Excerpt from Official Directory of the Fortieth General Assembly of Illinois, Session of 1897: Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the Members and Press John Humphrey of' Orland. Cook county, 7th district, is a lawyer by profession and an Englishman by birth. He was born in the county of Norfolk, England, June 20, 1838, and was brought to this country by his parents when a lad of ten years. The family settled in Cook county, Illinois, where Senator Humphrey received a common school education. He read law in the othee of Hon. James P. Root, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1872. He lives in Orland and practices his profession with an office in the Monadnock building, Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.