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

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and the Vandalia Railroad Company /
Mr.. Trumbull married Miss Peck and /
has four children
John william Showalter.
Mr.. ShGwalter, 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 1914. His raternal 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 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 a 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, a member of the
Illinois Club, and resides with his
partner, John Milton Oliver, at 5l4
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, 1871. 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, 1870, and then practiced
law in partnership with Charles L.
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. +, 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 constitutions
ality Of the law creating the sanitary
district, and a number Of other cases
Mr.. Brown took the first prize in hi:
class at the Harvard Law School TO
an essay on Punitive Damages. which
was afterward published in the West
ern Jurist He is a member of tn
Chicago Literary Club, IroQuOis Club
University Club, Columbus Club, tn
Law Club, Chicago Bar Association
the Sunset Club, and the Union Cath
) Ollie Literary Association. In rellg
ion. he is a Roman Catholic, col
! vert since 1869: in politics, Demo
r crat, and an ardent belieYer al
' supporter OF the single-taX move
e ment, and is a warm and person;
= friend of Henry George. He marie
! Miss Helen G.. Eagle in June, lSS-
t and has five childIen-Edward Eagle
e Helen D., Walter Elliott, Rober
d and Mary w. Brown. Mr.. Brow
II hopes t. be elected Superior Coul
e Judge, for which position he has bee
e placed in nomination by his Dem
a cratic friends.
b Granville w. Browning.
p Mr.. Browning, who has been nom
e mated by the Democratic conventiC
n for one of the Judges of the Circu
i Court, was born in Indianapolis Marc
IS IA. 1856, and he, like Mr. Sears, wi
e is making the race for one Of {
It Judges Of the Superior Court, studi
law with Hon. William II. King !
IS graduated from the Michigan III
n versity in the class Of 1877, and Cal
to Chicago the following year. \
Brown passed an excellent examit
~ tion before the Appellate Court