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Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ed. and author of Historical review (1908) (14756468686)

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Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ed. and author of Historical review (1908) (14756468686)

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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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League, Literary, Country,Glen View clubs, in Chicago. He is a director in the BankersNational Bank, and the Standard Office Company. His office is inthe Railway Exchange, and his home in Evanston. He married, Jan-uary 20, 1876, Margaret Sebring Sherman. Their children are:Ethel, John, Hubert, Margaret and Daniel. John Meiggs Ewen, president of the John M. Ewen Company,among the leading engineers and builders of the country, is a native of Newtown, New York, born on the -^rd of Septem- JOHN M. , o Tj- / ixr ^ c u P ber, 1859. His parents were Warren and Sarah (Faulkner) Ewen, and were of stanch Scotch an-cestry. Although his father had no technical education in schools,he became an engineer in the United States navy, and his mechanicalgenius and common sense were so superb that he was for manyyears chief engineer of construction for the railroads in Chili andPeru. Among his accomplishments was the famous railroad in theclouds at Oroya, and he also executed many difficult harbor works
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