Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Caton, John Dean 1812 - 1895
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000719 August 9, 2008, 10:30 am

Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

CATON, John Dean, jurist, was born in Monroe, N. Y., March 19, 1812; son of 
Robert and Hannah (Dean) Caton. He attended the district school for a few 
years, and in 1829 entered the academy at Utica, where he paid especial 
attention to mathematics and surveying. In 1833 he went to Chicago and 
established himself in his profession, being the second lawyer to practise in 
that city. In 1841 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Illinois, 
and remained on the bench until his resignation in 1864, holding the chief-
justiceship from April to June, 1855, and from 1857 to 1864. From 1852 to 1867 
he was president of the Illinois and Mississippi telegraphic company. He 
travelled widely and devoted much time to natural history. In 1866 Hamilton 
college conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He is the author of: A Summer 
in Norway (1875); The Last of the Illinois and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies 
(1876); Origin of the Prairies (1876); and The Antelope and Deer of America 
(1877). He died in Chicago, Ill., July 30, 1895.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/cook/bios/caton1474gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb