Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Atwood, Harry P 1870 - 
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Author: Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.)

Harry P. Atwood was born on a farm near Morgan Park, Cook county, Illinois, on 
January 1, 1870, and is the son of C. E. and Martha E. (Townsend) Atwood, 
natives of Vermont. For several generations back the family have been 
residents of Vermont. In 1865 the parents came to Illinois and settled near 
Morgan Park. Harry F. was educated in the public schools of that suburb and 
graduated from the Morgan Park academy. Later, in 1897, he graduated from the 
University of Chicago and in 1898 also graduated from the Chicago College of 
Law.

From early manhood he has distinguished himself as an orator and in various 
public debates has taken prizes for superiority in thought and delivery. He 
was president of the oratorical association and Debaters' league and president 
of the Northern Oratorical league which comprises the large universities of 
the Central States. After his graduation in law he was admitted to the bar and 
began the practice. From 1901 to 1904, he was assistant State's attorney of 
Cook county. In 1908 he was appointed assistant United State's district 
attorney. He is a member of the law firm of Atwood, Hurlbert & Lightfoot, and 
has been frequently mentioned in connection with the nomination for Congress 
for the Third district. His services have been utilized during the various 
Republican campaigns of recent years. As such he has campaigned in many States 
under the auspices of the National committee. He was one of the speakers who 
helped in 1904 to swing Missouri to the Republican column. In 1908 he was 
invited by the National Republican committee to speak in New York City and was 
assigned to address the great Madison square and several other meetings with 
President-elect Taft and Governor Hughes. He is thus one of the most effective 
and gifted orators now before the Chicago bar. His orations, "Our Three Great 
Wars," "Washington, Lincoln and McKinley" and "God in American History," are 
considered as classics. Since arriving at early manhood he has taken a 
prominent part in city, county, State and national campaigns.

During the war with Spain he served as a volunteer in the First Illinois 
Cavalry, and later became a sergeant of Troop M. He is a member of the Ridge 
Country and Hamilton clubs and of the Chicago Bar and Illinois Bar 
associations. As a member of the Hamilton club he has been active and 
prominent for about ten years. He belongs to Tracy Lodge No. 810, A. F. & A. 
M. and also to the Modern Woodmen and Royal Arcanum. He is also a member of 
the Central Y. M. C. A. and Morgan Park Baptist church. On August 23, 1905, at 
Fox Lake, Wis., he married Miss Maude Smith, a niece of former Governor 
William Smith, of Wisconsin, and they have one little girl nearly three years 
old.

Additional Comments:
Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.). (1909). History of Cook County, 
Illinois. Chicago: The Goodspeed Historical Association.

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