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| Marriage Cememony took place in the Grace Methodist Church of Lake Bluff, performed by the Rev. J. Clayton, pastor of the church and father of the groom. Claude was a court reporter for over 50 years in the Chicago area. His father, also a court reporter, taught him Pitman shorthand. He then attended Bryant & Stratton Business School in Chicago and studied further at the Success Shorthand School of William L. James in Chicago. Claude served as Private and Sergeant in the Illinois Reserve Militia, 2nd Regt., Company C, Infantry, 2 Oct 1917- 7 Oct 1919. Served in the Chicago Race Riot. Claude's inherent ability, and the fact that his father could "show him the ropes", so to speak, enabled him to become a very successful court reporter at an early age. He began his reporting career on 2 Jan 1908. Some of the more famous cases that he reported during his long career were the Chicago "Black Sox" baseball scandel; the trial of Carl Wanderer for the murder of his wife and the "ragged stranger"; the Loeb-Leopold murder trial; the government investigation of the Teapot Dome oil lease scandels; the Al Capone income tax evasion trial; and the Samuel Insull utilities empire mail fraud trial. A self-educated man, an avid reader, a fluent and persuasive speaker, Claude himself would have made a fine minister, as were his father and grandfather, but he was too busy recording other men's oratory to look up that long from his notebook. Claude was a free-lance court reporter in the various courts in Chicago for a number of years. He then became associated with Neil Satterlee's court reporting firm in Chicago at 155 North Clark Street. Upon the later illness and ulimate death of Mr. Satterlee, Claude assumed ownership of that firm and formed Youker & Youker in 1950, composed of Claude and his five sons, Claude, Jr., Henry, David, and James, court reporters, and son John keeping the books. Claude served as Vice-President of the National Shorthand Reporters' Assocaition for the year 1946-47, and then its President in 1947-48. Quoting from the National Shorthand Reporter, "Claude is a Methodist, a Republican, and a teetotaler --all with the usual qualifications." Claude was an amateur "closet" poet in his spare time. There are several volumes of his work, a sample of whic is included in this volume. Claude's career in court reporting extended over a period of 52 years, his having retired in 1960. | ||||||||||||||
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