Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-05-03
EDWARD f. CULLERTON.

Edward Francis Cullerton, member
for fifteen years of the Chicago City
Council, was born in Chicago October
IL, 1912. His father, Edward Cutler
ton, was farmer, a native of Wexford,
Ireland, and his mother was Ellen
(Ryan) Cullerton, native of Queens
County, Ireland. His parents came to
the United States in 1841 and settled
near Summit and his father followed
the canal and river for several wears,
departing this life in 1885 at the age
of SO years, and his mother dying in
1874. He had no opportunity to OBJ
tain schooling except in the winter
months when he was between the age
of and II years, but being of stu
dious disposition he subsequently
achieved a practical business educa-
ton, When II years of age he
was employed in brickyard
and subsequently kept livery and
boarding stable. For more than ten
years after this he was a driver on the
Illinois and Michigan Canal; became
captain and owner of boat, and sub
sequently took charge of Walker &
Bronson's towing boats on the canal
and river In the fall of 1871, when
81 years of age, he was elected to the
City Council from the then Seventh
Ward in the fall of 1872 to the State
Legislature; and in the fall of 1873 and
every two years since was reelected
to the City Council. His elections
have always been at the earnest re-
quest and through the efforts of the
people of his district, and his MAORI
ties have averaged larger than those
given any other candidate for a similar
Office. He is regarded by the people
of his district as an old, able, tried,
and experienced representative, and,
although he is always singled out as
the object of bitter partisan attacks, he
still retains the confidence and respect
of the voters of his ward. He has
twice refused the nomination of his
party for Congress, and twice refused
the nomination for State Senator, his
term in the Legislature leading him to
discover that he had either to neglect
his business or decline an office that
would require his attention away from
home. Aid. Cullerton is now the old
est member of the City Council, and
he is regarded as the ablest parlia-
mentarian and most forcible speaker in
that body, part of these qualifca-
lions being natural and part acquired
He has been honored by his confreres
with many positions of responsibility,
having been Chairman of the Finance
Committee three terms, and of other
important committees. He has
OCCI IIl5tI lllltuIdl LII NlbNlSluR
and carrying out many of the
most substantial improvements in
the city, notably in connection with
public works and West Side street i'm
provements. Although Alderman Cul-
lerton was elected to the Legislature,
and the first time to the Council as a
Republican, he has since then affiliated
with the Democratic party, having been
active in party councils a delegate to
numerous county, State, and national
conventions, in all of which his politi-
cal ability has been recognized, and his
powerful oratOry effective. He was q
member of the Reform" Council of
1876 and valuable ally to Thomas
Hoyne in his contest of authority
with Mayor Colvin In 1876 he es-
tablished detective bureau, but soon
relinquished this line of business, as
sociating himself in the wholesale
liquor business with ex-Ald. julius
Jonas from 1878 till 1882, when he or
gained the Prismatic Light and Safe
ty Car-Heating Company, with fac
tory on Canal street. This concern he
sold in April, 1856, and entered the
real estate business. He was married
Nov n, 1868, to Miss Winifred Dyer,
of Chicago, and has comfortable
home in the ward he has so long rep
resented.