Show MEN X OF THE HOVE HOUR some iome I ome arc born groat great some achieve eye ar estness eat ness and somo some have lave greatness thrust II 11 projector on OF kiil adem jF rUVIAN IAN co OMPY jacob II 11 Ship lierd was born in in central cen new york and is now about forty five years of age iio ile found lis his clinef educational advantages at oberlin Col college legge ohio and baingan being an assiduous stull student ent graduated with agh leonors lio nors lib his t strong religious nature inclined him to select the tile ellei church aa his life calling and he took a thorough course at the divinity school connected with the tile college he ile soon began to preach and having a fervid and arid popular manner liia his progress vs was so rapid that he lie was called to the pulpit of plymouth congregational Z church in chicago an ail important and arid leading factor in in tho the congregationalism con of the tile west here lie remained remain cd for some sonic years cars and gave high satisfaction aoth J th as preacher and pastor in those early days lie devised the plan of paying church chuich debts since made so popular and by his own efforts and und earnestness collected mone money to rc lieve more than one st struggling congregation of its burden during durin the war rev Ship lierd true to li his Is oberlin education felt afi ane e liveli liveliest es t interest in the condition odthe of the freedmen and deeming the F ad society under the auspices auspice of the tile Govern government mont inadequate to tho needs of the slowly cn franchised cd ho lie took active measures mcw tures for the harmonizing kg ef of other interests and was chosen president of the resulting organization known as s tile freedmen union aid commission the association was very effective in promoting the objects for which it was brought into being and when the were finally thrown wholly upon their self reliance sir ir ship lierd retired with expressions offra and congratulation on oil the part of his associates during these active years also lie resolved to establish an ail organ of congregationalism rogation in chicago and interested a sufficient number of people in the project to found the advance drance a paper which is now too well known to need further furt lier reference in 1869 lio resigned n his pastorate and opened a recai real estate state and loan office in chicago with general sweet as partner general swept sweet soon after left the firm to accept the tile office of pension agent mr ship herds business throve good I eastern ast relations were secured and tile lie established a bank ho lie was wag made trustee of tho tile riverside company one of the great suburban enterprises of chicago and he lie laid out and arid founded the town of ei elmhurst lin A branch new york house was now established and meantime to keep pace with the prosperity pro of the bank other brandies branches in Boston and in frankfort gerina germany ly in the fall of 1872 mr Shi lierd secured control of oatlie the south crail road of lon long island and arid conceived the scheme which other in succeeding better times accomplished of consolidating th lon long a island roads under ono one mana management ament his bis own suddenly came canie the great panic of 1873 and mr lr numerous projects were engulfed he worked for several years to extricate himself from the entanglement and arid at laetit is said paid tile last cent of his obligations in 1877 he lie entered the law school of ali alie D university of new york he is now best known as president of the peruvian company which is said to own the Cochet and landreau cau claims against the bankrupt republic of peru aggregating Z the tile stupendous sum surn of nine hundred millions of dollars in consideration i de ration of thi unprecedented lien the company proposes with tho the moral and political approval of the united states to assume possession odthe of the guano and nitrate lands arid of peru and administer them in the interest of peru and her lief various various creditors to this end as recently published correspondence has shown mr Ship lierd has endeavored to obtain the assistance of our diplomatic agents and of prominent public men but his appeal does not appear to have been successful to any marked extent and it is not probable that liis his vast scheme will ever realize his expectations the tile examination of mr ir sh ip herd by the con congregational committee on foreign affairs promises the roost most sens sensational Zonal develop developments mCDO and arid may wreck aa q many re reputations MR t as tho the testimony of bakes ames allies in the credit Mo fo bilier business while tho the greatest t number of the prominent men alleged to have lave been interested in the tile scheme have indignantly refuted or d contemptuously denied or never knew know the man mail or iau laughed hicl at the inetter as a joke there arc are others who will speak when tho the proper time comes or who simply knew kneir the man all P or who d decline C to talk on tho the subject |