A Hurd family genealogy states that Harvey B. Hurd was born in Huntington, Connecticut, the son of a farmer. He began work as a printer's apprentice at the age of 15 in Bridgeport. He soon entered Jubilee College in Peoria County, Illinois, then moved to Chicago and worked as a printer. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1848.
He worked on and completed revisions of the Statutes of Illinois and also real estate law. He worked on legislation for the great canal and served as a Cook County Commissioner. He was elected to a chair in the Union College of Law at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He was a founder of the city of Evanston in Cook County and the first president of their historical society. He served as president of the Children's Aid Society of Chicago, the Conference of Charities of Illinois, and was a Sunday School superintendent in the Evanston Methodist Episcopal Church. An article on Wikipedia describes his aid to the "free-state" settlers in the Kansas Territory. (historical accounts)
Harvey B. Hurd married Cornelia A. Hilliard 18 May 1853 in Cook County, Illinois. Cornelia A. Hurd died 25 April 1857, also in Cook County. (Illinois marriage & death indexes) Harvey B. Hurd was listed with wife Sarah G. (widow of George Collins) on the 1860 census in Evanston. The 1880 Evanston, Cook, IL census shows him with wife Sarah, daughters Hettie & Nellie, and his mother, Betsy Hurd, age 80, born in Connecticut. -------- Harvey B. Hurd applied for a passport in 1892 with wife Susannah, (formerly Mrs. Van Wyck,) listing his birthplace as Huntington, Connecticut. Ancestry.com family trees list him as Harvey Bostwith Hurd.
Hurd family genealogy lists his daughters as Eda Isadore (#29568335,) Hettie Belle, and Cornelia, or "Nellie." Eda, Hettie, and Nellie were all daughters of Cornelia Hilliard Hurd, a daughter of Col. James Hilliard of Middletown, Connecticut.
PIONEER LAWYER WHO IS DEAD
Harvey B. Hurd, one of the early lawyers of Chicago and compiler of the revised statutes of Illinois, died at his residence in Evanston yesterday morning at 10 o'clock as a result of a paralytic stroke received on Dec. 24 last. He was nearly 78 years old, having been born in Huntington, Conn. On Feb. 14, 1828, and resided in Chicago or its environs since Jan. 7, 1848.
In 1862 Mr. Hurd formed a law partnership with Henry Booth and became a lecturer in the law department of the old University of Chicago. Seven years later Gov. Palmer appointed him one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of Illinois. William E. Nelson of Decatur and Michael Schaefer of Salem withdrew shortly afterward and he completed the work alone. The revision was completed in 1874. An edition of 15,000 was soon exhausted, and he was called on later to edit sixteen revisions of the statutes after the sessions of various legislatures.
He was one of six men elected to fill the vacancies in the board of Cook county commissioners occasioned by the resignation of members convicted of fraud and was the father of the drainage canal legislation.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the residence, 1572 Ridge Avenue, and burial at Rosehill, will be private. The pallbearers of be six of the sixteen grandsons of Mr. Hurd – Thomas, Sterling, and Robert Lord, and John, Hurd and Frank Comstock.
Chicago Daily Tribune – January 21, 1906
He worked on and completed revisions of the Statutes of Illinois and also real estate law. He worked on legislation for the great canal and served as a Cook County Commissioner. He was elected to a chair in the Union College of Law at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He was a founder of the city of Evanston in Cook County and the first president of their historical society. He served as president of the Children's Aid Society of Chicago, the Conference of Charities of Illinois, and was a Sunday School superintendent in the Evanston Methodist Episcopal Church. An article on Wikipedia describes his aid to the "free-state" settlers in the Kansas Territory. (historical accounts)
Harvey B. Hurd married Cornelia A. Hilliard 18 May 1853 in Cook County, Illinois. Cornelia A. Hurd died 25 April 1857, also in Cook County. (Illinois marriage & death indexes) Harvey B. Hurd was listed with wife Sarah G. (widow of George Collins) on the 1860 census in Evanston. The 1880 Evanston, Cook, IL census shows him with wife Sarah, daughters Hettie & Nellie, and his mother, Betsy Hurd, age 80, born in Connecticut. -------- Harvey B. Hurd applied for a passport in 1892 with wife Susannah, (formerly Mrs. Van Wyck,) listing his birthplace as Huntington, Connecticut. Ancestry.com family trees list him as Harvey Bostwith Hurd.
Hurd family genealogy lists his daughters as Eda Isadore (#29568335,) Hettie Belle, and Cornelia, or "Nellie." Eda, Hettie, and Nellie were all daughters of Cornelia Hilliard Hurd, a daughter of Col. James Hilliard of Middletown, Connecticut.
PIONEER LAWYER WHO IS DEAD
Harvey B. Hurd, one of the early lawyers of Chicago and compiler of the revised statutes of Illinois, died at his residence in Evanston yesterday morning at 10 o'clock as a result of a paralytic stroke received on Dec. 24 last. He was nearly 78 years old, having been born in Huntington, Conn. On Feb. 14, 1828, and resided in Chicago or its environs since Jan. 7, 1848.
In 1862 Mr. Hurd formed a law partnership with Henry Booth and became a lecturer in the law department of the old University of Chicago. Seven years later Gov. Palmer appointed him one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of Illinois. William E. Nelson of Decatur and Michael Schaefer of Salem withdrew shortly afterward and he completed the work alone. The revision was completed in 1874. An edition of 15,000 was soon exhausted, and he was called on later to edit sixteen revisions of the statutes after the sessions of various legislatures.
He was one of six men elected to fill the vacancies in the board of Cook county commissioners occasioned by the resignation of members convicted of fraud and was the father of the drainage canal legislation.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the residence, 1572 Ridge Avenue, and burial at Rosehill, will be private. The pallbearers of be six of the sixteen grandsons of Mr. Hurd – Thomas, Sterling, and Robert Lord, and John, Hurd and Frank Comstock.
Chicago Daily Tribune – January 21, 1906
A Hurd family genealogy states that Harvey B. Hurd was born in Huntington, Connecticut, the son of a farmer. He began work as a printer's apprentice at the age of 15 in Bridgeport. He soon entered Jubilee College in Peoria County, Illinois, then moved to Chicago and worked as a printer. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1848.
He worked on and completed revisions of the Statutes of Illinois and also real estate law. He worked on legislation for the great canal and served as a Cook County Commissioner. He was elected to a chair in the Union College of Law at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He was a founder of the city of Evanston in Cook County and the first president of their historical society. He served as president of the Children's Aid Society of Chicago, the Conference of Charities of Illinois, and was a Sunday School superintendent in the Evanston Methodist Episcopal Church. An article on Wikipedia describes his aid to the "free-state" settlers in the Kansas Territory. (historical accounts)
Harvey B. Hurd married Cornelia A. Hilliard 18 May 1853 in Cook County, Illinois. Cornelia A. Hurd died 25 April 1857, also in Cook County. (Illinois marriage & death indexes) Harvey B. Hurd was listed with wife Sarah G. (widow of George Collins) on the 1860 census in Evanston. The 1880 Evanston, Cook, IL census shows him with wife Sarah, daughters Hettie & Nellie, and his mother, Betsy Hurd, age 80, born in Connecticut. -------- Harvey B. Hurd applied for a passport in 1892 with wife Susannah, (formerly Mrs. Van Wyck,) listing his birthplace as Huntington, Connecticut. Ancestry.com family trees list him as Harvey Bostwith Hurd.
Hurd family genealogy lists his daughters as Eda Isadore (#29568335,) Hettie Belle, and Cornelia, or "Nellie." Eda, Hettie, and Nellie were all daughters of Cornelia Hilliard Hurd, a daughter of Col. James Hilliard of Middletown, Connecticut.
PIONEER LAWYER WHO IS DEAD
Harvey B. Hurd, one of the early lawyers of Chicago and compiler of the revised statutes of Illinois, died at his residence in Evanston yesterday morning at 10 o'clock as a result of a paralytic stroke received on Dec. 24 last. He was nearly 78 years old, having been born in Huntington, Conn. On Feb. 14, 1828, and resided in Chicago or its environs since Jan. 7, 1848.
In 1862 Mr. Hurd formed a law partnership with Henry Booth and became a lecturer in the law department of the old University of Chicago. Seven years later Gov. Palmer appointed him one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of Illinois. William E. Nelson of Decatur and Michael Schaefer of Salem withdrew shortly afterward and he completed the work alone. The revision was completed in 1874. An edition of 15,000 was soon exhausted, and he was called on later to edit sixteen revisions of the statutes after the sessions of various legislatures.
He was one of six men elected to fill the vacancies in the board of Cook county commissioners occasioned by the resignation of members convicted of fraud and was the father of the drainage canal legislation.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the residence, 1572 Ridge Avenue, and burial at Rosehill, will be private. The pallbearers of be six of the sixteen grandsons of Mr. Hurd – Thomas, Sterling, and Robert Lord, and John, Hurd and Frank Comstock.
Chicago Daily Tribune – January 21, 1906
He worked on and completed revisions of the Statutes of Illinois and also real estate law. He worked on legislation for the great canal and served as a Cook County Commissioner. He was elected to a chair in the Union College of Law at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He was a founder of the city of Evanston in Cook County and the first president of their historical society. He served as president of the Children's Aid Society of Chicago, the Conference of Charities of Illinois, and was a Sunday School superintendent in the Evanston Methodist Episcopal Church. An article on Wikipedia describes his aid to the "free-state" settlers in the Kansas Territory. (historical accounts)
Harvey B. Hurd married Cornelia A. Hilliard 18 May 1853 in Cook County, Illinois. Cornelia A. Hurd died 25 April 1857, also in Cook County. (Illinois marriage & death indexes) Harvey B. Hurd was listed with wife Sarah G. (widow of George Collins) on the 1860 census in Evanston. The 1880 Evanston, Cook, IL census shows him with wife Sarah, daughters Hettie & Nellie, and his mother, Betsy Hurd, age 80, born in Connecticut. -------- Harvey B. Hurd applied for a passport in 1892 with wife Susannah, (formerly Mrs. Van Wyck,) listing his birthplace as Huntington, Connecticut. Ancestry.com family trees list him as Harvey Bostwith Hurd.
Hurd family genealogy lists his daughters as Eda Isadore (#29568335,) Hettie Belle, and Cornelia, or "Nellie." Eda, Hettie, and Nellie were all daughters of Cornelia Hilliard Hurd, a daughter of Col. James Hilliard of Middletown, Connecticut.
PIONEER LAWYER WHO IS DEAD
Harvey B. Hurd, one of the early lawyers of Chicago and compiler of the revised statutes of Illinois, died at his residence in Evanston yesterday morning at 10 o'clock as a result of a paralytic stroke received on Dec. 24 last. He was nearly 78 years old, having been born in Huntington, Conn. On Feb. 14, 1828, and resided in Chicago or its environs since Jan. 7, 1848.
In 1862 Mr. Hurd formed a law partnership with Henry Booth and became a lecturer in the law department of the old University of Chicago. Seven years later Gov. Palmer appointed him one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of Illinois. William E. Nelson of Decatur and Michael Schaefer of Salem withdrew shortly afterward and he completed the work alone. The revision was completed in 1874. An edition of 15,000 was soon exhausted, and he was called on later to edit sixteen revisions of the statutes after the sessions of various legislatures.
He was one of six men elected to fill the vacancies in the board of Cook county commissioners occasioned by the resignation of members convicted of fraud and was the father of the drainage canal legislation.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the residence, 1572 Ridge Avenue, and burial at Rosehill, will be private. The pallbearers of be six of the sixteen grandsons of Mr. Hurd – Thomas, Sterling, and Robert Lord, and John, Hurd and Frank Comstock.
Chicago Daily Tribune – January 21, 1906
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