Peoria-Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Bonney, Charles Carroll 1831 - ************************************************ 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, 9:33 am Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary BONNEY, Charles Carroll, lawyer, was born at Hamilton, N.Y., Sept. 4, 1831. He began the practice of law at Peoria, Ill., in 1852. In 1860 he located in Chicago, where he became an eminent lawyer, and suggested and brought out many reforms in local, state and national affairs. In 1885 he was elected president of the national law and order league in New York, and held the same office in the Illinois state bar association. Among his published writings are: Rules of Law for the Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by Railway (1864); and A Summary of the Law of Marine, Fire, and Life Insurance (1865). 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/peoria/bios/bonney1449gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb