MacChesney, Nathan William (1878-1954)

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Gino Speranza to Nathan William MacChesney, December 8, 1910

Gino C. Speranza to Nathan William MacChesney, March 1, 1911

Gino C. Speranza to Criminal Law and Criminology Committee on Crime and Immigration, December 8, 1910

Nathan William MacChesney to Gino C. Speranza, December 1, 1910

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Birth Date

1878-06-02

Death Date

1954

Birthplace

Chicago, IL

Biographical Text

Nathan William MacChesney attended California Wesleyan College, Stanford University, Northwestern University School of Law, and University of Michigan Law School. He founded the law firm MacChesney and Becker and founded the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. MacChesney served as a special assistant attorney general of the United States in 1911, and as a special state's attorney for Illinois in 1912. He worked as the president of the Illinois State Bar Association from 1915 to 1916. He was part of the general counsel of the National Association of Real Estate Boards in the 1920s. MacChesney drafted the "Standard Form, Chicago Restrictive Covenant," which was used as a model for enforcing racial segregation.

MacChesney married Lena Frost on December 1, 1904. The couple had two sons, Alfred Brunson and an adopted son Gordon, both born in 1909. MacChesney died in 1954.

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Lawyer

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Lichon, Sara Catherine

Sciancalepore, Victoria

Gender

Male

First appears

1911

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Nathan W Mcchesney, 1930 United States Federal Census

Nathan William Mac Chesney, Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920

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“MacChesney, Nathan William (1878-1954),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 3, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/3171.