Histories of The
Listed in Chronological Order
The histories are scanned from extant printed sources, and therefore carry the
imperfections of age and the scanning process.
Photographs included with the originals do not scan well and have
therefore been separately reproduced, with a link to the photograph listed
under the chapter heading in which it appears.
The
Title Pages and Foreword
Photograph
of Robert Collyer
I.
Founding and Early Days
Photograph
of William Frederick Poole
II.
The first and second seasons
Photograph
of Edward Gay Mason
III.
The third season
Photograph
of James Sager Norton
IV. Events of the fourth season
V. Other seasons in the first club rooms
VI.
Removal to rooms in Portland
Block
Photograph
of Major Henry Alonzo Huntington
Photograph
of Dr. James Nevins Hyde
VII.
Removal from Portland Block
rooms
Photograph
of General Alexander Caldwell McClurg
Photograph
of Franklin Harvey Head
VIII.
Removal to rooms in the Art
Institute
Photograph
of the Reading Room of the Club, 1888-1892
Photograph
of the Assembly Room of the Club,
1888-1892
Photograph
of Reverend David Swing
IX.
Events of the next two years
Photograph
of John Crerar
X.
The last two years of the
club’s tenancy of the rooms in the Art Institute Building
Photograph
of Reverend Clinton Locke
XI.
The years when the club’s
home was in the University Club Building in Dearborn Street
XII.
The years when the club was
domiciled in the Orchestra Building and then in the Fine Arts Building
Photograph
of the Reading Room of the Club, 1910-1924
Photograph
of the Assembly Room of the Club, 1910-1924
Photograph
of Edward Osgood Brown
Photograph
of Frederick William Gookin
Appendices:
A. List of the rooms occupied by the club
B. List of the club’s officers (not reprinted here since now contained and updated separately in the List of Officers and Roll of Members)
C. Roll of members (not reprinted here since now contained and updated separately in the Roll of Members)
D. Lists of papers read before the club (not reprinted here since now incorporated in the Roll of Members)
The
III.
1925-26
Photograph
of William McAndrew
IV.
1926-27
Photograph
of Frank Joseph Loesch
Photograph
of James Westfall Thompson
Photograph
of George Packard
V.
Paul Shorey. Louis Block.
Clarence Burley. Charles C. Curtiss.
Louis F. Post. William Kent.
Photograph
of Paul Shorey
Photograph
of Clarence Augustus Burley
VI. 1928-29
VII.
1930-31
Photograph
of Lessing Rosenthal
Photograph
of Edward Scribner Ames
VIII.
Fifty-eighth year.
Photograph
of James Bryan Herrick
IX.
1933-34
Photograph
of Henry Milton Wolf
XI. 1937-38
XII.
1939-40
Photograph
of Charles Bert Reed
Photograph
of Payson Sibley Wild
XIII.
Our war members
Photograph
of Mary Green
Appendices (all now contained in the List of Officers and Roll of Members)
A Twenty-Minute History of The Chicago Literary
Club, by Earle A. Shilton, 1960
The
II. The Climate
III. In the Beginning
V.
1874-1924
Photograph
of Frederick W. Gookin
VI.
1924-1946
Photograph
of Payson Sibley Wild
VII. 1946-1953
VIII. 1953-1960
IX. 1960-1967
X.
1967-1973
Photograph
of Walker Davis
XI. Ladies’ Nights
XII.
The Centennial Year
and After
Photograph
of Willard King
Appendices (now contained in the List of Officers and Roll of Members)
1974-1989
Supplement to The First Hundred Years, 1874-1974, by William K. Beatty,
1989
The
I. The First Quarter of the Second Hundred Years, 1974-1999
II.
Anniversary Year Biographies
full text
As part of the anniversary-year program, members of the Anniversary Committee
prepared biographical sketches of twenty-seven members of the Club. The focus was on earlier, now deceased
members of the Club, although an exception was made in the case of two
then-living members—Orville T. Bailey and Elmer Gertz. These biographical sketches were read at the
Club’s meetings during the year (in the order and on the dates indicated below)
and, with some minor editing and revisions, are included here in their
entirety.
a.
Orville T. Bailey October 5, 1998
b. Elmer Gertz October 5, 1998
c. William Le Baron Jenney October 19, 1998
d. William Rainey Harper November 2, 1998
e. Paul Howard Douglas November 9, 1998
f. David Swing November 16, 1998
g. Thomas Elliott Donnelly November 23, 1998
h. Lorado Taft November 30, 1998
i. Ernst Wilfred Puttkammer December 7, 1998
j. Frederick William Gookin January 4, 1999
k. Herman H. Lackner January 11, 1999
l. Irving Kane Pond January 18, 1999
m. Geza de Takats January 25, 1999
n. Charles Lawrence Hutchinson February 1, 1999
o. Arthur Goldberg February 15, 1999
p. Henry Regnery March 1, 1999
q. Edward Gay Mason March 15, 1999
r. Edgar Lee Masters March 22, 1999
s. Melville Weston Fuller March 22, 1999
t. William M.R. French March 29, 1999
u. James Nevins Hyde April 5, 1999
v. Franklin MacVeagh April 12, 1999
w. Arthur Alois Baer April 19, 1999
x. Roscoe Pound April 26, 1999
y. Payson Sibley Wild May 3, 1999
z. William Frederick Poole May 10, 1999
aa. Robert Collyer May 17, 1999
Appendices (now contained in the List of Officers and Baer Fellows, the Roll of Members and the List of Papers Published by the Club. These Appendices are active documents, updated annually, and therefore not copied here.)
Memorial booklets were prepared for a few notable early members; these are noted by their name in the Roll of Members (Robert Collyer, Arthur Brooks, Hosmer Allen Johnson, Edwin Holmes Sheldon, Huntington Wolcott Jackson).
Other material on the history of the Club may be found in the Index of Papers Online under the subject heading ‘CLC’.
