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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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Deep Water Way Convention held at Memphis. For manyyears he had been an enthusiast on the subject, holding to the positionthat the improvement of navigable rivers throughout the country soas to develop their full carrying capacity was the most importantbusiness question before the American people. To his mind the workwas not second in importance to the building of the Pacific railwaysand the Atlantic cable of half a century ago, or the present completionof the Panama canal. His selection, therefore, as a delegate to theMemphis convention was but a just tribute to his consistent attitudeon this subject. Mr. Banning was twice married—first, on the 22d of October,1878, to Miss Lucretia T. Lindsley, who died February 8, 1887, leav-ing three sons, Pierson W., Walker and Ephraim, Jr. On September5, 1889, he chose for his second wife Miss Emilie B. Jenne, daughterof the late O. B. Jenne, of Elgin, Illinois. Both the deceased and his VUBLIG LIBRARY I ASTOR, LENOX AND ■ riLDEN FOUNDATIONS
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TIMOTHY D. HURLEY. CHICAGO AND COOK COUxXTV 577 family were long attendants of the Presbyterian church, of which Mr.Banning was an elder at the time of his death, December 2, 1907. Thecause of his decease was a fall, causing concussion of the brain. Heis survived by his widow and children, his second son being a memberof the firm Banning and Banning. Timothy David Hurley is a substantial and honorable practitionerat the Chicago bar, and was for many years one of the best known ™ ^ justices of the peace on the south side. In the field Timothy D. , ^. , ^. ,Hurley practical moral reforms, as relates to the miprove- ment of juvenile lives and conditions, he has a widereputation throughout the state and the west for unflagging earnest-ness and effective work. Born, in Maysville, Mason county, Ken-tucky, on the 31st of August, 1863, he is a son of Timothy and Ellen(McNamara) Hurley. He was educated in the Catholic parish schoolof his native town of Maysville, and in that place also learn

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