Union College of Law Graduates

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, United States

The first law school in Chicago, established in 1859 as the Law Department of the University of Chicago (the University having only opened its door in the prior year), was only the fourth law school west of the Alleghany Mountains at that time (the other three being located at Cincinnati, Louisville, and Lebanon, Tennessee, having been founded in 1833, 1846, and 1857, respectively).^[1]

The law school was "conceived and liberally patronized by the Hon. Thomas Hoyne" ("a philanthropist, a publicist, a public servant, and an able lawyer," and a president of the Board of Trustees).^[1] Being "one of the earliest settlers in Chicago," Thomas Hoyne "gave the sum of $5,000, to establish a chair of international and constitutional law. He was instrumental in procuring as the first Dean and professor, Judge Booth, and he remained an active supporter of the School until his death in July, 1883."^[2]

"At Metropolitan Hall, on Sept. 21, 1859, the Hon. Thomas Drummond ["a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1836, and for thirty years a Judge of the United States Courts in Illinois" and a president of the Board of Trustees] presided at the dedicatory exercises of [the] Law School, and the now venerable David Dudley Field delivered an address which, indeed, dignifie[d] the school's origin. The prophecy then made by the speaker, that 'whatever light is here kindled will shine through township and village, from the Alleghany to the Rocky Mountains.'"^[1]

In that first year either 11^[2] or 23 students enrolled and tuition was $100 per year.^[3]

"There was no separate building for the use of the Law School.... This Law School has not had a fixed abiding place. It was first opened in a room in what was known as Larmon Block situated at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets, where the Reaper Block is now situated. In its peregrinations the School was removed from the Larmon Block to Number 79 Clark Street; thence to the Oriental Building on the west side of La Salle Street between Washington and Madison Streets; thence to No. 80 Dearborn Street [1880-1889^[4]]; thence to the Dickey Building, No. 40 Dearborn Street [1889 - 1893^[4]], at the south-west corner of Lake Street; thence to the Masonic Temple; thence to the Association Building, on the east side of La Salle Street between Madison and Monroe Streets [all before 1905]."^[2]

"There was but one professor actively engaged in conducting the exercises of the school ... [That] first professor and Dean of the Law School was the Hon. Henry Booth, who devoted a large part of his time to the school.... Judge Booth continued to be active in the School and Dean thereof for nearly thirty-five years."^[2]

"During the first fourteen years of this School's history, i.e., up to 1873, it was under the official supervision of a Board of Counselors. The Hon. Thomas Drummond was Chairman of that Board for the first six years and the Hon. Thomas Hoyne for the remainder eight years. Although there was provision for official supervision, yet, as a matter of fact, there was no such thing in practice. Judge Booth had exclusive and unrestricted control of the School."^[2]

"When the School was being conducted in the Larmon Block, the United States Courts for the Northern District of Illinois occupied a portion of the same building. The late Hon. Thomas Drummond was at the time Judge of the United States Circuit Court and was the chairman of the board of counselors of the Law Department of the old University of Chicago. During the early part of the first school year, and in the trial of a suit [John A. Wills v. Illinois Central R.R.] before Judge Drummond which lasted two or three weeks, among the attorneys engaged was ... Abraham Lincoln. During a considerable part of the trial the School was convened an hour earlier than usual and the sessions of the School arranged so that the class might be able to attend the trial. The majority of the members of the class availed themselves of this opportunity to observe."^[3]

At the beginning, the course of study was for only one year. Thus, the first commencement occurred in 1860, with 11 law school students graduating.^[2]

The number of graduates for the following three years were as follows: 1861 (14), 1862 (10), and 1863 (11). "Upon the diploma issuing to the graduate he was admitted to the bar of the State of Illinois without further examination. The students graduating in 1861, '62 and '63 who enlisted in the army [during the Civil War] were not put to the trouble of returning for an examination in order to secure their diplomas."^[2][4]

Not until the 1873 - 1874 school year was a specific course of study adopted.^[1]

The University of Chicago "was rocked by the huge costs of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and the Panic of 1873 decreased donations."^[5]

The law school assumed its name of Union College of Law for the first time when, on 6 October 1873, it came under the joint management and patronage of the University of Chicago and the Northwestern University.^[1][2]

On 24 June 1874 the Board of Trustees of the Northwestern University approved the awarding of Bachelor of Law degrees to fourteen individuals.^[6]

In 1874, a fire damaged the university's main physical plant.

The site of the commencement exercises for the Union School of Law was held at Farwell Hall on 22 June 1875.^[7][8]

On 9 June 1876 "graduating exercises of the class of 1876 of the Union College of Law were held in the hall of the institution in the Superior Block, on Clark street."^[9][10]

Graduation day for the 41 students of the Union College of Law receiving their diplomas was held on 7 June 1877 at the First Methodist Church, corner of Washington and Clark Streets.^[11]

At the adjourned meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Northwestern University on 20 June 1877.^[12]

Judge Bradwell, from the Committee on Union College of Law, presented a report recommending that a committee to be appointed by the Board call upon the University of Chicago to perform its part of the agreement entered into between it and the Northwestern University in relation to the Law College. In default of the Chicago University complying with the request, the Committee are to be instructed to take immediate steps to confine the expenditures of the Union College of Law to the amount received for tuition from students, and that they be required to consider the question of annulling the existing agreement between the two Universities.

The Chair stated that the matter in question was a very delicate one, and had been much trouble to the Trustees. The University of Chicago had failed heretofore to keep its promises, and Judge Doolittle had brought suit against the joint Universities for the amount due to him. The report was amended so as to make the Committee subject to the approbation of the Executive Committee, and, so amended, was adopted.

The First Methodist Church was again the site of the graduating exercises of the Union College of Law on 5 June 1878.^[13]

On 6 June 1879 the commencement exercises for the class of 1879 were held at the First Methodist Church.^[14]

"[T]he university's chief creditor brought suit in 1881 to forecloses the mortgage on the university's property ... in January 1885 the court found for" the creditor.^[5]

The 22nd annual commencement of the Union College of Law was held in Central Music-Hall on 16 June 1881.^[15]

On 15 Jun 1882 Central Music-Hall was again the place for that year's commencement exercises of the Union College of Law.^[16]

Central Music-Hall continued to be the location for the commencement exercises held on 14 June 1883.^[17][18]

The degree of Bachelor of Laws was conferred at the commencement exercises at the Central Music-Hall on 12 June 1884.^[19]

The twenty-sixth annual commencement of the Union College of Law took place on 18 June 1885 at the Central Music-Hall.^[20]

This joint management ended with the suspension of the University of Chicago at the end of the 1885 - 1886 school year.^[1]

The class of 1886 included "two feminine innovations upon the common law": Catharine V. Waite and Catherine G Waugh. Degrees were conferred and diplomas distributed to 49 members of the senior class at the commencement exercises held on 16 June 1886 at Central Music-Hall.^[21]

The University of Chicago closed in the fall of 1886.^[5]

"Forty-nine young Blackstones were authorized by diploma to enter the practice of law" on 15 June 1887 at the commencement exercises held at the Central Music-Hall.^[22]

"April 14, 1888, an Alumni Association was formed, which has since issued a catalogue of the Alumni, Officers, and Instructors of Union College of Law."^[1][3]

Central Music-Hall was home to the commencement exercises of the Union College of Law on 14 June 1888.^[23]

It was estimated that "[a]bout eight hundred and seventy-six students had been graduated at this school up to and inclusive of the graduating class of 1888 [with] [t]he class of 1889 ... bring[ing] the number of graduates almost up to one thousand."^[1]

On 12 June 1889 sixty young men and four young women made up the class of 1889, the commencement exercises being held in Central Music Hall.^[24]

On 11 June 1890 the commencement exercises for the class of 1890 were held in Central Music Hall.^[25]

"The main building [of the University of Chicago] was razed in 1890. At the final meeting of its board of trustees in 1890, the group officially changed the name of the institution to the Old University of Chicago. This was to enable a new Rockefeller-financed Baptist school, then being organized to have a completely separate legal entity and take the title of the University of Chicago."^[5]

On 17 June 1891 the commencement exercises for the last graduating class of the Union School of Law (58 men and 2 women) were held in Central Music Hall.^[26]

In 1891 the law school formally became Northwestern University School of Law when Northwestern assumed full control.^[27][3]

In October 2015, it was renamed Northwestern Pritzker School of Law upon the donation of J. B. Pritzker and his wife, M. K. Pritzker, of $100 million dollars.^[27]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} James E. Babb, "Union College of Law, Chicago," The Green Bag 1 (August 1889): 330 - 338; Northwestern\Pritzker (https://wwws.law.northwestern.edu/history/documents/1873_union_history_1889.pdf : accessed 1 January 2023).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Arthur Herbert Wilde, Northwestern University: A History, 1855 - 1905, Vol. 4, Semi-Centennial Edition (New York: The University Publishing Society, 1905); imaged book, Google Books (https://books.google.com/books/about/Northwestern_University.html?id=H7q2AAAAIAAJ: accessed 1 January 2023).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} "Northwestern Law 150 Year Anniversary: Northwestern Law through the years," (http://www.law.northwestern.edu/news/150anniversary/), web page archived at WayBack Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20101223091413/http://www.law.northwestern.edu/news/150anniversary/#1859-1889 : accessed 1 January 2023).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} "Union College of Law," W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America' (http://wiki.wcaleb.rice.edu/Union%20College%20of%20Law : accessed 1 January 2023).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} "Old University of Chicago," Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_University_of_Chicago : accessed 5 January 2023).
6. ↑ "The Northwestern University," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 25 June 1874, p. 2, col. 5; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349273344 : accessed 3 January 2023).
7. ↑ "The Northwestern University," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 20 June 1875, p. 7, col. 5; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/466298838 : accessed 2 January 2023).
8. ↑ "The City," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 22 June 1875, p. 8, col. 1; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/466299015 : accessed 2 January 2023).
9. ↑ "The City: College of Law" The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 10 June 1876, p. 8, col. 1; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349587572 : accessed 4 January 2023).
10. ↑ "Admitted to the Bar," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 21 June 1876, p. 7, col. 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349593303 : accessed 4 January 2023).
11. ↑ "Limbs of the Law," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 8 June 1877, p. 8, col. 2 - 3; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349751594 : accessed 3 January 2023).
12. ↑ "Educational," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 21 June 1877, p. 8, col. 5; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349753079 : accessed 3 January 2023).
13. ↑ "The City," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 5 June 1878, p. 8, col. 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349810979 : accessed 4 January 2023).
14. ↑ "The Union College of Law," The [Chicago, Illinois] Inter Ocean, 4 June 1879, p. 6, col. 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/34929669 : accessed 2 January 2023).
15. ↑ "Union College of Law," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 17 June 1881, p. 12, col. 4 - 5; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349490979 : accessed 3 January 2023).
16. ↑ "Commencement Exercises at the Union College of Law," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 16 June 1882, p. 7, col. 5 - 6; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349850665 : accessed 3 January 2023).
17. ↑ "Commencements," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 15 June 1883, p. 3, col. 6; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349275408 : accessed 4 January 2023).
18. ↑ "Members of Class Present," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 30 June 1908, p. 5, col. 5; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/354971183 : accessed 5 January 2023).
19. ↑ "Educational," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 13 June 1884, p. 8, col. 4; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349825046 : accessed 3 January 2023).
20. ↑ "Educational," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 19 June 1885, p. 5, col. 4 - 5; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349278472 : accessed 4 January 2023).
21. ↑ "Educational Matters," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 17 June 1886, p. 3, col. 4; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349712264 : accessed 3 January 2023).
22. ↑ "Graduating Exercises," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 16 June 1887, p. 8, col. 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349844389 : accessed 4 January 2023).
23. ↑ "Farewell, School-Days," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 15 June 1888, p. 8, col. 3; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349931965 : accessed 4 January 2023).
24. ↑ "Union College of Law," The [Chicago, Illinois] Inter Ocean, 13 June 1889, p. 7, col. 1 - 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/33345702 : accessed 2 January 2023).
25. ↑ "The Union College of Law," The Chicago [Illinois] Tribune, 12 June 1890, p. 2, col. 1 - 2; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/349717401 : accessed 2 January 2023).
26. ↑ "Sixty Young Lawyers," The [Chicago, Illinois] Inter Ocean, 18 June 1891, p. 6, col. 1; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/33756973 : accessed 2 January 2023).
27. ↑ ^{27.0 27.1} "Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law," Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University_Pritzker_School_of_Law : accessed 1 January 2023).

Years of Commencement

1860

Nelson Thomasson

James W. Summers (post-graduate)

(General) H. H. Thomas (post-graduate)

Henry C. Whitney (post-graduate)

1861

1862

1863

1864

1865

1866

1867

1868

Elbert H. Gary, president of U.S. Steel Corporation

1869

1870

RIchard A. Dawson, first black graduate

Ada H. Kepley, first American woman to earn a law degree

Alfred S. Trude (1847 - )

1871

1872

1873

1874

Frederick S. Baird, Warren

Ingolf K. Boveson, Chicago

William J. Campbell, Chicago

Richard W. Clifford, Chicago

Edwin G. Greenman, Jr., "Pana"

Frank J. Loesch, Chicago

Thaddeus M. McNamara, Chicago

William Milchrist, "Galva"

William H. Pettee, Penn Township, Ill.

Miles E. Sanborn, "Polo"

James A. Warren, WInchester

JLewis D. Webster, Chicago

James W. Williams, Nebraska City, Neb.

James K. Wilson, Chicago

1875

William H. Atwood

Hervey W. Booth

James G. Burke

Seldon H. Butler

Leslie Carter

Henry A. Cooper

Charles Francis Day

Charles A. Fanning

Edward A. Fisher

Charles F. Farson

John F. Geeting

Daniel S. Hayden

Wilbur C. Hunt

Dennis J. Hogan

Frederick M. Husted

George C. Ingham

? L. Jayne

Charles B. Keeler

Henry C. Latshaw

John C. Lynch

Henry Newman

Hiram F. Norcross

James H. Raymond

Joseph B. Rockafellow

Hugh B. Stephenson

Thomas J. Walsh

1876

Louis Allen

Benjamin R. Burroughs

Rufus W. Bellamy

Charles A. Berdel

F. B. Eisen Bockius

Charles W. Butterfield

Albert W. Brickwood

John T. Barrow

Clarence W. Burley

Nathaniel L. Brown

William F. Congar

Albert G. Crawford

Lefavour F. Campbell

George W. W. Carroll

Benjamin H. Chapman

George B. Chapin

William Y. Chamberlain

Wallace L. DeWolf

Thomas B. Drake

A. Lee Doud

William M. Farmer

Ed F. Gorton

Dwight W. Graves

Adrian C. Honore

Arnold Heap

Thorn H. Harder

Ezra A. Helm

Addison W. Hastie

Robert M. Ireland

Silas E. Kelsey

Martin O. Lewis

William L. McGarry

William R. Nicholson

Franklin C. Platt

Zachariah W. Taylor

Charles S. Trask

William W. Rathburn

Albert R. Rich

William H. Steward

Henry C. Stearns

James M. Scott

Eric Winters

Hempstead Washburne (1851 - 1918), 32nd Mayor of Chicago, Illinois

Charles H. Wooster

Russell M. Wing

James H. Ward

Kimball Young

David L. Zook

James R. Williams

1877

Edmund Adcock

George A. H. Baker

Charles O. B. Brockway

John Brown

James H. Bushaus

Frank H. Collier

H. Collamore

George W. Dunton

R. P. Durkee

M. J. Egan

Calvin Frank

F. H. Follansbee

H. E. Holliday

William A. Harnsberger

Samuel Hurford

P. N. Haskell

R. J. Jampolis

C. A. Leland

John McKeough

J. D. Merritt

C. B. Morrison

C. W. Nichols

L. G. Partridge

N. A. Partridge

J. I. Rhodes

R. W. Reed

D. E. Lassoon

P. D. Smith

William A. Schonfield

John Sachin

L. N. Trumbull

R. B. Forrest

C. H. Webster

M. W. Webster

Thomas Worthington

R. L. Weaver

W. H. Whitaker

A. H. Walker

T. W. Walker

J. C. Worrall

George W. Woodbury

(perhaps) Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (1853 - 1937), only person elected to be both Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois, also judge of the Circuit Court in Chicago -- not found in newspaper lists of graduates, but said by bios and obituaries to have graduated from Union College of Law in 1877

1878

Henry W. Ames (1857-1898), attorney, real estate investor

Charles Elliott Anthony (1856-1937), attorney, assistant state's attorney, assistant :to the chief attorney of the sanitary district

Ferdinand Lee Barnett (1852-1936), journalist, lawyer, civil rights activist

Frank Prentice Bothwell (1856-1944)

Thomas Brown Brougham (1847-1915)*, attorney

Charles Wesley Carter, city alderman, police justice, Town Board member, Board of Health member, justice of the peace

Daniel Clingingsmith, farmer, businessman

Eugene J. or L. Colgan or C. J. Coigan or C. J. Colgan

Thomas H. Coppinger (1855 - ?), attorney, Congressional candidate

Charles Lybrand Davidson (1846-1898)

Joseph Oscar Devolt or Devett

Joseph Colquitt Ficklin (1857 - ?)*, attorney, Democratic convention delegate, :alderman, U.S. Commissioner, real estate businessman

Charles Newell Fowler (1852-1932)*

Olin Jeremiah Gary (1851-1937), reverend

George R. Grant

Arthur Lee Hereford (1858-1913), attorney, newspaper editor, newspaper :reporter, enrolling and engrossing clerk of the Illinois House of Representatives, state :superintendent of printing, insurance company president

Harry Higby or Higbie or Higbee

Charles Edgar Jennings (1855-1933)

Frank Hatch Jones*, son-in-law of President Grant

James Alexander Kelly*

William Reid Manierre (1847-1925), law firm partner with fellow-graduate Richard :John Pendergrast, industrialist, alderman

Walter Mattocks (1856-1895), real estate attorney

Samuel Chesney McPherrin (1853 - ?)

Alice D. Merrill, printer

Robert E. Morrison

George W. Murray

James Manley Phelps (1859-1920), lawyer, reverend

Marion Pickett

Benjamin Winfield Pope (1853-1923), superintendent of schools, lawyer, state's :attorney, county judge, postmaster, mayor, city judge

Richard John Prendergast (1854-1899), attorney, Judge, trustee of sanitary :district

George Mills Rogers (1854-1914), attorney, assistant city attorney, political :candidate, city prosecuting attorney, assistant United States district attorney, master in chancery of :the circuit court

Milton Martin Rowley (1852-1929)

Frank H. Scott (1857-1931), prominent attorney in several famous cases and :active in civic affairs

John W. Scott

Lucien Sangers Seaman (1852 - ?), attorney, city attorney, city mayor, owner of :newspapers

Stephen Gapen Swisher (1853 - ?), attorney

Alfred Nathaniel Tagert (1851 - 1914), attorney

Edwin Stewart Wheeler (1858 - ?), attorney, then regional life insurance special :agent and adjuster, then president of the Wheeler Varnish Works

T. Brook White

John G[rimshaw] Worthington

1879

C. W. Allen

M. N. Armstrong

J. R. Aplington

F. J. Bills

G. F. Borman

William Buckingham

P.D. Collins

F. F. Comstock

A. M. Duller

Phillip C. Dyrenforth (1845 - 1916)

A. D. Eddy

B. N. Freeman

William D. Gates

G. V. Hale

C. S. Harmon

S. V. Hayden

A. Hamilton

J. C. Hutchins

L. M. Hodges

J. C. Hawthorne

R. D. Huszagh

Joseph Houser

Geo E. Johnson

J. J. Kerrigan

F. A. McMillan

John Myer

J. J. McGrath

J. G. Miller

W. T. Nash

H. L. Rexford

J. J. Reed

F. P. Reynolds

C. J. Shefler

T. J. Suddard

E. R. Swett

E. B. Smith

T. J. Widby

Louis/Lewis Washington

E. D. Winslow

F. C. Zimmerman

A. A. Wolfersperger

W. R. Yourt

1880

Elbert Campbell Ferguson (1856 - 1917) -- said by tribute in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society to have graduated from Union College of Law in 1880

1881

Charles M. Bayne

L. Bernauer

A. H. Carter

Israel Cowen

Bion A. Dodge

Carl R. Feld

Joseph H. Fitch

Edwin B. Franks

Harry Geohegan

Frank A. Helmer

Thomas H. Hood

Walter M. Jackson

J. B. Kelley

George B. Kerlin

Emery S. Walker

E. Kuhn

John M. Leekley

Otto E. Legro

Adolph Lund

James R. Mann

John A. May

John Patee

F. W. Randolph

George C. Ross

Hervey Sheldon, Jr.

Alvin H. Sanders

Julius Stern

Charles E. Ulrich

H. B. B. Wickersham

1882

George W. Acklin

Chandler R. Allen

William H. Alsip

John W. Anten

Oscar S. Bass

Bessie Bradwell

Edgar H. Bucklin

Hugh L. Burnham

James M. Cleaver

George C. Danforth

Charles P. Dawley

William E. Deibler

George A. Dupuy

Theron Durham

William H. Dyenforth

Dixon Edgerton

John T. Erein

Ervin Hopkins, Jr.

Horace Hull

Charles I. Imes

George D. Johnstone

Horace N. Jones

Joseph F. Kohout

Frank C. Kuhn

Arthur K. Laflin

George W. Lattin

A. Virgil Lee

Charles C. Linthicum

Allen D. Metcalf

L. F. Minzesheimer

John L. Pearson

Leroy W. Pratt

Ethelbert W. Peeke

Frank J. Polley

Arthur B. Roberts

John G. Robers, Jr.

J. Alexander Rose

Sidney P. Smith

Herbert C. Smith

Orren V. Stookey

Edgar B. Tolman

Carlos J. Ward

Wilbur M. Warnock

John F. WHitlock

Green L. Fort

John F. Fort

A. L. Fianningham

George Foster

Charles H. Forward

William Gibson

N. Wemore Halsey

Frank W. Hatch

George W. Hewitt

Edwin J. Wilber

1883

Sewall W. Abbott

Eugene S. Bean

Frank W. Blair

Charles S. Brooke

George Brown

Taylor E. Brown (according to 30 June 1908 newspaper article)

William Jennings Bryan, youngest presidential candidate, U.S. Secretary of State, attorney for World Christian Fundamentals Association in the Scopes trial

Alfred E. Case

John A. Casto

Arthur Eugene Carpenter

Frank H. Childs (according to 30 June 1908 newspaper article)

Augustus B. Coate

J. J. Coburn (according to 30 June 1908 newspaper article)

Morris Cliggitt

Frank H./B. Dyche

James W. French

Willard L. Gillham

Lewis W. Goodell

James Gubbins

George W. Hall (according to 30 June 1908 newspaper article)

Herbert H. Hamilton

John A. Hibberd

Adam C. Higgins

James O. Hinkley

Louis Frederick Hollands

Alfred E. Hoit

Eric Johnson

Levi Monroe Kagy

Edwin C. Kelly

Joseph Spencer Kennard Jr.

Samuel James Lumbard

Frank Henry Lumbard

Lucius J. M. Malmin

William J. Marks

Louis W. Moyer

James Lawrence Mooney

Joseph Henry Muhlke/Muleke

J. Willard Newman

Daniel Hay Patrick

Merritt W. Pinckney

William H. Pope

Thomas W. Prindiville

John H. Rollins

Ira W. Rubel

Ora Philander Seward

William B. Shaw

Frank A. Smith

Waiter N. Smith

George F. Sugg

William Henry Tatge

Morris St. P. Thomas

Charles Byron Tibbetts

Henry Trumbull

Horace Byron Turner

WIlliam L. W> WHite

Orren M. Williams

Fred M. Williams

Philippus Ernst Winter

Charles B. Wood

Henry C. Van Schaack

1884

S. G. Abbott

J. C. Ahrensfield

ELmer E. Ames

J. E. Babb

W. D. Baker

Cyrus Bentley Jr.

Hiram Bigelow

T. C. Brewer

Mason Bross

P. B. Castle

P. W. Clifford

E. C. Dickinson

F. L. Douglass

Douglass Dyrenforth (1861 - 1909)

David Eichberg

W. J. Ennisson

J. C. Everett

I. C. Gibbons

E. T. Glennon

I. T. Greenacre

E. L. Harpham

W. S. Hefferean

N. H. Hurd

Edward Jaeger

J. D. Kerr

R. H. Kerr

J. H. Kraft

P.E. Mann

L. F. Meek

G. E. Porter

C. L. Rhodes

C. L. Richards

C. T. Schwarz,

C. W. Shurtleff

E. H. Swasey

M. L. Thackerberry

E. K. Thomas

J. A. Thompson

W. E. Thorne

Lucius Weinschenk

A. D. Wheeler

W. F. Wiemers

J. D. Woley

Walpole Wood

J. A. Young

SIgmund Zeisler

1885

Albert H. Adams

John J. Arney

Charles Bary

Frederick U. Black

Lincoln H. Cass

Will H. Clark

Eustach F. Companiott

Henry N. Cooper

Thomas Z. Creel

Hubert D. Crocker

Edmund S. Cummings

WIlliam George

John S. Gibons

Judson F. Going

Martin M. Gridley

Max Guthman

Richard A. Harlow

Thomas J. Holmes

Nathan A. Kaufamn

James Kennedy

George V. Lauman

Edward Maber

Arthur L. Martin

Louis A. McDonald

Alexander K. McBroom

Timothy McGrath

Clair E. Moore

Lew Moen

Charles M. Osborn, Jr.

Henry R. Pebbles

Henry Thomas Rainey, 45th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Charles A. Robbins

Michael A. Ryan

George L. Schintz

Will H. Shearer, Jr.

Edward A. Small

Samuel D. Snow

T. Lyell Smedes

James E. Taggert

Charles Werno

John F. Wright

Joseph E. Wiley

1886

James B. Anthony

Fred A. Bangs

Handy H. Bowen

Thomas Bradwell

Arthur B. Camp, B.A., Lafayette

Justus Chancellor

Allen B. Chilcoat

Granville I. Chittenden, B. A., Hamilton

Frank H. Clark, B. A., University of Chicago

Thomas M. Cliffe

John E. Cornell, B.A., Michigan University

Edward S. Curtis

James E. Davis

Gail E. Deming

George R. English

Joseph W. Errant

George B. Finch

Allen B. Forbes

Pascal H. Frye

Albert R. Haagenson

Edgar L. Hance

James B. Heffernan

Fred P. Hopkins

Homer B. Hubbell, M. A., Dartmouth

Jacob J. Kern

Thomas D. Knight, B. A., Williams

Adolph A. Kuhn

George L. Land

Charles F. Loesch

James Maher, B. A., St. Viatuers

Rudolph Matz, B. A., Williams

Francis X. Morrow

Frank H. McCulloch

Samuel McHenry

William H. McKee, B.A., Princeton

William M. McKinney

Grant Newell

Andrew Powers

William H. Ragan

Flavel A. Rudolph (1861 - 1924), real estate agent

Eben F. Runyan, Jr.

Herman W. Stilman

George M. Trowbridge, B. A., Amherst

Catharine V. Waite, Ph. B., Oberling

S. Arthur Walther

Catherine G. Waugh

Weldon Webster

Fred Whitfield

Henry L. Wilson

1887

Everett A[nderson] Aborn, M.A.

George P. Adams, Ph. B.

Houston C. Adcock, B.A.

George D. Anthony, B. A.

John C. Barnard, B. S.

Albert W. Barnum

David H. Bloom, B.A.

Cory C. Bowersock

Charles M. Boyden

Harrison H. Brace

Frank C. Caldwell

C. Melvon Call

Harry N. Culver

William A. Doyle

Julius Wilson Dyrenforth (1858 - 1913)

Chas. M. Eldredge

Ezra C. Fahrney

Terry R. Gillan, B. A.

William J. Goudy

Frank H. Graham

Albert J. Green

Timothy Hurley

Robert J. Huston, B. S.

Pearson M. Hutchinson

Ferdinand W. Jaros

William B. Jarvis, Jr.

Harry T. Jones, B. A.

Samuel B. King

George P. Knolls

Frank Orren Lowden, B. A. (1861- 1943), 25th Governor of Illinois

Ola A. Luca, B. S.

William P. McElwain, B. A.

Willard M. McEwen

Charles B. Moore

William H. Morgan, B. A.

George N. Morgan, B. L.

Joseph A. O'Donnell

Frank B. Pease

Robert E. Pendarvis, B. A.

Eugene M. Pope

Joseph P. Rafferty

Davaid J. Revell

Percival Steele

Frederick W. Story

Gustavus J. Tatge

August Von Glahn

Frank A. Wean

George A. Williams

Charles A. Wood

1888

Frank H. Barmm

Otto Raymond Barnett

William P. Beem

John S. Bloomingston

Thomas E. D. Bradley

Guy Brockway

Joseph W. Callahan

John D. Casey

Robert T. Cassell

Charles D. Clark

Lincoln M. Coy

Edward N. D'Ancona

Carl Detzer

Francis X. Des Rivieries

Lewis D. Eastman

William Elmore Forster

James P. Gardner

Carleton N. Gary

Harry Hamill

William R. Heath

Sigmund M. Hoeger

Chancellor L. Jenks, Jr.

Adolph Crpen ?????

Charles H. Kehl

Samuel F. Knox

F. William Kraft

Charles C. Leforger

Burton E. Leonard

Annie M. McCoy

Thomas P. Maryatt

Christian Meier

Daniel Mickey

J. Clyde Nelson

George E. Newcomb

Gabriel J. Norden

Richard O'Shea

Samuel S. Parks

Frederick B. Patterson

Paul Pierce

George E. M. Pratt

Carlton Prouty

George W. Ross

Robert D. Silver, Jr.

Charles B. Simonds

Benjamin C. Stidger

James N. TIlton

Warren W. Tolman

George A. Trude

Edwin L. Waugh

Edward E. Wendell

Ira C. Wood

1889

(Mrs.) Mary A. Ahrens

William H. Allen

Felix M. Baca

William S. Bailey

Jesse C. Ball

Adolph L. Benner

Guy L. Boyle

Frederick H. Brammer

Charles A. Buell

Frederick M. Burrow

W. Odell Clark

Henry D. Coglan

William A. Cunnea

Bertha E. Curtis

Delbert L. Davidson

Minerva A. Doyle

Frank E. Dresser

Max A. Drezmal

Aloysius J. Eustace

George E. Foss, Jr.

Charles R. Francis

Charles W. German

Frank W. Goodbody

Thomas A. Hendricks

John H. Hoglund

George F. Holloway

Jacob H. Hopkins

Frank W. Hoyt

George F. Hughes

Henry A. Ingalls

Max L. Kasmar

Edward C. Kriete

Edward Keogh

Joseph H. Lawler

William M. Lawton

Solomon L. Lowenthal

Hugh A. Marshall

John A. McKeever

F. J. Lewis Meyer

Harry Meyering

John R. Montgomery

Milton O. Naramore (1861 - )

Frederick G. O'Connell

Thomas F. O'Neill

Victor I. Ohrenstein (a WikiTree profile, but no biography)'

Victor J. Petersen

Elliott A. Pritchard

John Root

Frederick V. Sauter

John J. Schwarz

Wilberforce Schweyer

Arthur H. SImms (abt. 1856 - 1951)

William E. Smith

Charles C. Stilwell

Samuel H. Trude

Walter Ullrich

Franklin L. Velde

Samuel E. Vermilyea

Albert Wahl

Grove E. Walter

Hosea W. Wells

Albert C. Wenban

William W. Wheelock

George T. Weidinger

Adolphus C. Stephens (class of 1888)

1890

George W. Baker

Frank J. Bantle

Robert C. Bennett

Frank H. Boggs

Robert C. Busse

Howard M. Carter

Angelo S. Cella

Charles L. Chamberlain

Hope R. Cody

Marion E. Crosson

Moton S. Culber

George M. Davidson

Franklin A. Denison (1862 - 1932), highest scholarship of the class, class valedictorian, assistant attorney general of Illinois, Major of 8th Infantry Illinois, Spanish-American War in Cuba, Colonel of Illinois 370th Infantry WWI in France 1917, first Black-American soldier to rise above rank of Colonel when promoted to Brigadier-General in 1918

Homer B. Dibbell

John R. Eiley

L. Blanche Fearing

Nicholas R. Finn

Charles E. Frozier

Samuel M. Galloway

John H. Garnsey

Jacob G. Grossberg

E. L. Hambleton

William Hansom

Charles G. Hawley

Samuel E. Hibben

George B. Holmes

Fred M. Hostetter

Fred S. Loomis

Chauncey M. Martyn

Walter C. McCallum

John McCormick

Dana A. Mitchell

George R. Mitchell

Francis T. Murphy

William W. Newton

Charles E. Piper

George E. Read

Alva Ross

William H. Safford

Ernest Severy

Benedict J. Short

Israel Shrimski

Ben Mayhew Smith (1863 - )

Henry B. Spurlock

H. Burton Stratton

John V. Streed

John B. Synnestvedt

David Randolph Thomas

W. H. Troyer

James Turnock

W. H. Tuttle

Albert H. Voilintin

Lucius W. Winchester

Clarence W. Young

1891

Caleb E[wing] Antram

Ralph W. E. Bowman

Robert M. Brand

Lysander Cassiday

Ozias S. Chapman

Charles A. Chase

John E. Groves

Ernst F. Hermann

Francis M. Ireland

William E. Clark, Jr.

John F. Clare

William A. Conover

John E. Crawford

Clarence N. Durand

Eugene H. Dupee

Oscar E. Leinen

Sol Levishohn

Roland S. Ludington

Robert C. Dye

Elphick R. Ede

Myer Emrich

John H. Freeland

Daniel G. Gerst

Arthur L. Getya (?)

John E. Goembel

Kent Green

George I. Miller

Will W. Millner

Edwin L. Moore

Charles F. Morse

Samuel E. Knecht

George A. Landgren

Kenesaw M. Landia

Charles H. Pease

Frank M. Peters

Schuyler C. Reber

Andrew J. Redmond

William L. Reed

Lessing Rosenthal

Raymond C. Lyon

J. Herbert McBroom

Hugh McIndoe

H. W. Schoellkorpf, Jr.

William P. Sidley

Laura M. Starr

T. H. Seymour Stedman

Henry M. Strain

Alonzo P. Tarbox (1845 - 1926)

Charles O'Donnell

Perry L. Odor

Harry Olson

George Packard

Clarence N. Thomas

William Thompson

James F. Trout

Frank M. Utt

Albert Varty

Katherine E. Wallace

James P. Way

Ephraim C. Westwood

John H. Hill (class of 1890)

Braman H. Loveless (class of 1890)