Edward H. Pitkin, Crockery Man, Is Dead
Edward Hand Pitkin, president of Pitkin & Brooks, and for many years a resident of Oak Park, died yesterday at Daytona Fla.
Mr. Pitkin was born June 9, 1846. He served in the civil war in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Illinois volunteers. After the great fire he went into the crockery business in partnership with J. W. Brooks.
Mr. Pitkin was a charter member of the Second Congregational church of Oak Park, a director of the Chicago City Missionary society, a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and a trustee of Beloit college.
He was a member of the Union League club of Chicago and the Oak Park Country club. He is survived by a widow and four daughters.
--Chicago Tribune, 24 April 1918, p. 15
DEATH OF E. H. PITKIN
Old Resident Passes Away — Distinguished in Business, Educational and Religious Enterprises
E. H. Pitkin, a resident of Oak Park for nearly a half century and one of the best known citizens of the community, passed away on Tuesday at Daytona, Fla. He was prominent in Chicago business circles, and in religious and educational work he had friends and associates in all parts of the country. He felt a social responsibility and all his life he was tireless in enterprises designed for the common welfare and his influence touched and influenced many lives. Altho the head of one of Chicago's large mercantile houses, which had achieved the place of an institution in the city and neighboring states, Mr. Pitkin probably will be in memory longer for his services in the Congregational church and for Beloit college. Funeral services will take place this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Second Congregational church. Dr. Eaton, if he can reach Oak Park in time, will officiate. Friends are requested to omit flowers.
Mr. Pitkin was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 9, 1846. His father and mother were from Vermont. Back of his father, Joshua Pitkin, the long line of Pitkins in America began with the arrival of William Pitkin, from London, England, at Hartford, Conn., in 1659, just twenty-four years after its settlement. William Pitkin was a man who possessed the ideals and exhibited the energy which have come to associate with the Pitkin name.
It was a strong line which William Pitkin established. A line which gave governors to Colorado and Connecticut, three judges to the Supreme Court of the latter state, besides numerous Senators and Representatives, and which furnished
men distinguished in the civil and military life of this country in almost every department. From William Pitkin's sister, Martha Pitkin Wolcott, are descended five governors of Connecticut and other eminent men.
When Mr. Pitkin's father went west as one of the original "Forty-niners" his mother returned to Vermont with the three-year-old boy. Here he lived on a farm and attended "a little red school-house on a hill" until he was about 9 years of age, when he father returned from California and the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. About five years later, in 1860, when he was 14 years old, the family came to Chicago. He graduated from the Jones school, which still stands
in the midst of the business district of Chicago at Clark and Harrison streets, and would have gone to High school but was obliged to go to work, "owing to the low state of the family finances" as he himself put it. He entered the employ of the crockery firm of Burley & Tyrrell and remained with them eight years. It is interesting to note that Mr. Pitkin's business is now located on the northside of Lake street just east of State street, where fifty years ago he began work with Burley & Tyrrell.
While employed by Burley & Tyrrell, altho under age, he enlisted for the 100-day service with the 132nd Illinois Volunteers. The regiment went to Kentucky but was not engaged and returned to Chicago to be mustered out at the end of the period of enlistment. However, as General Price threatened to raid St. Louis, the 132nd Illinois was sent there and was not mustered out until after six months of service. Mr. Pitkin said he "never got any nearer the firing line than to see two spies executed."
On January 1, 1872, soon after the great Chicago fire, Mr. Pitkin and J. W. Brooks organized the firm of Pitkin & Brooks and were associated together in that firm and the present corporation of the same name which succeeded the firm
for thirty-eight years, when Mr. Brooks sold his interest in the business to Mr. Pitkin.
Mr. Pitkin was married in 1871 to Miss Lillie E. Morey of Oak Park. Mrs. Pitkin is living and is greatly beloved in Oak Park.
Mr. Pitkin was one of the original trustees selected to administer the Scoville Institute by James W . Scoville.
The Pitkins were Congregationalists and Edward H. Pitkin united with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago in 1867. When he moved to Oak Park in 1871, he became a member of the First Congregational church. He was a member of the First church for eighteen years, and a deacon when he left to be- come one of the organizers and a deacon in the Second Congregational Church of Oak Park, where he has had a wide and useful influence for the twenty-seven years of its existence. The missionary activities of the denomination have al- ways gained his active support. For twenty-five -years he was a corporate member of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions and its most earnest advocate in the vicinity of Chicago. He was a leader in the Laymen's Missionary movement and for many years a director in the Chicago City Missionary Society.
Mr. Pitkin's connection with Beloit College was an outstanding feature of his life. When Dr. E. D. Eaton was called from the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park to become president of Beloit College in June, 1886, it was a period of great discouragement in the history of that institution. The rebuilding of the college was a strenuous undertaking, in which Dr. Eaton asked Mr. Pitkin to share, and he accepted. For thirty-two years Mr. Pitkin and Dr. Eaton worked together to bring Beloit college to its present prosperous condition. During that time the personnel of the board of trustees has been entirely changed, and during all of that time Mr, Pitkin was chairman of the committee to select new trustees, and likewise chair man of the Ways and Means committee in charge of the increase of the endowment, which was nearly tenfold during the period of his trusteeship.
Mr. Pitkin had lived in Oak Park since 1871. He was an active, useful citizen whose influence could always be counted upon in favor of any good movement or for any worthy institution. He was one of a notable group of men now becoming few in number, who made this residential community a delightful place in which to live. The surviving members of his family are his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Malcolm Wallace of Toronto, Mrs. E. W. McCready of Oak Park, Miss Emily Pitkin of Oak Park, Mrs. Horace Poynter of Andover, Mass., and three grandchildren.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 27 Apr 1918, pg. 11
Edward Hand Pitkin, president of Pitkin & Brooks, and for many years a resident of Oak Park, died yesterday at Daytona Fla.
Mr. Pitkin was born June 9, 1846. He served in the civil war in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Illinois volunteers. After the great fire he went into the crockery business in partnership with J. W. Brooks.
Mr. Pitkin was a charter member of the Second Congregational church of Oak Park, a director of the Chicago City Missionary society, a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and a trustee of Beloit college.
He was a member of the Union League club of Chicago and the Oak Park Country club. He is survived by a widow and four daughters.
--Chicago Tribune, 24 April 1918, p. 15
DEATH OF E. H. PITKIN
Old Resident Passes Away — Distinguished in Business, Educational and Religious Enterprises
E. H. Pitkin, a resident of Oak Park for nearly a half century and one of the best known citizens of the community, passed away on Tuesday at Daytona, Fla. He was prominent in Chicago business circles, and in religious and educational work he had friends and associates in all parts of the country. He felt a social responsibility and all his life he was tireless in enterprises designed for the common welfare and his influence touched and influenced many lives. Altho the head of one of Chicago's large mercantile houses, which had achieved the place of an institution in the city and neighboring states, Mr. Pitkin probably will be in memory longer for his services in the Congregational church and for Beloit college. Funeral services will take place this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Second Congregational church. Dr. Eaton, if he can reach Oak Park in time, will officiate. Friends are requested to omit flowers.
Mr. Pitkin was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 9, 1846. His father and mother were from Vermont. Back of his father, Joshua Pitkin, the long line of Pitkins in America began with the arrival of William Pitkin, from London, England, at Hartford, Conn., in 1659, just twenty-four years after its settlement. William Pitkin was a man who possessed the ideals and exhibited the energy which have come to associate with the Pitkin name.
It was a strong line which William Pitkin established. A line which gave governors to Colorado and Connecticut, three judges to the Supreme Court of the latter state, besides numerous Senators and Representatives, and which furnished
men distinguished in the civil and military life of this country in almost every department. From William Pitkin's sister, Martha Pitkin Wolcott, are descended five governors of Connecticut and other eminent men.
When Mr. Pitkin's father went west as one of the original "Forty-niners" his mother returned to Vermont with the three-year-old boy. Here he lived on a farm and attended "a little red school-house on a hill" until he was about 9 years of age, when he father returned from California and the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. About five years later, in 1860, when he was 14 years old, the family came to Chicago. He graduated from the Jones school, which still stands
in the midst of the business district of Chicago at Clark and Harrison streets, and would have gone to High school but was obliged to go to work, "owing to the low state of the family finances" as he himself put it. He entered the employ of the crockery firm of Burley & Tyrrell and remained with them eight years. It is interesting to note that Mr. Pitkin's business is now located on the northside of Lake street just east of State street, where fifty years ago he began work with Burley & Tyrrell.
While employed by Burley & Tyrrell, altho under age, he enlisted for the 100-day service with the 132nd Illinois Volunteers. The regiment went to Kentucky but was not engaged and returned to Chicago to be mustered out at the end of the period of enlistment. However, as General Price threatened to raid St. Louis, the 132nd Illinois was sent there and was not mustered out until after six months of service. Mr. Pitkin said he "never got any nearer the firing line than to see two spies executed."
On January 1, 1872, soon after the great Chicago fire, Mr. Pitkin and J. W. Brooks organized the firm of Pitkin & Brooks and were associated together in that firm and the present corporation of the same name which succeeded the firm
for thirty-eight years, when Mr. Brooks sold his interest in the business to Mr. Pitkin.
Mr. Pitkin was married in 1871 to Miss Lillie E. Morey of Oak Park. Mrs. Pitkin is living and is greatly beloved in Oak Park.
Mr. Pitkin was one of the original trustees selected to administer the Scoville Institute by James W . Scoville.
The Pitkins were Congregationalists and Edward H. Pitkin united with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago in 1867. When he moved to Oak Park in 1871, he became a member of the First Congregational church. He was a member of the First church for eighteen years, and a deacon when he left to be- come one of the organizers and a deacon in the Second Congregational Church of Oak Park, where he has had a wide and useful influence for the twenty-seven years of its existence. The missionary activities of the denomination have al- ways gained his active support. For twenty-five -years he was a corporate member of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions and its most earnest advocate in the vicinity of Chicago. He was a leader in the Laymen's Missionary movement and for many years a director in the Chicago City Missionary Society.
Mr. Pitkin's connection with Beloit College was an outstanding feature of his life. When Dr. E. D. Eaton was called from the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park to become president of Beloit College in June, 1886, it was a period of great discouragement in the history of that institution. The rebuilding of the college was a strenuous undertaking, in which Dr. Eaton asked Mr. Pitkin to share, and he accepted. For thirty-two years Mr. Pitkin and Dr. Eaton worked together to bring Beloit college to its present prosperous condition. During that time the personnel of the board of trustees has been entirely changed, and during all of that time Mr, Pitkin was chairman of the committee to select new trustees, and likewise chair man of the Ways and Means committee in charge of the increase of the endowment, which was nearly tenfold during the period of his trusteeship.
Mr. Pitkin had lived in Oak Park since 1871. He was an active, useful citizen whose influence could always be counted upon in favor of any good movement or for any worthy institution. He was one of a notable group of men now becoming few in number, who made this residential community a delightful place in which to live. The surviving members of his family are his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Malcolm Wallace of Toronto, Mrs. E. W. McCready of Oak Park, Miss Emily Pitkin of Oak Park, Mrs. Horace Poynter of Andover, Mass., and three grandchildren.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 27 Apr 1918, pg. 11
Edward H. Pitkin, Crockery Man, Is Dead
Edward Hand Pitkin, president of Pitkin & Brooks, and for many years a resident of Oak Park, died yesterday at Daytona Fla.
Mr. Pitkin was born June 9, 1846. He served in the civil war in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Illinois volunteers. After the great fire he went into the crockery business in partnership with J. W. Brooks.
Mr. Pitkin was a charter member of the Second Congregational church of Oak Park, a director of the Chicago City Missionary society, a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and a trustee of Beloit college.
He was a member of the Union League club of Chicago and the Oak Park Country club. He is survived by a widow and four daughters.
--Chicago Tribune, 24 April 1918, p. 15
DEATH OF E. H. PITKIN
Old Resident Passes Away — Distinguished in Business, Educational and Religious Enterprises
E. H. Pitkin, a resident of Oak Park for nearly a half century and one of the best known citizens of the community, passed away on Tuesday at Daytona, Fla. He was prominent in Chicago business circles, and in religious and educational work he had friends and associates in all parts of the country. He felt a social responsibility and all his life he was tireless in enterprises designed for the common welfare and his influence touched and influenced many lives. Altho the head of one of Chicago's large mercantile houses, which had achieved the place of an institution in the city and neighboring states, Mr. Pitkin probably will be in memory longer for his services in the Congregational church and for Beloit college. Funeral services will take place this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Second Congregational church. Dr. Eaton, if he can reach Oak Park in time, will officiate. Friends are requested to omit flowers.
Mr. Pitkin was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 9, 1846. His father and mother were from Vermont. Back of his father, Joshua Pitkin, the long line of Pitkins in America began with the arrival of William Pitkin, from London, England, at Hartford, Conn., in 1659, just twenty-four years after its settlement. William Pitkin was a man who possessed the ideals and exhibited the energy which have come to associate with the Pitkin name.
It was a strong line which William Pitkin established. A line which gave governors to Colorado and Connecticut, three judges to the Supreme Court of the latter state, besides numerous Senators and Representatives, and which furnished
men distinguished in the civil and military life of this country in almost every department. From William Pitkin's sister, Martha Pitkin Wolcott, are descended five governors of Connecticut and other eminent men.
When Mr. Pitkin's father went west as one of the original "Forty-niners" his mother returned to Vermont with the three-year-old boy. Here he lived on a farm and attended "a little red school-house on a hill" until he was about 9 years of age, when he father returned from California and the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. About five years later, in 1860, when he was 14 years old, the family came to Chicago. He graduated from the Jones school, which still stands
in the midst of the business district of Chicago at Clark and Harrison streets, and would have gone to High school but was obliged to go to work, "owing to the low state of the family finances" as he himself put it. He entered the employ of the crockery firm of Burley & Tyrrell and remained with them eight years. It is interesting to note that Mr. Pitkin's business is now located on the northside of Lake street just east of State street, where fifty years ago he began work with Burley & Tyrrell.
While employed by Burley & Tyrrell, altho under age, he enlisted for the 100-day service with the 132nd Illinois Volunteers. The regiment went to Kentucky but was not engaged and returned to Chicago to be mustered out at the end of the period of enlistment. However, as General Price threatened to raid St. Louis, the 132nd Illinois was sent there and was not mustered out until after six months of service. Mr. Pitkin said he "never got any nearer the firing line than to see two spies executed."
On January 1, 1872, soon after the great Chicago fire, Mr. Pitkin and J. W. Brooks organized the firm of Pitkin & Brooks and were associated together in that firm and the present corporation of the same name which succeeded the firm
for thirty-eight years, when Mr. Brooks sold his interest in the business to Mr. Pitkin.
Mr. Pitkin was married in 1871 to Miss Lillie E. Morey of Oak Park. Mrs. Pitkin is living and is greatly beloved in Oak Park.
Mr. Pitkin was one of the original trustees selected to administer the Scoville Institute by James W . Scoville.
The Pitkins were Congregationalists and Edward H. Pitkin united with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago in 1867. When he moved to Oak Park in 1871, he became a member of the First Congregational church. He was a member of the First church for eighteen years, and a deacon when he left to be- come one of the organizers and a deacon in the Second Congregational Church of Oak Park, where he has had a wide and useful influence for the twenty-seven years of its existence. The missionary activities of the denomination have al- ways gained his active support. For twenty-five -years he was a corporate member of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions and its most earnest advocate in the vicinity of Chicago. He was a leader in the Laymen's Missionary movement and for many years a director in the Chicago City Missionary Society.
Mr. Pitkin's connection with Beloit College was an outstanding feature of his life. When Dr. E. D. Eaton was called from the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park to become president of Beloit College in June, 1886, it was a period of great discouragement in the history of that institution. The rebuilding of the college was a strenuous undertaking, in which Dr. Eaton asked Mr. Pitkin to share, and he accepted. For thirty-two years Mr. Pitkin and Dr. Eaton worked together to bring Beloit college to its present prosperous condition. During that time the personnel of the board of trustees has been entirely changed, and during all of that time Mr, Pitkin was chairman of the committee to select new trustees, and likewise chair man of the Ways and Means committee in charge of the increase of the endowment, which was nearly tenfold during the period of his trusteeship.
Mr. Pitkin had lived in Oak Park since 1871. He was an active, useful citizen whose influence could always be counted upon in favor of any good movement or for any worthy institution. He was one of a notable group of men now becoming few in number, who made this residential community a delightful place in which to live. The surviving members of his family are his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Malcolm Wallace of Toronto, Mrs. E. W. McCready of Oak Park, Miss Emily Pitkin of Oak Park, Mrs. Horace Poynter of Andover, Mass., and three grandchildren.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 27 Apr 1918, pg. 11
Edward Hand Pitkin, president of Pitkin & Brooks, and for many years a resident of Oak Park, died yesterday at Daytona Fla.
Mr. Pitkin was born June 9, 1846. He served in the civil war in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Illinois volunteers. After the great fire he went into the crockery business in partnership with J. W. Brooks.
Mr. Pitkin was a charter member of the Second Congregational church of Oak Park, a director of the Chicago City Missionary society, a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and a trustee of Beloit college.
He was a member of the Union League club of Chicago and the Oak Park Country club. He is survived by a widow and four daughters.
--Chicago Tribune, 24 April 1918, p. 15
DEATH OF E. H. PITKIN
Old Resident Passes Away — Distinguished in Business, Educational and Religious Enterprises
E. H. Pitkin, a resident of Oak Park for nearly a half century and one of the best known citizens of the community, passed away on Tuesday at Daytona, Fla. He was prominent in Chicago business circles, and in religious and educational work he had friends and associates in all parts of the country. He felt a social responsibility and all his life he was tireless in enterprises designed for the common welfare and his influence touched and influenced many lives. Altho the head of one of Chicago's large mercantile houses, which had achieved the place of an institution in the city and neighboring states, Mr. Pitkin probably will be in memory longer for his services in the Congregational church and for Beloit college. Funeral services will take place this Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Second Congregational church. Dr. Eaton, if he can reach Oak Park in time, will officiate. Friends are requested to omit flowers.
Mr. Pitkin was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, June 9, 1846. His father and mother were from Vermont. Back of his father, Joshua Pitkin, the long line of Pitkins in America began with the arrival of William Pitkin, from London, England, at Hartford, Conn., in 1659, just twenty-four years after its settlement. William Pitkin was a man who possessed the ideals and exhibited the energy which have come to associate with the Pitkin name.
It was a strong line which William Pitkin established. A line which gave governors to Colorado and Connecticut, three judges to the Supreme Court of the latter state, besides numerous Senators and Representatives, and which furnished
men distinguished in the civil and military life of this country in almost every department. From William Pitkin's sister, Martha Pitkin Wolcott, are descended five governors of Connecticut and other eminent men.
When Mr. Pitkin's father went west as one of the original "Forty-niners" his mother returned to Vermont with the three-year-old boy. Here he lived on a farm and attended "a little red school-house on a hill" until he was about 9 years of age, when he father returned from California and the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. About five years later, in 1860, when he was 14 years old, the family came to Chicago. He graduated from the Jones school, which still stands
in the midst of the business district of Chicago at Clark and Harrison streets, and would have gone to High school but was obliged to go to work, "owing to the low state of the family finances" as he himself put it. He entered the employ of the crockery firm of Burley & Tyrrell and remained with them eight years. It is interesting to note that Mr. Pitkin's business is now located on the northside of Lake street just east of State street, where fifty years ago he began work with Burley & Tyrrell.
While employed by Burley & Tyrrell, altho under age, he enlisted for the 100-day service with the 132nd Illinois Volunteers. The regiment went to Kentucky but was not engaged and returned to Chicago to be mustered out at the end of the period of enlistment. However, as General Price threatened to raid St. Louis, the 132nd Illinois was sent there and was not mustered out until after six months of service. Mr. Pitkin said he "never got any nearer the firing line than to see two spies executed."
On January 1, 1872, soon after the great Chicago fire, Mr. Pitkin and J. W. Brooks organized the firm of Pitkin & Brooks and were associated together in that firm and the present corporation of the same name which succeeded the firm
for thirty-eight years, when Mr. Brooks sold his interest in the business to Mr. Pitkin.
Mr. Pitkin was married in 1871 to Miss Lillie E. Morey of Oak Park. Mrs. Pitkin is living and is greatly beloved in Oak Park.
Mr. Pitkin was one of the original trustees selected to administer the Scoville Institute by James W . Scoville.
The Pitkins were Congregationalists and Edward H. Pitkin united with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago in 1867. When he moved to Oak Park in 1871, he became a member of the First Congregational church. He was a member of the First church for eighteen years, and a deacon when he left to be- come one of the organizers and a deacon in the Second Congregational Church of Oak Park, where he has had a wide and useful influence for the twenty-seven years of its existence. The missionary activities of the denomination have al- ways gained his active support. For twenty-five -years he was a corporate member of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions and its most earnest advocate in the vicinity of Chicago. He was a leader in the Laymen's Missionary movement and for many years a director in the Chicago City Missionary Society.
Mr. Pitkin's connection with Beloit College was an outstanding feature of his life. When Dr. E. D. Eaton was called from the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park to become president of Beloit College in June, 1886, it was a period of great discouragement in the history of that institution. The rebuilding of the college was a strenuous undertaking, in which Dr. Eaton asked Mr. Pitkin to share, and he accepted. For thirty-two years Mr. Pitkin and Dr. Eaton worked together to bring Beloit college to its present prosperous condition. During that time the personnel of the board of trustees has been entirely changed, and during all of that time Mr, Pitkin was chairman of the committee to select new trustees, and likewise chair man of the Ways and Means committee in charge of the increase of the endowment, which was nearly tenfold during the period of his trusteeship.
Mr. Pitkin had lived in Oak Park since 1871. He was an active, useful citizen whose influence could always be counted upon in favor of any good movement or for any worthy institution. He was one of a notable group of men now becoming few in number, who made this residential community a delightful place in which to live. The surviving members of his family are his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Malcolm Wallace of Toronto, Mrs. E. W. McCready of Oak Park, Miss Emily Pitkin of Oak Park, Mrs. Horace Poynter of Andover, Mass., and three grandchildren.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 27 Apr 1918, pg. 11
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