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Title: Notable men of Illinois & their state
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Bankers Industrialists Lawyers Merchants Municipal officials and employees Pharmacists Physicians Real estate agents State governments
Publisher: (Chicago) : Chicago Daily Journal
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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born in Salem, Mass., Aug. 25, 1836, theson of William Hawthorne and Sarah (Carter) Brooks. He was educated in Boston and at the age of eighteencame to Chicago, where he entered the ofBce of his uncle, Artemas Carter. He was later employed with Mears,Bates & Co., of Oconto, and The Bay de NoQuit Co., and remained there as president until he retired a few yearsago on account of ill health. He is descended from one of the early settlers of Salem, his first ancestor therehaving assisted in the trying of witchcraft cases. His father was at one time a professor in Harvard. Mr.Brooks was instrumental in having the statue of Lincoln placed at the entrance of Lincoln Park, and was one ofthe commissioners for that purpose. He was married to Rose Hambletou. <i:uis,hter of Mr. and Mrs. SamuelL. Hambleton of Maryland and has two daughters, Mrs. George J. Laru.sworth of Chicago and Mrs, H.Blakslev Collins of St. Louis, Mo. Clubs, Union, Onwentsia, C. A. A.; office. Railway Exchange Bldg. 33
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CATLIN, THOMAS DEAN, banker and capitalist, Ottawa, was born in Clinton, N. Y., March 12. 18.38, the sonof Marcus and Philena (Hunt) Dean. He was educated at Hamilton College. Clinton, graduating in 1857, and isnow a trustee of that institution. He came as a poor boy to Ottawa in 18.58. was employed as clerk in thefreight office of the C. & R. I. R. R., afterwards as station agent, and in 1863 was made secretary of the 111. &Miss. Telegraph Co. These lines were le.ased to the Western Union Telegraph Co. in 1867, but the organiza-tion is still maintained, and Mr. Catlin is now president and treasurer. He was made secretary and put incharge of the Ottawa Glass Company in 1868. The plant selling out to the United Glass Company in 1889,he was made president and director and continued as such for about nine years. In 1884 he was elected vice-president of the National City Bank of Ottawa, and in 1890, president. In 1892 he organized the State Bankof Seneca, and in 1903 the First Nat

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