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Identifier: notablemenofillichic (find matches)
Title: Notable men of Illinois & their state
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Bankers Industrialists Lawyers Merchants Municipal officials and employees Pharmacists Physicians Real estate agents State governments
Publisher: (Chicago) : Chicago Daily Journal
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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hanged to Tenney, Coffeen, Harding & Wilkerson; now mem. firm of Brundage, Wilkerson & Cassells;repub.; mem. 111. legislature. 1902, from 13th dist.; conducted the fight for a state civil service law and intro-duced and secured the passage of the constitutional amendment for a new charter for Chicago; appointed atty.for Cook Co., 1903, and conduf-ted impotant litigation involving questions of taxation .particularly the taxa-tion of the capital stock of corpus.; appointed special atty. for the U. S., 1906, in cases involving violations ofinterstate commerce acts, particularly prosecuti(jns against the Standard Oil Co.; appointed special asst. to atty.-gen. of U. S. 1910, in prosecutions against Swift & to.. Armour & Co., Morris & Co. and National PackingCo., and their otflcers for violations of anti-trust act; appointed United States atty. for the northern districtof Illinois, Aug. 1, 1911; clubs. Union League, Law, Hamilton. Woodlawn Park; olTlce, Federal Bldg. 324
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WESTON, GEORGE, engr., Chicago; b. Kalamazoo, Mich., Jan. 30, 1861; s. John and Catherine (Clarli)Weston; ed. schls. of Kalamazoo and private instructions; engineering corps of M., K & T. R. R. Co., 1880, asrodman in construction worlc south from Ft. Worth, Tex.: in mercantile business, 1882~.3; with engineeringcorps of G., C. & S. F. R. R. Co., rodman to asst. engr., 188.5-7; entered employ of Charles T. Yerltes, 1887, infull cliarge of construction of Clybourn Ave., Milwaukee Ave., Bhie Island Ave., and Halsted St. cable lines;rebuilt about 7.5 miles of horse car lines into electric lines on west side; resigned, Jul:-, IsiM;, ;in(l became mgr.of coii.st ruction dept., Naugle, Holcomb & Co., having charge of construction of the lines of Sulnuban R. R. Co., ofChicago, the chaiiKing from steam to electric road Chicago Terminal Transfer Co., and construction of Tenn,Cen. Ry. over (unilpcrlaud Mduntaius. Tcnn.; mem. firm of WCslon Bros, (with Charles V. Weston), con-sulting a

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