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,
edited by Clark L. Wagner, appendices by Francis A. Lackner, Jr., 1989
The
Club’s Victorian Roots, by Clark L. Wagner, 1998.
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
1999-2014 Supplement to
The Hundred Twenty-Fifth Anniversary History, edited and with Foreword by
Clark L. Wagner, “The Chicago Literary Club Enters the Internet Age” and appendices
by Francis A. Lackner, Jr.
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:
Other material on the history of the Club may be found in the Index of Papers Online under the subject heading ‘CLC’.
