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

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contributed. His executive capacity, his tireless energy, his remarkable enthusiasm, have placed him in the front rank of the progressive business men of a most progressive city, while his loyalty, his genuineness and his straightforward manliness have made him friends everywhere.
In addition to his partnership in the firm of E. Rothschild & Brothers, Mr. Rothschild has nu¬ merous other business interests of magnitude. He organized and is president of the Palace Clothing Company, a corporation which has the leading establishment in Minneapolis, Kansas City and other places. He is also a director and officer In several large local corporations, and on July 13, 1891, he was elected vice-president of the Na¬ tional Bank of the Republic, a new institution, with a capital of a million dollars. In March, 1891, Mr. Rothschild was chosen to occupy a director's chair on the board of the World's Columbian Exposition, and holds important com¬ mitteeships, to which he brings a mind well stored with valuable information gained by his broad business experience and enriched by exten¬ sive travel, both in Europe and America. Mr. Rothschild is  a  member  of  the Standard  Club
and other social organizations, also of Sinai Con¬ gregation and several charitable aid societies.
In December, 1882, Mr. Rothschild was mar¬ ried to Miss Gusta Morris, daughter of Mr. Nel¬ son Morris, one of America's most successful men. The couple are blessed with one child— Melville Nelson Rothschild.
Although Mr. Rothschild is a native of Ger¬ many, he is nevertheless distinctively and thor¬ oughly American. In love for this country and Its institutions there is no one who exceeds him, and he is devoted in the discharge of his duties as a citi¬ zen. Such is the biography of a man who began the struggle for existence with nothing but health, ambition and energy. From them and the honorable principles which have been his guides have come that success which has given him the name of a great merchant. With a repu¬ tation for the highest possible integrity, a record of splendid successes, an ample fortune, a large and increasing business, a warm circle of devoted friends, and above all, a happy home, Mr. Roth¬ schild stands, at thirty-eight, a public-spirited citi¬ zen worthy of the high place he occupies among the representative men of a great community.
STEPHEN  A.  REYNOLDS,
CHICAGO,   ILL.
THE gentleman whose name heads this sketch is one of the most prominent of the younger members of the Chicago bar. He is distin¬ guished for his ability to analyze a case, for un¬ tiring devotion to his clients' cause, and for a quickness of perception that is unusual. As a speaker he is convincing, ready and not easily surprised, and is noted for clearness of statement and facility of logical and concise expression. Having a high sense of professional honor, he never knowingly misstates a fact or proposition of law, and as a consequence, courts place great re¬ liance upon his arguments. Mr. Reynolds was born July 6, 1849, ^^ Waukesha County, Wiscon¬ sin, and Is the son of Edward H. and Olive (Bid- well) Reynolds.
Stephen A. removed with his parents in 1856 to Belvidere, Illinois, where he attended the pub¬ lic schools, and in 1868 he entered the University
of Illinois, at Champaign, and was graduated from that institution in 1872. He read law at Belvi¬ dere, and was admitted to the bar in 1875.
He was elected a Justice of the Peace in Boone County, 111., in 1873, holding that office three years. He came to Chicago in 1876, and entered at once into a successful practice of the law. He resides at Jefferson, and in 1883 was elected Vil¬ lage Clerk of that place, which position he held two years. He was elected to the Illinois Legis¬ lature in 1886, and served with great credit to himself two terms. He was an industrious mem¬ ber, and was on the Judiciary Committee and also on the committees on Municipal Corporations, Penitentiaries, Drainage, Geology and Science. He was identified with several important measures, and was chiefly instru¬ mental in pushing through the late law on banks and banking.    In social life  Mr.  Reynolds