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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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icket. He was elected by a majority of thirty-three thousand, thelargest at that time ever given a municipal chief magistrate in Chi-cago. Mayor Colvin contested the election, and the circuit courtsustained the regular Democratic candidate. Although it was be-lieved that he might have appealed to the supreme court with everyprospect of success, Mr. Hoyne considered the outcome so unjust thathe never after would consent to be considered a candidate for office.As a private citizen, however, he was Chicagos devoted friend, andhis support was always proffered for any measure which he believedto be for her advancement. In 1859 Mr. Hoyne assisted to found a chair of international andconstitutional law in the University of Chicago, of which he was foryears the friend and adviser, and which, in 1862, conferred upon himthe degree of LL. D. He also secured the great Lalande telescope andwas the chief promoter and first secretary of the Chicago Astronomi- f 1 ASTOR, LENOX AMDriLDEN FOUWOATIOWS 1
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^J? CH^ JK^ , aCi^ CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 529 cal Society. He was a life member of the Mechanics Institute, theAcademy of Sciences and the Chicago Historical Society, and by con-tributions and other active work, furthered their best interests. InJune, 1873, when the University of Chicago and the NorthwesternUniversity formed the Union College of Law, Mr. Hoyne was chair-man of the board of trustees in behalf of the Chicago University for1873-74, and in 1877 was chosen president of the joint board ofmanagement, holding that position at the time of his death. He was also one of the most active in founding and fosteringthe free public library, of which he wrote a most interesting historicalsketch in 1877. Of his other writings, of particular interest to pio-neers of Chicago, may be mentioned The Lawyer as a Pioneer,covering the period of the Illinois and Chicago bar from 1837 to1840, which were the years of his introduction to the community inwhich he afterward became so commanding a fi

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