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Title: Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pierce, Frederick Clifton, 1855-1904
Subjects: Field family
Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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est, active, and generous. He was a member of the leading clubs of the cityand was ever forward and helpful in all the charitable, humanitarian, and religiousworks and enterprises. After his retirement from business Mr. Field traveled much abroad and at homeand added to a mind already well stored with knowledge the broadening and cul-tured experience which intelligent travel brings. He was a lover of good booksand devotedly attached to art and is said to have owned one of the finest collectionsof paintings and other works of art in the city. Identified with all the moral, intel-lectual, and artistic life of Chicago, he was greatly missed in all those spheres andtrue progressive efforts. He was a trustee of the Art Institute and in 1SS4-5 was amember of the Art Committee of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition. While notentirely keeping aloof from the commercial activities of the city, his tastes and incli-nations were gradually weaning his mind away from them, and he loved to stay at
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HENRY FIELD. I I II « FIELD GENEALOGY. 707 home with his soul and with his books, and pictures, and his art treasures. Mr.Field was a man of large charity, which was not confined to private giving. Hewas intimately associated with the work of several of the most successful institu-tions in the city, in the field of organized charity. In 1883 and 1884 he was a direc-tor of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society and in the latter year a member of theexecutive committee. He was the societys treasurer at the time of his death.In 18S4 he also served as president of the Home of the Friendless. Mr. Field wasa director of the first opera festival given in Chicago in 1885, the affair being givenby the Chicago Opera Festival Association. He was also a director in 1886 of theInter-State Industrial Exposition. His financial interests in Chicago were ex-tensive He was at one time one of the large holders of stock in the West DivisionStreet Railwaj Company and went out with J. Russell Jones and others

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