Eugene E. Prussing papers, 1928-1957.

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Prussing family.

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Peltz family.

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Law Club (Chicago, Ill.)

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Union League Club of Chicago

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Prussing, Ernst, 1824-1889.

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Prussing, Eugene E. (Eugene Ernst), 1855-1936

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Prussing was born on July 12, 1855 in Chicago, IL; attended Bryant and Stratton's Business College; LLB, Univ. of Michigan, 1878; admitted to IL and MI bars in 1878; practiced law in Chicago until 1918; settled in Hollywood, CA, 1921; director of Citizens' Assn. of Chicago, serving as president, 1903-4; publications include George Washington in love and otherwise (1925) and The estate of George Washington, deceased (1927); he died in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1910-1935. (...