Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-21

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--W 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, 1913. 1t
was in Illinois that Mr.. Prentiss was
taught how 10 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 X Holley, at Macomb; and
a 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 1878 to
1884: Mayor of Macomb in 1891, and
1 is now a member of the City Council
I at Evanston: was a candidate for
II Presidential Elector on the Cleveland
i ticket in the Eleventh Illinois Dis
. trct in 1881.
;, He was nominated by the Demo
> Gratis for Circuit Judge in anticipa-
d tiOn of law being passed increasing
3 the number, in 1885, but as the law
II failed to pass the nomination did not
u count. unsolicited, he received the
e Democratic nomination for Congress
Il in the Old Eleventh District in 1888
j but was defeated at the polls by w
= H. GeSt, of Rock Island. Mr.. Prem
: tiss prosecuted Robert H. Click an(
IL three others for murder in 1882, anC
IL they were all convicted get
y ting verdict to hang Click
u which was afterward changed t.
W Imprisonment for life For lively
D years prior to 1891 he was en-
u gagged on one side of nearly al
> the important cases in MCDOnOug
IL county. He is a UniverSalist, an
III believes in the final salvation of a
10 mankind. He united in marriag
" with Miss E. Helen McCaughey, {
Id Fulton, H., in December, 1872. I'll
III union was blessed with three chi
nc dren-Jackson McCaughey Prenti
Is and William PrentisS Jr., now ii
u ing. The eldest son, James Mamie
e Prentss who was named in honor
IT, DR.. Manley, of the Universal
as Church, was drowned in Lake Mich
or gan in June last. Mr.. PrentiSs' o
al iect in going TO Evanston was to ed
cate his children, retire from politi
and practice law in Chicago.
~ Nathaniel Clinton Gears.
on Mr.. Sears first beheld the light
ne day in GallipoIis, Ohio, Aug. %, lS5
Oh He prepared for college at ElgiD, II
III in the Elgin Academy, of which /
NV father was for many years the pri
H. cipal TOOK the freshman year
he Knox College. Galesburg, and t
be- last three years of the college cour
rs at Amherst, from which college
,eh graduated with honor in 1875. !
he afterward studied two years in t
a universities of Gottingen, Heidelbe
at and Berlin, and took course in 4
his man and international law RetuI
eX- ing to Illinois, he studied law wi
ing Hon. william II. King, who rank
Tor high among the able lawyers
led Chicago and was admitted TO the
as January. 1873. lie has been a me
by Der Of the following law firms: Sc
n Sears. sears \ Foster and sc
4 Arnd. Nh. Sears has attenC