Chicago; Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth Volume 4 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Bokum remained in that capacity for about ten years, achieving results that placed him in a prominent position among the district managers of the country. In 1898 he came to Chicago to accept the position he occupied until his death? one of the most important outside of the home office?as state agent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company and that Mr. Bokum secured results was evidenced by the fact that he had been retained in that capacity. Few men in Chicago were better known in insurance circles and none whose methods did more to dignify the business. On April 17, 1911, Mr. Bokum passed away in the fifty-seventh year of his life. In Philadelphia, Mr. Bokum was married to Miss Anna L. Harkness on the 31st of December, 1881. They became the parents of two S9ns and one daughter: Norris H., Richard D. and Majorie. RUFUS CUTLER DAWES. Rufus Cutler Dawes, whose attention in business lines has largely been given to the promotion of gas and electric light projects, is numbered among those men whose initiative spirit carries them beyond the bounds in which the great majority labor, and the extent and importance of the interests which he has financed and controlled well entitle him to be numbered among Chicago's captains of industry. He was born at Marietta, Ohio, July 30, 1867, a son of General Rufus R. and Mary Be- man (Gates) Dawes. His father served in the war of the rebellion as a colonel of the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment, which was a brilliant section of the famed Iron Brigade, and was brevetted brigadier general for distinguished services and gallant conduct at the head of his command. He also served for one term in congress and died about ten years ago at his home in Marietta, Ohio,' where his widow still resides. The Dawes family comes of old New England stock, ...