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397:(Illinois State News), a paper which dated to 1848 and which had been in daily operation since 1851. His new ownership stake did not initially mean a quick path to fame and fortune, however, as during the wartime years of 1863 and 1864 Hesing earned an income of just over $ 4,900 and slightly less than $ 2,800, respectively.
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The year following his return, Hesing sold his grocery business and invested the proceeds in a hotel located on Race and Court
Streets in Cincinnati. This enterprise came to an end with the death of his business partner by suicide in 1854, however, causing Hesing to sell his interest in the hotel and
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A new permanent home for the paper was finally located about one mile away from the
Chicago city center, in a new multi-story structure built at the corner of Washington Street and Fifth Avenue. The building measured 100 feet from the basement floor to the peak of the roof, making it one of the
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manufacturing equipment and opened a brickyard a few miles away from the center of the city. The patented equipment he purchased proved to be inferior, however, and the venture proved to be a financial failure. Undeterred by his initial lack of success, Hesing made another entry into the brick
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Chicago Board of Public Works. He was later appointed a deputy sheriff in 1858 and two years ran for public office for the first time, winning election as sheriff of
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602:— a first bout with the condition that would ultimately kill him less than one year later. He returned to Chicago and managed to recover almost completely from this first attack, but further withdrew from external activity.
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Chicago. He was 72 years old at the time of his death. His body was buried at
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above his own signature. He retired late and work up again at 1 am, feeling unwell. A doctor was called, who tentatively diagnosed a bout of indigestion, and Hesing returned to bed, sleeping until 7:00 am.
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The wealthy Hesing was involved in a number of philanthropic ventures, playing a key role in the establishment of St. Elizabeth
Hospital in Chicago and the Altenheim German Old People's Home in
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historian Rudolf
Hofmeister asserts that "Anton Hesing probably had more impact on the German element and its standing within the community than any other German in Chicago's history."
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as a baker and brewer, he came to feel the relationship oppressive and his master unjust and resolved to make a new life for himself across the sea in
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Germany in 1847 ended with marriage to Louisa Lamping, with the couple returning together to make a home in the USA. Together they had a son,
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even before he was old enough to vote. In 1852 he was made a member of the Ohio State Executive Committee of the Whig Party.
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as editor-in-chief and build it one of the most successful German newspapers in North America, alongside other papers from
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manufacturing business in partnership with a man named Charles S. Dole, opening a more conventional brickyard at
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Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy During the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Anton Hesing as he appeared in the prime of life, approximately 1870.
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Fairmount Park, Philadelphia: Centennial Newspaper Exhibition, 1876.
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Peter H. Olden, "Anton C. Hesing: The Rise of a Chicago Boss,"
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Becoming the Second City: Chicago's Mass News Media, 1833-1898.
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building constructed after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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An staunch supporter of the Federal government in the
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Chicago's First Crime King: Michael Cassius McDonald
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New York: George P. Rowell & Co., 1876; pg. 244.
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Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago.
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772:A graduate of Yale College, managing editor of the
943:"Richard Nickel and the Garrick Theater Building,"
434:was particularly hard hit during the October 1871
996:Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
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661:The Life and Reminiscences of Robert G. Ingersoll
408:He would subsequently hire New York resident and
262:Anton Caspar Hesing was born January 6, 1823, in
225:and political boss of the pro-liquor wing of the
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832:Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
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991:Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
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737:Chicago: Wilson and St. Clair, 1868; pg. 203.
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973:Rudolf Hofmeister,
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