to Chicago. Since that time, the fame of Mr. Storrs has become
not only local, but national. Possibly much of the success which
he has achieved at the forum and on the rostrum may be ascribed,
as much as to any other one cause, to his analytical power and his
keen discernment of the temperament of his auditors. On number-
less occasions interruptions have occurred among his audiences
which would have disconcerted, and possibly routed, any one else ;
but with his quickness of repartee and store of anecdote and remi-
niscence, he would utter some pungent witticism or stinging sar-
casm, that would discomfort his interrupter and prove to be the best
possible utterance that could have been made. Some of the promi-
nent cases in which Mr. Storrs has been engaged, in his discursive
legal experience, are as follows : In 1S60-61, he was engaged on
the celebrated cases for E. S. Smith ; he tried the first " stump-
tail" (or wild-cat) cases before juries in Judge Diummond's court ;
he also argued the noted State House case, the Park cases, the rail-
road taxation cases, and the case wherein the liability of common
carriers was fixed as to their delivery of grain to the elevator to
which it was consigned. In 1S76. he iried the celebrated Babcock
case, in St. Louis; and shortly afterward, argued the cases involv-
ing the legality of an election for the incorporation of a city under
the general law. Among the capital cases in which Mr. Storrs has
been engaged, may be mentioned his prosecution of the Cook
County Commissioners ; his defense of Alexander Sullivan ; of
Cochrane, the Wisconsin bank cashier ; of Ransom, the Mayor of
.; and of Jere Dunn. And during the intense activity and
research necessitated by his professional duties, he found time to
take the stump in behalf of Abraham Lincoln ; to prepare the reso-
lutions indorsing the Emancipation Proclamation reported at the
great meeting in Chicago ; to take an active part in tbe campaign
of i-'.i ; 10 be especially interested in the reconstruction measures
of Andrew Johnson, in 1866 ; in 1868, to be a delegate to the
National Convention from the Stale-at-large. and subsequently to
take the stump through Xew York and New England ; to be dele-
gate-at-large to the National Convention, at Philadelphia, in 1872,
and to perform the duties of one of the vice-presidents ; to prepare
the constitution and by-laws for the Citizens' Association, of Chi-
cago ; to l»c one of the three original incorporators, anil one of the
tive promoters, of the Citizens' League for the suppression
of the sale of liquor to minors; to argue the question relative to
the transportation of live-stock before the House Committee ; to
argue the question relative to the reduction of the duty on steel
rails, before the House Committee ; and to make arguments rela-
tive to Reagan's Inter-State Commerce Bill, on the question as to
the amenability of checks and bank deposits to taxation, and, in
the winter of 1SS4-S5, to make arguments on the pleuro-pneumo-
nia, or Animal Industry, bill. In the convention of 1SS0, Mr.
Storrs was a delegate from the State-at-large, and was a member of
the committee on resolutions, as a member of which committee he
drafted that part which related to the enforcement of the Constitu-
tional amendments. Among other adjuncts which may be cited as
feasible reasons for his deserved literary reputation, are his lectures
before the Law School on the English Constitution and Trial by
fury, his lecture on Municipal Government, his lecture before the
Historical Society, and his address at the opening of the new
Board of Trade, in 1SS5 ; while his contributions to the North
American Review have stamped him as an able essayist.
Mukry ¥. TULEY was born in Louisville, Ky., March 4,
1S27. His education was obtained at the common schools, and
was completed when he reached the age of thirteen, at which time
he went into a store as a clerk. His father died when his son was
five years of age. and his mother, after eleven years of widowhood,
married Richard J. Hamilton, and removed to Chicago. Here
young Tuley commenced the study of law with Colonel Hamilton,
and in the spring of 1S47 was admitted to the Bar. It was the
time of the Mexican war, and Mr. Tuley enlisted in the 5th Illi-
nois Regiment, Colonel Newby commanding, and was ordered to
service in Xew Mexico, under the command of General Sterling
Price, afterward a Confederate general. At the conclusion of the
Mexican war, Mr. Tuley settled in Santa Fe, where he commenced
practice, and remained there until 1S54. During that period he
was attorney-general of the Territory for two years and a member
of the Legislature for 1853-54. ^ n 1S54, he returned to Chicago
and engaged in practice, first with Andrew Harvie, then with
Joseph E. Gary and J. X. Barker. In 1869, he became corporation
counsel, and after several years in that position organized the firm
of Tuley, Stiles & Lewis, of which he remained the head until
elected to the Circuit Bench in June, 1879. At the Bar, Judge
Tuley's career was marked by great success. Prudence and care
for the interests of his clients, rather than brilliance of display for
himself, were among his strongest characteristics. Of solid judg-
ment, widely read in the learning of his profession, of calm and
patient mind he was admirably fitted for the Bench, and found his
congenial place there. He holds an enviable rank among his fel-
low-judges, and has the respect and confidence of the Ba- and the
public.
Hon. William H. King, LL.D., has practiced his profession
in Chicago for thirty-two years, and commands the confidence and
respect of not only the Bench and Bar, but of all who know him.
He has a thoroughly logical and legal mind, and has the rare abil-
ity to present his case to the court and jury in the clearest and
most logical and forcible manner. The result of his practice has
been an honorable name and a pecuniary competence. Flis profes-
sional brethren know him best and are most competent to express
an opinion concerning him. One of the judges of the Supreme
Court said of him: " I have known well, for many years, Wil-
liam H. King of this city. I regard him a gentleman of high
moral worth and of rare purity of character. He is a learned,
ripe and discriminating lawyer. A man of well balanced and im-
partial judgment, of very agreeable urbanity, yet of great decision
of character and moral courage." Mr. King was born in Clifton
Park, Saratoga Co., N. Y.. October 23, 1817. He was graduated
from Union College, at Schenectady, N. Y., in 184b, and in 1S79,
that college conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. He
studied law in the office of Hon. John K. Porter, at Waterford,
X. V., and was admitted to the Bar in 1S47. He then commenced
the practice of law at Waterford, where he remained until 1853,
when he removed to Chicago, arriving here on the 4th of February
of that year. Mr. King has since been honored with many offices
of public trust. He has been president of the Chicago Law Insti-
tute, president of the Chicago Bar Association, president of the
Chicago Board of Education, president of the Union College
Alumni Association of the Northwest ; and member of the Illinois
State Legislature. In 1874, one of the schools of the West Division
was named by the Board of Education the " King School, in honor
of the Hon. William II. King, president of this Board, and in
acknowledgment of the services rendered by him to the cause of
popular education and of his devotion to the best interests of our
public schools." Mr. King has, annually for eleven years, presented
prizes to nine of the pupils of that school whose averages were
highest in attendance, deportment and scholarship. In December,
1-S4, the school had been in successful operation eleven years,
when Mr. King was surprised by a graceful testimonial presented
to him by the pupils. During the two years in which Mr. King
was a member of the Illinois Legislature (1S71-72), he was chair-
man of the Committee on F'ees and Salaries, and a member of the
committees on Judicial Department and Education. After the fire
of 1871, when all the records of Cook County were destroyed, it
was absolutely necessary that the Legislature should enact a law,
by which the owners might be enabled to protect their titles to
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their real estate. Mr. King was then a member of the Legislature
and was appointed chairman of a committee to draft a bill for that
purpose. He prepared a bill, which was passed by the Legislature
and became a law, and has proved to be entirely satisfactory and
efficacious. In the Legislature, he was noted for ability and hon-
esty, and, after the expiration of his term, lie was urged to accept
other political preferments, but he decided to continue the practice
of his profession. Mr. King was married, at Orange, Mass., Sep-
tember 1, 1847, to Mary, daughter of Levi and Plotina (Metcalf)
Cheney. They have two children — Mary, wife of Tappan Halsey,
and Fanny, who graduated at Smith College in 1SS2. Mrs. King
is a lady of rare ability and culture, and her husband heartily
acknowledges that he is indebted to his wife for much of his suc-
cess in life
Ezra Butler McCagg, for many years a leader in his profes-
sion, was born at Kinderhook, N. Y., November 22, 1S25, and is
the son of Isaac and Louisa Caroline (Butler) McCagg. He pur-
sued his literary studies and became very efficient under the tuition
of a neighboring clergyman. He read law several years with
Monell, Hogeboone & Monell, of Hudson, N. Y., and was admit-
ted to the Bar in 1847. The following summer he came to Chicago,
when he entered into a partnership with Hon. J. Y. Scammon,
under the firm name of Scammon & McCagg. In 1849, Hon.
Samuel W. Fuller was associated with them, and, in 1872, Mr.
Scammon withdrew from the firm, and Mr. McCagg's present part-
ner, W. I. Culver, was admitted into the partnership ; with the
exceptions above mentioned, the original partnership was the same
until the death of Mr. Fuller in 1S73. The firm is now McCagg
& Culver. The business of this firm has been very extensive
throughout all of its changes. During the Civil War, Mr. McCagg
was very influential in promoting the interests of the Linked States
Sanitary Commission, and filled acceptably and with marked ability
the arduous position of president of the Northwestern Branch of
that organization. He was formerly a trustee of the VJniversity of
Chicago, and is yet a trustee of the Chicago Academy of Sciences,
and president of the board of trustees of the Eastern Hospital for
the Insane. He lost his law library in the great fire of 1871, and
a magnificent miscellaneous library, the accumulation of years.
His collection of writings and letters of the early Jesuits and set-
tlers of the Northwestern States and Territories was one of the best
extant. Mr. McCagg is a public-spirited gentleman, and has
given much time to philanthropic and charitable affairs. According
to the modern idea of politicians, Mr. McCagg does not belong to
that class, but he is in principles a Republican.
Charles B. Hosmer is among the oldest members of the
legal profession in this city, being admitted to the Chicago Bar
in the fall of 1S39. He at once removed to Naperville, Dul'age
County, where he practiced nine years, and returned to Chicago in
1848. In the following year he formed a partnership with the
well-known Ebenezer Peck, and this connection continued twelve
years, when the latter was appointed judge of the Court of Claims,
Washington. From 1S61 to 1871, Mr. Hosmer practiced alone,
since which time he has been in partnership with his son, the firm
making a specialty of real estate law. Mr. Hosmer was born
in Columbia, Conn., September 26, 1812, being the son of Stephen
Hosmer, a substantial merchant of that place. He graduated from
Yale College in 1838, and studied law, first in New Haven with Silas
Mix, and then with General James R. Lawrence, of Syracuse, N. Y.
In the fall of 1839, he removed to Chicago, and as stated was ad-
mitted to the Bar.
E. D. Hosmer, who is associated with his father, was born at
Naperville, 111., in November, 1843. After graduating from
Harvard College in 1865, he traveled throughout Europe for three
years. He then took a course in the law department of the North-
western University, from which he graduated in 1870, and was
soon afterward admitted to practice.
Robert Hervey is one of Chicago's earliest and most promi-
nent lawyers, coming to this city from Ottawa, Canada, in 1S52,
and forming a partnership with Buckner S. Morris and Joseph P.
Clarkson. In 1S53, Hugh T. Dickey having resigned, Air. Morris
was elected to complete his term as circuit judge, and the senior
member of the firm of Morris, Hervey & Clarkson, therefore, with-
drew from it. The law firm of Hervey & Clarkson continued suc-
cessfully in the practice of their profession four years. In 1S57,
Mr. Hervey formed a partnership with Elliott Anthony, now on the
Bench of the Superior Court, and three years thereafter A. T. Gait
was admitted to the firm. The connection continued unbroken for
seventeen years. As a lawyer, Mr. Hervey has no specialty. His
broad education and wide experience, his courteous and affable
manners, his business ability, and his eloquence, have combined to
make him remarkably successful in criminal cases as well as in
suits which involve large property interests. In 1872, he assisted
in the defense of the nineteen aldermen indicted for bribery, and
only one was convicted. He was retained by the State in the
Hopp's murder case, in the defense of the county commissiontrs,
in the Arthur Devine murder case, and in many other important
criminal trials. It is certainly a remarkable "coincidence" that
none of his clients ever suffered the extreme penalty of the law.
His firm were the attorneys for the non-content stockholders of the
Galena & Chicago Union Railway Company, and tiled a bill to
break up the consolidation with the Chicago & North-Western
Road, and the Court decreed full payment of the market value of
the stock at the time of the consolidation, which was paid. Mr.
Hervey was one of the originators of the Chicago Bar Association,
and his good, hardy Scotch blood has been repeatedly recognized
by the St. Andrew's Society and the Caledonian Club, of which
organizations he has been a member for many years, and often
president. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 10,
1820, his father, Alexander, being proprietor of a plantation in
Trinidad. After graduating from the University of Glasgow in
1837, he emigrated to Bytown, now Ottawa, Canada, and studied
law with Henry Sherwood, attorney-general of the province of
Canada. He was admitted to the Bar in 1842. and the next year
married his first wife, Miss Maria Jones, daughter of Dunham
Jones, collector of the port of Maitland, Ontario. For ten years
he practiced his profession with good success, and, in 1852,
came to Chicago, as the city which promised the fairest for young
men of energy and ability. That the promise has been realized is
clearly shown by the record which he has made as lawyer and citi-
zen for the past thirty-three years. In 1861, Mr. Hervey was
married to his second wife, Miss Frances W. Smith.
WILLIAM H. STICKNEY was born in Baltimore, Md., Novem-
ber 9, 1809. He was a student of Transylvania University, of
Lexington, Ky., and read law in the office of Este & Haines, one
ot the most prominent legal firms of Cincinnati. He was admitted
to the Bar in 1831, and in that year, became the partner of the
Hon. Robert T. Lytle, then a member of Congress from the
district; the law firm was Lytle & Stickney. In 1832, Mr. Stickney
was nominated on the Democratic ticket for State's attorney of
Hamilton County, but that ticket met a defeat that year. In
February, 1834, Mr. Stickney came to Shawneetown, Illinois, and
in company with the Hon. Henry Eddy, one of the most classic
scholars and learned lawyers of this State, at that time, traveled
on horseback to Vandalia, then the seat of Government, and his
certificate of admission to the Bar of Illinois was issued there,
dated the 4th of March, 1834, and antedates that of any lawyer
now residing in Chicago. In this connection, the Chicago Legal
News of December 15, 1883, stated: " Scates & Stickney. — A
correspondent, reading our answer to the letter in our last issue,
that Walter B. Scates and William H. Stickney were the two oldest
Illinois lawyers in commission, living at this time in Chicago, says,
it is a strange coincidence, that Hon. Walter B. Scates, who was
appointed by the Legislature, about the year 1836, circuit judge
for the Third Judicial District, composed of fourteen of the
southern counties of the State, and that Hon. W. H. Stickney, who
was appointed by the Legislature, in 1S39. State's attorney for the
same Judicial District, and rode the Circuit with Judge Scates,
should both, after the lapse of nearly fifty years, be living in Chi-
cago, and practicing law here. We are told that this Circuit was
composed of the following counties: Marion, Jefferson, Perry,
Franklin, Jackson, Union, Alexander, Pulaski, Massac, Johnson,
Pope, Hardin, Gallatin and Hamilton. This circuit reached from
Cairo to the Wabash River, and extended as far north as the
northern part of Marion County. Mr. Stickney was admitted to the
Illinois Bar, on the fourth day of March, 1S34, and to the Bar of
Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the State of
Illinois, on the third day of June, 1839." He was editor and pro-
prietor of the Gallatin Democrat and Illinois Advertiser, 1S35-36,
at Shawneetown. In 1S39, he was elected by the Legislature of
Illinois, State's attorney for the Third Judicial District, composed
of thirteen counties, extending from the Wabash to the Mississippi
River. In 1S46, he was elected a representative from Gallatin
County; and was a prominent, laborious and useful member of the
session of 1846-47. He married at Carmi, White County, February
11, 1837, Elizabeth Weed, daughter of Hugh M. Weed, a young
lady of extraordinary intellectual power, pleasing manners and
generous character. She died at Chicago July 30, 1S49 In 1S52,
he was married to Cornelia, eldest daughter of the Hon Judge
Henry Brown, deceased, of Chicago. Mrs. Stickney is still living.
Mr. Stickney was elected alderman of the city from the Eighteenth
Ward, in 1S54, and appointed by Mayor Milliken, chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. He was city assessor of the North Division,
appointed by Mayor Wentworth, in 1S60. He was elected by the
Council, police justice of the city in i860, and held the office of
justice of the peace for thirteen years, with other offices to which
he was elected by the people. In November, 1S75, he was elected,
on the Reform ticket, a member of the House of Representatives
from Cook County, and served his term at Springfield in the
session of 1875-76. In the first volume, it is mentioned to his
credit, that he refused an office, the commission fur which was
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HISTORY OF CHICAGO.
granted him, on a technical exception to the misnomer of the office
of police magistrate, the opposing ticket to that on which his
name was contained, being printed "For police justice," instead
of Police Magistrate. Years afterward, in I S 7 1 . he was elected a
police magistrate by a large majority, but was refused, with others,
a commission bv Governor Palmer, in whose opinion the office of
police magistrate, in the City of Chicago, had been abolished by
the Constitution of Illinois 'in 1S70. "After the argument of an
agreed case, to test the question, the Supreme Court of Illinois
held with Governor Palmer. Since that decision police magistrates
have been selected from the justices of the peace by the mayor
and Council. Mr. Stickney has now retired from public life and
the active practice of his profession, but still retains, at the age
of seventv-five vears, full vigor of mind and unusual energy, con-
tinuing occasionally to make his appearance in special cases in our
courts.
Sidney Smith, chief-justice of the Superior Court of Cook
County, dates his term of six years from November, 1S79. No
judge upon the Bench is more respected for the solid qualities of
knowledge of the law and broad judgment in arriving at the motives
of men. He was born in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, iS2g.
At the age of twenty he completed his academic studies, when he
began the study of law with Messrs. Church & Davis, among the
ablest lawyers of New York City. Two years thereafter he was ad-
mitted to the Bar at Albion, where his present associate upon the
bench, William K. McAllister,, practiced law for so many years.
Judge Smith came to Chicago in 1S56, and a few months later
joined Grant Goodrich and W. W. Farwell, forming the firm of
Goodrich, Farwell & Smith, whose fame soon extended over the
Northwest. From 1S57 until the spring of 1S59, Mr. Goodrich
traveled abroad because of ill health, and served as one of the
judges of the Superior Court of Chicago from that time until 1863,
when he returned to his position in the firm which he had founded.
In 1S70. when Mr. Farwell was chosen a judge of the Circuit Court,
the partnership was dissolved. Judge Smith then resumed the prac-
tice of his profession, and for nine years continued to build up the
substantial reputation which he had made during his previous labors
of nearly a quarter of a century. In November, 1S79, he was elected
to his present position, performing his arduous and complex duties
with the facility which only comes to a mind thoroughly trained in
the principles of common law and possessed of great stamina.
JOHN Van Arman was born in l'lattsburgh, Clinton Co., N.
Y., March 3, 1S20, the son of John and Tamar (Dewey) Van Ar-
man. He was the youngest of fourteen children, and having lost his
mother when he was only five years of age, went to live with a farmer.
When he grew older, not liking either his master or his occupation,
he ran away, to shift for himself. He taught the district school, ob-
tained some Latin and Greek through his own efforts, and com-
menced the study of law at his old home, when seventeen years of
age. He first studied under William Swetland, and finished at Troy,
under George Gould, the son of Judge Gould, principal of the
Litchfield Law School. In 1S40. Mr. Van Arman was admitted to
the Bar in New Vurk City, and immediately co nmenced practice in
Marshall, Mich. There he became the attorney for many of the
leading lumber firms, being also the legal representative of exten-
sive manufactories at Muskegon. In 1842, his business in the
United States courts of defending his clients for alleged trespasses
upon Government lands, and in the conduct of other suits, frequently
brought him to Chicago, where he soon attained a good standing
and a wide acquaintance. In 1S51, on behalf of the Michigan
Central Railroad Company, he prosecuted forty men for throwing
cars from the track, of whom twelve were convicted and sent to the
penitentiary, and three of them died during trial. They were de-
fended by William H Seward and others. In May, 1858, he lo-
cated permanently in Chicago, and became a member of the firm of
Walker, Van Arman & Dexter, largely engaged in business con-
netted with railroads. From 1S58 to 1S62, Mr. Van Arman was
the attorney for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com-
pany. During the latter year he raised the 127th Illinois Infantry,
bearing the bulk of the expense, and was commissioned its colonel.
Ill health, however, obliged him to resign, and go to California,
where he remained some time, resuming practice in the beginning
lie at once entered into a partnership with Henry G.
Miller, with whom he remained up to the time of the fire, when he
lost property worth $25. OOO, anil a fine library, not yet placed upon
the shelves. Since that time he has practiced mainly alone. Since
coming to Chicago, Colonel Van Arman has had a very important
and lucrative practice, principally of a civil nature. He has, how-
ever, been engaged in several of the most important criminal cases
of early times, such as the Jumpert murder (better known as the
"barrel case ") and the Burch divorce case. He was married, in
March. [841, to Amai aughter of General F.zra Convis,
who, at the time of hi peaker of the Michigan House
of Representatives. They have had three children ; the om: now
living is the wife of James Bradish, of Grand Crossing, Col.
Sidney Thomas was born October 3, 1837, in Calhoun