. Contemporary American biography . member of the Chicago Press Club, and in 1877 was elected its treasurer, aposition of which he is proud and which he continued to hold until 1891, when he resigned. Asa business man he is discerning, conscientious, and conservative, doing many charitable acts ofkindness in a quiet, unostentatious manner that is characteristic of the man. Mr. Schneiderwas married on June 6th, 1853, to Miss Matilda Schloetzer, and has a family of seven home has always been a recognized centre of culture and refinement; his domestic life apoem of happiness. He liv
. Contemporary American biography . member of the Chicago Press Club, and in 1877 was elected its treasurer, aposition of which he is proud and which he continued to hold until 1891, when he resigned. Asa business man he is discerning, conscientious, and conservative, doing many charitable acts ofkindness in a quiet, unostentatious manner that is characteristic of the man. Mr. Schneiderwas married on June 6th, 1853, to Miss Matilda Schloetzer, and has a family of seven home has always been a recognized centre of culture and refinement; his domestic life apoem of happiness. He lives in a large, roomy mansion which he built at the corner of MichiganAvenue and Twentieth Street over a score of years ago. Passionately fond of flowers, histables are seldom without a few rare orchids or roses, which he raises himself in his hot-houseon the premises. All his daughters are happily married and live on the North Side, where hisfriends think he will some day follow them, though he is fondly attached to his comfortable. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. U3 home on the avenue. In looking back over his past life, Mr. George Schneider cannot deeplyregret that the despotism of Europe drove him an exile from his native land. He found awelcome on the free soil of America, and in her avenues of commerce he discovered and developeda field for his abilities that the old country might not have afforded. While he has achieveddistinguished successes in the several fields of effort which have engaged his best thought andhis eminent abilities, he has at the same time demonstrated in the highest and broadest sense,by his loyalty to his adopted country and her institutions, that nationality or birth does notdetermine in this country, either in spirit or degree, the loftiest patriotism or the truest con-ception of the American idea of the common brotherhood of man. PHILLIPS BPOOKS. Phillips Brooks, , Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts and one of the mostdistinguished o
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