Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — THE INDICTED ALDERMEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE INDICTED ALDERMEN.

Tlie Record of the Chicago Councilinen Charged with Doodling. William J. O'Brien, Alderman of the Sixth Ward, is professionally a

ward politician and incidentally a saloonkeeper. He was born in Gloucester, Mass., thirty-eight years ago, his oeopl e being Usher folk, and he worked s on the Ashing tsmacks which belong to that port. When 16 years old he came to Chicago

with his mother, his father being dead, and he grew up around the corners of what is now the Fifth Ward, much as other boys grew up

there before and have since. At the time of the Are he happened to be in jail on complaint of a young woman, and the prisoners accused of the lesser offenses being liberated on that occasion to save their lives, he escaped and proceeded to get as far away from Chicago as he could. He landed in Boston, where he became a bartender, and finally got a saloon of his own. O'Brien got into trouble with the Boston authorities, and, rather than have further difficulty about it, fled to Canada. From there he returned to Chicago in 1876. Three years ago he was elected Aiderman of the Sixth Ward, and was reelected last spring. D. K. O’Orien. Daniel R. O’Brien, Alderman of the Twenty-third Ward, is a product

of that peculiar part of the city known as “Goose Island.” He is 35 years old, and was “born in what is now the First Ward, but his parents soon moved to the North Side, and he grew up in the peculiar] political and moral' atmosphere which existed and still

exists in the North Market and Franklin street saloons. He gotwhat education he has received at the old Kinzie School, and went into politics at an early age. He was first employed in the office of the North Town Clerk, and afterward became North Town Clerk himself. He was elected Alderman six years ago, and has been twice re-elected. S. M. Gosselin. Stephen M. Gosselin, Alderman of the Seventeenth Ward, is a native of Chicago, descended of German parentage. He is now but a little over 30 years bid, and is a graduate of the local public schools and West Side high schools. He is a lawyer, having been admitted to the bar about five years ago. He is now serving bis first term In the Council, having

been elected r. year ago through the votes of the young men of the ward. Nicholas Cremer. Nicholas or “Nic” Cremer is a native of the First Ward, which he now

represents in the Council. He was born in Sherman street thirty-two years ago, when his father was a small cigarmaker, and as he grew up extended the business until it assumed fair proportions. He was educated at the Jones school, at the corner of Harrison street

and Plymouth place, and at the death of his father inherited considerable property, the lot on which his Sherman street home was located becoming in time extremely valuable. Aid. Cremer had, until he was elected to the Council, enjoyed a good reputation and stood well among the German residents, of whom his father was one of the oldest in Chicago. l'hillp Jackson. Philip Jackson, Alderman of the Fourteenth Ward, was born in the

old First Ward of Chicago in 1856, of Hebrew parentage. He started in making a living for himself at an age, being Arst newsboy and them branching out as ni general newsdealer.' Then he became a Areman, beginning a s a member of the old

First Ward Volunteer Department, and when the paid department was established he joined it. Becoming tired of this, he opened an insurance and real-estate office in the ward he now represents in the Council, and has been engaged in that business ever since. He was elected to the Council Arst three years ago, and ran again last spring. J. F. Dorman. John F. Dorman, Alderman of the Tenth Ward, was born in Germany

forty years ago. He came to Chicago with his parents when a boy and received his education in the Lutheran parish schools of the southwest section Kof the cit y. In fftthe winter of 1887’BB he was one of \t h e Representatives of the Fifth

Senatorial District at Springfield. He has been a committeeman from his ward for a number of years, has held minor appointive positions in the City Hall and other public offices, and has been more or less of a local politiejan for a long time. He was electecr to the Council a year ago.

* P. J. Gorman. P. J. Gorman, Alderman of the Thirty-third Ward, was originally an

iron - worker. He was born in Lowell, Mass., thirtyfour years ago, and came to South Chicago in 1874, where he was for a long time employed in the rolling mills of the Illinois Steel’ Company. He became prominent in labor organizations, with which he had been for

many years identified, and was electr ed to the Council in 1880, when South Chicago was annexed to the city. He was re-elected two years ago.

W. J. O'BRIEN.

D. R. O'BRIEN.

N. A. CREMER.

PHILIP JACKSON.

J. F. DORMAN.

P. J. GORMAN.