Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-11-04

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Lake View. lie was elected Alder
man from the First Ward in 1890,
and reelected in 1892. He served as
Chairman of the Committee on Judi
ciary. In February, 1874, he united
his fortune with Miss Mary J. Lyons,
and as the result Of the marriage has
four children William H., Laura c.,
Minnie O. and Georgiana. Mr. Sex
/ ton is a man Of considerable influence
and power, and has an active brain.
His name is before the people on the
Democratic ticket for one of the
Judges of the Superior Court.
William Prentiss.
Mr.. Prentiss. who has been nOmi-
mated by the Democrats for Judge of
the Circuit Court in place Of Judge
Collins resigned, was born in Daven-
port, Iowa, September 10, 1S4S. 1t
was in Illinois that Mr.. Prentiss was
taught how to reap and to NOW, to
pillow and to sow, and to be farmers
boy"
He was raised in Schuyler, Fulton
and McDonough counties, and edu-
Gated principally at Knox College,
Galesburg. He went to Minnesota
in the spring of 1869, on account of
poor health, and returned to Nc Don
ough County in the spring of 1876,
with health fully restored.
Mr.. Prentiss studied law with
Judge John S. Bailey Of Macomb,
H., and was admitted to the
Illinois bar June IS, 1878 He com
menced the study of law while work
ing on farm in Minnesota in 1875.
He has been a member of the law
firms of Prentiss & Bailey, Prentiss,
Bailey & Holley, at Macomb and
Prentiss, Montgomery & Hall. in this
city. He served as County Superin.
tendent of Schools in Minnesota from
1873 to 1876; States Attorney Of Nc
, DOnough County, H., from 1873 to
|, 1884: Mayor of Macomb in 1881, and
; is now a member of the City Council
/ at Evanston: was a candidate fOl
/ Presidential ElectOr on the Cleveland
} ticket in the Eleventh Illinois Dis
trict in 1891.
5 He was nominated by the Demo
/ Gratis for Circuit Judge in anticipa
tion of Il law being passed increasing
r the number, in 1885, but as the Law
/ failed to pass the nomination did no
e count. Unsolicited he received tn,
I | Democratic nomination for Congress
r in the old Eleventh District in 1888
= but was defeated at the polls by w
: II. Gest, of Rock Island. Mr.. Prem
e tiss prosecuted Robert H. Click an
r three others for murder in 1882, an
J, they were all convicted, get
u ting a verdict to hang Click
o which was afterWard changed t
J. Imprisonment for life. For lively
l. years prior to 1891 he was or
), gagged on one side Of nearly a
l. the important cases in McDOnoug
It county He is a Universalist, an
IS believes in the final salvation of a
r mankind. He united in marriag
d with Miss E. Helen McCaughey, {
n Fulton, H., in December, 1872 Th
lie union was blessed with three chi
rs dren-JacksOn McCaughey Prentis
D. and William Prentss, Jr., now Ii,
e. ing. The eldest son, James Mamie
+. Prentiss, who was named in honor
as Dr. Manley, Of the UniversaliS
or Church, was drowned in Lake Mich
al gan in June last Mr. Prentiss o.
jet in going TO Evanston was to ed
cate his children, retire from politi
IL and practice law in Chicago.
)n Nathaniel Clinton Sears.
ne Mr. Sears first beheld the light
OF day in Gallipolis, Ohio, Aug %, 1855
IN He prepared for college at Elgin, Ill
wv in the Elgin Academy, of which h
NJ father was for many years the pri
ne cipal TOOK the freshman year
De- Knox College, Galesburg, and Il
IS last three years of the college cour
en- at Amherst, from which college
he graduated with honor in 1875. !
a afteTward studied two years i'm {
at universities of Gottngen, Tcdelbe
his and Berlin, and took a course in L
ex- man and international law RetuI
ng ing to Illinois, he studied law wi
for Hon. William ii. King, who rank
led high among the able lawyers
as Chicago, and was admitted TO the
by January, 1873. lie has been mt
Der OF the following law firms: Sc