Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-11-12
THE NEW JUDGES.

hunors at Tuesdays elections:
Judge Orrin y. Carter first saw the
light of day in Jefferson County, New
York. forty-four years ago. His whole
life since then may he summed up in
the one woodwork. Ills father was Il
vessel captain on the great lakes. The
family moved to Illinois and Du Page |
County tn try farming when Judge Car |
ter was ~ years old. There he worked |
alternately on the farm and went to
school. BY 1877 he had worked his
way through Wheaton College. paying
his way by teaching school. Then he
came To Chicago and studied law under
the direction of Judge Tulcy and the
late General I. y. stiles. still lie found
II necessary to teach school of and Oh
10 pay expenses. His teaching was
mostly at Morris. In Grundy County.
and before he was admitted to the bar
he was elected County superintendent
of schools In that county. Two years
later he commenced practice ut Morris.
In 1882 he was appointed Prosecuting
Attorney for the county. \ notable
ease he handled at that time was the
prosecution Of Henry schwartz and
Newton Watt for the murder Of Kellogg
Nichols. an express messenger on the
Rock Island Railroad. They were con.
victcd. Going back to Chicago In 1883.
! Judge Carter was elected attorney Of
the Drainage Board In 1892, just when
the big work of the sanitary district
was getting under way ana running
| aga inst legal obstacles. He resigned In
1894 to run for County Judge. ana was
elected. Everybody knows what his
work there has been. especially his i'm.
partial administration of the election
machinery.
Judge &. e. Kohlsaat. Probate Court.
has lived In Chicago longer than many
men who think they IRE pioneers. He
antcdates the fire. Born In Edwards
County, he became resident Of Galena
with his parents when 10 years old. In
1852 he came to Chicago. primarily to
attend the old Chicago University, and
has lived here ever since. He was adj.
United to the bar In 1871. Out of his
entire devotion to the interests OF the
West Side came an appointment In 1884
rs West Park Commissioner. When
Judge Knickert0cker, for many years
an incumbent Of the Probate Court,
died In January. 1890, Judge Kohlsaat
was appointed to succeed him. Service
rs u minute clerk and record writer In
the Probate Court during 1868 and u
part of 1860 had made him familiar
with Probate Court work. His service
Oh the bench was so satisfactory that
the people have kept him there ever
since.
Judge Jesse HOldom Is Frenchman
In blood, an Englishman by birth and
an American from choice. His ances.
tors We're French HuguenOts who fed
from France Oh the eve Of the massa-
ere of st. Bartholomew and settled In
that part Of London called Spltalflelds.
From that time until Jesse HoldOm was
born. nearly 300 years, all Holdoms
were born within half a mile Of the
place where the originals Of the family
settled. Mr.. HOldOm received an aca.
demic education In London, came ia
Chicago In 1868. when II years old, set
tied In Chicago and Immediately com
menced to study law. After two years
he entered the Office of the late Judge
KnickerbOcker, then Joined the stan OF
Tenny, Flower 4 Abercrombie. In 1875
he formed a partnership with Judge
Knickcrbockcr's brother, as Knicker
booker L. HOldom. Since 1850 he hal
practlced alone. Mr.. HOldOm has heel
especially prominent In chancery ant
probate practice. lie has been an nc
tive Republican, but never II candidat,
for Office before,
Judge Jonas Hutchinson commenced
graphing with the problems Of life a
I a farm boy among the rocky hillside
4 of New Hampshire. He was educate,
) In the public schools and nj Dartmouth
College, read law ana was admitted I
Y practice In Concord, n. II. He came I
r Chicago thirty years ago, ana durin
A most of the time since has lived y
). what Is now the Third Ward. Judg
v Hutchinson has been a Democrat a
j. ways and was active In politics unit
@ elected TO the bench. He was especia
n ly prominent in the Tilden campaign
Under Mayor Cregicr he served the cit
I as Corporation Counsel. In 1891 Judg
t Hutchinson was elected to the SuperiO
= Court bench on II nOnpartlsan ticket q
3 the successor of John J.. Altgeld an
/. was reelected in 1892. At the time h
l. was elevated to the bench he was chat
: man of the Democratic County Centr;
e Committee. Since then he has been
II Judge and In no sense a politician.
e Judge Henry V. Freeman Is a natlv
Is of Illinois, born on farm. lie gre
!. up ns all farm boys do-going To scho,
winters, working in the fields summer
d ana when old enough teaching a teri
II or two of district school. This WI
i Judge Stephenson's early lot in Stephel
I. son and Ogle counties. He was still
j. boy when In 1862 he enlisted for II
le war in the Seventy-fourth Illinois. \
At Ter serving three years with the arm
n of the Cumberland and coming hon
m "A captain he entered Yale College an
,e was graduated in 1869. One year late
l. he was admitted TO the bar in Chicag
Il then taught school year at Charlie
II ton. H., and in 1873 commenced pra
20 tcing law here. For three years pr
" vlous TO 1889 he was village attorney
T. Hyde Park, then the largest village
IF the world. lie was elected 10 the s
a pcrlor Court in 1893 and has been {