Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-28

vania and p, c. & ST. l.. II. II. Co. S
and the Vandalia Railroad Company.
Mr.. Trumbull married Miss Peck and
has four children.
John William ShowaIter.
Mr.. Showalter, who has been NOM
mated by the Democratic convention
for one of the Judges of the Superior
Court, was born in Mason County,
Kentucky, in 1874. His paternal an
cestor, Ulrich Showalter, came from
Germany about the middle of the
last century, and settled in Rocking
ham County, Virginia.
Mr.. Showalter was graduated at
Yale College, in the Academic De-
partment, in the class of 1867. He
was a prominent and popular man in
the University, and enjoyed the dis
tinguished honor of delivering the
class grafton. He came to Chicago and
entered, as law student, the Office of
the Hon. Samuel NJ. Moore, for many
years the Judge of the Superior
Court, and the Hon. Bernard G. Caul-
field. He was admitted to the bar
Oct. 81, 1869, and remained with the
firm of Moore & Caulfield until the
same was dissolved by Judge Moore's
elevation to the bench of the Supe-
rior Court, since which time he has
been in active practice in this city.
He is a bachelor, member of the
Illinois Club, and resides with his
partner, John Milton Oliver at 514
West Congress street, and is the only
judicial nominee of the late Demo
cratic Convention who resides on the
West Side.
Edward Osgood Brown.
Mr.. Brown was born in a place
that has produced many men of note
Salem, Mass.-Aug. 5, 1S47. He
studied law with Ives & Lincoln, of
Salem, at the Harvard Law School,
and also in the position of assistant
clerk of the Supreme Court of Rhode
Island, and was admitted to the bar
of that State, at Providence, in
March, $780, and then practiced
law in partnership with Charles E.
German, now United States District
Attorney for the District of Rhode
Island. He came to Chicago in April,
1872, and was admitted to the Hi
nois bar, at Ottawa, Dec. 4, 1872. He
is a member of the firm of Peckham
& Brown. Mr.. Orville Peckham was
his college classmate and came to
Chicago with him. He has held no
official position except that of assist
ant clerk of the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island, in 1869.
Mr.. Browns firm has been engaged
in several cases of public interest.
The People vs. Knickerbocker, in
volving the cOnstitutionality Of the
act creating probate courts in cities,
ETC.; the drainage cases, involving
heavy interests and the constitution
ality of the law creating the sanitary
district, and a number of other cases
Mr.. Brown took the first prize in his
class at the Harvard Law School for
an essay on Punitive Damages, which
was afterward published in the West
ern Jurist. He is member of the
Chicago Literary Club, Iroquois Club,
University Club, Columbus Club, the
Law Club, Chicago Bar Association,
the Sunset Club, and the Union Cath
Ollie Literary Association. In relig-
ion, he is a Roman Catholic, con-
vert since 1869: in politics, a Demo
crat, and an ardent believer and
supporter of the single-tax move
ment, and is a warm and personal
friend of Henry George. He married
Miss Helen G. Eagle in June, 1884,
and has five children-Edward Eagle,
Helen D., Walter Elliott, Robert,
and Mary w. Brown. Mr.. Brown
hopes to be elected Superior Court
Judge for which position he has been
placed in nomination by his Demo-
cratic friends.
Granville w. Browning.
Mr.. Browning, who has been nomi-
mated by the Democratic convention
for one of the Judges of the Circuit
Court was born in indianapolis March
A. 1856, and he, like Mr.. Sears, who
is making the race for one OF the
Judges of the Superior Court, studied
law with Hon. William II. King. He
graduated from the Michigan Uni
versity in the class OF 1877, and came
to Chicago the following year Mr..
proxun paeeed an evcellent pvamina.