Philip P. Bregstone papers, 1889-1951, bulk 1931-1933.

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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Bregstone, Anne Rosenberg, 1873-1941.

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Bregstone, Philip P. (Philip Pollack), 1866-1934

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Chicago lawyer, writer, and public official who was active in Jewish affairs and Zionist causes. Philip Pollack Bregstone was born on December 31, 1866 in Weiwery, a town across the river from Kaunas, Lithuania, where he received a general education and preliminary legal training. The family name was originally Bregshtein. He emigrated to the United States while still a boy and began his writing career at age 21 when he became a reporter for the first of a number of Chic...