{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5347", "width": "3710", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "SECTION ELEVEN.\\nPRICE THREE DOLLARS.\\nCHICAGO\\nTHE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO-\\nCOPYRIGHT, 189}, BY THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.", "height": "5316", "width": "3585", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED\\nAmerican Biography\\nCONTAINING\\nMemoirs, and Engravings and Etchings\\nOF\\nRepresentative Americans\\nTHE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY\\nCHICAGO", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "COPYRIGHT\\n1899\\nBY\\nTHE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO.,\\nNEW YORK AND CHICAGO.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0WO COPIER RECEIVED.\\nor\\nOf SS\\nJUL 2 d 1889\\n,L vSS\\nof QoVf\\nb e k o-\\\\*r\\n9 V b9", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "4\\nP", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "FRANKLIN T. BACKUS,\\nCLEVELAND, OHIO.\\nT IS a common reflection that the fame of great lawyers is of fleeting\\nduration. Unless elevated to high judicial station or made conspicuous\\nby distinguished political service, the mere lawyer\u00e2\u0080\u0094no matter how learned\\nor accomplished\u00e2\u0080\u0094dies, and the memory of his great deeds and eminent\\nservices soon fades and is forgotten. The man who, with conscientious\\nfidelity, gave his life to the duties of his profession, whose shining talents\\nand profound attainments were the delight and wonder of his brethren,\\nwhose life was a model of excellence, whose eloquent tongue moved all\\nhearts, who won golden opinions from his fellow men, is remembered but\\nfor a little time after the earth takes his ashes into its embrace. We\\nrecognize the loss of such a man as irreparable. We know that a pillar\\nin the temple of society has fallen. We recall his noble presence, his\\nbrilliant career, his intellectual triumphs, and we mourn with no stinted\\ngrief his departure from the living. His fame seems secure and a part of our cherished possessions.\\nBut time with its remorseless hand, the world with its active business and crowded cares, push farther\\nand farther out of mind the memory of the dead, and the man and his works alike perish and\\nare lost.\\nIt is only here and there that the memory of a great judge survives the generation in which\\nhe lived. He may be honored and quoted by his brethren, but by the world at large he is forgotten.\\nNot one lawyer in a hundred can even name the justices of our own supreme national tribunal since\\nthe adoption of the constitution; yet they were among the most remarkable men of their times, dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntinguished for learning and ability. The names of Luther Martin, of William Wirt, of Pinckney\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthose giants of the bar whose prodigious gifts were the marvel of the age\u00e2\u0080\u0094awaken no pleasing\\nassociations to the mass of mankind. The splendid services they rendered, the combats in which\\nthey triumphed,\u00e2\u0080\u0094these men, almost worshiped in life, are now substantially unknown. The fame for\\nwhich they strove and dreamed has been as transitory as their lives. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe path of glory leads but\\nto the grave!\u00e2\u0080\u009d Ohio has had her proportion of great lawyers, and her most prominent sons have\\ntaken their rewards in the highest honors of the nation. We recall a goodly assembly of these men:\\njustice John McLean, a model of judicial dignity and learning; his noble presence, benignant counte\u00c2\u00ac\\nnance and gracious manners won for him the regard of all who came within his influence. There\\nwas Thomas Ewing, towering above all his fellows in height, breadth and intellectual power, the\\nundisputed head of the legal profession in our state. To him all knowledge was an open book, and\\nhis stores of information were always at command. The massive grandeur of his presence impressed\\nall who saw or heard him. In youth, the athlete who had no peer; in age, the Nestor who had no\\nrival. Here was Corwin, that genius whose silver tongue, unrivaled powers as an orator and statesman,\\nmade him the idol of the people. Whoever saw this swarthy, black-browed, deep-chested, wonderful\\nman, this child of comedy and tragedy, can forget his presence, alike irresistible at the bar, in con\u00c2\u00ac\\ngress, on the stump or in private station? Who that recalls the marvelous popularity of this man,\\nthe versatility of his talents, the hold he had upon the hearts of the people, will believe that the fame\\nof Corwin is but a tale that is told?\\n*This sketch was written by R. C. Parsons for the Magazine of Western History, November, 1885.\\n5 77", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "573\\nILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nHere was the grand and graceful person of Henry Stanbery, tall as a cedar, dignified, courteous\\nin manner, a face remarkable for refinement and manly beauty, hew lawyers ever had a greater\\nwealth of legal knowledge, and his talents carried him to the highest official rewards of his profession.\\nFrom Lancaster came Hocking H. Hunter, a pattern of judicial integrity, beloved and honored by all\\nwho knew him for his abilities and virtues. From\u00e2\u0080\u0098Cincinnati, Judge Walker, Judge Storer and Salmon\\nP. Chase, who closed his useful and great career as chief justice of the United States.\\nIt would involve a sketch far beyond the limits of this article to even name the distinguished\\nlawyers of Ohio, the judges of the supreme court, and especially those eminent men who, in the early\\nhistory of the state, were so widely influential in molding public sentiment for good, making the practice\\nof the law a grand and exalted calling.\\nThe \u00e2\u0080\u009cReserve,\u00e2\u0080\u009d within our recollection, had its share of goodly sons. The prudent, sagacious\\nLane; Wood, long chief justice of the state,\u00e2\u0080\u0094known as the tall \u00e2\u0080\u009cCuyahoga chief,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094though a man of\\nmoderate learning and imperfect education, with a rare Scotch angular face, he was a useful judge\\nand greatly beloved by his fellow men; Wade, with his downright speech and personal force; Giddings,\\nthe old man with silver hair and hatred of oppression; Peter Hitchcock, one of the soundest and\\nmost modest of lawyers; and Reuben Plitchcock, his son, distinguished as a ripe jurist and Christian\\ngentleman; Joseph M. Root, long a member of congress, with his keen wit and never ending humor;\\nRufus P. Spalding, who survived, to venerable age, with his remarkable faculties in unusual preserva\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion; Elisha Whittlesey, afterward to obtain a national fame for great national service,\u00e2\u0080\u0094all these and\\nmore we remember with pride and satisfaction.\\nThe members of the bar of Cuyahoga at the time Mr. Backus came to Cleveland held high\\nrank with their brethren throughout the state. It is only necessary to name Sherlock J. Andrews,\\nMoses Kelley, Horace Foote, Charles Stetson, Harvey Rice, Samuel Starkweather, Samuel B. Prentiss,\\nSamuel Williamson, Henry B. Payne and Thomas Bolton, to realize how strong was the intellectual\\nand moral force of the Cleveland bar. These men, with many others worthy to be named with them,\\nwere for nearly forty years leaders in the profession. They were men of liberal education, careful\\ntraining, great industry, and remarkable in any age for talents and varied learning. They all won\\nhigh distinction as lawyers and citizens.\\nIt was in 1836 that Franklin T. Backus came to Cleveland and began the study of law. He\\nbrought his fortune with him in a fine manly person, a most engaging countenance, an iron constitu\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, a clear, discriminating mind, ambition for success, persistent industry, a stainless character, the\\nbest education Yale College could give, inflexible honesty, which, through a long and active life, was\\nnever questioned, and talents of superior order. He was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massachu\u00c2\u00ac\\nsetts, May 6, 1813. While Mr. Backus was quite young his father removed to Lansing, New York,\\nwhere he soon died, leaving his widow and several children with but scanty means for support. His\\nparents were of the Puritan race, and young Backus was carefully trained in the religious faith of his\\nancestors. He early took upon himself the hardy labors of the farm that he might aid his mother\\nin her necessities, and he often spoke of this period of his life, when he laid the foundation of that\\nvigorous constitution which in after years enabled him to bear the severest mental toil, with endurance\\nthat seemed to know no limit. But as the youth grew toward manhood his early desire for knowledge\\nbecame the mastering passion of his life, and he determined to acquire a thorough classical education.\\nIn a comparatively brief period he fitted himself for the junior year and entered this class in Yale\\nCollege, after a careful examination, in 1834. He graduated, two years afterward, with so much\\ndistinction that he was at once tendered the position of assistant professor of mathematics in that\\ninstitution.\\nFor a time after his arrival in Cleveland Mr. Backus supported himself by teaching a classical\\nschool, and soon afterward entered himself as a law student in the office of Bolton Kelley. He\\nwas called to the bar in 1839, and almost at once attracted the attention of the public, and entered\\nupon that successful field of practice which became larger and wider until the close of his useful and\\nhonorable life.\\nIn 1841 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county, was reelected and served with\\nspecial ability, gaining the esteem of the public and the bar. In 1846 he was elected a Whig member\\nof the Ohio house of representatives. In 1848 he was elected to the state senate, where his unusual\\ntalents, force of character and fitness for the position made him prominently named as a suitable\\ncandidate for the senate of the United States. He was afterward nominated both for member of\\ncongress and judge of the supreme court of Ohio, by the Republican party, and failed of election only\\nbecause of non-success of his party in those years. In 1840 he made a law partnership with Hon.\\nJ. P. Bishop, which continued fifteen years. On the election of the latter to the bench Mr. Backus", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n579\\nbecame the partner of Judge Rufus P. Ranney, the eminent lawyer and jurist, and the firm of Ranney,\\nBackus Noble became as widely known and respected as any in the state. Afterward he was the\\npartner of Mr. Estep, and continued in this relation to the time of his death. The high standing\\nMr. Backus held in the esteem of the people as a lawyer was indicated by his being chosen once by\\nthe Whig party and once by the Republican party as a candidate for supreme judge. In 1861 he\\nwas appointed by Governor Dennison a delegate to the peace conference, which met at Washington on\\nthe 4th of February. His associates were Salmon P. Chase, Thomas Ewing, William S. Groesbeck,\\nReuben Hitchcock, V. B. Horton and Christopher P. Wolcott, the last named being appointed to take\\nthe place of John C. Wright, who died soon after reaching Washington.\\nIn 1864 Mr. Backus, who for years had been a distinguished leader of the Republican party,\\nbecame dissatisfied with the administration in regard to the management of the war, and, greatly to\\nthe distress of his immediate friends, gave his support to General McClellan for the presidency. In\\n1866 he was one of the delegates to the national convention at Philadelphia to form a new party.\\nIn 1868 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for congress in the Cuyahoga district, but was\\nof course defeated. Perhaps no higher tribute can be paid to the memory of Mr. Backus, and prove\\nthe general respect all men had for his integrity of personal character and pure life, than the fact\\nthat, while he changed his political associates and gave his great influence to the party he had so long\\nopposed, and at a time when party spirit was the most bitter ever known in modern times, no man\\nwas found to doubt his absolute good faith in pursuing the line he regarded as right, and that he\\nwas acting from the most conscientious sense of duty and honor.\\nIt was evident from the time Mr. Backus came to the bar that he was destined to achieve\\nsuccess and distinction. He was a man of warm, generous impulses, of pleasing address, quiet,\\nunostentatious manners, persevering application,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a man who could wait as well as work. He had an\\nardent love for his profession, a mind trained to close, patient study and profound reflection. His\\nindustry was tireless. He was not a genius, and leaned for success on none of the arts or tricks by\\nwhich popular applause is sometimes gained; but slowly, logically, with methodical labor and pains\u00c2\u00ac\\ntaking diligence, pushed himself to the very front rank of the bar of Ohio. The firmness of his\\ncharacter, love of truth, rigid honesty, and the trust all men had in the purity of his life, gave him\\nvast influence with courts and juries. The cause of his client was a solemn trust. He gave to it all\\nhe had of learning, influence and power. Neither his health, comfort nor convenience was allowed to\\ninterfere with what he regarded as his first great duty. Courteous, genial and kindly at the bar,\\ntreating his brethren with unaffected friendship of manner; yet if he felt his client was unjustly treated\\nby bench or lawyer, the sleeping lion was aroused on the instant. At once the quiet, modest man\\nbristled at all points, like a warrior ready for battle; and his weapons of offense and defense were\\nready at the moment. In the preparation of his case nothing escaped his scrutiny. The law and\\nthe facts were fully known to him. If he lacked the faculty of brevity and conciseness in his argu\u00c2\u00ac\\nments, he never left his case until he had demonstrated every point, answered as far as possible every\\nobjection. When he concluded an argument the whole field had been actually explored. The judge\\nhad been told the law, the jury the evidence and the facts. Over juries he had great influence, not\\nbecause he was brilliant, magnetic or eloquent, but from the confidence they placed in the integrity\\nof the man. They thought his love of justice was not subordinated to his desire for success, that he\\ntried to do right, that he never sought to gain his causes by practicing deceit or art in any manner,\\nbut always appealed to their sense of justice and fair dealing. Juries are often carried away by the\\ncharms of a silver tongue, but the great success Mr. Backus achieved as a jury lawyer came from his\\nsound sense, patient study, real candor, a belief in the worth of the man, his powers of persuasion,\\nindomitable will and exhaustive knowledge of the subject before him.\\nNo man could look at Mr. Backus for a moment without feeling that he was a man of great\\nnatural intellectual powers; but he owed all his success in life to honest industry and hard work. His\\nmemory was tenacious, and in after years the stores of knowledge he had acquired as a student\\nbecame a mine of useful wealth. That which he knew he knew thoroughly. He was wise in all\\ndepartments of the law, and as a safe, prudent, sound counselor he had no superior. All classes of\\nsociety trusted him alike. As Judge Ranney said of him: \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe was more resorted to for advice in\\nimportant matters than any other member of the bar in Cleveland. For many years he had the\\nmost lucrative and extensive practice in the county. In the latter years of his life he was the leading\\nlawyer in all special matters where the vast interests of railroads were concerned, and he had much\\nto do in fixing the principles of the law which have since governed the courts in our state in regard\\nto these great corporations.\\nThose who attended the trial, many years ago, of Brooks, who was prosecuted for murder, for", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "5 8o\\nILL US I RATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nplacing obstructions upon a railroad track, whereby a train was wrecked and persons killed, and heard\\nMr. Backus in his remarkable speech sum up the law and the facts against the prisoner, felt that a\\nmaster of the criminal law was addressing the jury. As he welded with his invincible logic the links in\\nthe chain of guilt around the prisoner; as he took circumstance after circumstance, slight and delicate\\nin themselves alone, fitting them together with the highest skill and mathematical certainty, there was\\na feeling all over the court-room that the doom of the prisoner was as fixed as fate. The judge was\\ndeeply moved and profoundly interested. The jury scarcely stirred, so absorbed was their attention.\\nAs the waning day brought almost twilight gloom into the court-room, as the crowded audience\\nlistened with painful silence to every word that was spoken, as Mr. Backus, solemn, earnest, in the\\nprime of his vigorous powers, crushed the hopes of the prisoner, darkness did indeed seem to settle\\nupon the miserable man, and the hope he had relied on\u00e2\u0080\u0094that no eye had seen his crime and no\\nconfidant shared his guilt\u00e2\u0080\u0094faded away, and he saw the awful doom of the outcast and murderer to\\nbe his own. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree, and he was sentenced\\nto imprisonment for life. He lived to extreme old age, a solitary, aimless, hopeless being, dying years\\nafter Mr. Backus had been buried from our sight. This trial gave Mr. Backus special distinction.\\nHis wonderful knowledge of the minutest facts, his familiarity with all the criminal law applicable to\\nthe case and the evidence, the ability he displayed in tracing the motives, the conduct and the thousand\\nlittle circumstances that went to make the guilt of the prisoner, won for him deserved commendation.\\nPerhaps never in the history of our courts did an advocate have so grand an opportunity of\\ndisplaying those high qualities of mind and heart as did Mr. Backus in the trial of the Oberlin\\nrescuers. The slave law then dominated the republic, and the courts of the United States were\\nspecially active in obeying its demands. In these cases the government was pushing, with all its\\nmighty power, the prosecution of the prisoners, and had given orders to secure their conviction by all\\nmeans known to law. These Oberlin prisoners were not of the criminal class,\u00e2\u0080\u0094they were men\\npatriotic, educated, humane. They had assisted a panting fugitive to escape his pursuers, and their\\ncrime was to be punished with the penalties of the law. We can do no better than to quote from\\nan article written some years ago by the present writer in regard to these trials:\\nI well remember when the Oberlin rescue cases were on trial, and the attempt was made by the government to try\\nall the prisoners before the same jury that had just convicted one of the defendants. Then to me Mr. Backus displayed\\nthose high qualities of the lawyer and advocate which made the celebrated lawyers of the seventeenth and eighteenth\\ncenturies the idols of a downtrodden populace. In these days we can scarcely understand the courage necessary in an\\nadvocate who was resisting being crushed, and opposed by all the power of a great and mighty government. But Mr.\\nBackus was equal to the occasion. No more could judge, or marshal or prosecutor shake the firmness of that iron-hearted\\nman than kingly power could overwhelm and silence the noble Brougham, when before the parliament of Great Britain he\\ndefended, with consummate skill, learning, firmness and ability, the cause of the unfortunate and deeply injured Queen\\nCaroline of England. There he stood, in the prime and vigor of his splendid manhood, almost single-handed, fearless and\\nundismayed\u00e2\u0080\u0094inspiring courage in the weakest heart and making the government tremble for the success of its prosecution.\\nBut though profoundly moved, he was courteous and self-possessed, betraying great discretion and circumspection, and\\nfinally compelling the court to give a new jury and the semblance of a fair trial to the parties.\\nPerhaps the most striking feature in the character of Mr. Backus was the moral courage of the\\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0094the firmness at all times and under all circumstances to act as his convictions of fight and duty\\nurged him. He was eminently conservative and, bred as a lawyer, he held \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe constitution and the\\nlaws made in pursuance thereof as his chart and compass. Hence in the early anti-slavery struggles\\nhe had no sympathy with those who ignored the constitution and denounced obedience to it. Plis\\nsympathy was with the slave, his humanity was deeply touched by his sufferings; but he could not\\ndeliberately trample under foot what he believed to be the lawful rights of the slave-owners, not even\\nto achieve the highest good. Hence came the difference of opinion with the political party he had\\nso long served, and the severing of almost fraternal ties that had so long bound him to his political\\nassociates. But if he felt he was right, neither the applause nor the frowns of men, his dearest interests,\\nhis personal happiness, nor ambition\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hopes were allowed to stand for a moment in the way of duty.\\nHe was of that class of men who in early days preferred the block and the executioner to the sacrifice\\nof principle and their dearest convictions. He was outspoken in his views of duty, despised all dissimu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlation, but no man of more loyal heart or a sincerer lover of his country ever lived or died.\\nThe hearty, cordial, upright nature of the man had made him widely honored and beloved in\\nthe city where he was best known. Confidence was given him as a matter of course, and his faith\u00c2\u00ac\\nfulness and sincerity were never doubted. His word and his bond were alike inviolable. There was\\nsomething grand in the quiet, unobtrusive way he won the regard and esteem of his fellow men.\\nSimple in all his habits, caring nothing for wealth as a means of personal gratification or display,\\ndoing good with a lavish but unseen hand, devoted to his friends, free from guile, and always ready", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN RIO GRAPH}: 581\\nto assist the young and deserving, he had become, at the time of his death, a central figure in the\\ncommunity, and his death was regarded as a great public as well as private calamity.\\nIn 1842 Mr. Backus was married to Miss Lucy Mygatt, daughter of the late George Mygatt.\\nInto the home circle, so shattered and destroyed by his early and untimely death, we will not attempt\\nto penetrate. It is enough to say that his sweet and tender nature bloomed in new beauty by his\\nown fireside. There, in the peace of domestic life, he found his truest and highest happiness, and\\nthe richness of his nature, his cultivated intellect, delight in ministering to the happiness of others,\\nmade him the idol of the household. His belief in the Christian religion was clear and unclouded,\\nand his life testified to the soundness of his faith. He bore with unfaltering patience his last painful\\nillness, and on the 14th day of May, 1870, he departed this life, mourned as few are mourned, crowned\\nwith the affection of all who knew him. \u00e2\u0080\u009cGod\u00e2\u0080\u0099s finger touched him, and he slept.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "ARTHUR B. FARQUHAR,\\nYo\\nTu---\\nYORK, PENNSYLVANIA.\\nHE apprehension and subsequent development of the subjective\\npotential must ever figure as the delineation of the maximum of\\npersonal success and usefulness in any field of endeavor, and the\\nfailure to discover this potential\u00e2\u0080\u0094or line along which lie the\\ngreatest possibilities for development in any specific case\u00e2\u0080\u0094can not but\\nmilitate against the ultimate precedence and absolute accomplishments\\nof the subject. To a greater extent than is usually conjectured does\\npersonal success abide in this element, and thus in the study of biography\\nthere is ever a valuable lesson to be gained. To the subject of this\\nreview there has come the attainment of a distinguished position in\\nconnection with the great material industries of our nation, and his\\nefforts have been so discerningly directed along well defined lines that\\nhe seems to have realized at any one point of progress the full measure of his possibilities for accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nplishment at that point. A man of distinctive and forceful individuality, of broad mentality and most\\nmature judgment, he has left and is leaving his impress upon the industrial world, while his study of\\neconomic questions and matters of public polity has been so close, practical and comprehensive that\\nhis judgment is relied upon and his utterances have weight in those circles where the material prog\u00c2\u00ac\\nress of the Union is centered, as well as among those who guide the destinies of the nation. At\\nthe head of a magnificent manufacturing industry, a writer of distinctive ability and a representative\\ncitizen of the old Keystone state, Mr. Farquhar well merits recognition in this connection.\\nIn the ancestry of Arthur B. Farquhar are represented strains of each the Scotch, English and\\nGerman blood, but the family history has been one of long and prominent identification with the\\nannals of America and is one which bears record of honest, intelligent and loyal men and of gentle,\\ndevoted and noble women. The original American ancestor was William F. Farquhar, great-great\u00c2\u00ac\\ngrandfather of our subject, who emigrated hither from Scotland about the year 1700, being accompanied\\nby a number of religious refugees who sought in the New World freedom of conviction and an\\nopportunity to better their condition in life. The little band of emigrants settled in Frederick county,\\nMaryland. The Farquhar family had been one of prominence in Scotland, and song and story tell\\nof the deeds of the noble chiefs of the Clan Farquhar. The maternal ancestry traces back to Robert\\nBrook, of the house of Warwick, who was born in London, England, in the year 1602. Arriving at\\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s estate, he espoused in marriage Mary Baker, daughter of Roger Mainwaring, dean of Worcester.\\nIn 1650 Robert Brook emigrated to America, being accompanied by his wife and their ten children\\nand by a retinue of twenty-eight servants. He took up his abode in Charles county, Maryland, and\\nthat he was a man of prominence and influence in the state, or colony, is manifest from the fact that\\nhe was made commandant of the county and eventually president of the council of Maryland. His\\nchildren and grandchildren settled in what is now known as Montgomery county, Maryland, whence\\ntheir descendants have become disseminated throughout the various states of the Union.\\nAmos Farquhar, grandfather of our subject, removed, in 1812, to York county, Pennsylvania,\\nwhere he erected a cotton factory, conducting the enterprise with a due measure of success until after\\nthe close of the war with England, when its prosperity abruptly declined, and he thereafter turned\\nhis attention to farming and school-teaching. William Henry Farquhar, father of the immediate\\n582", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u0094p", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0023.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0024.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n535\\nsubject of this review, was born at York, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of June, 1813, and his mental\\ncalibre and devotion to study are manifest in the fact that he was a thorough and well advanced\\nLatin and Greek scholar at the age of thirteen years. His intellectuality did not confine itself to the\\nclassics and allied lines, for he became a mathematician of high reputation and a man of fine literary\\nattainments. At an early age he accompanied his father to Montgomery county, Maryland, where\\nthey established a seminary for young women, the institution gaining marked prestige in the educa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntional field of the state.\\nArthur B. b arquhar was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, on the 28th of September,\\nrSsS, and his preliminary educational discipline was secured in Benjamin Hollowell\u00e2\u0080\u0099s select school\\nfor boys, at Alexandria, Virginia. His father had become concerned with agricultural pursuits, and\\nalter leaving school our subject acted as manager of the paternal farmstead for the period of one year.\\nHowever, he had early manifested a predilection for mechanics, and his father wisely encouraged him in\\nhis efforts, affording him every possible advantage for perfecting his practical mechanical education,\\ni he young man was alert and self-reliant, and that he has ever maintained the highest respect and regard\\nlor the dignity of honest toil and for those who devote themselves to the same is but consistent, for in\\nhis youthful days he began at the bottom round, realizing that success depended upon the thorough\\nmastering of the practical details of any business or mechanic art, and that \u00e2\u0080\u009chere is the master-\\nViEW OF EDGECOMB, COUNTRY-SEAT OF A B. FARQUHAR.\\nkey: skilled hands and industry.\u00e2\u0080\u009d His advent in York, Pennsylvania, the city of his home and\\nbrilliant accomplishment, dates back to the year 1856, when he came hither to learn the machinist\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ntrade. At the expiration of two years he secured a partnership interest in the establishment in\\nwhich he had labored so effectively and with such marked enthusiasm. The business prospered\\nuntil the dark cloud of civil war obscured the national horizon, depressing all lines of commercial\\nactivity and rendering every pursuit secondary in importance and interest to that desperate fratricidal\\nconflict which determined the integrity and perpetuated the unity of the nation. At this critical period\\nthe business of the firm flagged appreciably, and a further loss, entailed by a disastrous fire, practically\\ncompleted the overthrow of the enterprise, the assets of the concern being barely sufficient to render\\npossible the payment of twenty-five cents on the dollar in liquidating the indebtedness. It was but\\nnatural that Mr. Farquhar should have been much dissatisfied with such an adjustment of his\\nbusiness affairs and that he should seek some means of retrieving his stranded fortunes and reestab\u00c2\u00ac\\nlishing his financial integrity, which had thus suffered through no fault of his own. Accordingly he\\nconferred with his creditors and persuaded them to effect a radically different settlement of the\\naffair,\u00e2\u0080\u0094he resumed his business operations, and by careful management and well directed efforts\\nwas enabled, at the expiration of three years, to liquidate his obligations in full.\\nThe consecutive growth and expansion of his business, until represented in the present\\nmagnificent and extensive industry of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, can not but be viewed\\nwith satisfaction, while the enterprise stands in indubitable evidence of our subject\u00e2\u0080\u0099s capacity for\\naffairs of breadth and of his unswerving honor as a man among men. The enterprise had its\\ninception in a modest establishment,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a small frame shop,\u00e2\u0080\u0094in which employment was afforded to a\\nfew workmen. In 1889 the A. B. Farquhar Company, limited, was organized and duly incorporated,\\nwith a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars,\u00e2\u0080\u0094all of which stock is owned by the Farquhar\\nfamily. Of this company, whose constantly increasing business has now reached an annual aggregate\\nof more than one million dollars, Arthur B. Farquhar is president, and to him is due in a large\\nmeasure the wonderful success of the business. The products of the establishment not only find\\nsale in the most diverse sections of the Union, but are also exported to the Argentine Confederation,\\nBrazil, Chile and South Africa, and the concern has a large trade in Mexico and Russia. Familiar\\nwith every detail of manufacture, Mr. Farquhar has shown his wisdom in furthering the success of\\nthe enterprise by his careful discrimination in the selection of foremen for the various departments", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0025.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n586\\nof the establishment,\u00e2\u0080\u0094all being men who are masters of the various mechanical operations conducted\\nunder their superintendency. The characteristic motto of the concern is: \u00e2\u0080\u009cPerfection attained; success\\nassured,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and this has ever been retained and its premises of cause and effect fully realized.\\nIn the thriving city of York, Pennsylvania, the name of Farquhar has always been synonymous\\nwith progress, and the present conspicuous position the place holds as a manufacturing center is in\\na great measure due to the president of the A. B. Farquhar Company, the founder of the Penn\u00c2\u00ac\\nsylvania Agricultural Works.\\nThough thus prominent in the manufacturing world, and perhaps as an incidental result of\\nsuch intimate association, Mr. Farquhar is best known throughout the nation and among the statesmen\\nof foreign lands as a student of and authority upon questions of political economy, with special\\nreference to finance and tariff legislation. A mind thoroughly practical and well disciplined and\\nevidencing highest intellectuality has brought its forces to bear upon the great economic questions\\nof the day, and as a cogent and forceful writer upon such topics our subject has gained the attention\\nof thinking minds and has established his points by well taken tenets, enforced by wide and discrimi\u00c2\u00ac\\nnating observation, careful study of minute details and cognizance of statistical values. His essays\\nalong these lines have been published in the New York and Philadelphia papers and have commanded\\npronounced recognition for their wisdom and freedom from partisan bias, while his pamphlets on\\nfinance\u00e2\u0080\u0094notably the silver question\u00e2\u0080\u0094have been circulated by the thousands. On the 14th of\\nFebruary, 1890, in response to a request from the Reform Club of New York city, Mr. Farquhar\\ndelivered an address upon the great economic question of the day, and subsequently this was\\nembodied in a publication of nearly five hundred pages, bearing title of Economic and Industrial\\nDelusions, the same being a discussion of the case for protection. In the compilation of this most\\nmeritorious work our subject had as an able collaborator his brother, Henry Farquhar, and the book\\nis considered in the light of an authority upon the various topics touched, bearing the unmistakable\\nmark of patient study, careful research and wide knowledge, and showing the spirit of utmost fairness,\\nwhile voicing honest convictions ably guarded against attack. A review of the work is scarcely\\ncongruous in this connection, but the writer can not refrain from calling attention in detail to the\\ntitles of the various chapters, thus, perchance, stimulating in the reader of this review a desire to\\nstudy this altogether admirable production. The several chapters are designated as follows: The\\nCase for Protection Examined, Abuse of Party Allegiance, Balance of Trade and Currency Supply,\\nPaternal Governments and Industrial Progress, Foreign Countries as Commercial Rivals, Prices versus\\nWages, the Home Market, the Ideal Revenue with Incidental Protection, Protection and Agri\u00c2\u00ac\\nculture, Special Discussions, the Silver Question. In this publication Mr. Farquhar clearly elucidates\\nthe ills that would arise from the free coinage of silver and from a high protective tariff, demon\u00c2\u00ac\\nstrating that the first would unsettle the financial stability of the country and that the latter stands\\nas a barrier to the exchange of the manufactured goods of our workshops.\\nAt this point we can not, perhaps, give a more distinctive idea of the logical powers and\\nanalytical ability of Mr. Farquhar, than by reproducing his address, entitled Our Prospect and Our\\nDuty, delivered before the New England Free Trade League, March 27, 1897:\\nWe are often reminded that the darkest hour is the one just before daybreak. It may appear to us that no hour\\ncould be darker for the free-trade cause than that through which we are passing; yet, like the Psalmist in the valley of the\\nshadow of death, we \u00e2\u0080\u009cfear no evil.\u00e2\u0080\u009d There is substantial consolation in remembering the great causes which have survived\\ntheir dark hours in the past,\u00e2\u0080\u0094that of human freedom, when the fugitive-slave law was enacted and Kansas invaded; that\\nof civil-service reform, when administration after administration continued to treat positions of trust under government as\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cspoils of the enemy.\u00e2\u0080\u009d For those causes the black night was succeeded by glorious dawn, and our cause must pass through\\nlike troubles to a like triumph. And perhaps these troubles, these hours of doubt and distress, coming as they do to test\\nour faith and firmness, may be a necessary phase in man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s deliverance from every stubborn wrong. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhom the Lord\\nloveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. The one solid certainty, the one truth to which we\\nmay hold through all vicissitudes, is that the right must finally prevail, and that every apparent victory of forces opposed\\nto it can be but a fleeting phantasm. Wrong is transitory, right is eternal!\\nBut even though we have faith to believe that there are bright vistas for us just ahead, beyond our seeing, it remains\\nno less true that we cannot catch the glimmer of them yet. Our present trouble is not all due to a hostile administration\\nand a hostile majority in congress. Those we had eight years ago, and those we overcame easily and promptly. What\\nwe suffer from is the wide and seemingly incurable breach in our own ranks. We dare not flatter ourselves with the hope\\nthat the impulse which last summer drove the Democratic national convention, under the lead of Altgeld and Tillman and\\nDaniel and Bryan, into a barter by which the party surrendered its tariff-reform principles in payment for the electoral\\nvotes of a few mining states, has yet spent its force. We dare not soothe ourselves with the comforting delusion that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe\\nsilver craze\u00e2\u0080\u009d is a trivial symptom, completely cured by the ample electoral majority against Bryan, or that it is, in truth\\nanything but a bold, active, dangerous enemy, against whose inroads a determined courage and an unremitting vigilance\\nare needed to defend us. Just as we joined last year in guarding the country against the perils involved in the Brvan\\ncandidacy, even at the well understood and carefully counted cost of throwing the country half a generation backward in", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0026.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n587\\nits progress toward free trade, so it may be necessary for us to help our foes again in holding the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s credit untarnished,\\nhowever long we may thus delay the next forward step. In 1861 we dropped every other issue, seeing the Union in peril.\\nLast year a like crisis imposed on us a like duty; and the same thing may easily occur again. When the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s safety\\nor its honor or good name is involved, there is nothing to do but rush to its rescue. In 1900 or 1904 or 1908, whenever\\nand under whatever combination of circumstances we are compelled to make such a dreary choice as was set before us last\\nyear, between an exorbitant and fanatical protectionism and what the Chicago platform represented, our choice must be\\nwhat it was then,\u00e2\u0080\u0094to accept protectionism as the lesser evil, in the hope\u00e2\u0080\u0094nay, the unwavering conviction,\u00e2\u0080\u0094that the day\\nwill soon come in which our choice is to be no longer between two evils, but between an evil and a good. In the dawn of\\nthat day our doubts will fall from us,\u00e2\u0080\u0094all doubts of our duty, all doubts of our prospect.\\nWhile recognizing the paramount claims of public credit and stability of contracts, shall we feel compelled on that\\naccount to stifle our voice on the less vitally important issue, to submit in silence to every burden under which the tariff\\nschemers see fit to bow our shoulders, for fear of weakening the barriers on which we depend to hold back the floods of\\nunlimited silver? In the interest of sound money itself, No! He is no true friend of virtue who hesitates to raise his voice\\nin indignant protest against yoking it with vice. Just as we saw last year that the worst enemies of the free-trade cause\\nwere those who undertook to blend it with disorganization and repudiation, and said so, just so we see and must not fail to\\nsay this year that he is no true champion of sound currency who seeks to identify it with that foul offspring of legislative\\ncorruption engendered in the lobby, born in the secret recesses of the capitol\u00e2\u0080\u0099s vaults, started on its course under the ham\u00c2\u00ac\\nmer of arbitrary parliamentary despotism,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the pending tariff bill. No: the truth as we see it on the currency and on the\\nrevenue we must boldly proclaim, and regard it disloyalty to all truths to be backward in upholding one because it may in\\nsome way interfere with another. Can truths ever contradict?\\nIt is usually easier to ground our faith on general propositions, such as the ultimate triumph of right, the consonance\\nof duties and of truths, than to justify it by showing clearly how the victory or the reconciliation is to be brought about in\\nthe case in hand. But the means by which the right solution is to be applied when found at the same time for the currency\\nquestion and for the revenue question are, after all, not far to seek. It is almost doubting that what we advocate on these\\npoints is for the people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s interest to doubt the ability of the people to see it so. The people are earnest seekers for their\\nown interest, and the whole people can see as much as any one or any few of their advisers can see for them. Among the\\neasiest ways in which those who have learned something of the world can be mistaken is in building too much upon the vice\\nor stupidity or the weakness of the people. Even last year\u00e2\u0080\u0099s presidential campaign, little as there was in it to give us pride\\nor pleasure, brought us some additional proof that the people are to be trusted: in the refusal of the majority to be beguiled\\nby the seductions of the free-silver programme, even though laid before the country with all the skill and magnetic charm\\nand calculated sophistry of the famed \u00e2\u0080\u009cboy orator;\u00e2\u0080\u009d in the peaceful acceptance of the result by the minority; in the general\\norder and deference to law with which the protracted and exciting campaign was conducted. The people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s judgment may not\\nhave been very effectually vindicated in the nominations of the candidates; for that, as we remember, they left too much to\\ntheir political leaders. But it appeared to no mean advantage in their conduct after the campaign opened. They may not\\nhave been discreet in submitting so helplessly to the schemes of the tariff beneficiaries; but any one who thinks to find\\nthem forever incapable of discriminating bad from good when the new tariff comes to be enforced is likely to find himself\\nseriously mistaken.\\nThe strange spectacle is presented across the Atlantic of an alliance of the great Christian powers to save for a while\\nfrom its manifest destiny\u00e2\u0080\u0094the same destiny which forced back the Indian on our continent\u00e2\u0080\u0094the corrupt, bankrupt, and\\ndecaying dynasty of the Turk. An island, one with Greece by the wish of its people and by thirty centuries of historic\\ntradition, those Christian powers combine to wrest from her arms. The British government combines with the others; but\\nhow about the British people? Let Gladstone answer, the veteran statesman whose sixty-five years before the public have\\ngiven him to know his Britain through and through, the same who eloquently pointed out the danger to Europe of the\\nunbridled power of an undisciplined czar and kaiser, and the greater safety in freedom. We see something of the same\\ncontrast on our side of the ocean. Our government may indeed be committed to the reactionary policy of trade interference\\nand legislation for the benefit of special interests, but the voice of the people has not so spoken. Republican leaders, with\\nthe Bourbon instincts of a narrow partisanship, may so interpret it; but they do so at their peril. If they venture to forget\\nwhat they heard from that voice in 1890 and 1892, they will find it capable of saying the same thing with the same fullness\\nof meaning once again.\\nNo: there is no genuine popular call for a high tariff at this time. The people are hungry for better times and fuller\\nemployment in industry, and they follow the tariff men only in the hope of getting these things. They cannot follow\\nDemocratic leadership, because it is not in human nature to trust any set of men who evidently do not trust one another.\\nUnder these circumstances they have thrown themselves into the arms of the Republicans, because that seemed the only\\nplace to go. It is absurd to believe that the country will hold to such leaders, when the effect of their policy is to discredit\\ntheir leadership more firmly than it held to Cleveland and Carlisle and Wilson when their party fell away from them. In\\nfact, all experience goes to prove that proportionate to the people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s alacrity in accepting Republican rule now will be their\\nalacrity in ridding themselves of it when they find it does not suit them. Then shall there be no organized opposition to\\nRepublicanism, nothing for the country to rally around but what is supplied by the \u00e2\u0080\u009cregular\u00e2\u0080\u009d Democrats under Gorman,\\nJones, of Arkansas, Tammany Hall, et. id genus omne? Or shall the firmest friends of sound money, who are at the same\\ntime the truest friends of free trade,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the one because the other,\u00e2\u0080\u0094be able to show as perfect an organization and as active\\na record of opposition to tariff abuses as can be shown by anybody? I need hardly ask the question.\\nI need not further insist on my conviction that, if our fellow citizens seem for the moment estranged from us, they\\nwill again be with us before they have wandered many years in the wilderness. But we have an additional force working\\nin our favor,_the economic changes which have brought the control of some important industries to this country, in spite\\nof our pig-headed perversity in trying to keep that control by our taxation of coal and raw materials in the hands of people\\nwise enough to avoid such taxation. We are now about to lead the world in iron production, notwithstanding our per\u00c2\u00ac\\nsistent efforts to rest the lead with the British. Our supply of material is boundless; and we can, with our improved\\nmachinery, manufacture at lower cost here than anywhere, if we permit ourselves to enter the competition with hands", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0027.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1L L US TRA TED AMERICAN BIO GRA PH i\\n588\\nuntied. In the words of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cGrand Old Man,\u00e2\u0080\u009d who grows grander with gathering years, we have only to free our trade\\nand maintain our monetary standard uncorrupted to become the centre of the world s exchange. Ours is, indeed, a favored\\nland. There is a source of power in its freedom from dread of invasion and a source of power in its precious privilege of\\nself-government,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a happy contrast with the countries where an undisciplined youth, whom a free suifiage would hardly\\nintrust with the charge of a borough, becomes absolute master of the lives and fortunes of millions of his fellows. To seek\\nprotection against rivals such as these is a case of wealth calling for help in holding its place against poverty. It is some\u00c2\u00ac\\nthing too preposterous for long continuance.\\nBesides our trust in the righteousness of our cause, in the abiding sanity and returning good judgment of the people,\\nand in the greatness of the country, we have other grounds of encouragement. 1 ruly, there is enough to shame any ordinary\\ndoubts of our ultimate success in the position of affairs to-day Here we see our president\u00e2\u0080\u0094deliberately accepted by us as\\nthe less of two threatening evils, and holding his high position by our own unregretted suffrages, sending to congress, as\\nthe keynote of his administration, a message of concentrated infatuation,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a message in which he shows a deficit arising\\nunder his own pet tariff, and growing steadily less under a new tariff, but parades it as a reason for abruptly rejecting the\\nnew and returning to the old. Here we see a congress rushing to the consideration, and not improbably to the passage, of a\\nbill to increase the revenues, whose likeness to the bill to reduce the revenues in 1890 is, except in the sugar schedule, so\\nclose as to appear identity thus effectually proving that neither bill was honestly described by its title. One man takes a\\ndram because he is so cold, the next man takes a dram because he is so hot; and a Republican congress pours out its dram\\nof high protection alike for a deficit and for a surplus. Called for the express purpose of increasing our income by pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nventing imports, of adding to the treasury\u00e2\u0080\u0099s resources by cutting down its customs revenue, this congress gives us\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009creciprocity\u00e2\u0080\u009d as its crowning triumph of the statesman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s skill,\u00e2\u0080\u0094reciprocity, which is recognized to be free trade within\\nrestricted limits, acting, so far as it acts at all, to destroy income within those limits. When other countries offer, by\\nexport bounties, to give their products to our citizens at lower cost than to their own, this sage congress, in the same\\nsapient law, hastens w ith an increased duty to punish those of our citizens who avail themselves of the favor. More com\u00c2\u00ac\\nmon sense would be expected of a ten-year-old child. Who will dare tell us that educated, intelligent Americans can long\\nbe beguiled by such exhibitions as these? that our fellow country men lack the wit to tell such base metal from true coin?\\nIf the glaring shams, sophistries and absurdities of this Dingley bill are not enough to disgust our people, they do\\nnot lack for abuses of a more serious nature. The example of public extravagance set by the first \u00e2\u0080\u009cbillion-dollar congress\\nhas been followed ever since, and is now to be surpassed, if possible. These lavish expenditures must be met by taxation,\\nof course; and what tax so natural to impose as one whose final cost is disguised, so that he who pay s it may fancy that he\\nis only contributing to the general prosperity? But the location of the final burden is not hidden from all of us, though it\\nmay be from a great many. We see plainly that what Mr. Dingley would impose is a penalty against producing merchan\u00c2\u00ac\\ndise for export,\u00e2\u0080\u0094not only by piling up increased cost of raw material upon cost of instruments of production, but by pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nventing foreign customers from pay ing us in the valuables our people demand, and thus cutting down the value of the\\npayment. We see, further, that the burden of this penalty, as of the cost of legislation generally, falls in the end upon the\\nlaboring man. Whatever encourages production for export quenches such demand. If any agency of state, by artificial\\nadjustment of penalties or rewards, diverts productive enterprise from economically advantageous to economically disad\u00c2\u00ac\\nvantageous directions, with a diminution in the total amount of product will come diminution in the part that can be paid\\nto labor. The workingman suffers every loss from bad political economy the workingman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s interest is met by the pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nmotion of export enterprise, through free commerce and sound money.\\nTo the Dingley wool schedule, that conspiracy against the people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s comfort and the people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s health,\u00e2\u0080\u0094both huckstered\\nfor votes, characterized by a calm and thoughtful mind as something \u00e2\u0080\u009cwhich in its consequences and the conditions of its\\nengendering stands out in blacker wickedness than any single item of legislation, even in all the abominations of tariff\\nhistory,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094the time at my command is hopelessly inadequate for full justice. I only say r with Mr. Cleveland, that any\\nattempt to increase the tax on wool and woolens must seal the doom of the Republican party. Nor is there time for more\\nthan an allusion to the fine levied on ideas and on culture in the proposed duties on books and fine arts. All these\\nprovisions show just the degree of infatuation that the bitterest enemies of the party proposing them would wish them to\\nshow. Shall we quote the old aphorism, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhom the gods would destroy they first make mad?\u00e2\u0080\u009d Or shall we content our\u00c2\u00ac\\nselves with Dr. Atkinson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s milder but equally merciless diagnosis, \u00e2\u0080\u009cProtection is intellectually dead?\u00e2\u0080\u009d The demonstration,\\nlong familiar to thinking minds, that we have no need of protection as a national sy stem, and that it is at this day only\\nan excrescence and a nuisance, will by and by be as familiar to the people; and as they know, so will they act.\\nIt is clear, then, that our duty is not to halt, but to advance. If there ever was a time when it behooved 11s to move\\nforward, not stand still or return, but open a way for others, it is now. This is the very hour for him who loves country\\nbetter than party,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the very hour for earnest, united action. The crisis should nerve, not dispirit us. Only raise a standard,\\nas Washington counseled in the dark hours of the constitutional convention, to which the honest and patriotic of all quarters\\ncan repair, and the very perils which now environ us will assure us a ready and ample response. If we are faithful to the\\npeople, and defend them against the exactions of their pretended protectors, and against those satellites of protection,\\nmonopolies and trusts, they will be faithful.\\nIf the foolish are to learn by suffering, still more the wise. Is it not a true lesson of our experience that, if we really\\nmean free trade,\u00e2\u0080\u0094if we seek that as a final goal, submitting meanwhile to a tariff for necessary revenue only ,\u00e2\u0080\u0094we would as\\nwell say so? We have seen too clearly how far half-way principles can carry us. But we need to proclaim it not as an\\nabstraction, but as a proved practical expedient,\u00e2\u0080\u0094no whit the worse for us because good at the same time for our fellow\\nmen in other lands; for all the best gifts of progress are shared, not monopolized, by the nations. We need to remember\\nthat as agents of progress, as part\u00e2\u0080\u0094so far as we are able to serve\u00e2\u0080\u0094of the propelling force for the car in which the Eternal\\nmakes his way through human affairs, our standards of policy and patriotism must be the very highest, not to be yielded to\\nany call or to any man. In this forward movement every college is our ally and every institution of liberal culture. Every\\nagency for dispelling darkness and putting light in its place is at work with us or for us.\\nYet these lofty aims and this uncompromising allegiance to our principle are altogether consonant with an ample\\nmeasure of moderation in putting that principle in execution as soon as the power is given us. A man cannot be turned", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0028.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n589\\nfrom besotted dissipation to perfect sobriety by a day\u00e2\u0080\u0099s treatment. Progress must be gradual, or relapses will set in, and\\ndespair will come in place of hope. Taxes must be levied to carry on the government and fulfill its obligations; and, if all\\ntaxes are evil in themselves, there is something to be said in favor of the view that men will bear easiest that burden of evil\\nto which their shoulders have been adjusted by habit. We have manfully undertaken to pay $140,000,000 a year in pen\u00c2\u00ac\\nsions, as a duty of patriotism and humanity; and, while so great a charge rests upon us, we cannot well speak or think of\\nbringing down our revenue to the moderate scale that was found sufficient fort} years ago. The Wilson bill as it passed\\nthe house\u00e2\u0080\u0094and still more the Wilson bill as it first entered the committee, without the disastrous income-tax feature, and\\nwith other provisions for sufficient revenue,\u00e2\u0080\u0094was a measure to which w T e should not refuse our praise, though we grant it\\nincomplete as an expression of our deepest and most cherished convictions.\\nThis may be called opportunism, which appears to mean carrying on a government in the only way that governments\\ncan be carried on; but it is not apologizing for our principles. We insist that our principles need no apology. It is a\\nmonstrous calumny that we stand in the way of a restoration of prosperity. There is absolutely no foundation for the\\naccusation that our policy was concerned in any way with the origin or the continuance of the present business depression.\\nThese reverses were at first most prevalent\u00e2\u0080\u0094in fact, for some time practically confined,\u00e2\u0080\u0094in states and localities whose\\ninterests were in mining or real-estate speculation, those of large manufacturing interests being long exempt. The reverses\\nstill continue, because capital is frightened and investments called off by the unchecked agitation for what is called free\\nsilver, which is by interpretation a tax of one-half, for the benefit of the borrower, on every loan. Those who realize how\\neagerly they would rush into investments, with the prospect of such a tax hanging over them, can realize why our prosperity\\nhas been slow to recover. Does it not seem idle to talk of bringing prosperity back by one act of spoliation, when the only\\nthing that restrains it is the dread of another?\\nI have no wish to represent this commercial depression as a petty or fleeting affair; and yet the truth demands\\nadmission of the fact that the distress caused by it, among both the industrial and agricultural population, has\\nbeen greatly exaggerated. Some laborers have been thrown out of work, but not nearly so large a proportion\\nas has been claimed. Some embarrassment the farmers have suffered from the low prices of their products, but\\ndecidedly less than they thought they were suffering. Owing to the effect of industrial progress, so often remarked\\nby Dr. Atkinson, in apportioning to the laborer a constantly increasing part of a constantly increasing product, his\\ncondition has risen higher in our time than ever before; and, notwithstanding the depression, higher it is to-day.\\nHe is hurt, of course, just as his employer is hurt, by the threats of the Altgeld faction against the standard\\nof values, to which threats the stagnation of enterprise is due; but, when a comparison is made with his circumstances a\\ngeneration ago or with his circumstances in countries less favorably situated for production, and bowed under the yoke of\\nan oppressive and expensive military organization, there appears occasion for felicitation rather than commiseration. Nor\\nis the case much worse with the farmer. He, too, is really better off than he was forty years ago,\u00e2\u0080\u0094that is, he may obtain\\nby the same expenditure of toil more of the comforts of life,\u00e2\u0080\u0094and, where he fails to seem more prosperous, it is usually\\ndue to the fact that his standard of living has improved with his circumstances. The farmer is injured, along with the\\ncapitalist and the employe, by the attack on credits involved in the silver campaign; for his prospective gain, to come from\\na lightening of the mortgage he may have to pay, is no compensation for his actual loss coming from unsettlement of busi\u00c2\u00ac\\nness and retrenchment in consumption. The farmer is also injured by the protective system, which is specially adjusted to\\nincrease the cost of what he buys and cut down the purchasing power of what he sells.\\nThe turbulent social discontent, to which the Chicago convention last summer appealed, finds little to justify it in\\nthe real interest of society. The accumulations of the rich, far from being amassed at the cost of the poor or extorted from\\nnecessity, are, as a rule, the result of productive enterprises, and, therefore, a general blessing. Let him who doubts this\\ntry to imagine what impulse, other and therefore\\nweaker than an eager desire for gain, could have\\nenlisted the services of so many able men in be\u00c2\u00ac\\nhalf of the public, in transportation, manufact\u00c2\u00ac\\nuring, and extractive enterprises. The social\\nderelict\u00e2\u0080\u0094the man of whom the artisan has really\\nto complain\u00e2\u0080\u0094is not he who accumulates and\\nthus gives employment, but he who squanders\\nor hoards. Even the abused trusts have their\\nbetter side. Railroad combinations have un\u00c2\u00ac\\nquestionably reduced the cost of carrying charges.\\nIt would be temerity to claim that the Standard\\nOil and Sugar Trusts had not lowered the cost\\nof these great staples. We do not complain so\\nmuch of the combinations themselves as of the\\nhelp given them bylaw in establishing a monop-\\noly. The way we render them dangerous is by\\nprotecting them.\\nYet there is something wrong in our finan\u00c2\u00ac\\ncial machinery. What is the real difficulty?\\nKnowing that, we ought to have little trouble in\\nfinding the cure. Dismissing as pestilent quacks\\nthose who pretend to restore credit, either on the\\none hand by wholesale depreciation of the basis of credit or on the other by a wholesale invasion of the rights of the people\\nin order to advance the interests of a favored class, let us turn our attention to the difficulty actually confronting 11s; for the\\nChicago blunder was not in asserting the existence of such a difficulty. There is really a lack of accessible capital through\u00c2\u00ac\\nout whole sections of our countrv, this needed capital not being procurable because suitable financial machinery is lacking.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0029.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "590\\nILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nMore and better banking facilities are needed. Every community where there is enough wealth to serve as a foundation\\nfor credit, but a lack of ready capital, ought to be able to.command the services of a bank\u00e2\u0080\u0094a sound, strong bank to supply\\nthat lack. I need not remind you, though you and I need to remind our fellow citizens at every opportunity we find to our\\nhand and at every opportunity we can make for the purpose, that banks would not exist if they were not of real use to the\\ncommunity, that they are not mere superfluities or mere burdens upon the people, that they return actual service for all\\nthey cost, and that they force such service on no man. They are, on the whole, the best apparatus yet contrived for put\u00c2\u00ac\\nting capital where it is needed when it is needed. Those who fear the banks are those who know them least. Our desid\u00c2\u00ac\\neratum, then, the true remedial agent that is to restore our financial condition to health and put an end to the fiat money and\\nfree-silver crazes, is a national banking system, like the Scotch or Canadian,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a system of associated national banks, with\\nheads at the money centres and branches where there is demand for them.\\nLet us make it our mission to supply such a cure; and then the tariff quacks, along with the silver quacks, will find\\ntheir occupation gone. A reformed, extended and assured banking system is the crying financial need of the hour; and\\nhow to promote it is one of our gravest political problems. That way lies safety; and it would be neglecting a duty if I\\npassed any opportunity for calling attention to it.\\nBut no political advance can be made, it appears, without enlisting a party organization to push it; and where is the\\nparty to whose care this important reform can be committed? The Republican, now in the plenitude of uncontested\\npower, I have already endeavored to portray to you. We see it banded to hobble civilization, art and learning with an\\nimpost, to cripple our commerce and fence us out of foreign markets, just at a time when American manufacturers have\\nshown themselves able to hold their own against the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s competition. We see it attempting to disguise its attacks on\\nproduction for export, the production that meets a natural demand, by a pretentious parade of its work in winning markets\\nwhere demand is and must remain scanty,\u00e2\u0080\u0094markets only valuable because won by deals and dickers; and we see it, under\\npretense of aiding the workingman, close the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s outer doors to the product of his labor and at the same time weigh\\nhim down with a tax on necessaries. Not among the Republicans can we hope for intelligent service to the public. We\\nmust go further.\\nShall we look to the Democrats? As their party is now made up, it has nothing better to offer us. Making similar\\nprofessions of zeal for the workingman, it proposes to aid him by debasing by one-half the money with which he is paid,\\nand, further, by frightening capital away from all enterprises which give him employment. It would play fast and loose\\nwith the tariff. After turning its back on that issue in the presidential canvass, the better to conciliate the silver-mining\\ncombine, it now offers no serious opposition to the scheme of legalized pillage set on foot by the ways and means committee,\\ncalculating to use the people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s resultant dissatisfaction in the sole service of their worse and more pernicious scheme,\u00e2\u0080\u0094to\\ndebauch the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s currency system. And when it held power, when it rejoiced in some sort of unity and harmonious\\ncouncils, how did it serve us? Instead of enacting some such true, consistent, prudent and systematic revenue measure\\nas that monumental masterpiece\u00e2\u0080\u0094the Walker tariff\u00e2\u0080\u0094which came nearer to the statesman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s standard than any other of the\\nscore or more that have come to torment us, instead of giving us even the Wilson bill, the best it could furnish was a Gor\u00c2\u00ac\\nman law with an income-tax attachment. In blind hatred of capital on the one hand and blind submission to a few cunning\\ncapitalists on the other, patriotism and statesmanship were sacrificed to \u00e2\u0080\u009cparty perfidy and party dishonor. The wretched,\\nemasculated compromise which resulted so blended its \u00e2\u0080\u009cgood Lord\u00e2\u0080\u009d (the people) with its \u00e2\u0080\u009cgood devil\u00e2\u0080\u009d (the trusts) that\\nno man dares claim its authorship, and the president who had called it into being refused to approve it with his signature.\\nA plague o\u00e2\u0080\u0099 both their houses! Democrats and Republicans alike show a record so mephitic as to poison the breath\\nof reform, to stifle the fragrance of patriotic endeavor. Can we not form a new alliance, free from loathsome entangle\u00c2\u00ac\\nments with effete parties, pure and earnest as was the party of union and freedom before unbridled power and unhallowed\\nassociations began to corrupt it? We can. Out of the shattered, soulless wreck of the old parties we can build a new\\nstructure,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a National Free Trade party,\u00e2\u0080\u0094on such a foundation that \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe gates of hell shall not prevail against it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In\\nthis cradle of liberty, under the shadow of Bunker Hill, it is fitting that we organize and begin the work. Let us begin\\nhere and now.\\nThe distinctive individuality of Mr. Farquhar is shown in the matter of his political proclivities,\\nsince he exercises his franchise not according to the distinctive party lines but as his judgment\\ndictates. He was a strong supporter of President Cleveland, whose administration he considered an\\nhonest one and one which tended to conserve the best interests of the nation. In earlier years he\\nhad voted for Lincoln, Blaine and Garfield.\\nIn 1892 Mr. Farquhar was nominated by Hon. Robert E. Pattison, then governor of the\\nstate of Pennsylvania, as one of the state commissioners to represent the old Keystone common\u00c2\u00ac\\nwealth at the World\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Columbian Exposition, in Chicago. At the meeting of the state commissioners\\nhe was elected executive commissioner, and still later was still further honored, in being chosen\\npresident of the National Association of Executive Commissioners,\u00e2\u0080\u0094representing all the states. He\\nvisited Europe about this time, acting under a commission from the government, and there rendered\\nvaluable service in the interests of the World\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Fair.\\nIn January, 1897, Mr. Farquhar was appointed by Governor Hastings as delegate from Penn\u00c2\u00ac\\nsylvania to the coast-defense convention called by the governor of Florida to meet at Tampa, that\\nstate, and over which General J. M. Schofield presided. On said occasion Mr. Farquhar delivered\\na very able address, pregnant with lofty sentiment and the broadest humanitarian principles.\\nThoroughly representative of the spirit of the age, our subject holds rank among the distin\u00c2\u00ac\\nguished and successful men of the nation. He maintains a lively interest in all that pertains to\\nthe welfare of the city of his residence and has done much to further its progress and material", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0030.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n59 i\\nprosperity. He is a member of the board of trade, a director in the York Trust, Real Estate\\nDeposit Company, is a large stockholder and a director in the York Hotel Company and was until\\nrecently proprietor of the York Daily Gazette. He is a director of the Philadelphia Museum and\\npresident of the York Hospital. He is also president of the Park Commission, and it was through\\nhis efforts that York secured her attractive park system. At the time of the war of the Rebellion,\\nwhen York was invaded by Confederate forces, Mr. Farquhar arranged with the commanding officer\\nof the enemy for the protection of the town, and not a dollar\u00e2\u0080\u0099s worth of property was taken. For\\nthis timely service he received the personal thanks of President Lincoln and the secretary of war,\\nMr. Stanton.\\nIn person Mr. Farquhar has a physique that is typical of strength and vitality, and he devotes\\nthe major portion of his time and attention to the great industrial concern at whose head he stands.\\nIn speech he is quick and decisive and impresses one with the evidence of his sound judgment and\\nhis power of instantly comprehending and summing up the true values of things,\u00e2\u0080\u0094there being no\\nvacillation or hesitation in his manner of address. He is easily approachable, cordial and signally\\nfree from ostentation. Generous and quick in his sympathies, he is honored and holds the affectionate\\nregard of his employes, while he wins friends wherever he goes. Those in his employ realize that\\nhe has cognizance of true manhood and that he feels a deep interest in their welfare, ever standing\\nready to reward faithful service.\\nThe marriage of Mr. Farquhar was celebrated in i860, when he wedded Miss Elizabeth\\nJessop, daughter of Edward Jessop, who was a leading hardware merchant of Baltimore, and president\\nof the Short Mountain and the Tunnelton Coal Companies, his country seat having been in Spring\\nGarden township, York county. To Mr. and Mrs. Farquhar three sons have been born,\u00e2\u0080\u0094William\\nE., Percival and Francis E.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0031.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "EDWARD S. IS HAM,\\nWfV\\nCHICAGO, ILLINOIS.\\nilDWARD SWIFT ISHAM, senior member of the law firm of I sham, Lincoln\\nBeale, was born in Bennington, Vermont, January 15, 1836. FI is American\\nancestry had its beginning with John Isham, a native of Northamptonshire,\\nEngland, who coming first to Newburyport settled afterward in Barnstable,\\nMassachusetts, and was there married, December 16, 1667, to Jane, daughter\\nof Robert Parker, of Barnstable. This pioneer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s will was admitted to pro\u00c2\u00ac\\nbate at Barnstable, October 10, 1713. His second son, Isaac Isham, was\\nborn in February, 1682, and was married May 3, 1716, to Thankful,\\ndaughter of Thomas Lumbert, Jr., and his will was probated at Barnstable\\nAugust 5, 1771. The third son of Isaac Isham was John Isham, born in\\nBarnstable, August 6, 1721, who, in his youth, removed to Colchester, Connecticut, where he married,\\nDecember 19, 1751, Dorothy, daughter of Ephraim Foote of that town, and died March 2, 1802.\\nHe commanded a company of colonial soldiers in the French and Indian wars. His son, Ezra\\nIsham, born in Colchester March 15, 1773, settled in Manchester, Vermont, in 1795 or a little later,\\nand was for many years the leading physician of that region, his death occurring February 8, 1835.\\nDr. Ezra Isham was married June 21, 1801, to Anna (Nancy) Pierrepont, a daughter of Robert\\nPierrepont of Manchester, Vermont, who was the son of James Pierrepont of New Haven, and\\ngrandson of the Rev. James Pierrepont, for thirty years, from 1684, pastor of the first church of\\nNew Haven, and of his wife, Mary Hooker, granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker, pastor of the\\nchurch of Newtown (now Cambridge), Massachusetts, who led the migration of that church to\\nConnecticut, in 1636, and was the first minister settled at Hartford. James Pierrepont was the\\ncousin of Jonathan Edwards, the younger; of President Timothy Dwight, of Yale; and of Aaron\\nBurr. Pierrepont Isham, son of Dr. Ezra Isham and Anna Pierrepont, was born in Manchester,\\nAugust 5, 1802, and died in New York, March 8, 1872, He married Semanthe, daughter of\\nNoadian Swift, M. D., of Bennington, a physician and citizen of much distinction, and a son of\\nRev. Job Swift, D. D., who was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1765, and who was called \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe\\nApostle of Vermont, at his death. Pierrepont Isham became a lawyer of distinction and was for a\\nconsiderable period a justice of the supreme court of Vermont.\\nEdward S. Isham, the subject of this sketch, is the eldest son of Judge Pierrepont Isham.\\nHis early boyhood was passed in the beautiful region bordering New York and Massachusetts, among\\nthe mountains which, on the Massachusetts side, break down into what are known as the Berkshire\\nhills. The requirements of a delicate constitution caused interruption of his studies at the age of\\nsixteen, and he spent the years 1850 and 1851 among the mountains of South Carolina, in search\\nof health and strength. Returning to the north, he completed his preparatory course at Lawrence\\nAcademy, Groton, Massachusetts. Fie matriculated in Williams College in 1853, was graduated in\\n1857, and by invitation of the faculty returned thither in i860 to deliver a master\u00e2\u0080\u0099s oration, and is\\na member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. After studying law in his father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s office and at the law\\nschool of Harvard College, he was admitted to the bar, at Rutland, Vermont, in the autumn of\\n1S58. He soon started west, intending to locate either in St. Louis or in St. Paul, but on reaching\\nChicago en route and viewing its possibilities, years passed before he saw either St. Paul or St.\\nLouis. After a short time spent in the law office of Hoyne, Miller Lewis, Mr. Isham, in the\\n592", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0032.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0035.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0036.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n595\\nspring of 1859, formed a partnership with James L. Stark, a Vermont acquaintance, under the firm\\nname of Stark Isham,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a connection which lasted until 1861. His superior abilities soon gave\\nhim a prominent position at the bar, and business came to him freely. In 1864 he was elected a\\nmember of the Illinois legislature, and during his term served upon the judiciary committee. He\\nspent the years 1865 and 1866 in Europe, and upon his return he again took up his practice, which\\nrapidly increased and soon became as important and lucrative as that of any lawyer at the Chicago\\nbar. In February, 1872, the partnership of Isham and Lincoln began, and this association has\\nexisted ever since. In 1886 William G. Beale was admitted to the firm and the name was enlarged\\nto that of Isham, Lincoln Beale (which still obtains), and later Mr. Isham\u00e2\u0080\u0099s son, Pierrepont,\\nbecame a member.\\nOf the many eminent lawyers who have honored the Chicago bar during the past forty years\\nMr. Isham is one of the most eminent. He belongs to the inner circle of the bar. His professional\\nlife has been passed, for the most part, upon the highest plane of legal work. The care of interests\\ninvolving largely the element of personal trust, the conduct of important equity causes, the legal\\ndirection of corporate affairs, litigation connected with railroad foreclosures,\u00e2\u0080\u0094these matters have\\nconstituted the greater part of his practice, though he has not infrequently been engaged in jury\\ncases. The field of his professional labors has extended into many jurisdictions, and his fine legal\\nattainments, his scholarly and forceful arguments, his many successes, have given him a wide and\\nmerited reputation. Perhaps his forte as a lawyer lies in his power to analyze and expound purely\\nlegal questions, and this is coupled with a rare gift for luminous statement, at once convincing and\\nelegant. His opinions and his counsel are much sought for the guidance of large financial interests\\nand for the solution of perplexing legal problems.\\nAmong important cases of public interest with which Mr. Isham has been connected was that\\nconcerning the distribution of the estate of Walter L. Newberry, and the establishment of the\\nsplendid library which he endowed. Mr. Isham was always the counsel of the trustees of the estate\\nand conducted the litigation in which that estate was involved from time to time. In that case the\\nquestion was one of construction involving the meaning of a specific direction in Mr. Newberry\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nwill. The testator, who died at sea, November 6, 1868, left a widow and two young daughters.\\nIn his will, after providing for them, he considered the contingency of the death, without issue, of\\nboth his daughters, which meant the complete extinguishment of his immediate family. In that\\nevent he directed that upon the death of the last survivor of its three members the estate should\\nbe divided by his trustees into two equal parts,\u00e2\u0080\u0094one to be distributed among \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe surviving\\ndescendants of his brothers and sisters, and the other to be applied by the trustees to the founding\\nof a free public library in Chicago. It is known that he estimated at forty per cent, the chances\\nthat this provision for a library would take effect. Mrs. Newberry renounced the provision made\\nfor her by the will, and claimed, and received instead of it, the share of the estate given her by\\nstatute.\\nThe testator\u00e2\u0080\u0099s two children died in 1874 and 1876 respectively. The contest was commenced\\nby the collateral relatives in April, 1877, by application to the court of chancery to compel at once\\na distribution of the estate to them, though only the two daughters had died and Mrs. Newberry\\nwas still living. Incidentally, the library provision would take effect at the same time. As Mrs.\\nNewberry had survived both her daughters, the direction in the will was, in effect, to divide the\\nestate at her death. The theory of the complainants was that the devise was of three life estates,\\nand that the object of the postponement of distribution was to give effect to them; that the gift\\nover to complainants was intended to be limited not upon the lives, but upon the life estates, and\\nthe estates being ended by the death of the daughters and the renunciation of the widow, the\\ndistribution should be made at once. To this it was answered for the trustees that the life estate\\nof the widow was not ended by her renunciation; that she thereby had merely substituted the life\\nestate given by statute for the life estate given in lieu of it by will, so that even if the gifts over\\nwere in fact not limited upon the end of the three lives, but upon the end of the estates, the\\nestates were not ended, and the distribution could not be accelerated. Moreover, the direction to\\ndistribute at the death of Mrs. Newberry could not be construed to mean at the end of her life\\nestate, for the death entered into the description of the persons to whom the estate was given.\\nThe \u00e2\u0080\u009csurviving descendants\u00e2\u0080\u009d meant those surviving at the death of Mrs. Newberry, and if the\\ncourt should give the word \u00e2\u0080\u009cdeath\u00e2\u0080\u009d the meaning of \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe end of her life estate,\u00e2\u0080\u009d or any other than\\nits natural and ordinary meaning, it would not merely accelerate the possession of the property by\\nan owner certain at some time to become entitled to receive it, but would change the donees from\\nsurvivors at one time to survivors at another, and so give to one class of persons an estate that", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0037.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "596\\nILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nwas devised to another class. In the circuit court, decree was made as sought by complainants, in\\nJuly, 1877, for the immediate distribution of the estate. Appeal was taken, however, to the supreme\\ncourt, and upon argument at Springfield the decree of the court below was reversed, in June, 1878.\\nAfterward a petition and an amended petition for rehearing were filed by Messrs. Wirt Dexter and\\nE. B. McCagg and Judge Charles B. Lawrence. The rehearing was granted, and the cause was\\nagain argued at Springfield, itl January, 1880. From the fact that the rehearing was thus allowed\\nit was generally anticipated that the conclusions of the court would be changed, and the decree for\\ndistribution affirmed; but after the argument the court held to its original judgment, and ordered\\nthe first opinion to be refiled. Then again, in June, 1880, another rehearing was obtained from the\\nsupreme court and an oral argument ordered, but before the cause was reached for reargument Mr.\\nIsham moved the court to rescind the order for rehearing, on the ground that when it was made\\nthe court had no power to make it, and that the time was past within which it had any power to\\ndisturb the twice entered judgment. In this situation the complainants secured the intervention of\\nthe attorney general of the state, asking a reconsideration on behalf of the public interest in the\\nlibrary bequest. The order for rehearing was rescinded by the supreme court, and the application\\nof the attorney general was refused. Then, when the cause was redocketed in the court below, the\\ncomplainants amended their bill, making the attorney general a party. He filed a cross bill, to\\nwhich the trustees demurred; the demurrer was sustained, and the amended and cross bills were\\ndismissed. Then an appeal was taken by the complainants and the attorney general to the supreme\\ncourt, and the subject of the relation of the attorney general to trusts for public charities was\\nargued at Ottawa. The court refused to change its conclusions, and in April, 1883, the struggle to\\ndisturb the disposition of the will at last came to an end. (99 Illinois Reports, n; 100 Illinois\\nReports, 484; 106 Illinois Reports, 584.) Mrs. Newberry died in December, 1885, and the library\\nendowment, greatly enhanced by the accumulations during her lifetime, amounted then to nearly\\nthree millions of dollars.\\nAnother case of public interest with which Mr. Isham was connected was that relating to the\\nmayoralty of the city of Chicago when it became incorporated under the general law of the state, in\\nApril, 1875. At that time Harvey D. Colvin was the mayor of the city, elected under the old charter.\\nIt was claimed by his adherents that the new incorporation law operated to extend his term of office\\nnearly two years, until April, 1877. The matter was taken in hand by the Citizens\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Association, and\\napplication for a writ of mandamus, directing the city council to call a special mayoral election, was\\nmade by Isham and Lincoln in the supreme court, on the petition of Charles M. Henderson, George\\nArmour and Mark Skinner. The cause was argued in the supreme court, in January, 1876, by\\nMelville W. Fuller, the present chief justice of the United States, and by Mr. Isham for the relators;\\nand by Mr. Root and Judge Corydon Beckwith for the respondents. There being at the time one\\nvacancy on the bench, the court consisted of six judges and was equally divided upon the question\\nsubmitted, so that under the constitution the singular instance occurred of a court unable to render\\nany decision whatever in a cause which the court declared \u00e2\u0080\u009cinvolved public interests of the gravest\\nimportance.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Afterward an election was held.\\nIn 1883 Mr. Isham argued before Judge McCreary, in the United States circuit court, at\\nTopeka, Kansas, the case of Benedict versus the St. Joseph Western Railroad Company, and pro\u00c2\u00ac\\ncured the appointment of a receiver, by which that road was taken from the Union Pacific Railroad\\nCompany and reorganized. His firm was instrumental in procuring from Judge Gresham a change\\nof receivers for a portion of the Wabash, St. Louis Pacific Railway system east of the Mississippi\\nriver, and subsequently continued to be connected with the widely discussed litigation to which that\\nchange was introductory.\\nIn 1886, during the great railroad strike, at a time when the supineness and inefficiency of the\\nstate authorities left the traffic of many railroads at the mercy of the strikers, Mr. Isham, representing\\nthe Lake Shore road, secured the intervention of the United States circuit court at Indianapolis, on\\nthe ground that the commerce obstructed, being inter-state, was carried on in the exercise of a right\\nsecured by the laws of the United States. A temporary injunction was issued against the principal\\nstrikers, and the order asserted the jurisdiction of the federal court and \u00e2\u0080\u009csignified a change from the\\nlocal to the national authority and law in the matter of dealing with obstructionists.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nAmong other important cases which he has argued, some of which have become leading cases\\nupon the subjects involved, and some of which, in the supreme court of the United States, have involved\\ngrave constitutional questions, may be specially noted: Brine versus Insurance Company, (96 United\\nStates, 627,) with its connected case of Warner versus the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com\u00c2\u00ac\\npany, (109 United States, 357;) Pickard, Comptroller versus Pullman Southern Car Company, (117", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0038.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n597\\nUnited States, 34;) Rand versus Walker, (lb. 340;) Pullman Palace Car Company versus Texas\\nPacific Railroad Company, (11 Federal Rep., 625;) Union Trust Company versus Illinois Midland\\nRailway Company, (117 United States, 434;) Kingsbury versus Buckner, (70 Illinois, 514;) Central\\nTransportation Company versus Pullman Palace Car Company, (139 United States, 24;) Windett\\nversus the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, (130 Illinois Reports, 621;) Pullman Palace\\nCar Company versus Central Transportation Company, United States supreme court, May 31, 1898.\\nAlmost from the time of its organization Mr. Isham has been a prominent member of the\\nChicago Literary Club, and he has delivered many addresses before that body on the occasions of its\\npublic receptions. He wrote an article on the Social and Economic Relations of Corporations, in\\nthe Encyclopedia of Political Science, and prepared an address read before the New York Historical\\nSociety on Frontenac and Miles Standish in the Northwest, and in November, 1898, delivered the\\nannual address before the Vermont Historical Society, of Montpelier. In 1893 he received the degree\\nof LL. D. from Williams College.\\nIn 1861 Mr. Isham was united in marriage to Miss Fannie, daughter of Hon. Thomas Burch,\\nof Little Falls, New York, and they became the parents of two sons and two daughters. Mrs. Isham\\ndied February 9, 1894. The elder son, Pierrepont, was graduated in the United States Military\\nAcademy, at West Point, in 1887, served for a time in the Seventh Cavalry, at Fort Riley, and\\nafterward in the Third Cavalry, at San Antonio, Texas, and is now the junior partner in the firm of\\nIsham, Lincoln Beale. The younger son, Edward S., graduated at Yale in 1891, and is now con\u00c2\u00ac\\nnected with commercial Interests.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0039.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "VALENTINE HICKS KETCH AM,\\nTOLEDO, OHIO.\\nHE record of an honorable and useful life not only perpetuates the\\ndeeds of him who has thus lived for his descendants, but is also most\\ninstructive as a guide and incentive to others. In writing this brief\\nmemorial of Mr. Ketcham we are but doing justice to one who spent\\nthe best years of his life in Toledo, and whose influence for good has\\nbeen felt in both the business and social circles of that city. For a period\\nof twenty-four years, from the time of its organization until his death,\\nhe filled the responsible position of president of the First National Bank\\nof Toledo, and the sound financial basis upon which this institution\\nrested was due largely to his tact and executive ability.\\nA record of the life of this pioneer of Toledo cannot fail to be interesting to\\nthe people of that city and to all who would study the elements of a worthy success,\\nand we are therefore pleased to present an outline of the chief events of his career. He was born\\nin Cornwall, Orange county, New York, November 12, 1815, being the son of Samuel and Rachel\\n(Sands) Ketcham, the former of whom was a miller and farmer of Cornwall. In his early boyhood\\nhe lived upon a farm, and in the winter months attended the district schools of the neighborhood. In\\n1827 he accompanied his parents to New York city, where he remained for three years, attending\\nschool for a few months, but devoting his time principally to learning the trade of a carpenter and\\njoiner. At the age of fifteen he returned to the farm at Cornwall, where the two following years were\\nspent. Elis father then came back to the old homestead, and the son went to the city to finish his\\ntrade.\\nInstead, however, of resuming work at his trade, Mr. Ketcham, through the influence of a mer\u00c2\u00ac\\nchant of his acquaintance, secured a position as clerk for J. F. Cropsey, a dry-goods dealer on Canal\\nstreet, and being pleased with the work he remained there until July 17, 1836. Then, accompanied\\nby a Mr. Lane, he started on a, vacation trip to the west. They took a steamer to Detroit, and,\\nlanding at that place, they proceeded into the interior of Michigan, where Mr. Ketcham bought eighty\\nacres of government land, in Oakland county. From Detroit he journeyed to Toledo and thence went\\nback to New York.\\nForeseeing the wonderful development of the west, Mr. Ketcham determined to establish his\\nhome there. Accordingly, in August, 1836, he left New York with a general stock of merchandise and\\ncame to Toledo, where he opened a store on St. Clair street, at the head of Perry, now the site of\\nthe Merchants\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Hotel, renting the premises of Coleman I. Keller, Jr. In the summer of 1837 the store\\nwas removed to Summit street, adjoining the Indiana House, and near Perry street. The next year\\nit was removed to the corner of Summit and Lagrange streets, and in 1841 was transferred to Nos.\\n32 and 34 Summit street, where a small wholesale trade was established. In 1843 the Miami canal,\\nconnecting Toledo with Cincinnati, was opened, and this extended his trade very materially.\\nIn 1846 Joseph K. Secor was taken into the firm, the title becoming Ketcham Secor, which\\ncontinued until Mr. Ketcham withdrew, in 1851, to devote his attention exclusively to banking. In\\n1850 he had, in partnership with John Poag, commenced in that business, and three years later John\\nBerdan and S. S. Hubbard became associated with him, the firm name becoming Ketcham, Berdan\\nCompany. In 1863 the business was merged into the First National Bank, of which Mr. Ketcham\\n598", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0040.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Lewis Tiibli shiny Co", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0043.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0044.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ILL US TRA TED AMERICAN BIO GRAPH} r\\n601\\nwas president until his death. 1 he exceptional success of that important financial institution was\\ndue largely to the conservative policy and watchful care of the president, and it now stands as a\\nmonument to his memory.\\nSoon after coming to Toledo, Mr. Ketcham purchased some property, and afterward, from time\\nto time, he increased his real-estate holdings. His speculations in that line met with varying results,\\nbut in the main were profitable. In the earlier years of his business career he was subjected to\\nreverses then common to the west, but after recovering from these he enjoyed exceptional success\\nand came to be recognized as one of the most wealthy men of northern Ohio. For his unusual suc\u00c2\u00ac\\ncess he was indebted to no small extent to the experience of his early years, when poverty taught\\nhim economy, and adversity taught him self-reliance.\\nIn addition to the erection of a number of small business buildings and dwellings, Mr. Ketcham\\nerected a block of three four-story stores at Nos. 28 to 36 Summit street; two stores at Nos. 63 and 65\\nSummit street; two stores at the corner of Summit and Jefferson streets; in connection with Mars\\nNearing, the four-story block at Nos. 189 and 199 Summit street, corner of Adams; the four-story\\nblock on Summit, Oak and St. Clair streets; and a similar building, under construction at the time\\nof his death, on St. Clair and Oak streets.\\nAs early as 1843 Mr. Ketcham cut the brush and cleared the ground on which now stands\\nthe Produce Exchange building, at the corner of Madison and St. Clair streets, erecting thereon a\\nsubstantial brick dwelling. The only house within sight of that place was the home of Charles G.\\nKeeler, on the southeast corner of Madison and St. Clair streets, where now stands the government\\nbuilding. For the former lot Mr. Ketcham paid one thousand dollars and subsequently sold it to\\nJohn Poag for four thousand seven hundred dollars. The Produce Exchange for the same paid the\\nsum of fifty-five thousand dollars. In 1852 he purchased the west sixty feet of the site of the new\\ngovernment building for one thousand two hundred dollars and twelve years later disposed of it for\\nfour thousand five hundred dollars. In 1880 it was sold to the United States for twenty-seven\\nthousand dollars.\\nAt Toledo, December 30, 1841, Mr. Ketcham was united in marriage with Miss Rachel Ann,\\ndaughter of John and Pamela Berdan. They became the parents of four children, namely; Mary,\\nwife of Mars Nearing, who became president of the First National Bank and who died October 25,\\n1895; John B., who was formerly president of the Ketcham National Bank, but who later became a\\nresident of Chicago, his death occurring November 13, 1897; Valentine H., Jr.; and George H., a civil\\nengineer. The sons inherited to an unusual degree the business capability and sound judgment of\\ntheir father, and have been foremost in the financial circles of Toledo.\\nA man of temperate habits, practicing throughout his entire life outdoor activity and care in\\ndiet, Mr. Ketcham was able to preserve almost to the last the robust constitution and sound health\\nof his boyhood. While his business duties were many and heavy, yet he gave personal attention\\nto the management of his farm property, thus securing a needed recreation from other cares. After\\nan illness of two weeks, he died at his residence, corner of Cherry and Bancroft streets, July 30, 1887.\\nThe funeral, one of the largest ever held in the city, was attended by delegations from the Produce\\nExchange, to which he belonged, and from the bankers of Toledo. Resolutions were adopted by both\\norganizations, expressing the highest respect for the memory of the deceased. It was felt in business\\ncircles that the loss was a great one, while in his death the needy and helpless lost a benevolent\\nfriend. In politics he was a stanch Republican, always taking a great interest in the affairs of his\\nparty.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0045.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "LEVI PARSONS MORTON,\\nNEW YORK.\\nLL HISTORY pays tribute to its representative men, and biography\\nof the distinguished living, if it be discriminating, becomes a part of\\nthat final record which is to be cast in enduring form. Guizot\\nspecifies \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe era of great men\u00e2\u0080\u009d as one of the pronounced elements\\nunder which the composite idea of modern civilization gradually\\nbecame unified. The study of this factor, close to the eye and still\\nenlarging, is necessarily imperfect, but when individualized becomes\\nintensely absorbing.\\nAmong the interesting studies of characters who are to-day\\nan integral part of our nation\u00e2\u0080\u0099s financial and political history no one\\nwould hesitate to give high prominence to that of Levi Parsons\\nMorton. He has both the eye and ear of the general public, and\\nhis life is not only attractively but necessarily public property. The lives of many, perhaps of most,\\ngreat men start with an ancestral prerogative,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a blood and lineage necessity that they too rise into\\nprominence in the conduct of human affairs. To this high calling ex-Vice-President Morton, in his\\nrelation to the past, presents no exception.\\nThe line of his ancestry, as traced by the vice-president of the Genealogical Society of Penn\u00c2\u00ac\\nsylvania, dates back in America to George Morton, who was the first of the name to found a family\\namong the early colonists; and thence backward along an illustrious family line through Thomas\\nMorton, bishop of Durham and chaplain to James II (1564-1569;) John Morton, the celebrated\\ncardinal archbishop of Canterbury and lord chancellor of England (1420-1500;) Albert Morton,\\nsecretary of state to James I; William Morton and Robert Morton, both bishops, the former\\nbishop of Meath, the latter bishop of Worcester (i486;) Thomas Morton, secretary to Edward\\nIII; the earls of Dulcie and Cornwall; thence through a variation of the name, as Moreton and\\nMoriton in early Norman times, and finally becoming vague in the Doomsday Book, on the Norman\\nRolls and on chancel ceilings of the early centuries.\\nAmong the prominent English Mortons who early came to America were Thomas Morton,\\nEsquire, Rev. Charles Morton and Landgrave Joseph Morton, proprietary governor of South Carolina.\\nOf Thomas Morton it is recorded that he was one of the most interesting historical characters of\\nearly New England, aggressive, independent, frequently misunderstood, but always conspicuous in\\npublic affairs. As a man of letters he published a noteworthy book, in that day, entitled \u00e2\u0080\u009cNew\\nEnglish Canaan,\u00e2\u0080\u009d divided into three books, treating respectively of the Indians; natural history; and\\nthe colonists,\u00e2\u0080\u0094their prosperity, together with a collocation of the tenets and practices of the Pilgrim\\nchurch. John Fiske, the historian, styles him, in a general summary, \u00e2\u0080\u009ca picturesque, but ill under\u00c2\u00ac\\nstood personage.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nRev. Charles Morton was a descendant of Thomas Morton, secretary to Edward III. His\\nfather was pastor of the church which was attended by John Harvard, the founder of Harvard\\nCollege. He himself was an Oxford fellow and took holy orders, but being converted to Puritanism\\nhe was ejected from his living and, suffering from the processes of the bishop\u00e2\u0080\u0099s court, sought refuge\\nby emigrating to New England. He immediately took a commanding position in the new colony.\\nHe held not only a life pastorate of the church at Charlestown, Massachusetts, but the office of\\nvice-president of Harvard was created for him, and there he read lectures on philosophy to large\\n602", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0046.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "JL L US TRA TED AMERICAN BIO GRAPH\\n603\\nclasses of students. Alluding to his scholarly qualities Macaulay spoke of him as \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe exalted\\nOxford scholar, a man of various and large ability.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He was also an author of varied research,\\npublishing frequently, but concisely. One of his manuscript pamphlets is in the library of the\\nAmerican Antiquary Society; another, \u00e2\u0080\u009cA Complete System of Natural Philosophy in General and\\nParticular, is in the library of Bowdoin College.\\nGovernor Joseph Morton settled at Edisto, Carolina, now South Carolina, some fifty miles to\\nthe southwest of Charleston, in 1682. Instrumental in promoting emigration, in a single month he\\ninduced some five hundred people to settle in the colony. Under the Carolina charter creating a\\nnobility he was made a landgrave, which carried with it forty-eight thousand acres of land and the\\nright to sit in the upper house of the colonial parliament. In March, 1682, he was appointed\\ngovernor and served, with one interruption, until 1686. During his administration the colony was\\nfirst divided into counties. Soon after his retirement from the governorship Landgrave Morton was\\nappointed by the lords-proprietors judge of the vice-admiralty, and in 1697 he accepted a similar\\nappointment from the crown. In 1700 he was a commissioner of the provincial library of Charleston,\\nand in 1710 and 1712 a commissioner for founding and erecting a free school for the use of the\\ninhabitants of South Carolina. Like all the early governors of the colony he was a dissenter, and\\nidentified himself as the friend of religious liberty by voting against the establishment of a state\\nchurch in the province. From him are descended some of the best families of South Carolina,\\nincluding Governor Pinckney and Hayne, the poet.\\nThe direct American lineage of ex-Vice-President Morton is as follows: George Morton, born\\nat Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, in 1585 (descended from the ancient Mortons who bore for\\narms\u00e2\u0080\u0094Quarterly, gu. and erm., in the dexter chief and sinister base, each a goat\u00e2\u0080\u0099s head ar., attired\\nor.; crest, a goat\u00e2\u0080\u0099s head ar. attired or.); Hon. John Morton, born at Leyden, Holland, 1616; John\\nMorton, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 21, 1650; Captain Ebenezer Morton, born at\\nMiddleboro, Massachusetts, October 19, 1696; Ebenezer Morton, born at Middleboro, Massachusstts,\\nAugust 27, 1726; Livy Morton, born at Middleboro, Massachusetts, February 4, 1760; and Rev. Daniel\\nOliver Morton, the father of Levi Parsons Morton, was born at Winthrop, Maine, December 21, 1788.\\nOf the early life of George Morton, or Mourt, of Bawtry, Yorkshire, England, no record has\\nbeen preserved. It is only definitely known as to his religious environments that he early joined the\\nPilgrims at Leyden and continued with them until his death. He was a merchant and served in some\\nofficial capacity before he came to America. One record states that he was \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe agent of those of\\nhis sect in London\u00e2\u0080\u009d; another that he acted as \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe financial agent in London for Plymouth colony.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe work which endurably links his name with American history is the publication which was issued\\nby him, in London, in 1622 and which has since been known as Mourt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Relation,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a copy of the\\noriginal being still preserved in the possession of Charles Deane, Esq., of Cambridge, Massachusetts,\\nbut as given in the publication itself the title is a quaint compend of the entire work,\u00e2\u0080\u0094in fact, a\\ntable of contents. Not only for its quaintness but for its hints at the subject-matter of the work\\nthe original title has about it a bewitching attraction. The preface is a model of choice phrasing\\nand clear outline. The relation itself is full of valuable information and still continues an authority\\non the first history of New England, being the earliest account of the planting of Plymouth colony.\\nShortly after its publication George Morton emigrated to America. He did not long survive his\\narrival, his death ensuing within a year from the date of his landing. His early demise was a serious\\nloss to the infant settlement and had he lived he would have filled as conspicuous a place in the life\\nof the colony as that reached by his distinguished contemporaries. A touching memorial among the\\nold records chronicles his decease.\\nHon. John Morton, the second son of George Morton, was admitted a freeman to the Plymouth\\ncolony in 1648, chosen constable in 1654, one of the grand inquest of the county in 1660, elected\\ndeputy to the general court in 1662, tax assessor in 1664, selectman in 1666, collector of excise in\\n1668 and served the town of Plymouth in other important capacities. Removing soon afterward to\\nMiddleboro, in the same county, he became one of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cfamous twenty-six original proprietors and\\nfounders and in 1670 was the first representative of the town to the general court, holding the office\\nuntil his death, which occurred October 3, 1673.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe prosecution of a liberal education and a taste for letters, so proverbial with the Morton\\nfamily, was sustained in a marked degree by John Morton, the second son of Hon. John Morton. To\\nhis efforts was due the establishment of what is believed to be the first absolutely free public school\\nin America, which he \u00e2\u0080\u009cerected and kept\u00e2\u0080\u009d at Plymouth in 1671, \u00e2\u0080\u009cfor the education of children and\\nyouth.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He died at Middleboro in 1717.\\nCaptain Ebenezer, a fourth child of John Morton, rose to be a prominent citizen and held, at", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0047.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "604\\nILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nMiddleboro, his native town, the offices of assessor, surveyor of highways, selectman, moderator of the\\ntown meetings and captain of the militia.\\nEbenezer Morton, the next in direct line of descent, and fourth child of Captain Ebenezer\\nMorton, married Mrs. Sarah Cobb, July 23, 1753, and was the father of six children. His fourth\\nchild, Livy Morton, the grandfather of Levi Parsons Morton, was a Revolutionary soldier and served\\nin the second foot company, Colonel Sprout\u00e2\u0080\u0099s regiment of Massachusetts militia, in service, December,\\n1776, on the seacoast of Rhode Island and in similar service; August, 1780, in Colonel White\u00e2\u0080\u0099s regi\u00c2\u00ac\\nment of militia, also in service; one or two alarms in May and September, 1778. In 1800 he was a\\nfounder of the Congregational church at Winthrop. He was twice married, and died at Middleboro,\\nJuly 19, 1838.\\nRev. Daniel Oliver, eldest son of Livy and Hannah (Dailey) Morton,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the father of ex-Vice-\\nPresident Morton,\u00e2\u0080\u0094was born at Winthrop, Maine, December 21, 1788. In 1808 he entered Middlebury\\nCollege, from which he was graduated in\\n1812, immediately taking up the study\\nof theology under the Rev. Drs. Shep\u00c2\u00ac\\nherd and Patton. He was ordained to\\nthe ministry June 30, [814, as pastor of\\nthe Congregational church in Shoreham,\\nVermont, where he labored with marked\\nsuccess for seventeen years. In 1831,\\nleaving his parish in a flourishing condi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, he organized the first temperance\\nsociety in Shoreham, which, beginning\\nwith seven members, grew to five hun\u00c2\u00ac\\ndred, largely through his personal efforts.\\nFor a year Mr. Morton was in the service\\nof the Vermont Domestic Missionary So\u00c2\u00ac\\nciety, as its secretary. In 1832 he was\\ninstalled pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch of Springfield, Vermont, where he\\nremained five years. 1 he five years fol\u00c2\u00ac\\nlowing he was pastor of the church in Bristol, New Hampshire, where he closed his ministry and life.\\nMr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pastorates were all fruitful to a marked degree, and the records of his eminent\\nand helpful ministry are abundant. Dr. Smith, president of the New Hampshire Institute, who had\\nknown him forty years, said in a memorial address: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe ministry of Mr. Morton was a successful one\\n-very successful. Few ministers are permitted to reap so large a harvest; few have gone to their\\nlast rewards bearing so many sheaves with them. He was a fit representative of the Puritan pastor\\nof the olden time. The wig and the bands would have become him. No one could see him as he\\npassed among his people, or in his own house, without feeling that he was in the presence of an\\naccredited ambassador of God. No man ever had to enquire if he was a minister. The counte\u00c2\u00ac\\nnance, the whole style of the man showed that. Such an introduction to those he met gave him an\\nimmense advantage.\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cIn his intercourse with his brethren,\u00e2\u0080\u009d said Rev. Dr. Bouton, of Concord, who\\npreached his funeral sermon, \u00e2\u0080\u009che seemed to be free from selfish and ambitious ends; never harsh\\nand censorious in judging; but in his words and manners combined mildness, urbanity and decision.\\nThe pleasant smile that lighted up his face was a true index of the charity that ruled his spirit. As\\na preacher he was sound in doctrine, instructive, and practical; his style of writing was flowing and\\ndiffusi\\\\e, rather than terse and argumentative; his aim was direct, and he excelled in setting forth the\\ndistinctive truths of the gospel in words so fitly chosen as not to give offense.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In the midst of his\\nbusy life Mr. Morton found time for authorship, and published, notably, a memoir of his brother-in-\\nlaw, Rev. Levi Parsons, an early missionary of the American Board (1824, second edition 1830, pp.488);\\na memorial sermon delivered at Winchendon, February 19, 1838, at the funeral of Colonel Jacob B.\\nWoodbury; and an account of the great revival at Springfield, Vermont, in 1838. He died at Bristol\\nNew Hampshire, March 25, 1852.\\nRev. Daniel Oliver Morton was married at Pittsfield, Vermont, by Rev. Justin Parsons, Aumist\\n3 1814, to Lucretia Parsons, daughter of Rev. Justin and Electa (Frary) Parsons. Her father was\\neminent as a soldier in the Revolution and as a statesman as well as in the ministry. He was a\\ncontributor to Oberlin College, deeply interested in the anti-slavery cause, and was conspicuous as\\na delegate to the general convention of Congregational and Presbyterian ministers in Vermont, which\\nELLERSLlE, RHINECLIFF-ON-THE-HUDSON,\\nCountry-seat of Hon. Levi P Morton.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0048.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n605\\nconvened at Ludlow on the second Tuesday in September, 1823. Lucretia (Parsons) Morton was\\nborn at Goshen, Massachusetts, July 26, 1789, and was the first of a family of seven children.\\nShe died at Philadelphia, January 11, 1862.\\nFrom such an illustrious line of ancestry and so eminent a parentage was the Hon. Levi\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Parsons Morton descended. He was born May 16, 1824, the fourth child of a family of six children,\\nthe elder children being Hon. Daniel Oliver Morton, who was born November 8, 1815, and died\\nDecember 5, 1857; Lucretia Parsons, who was born January 20, 1817, and died in Philadelphia,\\nJune 9, 1886; and Electa Frary Morton, who was born May 28, 1820, and died in 1898. The\\nyounger members of the family are Mary Morton, born May 5, 1829, and Martha Morton, her twin\\nsister. The record of the entire family is conspicuous. The Hon. Daniel Oliver Morton, born in\\nShoreham, Vermont, in 1815, at the time of his sudden and early death, in Toledo, Ohio, in the\\npursuit of his chosen profession, the law, had made a profound and indelible impression upon the\\nbench and bar of that state. He graduated with honor at Middlebury College, Vermont, in the\\nclass of 1833, and immediately entered upon the study of the law in the office of Messrs. Payne\\nWilson, at Cleveland, Ohio. Admitted to the bar, he removed to Toledo, Ohio, entered upon the\\npractice of his profession, and early gained distinction and rose to eminence. He was appointed,\\nby President Pierce, United States attorney for the state of Ohio, discharging the duties of the\\nposition for four years with marked ability and honor. He was one of the codifiers of the laws of\\nOhio under the new constitution. Although attached from early life to the old Democratic party,\\nat the approach of the troubles which culminated in the civil war he at once detached himself from\\nformer affiliations and gave his influence to the support of the government, regardless of previous\\nparty ties. His death, alluded to above, was widely mourned and brought forth abundant testi\u00c2\u00ac\\nmonials of his high repute as a lawyer, citizen and man. The United States attorney, Plon. G. W.\\nBelden, at the first meeting of the United States circuit court after Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s death, in behalf\\nof the bar, offered the following resolution and moved that the court cause it to be entered upon\\nits journal:\\nWhereas, It has been announced to the court that the Hon. Daniel O. Morton departed this life on Monday last,\\nit is therefore, by the members of the bar of this court,\\nResolved That the mournful intelligence of this death of the Hon. Daniel O. Morton causes in them the profoundest\\nsorrow; that they consider his death a great public loss; that his many social and generous virtues\u00e2\u0080\u0094his high sense of\\nhonor, his unswerving integrity and his great learning as a lawyer, the faithful and able manner in which he has discharged\\nmany of the most important official duties for his fellow citizens\u00e2\u0080\u0094are, and must continue to be, remembered with the\\nliveliest sensibilities of regard for the deceased. That, as a faint evidence of their respect for the memory of the deceased,\\nit is requested that the court will order these expressions to be entered upon the records of the court; that, in respectful\\nand heartfelt condolence with the widow and children of the deceased, the clerk be directed to transmit to them a copy of\\nthe resolution.\\nGeorge Willey, Esq., in seconding the resolution paid the following tribute to his legal\\nattainments: \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe was thoroughly versed in criminal jurisprudence. He was profoundly acquainted\\nwith the legal principles pertaining to landed property. In the department of maritime law he had\\nfew equals, perhaps no superior, in the state; with its elementary principles, reaching back to the\\nearliest annals of civil law, and with the more modern adjudications of the English and American\\ntribunals he was alike familiar.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099\\nMemorial meetings, held by local bars of the state, and the press united in laudatory testi\u00c2\u00ac\\nmony. The Toledo Daily Herald and Times, the Cleveland Plaindealer and the Cleveland Daily\\nHerald all made editorial mention of his eminence as a public man and lawyer.\\nLucretia Parsons Morton, the eldest daughter, born at Shoreham, Vermont, married the Rev.\\nMyron Webb Safford, at Shawneetown, Illinois. Mr. Safford was born in Cambridge, Vermont,\\nand was the son of Captain John and Elizabeth (Montague) Safford, and grandson of General\\nSamuel Safford, of Barrington, Vermont, who served as lieutenant-colonel in the Revolutionary\\narmy and brigadier-general of the Vermont militia; was twenty-three years a member of the\\ngovernor\u00e2\u0080\u0099s council, and for a quarter of a century chief judge of the Bennington county courts.\\nRev. Myron W. Safford was graduated at Middlebury College, in 1839; studied theology at the\\nAndover Theological and Lane Seminaries and was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Cincin\u00c2\u00ac\\nnati. In addition to his ministry his life was devoted to educational interests, his efforts being\\nespecially instrumental in raising the standard of schools, public and private, throughout the\\nsouthern states.\\nElecta Frary Morton, the second daughter, also born at Shoreham. Vermont, became Mrs.\\nJonas Minot, on the 7th of May, 1849. Her husband was the son of Captain James Minot, a", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0049.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "6oS\\nILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nrepresentative and. senator in the New Hampshire legislature and direct descendant of I homas\\nMinot, Esq., secretary to the abbott of Walden, Essex, England. I he genealogy of this distin\u00c2\u00ac\\nguished Minot family is fully set forth in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register,\\n(Vol. i, pp. 171-262.)\\nMary Morton, the third daughter and fifth child, was married at New York, by Rev. Dr.\\nAdams, February 27, 1856, to the Hon. William F. Grinnell, son of Hon. George Grinnell, of\\nGreenfield, Massachusetts, and his wife, Eliza Seymour, eldest daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Perkins,\\nD. D. Mr. Grinnell was born in Greenfield, in 1831, was for some years engaged in mercantile\\npursuits, being at one time the partner of Hon. Levi P. Morton, in the firm of Morton Grinnell.\\nIn 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes consul of the United States at St. Etienne, France,\\nbeing continuously from that time in consular service under five presidents, and is the present consul\\nat Manchester, England.\\nMartha Morton, the fourth daughter and sixth child, born at Shoreham, Vermont, married, at\\nBristol, New Hampshire, August 8, 1852, the Rev. Alanson Hartpence, of Harrison, Ohio. I his\\ngentleman was a son of James Bray and Lucinda (Riggs) Hartpence, and a descendant of Rev. John\\nBray, of Monmouth county, New Jersey. He was graduated at Wabash College, Indiana, in 1849,\\nand at Lane Seminary, Ohio, in 1852. Ordained to the ministry by the presbytery of Huron, in\\n1853, he rapidly rose to distinction in the pulpit, but after several years of labor in Ohio and Tennessee\\nhe succumbed to ill health and retired permanently from pastoral work.\\nLevi Parsons Morton, the fourth member of this distinguished family, and the youngest son,\\nhas risen to special eminence. Among the many names which appear conspicuous in the ancestral\\nline, his, among all, will take enduring place in history. He was born at Shoreham, Vermont, May\\n16, 1824. His earliest life was without special incident. Receiving an academic education in his\\nnative town, his tastes early led toward mercantile pursuits. At first a clerk, he later became a\\nmerchant in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1850 he entered the firm of Beebe, Morgan Company,\\na leading dry-goods house in Boston. The following year, a branch house being established in New\\nYork city, he became resident partner and manager. Withdrawing from the firm January 1, 1854,\\nhe established the dry-goods commission house of Morton Grinnell. In 1863 he established the\\nbanking houses of L. P. Morton Company, in New York, and L. P. Morton, Burns Company in\\nLondon, changed respectively to Morton, Bliss Company, and Morton, Rose Company, in 1869,\\nSir John Rose, formerly finance minister of Canada, becoming his principal partner in London.\\nThrough the London house the United States government paid Great Britain the Halifax fishery\\naward of five million five hundred thousand dollars. In 1878 Morton, Bliss Company headed the\\nsyndicate which proposed the purchase of fifty millions of four and one-half per cent, government\\nbonds at one hundred and a half,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a chief step in the movement which resulted in the resumption\\nof specie payments. In this movement Mr. Morton was one of the noted American bankers whose\\nadvice and assistance were sought by the treasury department.\\nBut Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s political career has brought him before the public even more prominently\\nthan his financial achievements. Early in his business life he evinced an interest in public affairs,\\nand his counsels were frequently solicited in the political concerns of the Republican party. In 1876,\\nwithout his knowledge, he was nominated for congress by the Republican party in the eleventh dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ntrict and, although unsuccessful, largely reduced the usual Democratic majority. In 1878 he was\\nappointed by President Hayes honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and in the fall of the\\nsame year was again nominated for congress. The canvass was vigorous, and he was triumphantly\\nelected by a majority exceeding the total vote cast for his opponent,\u00e2\u0080\u0094and that in a district for the\\nfirst time in its history carried by the Republicans. Mr. Morton took his seat March 18, 1879, and\\nat once occupied a high position in legislative councils, being especially relied upon in questions of\\nfinance. During the term he introduced and forwarded several important bills, one at the request of\\nthe Chamber of Commerce, of New York; another at the request of the American Geographical\\nSociety, and also a bill amending the appropriation bill for \u00e2\u0080\u009csundry civil expenses of the\\ngovernment. In April, 1879, Mr. Morton was appointed on the committee of foreign affairs,\\nwhere he served with marked distinction. He reported from that committee, and took special\\ninterest in its passage, a bill relating to treaty negotiations with Russia as to American Israelites\\nholding land in that country. He vigorously opposed the bill introduced by Mr. Warner, of Ohio,\\nfor the unlimited coinage of silver, and by a similar line of trenchant argument opposed the bill\\nintroduced by Mr. Fort, of Indiana, providing for the exchange of trade dollars for legal-tender dollars.\\nHe was prominent in the discussion of the bill \u00e2\u0080\u009cto prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and the\\nspread of contagious and infectious diseases among animals.\u00e2\u0080\u009d In 1880, during the second session, he", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0050.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ILL US TRA TED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY\\n607\\nmade a strong speech in favor of the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the United States\\nin the International Fishery Exhibition in Berlin. In the fall of the same year he was again returned\\nto congress, by an increased majority, having declined the honor of permitting the use of his name,\\nbefore the convention which had nominated James A. Garfield as president, as a candidate for the\\nnomination as vice-president on the Republican ticket. The choice then fell upon Mr. Arthur. The\\nweight of Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s influence in support of the national ticket during the campaign that followed\\ncontributed largely to the triumphant result.\\nUpon taking office President Garfield offered Mr. Morton his choice between the position of\\nsecretary of the navy and that of minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to France. Mr.\\nMorton chose the latter, and in the summer of 1881 sailed with his family for the French capital.\\nOf his special fitness for this appointment, Harvey, in his \u00e2\u0080\u009cLives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P.\\nMorton,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 says: \u00e2\u0080\u009cMr. Morton was not unacquainted with the French capital, nor the important work\\nat that time to be done there by the American minister, whoever he might be. He knew the tact\\nand diplomacy then necessary to do what ought to be done, yet he knew his own power among people\\npreeminently social, and it is to his credit that he desired to lift the American standard higher and\\nto advance American and commercial interests in the sister republic, and also to promote the harmony\\nand friendship of the two nations. Again, Mr. Morton was already well and favorably known by the\\nleading men of France. His vast commercial transactions alone would have been sufficient to bring\\nthis about. But he had also, in 1878, been honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition. Also his\\npublic services in the United States, not only in congress, but in commercial circles, had been matters\\nof world-wide knowledge. Add to these Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s perfect manners, his suavity, his great financial\\nability, his diplomatic shrewdness and tact, his knowledge of men, and it is seen at once that no man\\ncould have been selected of greater fitness for the French post.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nFronting a park known as Place de la Biche was a magnificent mansion, built several\\nyears before for a prince. To this superb building was moved the office of the legation. Thus,\\nalmost simultaneously with the presentation of his credentials, the American legation assumed the\\nattitude and proportions which accorded with the dignity and importance of the government it\\nrepresented. It won a quick response from the French, and Mr. Morton commanded unbounded\\nrespect; and of these facts the French gave immediate evidence by changing the name of the park\\nto that of Place des Etats Unis,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a rich, though merited, compliment to Mr. Morton.\\nMr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s advent into France was in the day of M. Gambetta, a statesman whose friend\u00c2\u00ac\\nship and esteem he soon won, and thereafter retained until the death of that able man. The\\npreeminent fitness of the new envoy was at once apparent, and the success of his diplomatic career\\nhas never been surpassed by any American representative to a foreign court. Through his inter\u00c2\u00ac\\ncessions restrictions upon the importation of American pork were removed, and American corporations\\nreceived a legal status in France. He was largely instrumental in the assembling of the monetary\\nconference that met in Paris in 1882, fourteen governments being represented. He took an\\nimportant part in the discussion that resulted in the treaty between the powers for the protection\\nof the submarine cables; he also represented the United States in the convention that was signed\\nat Paris, March 14, 1884, by the plenipotentiaries of twenty-six governments, having the continued\\nprotection of the cables for its object. In the conference which met in Paris, in March, 1883, for\\nthe protection of patents and trade-marks, Mr. Morton assisted greatly in effecting beneficial results;\\nand he bore a confidential, active and efficient part in the adjustments of peace between France and\\nChina. He also succeeded in modifying the attitude of the American government toward French\\nartists and in protecting American artists from French reprisals.\\nIn the felicitous public speeches which Mr. Morton made while in France he passed beyond\\nthe pale of the mere ambassador and rose to the stature of a broad and wise international states\u00c2\u00ac\\nmanship,\u00e2\u0080\u0094notably at the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette, on the 6th of September, 1883, in\\nthe ancient town of LePuy, on the upper Loire;, in his reply to the presentation speech of Count\\nde Lesseps, on July 4, 1884, when he received, in behalf of the United States, Bartholdi\u00e2\u0080\u0099s colossal\\nstatue of Liberty Enlightening the World; and at the inauguration at Paris, May 13, 1885, of a\\nreproduction in bronze of the original model of the famous statue, which had been cast for the\\nAmerican citizens of Paris for presentation to the citizens of France.\\nUpon the accession of President Cleveland to office Mr. Morton resigned, and on the 14th of\\nMay, 1885, presented his letter of recall to the president of the republic of France. Replying to the\\nwords of appreciation of the courtesies which had been extended to him, M. Grevy said: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt is\\nwith lively regret that we witness your departure; we have always appreciated your high character\\nand great courtesy; you have won the sympathy of all, and I only wish that the customs and\\ntraditions of the two countries permitted me to ask as a favor your retention in office.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0051.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "6 o8\\nILL US ERA TED AMERICAN BIO GRAPH J r\\nOn the same day the Americans in Paris gave to Mr. Morton a farewell dinner, tendered to\\nhim in a letter expressing the deepest appreciation of his invaluable services, not only in strength\u00c2\u00ac\\nening the bond that united the two republics, but in securing enlarged advantages to Americans in\\nFrance. The banquet was held at the Hotel Continental and was one of the most brilliant social\\nevents of the season, participated in by two hundred of the most distinguished French and American\\ngentlemen in Paris. The responses to the several toasts constitute the highest possible testimony\\nto the high estimation in which Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s diplomatic career was held by his own countrymen\\nand by the government and people of France. The tenor of the responses was taken up by the\\npress, and the London Standard, the London Times and the Morning News at great length ampli\u00c2\u00ac\\nfied and endorsed the spirit of the banquet.\\nIt is a matter of record both in the press and in the councils of the Republican party in\\nevent that a contingency should arise making it inadvisable to nominate either Mr. Blaine or Mr.\\nArthur, during the canvass of 1884, for president, that Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s name would be the one most\\navailable to carry the great pivotal state of New York. The contingency, however, did not arise,\\nbut while yet in France, in January, 1885, Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s name was brought before the Republican\\ncaucus of the New York State legislature as a candidate for the senate of the United States; also\\ntwo years later his name was used in the same connection, Mr. Morton, however, withdrawing in\\nfavor of Mr. Hiscock.\\nEarly in the presidential campaign of 1888 the leaders of the Republican party recognized\\nthat to win the election the candidates nominated must be able to carry the pivotal states of Indiana\\nand New York. General Harrison, of Indiana, having received the nomination for president, the\\nconvention looked to New York for its candidate for the vice-presidency. Mr. Morton was selected\\non the first ballot by a vote of five hundred and ninety-two in a total of eight hundred and thirty-two.\\nHis name was presented to the convention by ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New York, and enthusi\u00c2\u00ac\\nastically seconded by Mr. Gage, of California, Mr. Foster, of Ohio, late secretary of the treasury,\\nMr. Hallowed, of Kansas, General Hastings, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Oliver, of South Carolina.\\nMr. Morton accepted the nomination, and the ensuing campaign, one of the most hotly contested\\nin American politics, resulted in the triumph of the Republican candidates. New York was con-\\ncededly carried by Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s strength and popularity. He entered upon the duties of the vice\u00c2\u00ac\\npresidency March 4, 1889, and discharged the same during the four-years term with marked\\nability. It was recognized by both parties that the United States senate has never been presided\\nover with greater courtesy, dignity and efficiency,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the recognition taking the form of a dinner\\ntendered to him by the entire senate upon his retirement from office; a compliment without\\nprecedent in the history of the body.\\nUpon several notable public occasions in 1892 it devolved upon Mr. Morton, as vice-president,\\nto represent Mr. Harrison, who was unable to participate, owing to the severe illness of Mrs. Harrison,\\namong which were the dedication of the Grand Army place at the Grand Army encampment in\\nWashington, D. C., on the 19th of September; the banquet in New York city, during the celebration\\nof the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in America, October 14th; and the\\ndedication of the World\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Columbian Exposition, at Chicago, October 21, 1892.\\nWhen Mr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s name was presented by Warner Miller before the Republican convention in\\n1888 to fill out the national ticket with General Harrison, two things were dwelt upon in the presenta\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion speech,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the popularity of Mr. Morton in New York state, carrying with it the certainty of success\\nby wheeling in line the pivotal state, and the eminent qualifications of Mr. Morton for the vice\u00c2\u00ac\\npresidency or any other elective office in the gift of the people, by reason of his great success as a\\nbusiness man, his record in the house of representatives, his career as the foremost among representa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntives in a foreign country and his recognized world-wide liberality; and Mr. Gage of California, who\\nseconded the nomination, used these words: \u00e2\u0080\u009cI rise to second the nomination of that distinguished\\ncitizen of the Empire state, Levi P. Morton, a man who is better loved and can poll more votes on\\nthe far-off Pacific shores than any other man living upon this earth, save and except the great\\nAmerican commoner, James G. Blaine.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It followed logically that, in the fall of 1894, ex- Vice-President\\nMorton should have been the nominee of the Republican party of the state of New York for the office\\nof governor, and that he should have been elected by an overwhelming majority,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the largest, save\\nthe accident majority of 1882, in the political history of the state. This office Governor Morton\\noccupied until his term expired, December 31, 1896. His administration was popular, impartial, just\\nand conservative, as he brought to the executive chair the same wise interpretation of government\\nwhich has marked his entire political career and which has been so aptly defined by the martyred\\nLincoln as a \u00e2\u0080\u009cgovernment of the people, for the people and by the people.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0052.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ILL US TRA TED AMERICAN BIO GRA PH It\\n609\\nMr. Morton has also achieved distinction in charitable as well as in financial and political\\ncircles. His prompt action in fitting out the cargo of the United States ship Constellation during the\\ngreat famine in Ireland, in 1880, will be readily recalled. Congress offered the ship and the trans\u00c2\u00ac\\nportation if private benevolence would fill it with food. Mr. Morton, learning that the offer of the\\nnavy department had met with no response, addressed the following letter, in part, to the New York\\nHerald: \u00e2\u0080\u009cYou are authorized to announce that a gentleman personally known to you, who declines to\\nhave his name made public, offers to pay one-quarter of the cargo of the Constellation if other parties\\nwill make up the balance.\u00e2\u0080\u009d 1 he offer operated like magic in spurring others, it being known to Mr.\\nMorton s intimate friends that, if cooperation hesitated, he was ready to furnish the entire cargo. The\\nship announced her readiness to receive cargo on a Tuesday; the next day her cargo was complete.\\nWithin the same year Mr. Morton joined with the house of Drexel, Morgan Company, and the two\\nfirms contributed fifty thousand dollars each to pay off the wages of some five hundred workmen who\\nwere left in want upon the financial ruin of the enterprise in the erection of the gigantic hotel at\\nRoekaway Beach. Among the public and private benevolences of Mr. Morton are a park to the city\\nof Newport; a house and lot at Hanover to Dartmouth College, for an art gallery and museum; ten\\nthousand dollars to Middlebury College, toward the foundation of a professorship of Latin and French;\\nand seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars to Grace church, of New York, for a day nursery,\\ngiven as a tribute to the memory of his first wife, Mrs. Lucy Kimball Morton.\\nMr. Morten received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Middlebury College in 1881, and from\\nDartmouth College in 1882. He is a member of the Union, Union League, Metropolitan, Century\\nand Lawyers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Clubs, of New York; the Metropolitan Club, of Washington, D. C.; the Historical and\\nAmerican Geographical Societies of New York, the New England Historical and Genealogical Society,\\nand of other prominent charitable, scientific, artistic and social organizations.\\nMr. Morton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cEllerslie, at Rhinecliff-on-the-Hudson, is one of the finest country-seats in\\nAmerica. It embraces nearly a thousand acres of land, the title to which is traced back, through an\\ninteresting history, to its purchase from the Indians, in 1686. The mansion stands in the midst of a\\nfenceless park of five hundred acres and commands a river and mountain view of great extent and\\nbeauty. There is nothing to surpass it on the Hudson, and there are within its territory lakes and\\nrivulets .and every variety of charming scenery. With its lawns, avenues, walks, drives, fruit houses,\\nconservatories,\u00e2\u0080\u0094all artistically planned and arranged and on week days open to the public,\u00e2\u0080\u0094it is not\\nonly a just object of local pride, but of unrivaled interest to the tourist. The city residence of the\\nfamily is in upper Fifth avenue, New York.\\nMr. Morton has been twice married. His first wife was Lucy Kimball, daughter of Elijah\\nH. Kimball and Sarah Wetmore (Hinsdale) Kimball, of Elatlands, Long Island. She died July 11,\\n1871. His second marriage was February 12, 1873, to Anna Livingston Read Street, born May 18,\\n1846, daughter of William Ingraham and Susan (Kearney) Street. She is descended from several of\\nthe old Manhattan families. Her grandfather was General Randall S. Street, and her grandmother\\nwas Cornelia Billings, daughter of Major Andrew Billings, a Revolutionary soldier, by his wife, Cornelia\\nLivingston, who was the granddaughter of Gilbert Livingston and Cornelia Beekman and great-grand\u00c2\u00ac\\ndaughter of Robert Livingston and Alida (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer. Robert Livingston was first lord\\nof the manor Livingston, in the state of New York.\\nThe children of the second marriage were five daughters and one son, of whom the only son\\nis deceased. A brief record concerning them is here given: Edith Livingston was born June 20, 1874;\\nLena Kearney was born May 20, 1875; Helen Stuyvesant was born August 2, 1876; Lewis Parsons,\\nthe only son, was born in London, England, September 21, 1877, and died there on the 10th of January,\\n1878; Alice was born March 23, 1879; and Mary, June 11, 1881.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0053.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "THEODORE L. CUYLER, D. D\u00e2\u0080\u009e LL. D.,\\nBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.\\nof all things.\\nHE man of world-wide fame needs no introduction to the student of biography.\\nHis leadership in the line to which he has devoted his energies becomes\\nknown without the written history, but biography serves to perpetuate the\\nrecord of brilliant achievement, of noble purpose, of successful accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nplishment and of individual worth,\u00e2\u0080\u0094and where else can be found the\\ninspiration and encouragement that is gleaned from the annals of a\\nwell spent life that has fulfilled its mission, leaving an influence\\nimmeasurable as infinity? \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe proper study of mankind is man,\\nsaid Pope, and aside from this, in its broader sense, what base of\\nstudy and information have we? It is thus that we understand the\\nfull significance of the utterance of Carlyle, that \u00e2\u0080\u009cbiography is by\\nnature the most universally profitable, the most universally pleasant\\nWith these thoughts in mind we undertake the somewhat difficult task\\nof preparing an adequate record of one of the most eminent divines that America has produced.\\nTheodore Ledyard Cuyler, whose name is inseparably interwoven with the history of the\\nLafayette Avenue Presbyterian church, of Brooklyn, was born in Aurora, New York, January io, 1822.\\nHis ancestral history indicates his descent from the Huguenots and Hollanders who located in America\\nat an early period. The fame of his family in connection with the profession of the law is most\\nenviable. His grandfather practiced with success in Aurora for many years, and his father, B. Ledyard\\nCuyler, also attained to a position of prominence at the bar. While a student in Hamilton College\\nhe was a classmate of Gerrit Smith. He was a talented man of ripe scholarship and brilliant pros\u00c2\u00ac\\npects, but death ended his career at the early age of twenty-eight, and the care of Dr. Cuyler, then\\nonly four years of age, fell to the widowed mother. She was a woman of culture, and her Christian\\ncharacter had a marked influence upon the life of her son. From his early infancy she cherished\\nthe hope that he would devote his services to the cause of Christianity, and it is said that her first\\ngift to him was a pocket Bible, which he was able to read at the early age of four years. Relatives\\nof the family desired that he should devote his talents to the profession which had enlisted the abilities\\nof his father and grandfather, but he was destined for a nobler and broader work. When seventeen\\nyears of age he made a public confession of faith by joining the church, his mind having been\\nwondrously influenced while attending some protracted meetings at school; and thenceforth there\\nappears to have been little indecision in his course, his steps gradually but surely leading him into\\nthe Christian ministry. At the age of sixteen he became a student in Princeton College, in which\\ninstitution, on the completion of a three-years course, he was graduated with high honors. His edu\u00c2\u00ac\\ncation was broadened by a year spent in Europe, where through the influence of prominent men of\\nhis native land he was received by a number of eminent people \u00e2\u0080\u009cwho were charmed by his vivacious\\nyouth, overflowing with cultured curiosity and Yankee wit.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He was kindly received by Thomas\\nCarlyle and Charles Dickens, and his visits to those two celebrated English writers are among the\\nmost pleasant memories of his life. His time was not entirely devoted to pleasure, for during his\\nsojourn abroad he wrote occasional sketches of travel and of distinguished men, which articles were\\npublished in the American newspapers and made him known to a wide circle of readers.\\nUpon his return to his native land his father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s family again urged him to enter the legal\\n610", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0054.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0057.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0058.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "ILL US TRA TED AMERICAN BIO GRAPH J r\\n613\\nprofession, believing his talents would enable him to secure fame and fortune therein, but his earnest\\nChristian mother still cherished the hope that he would enter the ministry. He had not definitely\\nformed any plans for his future career, when on a certain occasion he visited a neighboring village to\\nbe there greeted by the elder of the church, who said: \u00e2\u0080\u009cGod has sent you here, for we want help this\\nevening at the meeting for Christian conference with inquirers.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He attended the meeting and his\\ntalk, though brief, was so earnest and impressive that many were deeply moved. Several inquirers\\nprofessed belief that evening, saying: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThat young man made the way so plain.\u00e2\u0080\u009d As he rode along\\nCayuga lake on his way home he marveled at his success, but concluded that if his labors for a few\\nminutes were crowned with such excellent results, it would be well to devote his life to preaching.\\nHis preparatory studies for the ministry, which were pursued in the Princeton Theological Seminary\\nfor three years, terminated by his graduation in May, 1846.\\nHis first ministerial service after being licensed to preach was as supply in the church at\\nKingston, Pennsylvania, where he remained for six months. Not long afterward he accepted the\\ncharge of the Presbyterian church in Burlington, New Jersey, where his labors were so successful that\\nthe assembly felt he should be employed in a broader field. Accordingly he left Burlington to take\\npastoral charge of the newly organized Third Presbyterian church in Trenton, where he remained\\nuntil the summer of 1853. In May of that year he received a call from the Shawmut Congregational\\nchurch in Boston, but declined it and accepted a call from the Market Street Reformed Dutch church\\nin New York city, where he felt his field would be broader and more congenial by reason of the\\ngreater demands it would make upon him. His work there at once attracted public attention. His\\nearnestness, his clear reasoning, his logical arguments and his brilliant gifts of oratory attracted large\\naudiences, and his work among young men was particularly successful. For seven years he continued\\nas pastor of that congregation, and in i860 entered upon his important work in connection with the\\nLafayette Avenue Presbyterian church, of Brooklyn. The exodus from New York to Brooklyn was\\nbeginning to be felt about this time, and the need for better church accommodations in the latter city\\nhad long been so pressing as to engross the attention of many earnest Christians. A conference on\\nthe subject was held May 16, 1857, by a number of gentlemen connected with Dr. Spear\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cSouth\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nchurch, and it was decided to form a new-school\u00e2\u0080\u009d church. Soon after its organization Professor\\nRoswell D. Hitchcock, of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, supplied the pulpit, and during\\nhis ministry there the church society, at first numbering but forty-eight souls, increased so rapidly that\\nthe little brick chapel was found inadequate to contain the audiences. It was a season of spiritual\\nawakening all over the land,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the revival of 1858,\u00e2\u0080\u0094and Park church, for such was the name by\\nwhich it was then known, shared in the general improvement and met the demand upon its accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nmodations by building an addition. In January of the following year, 1859, Professor Hitchcock\\nresigned and was succeeded as pulpit-supply by the Rev. Lyman Whiting, of Portsmouth, New\\nHampshire. Six months later he also resigned, and for an additional six months the congregation was\\nwithout a regular minister.\\nAbout this time Dr. Cuyler was offered the pastorate, but the outlook in his own church was\\nthen so promising that he declined the call. Shortly afterward, however, the Dutch church began to\\nfalter in its project of planting its new edifice in the new and growing part of the city. With keen\\nforesight Dr. Cuyler anticipated the rapid change that was soon to transform unpopulated districts of\\nBrooklyn, and believed that it would prove a splendid field for Christian labor. It was then that he\\ntook into consideration the offer of the pastorate of the Park church. He visited the Fort Greene\\nsection of Brooklyn, and then informed the committee which awaited on him that if their congregation\\nwould purchase the plot at the corner of Lafayette avenue and Oxford street and erect thereon a\\nplain edifice large enough to accommodate about two thousand people he would accept the call. It\\nseemed a great undertaking for the little congregation, with its membership of only one hundred and\\nforty people, but the committee agreed to the proposition, and within ten days the purchase of the\\nland was effected, at a cost of twelve thousand dollars. At an additional cost of forty-two thousand\\ndollars there was\u00e2\u0080\u0099erected a splendid stone structure, modeled after Mr. Beecher\u00e2\u0080\u0099s church and having\\nalso the same seating capacity. Work was commenced on the new edifice in the fall of i860, and\\non March 12, 1862, the completed church was dedicated. This was practically the work of Dr. Cuyler,\\nwho in April, i860,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 was formally installed as pastor. He entered upon his work with an enthusiasm\\nborn of stroll determination, firm convictions and a noble purpose. His brilliant oratory soon attracted\\nthe attention of Brooklyn\u00e2\u0080\u0099s citizens, and his forceful utterances, showing forth the divine purpose,\\nappealed to the understanding of all thinking people. The church grew with marvelous rapidity, and\\nas rapidly as possible Dr. Cuyler extended the field of its labors. In 1866 there were more than\\ndiree hundred additions, and he felt that its growing strength justified the establishment of a mission.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0059.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n614\\nAccordingly, in Warren street, the Memorial mission school was organized, the direct outcome of which\\nis the Memorial Presbyterian church, now one of the strongest and most prosperous in that section\\nof the city. The Fort Greene Presbyterian church also had its origin in one of Dr. Cuyler\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mission\\nschools, which was established in 1861, with a membership of one hundred and twelve. The Classon\\nAvenue church is also another direct branch of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church,\u00e2\u0080\u0094and who\\ncan measure the influence of this work? In the twenty-five years following its incorporation Dr.\\nCuvier s congregation contributed seventy thousand dollars to city missions, and its gifts as reported\\nfor the year 1S88 exceeded fifty-three thousand dollars. The Sunday-school, the Young People\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nAssociation and various charitable and benevolent organizations became important adjuncts of the\\nchurch work. The church membership in 1890 was nearly twenty-four hundred and the Sunday-\\nschool numbered sixteen hundred, ranking the third largest in the general assembly. With all these\\nextensive and important undertakings under his supervision Dr. Cuyler also did the work of pastor\\nas well as of teacher and leader, and perhaps no man in the Christian ministry has ever more endeared\\nhimself through the ties of friendship and love to his parishioners than he. One who knew him well\\nsaid of him: \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe mingles freely and happily with his people. His feelings are ardent and sympa\u00c2\u00ac\\nthetic, his conversation is fluent and interspersed with illustration, anecdote, lively metaphor and\\nfelicitous quotation; his manner natural, candid and frank; his tone of voice at once full, encouraging\\nand also gentle,\u00e2\u0080\u0094so that he united the gifts which elicit friendly feeling, promote freedom of social\\nintercourse and bind a pastor to his people by the innumerable threads of friendly intercourse, rather\\nthan by the one cable of profound and distant reverence. Hence he combined in an unusual degree\\nsuccess in pastoral labor with success in preaching. He teaches his people quite as much out of the\\npulpit as in it. He seeks to make his church an organized band who \u00e2\u0080\u0098go about doing good,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 in working\\nsympathy with the poor and outcast. He also diffuses a zeal, \u00e2\u0080\u0098lengthening the cords and strength\u00c2\u00ac\\nening the stakes\u00e2\u0080\u0099 of their own influence. Dr. Cuyler is accessible both in the parlor and in the pulpit.\\nOne is sure of hospitality at church as well as at home.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThrough forty years of ministerial labor Dr. Cuyler never lost but two days from illness.\\nThrough three decades he remained with the people of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church, and\\nthe amount of work he accomplished within that time seems almost incredible, so varied and extensive\\nwere his labors. No personal sacrifice was too great that would promote the welfare of his people\\nand advance the cause of Christ among men. In the course of his pastorate he delivered to his own\\npeople nearly three thousand sermons and more than one thousand addresses, and no one that ever\\nheard him, failed to carry away some noble and inspiring thought to be long remembered. A con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntemporary writer said of him: \u00e2\u0080\u009cHis force in preaching \u00e2\u0080\u0098lies in picturesque description and the weaving\\nin of scenes and illustrations from scripture and from daily life.\u00e2\u0080\u0099 When he preaches doctrinal sermons\\nhe avoids technicalities. His texts are generally short, and his sermons open by some forcible form\\nof illustration and close impressively by forcible appeal. Thus he enlists attention at the outset and\\nleaves an abiding effect at the conclusion. His style as a preacher is very earnest, and, judged by its\\nresults, singularly effective.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Dr. Cuyler has been compared, on account of a similarity in oratory and\\nstyle, to Dr. Edward N. Kirk, Henry Ward Beecher and John B. Gough. What higher compliment\\ncould be paid him than the remark of Washington Irving, who, having heard him address a company\\nof children, whispered in his ear, \u00e2\u0080\u009cMy friend, I would like to be one of your parishioners.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nOn Sunday, February 2, 1890, at the close of a brief and powerful sermon, Dr. Cuyler,\\nin a carefully prepared address, announced to his congregation his intention of resigning his\\npulpit on the first Sunday in April following. He said: \u00e2\u0080\u009cNearly thirty years have elapsed since I\\nassumed the pastoral charge of the Lafayette Avenue church. In April, i860, it was a small\\nband of one hundred and forty members. By the continual blessing of Heaven upon us, that\\nlittle flock has grown into one of the largest and most useful and powerful churches in the\\nPresbyterian denomination; it is the third in point of numbers in the United States. This\\nchurch now has two thousand three hundred and thirty members. It maintains two mission chapels,\\nhas one thousand six hundred in its Sunday-school, and is paying the salaries of three ministers in\\nthis city and of two missionaries in the south. For several years it has led all the churches of\\nBrooklyn in its contributions to foreign, home and city missions; and it is surpassed by no other in\\nwide and varied Christian work. Every sitting in this spacious house has its occupant. Our\\nmorning audiences have never been larger than they are this winter. This church has always been\\nto me like a beloved child. I have given to it thirty years of hard and happy labor, and it is my\\nforemost desire that its harmony may remain undisturbed and its prosperity may remain unbroken.\\nFor a long time I have intended that my thirtieth anniversary should be the terminal point of my\\npresent pastorate. I shall then have served this beloved flock for an ordinary human generation,", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0060.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n615\\nand the time has come for me to transfer this sacred trust to some one who, in God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s good provi\u00c2\u00ac\\ndence, may have thirty years of vigorous work before him and not behind him. If God spares my\\nlife to the first Sabbath of April, it is my purpose to surrender this pulpit back into your hands,\\nand I shall endeavor to cooperate with you in the search and selection of the right man to stand\\nin it. I will not trust myself to-day to speak of the sharp pang it will cost me to sever a connec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion that has been to me one of unalloyed harmony and happiness. When the proper time comes\\nwe can speak of all such things, and in the meanwhile let us continue on in the blessed Master\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nwork, and leave our future entirely to His all-wise and ever loving care. On the walls of this dear\\nchurch the eyes of the angels have always seen it written, \u00e2\u0080\u0098I, the Lord, do keep it, and I will\\nkeep it night and day. It only remains for me to say that after forty-four years of uninterrupted\\nministerial labor it is but reasonable for me to ask for relief from a strain that may soon become\\ntoo heavy for me to bear.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIt would be useless to attempt to describe the feeling of sorrow, regret and almost of\\nconsternation that swept over the church when Dr. Cuyler made this statement, for the relations\\nbetween pastor and people were most harmonious, and the thought of losing their beloved minister\\nwas almost unbearable to his parishioners, many of whom had worked with him through many\\nyears. On Easter Sunday, April 6, 1890, the thirtieth anniversary of his installation as pastor of\\nthe church, Dr. Cuyler delivered the address that ended his ministerial labors there. It was a\\nmemorable and impressive occasion and the building was filled to overflowing with the friends and\\nadmirers of one of the most successful pulpit orators of the age. No less memorable and touching\\nwas the subsequent meeting, on April 16th, in the church parlors, where a farewell reception was\\nheld, pastoral relations formally severed, and a purse of thirty thousand dollars presented to Dr.\\nCuyler, being one thousand dollars for each year of his service as pastor. The address and pre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsentation were made in behalf of the congregation by Mr. John N. Beach, who, after reviewing the\\ngrowth and progress of the church, concluded as follows: \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhile we have been constrained to\\nspeak to you these simple words of commendation, we now deem it to be eminently fitting that we\\nshould present to you some more tangible expression of our appreciation and love. We therefore\\ntender you this purse, not as a charity, else you might fling it down and trample it beneath your\\nfeet; neither do we beg your acceptance of this merely for its literal, intrinsic value as computed\\nin paltry shillings and pence. We would present you this as a token of the lasting obligations we\\nbear toward you and yours, and of the warm-hearted love we bestow upon you. I take great\\npleasure in referring to the cordiality and entire unanimity with which this testimonial fund has\\nbeen placed in my hands to present to you, and will you now accept it, sir, bearing with it, as I\\ndo, the sincere love and well-wishes of its many donors?\\nBut the friends of Dr. Cuyler were not limited to his own congregation. Through his writings\\nhe has become known throughout the civilized world and has many admirers among those who have\\nbeen helped by his earnest, inspiring words. He has been a frequent contributor to the religious\\njournals of the country, including the Christian Intelligencer, Christian Work, Evangelist and Inde\u00c2\u00ac\\npendent, and it is estimated that in this way about two hundred million copies of his articles on\\nvarious texts and subjects have been issued. The whole number of his articles for the religious\\npress is about four thousand, and his tracts on various subjects number seventy-five. Many of these\\nhave been reprinted in the English, German and Australian newspapers, so that he has won many\\nadmirers in the Old World. In 1852 he published a volume entitled Stray Arrows, containing a\\nselection of his newspaper writings. He is the author of fifteen published volumes, of which Cedar\\nChristian, Heart Life, Empty Crib, Thought Hives, Pointed Papers for the Christian Life, God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nLight on Dark Clouds, and Newly Enlisted have been reprinted in England, where they have had\\na Targe sale. The Empty Crib was published after the death of a beloved boy, nearly five years\\nof age, and the subsequent loss of a beautiful and accomplished daughter was the occasion of his\\nwriting that marvelously touching production entitled Gods Light on Dark Clouds. In addition to\\nthe works mentioned he is the author of the following: How to be a 1 astor, the Young Pieacher,\\nChristianity in the Home, Stirring the Eagle s Nest and Other Sermons, and Beulah Land. A\\nselection from his writings, entitled Right to the Point, has been published in Boston. Six of his\\nbooks have been translated into Swedish and two into Dutch.\\nIt would be almost tautological to say in this connection that Dr. Cuyler is a man of the\\nbroadest intelligence and intellectuality, but it is seldom that one meets a divine who is so\\nthoroughly conversant with the literature of the world, the reading of the majority of the clergy\\nbeing more confined to theological and scriptural writings. His great appreciation for the beauties\\nof literature enriches his own productions, and at the same time his bioad sympathy with humanity", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0061.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n616\\nenables him to touch the hearts and influence the lives of the unlearned as well as the cultured.\\nHis own character is most symmetrical. He takes a deep interest in all public questions and his\\nkeenly analytical mind enables him to determine with great accuracy their effect upon humanity and\\nupon the nations of the world. He has been prominently identified with many great reform move\u00c2\u00ac\\nments and charitable institutions, including the Young Men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Christian Association, mission schools,\\nwork for the freedmen, the Children\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Aid Society and the Five Points mission. He has also been\\na most active and effective worker in the National Temperance Society. During his first trip abroad\\nhe made his initial temperance speech. He was in Scotland at the time Father Matthew was\\narousing the wildest enthusiasm for temperance. At Glasgow he formed the acquaintance of this\\ndistinguished temperance advocate, who requested him to address one of the meetings. He did so\\nwith such glowing ardor and such a marked effect upon his auditors that at the close of his remarks\\nthe noble priest took him in his arms and kissed him. From that time to the present he has been\\nunfaltering in his labors in support of the cause, and he has served as president of the National\\nTemperance Society of America. In 1872 Dr. Cuyler went abroad as a delegate to the Presbyterian\\nassembly in Edinburg, Scotland, on which occasion he made the close personal acquaintance of\\nmany of the eminent Presbyterian divines of Great Britain. During his sojourn he received marked\\nattention from all classes of society, and his acquaintance in America numbers nearly all the distin\u00c2\u00ac\\nguished men of his time. He has enjoyed the warm personal friendship of such celebrated men as\\nSpurgeon, Gladstone, Dean Stanley, Dickens, Carlyle, Neal Dow, Lincoln, Horace Greeley and John G.\\nWhittier, and in 1897, in connection with ex-President Cleveland, he received the degree of LL. D.\\nfrom Princeton College.\\nSince his retirement from the ministry Dr. Cuyler has devoted his time to preaching and to\\nlecturing in colleges, including Yale, Princeton and Cornell, and to literary work. In addition he\\nhas also had more leisure for the enjoyment of the pleasures of his own fireside. In 1853 he\\nmarried Miss Annie E. Mathiot, daughter of Hon. Joshua Mathiot, member of congress from Ohio,\\nand the relations of their home have ever been ideal. Mrs. Cuyler is a most cultured and accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nplished lady, who has ably supplemented her husband\u00e2\u0080\u0099s labors, and to whom he has ever been\\nmost devoted through the long years of their married life, covering almost half a century. Their\\nhome is the center of a cultured society circle and is celebrated for its charming hospitality. In\\nhis travels, which have embraced visits to all parts of the world, Dr. Cuyler has acquired a large\\nand interesting collection of mementos and curios, to which his friends from all parts of the globe\\nhave made extensive contributions. He is a man of wonderful magnetism, and while his career as\\nminister and reformer has brought him in touch with many of the sadder sides of life, his mind is\\nstored with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of interesting and often amusing reminiscences and\\nanecdotes, and he is widely known as a delightful, entertaining and social gentleman. In 1892 the\\nYoung People\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Association of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church erected the Cuyler chapel,\\nnamed in his honor. He is content that the building of Lafayette church shall be known as his\\nlife work, and upon his tomb he desires no inscription save the words: \u00e2\u0080\u009cHere lies the founder of\\nthe Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0062.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0063.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "Eng d 1jy Geo E Penne. N York\\nC\\nduKVAcU\\noaxUa m/V", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0064.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "EDWARDS PIER RE PONT, LL. D\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nNEW YORK CITY.\\nw\\nVfll 2t ^s ^hsii W-tr-rMts*\\nDWARDS PIERREPONT, a distinguished lawyer, judge and diplo\u00c2\u00ac\\nmat, was born at North Haven, in the state of Connecticut, on\\nNovember 4, 1813. He was a son of Giles Pierrepont, of North\\nHaven, who married, quite early in life, Eunice, the lovely daughter\\nof Jonathan Munson, who died at the birth of her only son. Judge\\nPierrepont\u00e2\u0080\u0099s father has been described by one who knew him\\nintimately as \u00e2\u0080\u009ca religious, upright man, at one time a member of\\nthe legislature, but who was contented with the considerable prop-\\nerty which he inherited from his father.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Giles Pierrepont was the\\nson of another Giles Pierrepont, whose father, Joseph Pierrepont, settled\\nin North Haven, to which town a \u00e2\u0080\u009clarge, valuable property was given for\\npublic use\u00e2\u0080\u009d by Judge Pierrepont\u00e2\u0080\u0099s great-great-grandfather, the Rev. James\\nPierrepont, who, according to Hollister\u00e2\u0080\u0099s History of Connecticut, \u00e2\u0080\u009cdescended from\\nan illustrious family, and, gifted to a high degree with intellectual endowments, eloquent\\nspeech, a graceful person, handsome features and manners the most courtly and winning, he appears\\nto have been from early youth too intently occupied with the mission of saving the souls of his fellow\\nmen ever to think of himself.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThis New England worthy, who was one of the chief founders and promoters of Yale College,\\nhad among other children a daughter, Sarah Pierrepont, wife of the eminent divine, Jonathan Edwards,\\nand grandmother of Timothy Dwight, D. D., president of Yale College. The Rev. James Pierrepont,\\nwho was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1659, graduated at Harvard College in 1681, and was the\\nsecond minister of New Haven, Connecticut, being a son of the Hon. John Pierrepont, who is recorded\\nas \u00e2\u0080\u009ca younger son of a great family in Nottingham, England, a man of importance, courage and\\nability. He was cramped by the conditions which surrounded him as a younger son, under which he\\ngreatly chafed. He came to America in 1650 and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, now a part of\\nBoston. In 1656 he purchased three hundred acres in Roxbury. An influential citizen and repre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsentative to the Geneva court, he was called the Hon. John Pierrepont. He married Miss Stowe, of\\nKent, England.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nThe great and illustrious family alluded to in the foregoing extracts was that of the Pierre-\\nponts, dukes of Kingston, marquises of Dorchester, earls of Kingston and Viscounts Newark. These\\nnobles claimed descent from Robert de Pierrepont, a Norman knight who accompanied William the\\nConqueror to England in the retinue of William,.earl of Warren; and among their famous descendants\\nwere Robert, Baron Pierrepont, of Holme-Pierrepont, who was the lieutenant general of the forces of\\nKing Charles I; and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the celebrated authoress and daughter of the first\\nduke of Kingston.\\nEdwards Pierrepont was educated at the Hopkins Grammar School, of New Haven, under the\\nimmediate care of Noah Porter, afterward president of Yale College. He entered Yale in the class\\nof 1837, and graduated, achieving the high honor then known as the \u00e2\u0080\u009cOration.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He completed his\\nstudies at the New Haven Law School, under Judges Daggett and Hitchcock. Believing that the\\nwestern states offered the best opportunities for men with ambition, he went to Ohio in 1840, and in\\npartnership with the Hon. Phineas Bacon Wilcox, author of many legal text-books and reports, prac-\\n619", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0067.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "620\\nILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\nticed law there until January, 1846, when he returned east and settled in New York city. So strongly\\nrecognized was his jurisprudential acumen that in 1857 he was elected a judge of the superior couit,\\nsucceeding the recently deceased Chief Justice Oakley. In October, 1S60, he resigned that position\\nand recommenced the practice of law. In the course of a sketch of him, written some years ago, it\\nwas said of his legal ability: \u00e2\u0080\u009cJudge Pierrepont has unrivaled skill in the cross-examination of witnesses\\nand in arranging his facts so that one seems to grow cut of the other in such logical sequence that\\nwhen the statement is made the argument is concluded. His remarkable power in the lucid statement\\nof facts and of adhering to them, under every difficulty and counter-influence, constitute the charm\\nand force of his advocacy. To an unprejudiced mind he generally conveys his own convictions,\\nbecause they are convictions founded on truth. And all this he has secured simply by following his\\nown maxim,\u00e2\u0080\u0094that no man without an upright mind, and no man who has not preserved his integrity,\\nhas ever died leaving the reputation of a great lawyer.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nUntil the breaking out of the civil war Judge Pierrepont had been in politics a strong Democrat.\\nIn the face of the uprising of the slave-holding power, he proclaimed himself a supporter of the\\nUnion, speaking on April 20, 1861, at the meeting of the loyal Democrats, held on Union Square,\\nNew York, in support of President Lincoln\u00e2\u0080\u0099s administration. But he was far from being unprepared\\nwhen he took this step. Some two years previously to the fall of Fort Sumter, in an address on the\\ndeath of Theodore Sedgwick,\u00e2\u0080\u0094for which he was warmly congratulated by General Sherman,\u00e2\u0080\u0094he had\\nprophesied the coming struggle in the following words: \u00e2\u0080\u009cSure as the punishment of sin, great troubles\\nare coming in the distance which we shall be called upon to meet. I have said this much, being\\nwell aware that I speak in advance of the times; but I leave the time to overtake these fleeting words,\\nand I leave the wisdom or the folly of what I have said to be determined by the years which shall\\ncome in our lifetime.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nIn association with A. T. Stewart, Hamilton Fish and other prominent New Yorkers, Judge\\nPierrepont formed the Union Defense Committee of New York city,\u00e2\u0080\u0094an organization which collected\\nover one million dollars for the government\u00e2\u0080\u0099s military needs. It was he, in connection with Thurlow\\nWeed and William M. Evarts, who formed the New York committee that presented to President\\nLincoln the message of fidelity to the Union cause of the Empire city. This mission was accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nplished with considerable difficulty,\u00e2\u0080\u0094as all ordinary means of communication between the two cities\\nhad been cut off,\u00e2\u0080\u0094yet successfully,\u00e2\u0080\u0094thanks to an escort of troops ordered at Annapolis by General\\nButler. In conjunction with Major General Dix he was appointed in 1862 a commissioner to try the\\nprisoners of state confined in the prisons and forts of the United States for disloyalty, treason and\\nrebellion. Two years later, with both voice and executive ability, he organized the loyal Democrats,\\nwho decided the second election of Lincoln to the presidency. He was also one of the special\\ncommittee of New York citizens who attended the funeral of the martyr president, and in the spring\\nof 1867 was employed by the government, under direct orders from Attorney General Henry Stanbury\\nand Secretary of State William H. Seward, to take charge of the prosecution against John H. Surratt,\\nindicted for aiding in the murder of Lincoln. In the same year he was elected a member of the\\nNew York state constitutional convention, and served on its judiciary committee.\\nJudge Pierrepont supported General Grant for the presidency in 1868 and 1S72. Many of\\nhis campaign speeches in New York and Pennsylvania were published and are noteworthy politico-\\nhistorical documents. As a reward for his devoted services, he was appointed United States attorney\\nfor the southern district of New York,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a position which he resigned in 1870 in order to enable\\nhimself more actively to assist the \u00e2\u0080\u009cCommittee of Seventy\u00e2\u0080\u009d in the prosecution of the Tweed-ring\\nthieves.\\nColumbian College, of Washington, D. C., conferred upon him, in June, 1871, the honorary\\ndegree of LL. D., after he had delivered an oration before its graduating law school. He also\\nreceived the same degree in 1873 from Yale College.\\nPresident Grant, in April, 1875, appointed Judge Pierrepont attorney general of the United\\nStates. While holding this position he personally took charge of and argued many important cases\\non behalf of the government, among them being those of the Union Pacific Railroad and the\\nArkansas Hot Springs. His opinions delivered about this period on questions of natural and\\nacquired nationality are still authoritative, particularly that on the Stenka lar case.\\nJudge Pierrepont left the cabinet of President Grant upon being appointed, in May, 1876,\\nenvoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the court of St. James.\\nIt should be noted here that in May, 1873, he had been offered, but declined, the United States\\nministership to Russia. During the first year of his tenure as United States minister to England,\\nofficial relations were suspended between the two countries in consequence of important differences", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0068.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n621\\narising in relation to the extradition of criminals. Thanks to the diplomatic efforts of Judge\\nPierrepont, supplemented by those of Secretary of State Fish, these were, however, resumed. The\\nyear following he negotiated the trade-mark treaty with the Earl of Derby, then British secretary of\\nforeign affairs. These and all similar delicate international matters which engaged his attention\\nwere met by Judge Pierrepont \u00e2\u0080\u009cwith great tact and ability,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and so deservedly popular was he in\\nEngland that in 1878 the University of Oxford conferred upon him the honorary degree of D. C. L.,\\nnot only as a mark of honor to a distinguished diplomat, but in recognition of his careful study of\\nthe people of Great Britain from the standpoint of their social and financial systems.\\nJudge Pierrepont, on his return from England, in 1878, retired from active political life and\\nrecommenced the practice of law, taking a leading part in many important cases. He frequently\\nacted as associate counsel with James T. Brady, W. M. Evarts and other leaders of the American\\nbar, in such cases as the Opdyke-Weed libel suit; the Pings and Pinner case, in which the govern\u00c2\u00ac\\nment claimed over half a million dollars; the Lewis, Merchant, Foreman, Wood and Hogan will\\ncases; the cause celcbre of the United States against Koustamm, for great frauds upon the govern\u00c2\u00ac\\nment; the Gardner will case, in favor of the widow of ex-President Tyler; the New Orleans gold\\nsuits; and he conducted with eminent success the very notable case of Cisco and Hunter in the\\nUnited States court. Up to the time of his retirement from active law practice he was associated with\\nthe firm of Stanley, Brown and Clark, of New York city. One of his last public efforts was the\\nauthorship of a brochure in which he advocated an international treaty, claiming that by convention\\nthe commercial value of the silver dollar might be restored. At the organization of the Texas\\nPacific Railroad, in 1871, under the charter of the United States, Judge Pierrepont was made a\\ndirector, counsel and treasurer of the road. In 1872 he visited London and Frankfort on financial\\nbusiness for the company.\\nHe was one of the founders and governors of the Manhattan Club; but when the Rebellion\\nbroke out he left that Democratic organization to join the Union Club. In religion he was a\\nProtestant Episcopalian and a communicant of Calvary church, New York city.\\nJudge Pierrepont was married in 1846 to Margaretta Willoughby, daughter of the late Samuel\\nAugustus Willoughby, of Brooklyn, and by her had an only son, who died in Rome in 1885, and\\na daughter, Margaretta Willoughby, who became the wife of Leonard Forbes Beckwith.\\nJudge Pierrepont never recovered from the Joss of his son, and for the last three years of\\nhis life was an invalid, suffering from nervous prostration. On March 6, 1892, four days after he\\nhad been seized with cerebral hemorrhage, he expired, at his own residence, 103 Fifth avenue, New\\nYork city. The funeral services were in Calvary church, that city, the pall-bearers being Dr. John\\nS. Bassett, ex-Senator Evarts, President Timothy Dwight, of Yale College, John Bigelow, Cornelius\\nVanderbilt, President Seth Low, of Columbia College, William Allen Butler, Joseph H. Choate,\\nJudge Addison Brown and Judge Edward Patterson. His eventful career was finally ended when\\nhis remains were placed at rest beside those of his son, on the banks of the Hudson, which he\\nloved so well. With him, it has been truly said, died one of the last courtly and chivalrous repre\u00c2\u00ac\\nsentative diplomats of the old-fashioned American school.\\nNo memoir of Judge Pierrepont can be considered complete without reference to his son,\\nEdward Pierrepont, who was born May 30, 1859, and graduated in 1882 at Christchurch, Oxford,\\nwhich he had entered during his father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s residence in England. Upon his return from Europe he\\nstudied at the Columbia College Law School under Professor Dwight, and in May, 1883, traveled\\nwith his father to the Pacific coast. One important result of this trip was a volume by him,\\nentitled \u00e2\u0080\u009cFifth Avenue to Alaska,\u00e2\u0080\u009d for which he was made a fellow of the Royal Geographical\\nSociety of England. In 1884 he was appointed secretary of the United States legation at Rome,\\nItaly; and, upon the resignation of William Waldorf Astor, became charge d affaires of the United\\nStates in Italy. After a short attack of Roman fever he died, in the \u00e2\u0080\u009cEternal City,\u00e2\u0080\u009d on April 16,\\n18S5. The funeral ceremonies, attended by a guard of honor sent by the king of Italy, were held\\nat the American church of St. Paul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s, in Rome, there being present most of the American colony,\\nthe diplomatic corps and many members of the Italian nobility. Young Pierrepont\u00e2\u0080\u0099s body was\\nbrought to America and interred in St. Philip\u00e2\u0080\u0099s church-yard at Garrison\u00e2\u0080\u0099s on the Hudson, near his\\nfather\u00e2\u0080\u0099s estate of Hurst-Pierrepont.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0069.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "DARIUS OGDEN MILLS,\\nitpa\\nhigher and higher he has\\nO o\\nfavored\\nNEW YORK CITY.\\nA LEADING American financier the name of Darius Ogden Mills is one\\nY ^T II t* familiar in business circles from the Atlantic to the Pacific. At the age of\\nsixteen he was thrown upon his own resources and began life for himself\\nin a small clerkship; to-day he is numbered among the millionaire princes\\nof the land and has gained distinctive recognition as one of the foremost\\nfinanciers of the nation, having shown a marked capacity for the successful\\nconduct of affairs of great breadth. But while his brilliant achievements\\nin the world of commerce have gained him the honor and admiration of\\nall, it is his labors in behalf of humanity that have won him the love of\\nthe nation. A deep interest in his fellow men has prompted a generous\\nsupport of many interests for their uplifting, and as he has mounted steadily\\never had a hand down-reaching in aid of those whom fortune has less\\nHe is a man of high intellectuality, broad human sympathies, and imbued with fine sensi\u00c2\u00ac\\nbilities and clearly defined principles. Honor and integrity are synonymous with his name, and he\\nenjoys the respect, confidence and high regard of the entire American people. It is not the accumu\u00c2\u00ac\\nlation of wealth which determines a man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s worth to the world, but the use which he makes of it,\\nand in this regard Mr. Mills may well be numbered among the benefactors of the race.\\nBorn in Salem, Westchester county, New York, on the 5th of September, 1825, Darius\\nOgden Mills is a representative of a family whose ancestral history is one of close connection with\\nthe annals of the country from the period of its early settlement, and the name frequently appears\\nin the colonial records of New York and Connecticut. The first settlers bearing the name came\\nfrom the north of England and the adjacent district of Scotland. Long prior to the Revolutionary\\nwar, on the list of persons, who, in 1695, paid the fee of five pounds for the \u00e2\u0080\u009cfreedom of the city,\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nassessed by the common council of New York, under the provisions of the Dougan charter, occurs\\nthe name of James Mills. In 1735 another person bearing the same name was admitted as a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cfreeman, and in 1738 Abram Mills was accorded the same rights. An Abram Mills is also men\u00c2\u00ac\\ntioned in the list of \u00e2\u0080\u009celectors\u00e2\u0080\u009d in New York in 1825. James Mills, the father of our subject, was a\\ngentleman of considerable local prominence in North Salem. His land holdings at one time were\\nquite extensive, and he stood well in the community, not only as a man of means, but as one\\nwhose intelligence and integrity commanded respect. He died in 1841, and his wife\u00e2\u0080\u0099s death occurred\\nin 1850. Of their seven children six were sons, our subject being the fifth.\\nDarius O. Mills was educated in the North Salem Academy, and at Sing Sing, New York,\\nwhere he pursued his studies for several years, mastering the entire curriculum. After his father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\ndeath the family estate greatly depreciated in value, and although but little more than sixteen years\\nof age he determined to become self-supporting, and sought employment as a clerk in New York\\ncity. At the age of twenty-two, with an excellent knowledge of accounts and business methods\\ngenerally, he availed himself of an opportunity, which then presented, of becoming cashier in the\\nMerchants\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Bank, of Erie county, at Buffalo, New York, an institution of small capital, in which he\\nbecame owner of one-third of the stock. He had occupied that position but little more than a\\nyear when gold was discovered in California, awakening the ambition of the young men throughout\\nthe country, who flocked there in large numbers, hoping to gain fortunes on the Pacific coast. Mr.\\n622", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0070.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0073.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0074.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ILL US TRA LED AMERICAN BIO GRAPHY\\n625\\nMills two brothers, James and Edgar, who had been trained to commercial pursuits, purchased a\\nstock of goods and, early in 1848, went to California to engage in business. The glowing accounts\\nwhich were received from that far western country proved too seductive to be withstood, and in\\nDecember of the same year Mr. Mills was on his way to the new El Dorado. On his arrival he\\nwent on a trading expedition to Stockton, and thence to Sacramento, where he established a general\\nstore and eastern exchange business. By the fall of 1849 he had acquired a profit of forty thousand\\ndollars on his business venture, and, wisely determining to use this as a means for still greater\\nbusiness ventures, he returned at once to the east and invested the entire amount in a general\\nstock of goods, with which he freighted a barque, and, sending the remainder of his purchase by a\\nship, he was again on his way to California in the spring of 1850.\\nAgain success crowned his efforts, and when his labors had brought to him a sufficient\\ncapital he embarked in the banking business, founding at Sacramento the Gold Bank of D. O.\\nMills Company, his partner being his cousin, E. J. Townsend, and the connection between them\\nwas maintained until 1850. This institution, which is still in existence, is the oldest banking insti\u00c2\u00ac\\ntution in California. It flourished from the beginning, and under the wise policy inaugurated by its\\nfounders, and since constantly adhered to, it has passed unscathed through every storm of financial\\nor commercial depression which has swept over the country, its doors never being closed to business,\\neven for a single day. In 1857, seeking needed relaxation from business cares, Mr. Mills recrossed\\nthe continent to the east and thence sailed for Europe, where he spent some time in travel, visiting\\nmany points of historic and modern interest in the countries of the Old World. Upon his return\\nto America, he reorganized the bank, admitting to a partnership in the business his brother Edgar\\nand his cashier, Henry Miller. As in previous undertakings, his sound judgment, persistent energy\\nand executive ability were rewarded by results that surprised even those who were accustomed to\\nthe successes which marked this era of wonderful achievement and prosperity in the west.\\nAbout this time Mr. Mills also became interested in the mines of the great Comstock lode\\nand also secured control of the Virginia Truckee Railroad, leading to the mines, and of the\\nimportant timber lands in the Lake Tahoe region, which supplied the needed fuel. He also acquired\\na large interest in the chief quicksilver mines in that locality and became the owner of extensive\\nranch and other property. While not speculative, these varied operations were conducted on such a\\nmammoth scale and were so uniformly successful as to awaken the admiration and wonderment of\\nall who had knowledge of his business affairs. His success, however, was by no means phenomenal\\nwhen we examine into the means whereby it was won. The ability to recognize favorable oppor\u00c2\u00ac\\ntunities, a genius for planning and executing the right thing at the right time, indefatigable industry,\\nand a judgment that was rarely mistaken in its conclusions,\u00e2\u0080\u0094these were the elements that led to\\nhis brilliant achievements in the realms of business. His labors as a financier also extended to a\\nconnection with the Bank of California, the history of which constitutes one of the most thrilling\\nchapters of American finance. Mr. Mills was one of the founders of this institution, which was\\norganized in San Francisco in 1864. He headed the list of subscribers to its stock and became its\\npresident. The bank became one of the best known in America and possessed the highest credit\\nin all the great financial circles of the world. Mr. Mills retired from the presidency in 1873, leaving\\nthe institution with a capital of five million dollars, a large surplus, and extensive and profitable\\npatronage, a good organization and unlimited credit. \u00e2\u0080\u009cTwo years later,\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099 as stated succinctly by a\\ncompetent authority, \u00e2\u0080\u009cMr. Mills was called back to find it with liabilities of thirteen million dollars\\nabove its capital stock and surplus, with only one hundred thousand dollars in its vaults and with\\nmany doubtful assets.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The former cashier, William C. Ralston, had been president in the mean\u00c2\u00ac\\ntime. Mr. Mills had resigned his directorship in the bank when retiring from its management and\\nhad sold his stock, but Mr. Ralston had continued to have him elected a director. On his return\\nfrom Europe shortly before the crash, he was first appealed to by Mr. Sharon to save Mr. Ralston\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\npersonal credit. He at once responded, advancing four hundred thousand dollars that day, and four\\nhundred and fifty thousand more within a week. A few days later the bank failed, creating an\\nexcitement that convulsed the Pacific coast. Mr. Ralston committed suicide, and Mr. Mills was\\nrecalled to the presidency, opening the doors of the bank one month and five days after they had\\nbeen closed. He occupied the position of president without financial remuneration, and resigned\\nperemptorily after three years of service, as soon as he felt that the bank was firmly reestab\u00c2\u00ac\\nlished. In this instance his generosity, promptness and energy were exhibited in a most striking\\nmanner; a great institution was rescued from ruin and the interests of thousands were saved from\\nserious injury. Mr. Mills\u00e2\u0080\u0099 first subscription was one million dollars, and over seven million dollars\\nadditional were raised toward the rehabilitation of the bank, which was thus enabled to reopen its", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0075.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "626 ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\ndoors for business within the short space of six weeks, and to regain, eventually, its previous stand\u00c2\u00ac\\ning and success.\\nEarly in his business career in California Mr. Mills bought an extensive tract of land about\\neighteen miles from San Francisco, and erected thereon a beautiful country residence, which he\\ncalled Millbrae. On this splendid estate he established a dairy of five hundred cows and had an\\nextensive dairy trade in the neighboring city. He still owns that property and takes great personal\\ninterest in its management.\\nBy degrees, however, Mr. Mills has transferred many of his interests to the east, and finally\\nhe established his residence in New York. In 1881 he purchased a valuable site on Broad street\\nand erected thereon one of the largest and finest office buildings in the world, bearing the appro\u00c2\u00ac\\npriate name of the Mills Building. It was the first of the modern-style office buildings, with their\\nsplendid elevator service and superior equipments and conveniences, and caused a transformation in\\nthe erection of business blocks in the metropolitan centers of the country. Following this he also\\nerected a similar office building in San Francisco.\\nSuch in brief is the history of the business career of one of the most successful and prominent\\nfinanciers of the country. It is the glory of our nation that she offers every opportunity to men of\\nworth and ability to rise by their own efforts to commanding positions in life, and she yields a\\ntribute of respect and admiration to all such, but it is the splendid use which Mr. Mills has made\\nof his wealth that has won him the honor and gratitude of his fellow men throughout the country.\\nA gentleman of broad humanitarian principles, his contributions to educational institutions, to charities\\nand public movements have been most princely, yet in his giving Mr. Mills is entirely free from\\nostentation, and many are his benefactions unknown to all save the donor and recipient. Among\\nthose, however, which have come to the public notice is his gift of seventy-five thousand dollars\\nfor the endowment of a chair of moral and intellectual philosophy in the University of California,\\ncalled in his honor the \u00e2\u0080\u009cMills professorship.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Before leaving California he also gave to the state\\nLarkin G. Meade\u00e2\u0080\u0099s magnificent marble group of statuary, \u00e2\u0080\u009cColumbus Before Queen Isabella,\u00e2\u0080\u009d which\\nnow graces the rotunda of the state capitol, at Sacramento. As trustee of the Lick estate and the\\nLick observatory, Mr. Mills served actively for a number of years, and was also for a time regent of\\nthe University of California. After establishing his home in New York he became deeply and\\nactively interested in philanthropic effort and educational work in the east, and has given freely of\\nhis time and wealth to the support of both. One of his favorite charities, to the support of which\\nhe has made generous contributions, is the Fresh Air Fund, whereby thousands of poor children\\nfrom the crowded tenement districts are yearly sent on short vacations to the country. Another of\\nhis notable benefactions was his gift to the city of New York, in 1888, of the Bellevue Hospital\\nTraining School for Male Nurses, commonly called the \u00e2\u0080\u009cMills Training School.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It has at present\\nan enrollment of sixty nurses. A study of the social problems of the day showed to Mr. Mills the\\nneed of a hotel where men of very moderate means might secure well ventilated rooms and whole\u00c2\u00ac\\nsome food at moderate prices, and not be forced to resort to the wretched lodging and tenement\\nhouses with which the city abounds. Accordingly he erected the Mills House, which occupies the\\nsite of the decayed mansions, on Bleeker street, known as Depau row, and the building has accom\u00c2\u00ac\\nmodations for fifteen hundred guests. This hotel is constructed of the very best materials and has\\nall modern conveniences, including plumbing, electric lights and modern heating apparatus, while\\nespecial care is given to ventilation. The parlors and restaurants are spacious, and each inmate\\nhas all the privacy of the best hotels. The charge is twenty cents for a bedroom and the use of\\nthe house. Restaurant prices are on the same moderate scale, and cleanliness and order are strictly\\nobserved. Mr. Mills has also been a generous donor to many other charities. His love for children\\nis very great and his kindness to the unfortunate little ones has been most marked. The lines\\nof Holmes might well be applied to him:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe children laugh loud as they troop to his call,\\nBut the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nHe is a liberal patron of science and art, and has done much to cultivate an aesthetic and\\nartistic taste among the people of New York. For some years past he has served as trustee of\\nthe Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Museum of Natural History and of the American Geo\u00c2\u00ac\\ngraphical Society, in all of which he has taken a zealous and intelligent interest.\\nOn the 5th of September, 1854, Mr. Mills was united in marriage to Miss Jane Cunningham,\\na daughter of the late James Cunningham, of New York. Her death occurred in 1888. She was", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0076.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AA/ER/CAJV BIOGRAPHY.\\n627\\nalways in sympathetic touch with the philanthropic labors of her husband and was widely known\\nas a benefactress of the needy. Mr. Mills has two children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094a daughter and a son, Ogden Mills.\\nI he former is the wife of Whitelaw Reid, the distinguished editor of the New York Tribune. She\\nis a lady of brilliant attainments and most charming personality, and is a recognized leader in\\nsociety. In his home and social relations Mr. Mills is a most genial, cordial gentleman, very\\napproachable, and his broad culture, kindly nature and genuine appreciation of the worth of others\\nhave endeared him to all whom he meets.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0077.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "JOSHUA STARK,\\nMILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.\\n[flMONG the hopeful young men who came to Milwaukee during the first\\nsll twenty years of its existence was Joshua Stark, a descendant of a\\nfamily well known in New England, where he was born at Brattle-\\nboro, Vermont, August 12, 1828, the son of Rev. J. L. and Hannah G.\\nStark, both of whom were natives of Bozrah, Connecticut. They\\nremoved to Canajoharie, New York, in the spring of 1839, and three\\nyears later to the village of Mohawk, in the county of Herkimer.\\nr While here resident the son pursued preparatory studies at the academy\\nn pj er pi mer) an( j later at Little Falls, New York, and entered Union\\nI) College, Schenectady, in the spring of 1846, joining the sophomore class.\\nFrom January, 1847, to January, 1848, he was employed as a tutor in the\\nfamily of Edward C. Marshall, in Fauquier county, Virginia; but the love\\nof learning and ambition for success were so strong upon him that he pursued\\nhis studies during this time and kept up so well that upon examination he was\\npermitted to resume his standing and to graduate, in 1848, with his class. In the fall of that year\\nhe made arrangements to go to west Maryland to teach a classical school, but, because of the\\nunexpected death of an elder brother, was induced to forego that purpose and to enter the law office\\nof J. N. D. Lake, at Little Falls, New York. While applying himself to his legal studies with the\\nindustry that has ever been a characteristic of his life, he was compelled to devote a portion of his\\ntime to other work as a means of maintenance, and was for a time an assistant instructor in an\\nacademy, and served as village clerk and town superintendent of schools. He was admitted to the\\nbar by the supreme court of New York, at the general term at Watertown, in July, 1850.\\nWhile revolving in his mind the question of location, the suggestion was made that the west\\nwas the proper place for a young man of energy and brains; and after due consideration he concluded\\nto adopt Horace Greeley\u00e2\u0080\u0099s advice before it was given. With a few books and a little money he set\\nforth in the fall of the year last named with Milwaukee as the point of destination. Proceeding by\\nrail to Buffalo, thence by boat to Detroit, across Michigan to New Buffalo by rail, the rest of the\\njourney was made by boat, and terminated on October 6th. By the advice of people he had known\\nin early youth, he did not locate immediately in Milwaukee, but proceeded to Cedarburg and formed\\na partnership with F. W. Horn, the expectation being that the acquaintance of that gentleman would\\nbring business, which the legal knowledge of the junior partner would enable him to properly transact.\\nLike many other theories, this proved a failure when reduced to practice, or rather a lamented lack\\nof practice, for the clients failed to come. A long and weary winter ensued, relieved by not even the\\npresence of his partner, who was absent in the state legislature. Mr. Stark had more courage than\\ncash, and when he saw that the practice of the firm was not sufficient for the payment of board, he\\nindulged in some deep reflections as to the best course to pursue. That winter he devoted his leisure\\ntime, which comprised nearly every hour, to the study of the German language and to making up the\\ndeficiency he felt in knowledge of chancery practice and the principles of equity jurisprudence. He\\nsuccessfully overcame the difficulties of the German language, of which he soon became a master,\\nand soon became so well grounded in the knowledge of that language that even the Germans them\u00c2\u00ac\\nselves would not suspect his origin from his speech. So fluently did he read and speak German\\nthat at the Fourth of July celebration held in Milwaukee in 1852 he was chosen by the Germans to\\n628", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0078.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0081.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0082.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 631\\nread the Declaration of Independence in German, in preference to the selection of one of their own\\nnumber.\\nMr. Stark moved to Milwaukee on May 19, 1851. He soon won such standing among the\\npeople that in the spring of 1853 he was elected to the office of city attorney, holding the position\\nfor one year and serving to the satisfaction of the people. In November, 1855, he was chosen as the\\nDemocratic representative of the first ward of Milwaukee to the legislature for the session of 1856.\\nHe was made chairman of the committee on judiciary, and a member of the committee on banking,\\nand, although the second youngest member of the body, was chosen the speaker pro tan in which\\ncapacity he presided during a large portion of the adjourned session in the fall. During the regular\\nsession the gubernatorial contest between Messrs. Bashford and Barstow came before the legislature\\nand the supreme court. Mr. Stark refused to join in any resistance to the decision of that court,\\nand materially aided in preventing a serious collision of opposing parties.\\nNear the opening of the regular session, a communication from the holders of scrip issued by\\nthe state \u00e2\u0080\u009cfor the construction of the Fox and Wisconsin river improvement had brought to the notice\\nof the legislature the fact that the improvement company to which the state had, in 1853, transferred\\nthe improvement and the congressional grant of land in its aid,\u00e2\u0080\u0094upon condition that said company\\nshould pay the indebtedness of the state incurred on account of the work,\u00e2\u0080\u0094had neglected to comply\\nwith this condition, and had permitted coupons for interest to be protested for non-payment, and\\nthe credit of the state to be seriously prejudiced.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The matter was referred to a select committee\\nof the assembly, of which Mr. Stark was chairman. Charges of other delinquencies and misconduct\\non the part of the improvement company were presented during the session, and were referred to\\nthe same committee. The committee soon discovered that the questions involved were too important\\nand complicated to be disposed of upon a superficial examination, and on its recommendation it was\\ninstructed to investigate the subject thoroughly during the recess and report at the adjourned session\\nof the legislature, to be held in October of the same year.\\nAs the result, the legislature passed a bill reported by the committee, at the October session,\\nby which the prompt payment of the indebtedness of the state in question was fully secured, and\\nabuses complained of were corrected. In this matter Mr. Stark, as the active and efficient head of\\nthe committee and the author of the bill referred to, rendered a service of great value to the state,\\nand exhibited a high order of ability as a legislator.\\nIn 1856 congress made a grant of land to the state of Wisconsin for railroad purposes, and\\nthe disposition of these lands was one of the leading questions under discussion in the adjourned\\nsession. The scandals that grew out of those matters need not be referred to here, except to make\\nrecord of the fact that Mr. Stark came out of the whole matter untouched by any taint of acceptance\\nof railroad bonds, and that his share in all the transactions was shown to have been honorable and\\nabove suspicion by the committee of investigation, in 1858.\\nIn the fall of i860 Mr. Stark was again called to a position of public responsibility by an\\nelection to the office of district attorney, which he held through 1861 and 1862. At the outset of his\\nterm he found the course of criminal justice blocked by a conflict of opinion between the judges of\\nthe municipal and the circuit courts. The municipal court had only been established in 1859, and\\nthere was no express statute directing to what court indictments found therein should be sent for\\ntrial when removed upon affidavit that the judge was prejudiced. Certain indictments had been so\\nremoved to the circuit court of Milwaukee county for trial. When these indictments were moved for\\ntrial in the circuit court Mr. Stark was met by defendant\u00e2\u0080\u0099s counsel with the objection that the circuit\\ncourt had no jurisdiction, since, as was contended, the statute only authorized the removal of criminal\\nindictments from the municipal court to another county, and not to another court in the same county,\\nfor trial. This disagreement of the judges arrested all prosecution for high crimes, and threatened\\nserious consequences. In this dilemma Mr. Stark applied immediately to the supreme court for a\\nmandamus to compel the circuit judge to proceed to the trial of the indictments in question. The\\nmatter was pressed to a speedy hearing, the important constitutional question involved being ably\\nargued by Mr. Stark. The result was an early decision sustaining the jurisdiction of the circuit court,\\nand commanding its judge to proceed with the hearing of the cases.\\nIn 1862 Mr. Stark, as district attorney, was enabled to perform a service to the public of no\\nsmall value. In that year the state supreme court, all the judges concurring, held, in a case that was\\nappealed from Milwaukee county, that the act of the legislature, passed in 1854. requiring railroad\\ncompanies to pay into the state treasury a percentage of their gross earnings, in lieu of taxes, and\\nexempting their property used for operating their roads from taxation, either general or local, was\\nunconstitutional and that all taxes throughout the state which were affected by the omission of such", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0083.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.\\n632\\nrailroad property from the tax rolls, pursuant to said act, were void by reason of such omission. 1 he\\ndecision affected the taxes of several years and threatened to be very embarrassing in its consequences.\\nMr. Stark, as district attorney, representing the losing party, moved for a rehearing, and so vigorously\\nattacked the decision, urging the application of the doctrine of stare decisis, upon the strength of an\\nunreported decision of the supreme court, in 1855, sustaining the act, that the judges were constrained\\nto order a rehearing, and upon further consideration to confirm the constitutionality of the act in\\nquestion.\\nIn 1873 Mr. Stark undertook for the city the revision and consolidation of its charter, with its\\nnumerous amendments, covering a period of twenty-one years, and also of the general ordinances\\nadopted during a longer period. This work was mainly done out of business hours. When com\u00c2\u00ac\\npleted, his services were further required to frame amendments proposed by the city council, making\\nchanges of a radical character in the municipal government. The whole task was of the most exacting\\ncharacter, requiring great legal knowledge, untiring patience, severe labor and sound judgment; and\\nthe manner in which it was completed by Mr. Stark showed him to be the possessor of these diverse\\nrequirements.\\nAny recital of Mr. Stark\u00e2\u0080\u0099s public labors that did not give prominence to his work in connec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion with the public schools of Milwaukee, and do full justice thereto, would be very incomplete. In\\nSeptember, 1871, he was made a member of the school board for the seventh ward. In June, 1873,\\nhe was compelled to resign the position because of outside work, but resumed it in April, 1874, and\\ncontinued steadily in the work until the summer of 1884. In the spring of 1875 he was elected\\npresident of the board, and held the office by successive elections until the close of his connection\\nwith the schools. His thorough education, early experience in school work, and sound business sense,\\nmade him of great use to the schools, and enabled him to administer his duties to the best interests\\nof all concerned.\\nAs president of the school board Mr. Stark was ex officio a member of the committee on high\\nschools and of the board having control of the public library. He gave an efficient and earnest\\nservice to both of these important institutions. He kept a vigilant eye upon the entire school system\\nwhile at its head, and had no small influence in directing the policy and work of the board. It was,\\ntherefore, with no small degree of regret that the public learned, early in 1884, that, in obedience to\\nthe demands of his private affairs, Mr. Stark was compelled to sever the connection he had so long\\nheld with the public schools. There was not only no lack of private expressions of regret at this\\ndecision, but the general feeling took such public action and shape that the recipient thereof could\\nnot but feel that his willing services had been observed and appreciated. When his decision was\\nmade known to the board, its opinion of his work was expressed in a series of resolutions. The\\nteachers of the schools felt that in the departure of Mr. Stark from the board they had lost one of\\ntheir most valued advisers and truest friends. They united in the preparation of a series of resolu\u00c2\u00ac\\ntions, which, like those of the board, were handsomely engrossed and framed before presentation. In\\nthis expression of their feelings the teachers declared that in his retirement from the board the\\npublic-school system of the city had \u00e2\u0080\u009clost one of its strongest and ablest supporters; one whose\\ncharacter and attainments made him a most worthy champion, and whose enlightened judgment and\\nbroad views constitute him one of the foremost advocates of every true educational reform.\\nEspecially have you deserved and secured our confidence and esteem through your unflagging efforts\\nto ennoble the work of the teacher and lift it to the dignity of a profession.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Mr. Stark was also\\ntendered a testimonial reception at the Normal School building, where teachers, members of the board\\nand many others met him, and in short and pointed speeches touched upon the value of his school\\nwork. He was also presented with a life membership in the National Teachers\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Association. The\\nevening of June 9th saw at the Plankinton Hotel an even more marked and general tribute to the\\nretiring president, in the shape of a banquet tendered Mr. Stark by prominent educators and profes\u00c2\u00ac\\nsional and business men generally.\\nMr. Stark has served the people in many ways other than those enumerated above, tie was\\none of the charter members of the Young Men\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Association of Milwaukee and also of the Milwaukee\\nBethel Union, and one of the directors of each of these institutions through a number of years. In\\n1883 he was elected president of the Milwaukee Bar Association, which position he held for many\\nyears. He has had an active part in various associations for the advance of music, art and educa\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, where his fine natural taste and culture have been made instruments for the general good. He\\nwas for some years a director in the Milwaukee Musical Society, and is yet one of its contributing\\nmembers. In 1885 the legislature provided for the creation of a commission to examine all candidates\\nfor admission to the bar, with the exception of the graduates of the law school, appointments to the", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0084.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "ILL US TRA TED AMERICAN BIO GRAPH J\\ncommission to be made by the judges of the supreme court. Mr. Stark was one of the original\\nappointees and continued a member of the commission, by annual reappointment, until 1896. \u00e2\u0080\u009cA\\nfirm advocate of civil-service reform, Mr. Stark has for years desired the abolition of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cspoils\u00e2\u0080\u009d\\nsystem of politics, and after the legislature authorized by enactment, in 1895, the formation of a civil-\\nservice commission for the city of Milwaukee, his appointment by the mayor to a membership in that\\ncommission for the full term of four years was but a fitting tribute to his efforts in behalf of good\\ngovernment. 1 his commission is composed of four members, who serve gratuitously.\\nAlthough Mr. Stark was not in the military service during the war of the Rebellion, he loyally\\ngave his aid to keep alive the courage and patriotism of the north, attending war meetings and doing\\nall that lay in his power for the good of the cause.\\nAmong the important suits in the law courts with which Mr. Stark has been connected, mention\\nmay be made of the case of the Northern Transit Company versus the Grand Trunk Railway Company,\\nin which he was associated in the defense with Hon. G. W. Hazelton. The action was brought to\\nrecover two hundred and fifty thousand dollars\u00e2\u0080\u0099 damages for breach of contract for interchange of\\ntraffic during the years 1879 and 1880. Upon the first trial the jury assessed the plaintiff\u00e2\u0080\u0099s damages\\nat something over one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. The verdict being set aside as excessive,\\na second trial was had, lasting nearly five weeks. Mr. Stark went to work upon the second trial with\\na determination to work down to the facts of the case. By a thorough scrutiny of plaintiff\u00e2\u0080\u0099s books\\nof accounts and documents during the progress of the trial, he was able to demonstrate that the\\ngreater part of plaintiff\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pretended losses were fictitious, and the recovery was reduced to less than\\nten thousand dollars, including interest.\\nMr. Stark\u00e2\u0080\u0099s preference has always been for the department of equity, and in that branch of\\nthe practice he has been mainly employed and has therein won his chiefest victories. The well known\\ncases of Noesen versus the Supervisors of Port Washington, 37 Wisconsin, 168; Odell versus Rogers\\nBurnham, 44 Wisconsin, 136, and 61 Wisconsin, 562; and Wells versus McGeoch; State of Wis\u00c2\u00ac\\nconsin versus McFetridge, et al; and the suits brought to determine the construction of the wills of\\nthe late Thomas M. Knox, 59 Wisconsin, 172; and N. B. Caswell, 63 Wisconsin, 529, are among the\\nmost important litigations upon which he has expended his best energies during the last twenty years.\\nAll of the above named cases have been before the supreme court of the state, whose reported\\ndecisions bear testimony to the difficulty and importance of the questions involved, and the industry\\nand ability displayed in their discussion.\\nIn addition to the natural substratum of ability, without which the success which Mr. Stark has\\nobtained could not have been possible, he is endowed with the quality of thoroughness and a persistent\\nenergy that fears no labor. When his services are enlisted in a case, he works upon it day and night,\\nif necessary, without regard to the pay that is to be secured or the amount that may be involved.\\nHe is shrewd and astute, and no case can be so complicated but that he will solve it. \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe under\u00c2\u00ac\\nstands bookkeeping and figures better than a bookkeeper.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He is especially strong in equity cases,\\nis a great reader, and yet regards law as a science that cannot be altogether learned from books. He\\nprepares his cases with the greatest care, and before going into court understands all the dangers and\\npossibilities which he may be called upon to confront. As a man and citizen he possesses the highest\\nregard of all who know him. His personal life is without reproach, and his home and family relations\\nare of the happiest and most harmonious character. His generous deeds are performed without\\nostentation, but in abundance, and there are many whose loads have been lightened and way made\\nmore peaceful and secure because of his hearty sympathy and generous aid.", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0085.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0086.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0087.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0088.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "", "height": "5212", "width": "3554", "jp2-path": "illustratedameri11unse_0089.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "S v\u00c2\u00b0 o ,V\\nA\\nt\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r -y V\\n3 0\\nH -t ISjjMS^ tf c jO -r\\n\u00c2\u00bb*Sf\u00c2\u00bb V .VV^r^y \u00e2\u0080\u009cV 3- X\\n*_:,! m *a s\\nW A Vi. x jp r x O S 1 A Vi.\\nA O 7 s jO o v A\\n0 N G J f V I I S A 0\\n-sxtv. y K (j v S t zp ,-fc* A\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2L r W A* x\\n6 w -i\\n0 V\\ni .sV\\nA t o\\ni x\u00e2\u0080\u009c^W y\\nT V.^^ *0 o\\nv\\n\\\\yflpj .f w\\ny o*i* ,A 7\\n\u00c2\u00b0o c 0 \u00e2\u0080\u0098,v^ y *b G 0 8\\nVSKB^ I\\\\ p\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00ab ifflt^ /JL,\\n7 WV 0 o W** o Q 0 0_ x* l\\nV X 0 ^V**\u00c2\u00b0V 1 s s.., 0 0^ 0/ #8\\np r t-^ a W. \u00c2\u00b0r\\nb v *S^ V v v/ 5\\n\u00c2\u00abv 4 v /-IWv a v\\n-\\\\.~.,v- \u00e2\u0096\u00a0v c 7*.V V-\u00e2\u0080\u009c v- v 6 ./V^V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094.v-\\n1 y 1 oS^ y o 0 2 ^jY 7 y 0\\no o \u00c2\u00bbg;^-; v\\n-^0#; S\u00e2\u0080\u0099 *^/.f/; v f-\\nC J\u00c2\u00bb r^ y 0 ^^OtA/ x O ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2V\\nI \\\\V v 5 N ,0^ C 6 A v#\\nv V.A-, .o* c-\\nSxAWV/ -t\\nM\\nM c\\n*?W** S\\nI -V x v \u00c2\u00abf s 0 jO*\\nc v 4 sy 1 u o\\nS v\\nC\u00c2\u00b0\\\\v v Lwm|\u00e2\u0080\u0099 \u00e2\u0080\u0094j\\no o\\n7 V o O,. sMim 4\\n*;X v \u00e2\u0080\u00a2.;v y\\nA. 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