Three Chicagoans, three big-city celebrities - yet each from a small town.Īltgeld was born in the tiny German hamlet of Selters. Also in that office was another famous Chicagoan, John Peter Altgeld, the former Illinois Governor who had pardoned three Haymarket bombing defendants. Masters and Darrow worked together in the same Chicago office for five years until they soured on each other as partners and as people to the point that neither man mentioned the other by name in his memoirs. It’s ironic that Spoon River Anthology - perhaps the most famous book about an American small town and one that has helped shape the way Americans think about small towns and similar communities - was written by a Chicagoan, Edgar Lee Masters.Īnd not just a Chicagoan, but the one-time law partner of that world-famous, large-ego, iconoclastic “attorney for the damned,” Clarence Darrow.
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