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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 711 promising career has been rounded out in the way most fitting to thetrue American citizen, who, whatever his many activities, is an-chored to wife, children and home. Until five years ago one of the most successful criminal lawyersof Chicago and Cook county was Kickham Scanlan, and he won his reputation by several notable cases in which he ap- f, peared as counsel either for the defense or prosecu- SCANLAN. ^ ^ . . , , ^^ o , , tion. it is said that Mr. Scanlan on several occa-sions took cases that seemed forlorn hopes and brought them to ^.successful issue. His management of evidence, his tact before a jury,and unusual powers in pleading have often come to notice in thecourts and contributed to a deservedly high reputation in the Chicagobar. During the last five years, however, he has been engaged al-most exclusively in the trial of civil cases, acting as attorney for anumber of large corporations. During the time he was sought ascounsel in criminal cases,

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