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Excerpt from Hamilton Club of Chicago: Organized April 9th, 1890 The Hamilton Club was organized on April 9, 1890 - the twenty-fifth anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox. Its first home was 21 Groveland Park, the premises being occupied on September 16th, 1890. On May 1st, 1895, the Club removed to 3014 Lake Park Avenue. Soon thereafter a movement was begun for a downtown location, and on March 14th, 1898, the upper floors of a building on the south side of Madison Street, just east of Clark Street, were occupied. Another advance was made May 19th, 1902, when possession was taken of the building at the northwest corner of Monroe and Clark Streets, where, for ten years, the Club grew and prospered. In the winter of 1910-11, under the leadership of John H. Batten, then president, the Club leased for ninety-nine years the ground on which the present club house now stands, having a frontage of 102 feet on Dearborn Street and a depth of 95 feet. The cornerstone of the new building was laid October 30th, 1911, by the President of the United States, William Howard Taft, and the Club moved into its new home in May, 1912. The new club house, the erection of which was inspired by the needs and aspirations of the membership, is located in the heart of the business district, and is one of the handsomest and most complete structures of the kind in the country. The influence of the Hamilton Club has been most forcefully exerted during presidential campaigns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.