Ohio Volunteer Infantry and during the campaign in the Shenan-
doah Valley of Virginia was wounded, in an engagement at Snick-
er's Gap. While engaged in transporting supplies from Winchester
to Fredericksburg he was captured by the enemy, but he soon con-
trived to make his escape. He was married while in the army,
his wife having crossed over the Ohio River to join him and be-
come his bride. She then served as a nurse in the army. After
the war, Mr. Clithero, Sr., became a substantial farmer of Grundy
County, Illinois, but in 1886 the family removed to Chicago and have
since resided there.
Delbert A. Clithero was reared on the old homestead farm, the
place of his birth, and was identified with its work and management
until he reached the age of eighteen years, in the meanwhile having
attended the public schools. He left the farm to take up the study
of law. After reading for some time under private preceptor-
ship he entered the Kent College of Law, in Chicago, graduating in
1895, with the degree, Bachelor of Laws. He has been admitted
to practice in all of the States and Federal courts of Illinois and
the Supreme Court of the United States. In the year of his gradua-
tion, Mr. Clithero engaged in practice in Chicago, where he was as-
sociated with Mr. George W. Warvelle for thirteen years, under
the firm name of Warvelle & Clithero. Since that time he has con-
ducted an individual general practice. His offices are at 1018 Hart-
ford Building.
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He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, in which he
was chairman of the Grievance Committee and is now chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, and is identified also with the Illinois Bar
Association and the American Bar Association. Like his former
partner, Mr. Warvelle, he is prominently identified with the Ma-
sonic fraternity. He organized and is affiliated with Metropolitan
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of which he is past master and holds mem-
bership in Washington Chapter, R. A. M. of which he is past high
priest; Chicago Commandery, Knights Templar; Oriental Consis-
tory, Scottish Rite ; and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His
name is found enrolled on the list of members of the Chicago Ath-
letic Club.
On June 29, 1899, Mr. Clithero married Miss Harriet A. John-
son, of Chicago, and they have one child, Helen Elizabeth. They
live in Oak Park.
NICHOLAS J. PRITZKER. Among the members of the Chicago
bar who have overcome innumerable obstacles in their rise from
obscurity and poverty to positions of prominence and financial
independence, Nicholas J. Pritzker is worthy of more than passing
mention. Brought to this country as a lad, ignorant of the customs
and language of America, with the sturdy industry and progressive-
ness of his countrymen when given the opportunity he worked his
way to a professional education, established a paying business, and
finally turned his attention to the law, in which he has won deserved
success.
Mr. Pritzker is a native of Kiev, Russia, and was born July 19,
1871, a son of Jacob Nicholas and Sophia (Schwartzman) Pritzker,
natives also of that country. The father, who was engaged in com-
mercial pursuits, came to the United States in 1881 to prepare a
home for his family, who followed him here in 1882, settling in Chi-
cago. Nicholas J. Pritzker had received his early training in pri-
vate Hebrew schools in his native land, which he had attended
from his fourth to his eleventh year, and when he came to this coun-
try enrolled as a student at the Jones School, on Harrison Street.
He was ambitious and persevering, applying himself diligently to
his studies and attending high school at nights, so that, about 1888
by special examination under George A. Howland, superintendent
of schools, he was graduated. He next went to the Chicago College
of Pharmacy and later to the department of pharmacy at North-
western University, and was graduated in the class of 1892 and
became a registered pharmacist. Securing employment in that line,
he was identified with the drug business for seven years, and showed
himself a thorough master of his calling and an excellent business
man. However, Mr. Pritzker had always cherished a desire for a
career in the law, and after some preparation entered the Illinois
College of Law, in 1899, and was graduated with his bachelor's
degree with the class of 1902. He was admitted to the Illinois bar
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June 6th of that year, and from that time to the present has con-
tinued in the practice of his calling, carrying on his activities inde-
pendently. Mr. Pritzker has offices in the First National Bank
Building, and while his practice is of a general nature, he has been
engaged for the most part in cases dealing with real estate, corpora-
tion and bankruptcy law. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Asso-
ciation and the Law Institute, and stands high in the regard and
confidence of his fellow-practitioners, who have found him a val-
uable associate, a worthy opponent, and at all times an adherent of
the highest ethics of the calling. Mr. Pritzker is a member of the
B'nai B'rith, and is director and counsel of Mark Nathan Jewish
Asylum of Chicago, in the work of which he has taken a very active
and helpful part. He is also interested in Masonry, and holds mem-
bership in Oriental Lodge No. 33, F. & A. M., and Cicero Chapter
No. 180, R. A. M. His residence is located at No. 2437 North
Kedzie Boulevard.
On June 8, 1891, Mr. Pritzker was married to Miss Anna Cohn,
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and to this union there have been born
three children, namely : Harry N., a senior in the literary department
and a freshman in law at Northwestern University, who enjoys col-
lege reputation as a swimmer and all-round athlete; Abraham N.,
who is a sophomore at the University of Chicago; and Jacob N.,
who is attending the graded schools.
CHARLES L. OGDEN. To be recognized as a leading member of
the Knox County bar is no slight distinction, for the profession here
is made up of men of notable ability, and for almost a decade
Charles L. Ogden has occupied a foremost place, his home city
being Galesburg. He was born at Cameron, Warren County, Illi-
nois, February 21, 1876, a son of Franklin Delos and Harriet Ann
(Lewis) Ogden. The paternal ancestors came from England and
settled in New York, and at Rome in that state the father of Charles
L. Ogden was born, removing later in life to Warren County, Illi-
nois. During the Civil war Franklin D. Ogden was in the govern-
ment service as an enrolling officer. He was a man of sterling
character and very highly esteemed, and on numerous occasions
was elected to local offices. His death occurred February 13, 1912.
He married Harriet Ann Lewis, who survives, and they had seven
children, Charles L. being the sixth in order of birth. The ances-
tors of Mrs. Ogden came to America from Scotland and Wales and
settled in New Jersey, from which state her parents came to Illinois,
and she was born in Berwick, Warren County.
Charles L. Ogden was reared on his father's farm and attended
the district schools. As farmers' sons usually do, he assisted his
father during the summers and devoted himself to study during the
winters until about eighteen years of age, after which for three
more years he continued on the farm and then attended Knox
Academy at Galesburg for one year. By this time his mind was
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fully made up as to his choice of career, and in 1900, as a special
student, he entered the law department of the University of Illinois.
Determined application enabled him to do two years' work in the
preparatory department in addition to the regular law course, and he
was graduated in 1903. In October of that year he was admitted
to the bar at Springfield. Mr. Ogden gave himself no period of rest
after his strenuous months of study, but, on the other hand, imme-
diately opened law offices at two points, Augusta and Plymouth,
Illinois, with William B. Hiller, but after a year and a half of prac-
tice decided to come to Galesburg, where a wider field of endeavor
was open. For a short time after locating here, in November, 1905,
he was associated with George Shumway, but since that connection
was severed has been alone in practice and has built up a very satis-
factory business in a monetary way and through legal ability has
secured wide recognition. Mr. Ogden is possessed of the clear,
incisive mind that a successful lawyer must always have, and he is
able to express his thoughts in cogent and convincing language.
Furthermore, he is an indefatigable worker. He has been identified
with much important litigation, and is held in high regard by his
clients for his faithful attention to their interests.
Mr. Ogden was married June 25, 1908, to Miss Stella M. Jack-
son, a daughter of Owen P. Jackson, a well known retired farmer
of Macomb, Illinois. The family residence is at No. 116 Cedar
Avenue, Galesburg, and Mr. Ogden maintains his office at No. 19
East Main Street. Thoroughly identified with the republican party,
Mr. Ogden has served as a delegate to several county, senatorial
and congressional conventions. In January, 1915, he was appointed
city attorney for the City of Galesburg to fill out the unexpired
term of James E. Davis, who had been elected to the Legislature.
At the expiration of his term of office as city attorney, Mr. Ogden
was not a candidate to succeed himself, but was retained by the
City of Galesburg as special counsel in the matter of readjusting
the rates of gas and standard of service with the local gas company.
He is also the legal adviser for several corporations, is interested in
civic improvement and expansion, and is a member of the Gales-
burg Business Men's Club and of the State and County Bar asso-
ciations. He has served as secretary and treasurer of the County
Bar Association. Mrs. Ogden takes a prominent part in social and
civic activities, and is an influential member of the Tuscarora Club
and the Galesburg Women's Club. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden are mem-
bers of the Baptist Church.
JACOB NEWMAN. One of the well known members of the Chi-
cago bar who has been the architect of his' own fortunes is Jacob
Newman ; for over thirty years he has been engaged in the practice
of law in the City of Chicago. Mr. Newman was born November
12, 1853, a son f Salmon and Pauline (Lewis) Newman. The
family settled on a farm near Jacksonburg, Butler County, Ohio,
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and tilled the soil until the death of the father in 1860, when the
mother with her children moved to Liberty, Indiana, where they
lived many years. The subject of this sketch however, went in
1860 to live with his married sister at Noblesville, Indiana, where he
remained until he moved to Chicago in the summer of 1867. He
came here in the hope of finding greater educational advantages.
On his arrival he worked in several mercantile establishments and
finally after having accumulated enough to pay his way for the first
year, he entered the old Chicago University and worked his way
though that institution by securing odd jobs of all sorts and kinds.
He graduated with the class of 1873 and finished his law course
in 1875.
While attending the Union College of Law (now Northwestern
University of Law) he worked and studied in the law office of the
Hon. James R. Doolittle, who for many years was a United States
senator from the State of Wisconsin.
In 1875 Mr. Newman was admitted to the bar of Illinois and
soon thereafter became associated in the practice of his profession
with the late Judge Graham. This association continued until 1877
when Judge Graham removed to the West. Mr. Newman continued
in practice until 1882 when he formed a partnership with Mr.
Adolph Moses, which continued until the summer of 1890. The
firm of Moses & Newman conducted a substantial law business and
became well known at the Chicago bar. This firm was dissolved
in the spring of 1890, and from that time on Mr. Newman con-
tinued the practice of the law with George W. Northrup and others
until he organized the present firm of Newman, Poppenhusen &
Stern.
During all these years, Mr. Newman has been very active at
the bar and participated in many celebrated cases.
He has all his life belonged to the republican party and is a mem-
ber of the Union League Club, the Standard Club, the Ravisloe
Country Club, the Hamilton Club and others.
Mr. Newman married on May 30, 1888, Miss Minnie Goodman,
daughter of Hugo Goodman, an old resident of Chicago ; three chil-
dren, John Hugo, Elizabeth and George Ingham were born. The
home of the family has been for many years at 4738 Woodlawn
Avenue.
HAYNIE ROBERT PEARSON. In a quarter of a century devoted
to the active practice of his profession in Chicago Haynie R. Pear-
son has had a wide experience, and service to city and state in the
department of law has marked his career. He resigned from his
last office in 1900 since which time he has devoted himself to inde-
pendent practice.
Haynie Robert Pearson was born at Springfield, Illinois, on the
22d of June, 1866, and is a son of Gen. Robert N. and Mary E. (Tut-
hill) Pearson, his father having been a gallant soldier in the Army
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of the Tennessee in the Civil war, during which he arose to the rank
of brigadier-general. While Mr. Pearson was yet a child the family
moved to Chicago from Springfield, and in this city he had his early
education. He later attended Middlebury College, at Middlebury,
Vermont, and then entered the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor where he received his training for his legal career. His
graduation came in 1899 and his admission to the bar followed
immediately. He at once engaged in practice in Chicago as a mem-
ber of the firm of Page & Pearson, and continued thus for two
years. In 1893 he served as attorney for the Sanitary District of
Chicago, and in that year he was appointed to the office of assistant
state's attorney for Cook County by Jacob Kern. It was then he
laid the basis for his present splendid reputation as a criminal
lawyer, and in 1896 he was reappointed to the office by Hon. Charles
S. Deneen, then governor of the state. During his service in that
office Mr. Pearson prosecuted a greater number of men on the
charge of murder than had any previous incumbent of the position
of assistant state's attorney in Cook County and he secured convic-
tion and death sentences for twenty-one . murderers, a number in
excess of convictions secured by any other prosecutor in the United
States within an equal period of time. His reputation in the de-
partment of criminal law places him among the foremost of trial
lawyers in the country, his standing having long since exceeded local
limitations.
Mr. Pearson is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and
he is a member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association,
as well as of his college fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. In the
Masonic order he has taken the thirty-second degree in the Scot-
tish Rite. By virtue of his father's service during the Civil war
he holds membership in the Society of the Tennessee and the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He and his wife are members
of St. Martin's Protestant Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Pearson
is the organizer of a men's club that is now the largest of its
kind in America, and of which he served as first president.
On September 14, 1892, Mr. Pearson married Miss Blanche B.
Arnold, daughter of James M. Arnold, and they have five children,
Beatrice, Robert Swift, Caroline, Arnold and James M. A.
MAX J. FARBER. Thorough and accurate knowledge of law
and practice, native ability and unswerving integrity have made
Max J. Barber one of the leaders of the younger generation prac-
ticing at the Chicago bar; high personal character and a strong
sense of duty have made him a desirable and stirring citizen. He
is a self-made man, in that he has had to make his own way largely
since his boyhood, while his education has been gained through
tireless and persistent effort and his large and representative prac-
tice has come as a reward of his own unaided effort. Mr. Farber
was born in Austria, December 7, 1877, and is a son of Joseph and
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Rose (Grossman) Farber. His father, who was for some years
engaged in business in Austria, died in that country, and in 1887
the mother and three sons emigrated to the United States, settling
at Cleveland, Ohio.
Max J. Farber received his elementary education in the public
schools of Cleveland, and after graduating from the high school
there, enrolled as a student in the Western Reserve University.
There he applied himself so assiduously to his studies that he
made rapid advancement, and in 1900 was graduated with high
honors. During all this time Mr. Farber had been employed during
his vacation periods and leisure hours, in this way making it pos-
sible for him to continue his cherished studies. In 1900 he entered
Harvard University Law School, and in 1903 was graduated with
the degree of ( Bachelor of Laws, and in the same year was admitted
to the Ohio bar. During the next four years he was engaged in
practice at Cleveland, but, believing that Chicago offered better
opportunities for his talents, he came to this city in January, 1908,
was admitted to the bar of Illinois, and has continued in practice
here to the present time. For a few years he was associated with
the firm of Hiner, Bunch & Latimer, but is now engaged in an
independent practice, with offices at 1133 First National Bank
Building, and specializing in commercial and corporation law.
Mr. Farber is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, and maintains a high reputation among
his fellow-practitioners.
SAMUEL E. THOMASON. The personnel of the Chicago bar in-
cludes among its younger members Samuel Emory Thomason, a
member of the law firm of Shepard, McCormick, Thomason, Kirk-
land & Patterson. This firm, with offices in the Tribune Building,
is engaged in general practice, and has a commendable record be-
hind it, though a brief one.
Mr. Thomason was born in Chicago on January 24, 1883, and is
a son of Frank D. and Diana (Bean) Thomason. The father
is also a lawyer, and is successfully engaged in practice in the city
today. Mr. Thomason had his higher education in the University
of Michigan and he was graduated from that institution with the
class of 1904, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He prepared for his profession in the Northwestern University Law
School in Chicago, finishing his studies in the class of 1906, receiv-
ing his law degree and admission to the Illinois bar simultaneously.
He began his career in the law office of Stuart G. Shepard, and in
1909 Mr. Shepard, together with Mr. Robert R. McCormick, and
Mr. Thomason entered into a partnership under the firm name of
Shepard, McCormick & Thomason.
Mr. Thomason has appeared in connection with a number of
more than ordinarily important cases in the various courts of Chi-
cago, and he has won prestige as a trial lawyer of tact and resource-
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fulness. He successfully represented the plaintiff in the Corkery
will case involving half a million dollars, and since 1911 has been
retained by the Tribune Company as one of its attorneys, in whose
interests he has appeared in a number of important cases.
Mr. Thomason is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State and
American Bar associations, and his further professional affiliations
are with the Chicago Law Institute and the Legal Club. He has
membership in the University Club and the Ridge Country Club,
as well as his college fraternities, the Theta Delta Chi of his Uni-
versity of Michigan days and the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity.
Mr. Thomason is a republican. In 1912 he was a candidate on
its ticket for a place on the board of Cook County commissioners,
but was defeated with his ticket. He is chairman of the board of
directors of the West Town State Bank, and is a director in a num-
ber of other corporations.
On September 10, 1907, Mr. Thomason was married to Miss
Alexina E. Young, of Chicago, and they have one child, Elizabeth.
Their home is at 10451 South Seeley Avenue.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER JENNINGS. The twenty years since his
admission to the bar, William A. Jennings has devoted to a gen-
eral practice, with an increasing reputation for professional ability
and personal character.
William Alexander Jennings was. born at Prairie Grove, Arkan-
sas, January 24, 1872, and is a son of Fountain and Mary S. (Ellis)
Jennings. His father was born in Tennessee, where he enlisted for
service in the Confederate Cavalry, under the noted General For-
rest, with whom he served during all the campaigns of that intrepid
soldier, and he passed through the entire period of the war receiv-
ing but one wound, a shot through the hand. On his return to
private life at the close of the war he resumed farming, but later
moved into Arkansas, and there he spent the remaining years of
his life as an agriculturist and as a minister of the Methodist
Church.
The public schools of Arkansas furnished William A. Jennings
with his early training, and when he had decided upon a profes-
sional career, he entered the Chicago College of Law in 1892. He
was admitted to the bar of the state in 1894, but was not graduated
nor did he receive his law degree until the next year. Upon his
admission to practice, Mr. Jennings began his work in Chicago, and
in the twenty years that have elapsed since then he has built up a
large and representative practice in and about the city. Early in
his career he was able to demonstrate successfully his ability through
his handling of a number of cases of litigation, and from that time
he has enjoyed a liberal clientage.
Mr. Jennings is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and
of the Southern and Germania clubs. During the Spanish-Ameri-
can war he enlisted for service in the army, his active duties carry-
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ing him through the various engagements in which our soldiers
participated in Cuba.
Mr. Jennings was married in 1897 to Miss Olive Louise Nord-
strom, of Madison, Wisconsin. They have their home at 929 Ainslee
Street.
HARRY L. SHAVER was admitted to the Illinois bar in October,
1907, and has since been very active in practice at Chicago. He
served as the first business manager of the Illinois Law Review
during the first two years of its existence. Besides a practice that
takes him into all the courts, Mr. Shaver has represented the Thirty-
first Senatorial District in the Illinois House of Representatives
during the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth General Assemblies,
where he made an excellent record, having been prominently iden-
tified with some of the most important legislation enacted.
Harry L. Shaver is a native of Iowa, born at Marshalltown
September 30, 1884. His parents were Fred D. and Annie E.
(Kempter) Shaver, who moved to Chicago in 1889. Mr. Shaver
was educated in the grammar schools of Chicago, in the Lake View
High School, and in 1907 graduated in the law course from the
Northwestern University. He is a member of the Chicago Bar
Association and the Illinois State Bar Association, and in politics
is a republican. Mr. Shaver is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi
College Fraternity.
FRANK J. C. KRAHN. A Rockford lawyer since 1909, Mr.
Krahn was for a number of years in practice in Elgin, and is
regarded as one of the strongest members of the Rockford bar,
especially on the commercial side of the profession.
Frank J. C. Krahn was born in Dundee Township of Kane
County, Illinois, May 21, 1872, and grew up on a farm, was educated
in country schools and a high school, took the course of the Dixon
Business College and the Northern Illinois Normal College, and
finished his law studies in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Mr. Krahn graduated in 1895 and was admitted to the bar of
Michigan and Illinois in the same year. He began practice at Elgin,
and for nearly twenty years has been identified with a growing
general practice. During his residence at Elgin he served one term
as city attorney, and in 1909 moved to Rockford, and besides his
regular practice now handles commercial law and collections through
the American Creditors Association. Mr. Krahn is a member of
the Winnebago County Bar Association. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Mystic Workers of the World.