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Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago


Early Photography in Chicago
John Carbutt’s Photography Studios
1867—Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men



The following biographies have been transcribed from Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men in Chicago, published in 1868, with 96 Albumen prints produced by photographer John Carbutt.

    William W. Boyington
    Thomas B. Bryan
    Thomas Church
    Silas B. Cobb
    Edward Ely
    John V. Farwell
    Samuel C. Griggs
    George P. A. Healy
    Anthony C. Hesing
    Thomas Hoyne
    Alexander C. McClurg
    William B. Ogden
    Potter Palmer
    George M. Pullman
    John B. Rice
    Jonathan Young Scammon
    James W. Sheahan
    Charles Tobey
    George P. Upton
    John Van Osdel
    Leonard W. Volk
    John Wentworth

Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago.


The following biographies have been obtained from other period sources.

    Mark Beaubien
    Gordon Saltonstall Hubbard
    Lewis Isbell
    Samuel Insull
    W. D. Kerfoot
    John H. Kinzie
    Joseph Leiter
    Caroline McIlvane
    Charles D. Peacock
    John T. Pirie
    Richard W. Sears

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