lawyer, are of no mean order, there are heights beyond, 
 which his fine mental endowments and indefatigable industry will 
 enable him to reach. 
 
 JOHN L. THOMPSON. 
 
 When the war broke out, General Thompson, then a student in 
 the office of McCagg & Fuller, enlisted with the thirty-day volun- 
 teers, and went to Cairo. At the expiration of his term of service he 
 went to New Hampshire and enlisted as a private soldier. He soon 
 rose to the rank of Colonel, and to the command of a regiment of 
 cavalry. He served during the war, and received the rank of Briga- 
 dier-General. After the war he came to Chicago, and went into the 
 practice of law. As a lawyer, although a young man, he takes a very 
 creditable position. He is well posted in law, is very industrious 
 and attentive, very cautious; and, if he has a noticeable fault, it is 
 that he is inclined to give more attention to what may be presented
 
 ROBERTS : SLEEPER CAULFIELD. 103 
 
 by an opponent than to his own resources for offense or defense. 
 He has a large amount of force and character, and has a business 
 that includes some of the best men in Chicago. 
 
 JAMES H. ROBERTS. 
 
 This gentleman has been in practice here some fifteen years. He 
 is a very close student, a well-read lawyer, and a good general prac- 
 titioner. As an cffice lawyer he is very superior, and is a gentleman 
 of thorough morality and integrity. 
 
 JOSEPH A. SLEEPER. 
 
 This gentleman is about forty-five years of age. He is tall, angu- 
 lar, and somewhat of the Lincoln style of architecture bony, dis- 
 jointed and awkward. He bears the appearance of a studious, pains- 
 taking lawyer. He came to Chicago from Wisconsin about eight 
 years ago, and brought with him a very excellent reputation in his 
 profession. He is very thoroughly versed in common law, and has 
 the credit of being a chancery lawyer of high order. He is rather 
 better as an office lawyer than before. a jury, although he is very 
 forcible in the latter character. He is well grounded in law, and his 
 opinions are valuable and carefully prepared. He has been employed 
 in many suits of importance, and has met with good success. He 
 stands well, and his prospects are good for further progress. 
 
 BERNARD G: CAULFIELD. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and first came 
 into notice as a. protege oi Father Matthews, a well known and wealthy 
 Catholic clergyman of Washington. Mr. Caulfield was educated at 
 the college of Georgetown. After graduating he went to Kentucky 
 and studied law at the Transylvania University. He removed from 
 Kentucky to Chicago in 1854. 
 
 Mr. Caulfield is a lawyer of considerable merit. His most salient 
 trait is his great courtesy. He is a finished gentleman as well as 
 lawyer. In his speeches he is deliberate, careful of the selection of 
 his phrases,' and clear and forcible in the presentation of his -ideas.
 
 104 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 He is erect, full-bearded, with dark eyes, and an intelligent head. 
 His personal appearance coincides very exactly with his cultivated 
 manners ; and he seems equally at home whether in the role of a 
 lawyer pleading a case before a jury, or as a private citizen inter- 
 changing hospitalities at the social board. He is in great demand 
 among our Irish citizens, and is always put forward by them when 
 there is anything to be done that requires to be done well, elegantly, 
 and intelligently. 
 
 U. P. SMITH. 
 
 This gentleman is about thirty-six years of age. He is tall, slen- 
 der, with dark eyes, an intelligent, prepossessing face, and a full, dark 
 beard. He is a member of the firm of Walker, Dexter & Smith, and 
 is a lawyer of unquestionable ability, both with reference to his 
 knowledge of law, and as an advocate. He has very remarkable 
 powers as a reader of character, and in the faculty of expressing his 
 conclusions. He already stands high at the bar, and there is every 
 probability that he will, and soon, place himself in the very front 
 rank of the profession in the West. 
 
 PHILIP HOYNE. 
 
 MR. Hoyne was born in New York, in about 1826. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Chicago in 1855, but only practiced some three 
 years. He was elected Clerk of the Recorder's Court, and since 
 closing his law practice, he has been entirely engaged in his duties 
 as United States Commissioner, a position which he still holds. Mr. 
 Hoyne is a portly, good-looking gentleman, and enjoys a very general 
 popularity. 
 
 OLIVER H. HORTON 
 
 was born in the State of New York in 1835, where he remained until 
 1855, when he left school and at once came to this city. From that 
 time till 1860 he was engaged, as many of Chicago's young men have 
 been who came here poor, alone and among strangers, in earning an 
 honest livelihood by his own exertions. But this does not seem to 
 have been lost time with him. During this time, the transitory period 
 from boyhood to manhood, this susceptible period in every man's
 
 LINCOLN. 105 
 
 life in which so many in our great cities yield to surrounding temp- 
 tations, he formed habits which added very much to his success as a 
 lawyer. 
 
 In the spring of 1860 he entered the law office of Messrs. Hoyne, 
 Miller & Lewis, as a student. With this firm he remained, as 
 student and then clerk, until January 1864, when that firm was dis- 
 solved. Immediately upon such dissolution, he entered into a part- 
 nership with Hon. Thomas Hoyne, which is continued to the present 
 time. 
 
 Although not a collegiate, Mr. Horton had a liberal education, 
 and was a very ardent student, being absent from the office but a day 
 or two while a student. Two years of this time he was a member of 
 the Law School of the University of Chicago, under the instruction of 
 Judge Booth, now of the Circuit Court, from which institution he 
 graduated in 1863, having, however, been previously, during the same 
 year, admitted to the bar. 
 
 Upon entering into practice, it was very soon seen that by his four 
 years of close application as a student, he was prepared to cope suc- 
 cessfully with those already at the bar. His case is another illustra- 
 tion of the fact to which most, if not all the older members of the 
 profession will attest, that good lawyers are not made or properly 
 fitted for practice in a year, 
 
 Mr. Horton has, during his practice of nearly eight years, been 
 engaged in many important suits, and no young man of the same 
 years' experience enjoys a more enviable reputation. By those who 
 know him best he is most highly esteemed. He never condescends 
 to any of the low tricks practiced by some who have fastened them- 
 selves upon the profession. To his legal attainments may be added 
 the fact of his sterling integrity. Being of a stern and positive turn 
 he may sometimes offend, but never wounds. 
 
 ROBERT T. LINCOLN. 
 
 This young gentleman is a son of the late President Lincoln, and 
 is a very worthy, estimable member of the Chicago bar. He is but 
 a little more than twenty-five years of age, and already has taken a 
 position as being an excellent manager, possessed of good ability, 
 quiet, shrewd, unostentatious, and with a thorough devotion to the 
 profession of law. He is the more entitled to credit from the fact
 
 f. . '. 
 
 Ib6 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 that he steadily resisted all attempts to induce him to accept some 
 official position while his father was President, or to participate in 
 politics since; and that he has applied himself to his legal studies 
 precisely as if he were the son of the least influential of parents, and 
 has pursued them under many painful and most discouraging cir- 
 cumstances. He has proved that he has a thousand sterling qual- 
 ities, and there can be no doubt that with age he will attain a distin- 
 guished eminence as a member of the legal profession. 
 
 ROBERT RAE 
 
 is a slender, handsome gentleman of some forty or forty-five years of 
 age. He is very finished in his dress and personal appearance, and 
 confines himself in law almost or quite wholly to admiralty affairs, in 
 which he confessedly stands at the head of the profession. 
 
 J. A. CRAM * 
 
 is believed by some of his professional brethren to be one of the most 
 able and promising young lawyers at the Chicago bar. He is about 
 thirty-seven years of age, is very modest, quiet and unostentatious in 
 his bearing, and at heart a thoroughly honorable and estimable gen- 
 tleman. 
 
 D. J. LYON. 
 
 MR. Lyon was born in New Orleans, graduated in the law de- 
 partment of the Chicago University, and is in the general practice 
 of law. He possesses to some extent the peculiar Southern charac- 
 teristics. He is graceful, in manner, and is a fluent and impressive 
 speaker. As a lawyer he is industrious, energetic, reliable, and pos- 
 sesses ability which will secure Inrrfa" high position at the bar. Mr. 
 Lyon is genial and gentlemanly, and has- many friends among the pro- 
 fession and elsewhere. 
 
 S. D. PHELPS. 
 
 This is a young and rising lawyer, who is a graduate from the 
 law office of Goodrich, Farwell & Smith. He was admitted in 1866, 
 
 * Since deceased.
 
 BOND. 107 
 
 and has been in practice since that time, except during the last 
 winter, when he was in the Legislature. He has been very largely 
 engaged in revenue cases, but now is in general practice. He is a 
 very fluent, easy and graceful speaker, and promises to take a very 
 excellent position as an advocate. 
 
 LESTER L. BOND 
 
 was born in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1830, passed his early life on a farm, 
 and in the practical study of the mechanical arts. With only a good 
 common school education, and a few terms at the village academy, 
 he applied himself to the study of law and was admitted to the bar 
 in 1853, practiced in Ravenna for one year, and removed to Chicago 
 in 1854, and engaged at first in the general practice of law. His 
 practical knowledge of mechanical arts and inventions, and his 
 natural fondness for the study of mechanics, chemistry, and kindred 
 sciences, soon induced him to select the law pertaining to patents as a 
 specialty, and to the study and practice of this he applied himself with 
 unremitting industry. In 1866 he formed a copartnership with Hon. 
 Edmund A. West, formerly of Wisconsin, and the firm of West & 
 Bond are now engaged in nearly every litigated patent case in Chicago 
 and vicinity, and has achieved an enviable reputation in Washington, 
 New York, and other eastern cities. 
 
 Mr. Bond was a member of the Common Council from 1863 to 
 1866; served in the Legislature in sessions of 1867 and 1869; was a 
 member of the Board of Education for several years, and in all these 
 positiops won general respect and confidence. In his manners Mr. 
 Bond is genial and courteous, but modest and undemonstrative. 
 Thoroughly conscientious in private life, he carries integrity and 
 honor into his professional duties, and will employ no chicanery to 
 secure a dishonprable victory. His suits are fairly contested and his 
 victories fairly won. His temperament is inclined to the ph'legmatic, 
 and as a thinker he is clear and logical rather than rapid. He pos- 
 sesses a memory tenacious both of principles and facts, and has a 
 rare faculty of correct judgment. With varied self-culture and 
 reserve power in many directions he was capable of attaining emi- 
 nence in other pursuits, but has wisely chosen that for which he is 
 peculiarly fitted, and as a patent lawyer he is now the peer of any 
 member of the bar in the West, and has few superiors in the country.
 
 108 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 JOHN MASON 
 
 is a lawyer who has attained a good deal of eminence in the depart- 
 ment of criminal practice, in which direction his success has been 
 fully equal to that of many members of the Chicago bar. He is the 
 successor of the noted Pat. Ballingall, of a former generation. He is 
 of Irish birth, is about forty-five years of age, and has a very slender 
 body compared to the extent and force of his intellect. 
 
 FREDERICK SACKETT. 
 
 This gentleman is a native of Westfield, Massachusetts, at which 
 place he received his earlier education. At the age of twenty-three 
 he represented his native town in the legislature of the State. Hav- 
 ing entered upon the study of the law, and finding himself embar- 
 rassed for means to prosecute his studies, he concluded to try his 
 fortunes in California, and in 1849 he joined the thousands who in 
 that year made the overland trip to the Pacific coast. This trip was 
 a reasonably successful one for him, as it freed him from his embar- 
 rassments as a student, and enabled him to prosecute his studies 
 under highly favorable circumstances. Upon his return he entered 
 the law office of Thompson & Weeks, of Poughkeepsie, New York, 
 where he remained for about three years. Upon his admission 
 to the bar in 1853 he located in Sterling, Illinois, where he soon 
 achieved an enviable reputation, and for many years, and up to the 
 period of his removal to Chicago in the spring of 1869, was regarded 
 as at the head of the profession in his circuit. Besides being a coun- 
 selor of acknowledged ability, he is a trial lawyer of unusual exceU 
 lence. In argument he is clear, forcible, and effective ; and while he 
 enforces his points with earnestness, he is uniformly respectful to 
 court and jury, and courteous toward opposing counsel and parties. 
 His eminent fairness and candor, and acknowledged probity of char- 
 acter, inspire confidence, and his opinions command universal respect. 
 
 GEORGE GARDINER. 
 
 This gentleman has very many fine qualifications. He has very 
 excellent judgment, is a faithful and reliable adviser, and an able 
 counsellor, and is a gentleman who stands exceedingly well with the 
 profession.
 
 FORRESTER. 109 
 
 ROBERT H. FORRESTER. 
 
 < Mr. Forrester was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Scot- 
 tish parents, his father having been an eminent scholar and professor 
 of mathematics, and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He 
 studied law at Pittsburgh under the Hon. James Dunlop. After his 
 admission to the bar he practiced about two years in the courts of 
 Pittsburg, acquiring, especially in criminal practice, the reputation 
 of a rising young lawyer of fair promise. In 1846, he emigrated to 
 the State of Kentucky, and soon afterwards was placed at the head 
 of a flourishing law school connected with a college at Georgetown, 
 Ky., which he conducted for several years, Speaker Elaine, of the 
 present House of Representatives, then a professor in the same col- 
 lege, having been one of his pupils. Afterwards he practiced his pro- 
 fession in the courts of the famous " Blue Grass " region of Kentucky, 
 of which Lexington is the central city, enjoying the reputation of a 
 sound and laborious lawyer, and holding the position in the old Whig 
 party of an earnest and eloquent advocate of Whig principles, but, 
 eschewing all aspirations to office, chose to devote himself exclu- 
 sively to his profession, 
 
 A short time before the late war he removed into the cotton 
 country of the South, and became a cotton planter in Alabama, 
 though still actively pursuing the practice of law. In 1864, at the 
 solicitation of the friends of Peace and the restoration of the Union, 
 then a large party in the State of Georgia, including such men as 
 Joshua Hill, Alexander H. Stephens, and Joseph Brown, Mr. Forres- 
 ter assumed the position of editor-in-chief of the " Augusta Chronicle 
 and Sentinel," published at Augusta, Georgia, and the newspaper 
 organ of the Peace party in that State. As the editor of this paper, 
 he wrote many able and pungent editorial articles in favor of peace 
 and an immediate return to the Union, and against the administra- 
 tion and suicidal policy of Jefferson Davis, which were extensively 
 read and commented on throughout the South, and exerted a power- 
 ful influence on the public mind. In his editorial contests he fre- 
 quently grappled with such master spirits of the Southern press as 
 Pollard, of the " Richmond Examiner," and other champions of Jef- 
 ferson Davis, and in the course of this newspaper warfare, which for 
 a year waged fiercely, he wrote a lengthy and elaborate reply to an 
 address of the famous Howell Cobb to the people of Georgia, in de- 
 fence of the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by the Richmond
 
 1'HE CHICAGO feAR. 
 
 Government. The only reply which Mr. Cobb, or his friends, ven- 
 tured to make to this answer-to -his 'manifesto- was a tirade of abuse 
 against the " Chronicle and Sentinel," which appeared in an Atlanta 
 ' paper. Some of these peace editorials of Mr. Forrester found their 
 way into the Northern papers, and excited much agreeable surprise 
 at the boldness with which they assailed the Richmond Government 
 and advocated a return to the Union, and a separate secession of 
 Georgia herself from the Southern Confederacy. These efforts of 
 Mr. Forrester in the cause of peace and re-union did much to dis- 
 pose the Southern mind in favor of a return to the Union, and so 
 alarming were they to Mr. Davis himself, that a warrant for the arrest 
 of the publisher of the "Chronicle and Sentinel" was issued and 
 attempted to be served, but was defeated by the interference of Gen. 
 Beauregard, then in command at Augusta. 
 
 In 1862 he filled the post of Provost Marshal General, first of 
 Western Tennessee, and afterwards of Northern Mississippi, having 
 the rank of Colonel in the Confederate service, and being charged 
 with the administration of martial law, which he administered for the 
 protection and to the satisfaction of the people of those regions at a 
 time of general disorder and suspension ol civil law. While occupy- 
 ing this position Col. Forrester treated with remarkable kindness' a 
 large number of Union prisoners placed in his charge, his sanitary 
 measures for the preservation of their health being so complete that 
 scarcely a case of sickness and not a single death occurred among 
 them. Many of these prisoners, both officers and privates, survive 
 to attest the uniform courtesy and sympathy which marked their 
 treatment. At this period exchanges of prisoners were freely made, 
 and the harsh and cruel treatment of prisoners of war, which was 
 afterwards adopted, had not been resorted to a policy which re- 
 ceived no sanction from Col. Forrester. 
 
 At the close of the year 1866, Col. Forrester was sent by the Con- 
 federate Secretary of War on a mission to Memphis, to negotiate an 
 exchange of cotton for provisions, which President Lincoln had 
 invited and encouraged, as tending to reconciliation and peace, by 
 restoring commercial intercourse between the hostile sections. This 
 mission was successful, Gen. Dana, then in command, giving to Col. 
 Forrester a written order, guaranteeing from attack the steamer char- 
 tered to carry on the trade. 
 
 After the close of the war, Mr. Forrester retired to his cotton 
 plantation in Alabama, on which he continued to reside, practicing
 
 OAYTES JACKSON. in 
 
 .his profession. with distinction in the neighboring courts, until, in 
 1868, continued ill-health and the troubles of the country induced 
 him to remove to Chicago, where he has since resided, devoting him- 
 self to the practice of law with a good measure of success, having 
 gained a number of important revenue cases in the Circuit Court of 
 the United States, and also a number of important causes in the Su- 
 preme Court of Illinois. 
 
 He has been a hard student in his time, and is extensively read 
 in his profession. As a practitioner, he is regarded as zealously 
 devoted to the interests of his cjients, bringing'to the management 
 of his cases skill and ; persistent energy. He is a little over fifty 
 years of age, and still in the prime of life. 
 
 Was born in Vermont; came West when a boy, and returned to the 
 East for his education, graduating at Amherst College, where he 
 acquired somewhat of a literary reputation. He became a resident 
 of Chicago in 1864; commenced the practice of law in 1867 ; and, 
 although a young man, he^has already achieved considerable promi- 
 nence from his devotion to his profession and his social excellences. 
 He. does a very successful business in the line of insurance, banking, 
 bankruptcy, and commercial law; his counsels being sought, not 
 alone for his legal opinions, but largely for his clear and practical 
 business views. His judicious real estate operations have secured for 
 him, early in life, a handsome fortune. He is president of a railroad 
 company recently organized for the purpose of building a road 
 through extensive coal and iron lands, in which he has large inter- 
 ests. Mr. Gaytes is a man of cultivation outside of his profession, 
 and has a rare private library, which is especially rich in old, unique 
 and valuable books. It is hoped by his friends that he will not suffer 
 business pursuits to allure him from his profession, or to absorb his 
 literary tastes and talents, which his means would now afford him 
 leisure to cultivate to some purpose. 
 
 OBADIAH JACKSON. 
 
 Mr. Jackson is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and came to 
 Chicago in 1841. He studied law with Scates, McAllister & Jewett, 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He then went into partnership
 
 1.12. THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 with the firm with which he had studied. In time, Mr. Scates went 
 into the army, and Judge McAllister retired, leaving the firm as it 
 at present stands, that of Jewett & Jackson. Mr. Jackson is about 
 thirty-three years of age, and is very popular among his acquain- 
 tances and the profession. He confines himself largely to real estate 
 law and office business. He is a gentleman of brains and cultiva- 
 tion. He is a hard worker, a careful, pains-taking lawyer; and the 
 result of his application to business is that he has secured a very 
 handsome competence. 
 
 GEORGE CHANDLER. 
 
 Mr. Chandler is the junior member of the firm of Goudy & 
 Chandler, and is a young man of promise. He is a very superior 
 office lawyer, and prepares a case as well as the majority of older 
 men of the profession in Chicago. 
 
 EDWARD MARTIN. 
 
 Mr. Martin bears the reputation of being a very superior chan* 
 eery lawyer, and a most indefatigable worker. He is an Englishman 
 by birth, and is about fifty years of age. He is exceedingly well 
 read ; as a speaker he is quite diffuse, but when he has finished the 
 presentation of a case, but little more, if anything, pertinent to the 
 issue remains unsaid. 
 
 W. H. HOLDEN. 
 
 This young lawyer is a student of Hon. Thos. Hoyne, and does 
 credit to his instructor. He is a young man of decided ability, and 
 promises, with age, to take a high rank in the legal profession. 
 
 KIRK HALL. 
 
 Mr. Hall is a young man of considerable promise, and who has 
 in him many elements of great value. He is very industrious and 
 energetic, has very clear legal perceptions, and is quite promising as 
 a speaker. He is a hard worker, prepares a case very thoroughly, 
 and, in time, will make a lawyer of a good deal more than average 
 prominence.
 
 CAMPBELL BRADWELL MC CLELLAND. 113 
 
 GEORGE C. CAMPBELL. 
 
 Mr. Campbell is lately from Ottawa, where he was in partnership 
 with Messrs. Glover & Cook. He is about forty years of age, is the 
 attorney of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, is a very quiet 
 gentleman, and a man of very fine capacity. 
 
 MRS. MYRA BRADWELL. 
 
 This lady is entitled to a place in this collection, in that she has 
 studied law, and is at the head of the only legal journal of any value 
 in the West. She was born in 1831, in Vermont. Early in life she 
 removed to New York, and when thirteen years of age she came 
 West, and has lived most of the time since in Chicago. She began 
 the study of law fourteen years ago, and made application for admis- 
 sion to the bar in 1869. She was refused, and her case is now before 
 the Supreme Court of the United States, having been taken there in 
 regular process from one of the courts of this city. In October, 1 868, 
 she began the publication of " The Legal News," and through its 
 columns she has shown herself a thinker and a writer of a very high 
 order, and has amply demonstrated that her demand for admission to 
 the bar is based upon a thorough knowledge of the requirements and 
 duties of the legal profession. 
 
 She is of medium height, with fine, regular, sensitive features, an 
 intelligent and womanly face, and black hair, and black, expressive 
 eyes. She is a woman who is excellently well informed upon the 
 current events of the day; is a superior conversationalist; and while 
 she takes a fine rank as a legal thinker, she is no less successful in 
 the direction of being an excellent mother, and a thoroughly estima- 
 ble ladv. 
 
 THOMAS s. MCCLELLAND. 
 
 Thomas S. McClelland is one of the most promising of our rising 
 young lawyers. He is a native of Pennsylvania, but removed to 
 Illinois while quite young, and resided for some years in the central 
 part of the State. He prepared for college at Beloit, Wisconsin, and 
 also took the first three years of the regular collegiate course in that 
 excellent institution, but spent his senior year at Williams' College,
 
 114 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 where he graduated in 1864. He served in the army from Decem- 
 ber, 1864, to August, 1865, and then coming to Chicago, studied law 
 with Hon. W. C. Goudy, was admitted to the bar in November, 1866, 
 and commenced to practice June i, 1867. 
 
 Mr. McClelland is a close student, a sound, clear-headed thinker, 
 and a man of unusual integrity and stability of character. He is 
 over six feet high, straight as an Indian, and almost as swarthy. He 
 is about 33 years of age, and a bachelor. While well read in all 
 departments of his profession, he pays somewhat special attention to 
 corporation and real estate law, and is destined to take a high rank 
 as a Chancery lawyer. He has conducted several important cases of 
 this kind, involving heavy corporation interests, to successful termi- 
 nation, and has proved himself a safe counsellor and an able 
 advocate. 
 
 J. C.- KNICKERBOCKER. 
 
 Mr. Knickerbocker is a native of Columbia county, New York, 
 and is now about thirty-five years of age. He studied law in Chicago 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1862. He has been to the Legislature 
 one term, and has held various municipal and county offices. His 
 practice is a general one, with a large amount of probate business ; 
 and he is regarded as among the most promising of the younger 
 members of the profession. 
 
 His brother J. J. Knickerbocker, is the junior member of the 
 firm, and is also a young man of decided promise. 
 
 JAMES A. COWLES 
 
 Is a young man, a graduate of Union College, a very thorough and 
 estimable gentleman. He makes a specialty of patent law, in which 
 department of practice he is excellently well informed. He is indefa- 
 tigable in application, and is a practitioner who deserves and meets 
 with very substantial success. 
 
 FRANCIS LACKNER. 
 
 This gentleman is a German, and is a young man both of promi- 
 nence and promise. He is a representative German lawyer, and in 
 addition to his ability, he possesses a high order of character, and a 
 very polished manner.
 
 ROSENTHAL LEDDY BEAN UNDER. II 
 
 JULIUS ROSENTHAL. 
 
 Mr. Rosenthal is very proficient in probate law, is a very superior 
 classical scholar, understands several modern languages, is Librarian 
 of the Law Institute, a man of a very extended knowledge of books, 
 and a young lawyer who is generally regarded as one of excellent 
 promise. 
 
 JAMES LEDDY 
 
 Is twenty-six years of age. He studied law with Higgins and Swett, 
 and was admitted to the bar five years ago. He is well thought of as 
 a rising lawyer ; he has a good deal of criminal business ; is very 
 energetic and industrious ; has abundant self-possession, and is a 
 speaker of more than average ability. 
 
 His brother, Thomas Leddy, junior, is thirty years of age. He 
 studied law in Joliet. and was admitted in 1865. He has much 
 promise, confines himself mainly to office business, and will probably 
 make his mark as a counsellor in due season. While in Joliet he was 
 City Attorney for two years. 
 
 EDWIN BEAN. 
 
 Is a native of New Hampshire, and has been a resident of Chi- 
 cago since the year 1853. He originated here the collection agency 
 now conducted by Bradstreet & Sons ; his connection with which he 
 relinquished for a position in the law firm of Helm, Clark & Bean. 
 The extensive collection business of that firm and the succeeding one 
 of Clark & Bean he conducted for upwards of ten years He is now 
 a member of the firm of Wilkinson, Sackett and Bean. As a business 
 lawyer, and in the department of collecting, he has no equal in ex- 
 tended experience and success. 
 
 U. F. LINDER. 
 
 This lawyer has now somewhat retired from law practice ; and 
 hence it needs only be said of him that, at one time, he was one of 
 the most eloquent and powerful advocates in Chicago, and possibly 
 in the Northwest.
 
 Il6 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 KIRK D. PIERCE. 
 
 This gentleman, who is a recent comer to Chicago, is of Eastern 
 birth, and a nephew of Ex-President Pierce. He is a lawyer of great 
 promise ; is thoroughly educated and only requires time to attain the 
 greatest eminence in a profession which presents unlimited scope for 
 the display of talent. 
 
 Mr. Pierce's personal appearance is favorable, and he is a speaker of 
 considerable force and fluency. Among the many talented young men 
 who are entering the legal profession, there are few, or none, who 
 have a more brilliant augury for the future than Mr. Pierce. 
 
 ROBERT E. JENKINS. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins was born in Clark county, Missouri, in 1846, but 
 spent the first ten years of his life in Iowa. At that age, he returned 
 to his father, and for several years worked on the farm summers and 
 attended school winters. He had the advantage, however, of a small 
 but well selected library of History, Biography, and the Standard 
 English poets to occupy his leisure hours, and this, with the natural 
 taste for reading which he possessed, gave him a fair start in general 
 education. He finally left the farm and entered the Illinois College 
 at Jacksonville, 111., but did not finish the course. In 1866 he came 
 to Chicago and attended the Law School, from which he graduated 
 in 1867. He was soon after admitted to the bar, and has since 
 resided and practiced in Chicago. Mr. Jenkins confines himself 
 chiefly to practice under the United States bankrupt law, and has 
 made a successful specialty of this line of practice. He very fre- 
 quently is called upon to act as assignee of bankrupt estates, being 
 generally chosen by creditors rather than appointed by Court. The 
 practice of bankruptcy law is intricate and attended with an unlim- 
 ited amount of minute detail, which requires for its successful work- 
 ing a great deal of patience and hard work. Mr. Jenkins brings to 
 the work just the painstaking, indefatigable industry which, judging 
 from the position he has already achieved, will bring him into the 
 ranks of successful lawyers.
 
 PETERS DRISCOLL. 117 
 
 MILTON T. PETERS. 
 
 This gentleman was born in Ohio, where his early boyhood was 
 spent His early advantages were limited, and from an early age he 
 was obliged to depend upon his own resources. At twenty-one he 
 removed to Iowa, where he began practicing law, before he ever 
 studied regularly. Being a man of great force of character, he soon 
 became a proficient in the principles of law. He practiced and 
 studied together until he was admitted to the bar. He removed 
 to Princeton, Illinois, and practiced there acceptably; and in 1866 
 came to Chicago, where he has met with a fair amount of success. 
 He was in partnership with Judge Wilkinson for a time, but finally 
 went by himself, and carries on a lucrative practice of a general 
 character. 
 
 Mr. Peters is a man of marked characteristics, and full of contra- 
 dictions. He is bluff and harsh in manner and speech, while at heart 
 he is full of kindliness and generosity. The nervous temperament 
 predominates, and he is quick in action and speech. He possesses 
 acute perceptions ; is impulsive and often hasty in forming conclu- 
 sions ; but always is ready to make the amende honorable when con- 
 vinced of an error. He is advanced in ideas, and is prominent 
 among the Spiritualists and reformers of the day. 
 
 DANIEL D. DRISCOLL.* 
 
 THIS gentleman is the youngest son of Rev. Luther Driscoll, a 
 Baptist clergyman, and who removed with his family to Illinois in 
 1837. Mr. Driscoll worked on a farm and attended the district school 
 until sixteen years of age, when he commenced teaching. He also 
 attended school during this period, and commenced the study of law 
 with Hon. Julius Manning, who was then located in Knoxville in this 
 State. Mr. Driscoll came to Chicago in 1854, but being in ill-health, 
 and without means, he traveled for a time as collector for a city firm. 
 Recovering his health, he opened a law office in 1857. During the 
 succeeding ten years he formed partnerships with various gentlemen, 
 and at the end of that period he was elected City Attorney, which 
 office he filled for two years. He then formed a partnership with 
 
 * Deceased.
 
 Il8 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 Mr. Jos. Pfirshing a fine French and German scholar with whom 
 he still is. 
 
 Mr. Driscoll is thirty-eight years of age, and a tall, well-built gen- 
 tleman, with light hair and beard, and gray eyes. He is the possessor 
 of a very excellent knowledge of his profession, but he devotes him- 
 self more especially to the rdle of an advocate. He is a very effective 
 jury lawyer, and has made speeches, such as in the Comstock-Grear 
 case, and the Dent divorce suit, which have commanded a wide notice 
 and admiration. He has a good deal of criminal business, in which 
 he has achieved a very pronounced success. 
 
 His partner, Mr. Pfirshing, is a very fine scholar, and is a gradu- 
 ate of the Paris University, and also that at Heidelburg, Germany. 
 Mr. Volney T. Kenney, the remaining partner, is a brother of Hon. 
 Thos. J. Kenney, of Ashland, Ohio, and is a young man of more than 
 ordinary promise in the legal profession. 
 
 NORMAN C. PERKINS. 
 
 Mr. Perkins was born in Pomfret, Vermont, in 1832. Was edu- 
 cated in the schools of his native town, and graduated at Yale College 
 in 1857. In October of the same year Mr. Perkins came to Chicago 
 and entered the office of George Scoville to study law. He was 
 admitted to the bar in 1858, and has since resided in this city, engaged 
 in the practice of his profession. Mr. Perkins is a fine-looking, genial 
 gentleman, of cultivation, and socially is a great favorite. As a law- 
 yer, he is well read, and inclined to concentrate his efforts on real 
 estate law, though he is an excellent adviser and an able advocate in 
 any branch of the profession.
 
 JASPER D. WARD, ETC. 119 
 
 JASPER D. WARD, ETC. 
 
 It is impossible that each of the one thousand lawyers of Chicago 
 should receive detailed mention, unless in a work which should 
 extend through several volumes. Hence there are many who must 
 necessarily be omitted entirely, while there are others for whom there 
 can be no more done than barely to allude to their names. Among 
 this class there are many excellent lawyers who deserve more space, 
 but which act of justice is forbidden by the limits of this publication. 
 Among those who should recive more than a passing notice are 
 JASPER D. WARD, an ex-Senator of the Illinois Legislature, and a 
 citizen of prominence ; GEORGE H. WINSTON, who was formerly a 
 prominent railroad attorney ; H. K. WHITON, who is from Wiscon- 
 sin, and the partner of Joseph A. Sleeper; GEORGE F. BAILEY, who 
 was the partner of Judge Gary, and is a young man who bears a good 
 reputation ; H. B. HURD, formerly of Kurd, Booth & Cramer; JOHN 
 W. BENNETT, who is a very promising young lawyer ; JOHN A. 
 HUNTER, who is very highly mentioned by the older members of 
 the bar ; TELFORD BURNHAM, who has fine abilities, and a large 
 amount of dash and vigor; DAVID B. LYMAN, who is a young gen- 
 tleman of good abilities; R. W. BRIDGE, who is a. protege of Gookins 
 & Roberts, and who possesses very fair ability ; L. S. HODGES, 
 a reputable and hard-working lawyer; DAVID QUIGG, the junior 
 of Higgins, Swett & Quigg> a young man of the most de- 
 cided ability and promise ; ANDREW GARRISON, who is one of the 
 oldest lawyers in Chicago, and a highly respected practitioner ; 
 IRA W. BUELL, ex-City Attorney, and a very clever lawyer ; 
 F. B. PEABODY, who was formerly very prominent as a real 
 estate lawyer; S. K. Dow; GEORGE W. STANFORD; JOSEPH N. 
 BARKER, partner of M. F. Tuley ; JOHN BORDEN, a very accurate 
 and acute real estate lawyer, who is very highly respected ; NORMAN 
 WILLIAMS, junior, a young man who promises well 'for the future ; 
 JAMES H. KNOWLTON ; CYRUS BENTLEY, from Wisconsin, who has 
 established himself as a gentleman of a high order of abilities; L. 
 A. COLBURN, who is well known as a patent-law practitioner; 
 HORATIO G. SPAFFORD : ROBERT M. WILSON, ex-Recorder, and 
 who is a very effective jury lawyer; W. C. GRANT, formerly a part-
 
 120 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 ner of Williams, Woodbridge &: Grant, and who stands well and has 
 a fine practic ; GEORGE W. THOMPSON ; E. S. BRAGG, who is an 
 ex-military officer, a late arrival from Wisconsin, and who carries in 
 his practice all the precision and accuracy of a military drill ; JOHN 
 MATTOX, who is a gentleman that occupies a quite prominent legal 
 position ; SIMEON W. KING, who is Commissioner of all the States 
 and Territories, and who has worked his way into the profession 
 solely by his own energy ; J. A. J. KENDIG, a gentleman of fine 
 social, and some excellent professional attainments ; S. B. PERRY, an 
 old practitioner and of very fair standing in the profession ; JOHN 
 C. ROBERTS, a very careful and pains-taking lawyer, and managing 
 member of the firm of Gookins & Roberts; H. N. HIBBARD, who is 
 Register in Bankruptcy, who is a very excellent lawyer ; JAMES L. 
 HIGH, who is a self-made young man, modest, quiet demeanor, an 
 industrious worker, a good lawyer, and an author and editor of some 
 note ; L. H. BOUTELL, for some years the assistant and moving 
 spirit in the office of the United States District Attorney; S. A. 
 IRWIN, who is a shrewd manager, a man of a good deal of influence, 
 a very excellent lawyer, at present Collector of Internal Revenue, 
 and while City Attorney achieved creditable success ; FRANCIS 
 ADAMS, who is a quiet gentleman, a lawyer of more than average 
 ability, and was once City Attorney ; F. H. KALES, who is a part- 
 ner of Judge Beckwith, and a very shrewd, adroit, keen and 
 thoroughly well-read member of the legal profession ; S. B. GOOKINS, 
 who sustains a very fine reputation in his character as a lawyer 
 and as a private citizen, and occupies a very influential position 
 in every respect in this community, who is an ex-judge, and senior 
 of the firm of Gookins & Roberts ; Col. THOMAS GROSVENOR, 
 formerly attorney of the Police Courts, an intelligent, affable, and 
 popular young man, who was shot by a guard at the time the city 
 was under military control, during the week following the fire ; 
 AUGUSTUS VAN BUREN, who does a large amount of police business ; 
 T. HENRY TRUMAN, a young man who has traveled extensively in 
 Europe and elsewhere, and who is possessed of a great amount of 
 energy, nerve and ability, and is a young lawyer of unusal thorough- 
 ness and excellence ; H. S. TOWLE, junior of Goodwin, Larnard & 
 Towle, who is regarded as a young man of much promise, who has 
 a fine education and considerable experience ; W. F. WHITEHOUSE, 
 a young gentleman of polished address and great industry ; WM. P. 
 BLACK, of Dent & Black, a gentleman who is very highly spoken of;
 
 DANIEL J. AVERY, ETC. 121 
 
 CHARLES M. HARRIS, an ex-member of Congress, a clear thinker, 
 and a very honest, conscientious man ; DANIEL J. AVERY, who is a 
 partner of E. F.Runyan, and is a lawyer of promise, which may also 
 be said of E. F. COMSTOCK, who is also a partner in the same firm, 
 and who is looked upon as a rising young man ; J. EDWARDS FAY, 
 of Bonney, Fay, & Griggs, a very good real estate and business law- 
 yer, and has been a resident of Chicago about eleven years ; CHARLES 
 W. GRIGGS, of the same firm, who is accurate in his reading and 
 practice, and a young lawyer of unusual promise ; JAMES L. STARK, 
 who has very much more ability than he is popularly credited with, 
 whose practice is a good one, and whose qualities both as a man and 
 a lawyer are of a very high order ; JOSIAH H. BISSELL, who has lately 
 been appointed reporter for the Seventh Judicial District, is a young 
 man of promise in his profession, and possesses a clear, acute mind, 
 excellent judgment, and has an extended knowledge of the practical 
 requirements of his profession, which will greatly assist him in his 
 new position ; GEORGE F. HARDING, who is a fine lawyer, whose 
 specialty is real estate, and who is withal a capital business manager, 
 and a man who stands well with the community, and the members of 
 his profession ; CARTER H. HARRISON, J. B. VAUGHAN, and many 
 others.
 
 122 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 THERE are many gentlemen of great prominence who do not 
 properly belong to the bar of Chicago, but who are, or who have 
 been, connected with it incidentally, or by indirection. Among these 
 may be mentioned : 
 
 LYMAN TRUMBULL, United States Senator, ex-Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Illinois, who occupies a very high rank as a law- 
 yer, and who is distinguished for the clearness and force of his judi- 
 cial opinions. 
 
 JAMES R. DOOLITTLE, who obtained pre-eminence as a Wisconsin 
 lawyer and judge; was a United States Senator from that State; and 
 who developed fine ability as a constitutional lawyer in the impeach- 
 ment of Andrew Johnson. 
 
 JOHN M. WILSON, who was for a long time the Chancellor and 
 Chief Justice of the Superior Court ; is now President of the South 
 Park Commission, and who was justly regarded as one of the most 
 eminent lawyers in the Northwest, and one of the best judges who 
 ever occupied a judicial bench in Chicago. 
 
 GEORGE TRUMBULL, a very quiet, unpretending, well-read and 
 able lawyer, for a time successor of John M. Douglas, an attorney of 
 the Illinois Central railroad. 
 
 JOHN M. DOUGLAS, who is very widely known for many years as 
 the President and chief counsellor of the Illinois Central railroad 
 company. He is a man of commanding judgment and high adminis- 
 trative abilities. 
 
 JOHN D. CATON, who was widely distinguished as one of the 
 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court in this State. He is a man of 
 great learning, and has taken a very high judicial rank. 
 
 N. B. JUDD, who was Member of Congress for several terms, 
 Minister to Berlin, and who, had it not been for his absorption by 
 politics, would have attained distinction as a lawyer. 
 
 WALTER B. SCATES, who was for a long time one of the Justices, 
 and for a while Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, and 
 who has, since his descent from the bench, been Collector of the Port 
 in this city, and is now on the retired list of Chicago lawyers.
 
 RETIRED LAWYERS, JUDGES, ETC. 123 
 
 MARK SKINNER, L. C. P. FREER, BUCKNER S. MORRIS and E. B. 
 HOOPER are all men who once were actively engaged in the practice 
 of law, but who, having acquired fortunes in this direction, are now 
 no longer engaged in the active duties of the legal profession. 
 
 The courts have taken away some excellent men from the bar of 
 this city. They are as follows : 
 
 W. K. MCALLISTER, of the Supreme Court for the Chicago Dis- 
 trict, a sketch of whom appears in another place. 
 
 E. S. WILLIAMS, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court, who has a 
 very wide reputation for his patience, learning, great urbanity, and 
 for his inflexible official rectitude. 
 
 JOHN G. ROGERS is Associate Justice of the Circuit Court, one of 
 the lately elected officials, who is a gentleman of very finished man- 
 ners, of impressive presence, who has a superior judicial mind, and 
 who will doubtless distinguish the position which he occupies. 
 
 W. H. FARWELL, Associate Justice of the Circuit Court, who 
 occupies the Chancellor's bench of that court with Judge Williams, 
 and who is a quiet, unpretentious gentleman, and has a well-informed, 
 judicial mind. 
 
 HENRY BOOTH, also Associate Justice in the Circuit Court, who 
 has long been distinguished as the head of the law department of 
 Douglas University, and who brings to the bench a very wide range 
 of legal scholarship. 
 
 JOHN A. JAMESON, Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Superior 
 Court, who is an exceedingly patient and industrious student, has 
 produced a valuable treatise on constitutional conventions, and is 
 editor of the " Law Register." He is probably more widely known 
 than any other of our State judges. 
 
 JOSEPH E. GARY, Associate Justice of the same court, who is 
 remarkable for his disposition of business, and who, in the trial of 
 causes, displays an amount of knowledge seldom exhibited in the 
 same position. 
 
 WM. A. PORTER, also Associate Justice in the same court, who is 
 a man of imposing presence, of pleasing manners, and who occupies 
 the law bench of the Superior Court with Judge Gary. 
 
 M. R. M. WALLACE, of the Probate Court, who is a very con- 
 scientious, patient and pains-taking official, and whose convictions of 
 right are sincere, and apparent to all who come before -him. 
 
 DAVID DAVIS, Supreme Judge of the United States Court, and 
 who has the reputation of having more common sense than any man
 
 124 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 in the United States. He rose from the State court to his present 
 position at one promotion. He is thoroughly grounded in common 
 law and chancery systems, and enjoys a very wide consideration. 
 
 THOMAS DRUMMOND, United States District Judge of the Chicago 
 District, who enjoys a very enviable reputation, has great learning, 
 extended experience, and was made District Judge by a unanimous 
 choice 
 
 H. W. BLODGETT, Circuit Judge of the Chicago Circuit of the 
 United States Court, who, before taking his present position, was 
 long and favorably known as a railroad lawyer and a State Senator. 
 He has been a very hard student, and now gives very general satis- 
 faction. 
 
 IRA SCOTT, Master in Chancery of the Superior Court, who is 
 one of the most experienced Masters in Chancery in the State. Next 
 to him are JOHN WOODBRIDGE, of the Circuit Court, and H. W. 
 BISHOP, of the United States Court, and who are all gentlemen who 
 adequately fill their positions. 
 
 Chicago has produced a good many men who occupied distin- 
 guished positions at this bar, but who are now dead. Prominent 
 among these were : 
 
 ALFRED W. ARRINGTON, a grand intellect and a poet ; E. W. 
 TRACY, who was one of the most brilliant and intellectual men ever 
 known to the profession in Chicago ; PAT BALLINGALL, who acted 
 as Prosecuting Attorney for a number of years, and was a very social 
 and noted man ; DAN. MCLROY, also a very social and genial gen- 
 tleman ; LYLE SMITH, who was an orator, and possessed the highest 
 kind of eloquence, was social, and always ready for a speech on any 
 occasion ; JUSTIN BUTTERFIELD, who is said to have possessed more 
 brains than any of his compeers, was a friend of Webster, and of a 
 Websterian class of intellect, and who held several public offices of 
 importance for many years ; JAMES H. COLLINS, who was a fine 
 lawyer, and who, in connection with Butterfield, had nearly all the 
 practice at this bar; GILES SPRING, who was a judge of the Circuit 
 Court, and a first-class lawyer in every respect, an excellent judge, and 
 a relative of the well-known Dr. Spring, of New York ; RICHARD S. 
 THOMAS, who was very prominent as a real estate lawyer; JOHN 
 A. BROWN ; RICHARD HAMILTON ; THEOPHILUS SMITH ; JESSE B. 
 THOMAS; GEORGE MANNIERE; and GEORGE MEEKER.
 
 SUBURBAN LAWYERS. 125 
 
 THERE are legal gentlemen of prominence connected with towns 
 immediately adjoining Chicago, some of whom sometimes appear in 
 the courts of this city. 
 
 OTTAWA furnishes such men as T. Lyle Dickey, who served with 
 distinction during the war, and who was once United States Assistant 
 Attorney, and who is a man of very superior legal ability, without 
 very great learning, but who is a natural lawyer ; Washington Bush- 
 nell, who is now attorney General of the State, and who has clear 
 judgment, and who, without being a great man, is well-developed in 
 all that constitutes a lawyer ; Burton C. Cook, who is a man of great 
 shrewdness and versatility, and while not prominent as a speaker, is 
 a good deal of a manager ; and other gentlemen whose names must 
 be omitted. 
 
 ELGIN contains the widely-known Colonel Edward S. Joslyn, 
 who is forty-five years of age, of a very genial and social disposition, 
 and who is an advocate whose eloquence is almost without a rival in 
 the Northwest; Colonel John S. Wilcox, whose age is about thirty- 
 eight, who is a cultivated gentleman, an evenly and well-developed 
 lawyer, a good manager, and an industrious, pains-taking professional ; 
 Major A. H. Barry, who is forty-three years of age, and a fine jury 
 lawyer; and Judge R. N. Botsford, who is thirty-eight years of age, 
 a hard student, and a very competent office lawyer. 
 
 JOLIET has a large legal force, among whom may be mentioned 
 Hon. Josiah McRoberts and Hon. G. D. A. Parks, who are both men 
 of cultivation and scholarly tastes, with fine legal minds ; Hon. S. W. 
 Randall, an old citizen, and formerly of the Circuit Court ; Frank 
 Goodspeed, who was a prominent candidate for the Supreme bench ; 
 T. L. Breckinridge, a very ready and eloquent speaker; Benjamin 
 Olin, who although a young man, has already won a very command- 
 ing position ; Egbert Phelps, a scholarly young gentleman, with very 
 fine poetical and literary tastes, and excellent legal abilities ; Charles 
 A. Hill, the D'istrict Attorney, who is a young man, and is rapidly 
 rising in his profession ; and S. W. Munn and E. C. Fellows, both
 
 126 THE CHICAGO BAR. 
 
 of whom have attained distinction in the department of criminal law 
 practice. 
 
 AURORA furnishes several conspicuous members of the legal pro- 
 fession, among whom the most prominent are Hon. B. F. Parks, R. 
 G. Montony, and C. J. Metzner. 
 
 GENEVA has a reputable bar, of whom the best known are A. M. 
 Harrington, formerly United States District Attorney for Northern 
 Illinois, Hon. Wm. B. Plato, who is regarded as a counsellor of a 
 very able kind.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE | 
 
 ADAMS, FRANCIS 120 
 
 ANTHONY, ELLIOT 80 
 
 ARNOLD, ISAAC N 58 
 
 ARRINGTON, ALFRED W.I ;.. 124 
 
 ASAY, E. G._ -.-.. 47 
 
 ATWOOD, JULIUS P 99 
 
 AVERY, DANIEL J 121 
 
 AVER, B. .. 53 
 
 BATES, GEORGE C _ ._ 61 
 
 BAILEY, GEORGE F 119 
 
 BARKER, JOSEPH N 119 
 
 BALLINGALL, PAT 124 
 
 BARRY, MAJOR A. H 125 
 
 BECKWITH, CORYDON 15 
 
 BEAN, EDWIN 115 
 
 BENNETT, JOHN W 119 
 
 BENTLEY, CYRUS 119 
 
 BlSSELL, JOSIAH H __ 121 
 
 BISHOP, H. W 124 
 
 BLODGETT, H. W _.. 124 
 
 BLACK, WILLIAM? 120 
 
 BONNEY, CHARLES CARROLL 34 
 
 BONFIELD, JOSEPH F 101 
 
 BOND, LESTER L 107 
 
 BORDEN, JOHN ng 
 
 BOUTELL, L. H 120 
 
 BOOTH, HENRY 123 
 
 BOTTSFORD, JUDGE R. N.. 125 
 
 BRADWELL, J AMES B 78 
 
 BRADWELL, MRS. MYRA.. 113 
 
 BRIDGE, R, W.. 119 
 
 BRAGG, E. S 120 
 
 BROWN, JOHN A 124 
 
 BRECKENRIDGE, T. L 125 
 
 BURNHAM, TELFORD 119 
 
 BUELL, IRA W ng 
 
 BUTTERFIELD, JUSTIN 124 
 
 BUSHNELL, WASHINGTON 125 
 
 CAULFIELD, BERNARD G 103 
 
 CAMPBELL, GEORGE C 113 
 
 CATON, JOHN D 122 
 
 CHANDLER, GEORGE , 112 
 
 CLARKSON, JOSEPH P 79 
 
 COWLES, JAMES A 114 
 
 COLBURN, L. A Ilg 
 
 COMSTOCK, E. F 121 
 
 COLLINS, JAMES H 124 
 
 COOK, BURTON C .. . 125 
 
 CRAM, J. A... 106 
 
 DAVIS, DAVID 123 
 
 DEXTER, WIRT 44 
 
 DENT, THOMAS. 49 
 
 DICKEY, T. LYLE 125 
 
 DOOLITTLE, JAMES R 122 
 
 DOUGLAS, JOHN M 122 
 
 Dow, S. K 119 
 
 DRISCOLL, DANIEL D 118 
 
 DRUMMOND, THOMAS 124 
 
 ELA, JOHN W 82 
 
 ELDRIDGE, HAMILTON N 88 
 
 EVANS, E. W 92 
 
 FAY, J. EDWARDS 121 
 
 FARWELL, W. H 123 
 
 FELLOWS, E. C 125 
 
 FORRESTER, ROBERT 109 
 
 FREER, C. P 123 
 
 FULLER, SAMUEL W... 18 
 
 FULLER, MELVILLE W 51 
 
 GARDINER, GEORGE 108 
 
 GAYTES, CAROL in 
 
 GARRISON, ANDREW 119 
 
 GARY, JOSEPH E 123 
 
 GOUDY, WILLIAM C 13 
 
 GOODWIN, STEPHEN A 56 
 
 GOODRICH, GRANT , 71 
 
 GOODWIN, DANIEL, JR 84 
 
 GOODWIN, DANIEL 86 
 
 GOOKINS, S. B 120 
 
 GOODSPEED, FRANK 125 
 
 GRANT, W. C 119 
 
 GROSVENOR, COL. THOMAS 120 
 
 GRIGGS, CHARLES M 121 
 
 HALL, KIRK 112 
 
 HARRIS, CHARLES M 120 
 
 HARDING, GEORGE F ._ 121 
 
 HARRISON, CARTER H '_. 121 
 
 HAMILTON, RICHARD 124 
 
 HARRINGTON, A. M 126 
 
 HERVEY, ROBERT 21 
 
 HER BERT, GEORGE 74 
 
 HIGGINS, VAN H 32 
 
 HITCHCOCK, CHARLES 37 
 
 HILL, EDWARD J 87 
 
 HIGH, JAMES L 120 
 
 HILL, CHARLES A 125 
 
 HIKBARD, H. N 120 
 
 HOYNE, THOMAS 9 
 
 HOYNE, PHILIP 104 
 
 HORTON, OLIVER H... 104 
 
 HOLDEN, W. H 112 
 
 HODGES, L. S ng 
 
 HOOPER, E. B 123 
 
 HURD, H. B 1 19 
 
 HUNTER, JOHN A 119 
 
 IRWIN, S. A , 120 
 
 JACKSON, OBADIAH m 
 
 JAMESON, JOHN A 123 
 
 JEWETT, JOHN N._ 29
 
 128 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 JENKINS, ROBERT E 116 
 
 JOSLYN, COL. EDWARD S 125 
 
 JUDD, N. B 122 
 
 KALES, F. H 120 
 
 KENDIG, J. A. J 120 
 
 KING, WILLIAM H 42 
 
 KING, JOHN LYLE 81 
 
 KING, SIMEON W 120 
 
 KNOX, JOSEPH 7 
 
 KNICKERBOCKER. J. C 114 
 
 KNOWLTON, JAMES H 1 19 
 
 LARNED, EDWIN C. 100 
 
 LAWRENCE, A. H 100 
 
 LACKNER, FRANCIS 114 
 
 LEAKE, JOSEPH B 69 
 
 LE MOYNE, JOHN V. ._ 96 
 
 LEDDY, JAMES 115 
 
 ~* N LINCOLN, ROBERT F 105 
 
 LINDER, U. F 115 
 
 LYON, D. J 106 
 
 LYMAN, DAVID B 119 
 
 MAGRUDER, BENJAMIN D 73 
 
 MASON, JOHN 108 
 
 MARTIN, EDWARD 112 
 
 MATTOX, JOHN 120 
 
 MANNIERE, GEORGE 124 
 
 MCALLISTER, WILLIAM K 5 
 
 MCCLELLAND, THOMAS S 113 
 
 MCELROY, DAN 124 
 
 McKiNNON, JOHN J.. 96 
 
 McRoBERTS, HON. JOSIAH 125 
 
 METZNER, C. J 126 
 
 MEEKER, GEORGE 124 
 
 MILLER, H. G 30 
 
 MONROE, HENRY S 75 
 
 MOORE, SAMUEL M 97 
 
 MORRIS, BUCKNER S 123 
 
 MONTONY, R. S 126 
 
 MUNN, S.- W. 125 
 
 OLIN, BENJAMIN 125 
 
 PARKER, THOMAS. [R 81 
 
 PARKS, HON. B. F.* 126 
 
 PARKS, HON. G. D. A 125 
 
 PERKINS, MARLAND I 85 
 
 PECK, JOHN H 98 
 
 PERKINS, NORMAN C 117 
 
 PETERS, MILTON T 117 
 
 PEABODY, F. B 119 
 
 PERRY, S. B . 120 
 
 PHELPS, S. D 106 
 
 PHELPS, EGBERT 125 
 
 PLATO, HON. W. B.. 126 
 
 PIERCE, KIRK D 116 
 
 PORTER, WILLIAM A 123 
 
 QUIGG, DAVID . 119 
 
 RAE, ROBERT 106 
 
 RANDALL, HON. S. W.. 125 
 
 REED, CHARLES H.. 65 
 
 RICHARDSON. WILLIAM H 97 
 
 ROBY, EDWARD 76 
 
 ROBERTS, JAMES H 103 
 
 ROSENTHAL, JULIUS.. 115 
 
 ROGERS, JOHN G 123 
 
 ROBERTS, JOHN C 120 
 
 RUNYAN, E. F 80 
 
 SACKETT, FREDERICK 108 
 
 SCATES, WALTER B 122 
 
 SCHUYLER, DANIEL J 102 
 
 SCOTT, IRA 1 .._ 124 
 
 SHOREY, D. L 68 
 
 SHERMAN, E. B 72 
 
 SKINNER, MARK 123 
 
 SLEEPER, JOSEPH A 103 
 
 SMITH, SIDNEY 40 
 
 SMITH, U. P 104 
 
 SMITH, LYLE 124 
 
 SMITH, THEOPHILUS 124 
 
 SNOWHOOK, WM. B 66 
 
 SPRING, GILES 124 
 
 SPAFFORD, HORATIO G _ _ 1 19 
 
 STORRS, EMORY A 54 
 
 STILES, ISRAEL N 63 
 
 STANFORD, GEORGE W.__. 119 
 
 STARK, JAMES L 121 
 
 SWETT, LEONARD 24 
 
 TENNEY, D. K 100 
 
 THOMPSON, JOHN L 102 
 
 THOMPSON, GEORGE W 120 
 
 THOMAS, RICHARD S 124 
 
 THOMAS, JESSE B 124 
 
 TOURTELLOTTE, F. W 90 
 
 TOWLE, H. S 120 
 
 TREE, LAMBERT 67 
 
 TRUMAN, T. HENRY. _. 120 
 
 TRUMBULL, LYMAN 122 
 
 TRUMBULL, GEORGE.. 122 
 
 TRACY, E. W 124 
 
 TULEY, M. F 43 
 
 TURNER, THOS. J 94 
 
 VAN ARMAN, JOHN 27 
 
 VAN BUREN, EVARTS 78 
 
 VAN BUREN, AUGUSTUS 120 
 
 VAUGHN, J. B 121 
 
 WALKER, JAMES M 22 
 
 WARD, JASPER D 119 
 
 WALLACE, M. R. M 123 
 
 WHITEHOUSE, WM. FITZHUGH.. 120 
 
 WHITON, H. K 119 
 
 WILKINSON, IRA O 62 
 
 WILSON, ISAAC G 83 
 
 WINDETT, A. W. 99 
 
 WINSTON, GEO. H 119 
 
 WILLIAMS, NORMAN, JR 119 
 
 WILSON, ROBERT M - 119 
 
 WILSON, JOHNM 122 
 
 WILLIAMS, E. S 123 
 
 WILCOX, COL. JOHN S 125 
 
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