THE CITY OF CHICAGO. 325 
John Dickinson Sherman is a native Chicagoan. He 
was born in 1859 in the home of his- great uncle, Mayor 
James H. Woodworth, Wa sh avenue, near Sixteenth 
street, then the best residen district of Chicago. His 
father is P. L. Sherman, one of the old-time lawyers of 
Chicago, and his mother is president of the Chicago 
Woman's Club. His parents built a home in Kenwood 
in 1859 and still live in the old homestead. Mr. Sherman 
was graduated from the Hyde Park High School in 1876 
and from Hamilton College in 1881. In 1882, while study- 
ing law in his father's office, he became Hyde Park cor- 
respondent for the Chicago Tribune merely as a diver- 
sion. Becoming interested in the work he turned his at- 
JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. 
tention seriously to the newspaper business, and by 1890 
had worked his way up to the position of city editor. 
He held this position for five years. He came to The 
Inter Ocean upon its reorganization in 1898 to take charge 
of the local department. 
Dwight Whitney Bowles, business manager of The 
Inter Ocean, was born November 15, 1864, in Springfield, 
Massachusetts. He took his degree of A. B. at Harvard 
University in 1887 and almost immediately thereafter be- 
gan newspaper work. His first experience was with the 
Minneapolis Tribune, which at that time was owned by 
Col. E. B. Haskell of the Boston Herald. He spent nearly 
a year in Minneapolis, doing the usual routine editorial 
work on the Tribune, and in the fall of 1888 went to the 
staff of the New York Times. He spent two winters in 
Albany as tihe political correspondent of that paper and 
then became editor of the Sunday edition of the Times, a 
position which he continued to occupy until December, 
1896, when he resigned to become general manager of the. 
Illustrated American, a weekly publication in New York. 
He came to The Inter Ocean in March, 1898. Mr. Bowles 
is the youngest son of the late Samuel Bowles of the 
Springfield Republican. 
DWIGHT WHITNEY BOWLES. 
lion. Frank Gilbert was born in Pittsford, Ver- 
mont, September 28, 1839. He was descended 
from sturdy New Englanders, both his grandfathers hav- 
ing served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. His 
parents, Simeon arid Margaret Gilbert, lived on a farni, 
and each of their seven sons was given the advantages of 
a college education—a fact which tells its own story of 
the thrift, culture, breadth and healthful ambition of the 
industrious Vermonters. Every one of the seven sons 
has achieved prominence as thOroughly useful citizens 
—lawyers, clergymen and journalists. One of them, 
Rev. Dr. Simeon Gilbert, was for some twenty years 
identified with the editorship of the Chicago Advance. 
Mr. Gilbert attended the University of Vermont, 
where he graduated, and early in the sixties left the Green 
Mountains for the West. His training was thorough 
and his varied attainments kept pace with the spirit and 
advance of the age. Upon coming to Illinois he made 
his home for a season in Peoria. Thence he removed 
to Dubuque, Iowa, where he began what really became 
his lifework—journalism. After several years of service 
there, he came to Chicago, which continued to be his 
home until decease, Saturday evening, November 4, 
1899. 
For eleven years he was associate editor of the Chi- 
cago Evening Journal, and thus became identified prom- 
inently with public men and affairs, not only in Chicago, 
but also throughout the state—a relationship which was