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Daughter of R. Douglas and Harriet (McClure) Stuart
Wife of Edson White Spencer
Mother of 4 Children

Fourth Child of James G.K. McClure and Phebe Ann McClure (Dixon)
Married Hazel Hotstettler
Father of 2 Children Archibald Jr. (m. Salli Van Norden) and Betty
Presbyterian Reverend/Pastor in Ohio and Indiana

Daughter of R. Douglas and Harriet (McClure) Stuart
Wife of Augustin S. Hart Jr.
Mother of 3 Children Kitty (Margaret), Chip, and Heather

Edward Arpee (1899-1979), the brother of Armenian historian and theologian Leon Arpee, taught at Lake Forest Academy for 35 years beginning in 1929. He was the spouse of Katherine Trowbridge Arpee (granddaughter of Chicago wholesale grocer and later Lake Forest resident Calvin Durand), and father of Harriet Sherman of Lake Bluff. Arpee graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and wrote various notable books, including "History of Lake Forest Academy" (Chicago: Alderbrink Press, 1944) and "From Frigates to Flat Tops" (1953).

The Arpees lived at 383 N. Washington Road, less than a block from the Academy, and about a block south of Mrs. Arpee's parents' home on College Road. According to the Arpee's, the home was once a summer rental property for Onwentsia residents when it was owned by Van Weganen Alling. One of the past renters was Adlai Stevenson, who later built his farm in Libertyville.

Sources:

"Senior master Publishes an Historical Documentary," Spectator [Lake Forest Academy], April 20, 1964, 1.

Biographical Details gathered by, Arthur H. Miller Archivist & Librarian for Special Collections

George Raimes Beach, Jr. was the son of the Montclair attorney, entrepreneur and corporate official George Raimes Beach (b. 1875) originally from Jersey City, N.J. and profiled in Who's Who in Commerce and Industry. Beach, Sr., married Lucy McBride on April 30, 1901, and George, Jr., was the first of two children, the other was Katherine L. George Jr. was a 1926 graduate of Princeton University. He made his career in chemicals, with Dupont, and retired in 1965 having been Midwest regional manager of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. electrochemicals division.

Mr. Beach lived in Lake Forest for many years, served as an alderman, a term as mayor from 1960 to 1963, and was also a trustee of Lake Forest College acting as board chair from 1971 to 1974.

Between the time of his retirement in 1965 and 1980 he traveled extensively and wrote, for private distribution to his friends, several travel narratives. His later writings after 1975 also featured his second spouse, Mary, who sometimes did the writing in the early 1970s. He also had a home -- Charduar -- in western Virginia, at Bacova (zip 24412), not far from Hot Springs, where he died, having given up by then his Lake Forest house.
Sources:

Who's Who in Commerce and Industry, 10th interrnational ed. Chicago: Marquis, 1957, 75.

Chicago Tribune obituary, August 28, 1990

Mrs. Bentley was the daughter of Frederic Norross and the granddaughter of John H. Wrenn, Chicago broker/banker and book collector. On December 9, 1922 she married Richard Bentley, 1894-1970, a 1917 Yale graduate and 1921 Northwestern Law graduate -- son of Cyrus Bentley Jr., Chicago attorney (clients included Anita McCormick Blaine). Her grandfather was the late John H. Wrenn, long prominent in Chicago brokerage circles and also a noted book and art collector, owning a valuable private library and collection of etchings. Mr. and Mrs. Bentley have three children, Cyrus III, Alice Wrenn and Barbara. ("ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation" by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp) http://genealogytrails.com/ill/cook/chicagobios3.html . Wren is best known for his collection of T. J. Wise forgeries--discovered by Pollard and Redgrave ca. 1930. But in 1938 the Bentleys added a library to their 1928 David Adler home (addition by Ambrose Cramer) to house familiy books, etc.

J. S. Hyatt was a civil engineer for the Chicago Rapid Transit Company (1912) and the North Shore Line beginning in the 1920s.

Ernest A. Johnson was born in Ouray, Colorado in 1895. He received a BA at Colorado college and a Master's degree at the University of Denver in 1924. He moved to Illinois to participate in graduate work at Northwestern University and University of Chicago receiving his doctor's degree from Northwestern in 1933.

He was a respected faculty member of Lake Forest College, head of the economies and business adminstration department. Ultimately, he became the 9th elected President after the retirment of Dr. Herbert McComb in 1942. He served as President at Lake Forest until his death in 1959 at the age of 64.

He was also an author of several studies and a husband to his wife Edith. As an honored member of the College, his choices to provide and run an evening school, summer sessions, and an army specialized training program alongside the average academic programs within the college were some of the greatest achievements of his adminstration at Lake Forest.

Ells Laflin was born in Chicago in 1898. He spent a large part of his youth and later life in Lake Forest, in the family country place, Ellslloyd (Hawthorne Place). His parents were Josephine Knowland Laflin and Louis Ellsworth Laflin Sr. Namely, Ells graduated from Lawrenceville Preparatory School in 1918, and from Princeton in 1924.  He received from Yale an M.A. in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1941 in areas of drama, religion, and Egyptology.  He even spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute studying hieroglyphics.

His major work was the writing of at least seventy-seven full-length plays, of which seventeen were produced, and forty one-act plays, of which thirty-three were produced, mostly at schools and colleges.  He also lectured on drama at Rollins College, FL, and at Lake Forest College, as he ran the drama department in the 1950s. Mostly, Laflin traveled and wrote many plays that were performed locally by the theatre group of PlayReaders.

R. Hunter Middleton was born near Glasgow, Scotland in 1898 and came to the U.S. at the age of ten, living in Alabama where his father managed a coal mine. He studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and, upon graduation in 1923, began designing new typefaces for Chicago's Ludlow Typograph Company. Ten years later he became art director for the firm, and he continued this relationship until 1970.

Middleton was a member of many typographic arts societies and he joined the Caxton Cub in 1945. He became an honorary member in 1984.

During World War II he formed his Cherryburn Press when he acquired a large shipment of Thomas Bewick engraved blocks that came to Chicago. The Newberry later acquired many of these blocks as gifts from Middleton.

Thomas Bewick was born at Cherryburn House, Mickley, Northumberland, near Newcastle, in 1753. Thus, Middleton's press was named for this avocational interest in Bewick, to which he turned with great seriousness of purpose after his "retirement" from Ludlow in 1970. That very year the Newberry Library published Cherryburn's "monumental" one-hundred Bewick print collection. Middleton's work encouraged a revival of scholarly interest in Bewick's work and his medium, wood engraving.

Middleton's contribution to the printing of the plates, in addition to his preservation of them, was his make-readies that layered paper to press the print page into the grooves cut by the engraver bringing Bewick's past work to life.

Middleton was generous about entertaining visitors at his press in the basement of his northside Chicago home, among them the late David Woodward, who continued some Cherryburn Press work in Madison, WI.

In the 1960s through the early 1980s, Middleton was the recognized "dean" of Chicago classic book design. One project with a Lake Forest connection was his design guidance for Susan Dart's 1984 book, Market Square (Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society).

Brevet Brigadier General Eugene Beuharnais Payne was born in Seneca Falls, New York on April 15, 1835. His family quickly moved to Lake County Illinois and Payne studied locally in Waukegan. He graduated law school from Northwestern University in 1860 and was admitted to the bar to practice within the same year.

With the start of the Civil War, Payne formed the first Infantry company of Union troops (37th Regiment) in the state of Illinois and served throughout the conflict until September of 1864.. Most notably, Payne fought and later wrote/described in both his letters and a later 1903 pamphlet about the battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas. Furthermore, just as this collections shows a soldier's perspective on battle, it also clearly testifies about the marriage of Eugene B. Payne and his wife Adelia A. "Delia" Wright. They married on January 26th, 1862 and as clearly expressed throughout the letters, the couple shared a deep connection of love.

After the war, the decorated general Payne, returned to Illinois and was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1864 and served until 1868. He also returned to practicing law for 17 years and became an officer/examiner of the United States Pension Bureau in Washington and later in Cleveland, OH. He wrote a number of volumes on this type of federal work and led a steady life overall. He died on April 7, 1910 in Washington at the age of 75.

Pauline Palmer Wood was the daughter of Pauline Kohlsaat and Potter Palmer, Jr. of Chicago; her brother was Potter Palmer III. She was the granddaughter of Bertha Honoree and Potter Palmer, Chicago leaders in the last third of the nineteenth century. Like her sister, Bertha, Wood attended Concord Academy. After European travel and World War II, she married Arthur MacDougall Wood (1913-2005) on November 17, 1945. She had two children: Pauline Palmer Wood Egan (b. 1948) and Arthur M. Wood, Jr. (b. 1950). Wood was active in the Chicago Historical Society and the Lake Forest Garden Club.

Arthur MacDougall Wood was the son of R. Arthur Wood and Emily Smith Wood of Highland Park. In 1931 R. Arthur Wood had been president of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Wood graduated from Princeton in 1934 and from Harvard Law in 1937. After brief practice as an attorney in Chicago, Wood entered the military during World War II. After returning from military service, he joined Sears Roebuck & Co., Chicago, and rose to lead this major international company in the 1970s. Wood also participated in many high-profile national leadership roles as one of the country's key corporate heads. After his retirement in 1978 he served as president of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The family lived in the former Hugh McBirney Johnston/A.B. Dick, Jr. house on North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, now occupied by Arthur M. Wood, Jr. and his family.

The original Saville Organ factory was located in Northbrook, Illinois and later moved to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. One still stands in The Auditorium Theatre in downtown Chicago.

American Architect well known for his designed buildings in Chicago Area
Created the design for Lake Forest Market Square, the first planned shopping center in the United States.
A Leader of the Arts and Crafts Architectural Movement seen with buildings like his home Ragdale, Lakeside Press Building, Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago) and Marktown
Member of the American Institute of Architects and received the AIA Gold Medal
Married Frances (Wells) Shaw and Father of Three