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Storrs (EMORY ALEXANDER an American)

EMORY ALEXANDER, an American lawyer; born in Hinsdale, N.

Y., August 12, 1835. He read law with his father and Marshall R. Chaplin; was admitted to the bar in Buffalo in 1855, and practiced there for a short time; removed to Chicago in 1859. He became prominent as a criminal lawyer, and for several years figured as counsel in almost every important criminal case in the Chicago courts. He became well known as a presidential campaign orator, and was a delegate-at-large to the National Republican Conventions of 1868, 1872, and 1880, where he was influential in shaping the platform of the party.

He died in Ottawa, Ill., Sept. 12, 1885.