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McCormick, Medill

McClurg, Ogden T.

MacVeagh, Eames

Mack, Judge Julian W. Mitchell, John J.

Mullaney, B. J.

Murphy, Dr. John B.

McNally, James

Meeker, Arthur
McFatrich, Dr. J. B.
Morris, Ira N.

Muldoon, Bishop P. J.
Michaelis, W. R.
Masters, Edgar Lee

Mills, S. B.

Roberts, E. L.

Reilly, Leigh

Rosenbaum, Col. Joseph

Rosenwald, Julius

Simmons, Francis T.
Sunny, B. E.

Snow, Ald. B. W.

Sprague, Albert A., II.

Sullivan, Roger C.

Simpson, James

Shedd, John G.
Sutherland, George
Shaffer, J. C.

Schneider, Otto C.
Thompson, Capt. S. B.

Tenney, Horace Kent

Taylor, Ald. Francis W.

Olson, Chief Justice Harry Upham, Fred W.

Metz, John

Noyes, Frank B.

O'Keefe, P. J.

Purdy, Capt. W. F.

Perkins, George W.

Roth, John C.

Revell, Alexander H.

Tolman, Maj. Edgar Bronson

Wacker, Charles H.

Wilson, John P.

Wilder T. Edward

Young, Gen. E. C.

Zimmer, Ald. Michael

Quigley, Archbishop James E. Walker, Francis W.

Reynolds, George M.

Roberts, George

The following named gentlemen, after the organization of the Committee under the authority given to it by the Mayor, were added to the original Committee of One Hundred:

Arnold, Lt. William
Anderson, John

Barber, Maj. Frank W.
Brown, Frederick A.

Basch, Joseph

Brand, Horace L.

Browning, Granville W.

Burry, George

Burley, Clarence A.
Chenowith, Maj. W. H.
Cassidy, Maj. Harry C.
Chamberlain, Capt. Henry B.
Carey, Rev. A. J.
Cooley, Harlan W.
Crossley, Frederick B.
Dietrich, Col. Henry A.

Dixon, George W.
Deranek, Charles

De Blois, Rev. Austin K.
Foster, Gen. D. Jack.
Fisher, George P., Jr.
Freund, Ernst

Garrity, Col. John J.
Greene, Col. Lewis D.
Ginzburg, M. P.
Greztad, N.

Holt, Charles S.
Hart, Louis E.
Holland, John F.

Kline, Col. Julius R.
Knapp, Kemper K.
Moriarty, Col. Daniel
Marshall, Col. John R.
Mathews, Shailer
McCalla, Capt. Lee A.
McDowell, Bishop W. F.
Milburn, Rev. Joseph A.
Merbitz, Rev. F. P.
Montgomery, John R.

Marston, Thomas B.

Moore, Nathan G.

Musgrave, Harrison

Morse, Charles F.

Matz, Rudolph

Norcross, Frederick F.
Oakley, Horace S.

Phillips, Lt. E. O.
Parker, Hon. Francis W.
Robeson, Lt. Col. T. Jay
Rogers, Edward S.
Rumsey, George D.
Smith, Henry A.
Sanborn, Col. Joseph B.
Strong, Col. Gordon

Strong

Szwajkart, Stanislus
Stevens, Charles A.
Shaw, Rev. John Balcom
Sellers, Frank H.
Sidley, William P.
Tenney, Horace K.
Thompson, Col. John R.
Vance, Rev. Joseph A.
Wood, John H.
Willard, Norman P.

Waldo, Otis H.

Wheeler, Arthur D.

Wigmore, John H.
Woolman, Lt. Maurice
Zane, John M.

In addition to the general Committee there were a large number of citizens who served on various sub-committees, especially in connection with the splendid work of the Finance Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Arthur Meeker. Among those who served on these sub-committees were:

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Fuller, Frank

Hill, C. H.

Hahn, H. F. Ingwersen, Emil Kesner, J. L. Kline, Samuel J. Kimball, C. N. Karpen, Adolph

Leahy, Harold F.

Lytton, George, Jr.

Miller, John S.
Phillips, W. E.

Peacock, C. D., Jr.
Schweppe, Charles
Tighe, Bryan, G.
Wiehe, C. F.
Young, H. W.

Aside from the members of the committees throughout the city, who contributed to the success of the celebration, the editor desires to thank on behalf of the Committee those who assisted it at the various official celebrations. Among these

were:

AT THE AUDITORIUM MEETING

Frederick A. Brown, Esq., Committeeman-in-charge; Carl D. Kinsey, General Musical Director; William Ap Madoc, Director of the Chorus; the three hundred Chicago High School pupils who formed the splendid Chorus; Wilhelm Middelschulte, the Organist; Rev. Maurice J. Dorney, who asked the Invocation; Rev. Joseph A. Vance, D. D., who offered the closing Prayer.

AT THE SEVENTH REGIMENT, ILL. N. G., ARMORY

Rev. Charles Baird Mitchell, D. D., who asked the Invocation and pronounced the Benediction; Col. Daniel Moriarty, Commanding the Seventh Infantry, which gave the use of its Armory, both for the afternoon meeting and the meeting in the evening for the colored citizens; Lieut. George B. Reed; Mr. John Ryan of the Seventh Infantry; The Seventh Infantry Band, Paul Smith, Director; The Irish Choral Society under the leadership of Professor Taylor Drill.

AT THE SECOND REGIMENT, ILL. N. G., ARMORY Harlan W. Cooley, Esq., Committeeman-in-charge; Col. John J. Garrity, Commanding the Second Infantry, which ten

dered the use of its Armory to the Committee and which assisted it in every way; Rev. Austin K. De Blois, who pronounced the Invocation; The Second Infantry Band, Paul Goepfert, Director; Madame Anita Patti Brown, the colored singer; The Virginia Quartette; Rev. Thomas V. Shannon, who pronounced the Benediction.

AT THE BATTERY B, ILL. N. G., ARMORY

Eames MacVeagh, Esq., Committeeman-in-charge; Col. Milton J. Foreman of the First Cavalry, who acted as Chairman pro tem.; Maj. Joseph C. Wilson of the First Cavalry; Lt. Maurice Woolman of Battery B; Rev. Father Basil A. Didier; Miss Genevieve De Forrest, Soloist; Mr. Charles E. Hay, Soloist; First Cavalry, Ill. N. G. Band, A. Fisher, Director; The Colored Jubilee Singers; Rev. Fred V. Hawley, who pronounced the Benediction.

AT THE MEETING OF THE EIGHTH INFANTRY (COLORED), AND THE COLORED CITIZENS' COMMITTEE, AT THE SEVENTH REGIMENT, ILL. N. G., ARMORY

Hon. George W. Dixon, Committeeman-in-charge; Col. John R. Marshall, Commanding the Eighth Infantry; Pedro T. Tinsley, Director of the Choral Study Club; The Choral Study Club; Rt. Rev. Charles Edward Cheney, DD., S.T.D., who gave the opening Prayer; J. Gray Lucus, Esq.; E. P. McCabe, Esq.; W. H. Clark, Esq.; The Eighth Regiment Band, William E. Berry, Chief musician; Rev. Moses H. Jackson, who pronounced the Benediction.

AT THE DEXTER PARK PAVILION

E. L. Roberts, P. J. O'Keefe, Geo. W. Perkins, Committeein-charge; Arthur Meeker, Chairman; John A. Spoor of the International Live Stock Exposition Company, for the use of the Amphitheater; Rt. Rev. Paul C. Rhode, who gave a short address and the Invocation; five hundred members of the Chorus from the singing societies and church choirs of the city; Clarence Dickinson, Director of the Chorus; The Apollo

Quartette; Madame Ragna Linné, Miss Jennie F. W. Johnson, Edward C. Towne, William Wade Hinshaw, Katherine Howard, Soloists; First Regiment Band, J. F. Hostrawser, Director; Miss Imogen S. Pierce, to whose initiative and untiring efforts the success of the meeting was largely due; Rev. W. H. Head, D.D., who pronounced the Benediction.

IN CONNECTION WITH THE OUTDOOR CELEBRATION Captain W. G. Purdy, commanding the Illinois Naval Reserve, and the officers and men of that organization, which gave an impressive street parade on the Centenary Day, ending with the firing of the national salute of twenty-one guns, before the statue of Lincoln, at the south end of Lincoln Park.

The Committee and the community are under obligation, also, to Professor Shailer Mathews for his enthusiasm and broad vision in connection with the possibilities of the celebration. To his efforts is due the splendid educational character of the commemoration.

The editor also wishes to take this occasion to thank Mr. William Marshall Ellis, who assisted him as Secretary of the general Committee and whose constant attention to the many demands upon the office of the general Committee, and ready and willing effort to coöperate with everyone for the success of the movement, was a large factor in directing, unifying and making successful the hundreds of celebrations in the City of Chicago.

The Committee also expresses appreciation to the McCormick Estates and to Mr. John A. Chapman for the use of offices for the general Committee, without compensation; to the Northwestern University Law School, its Dean, John H. Wigmore, and its Secretary, Frederick B. Crossley, for the use of Northwestern University Law School rooms for scores of meetings of the Committee; to the Chicago Telephone Company for the telephone service furnished without charge; to the Chicago newspapers, both daily and weekly, English and foreign, which without exception gave their hearty coöpera

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