County, and he finished in the old Princeton Township High School.
Mr. Chapman entered the law department of the Northwestern
University of Chicago, was graduated with the class of 1880 and ad-
mitted to the bar in that year. At the beginning of his practice he
located in Ottawa, and soon had a profitable general practice in
all the courts. While his work has been that of a general practi-
tioner, Mr. Chapman has also represented many corporations, and
the firm of McDougall & Chapman has long enjoyed some of the
best distinctions of legal partnership and success in the Illinois bar.
This firm was formed April i, 1887, and has been in existence for
more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Chapman has served as
county attorney of La Salle County two terms, and in 1914 was
elected president of the La Salle County Bar Association.
He is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association ; of
Humboldt Lodge No. 555, A. F. & A. M. ; Shabbona Chapter, R. A.
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M. ; Ottawa Commandery No. 10, Knights Templars ; and Mohamed
Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Peoria. He and his family worship
in the Congregational Church, and in politics he is a republican.
On October 12, 1886, Mr. Chapman married Katie H. Ebersol. She
was born in Burlington, Iowa.
GEORGE S. WILEY. For a young man of thirty-five years George
S. Wiley has performed a great deal of important public service and
gained many successes in his chosen profession of the law. Mr.
Wiley is at the present time serving as state's attorney of La Salle
County with offices in Ottawa.
Born at Earlville in La Salle County, Illinois, March 15, 1879,
George S. Wiley acquired his education in the common schools and
finished the law course at the University of Michigan with the class
of 1900. He was then twenty-one years of age, was admitted to the
bar in Michigan and in Illinois in the same year, and took up general
practice at Earlville. In 1901 Mr. Wiley was elected city attorney
of Earlville and was re-elected to that office in 1903, 1905. 1907,
1909 and 1911, serving five consecutive terms with credit to himself
and to the benefit of that community. In 1912 Mr. Wiley was
elected state's attorney, and from June, 1911, to June, 1912, served
as chairman of the board of supervisors of La Salle County. His
general popularity in his home county, his recognized qualifications
as a lawyer and powers of public leadership were well exemplified in
the November election of 1912, when he was the only democrat
elected on the county ticket in La Salle County. La Salle has for
years been one of the strongholds of the republican party in Illinois,
and it is only in rare and exceptional cases that an individual is
able to break the rule of normality of republican majority.
Mr. Wiley is a member of Earlville Lodge No. 183, A. F. & A.
M. ; Mendota Chapter No. 79, R. A. M. ; Bethany Commandery No.
28, K. T. ; Mohamed Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Peoria;
and Ottawa lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Wiley has served three terms as master of his Masonic lodge.
He is also a member of the La Salle County and the Illinois State
Bar associations. Mr. Wiley was married February 14, 1901, to
Ella Gettemy, of Chicago. Their two children are George H. and
Donald F.
WILLIAM J. FULTON. In the legal profession success stands as
the criterion of character and ability, and by this mark Mr. Fulton
may well be satisfied to be judged, for he has gained secure place
as one of the representative members of the bar of De Kalb County,
where he is a member of the well-known law firm of Faissler & Ful-
ton, of Sycamore, the county seat. His professional coadjutor is
John Faissler, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of
this publication. The firm controls an excellent practice of general
order and is local legal representative of a number of important
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corporations, including the Chicago Great Western Railroad
Company ; the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company ; the Chi-
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company; the De Kalb & Syca-
more Traction Company ; and the Aurora & De Kalb Traction Com-
pany.
Mr. Fulton was born in the village of Lynedoch, Norfolk County,
Province of Ontario, Canada, on the I4th of January, 1875, and is
a son of James and Jane (Gray) Fulton, the former of whom was
born in Canada, and the latter in the State of New York, their home
being now at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where the father is living re-
tired. Of the six sons and three daughters, all of whom are living,
William J., of this review, was the second in order of birth. James
Fulton continued to be engaged in mercantile pursuits in Ontario,
Canada, until 1881, when he came with his family to Illinois and en-
gaged in the general merchandise business at Sandwich, De Kalb
County. He later removed to Waterman, this county, where he
continued as a successful and representative merchant until 1893.
Since 1908 he has lived retired from active business.
William J. Fulton was a lad of five years at the time of the
family removal to De Kalb County, where he was afforded the
advantages of the public schools. He finally entered the academic
department of the University of Illinois, in which he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. In the law department of the same institution he was grad-
uated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and with con-
comitant admission to the bar of the state. During the initial period
of his active professional work Mr. Fulton was associated with the
firm of Carnes & Dunton, and since 1909 he has been a member of
the law firm of Faissler, Fulton & Roberts, the alliance of which
has proved fruitful in the building up of an excellent practice of
general order. In politics Mr. Fulton is a stanch supporter of the
principles and policies that have made the republican party a safe
conservator of the nation's prosperity, and he is actively identified
with the Illinois State Bar Association and the De Kalb County Bar
Association.
November 26, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Fulton to
Miss Laura Busey, of Hebron, McHenry County, and they have
three children : William J., Jr., Robert Busey, and Sarah Jane.
HARVEY A. JONES. Most consonant w r ith the assigned functions
of this publication and most gratifying in every sense is the privi-
lege of according definite recognition to such an able representative
of the Illinois bar as was the sterling citizen whose name introduces
this paragraph, who began the practice of his profession in this state
nearly half a century ago and who until his recent death, on Decem-
ber 12, 1914, devoted attention to active law business. He was one
of the honored and influential citizens of Sycamore and the high
regard in which he was held by his professional confreres is indi-
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cated by the fact that for several years and until his death he held
the office of president of the DeKalb County Bar Association.
Harvey Alston Jones was born on the old homestead farm of
his parents, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, on the I7th of October,
1837, a date that indicates that his father was numbered among the
pioneers of the Hoosier commonwealth. He was a son of David and
Mary (Owens) Jones, the former of whom was born near the City
of Richmond, Virginia, on the i8th of February, 1798, and the lat-
ter of whom was born in the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, on the
1 9th of July, 1802, their marriage having been solemnized in Dayton,
Clark County, Ohio. Of the family of eight sons and two daugh-
ters Harvey A., of this review, was the seventh in order of birth
and he is the only one now living. The father was identified with
agricultural pursuits in Ohio until he numbered himself among the
sturdy pioneers of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where he reclaimed
a farm from the wilderness and where both he and his wife passed
the residue of their lives, he having been summoned to eternal rest
on the nth of November, 1848, and his widow having survived
him by nearly twenty years, her death having occurred in 1865.
The lineage of the Jones family is traced back to sterling Welsh
and English origin and representatives of the same settled in Vir-
ginia in the colonial era of our national history, Dr. James Jones,
great-grandfather of the subject of this review, having served as
a surgeon with the Continental troops in the war of the Revolution.
The pioneer schools of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, afforded to
Harvey A. Jones his early educational facilities, and it is needless
to say that he was not denied a full quota of youthful experinece
in connection with the arduous work of the home farm, in the devel-
opment of which he gave sturdy co-operation. In his native county
he attended the Pleasant Grove school, and he was fortunate in the
realization of his ambition for higher education, in defraying the
expenses of which he depended largely upon his own resources.
He attended Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Indiana, and Lom-
bard University, at Galesburg, Illinois, after which he availed him-
self of the best possible advantages for rounding out a symmetrical
professional education. He entered the law department of the great
University of Michigan, in which he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1865, his admission to the Michigan bar being granted
at the same time, in the City of Detroit. Within the same year he
gained admission to the Illinois bar and engaged in the active prac-
tice of his profession at Sycamore, where he continued to reside
during the long intervening years and where he has left a strong
and worthy impress upon the history of jurisprudence in this part
of the state. He served as city attorney and as special master in
chancery, but had no desire for public office not thus directly con-
cerned with the profession which was dignified and honored by his
character and services. Mr. Jones at the time of his death was one
of the most venerable of the active members of the Illinois State
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Bar Association and, as previously stated, was for several years
retained in office as president of the DeKalb County Bar Association.
In 1861 Mr. Jones received the degree of Master Mason in
Geneva Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Geneva,
Kane County, this state, and from the same he was finally admitted
to Sycamore Lodge, with which he remained in active affiliation,
as he did also with the Sycamore Chapter of Royal Arch Masons,
and the Sycamore Commandery of Knights Templar. He was also
an Odd Fellow for forty-five years. Amidst the changes and
chances of modern professional politics Mr. Jones did not falter
in his allegiance to the republican party, and as a citizen he ever
maintained high ideals and standards, with ready co-operation in the
furtherance of measures and policies that tended to advance the
social and material welfare of the community.
On the 22d of February, 1861, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Jones to Miss Sarah Dudley Perkins, who was born at St.
Charles, Illinois, a representative of a well-known pioneer family of
Kane County. Mrs. Jones attended Lombard College when a young
woman and virtually completed the prescribed curriculum in this
Illinois institution. She did not, however, receive her diploma, and
within the year 1914 there came to her a tardy but greatly appre-
ciated recognition, in that the authorities of the college informed
her that if she would prepare a thesis of some length and present
the same her diploma would be sent to her. Though nearing at this
time the age of three score years and ten, she completed the thesis
and in due time received her diploma. Mr. and Mrs. Jones became
the parents of seven children, of whom only two are living Mary
F., who remains at the parental home; and Anna, who is the wife
of Prof. George M. Clayberg, of the McKinley High School in the
City of Chicago. They reside in Oak Park, Illinois.
AMBERT D. MORGAN. The leading representative of his pro-
fession at Herrin, Williamson County, Ambert D. Morgan was a
graduate in 1909 from the Illinois College of Law at Chicago, was
admitted to the Bar of Illinois in 1909 and has since been actively
identified with practice at Herrin. He stands high in the William-
son County Bar, and has an excellent business.
Ambert D. Morgan was born at Hampshire, Illinois, October 29,
1885, a son of L. D. and Elizabeth (Helmer) Morgan, both of
whom are still living, his father at the age of seventy and his mother
sixty-one. The great-grandfather Morgan was a prominent citizen
of Syracuse, New York, while grandfather Morgan came from that
state to Illinois and was one of the early settlers in McHenry
County, following a career as a farmer. L. D. Morgan, a Civil war
veteran, was born near Marengo in McHenry County. He and his
wife were the parents of six children, of whom the Herrin lawyer
is the fifth.
Mr. Morgan received his early education in the public schools of
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Kane County, attended the Elgin, Illinois, High School, for two
years was a student in the University of Illinois in the science
department, and spent three years at the Illinois College of Law,
Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Morgan is a member of the County Bar
Association, is on the township high school board, and has fra-
ternal affiliations with the Mississippi Valley Consistory, the Scottish
Rite Temple, East St. Louis, Illinois; the Royal Arch Chapter of
Masonry, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern
Woodmen of America. On December 25, 1910, he married Miss
Alberta Eubank of Centralia, Illinois, daughter of James S. and
Olive Eubank, of Centralia. To their marriage was born two chil-
dren, Lillian Eugenia Morgan in 1912 and Harriet Elizabeth in 1914.
WILLIAM C. JONES. A broad and thorough experience as a
lawyer has brought William C. Jones of Streator some of the best
rewards of the profession. Mr. Jones has been in practice at
Streator, which is his native town, for seven or eight years, and
prior to that had an extensive experience in offices in Chicago.
William C. Jones was born in Streator March 18, 1881, a son of
James H. and Mary M. McAllister Jones. His father was born in
West Virginia in 1859, came to La Salle County with his father,
James Jones, at a very early age, and the latter was one of the
pioneer coal operators in La Salle County. James H. Jones after
his education engaged in coal mining for a number of years, and
operated a number of coal mines with James Price as partner. In
1912 he moved to Texas, where he is now living. For one term or
more he served as alderman from his ward in Streator, and was
active in republican affairs. His wife was born in England of
Scotch parents, and they had seven children, four of whom are
living.
William C. Jones, the oldest of these children, was educated in
the Streator public schools, finishing with the high school course,
and conducted his law studies in the office of Reeves & Boys at
Streator and was admitted to the bar in 1902.- The first six months
as a lawyer were spent in Chicago at the office of the clerk of the
Court of Appeals, and then he became engaged with the Grand
Trunk- Western Railway in the claim agent's department as assist-
ant to Hon. Kenesaw M. Landis, now United States District Judge.
After about three years in that work Mr. Jones engaged in practice
for himself at Chicago, but in December, 1907, returned to his
native city and has since been making rapid progress as a member
of the Streator bar. He formed a partnership with Paul R. Chub-
buck under the firm name of Chubbuck & Jones, and this relationship
was continued until June, 1910, when Mr. Jones took over the
business of the firm and has since been in general practice for him-
self. His offices are at 207 Main Street in Streator.
Mr. Jones is a member of the La Salle County Bar Association
and the Illinois State Bar Association. He is past master of Strea-
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tor Lodge No. 607, A. F. & A. M., and also affiliates with Streator
Chapter No. 168, R. A. M., with Streator Council, No. 73 R. & S.
M., and with Streator Commandery. Politically Mr. Jones is a
republican. He was married to Gussie M. Hoobler, who was born
in La Salle County. They have three children : William D., Virginia
and Bruce.
WILLIAM M. SCANLAN. One of the brainiest and keenest law-
yers and a public leader of unquestioned ability in La Salle County
is William M. Scanlan, whose early youth was spent on a farm in
Dimmick Township of that county and whose professional career
covers a dozen years, filled with success in the law and with the
duties of a rising scale of public offices.
William M. Scanlan was born in Dimmick Township of La Salle
County November 15, 1874, was educated in the district schools of
the county, attended the Northern Illinois Normal School at Dixon,
and in 1901 graduated from the law department of the University
of Michigan. In 1902 he began practice at Peru, and in 1903 took
in John J. Massieon as partner under the firm name of Scanlan &
Massieon, which still continues, and looks after a large general
practice in the local courts. In 1903 Mr. Scanlan was elected city
attorney of Peru and re-elected in 1905 and 1907, serving three full
terms. In 1908 he was elected a member of the general assembly of
Illinois and re-elected in 1910, 1912 and 1914. During his legisla-
tive service he was chairman of the corporation committee during
the Forty-seventh Assembly and was a member of the committee
on public utilities which reported the law under which the present
public utilities commission is operating. During the Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth assemblies he was chairman of the committee on
insurance. Mr. Scanlan is a republican, is affiliated with La Salle
Lodge No. 584 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the
Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of Columbus.
JOHN J. MASSIEON. Junior member of the firm of Scanlan &
Massieon at Peru, John J. Massieon has spent most of his life in
his home city and has been in active practice as a lawyer for the
past twelve years. He is a prominent and useful worker in municipal
affairs, and is now holding the office of mayor of Peru.
John J. Massieon was born in Peru, Illinois, April 12, 1878, a
son of John and Mary (Schaulin) Massieon. His father was born
in Germany March 4, 1853, and is still living, and his mother was
born in Sheffield, Illinois, in September, 1853. They were the par-
ents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, and the Peru
lawyer was the second child. His education came from the public
schools of Peru, with additional attendance at the Northern Illinois
Normal in Dixon, where he graduated in law, LL. B., with the class
of 1901. Thereafter one year was spent in the law office of E. E.
Wingert at Dixon, and he was admitted to the bar in 1902 and
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practiced for a time in Spring Valley, but in 1903 became a partner
of William M. Scanlan at Peru. When Mr. Scanlan left the office
of city attorney to enter the State Legislature, Mr. Massieon suc-
ceeded him as city attorney of Peru in 1909 and was re-elected in
1911, serving two full terms. In May, 1913, the people of Peru
elected him mayor and in 1915 he was re-elected to that office. Mr.
Massieon is a republican, is affiliated with St. John's Lodge, No. 13,
A. F. & A. M., with Peru Chapter, No. 60, R. A. M. ; with Peru
Council, R. & S. M. ; and also with Dixon Lodge No. 779, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Massieon married Myra B.
(Lawrence) Hake.
BERNARD HALL TAYLOR. As a member of the Fulton County
bar for upwards of twenty years, Bernard H. Taylor has enjoyed
a large general practice, has filled several offices with distinction, and
has brought to his profession a thorough knowledge of the law and
a broad experience with men and affairs. Mr. Taylor is especially
well known for his military service, was trained when a boy in a
military school, commanded a company of Illinois soldiers during
the Spanish-American war, and for a number of years was promi-
nent in the Illinois National Guard.
Bernard Hall Taylor was born at Farmington, Illinois, Feb-
ruary 17, 1871, a son of William Lathrop and Florence (Montgom-
ery) Taylor. His father was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and
his mother in Farmington, Illinois. His primary education was
acquired in the public schools at Canton, and at the age of sixteen
he entered the Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, New
York, graduating in 1890 and for one year thereafter being employed
as a drill master. He then entered the law department of the Colum-
bian L T niversity at Washington, D. C., graduated LL. B. in 1893,
and in the following year received the degree LL. M. from the
same institution. Mr. Naylor was admitted to practice in the State
of Illinois at Ottawa in 1896, and has since been identified with the
bar at Canton.
Promptly after the declaration of war against Spain in April,
1898, Mr. Taylor enlisted and was mustered in as captain of Com-
pany M, Fifth Regiment United States Volunteers, at Springfield,
on May 7, 1898. The regiment was commanded by Col. J. S. Culver.
A week later the troops proceeded to Camp Thomas, Chickamauga
Park, Georgia, and remained there nearly three months awaiting
orders for advance to the front. On August 3rd the regiment left
Chickamauga for Newport News, Virginia, expecting to embark
without delay for Cuba. They were sent on board the transport
Obdam, but after remaining on board thirty-six hours the order
was rescinded, they disembarked and returned to camp. That was
the second time a similar order was countermanded during the war.
A few days after this event Spain accepted the terms of peace, and
the regiment was ordered to Lexington, Kentucky, remained in
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camp there thirty days, then was sent to Springfield, given a fur-
lough of thirty days, and mustered out October i6th. The regi-
ment consisted of 1,213 men anc ^ 47 officers. Captain Taylor was
then appointed judge advocate of the Second Brigade, Illinois
National Guard, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and finally
resigned in order to devote all his time to the practice of his pro-
fession. The order granting his discharge contained the following
commendations from his commanding officer, Col. J. S. Culver:
"As company commander, he was one of the best in the regiment
and the peer of any in the service; faithful, loyal, honest and will-
ing, he made the welfare of his men his care, and as a result he
possesses their confidence and esteem as well as that of the com-
manding officer of the regiment. He has all the qualifications and
ability to command a battalion, regiment or brigade." On his return
from his war service and just before the disbanding of the company
Captain Taylor was presented by its members with a handsome
sword as a token of their esteem as a fellow soldier and their appre-
ciation of him as an officer.
Since the war Colonel Taylor has enjoyed a large practice and
is recognized as one of the leading members of the Fulton County
bar. He was elected and served as state's attorney of Fulton
County from 1900 to 1904. As a republican he has been a delegate
to state conventions since 1896, and takes an interested part in
local affairs, being now president of the board of education at Can-
ton. On November 19, 1902, Mr. Taylor married Miss Alida Ten
Eyck, daughter of James and Rachel (Ledeboer) Ten Eyck. They
have two children: James Alexander, born October n, 1903, and
Francis Montgomery, born April 6, 1905, and both in public schools.
Colonel Taylor is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of
Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and
his wife are both members of the Canton Country Club. Mrs.
Taylor was educated in the Fairview public schools and the
Woman's College at Jacksonville, and is an active member of the
Woman's Club. Their home is at 240 West Chestnut Street,
Canton.
JOHN THOMAS KENWORTHY. One of the oldest lawyers at
Rock Island is John Thomas Kenworthy, who has been continuously
a member of the bar of that city more than forty years and at an
earlier date had been admitted to the bar and had taken up practice
in his native village of Andalusia in Rock Island County.
Born in that locality October 24, 1846, John Thomas Kenworthy
is a son of Samuel and Sarah Maria (Eby) Kenworthy. He