. Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review . ovements. He is on the board of governors ofthe Chicago Art Institute; is a member of the Municipal Art League,and long served on the advisory board of the Civic Federation, andon the executive committee of the Legislative Voters League. Heis a member of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience, is a trustee of Wesley Hospital, St. James Methodist Epis-copal church and member of the Methodist Social Union, and is alsoa member of the Press, Union League, C
. Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review . ovements. He is on the board of governors ofthe Chicago Art Institute; is a member of the Municipal Art League,and long served on the advisory board of the Civic Federation, andon the executive committee of the Legislative Voters League. Heis a member of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience, is a trustee of Wesley Hospital, St. James Methodist Epis-copal church and member of the Methodist Social Union, and is alsoa member of the Press, Union League, City, Chicago Athletic, CliffDwellers, Glen View, Homewood, South Shore Country, KenwoodCountry and Quadrangle clubs. Mr. Barnhart has been a successful business man all his life,has an enviable reputation for business ability and integrity,and is now enjoying the full fruits of an active and honorable has always maintained an able and conscientious force of em-ployes about him, who have been educated up to his ideals of cleanbusiness methods. It is a fact that no business house in this country Rarnkart &f 4. aim pillto BARNHART BROS. & SPINDLER PLANT pu; ASTOR, LENOX FOUNDATION* i CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 1093 stands higher for fair and square dealing than Barnhart Brothers &Spindle r. Benjamin F. Homer, president of the Hodge & Homer Co., isone of the oldest and most successful hardware merchants in Chicago. He is a native of Granville, Washington county,\J * New York, born on the 19th of February, 1834, being a son of Zenas and Rhoda (Beach) father was a Massachusetts man, while his mother was a nativeof Litchfield county, Connecticut. When a boy Benjamin F. accom-panied his parents to the western part of the state, where he firstreceived a common school education and afterward pursued a courseof two years in the Wyoming Academy. At the age of eighteen hewas so well advanced that he became a teacher in the public schoolat Warsaw, New. York, but a
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