The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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many people. He is a master of the art of rhet¬ oric. His language is clear, simple and graceful, and he leads his auditors through a long argu¬ mentative path, decked with classic allusions, that, like flowers on the border of a stream, seem to be native there.
He is very happy in epigram. After Abraham Lincoln's second nomination for the presidency a cabal was formed in this State, with the hope of forcing him to retire. At a mass meeting, where one of the discontents had been the first speaker and had delicately hinted at the desirability of Mr. Lincoln's retirement. Judge Doolittle, who had listened with feelings more easily imagined than described, was called as the second speaker. There was a vast audience of probably twenty thousand people, who listened to the previous speaker in ominous silence. The Judge arose, and in slow, clear, solemn tones, and with his right hand raised to heaven, said : " Fellow-citi¬ zens: I believe in God Almighty, and, under Him, I believe in Abraham Lincoln." The spell was broken and the vast audience cheered for fully half an hour. No more was heard of the opposition to Mr. Lincoln,
Ever since Judge Doolittle retired from the Senate, in 1869, though retaining his homestead and citizenship in Wisconsin, he has been engaged in the practice of law at Chicago. His first part¬ nership was with Mr. Jesse O. Norton, under the firm   name   of   Doolittle &   Norton.    After the
great fire of October 8 and 9, 1871, he formed a partnership with his son, under the firm name of J. R. Doolittle & Son. In 1879, ^r, Henry McKey was admitted as a partner in the business, and the firm name became Doolittle & McKey. After the death of Mr. James R. Doolittle, Jr., which occurred in 1889, Mr. Edgar B. Tolman be¬ came a member of the firm, and since that the firm name has been Doolittle, McKey & Tolman. They have a large general practice.
Judge Doolittle suffered one of the great afflic¬ tions of his lifetime in August, 1889, when his son, James R., Jr., died. At the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of which his dis¬ tinguished father is the head. He was an active member of the Chicago Board of Education, and devoted himself unsparingly to the interests of the city and suburban schools. He was a man of great ability as a lawyer, highly accomplished as a scholar, and his kindly gentle nature endeared him to all. By his early death the bar of Cook coun¬ ty lost one of its prominent members, the School Board one of its most progressive and active members.
After a pure, honorable and useful life, actuated by unselfish motives, prompted by patriotism and guided by truth and justice. Judge Doohttle may in old. age rest in the assurance that the people of this country are not unmindful of those who have devoted themselves to their interests. '^ Palmam qu i 7neru it ferat.
DANIEL  HUDSON  BURNHAM,
CHICAGO,   ILL.
DANIEL H. BURNHAM, Chief of Construc¬ tion of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, is a native of Henderson, Jefferson county. New York. He was born September 4, 1846, the son of Edwin and Elizabeth Burnham, who were natives of Vermont. They were married in New York about 1841. The great-grand¬ father of our subject was an officer in the Revolutionary army. His mother's paternal, on both sides, were, for many generations, clergy¬ men. She was a grand-daughter of the cele¬ brated Samuel Hopkins of revolutionary times, and   a   cousin   of   the   late   Mark   Hopkins   of
California. Edwin Burnham removed to Chicago with his family in 1855, and was a wholesale merchant until his decease in 1874. He was president of the old Merchants' Exchange. Young Burnham was a pupil in Professor Snow's private school, located on the present site of the Fair, on Adams street, and afterwards attended the old Jones school and the Chicago High School. Later he spent two years under private instruction at Waltham, Mass., and one year with Professor T. B. Hayw^ard (previously of Harvard University), at Bridgewater, Mass., as his sole pupil.    Returning to Chicago in the fall of  1867,