Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-15

ample fortune In addition to what he
had himself accumulated, Mr.. Jones
has devoted much time to travel, lit
erary work and public service. For
some years before the fire he devoted
himself to dealing in real estate and
prepared set Of distract books which
he took to jackson, Mich. After the
fire had destroyed all the public rec
ords, these books, with others, became
the only authentic history of titles to
lands in Cook county. Mr.. Jones has
a remarkable memory and is an author
ity on the early history Of Chicago.
He has been county commissioner, SUI
pervisor, alderman and trustee of Chi
cago university, besides being connect
ed with a number of leading charitablo
institutions.
When the first council of women was
held at the federal capita, G. M. Avery,
the husband of the pretty and we'll
known secretary Of the National Coun-
ell Of Women, Rachel Foster Avery,
accompanied his mother, Rosa Miller
Avery, who is not without fame among
the suffragists. It was a case of love
at first sight and deeper love upon ac-
quaintance. The young secretary with
her brilliant face and gracious pres
ence held very pronounced and very
advanced views. The handsome,
amiable, affable young man had been
brought up on similar views and was
quite ready to consent to an equal mar
rage and various other things which
she, who was then Miss Foster, re-
garded as highly important. Mr.. avery
had already proved himself an admira-
BILE business man, and soon after his
marriage became a partner in the large
hardware firm Of which he was at the
time the representative. Mrs Rachel
Foster Avery inherited small fortune
from her father, and it was understood
between the two that in money mat
tiers, as in other things. they should
be independent of each other. Mr..
Avery has demonstrated his ability to
stand on his own feet squarely in q
business way, for he has accumulated
q property quite equal to his wife's.
Still, he is by no means a money-mak-
ing machine, but is an intellectual and
cultivated man.
A few years ago men were won't to
object to having their wives written
of. Now it more frequently transpires
that a man is more than willing that
his wife should be exploited, but
is himself averse to appearing in
public print. Potter Palmer declares
that whatever is written Of him is with
out his knowledge or consent, but of
Mrs. Palmer he is quite willing to have
sketches written. Mr.. Palmer is New
Yorker. He came to Chicago in an
early day and established himself in a
small way as merchant. He enlarged
his business until his was the fashiona-
BILE dry-goods store of the city. Later
he went into real estate operations
and it was in this way that he made
his large fortune. He is believer in
the equal rights of women and has un
limited confidence in Mrs. Palmer's
ability, which she has certainly dem
onstrated is not misplaced.
There is wide call between the
woman who is distinguished and her
who ardently- desiring to be SO attains
q certain amount of notoriety. There
are few of the former, as data abund-
antly prove, whose husbands have not
been men of parts who were in sympa.
thy with their undertakings. Take,
for example, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
who is one of the most prominent