Word: axman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West." Yet in the matter of mayors, Chicago has not kept pace with its other manifestations of greatness. Irish son of an Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th Street. At 17 he got a job as axman with the Sanitary District then building the Drainage Canal near his home. Later he was toughened in the rough frontier town of Lemont, Ill. where Negro workmen, when killed on the job, were dumped on the rock pile and covered up with canal excavations. By industry and intelligence Kelly became a good...
...will be official host at the 1933 Fair decided to become an engineer when he watched surveyors laying out the World's Fair of 1893. Son of an Irish policeman, Ed Kelly had been apprenticed to an undertaker. In 1894 he got a job as axman in one of the surveying crews working on the drainage canal. He went to night school to learn his trade. In 1908 he was made engineer of the commission which laid out the Great Lakes-Mississippi waterway. Mayor until April 1935. he will not give up his presidency of the South Park Board...