EARLY DAYS OF THE CHICAGO ASSOCIATION

A recent letter from Major E. D. Redington '61 to the secretary of the Alumni Association tells of the early days of the Chicago Alumni Association. A part of the letter is quoted here for its general interest.

"We organized fifty years ago soon after I came here in 1875. Numerically we were a feeble folk, but among the thirty or forty men there were those who stood high in their several professions, such men as the first president Genl. Joseph D. Webster who had gained distinction in the Civil War, and his brother Rev. John C. Webster, Minister and Teacher, father of Charles R. Webster of the class of 1882. The brothers were members of the class of 1832. Of the class of 1836 there were Saml. C. Bartlett, afterwards President of Dartmouth, and John Wentworth, distinguished as Mayor of Chicago, and Member of Congress. Caleb Mills and E. O. Hovey, both Professors at Wabash College, Indiana, and classmates at Dartmouth, class of 1828; John C. Dore, Lawyer, class of 1847, and a group of lawyers from the class of 1851, the peers of the like number of men in any city of the country. Their names were Grant, Shorey, Hitchcock, and Cooke. Of the charter members of the association I am, I believe, the sole survivor, my friend Edwin C. Crawford of 1874 having passed away two weeks ago."