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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faculty AvhIch he has of managing men. Courteous and kind in manner, dignified in demeanor, firm in conviction and Independent in action, he is a man who gains the respect of all with Avhom he comes In contact. He dislikes controversy, but Avhen the necessity requires does not hesitate to state his principles and convictions..
On May 14th, 1870, Mr. Hoffmann, married a Germian lady. Miss Emma BierAvirth, and was blessed   with    four   children    whom   it   is  their
father's delight and constant endeavor to surround with every pleasure and comfort.
Mrs. Hoffmann died in 1889,and since then Mr. Hoffmann married Mrs., Mary E.Taylor, an ac¬ complished lady of Chicago. In the pleasures of home and in the enjoyment of the family circle, Mr. Hoffmann finds the necessary relaxation after his professional and public duties. An affection¬ ate husband and an indulgent father, he finds peace and rest in the bosom of his family.
THEODORE  G.  CASE,
CHICAGO,  ILL.
/'CONSPICUOUS in the long roU of eminent V^ names that have conferred honor upon the legal profession in the west Is that of the subject of this biography. He is conceded to be one of the most eloquent and powerful advocates of the Chi¬ cago bar. He has great versatility of talents—ex¬ actness and thoroughness characterize all of his attainments. Vigilant, zealous and industrious ; how could he be otherwise than successful ? A perfect command of the English language, com¬ bined with histrionic ability of a high order, has placed Theodore G. Case by the side of the finest American orators. In illustration he is peculiarly happy, and vision, personification, hyperbole, simile, contrast and antitheses succeed each other in rich and varied profusion. His manner and ac¬ tion are energetic, without verging on extravagance. Mr. Case w^as born in Castleton, Rensselaer county, New York, July 13, 1853. He Avas pre¬ pared for college at the Collegiate Institute, New¬ ton, New Jersey, after which he entered the Uni¬ versity of Michigan, took a special course, and graduated in July, 1870, having conferred upon him the degree of pharmaceutical chemist. Upon his graduation he became interested with several New York capitalists, and was by them sent, with others, to construct the Houston and Great Northern Railroad^ of Texas, in Avhich employ¬ ment he w^as engaged until 1873, Avhen he re¬ turned to Ncav York city. In the fall of the same year he commenced the study of law, with Messrs. Lum and Babbitt, at Jersey City, New Jersey. Remaining with this firm two years, he then en¬ tered the laAV school of the University of the City
of New York, meanwhile attending as a student at the law office of the Hon. William M. Evarts. Immediately after graduating he engaged in gen¬ eral practice in New York City, but making a specialty of corporation business, remaining in that city until April, 1878, at which time he went to Green Bay, Wisconsin, to enter upon the duties of general counsel of the Green Bay and Min¬ nesota Railroad Company, to which position he had accepted an appointment. Upon the re¬ organization of this railroad company into the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul Railroad, he was elected, on June 7, 1881, its general Solicitor. In April, 1884, he Avas retained by the bond¬ holders of the St. Louis, Hannibal and Keokuk Railroad Company, to foreclose a mortgage on the railroad of that company In the United States circuit court at St. Louis, Missouri. Owing to the onerous duties involved in the foreclosure suit, Mr. Case resigned his position as general attorney of the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul Railroad Company^ in March, 1885, ^i^cl moved to St. Louis, engaged in the general practice of his pro¬ fession in that city, and attended to the foreclos¬ ure suit against that company, which, after a great legal fight, in which were arrayed against him many of the great legal celebrities of the south and west, he succeeded in obtaining a judgment against that railroad company for more than a million dollars. During his residence in Missouri he was associated in the trial of several cases with the late Hon. B. Gratz Brown, ex-United Senator from Missouri.
In May, 1886, Mr. Case removed to  Chicago,