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

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
business, and immediately gave proof of his busi¬ ness capacity and foresight by investing his means where he foresaw that there would be a constantly increasing value. In 1883, he laid out a tract of land in the neighborhood of Cottage Grove avenue and Seventy-second street. Here he built the pretty and flourishing village of Brookllne. The location being healthy, easy of access and at that time outside the city, became quite popular with business men and of the numerous residences built there only a few are now in Mr. Jacobs' pos¬ session. Having been so successful with the vil¬ lage of Brookllne, he built Burnside, a rapidly improving suburb on Cottage Grove avenue and Ninety-fifth street, and about one mile north of Pullman, on the Illinois Central Railroad. Both these suburbs, Brookllne and Burnside, are now inside the limits of th,e city of Chicago. At the latter, the Illinois Central Railroad Company have purchased ground and are locating, their car shops there on an extensive scale. Amongst the resi¬ dents of these suburbs Mr. Jacobs has the reputa¬ tion of being a man of thoroughly upright and honorable character, and one who delights to do a kindness to those around him. Together with directing the large interests he has in  real estate.
he is vice-president and general manager of the Calumet Electric Street Railroad Company on the South side. This company was organized in May, 1890, and built the first electric road in Chicago, and is now building a system, which will, when completed, connect more closely the popu¬ lation of South Chicago, Grand Crossing, Pull¬ man, Kensington, Burnside, and Dauphin Park with each other, and with the city and Jackson Park, by a direct connection with the cable and elevated roads at Brookllne. The system as now contemplated will be about twenty miles in length. In 1884, Mr. Jacobs was treasurer of the Union League Club, and in 1885, was Lieutenant- Colonel commanding First Cavalry Illinois Na¬ tional Guard.
He was married November 19, 1890, to Mary Whipple, eldest daughter of William Jay Whip¬ ple, Esq., of Winona, Minn., proprietor and editor of the Winona Herald, and postmaster of the city under President Cleveland.
As a business man Mr. Jacobs is competent and conscientious, possessed of a high degree of honor. In all his transactions he has shown him¬ self to be a man of uncompromising integrity. To such a man Chicago promises a brilliant future.
CHARLES  PORTER  JOHNSON,
CHICAGO, ILL.
CHARLES PORTER JOHNSON began his career a comparatively poor boy, and has by his unaided efforts risen to an honorable position at the Chicago bar, and in social life. He was born August 15, 1865, at State Line City, Ver¬ milion county, Illinois, and is the second son of Joseph Simpson and Marilda M. (Kemper) John¬ son. His father is an Indianian. He studied law and was just admitted to the bar in the State of Indiana, when the war broke out. He was deputy sheriff of Boone county, Indiana, for two years. Afterward he became a general merchant, and also served for eighteen consecutive years as justice of the peace in State Line City.
It was while listening to the cases tried in his father's court that young Johnson was fired with the ambition to become a lawyer. His mother is a cousin of Joseph Kemper, ex-Qoyernor of Virginia,
Mr. Johnson's early education was obtained in the public schools of his native city. When he was about fifteen years of age, young Johnson was thrown upon his own resources. He went to Coles county, Illinois, and secured employment on a farm, with the privilege of attending school during the winter. He worked hard and studied diligently, but his ambition was to gain a higher education than that afforded in the public schools, and he attended school at Lee's Academy, at Loxa, Illi¬ nois.
Pie was a close and apt student, a convincing debater, a practical thinker, and an orator of su¬ perior merit. He graduated from the academy in 1885.
He then went to Terre Haute, Indiana, and studied law in the ofifice of Mr. William A.Young. He passed an examination before the Supreme