Aldrich, J. Frank
civil engineer, business man, congressman, was born April 6, 1853, in Two Rivers, Wis.; removed to Chicago in April, 1861; attended public schools and Chicago university, and graduated at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1877, with degree of civil engineer. He engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil and subsequently in the gas business. He has been a member of the Cook county board of commissioners, and was president of that body during the reform period in 1887; was also a member of the county board of education and chairman of the committee of citizens of Chicago appointed from the various clubs and commercial organizations to inaugurate and further the drainage act; and served as commissioner of public works of Chicago from 1891 to 1893. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.