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

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erected works for the manufacture of malleable iron. About this time they organized a stock company and changed the name to the North- Western Manufacturing Company, which they re¬ tained until 1872, about this time Mr. Crane re¬ tiring from the company, after which the name of the company was changed to the Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company, which grew to be one of the largest and best institutions of the kind in the country.
In 1871 Mr. Crane assisted in the organization of the Wright & Lawther Oil and Lead Manufac¬ turing Company, being its vice-president, and in 1885 filling the office of president.
He engaged in the dock and dredging business as a general contractor in 1873, carrying it on with his other business until the present company was incorporated in 1877.
Mr. Crane took an active interest in public affairs and was a widely known and highly re¬ spected citizen. Mr. Crane was married on Sep¬ tember 23, 1857, ^o Miss Eliza J. Beyea, of Pater¬ son, N. J. There were two children, Frank R. and Charles B. The youngest son, Charles B., died a few weeks prior to the death of his father, which occurred September 8, 1887.
He was a member of Cleveland Lodge, No. 211, A. Y. & A. M.; Washington Chapter, No. 43, R. A. M.; Siloan Council, No. 53, R. & S. M.; Chicago Commandery, No. 19, K. T.; the Orien¬ tal Consistory, S. P. R. S., No. 32, and was a member of the conclave of the Knights of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantino.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Eliza J. Crane, and one son, Frank R. Crane, who succeeds him in his business affairs.
HENRY C  NOYES,
CHICAGO,   ILL.
THE gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a native of the Green Mountain State, and was born at Derby Line, Orleans county, January 22, 1846, the son of Adam S. Noyes, a banker, who removed to the West and settled at Rockford, Illinois, in 1858, but returned to Boston in 1867. Our subject had five brothers and a brother-in-law in the Union army during the war of the rebellion. He, himself, entered the army in 1863, and served gallantly until he was mus¬ tered out. He was six months in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Milligan.
He received his primary education in the public schools, and subsequently entered Beloit College. In 1866 he entered the law department of Michi¬ gan University, and was graduated therefrom in the spring of 1869, and admitted to the bar, and at once entered upon the practice of his pro¬ fession at Chicago. He has been engaged in numerous suits in connection with railroads and other large corporations, and is considered one of the foremost corporation lawyers in Chicago. He is attorney for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the Manhattan Life In¬ surance Company of New York, and other large
corporations. Mr. Noyes keeps abreast of the current decisions of the courts, and is thoroughly versed in all of the laws relating to practice in the State and Federal courts. He Is an excellent advocate, and his management of his cases in court is masterful.
. Mr. Noyes won laurels in the case of Henry W. Price, a well-known business man of Rockford, Illinois, and his nephew, Charles H. Fox, against Lewis E. Maddaugh and the heirs of George W. Noble, before Judge Tully, in the circuit court of Cook county, in October, 1889, which case was appealed to the Supreme Court and there af¬ firmed. Its decision established a trust of forty years' standing (a much longer time than the re¬ port of any case shows in any Western State), and it was only won by the energy and persever¬ ance of the counsel in charge of the case. It was bitterly contested. Associated with Mr. Noyes, for the complainants, was J. C. Garver, of Rockford, and the well-known firms of McCagg and Culver. Messrs. Goudy and Green appeared for the defendants. Mr. Noyes proved that for a number of years prior to 1848, William H. Price was engaged in the planing mill business near the corner of Clinton and Randolph streets.    In Sep-