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Gary, Elbert Henry (1846-1927), lawyer and steel industrialist  

Stephen H. Cutcliffe

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1999
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February 2000

Gary, Elbert Henry (08 October 1846–15 August 1927), lawyer and steel industrialist, was born near Wheaton, Illinois, the son of Erastus Gary and Susan Valette, farmers. Raised in a strict Methodist home that stressed the value of education, Gary attended the local public schools and for a time Illinois Institute, later renamed Wheaton College. After a two-month army stint during the Civil War and a term teaching school, Gary turned to the study of law with his maternal uncle, Colonel Henry Valette, and his uncle’s partner, Judge Hiram H. Cody, in Naperville, Illinois. He subsequently attended Union College of Law in Chicago, graduating first in the 1868 class. While clerking for the Illinois Superior Court, he married Julia E. Graves in 1869; they had two children. The couple lived in Wheaton from whence he commuted to Chicago during the subsequent thirty years of his legal career. (After his first wife’s death in 1902, Gary married Emma Townsend in 1905. They had no children)....

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Elbert H. Gary [left to right] Elbert H. Gary, Calvin Coolidge, and John D. Rockefeller, 1925. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-106305 ).

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Green, Benjamin Edwards (1822-1907), lawyer, diplomat, and business promoter  

Thomas Schoonover

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1999
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February 2000

Green, Benjamin Edwards (05 February 1822–12 May 1907), lawyer, diplomat, and business promoter, was born in Elkton, Kentucky, the son of Duff Green and Lucretia Maria Edwards. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where his father, a determined supporter of Andrew Jackson, moved in 1825 to edit the ...

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Olds, Irving Sands (1887-1963), lawyer and industrialist  

Yanek Mieczkowski

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1999
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February 2000

Olds, Irving Sands (22 January 1887–05 March 1963), lawyer and industrialist, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Clark Olds, a lawyer, and Livia Elizabeth Keator. Olds graduated from Erie High School in 1903 and earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1907 and a law degree from Harvard University in 1910. After graduating from law school, Olds worked in Washington for a year as secretary to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ...