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Keeley had had a formal medical education at Rush Medical College (now University of Chicago Medical School) and practiced as an Army surgeon for a time. Later the Chicago & Alton R. R. employed him as official surgeon. That was in the period when the Women's Christian Temperance Union made Ten Nights in a Bar Room a gospel of propriety, when the late Carrie Nation and her harridans heaved hatchets through expensive back-bar mirrors and at good mahogany fixtures. On that temperance agitation Keeley rode. Dwight, Ill., became the "Mecca of Liberty," the "Drunkard's Divorce Court...
...George M. Pullman was in Chicago, a successful contractor. He persuaded Chicago & Alton officials to give him two coaches to remodel with sleeping berths. His novelties were upper berths that folded up by day, clean linen, one washroom for men and one for women. So successful were these sleepers that he immediately built a "Pullman" car designed especially for sleep-traveling...
...there were 48 "Pullmans" operated in the U. S.-over the Chicago & Alton, Michigan Central, Burlington, Great Western of Canada and the New York Central. The Pullman Co., then as now, owned all its cars, shared haulage fees with the railroads. Railroads gave up their own sleeping cars for the sake of the better "Pullmans...
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Married. Mary McAlister Hall, granddaughter of Alton Brooks Parker, Democratic presidential nominee in 1904; to one Theodor Oxholm; at West Park...