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

and reelected in l692. lie 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 g.,
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, 1913. 1t
was in Illinois that Mr. Prentiss was
taught how to reap and to NOW, to
plow 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 Melon
ough County in the spring Of 1875,
with health fully restored.
Mr.. Prehtiss studied law with
Judge John S. Bailey, of Macomb,
ILL.,, and was admitted to the
Illinois bar June IS, 1878. He COM
menced the study of law while work
ing on farm in Minnesota 10 1875.
He has been member or 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
1878 to 1876: States Attorney of Nc
Donough County, H., from 1878 to
1884; Mayor of Macomb in 1881, and
is now member of the City Council
at Evanston: was a candidate for
Presidential Elector on the Cleveland
ticket in the Eleventh Illinois Dis
trict in 1884.
He was nominated by the Demo
Gratis for Circuit Judge in anticipa-
tion of a law being passed increasing
the number, in 1885, but as the law
failed to pass the nomination did not
count. Unsolicited, he received the
Democratic nomination for Congress
in the old Eleventh District in 1888,
but was defeated at the polls by w.
II. GeSt, of Rock Island. Mr.. Prem
tiss prosecuted Robert H. Click and
three others for murder in 1882, and
they were all convicted, get
ting verdict to hang Click,
which was afterward changed to
Imprisonment for life. For twelve
years prior to 1891 he was en-
gagged on one side of nearly all
the important cases in McDonough
county He is a Universalist, and
believes in the final salvation Of all
mankind. He united in marriage
with Miss E. Helen McCaughey, of
Fulton, ILL.,, in December, 1872. The
union was blessed with three chill
dren-Jackson McCaughey Prentiss
and William Prentiss, Jr., now liv-
ing. The eldest son, James Manley
Prentiss, who was named in honor oil
DR.. Manley, Of the Universalst
Church, was drowned in Lake Michi
gan in June last. Mr.. Prentiss' OBJ
ject in going TO Evanston was to edu
cate his children, retire from polite:
and practice law in Chicago.
Nathaniel Clinton Sears.
Mr.. Sears first beheld the light Of
day in Gallipolis, Ohio, Aug. %, 1854
He prepared for college at Elgin, Ill
in the Elgin Academy, of which his
father was for many years the prin.
cipal. Took the freshman year at
Knox College, Galesburg, and the
last three years of the college course
at Amherst from which college he
graduated with honor in 1875. He
afterward studied two years in the
universities of Gottingen, Heidelberg
and Berlin, and took a course in RO
man and international law Return
ing to Illinois, he studied law will
Hon William H. King, who ranked
high among the able lawyers o
Chicago, and was admitted to the ba
January 1878. lie has been a mem
Der Of the following law firms: Scar
x Sears, Sears x Foster, and Scar
x Arnd. MI Sears has ATTENDED
to his profession exclusively and ha
not been seeker after Office. II