42 THE FOREST PRESERVES 



JOHN C. VAUGHAN 



Mr. Vaughan has been engaged in the seed business in 

 Chicago since 1876 and like other citizen members of the Plan 

 committee he was one of the little band of public spirited 

 citizens who have shown a fatherly spirit towards the Forest 

 Preserve idea since its conception. 



He is a native of Pennsylvania and came to Chicago when 

 a youngster. He graduated from the old Chicago Central 

 High School in 1872 and later studied at the Hillside College 

 in Michigan. 



He has served as a member of the Illinois State Board of 

 Agriculture and as a member of the Illinois State Art Com- 

 mission, having charge of the production of the Lincoln statue 

 for the centennial. 



DWIGHT H. PERKINS 



Mr. Perkins has lived in Chicago all his life and as an 

 architect he has felt that his city and its environs should be 

 planned in the same orderly manner that is followed in de- 

 signing a good house. He 'has felt especially that provision 

 should be made for children that the requisite conditions 

 for their development into useful and happy men and women, 

 should be established and that those conditions included not 

 only the best schools but playgrounds, fields and forest as 

 well. And further that they should be distributed as near 

 uniformly as possible and that they were quite as desirable, 

 even necessary, for adults as for children. 



