Gary, Elbert Henry (1846-1927)

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The Man Who Does Not Know, ca. August 20, 1912

Testimony Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, January 11, 1921

Committee on American and Japanese Relations Invitation List, April 8, 1921

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, October 31, 1925.

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

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Birth Date

1846-10-08

Death Date

1927-08-15

Birthplace

Wheaton, IL

Biographical Text

Elbert Gary attended Wheaton College followed by Union College of Law (now Northwestern University School of Law), where he graduated top of his class in 1868. He then opened a law office in Chicago and one in Wheaton and was a co-founder of the Gary-Wheaton Bank. Gary served three terms as Wheaton's president and served as its first mayor when it became a city in 1892. From 1882 to 1890, he served as a DuPage County judge, and from 1893 to 1894 he was president of the Chicago Bar Association. In 1898 he became president of the Federal Steel Corporation, and when the company merged with other companies to become U.S. Steel in 1901, Gary was elected chairman of the board of directors and the finance committee. In 1900, Gary moved to New York City, where he established the headquarters of U.S. Steel and served as the company's chairman. He served as president of the Illinois State Society of New York from 1906 to 1908, and in 1914 he was chairman of the committee studying unemployment in New York City. During World War I, Gary was chairman of the committee on steel of the Council of National Defense.

Gary married Julia Graves in 1869. They had two daughters together: Gertrude and Bertha. In 1902, Julia died, and in 1905 Gary remarried to Emma T. Townsend. Gary died in 1927.

Occupation

Judge

Lawyer

Mayor

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Bain News Service. E.H. Gary. 1910-1915. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C., Photo

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DeLora, Renee

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1912

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“Gary, Elbert Henry (1846-1927),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed December 3, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/4883.