Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . Illinois, Builders and Lake Geneva Countryclubs. His business office is in the Monadnock building. Besides ahome on Ashland boulevard, he has a beautiful country house atLake Geneva, Wisconsin. He married, January i, 1877, Miss AliceMary Conant. of Janesville, Wisconsin. Their four sons are ArthurFred, Harry Lord, Percy Addison and Warren M. Charles Abbott Phillips, among the younger and rising architects of this section, is a native of Chicago, born in August, 1870, to Wil- lia
Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . Illinois, Builders and Lake Geneva Countryclubs. His business office is in the Monadnock building. Besides ahome on Ashland boulevard, he has a beautiful country house atLake Geneva, Wisconsin. He married, January i, 1877, Miss AliceMary Conant. of Janesville, Wisconsin. Their four sons are ArthurFred, Harry Lord, Percy Addison and Warren M. Charles Abbott Phillips, among the younger and rising architects of this section, is a native of Chicago, born in August, 1870, to Wil- liam Butterworth and Marion (Goss) Phillips. The -r^ family is of Eno-lish ancestry. Charles A. has lived Phillips. ^ o j ^ in Evanston, Illinois, most of his life, and received his early education at the academic department of Northwestern Uni-versity. Afterward he pursued courses in architecture at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and the Ecole des BeauxArts. Paris. Mr. Phillips began the practice of his profession in 1899, when helocated in Chicago. He designed the Evanston Public Librarv and. CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 887 other buildinos in the classic city, and his business interests have gradually centered there. Louis E. Ritter, member of the firm of Rittcr & Mott, well-known civil engineers of this city, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, born March 14, 1864, son of Louis and Harriet (Lambert) Rit- „ ? ter. He obtained the foundation of his education in Ritter. , ,,. , , .? . tlie public schools ot his native city, and, prior to actual practice, pursued his professional training in the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, from which he graduated in 1886. After he left school Mr. Ritters first practical WDrk was in connec-tion with the surveys and construction of the Cleveland & MahoningValley Railway, and he was engaged on this work for nearly threeyears. From 1889 to 1892 he served in the United States engineeringcorps engaged on the various improvem
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