Lucy Rumsey Holt was born in Chicago, Illinois to Israel and Mary Rumsey. She was married in 1895 to William Arthur Holt. The couple had four children, Jeanette, Alfred, Mary Eleanor and Donald.
William Arthur Holt was born in Lake Forest, Illinois to Devillo and Ellen Holt. He attended Lake Forest Academy and Lake Forest College. He began his career in 1882 at the Holt-Balcom Lumber Company in Chicago, where his father was a partner. In 1888 he moved to Oconto, Wisconsin, where there was also a branch of the lumber company, and began work there, eventually serving as president.
Holt also served as president of the Oconto Canning Company, the Oconto River Improvement Company and the Holt Hardwood Company, the latter of which he was also chairman of the board. Additionally, he was director for a time of the Oconto Falls Manufacturing Company. Holt helped found the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association and the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association.
Holt served as mayor of Oconto from 1904-1908.
Holt was married in 1895 to Lucy Rumsey Holt. The couple had four children, Jeanette, Alfred, Mary Eleanor and Donald.
Eugene Hotchkiss III was born and raised in Highland Park, IL, the son of a stock broker and the sister of George F. Kennan. He attended Dartmouth College, served in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, and worked in student affairs at Dartmouth and at the Claremont colleges in Los Angeles. He served as Executive Dean of Chatham College, Pittsburgh, prior to becoming president of Lake Forest College in 1970. He retired in 1993. He also was active in many civic roles locally during and after his presidency of the College.
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
J. S. Hyatt was a civil engineer for the Chicago Rapid Transit Company (1912) and the North Shore Line beginning in the 1920s.
The well-known tennis player George Jennings formed the George Jennings Tennis School at Lake Forest College in the mid 1950s. Jennings not only won a number of tennis titles himself, including the United States Lawn Tennis Association National Public Park Championships multiple years in both singles and doubles, but taught tennis lessons and served as varsity head tennis coach for Lake Forest College from the late 1950s to 1966.
The George Jennings Tennis School was largely a summer school and drew students from all over Illinois, though most were from the Chicago area.
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.
Dan Burne Jones was an artist. Jones authored a book entitled "The Prints of Rockwell Kent: Catalogue Raisonné," published in 1975.
Marvin Kent was born in Ravenna Ohio to Zenas and Pamelia Kent. He was educated at both Tallmadge and Claridon Academies.
Kent married Maria Stewart in 1840. The couple had two sons, William and Henry.
Kent worked in businesses owned by his father for a time as supervisor at a tannery and at the Kent Flouring Mill. Kent founded a glass works in the 1850s.
By 1851 Kent had joined the railroad industry and helped to plan and develop the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. He also served as its first president. The railroad was completed in 1863. Kent ensured the town of Franklin Mills, where some of his father’s businesses resided, was named a hub for the railroad. The shops and business opportunities this brought with it to the area led residents to rename the town in 1864 in honor of Marvin Kent. From then on Franklin Mills became known as Kent, Ohio.
Kent also went on to serve as bank president at Kent National Bank. He was involved in politics as well and served as an Ohio State Senator, elected in 1875.
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.
As stated on the organization’s official website, the mission of the Lake Forest Caucus is “to provide an open, independent, nonpartisan process for recommending qualified citizen volunteers to serve in Lake Forest government and on the School Boards.”
Source: https://www.lakeforestcaucus.com/who-is-lake-forest-caucus/history-of-lake-forest-caucus/