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

              BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
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•quested to be allowed to sit where he could see defendant while giving his testimony. This was effected by changing the position of the counsel at the tables. A telegram from a brother of Mr. Reynolds to Mr. Lanz, relating to the case, escaped the notice of the defendant's attorney, who had removed a bundle of papers from the table. Mr. Noyes then occupied his keen eyes, and concluded that those papers contained valu¬ able evidence, and ordered them read to the jury. Those   letters and  telegrams  showed  that  Rey¬
nolds had been advised to break off the deal with Seipp. Judge Gresham instructed the jury that Reynolds had conspired to prevent the sale to Seipp, and being deprived of the fifteen thousand dollars which he would have earned by the sale, Keeler had a right to recover that sum, and the jury so found.
In politics, Mr. Noyes is a Republican. He married, June 19, 1873, Miss Angella A. Elmer, formerly of Belville, Ontario. They have one son and one daughter.
GEORGE W. WHITFIELD,  M.D.,  D.D.S.
EVANSTON,  ILL.
THE subject of this biography, a native of Massachusetts, was born near Boston in 1855, and is the only child of the Rev. John Whitfield and Martha (Kemp) Whitfield. His parents are both natives of England, and the father now (1890) eighty-four years of age, is vigorous and well preserved. He was born in 1806, and' traces his ancestry to the Rev. George Whitefield and John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. He has always been prominent as a clergyman, and especially active in the temper¬ ance cause, participating in the first temperance movement in England. The mother of our sub¬ ject was born at Richmond, London, England, the daughter of an excise officer, and belongs to a family many of whom are government officials ; others are connected with the army or navy and many are in the ministry. She has always taken the deepest interest in benevolence and doing for others and Is still extensively engaged in chari¬ table work. The parents settled in Aurora, Illinois, during the son's boyhood and there George received a common school and academ¬ ical education. He was afterwards employed as a book-keeper, and while yet in his teens opened an art store at Aurora. For some time after attaining his majority he was on the west¬ ern plains. In 1879, being then twenty-five years of age, he settled in Chicago, and began his studies and laboratory work preparatory to entering the dental profession. In the fol¬ lowing year he opened an office for practice and   at   the   same   time   matriculated   at   Rush
Medical College. Five years later he graduated from the Chicago Dental College with the de¬ grees of D. D. S., and in the following year, 1886, was graduated from'Rush Medical College with the degree of M. D., continuing during these years his office practice.
Dr. Whitfield has made a special study of electricity and its practical application, and has invented several important instruments now in general use. He takes a special pride in the ap¬ pointments of his office and has what is recognized as one of the best appointed offices in this State. Dr. Whitfield is professor of electrical therapeu¬ tics in the dental department of the Northwestern University, and holds membership in the Chicago Dental Club, the Odontographic Society, the Chicago Electric Club, and was a delegate to the Ninth International Medical Congress.
Dr. Whitfield was for five years a member of Company D, Third Regiment Illinois National Guards, and was with his regiment at Braidwood during the riots of 1887. He has held the posi¬ tion of aural surgeon at the Protestant Orphan Asylum, Chicago, and was assistant surgeon under the celebrated Dr. Gunn, prior to that gentleman's death in 1887.
Dr. Whitfield has always had a fondness for athletic and aquatic sports ; is a lover and a judge of good horses, and by his healthful indulgence in out-of-door amusements has not only pre¬ served, but greatly developed the vigorous con¬ stitution inherited from his parents. He is a man of fine physique, commanding presence and