On Appomattox Day, April 9, 1890, when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors.
The Hamilton moved down into the crowded Loop when it was six years...
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