. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. peak, having been commissioned by President McKinleyBrigadier General in the Spanish-American war in 1898. He continues to holdthe office of Commander of the First Brigade of the Illinois National Guard. HORATIO N. MAY. Mr. May was born August 7, 1843, at Phillipsburg, Canada. His parentswere Americans. He was of the Woodstock branch of the May family, wh


. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. peak, having been commissioned by President McKinleyBrigadier General in the Spanish-American war in 1898. He continues to holdthe office of Commander of the First Brigade of the Illinois National Guard. HORATIO N. MAY. Mr. May was born August 7, 1843, at Phillipsburg, Canada. His parentswere Americans. He was of the Woodstock branch of the May family, who in1640 emigrated from Mayfield, Sussex, England. Ezra May, his great-grand-father, married Margaret Lyon, of Roxbury, Mass. Dr. Calvin Dexter May,his grandfather, married Mary Hyatt, of Highgate, Vt., and Horatio May, hisfather, married Sarah Humphrey, of Highgate, Vt. Horatio N. May came to Chicago in 1856, when he was a lad of thirteen,and shortly afterward began his active career, so closely identified with thegrowth of the city. He was a member of the old volunteer fire department andremained a member until the paid department came into existence. At onetime he engaged in the commission business with John C. Neeley. Later he 716.


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