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Paul Cornell (lawyer)
Paul Cornell (August 5, 1822 – March 3, 1904) was an American lawyer and Chicago real estate speculator who founded the Hyde Park Township that included most of what are now known as the south and far southeast sides of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. He turned the south side Lake Michigan lakefront area, especially the Hyde Park community area and neighboring Kenwood and Woodlawn neighborhoods, into a resort community that had its heyday from the 1850s through the early 20th century. He was also an urban planner who paved the way for and preserved many of the parks that are now in the Chicago Park District. Additionally, he was a successful entrepreneur with interests in manufacturing, cemeteries, and hotels.
His modern legacy includes several large parks now in the Chicago Park District: Jackson Park, Washington Park, Midway Plaisance and Harold Washington Park. Most of the South and Southeast Sides of Chicago were developed and eventually annexed into the City of Chicago as a result of his foresight.
==Background==
Born in Upstate New York,〔Sawyers, June Skinner, ''Chicago Portraits'', "Paul Cornell", pp. 56-7, Loyola University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8294-0701-4.〕 Cornell was from a distinguished New England family, was descendant from Thomas Cornell, the progenitor of the Cornell family in North America, 〔 Cornell School Honors Father of Hyde Park. ''Chicago Tribune'', June 24, 1965, Section 2A, page 1 http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1965/06/24/page/145/article/cornell-school-honors-father-of-hyde-park. Accessed April 5, 2015. 〕 and a cousin to Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Hyde Park Historical Society )〕 When his father died (he was 9 at that time)〔Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Cornell Avenue/Cornell Drive", pp. 26-7, Loyola University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8294-0597-6〕 the family moved to the Adams County, IL/Schuyler County, IL area,〔 where he worked as a farmhand to pay for schooling.〔 He passed the Illinois bar examination and moved to Chicago in 1847.〔 Unfortunately, his entire savings was stolen from his hotel room on his first night in town.〔 A sympathetic lawyer provided him with both a loan and a job at the law office of Skinner and Hoyne, where he met Senator Stephen Douglas.
He was married to the sister-in-law of John Evans, after whom Evanston, IL was named. He had many strong local connections, being related to founders of Northwestern University (Evans and Orrington Lunt) and to George Kimbark of Riverside Improvement Company.〔Block, Jean F., ''Hyde Park Houses,'' University of Chicago Press, p. 3., 1978 ISBN 0-226-06000-4〕 His brother-in-law Kimbark purchased the area between 51st and 55th and Dorchester and Woodlawn to the west of Cornell's purchase. Cornell later purchased this as well as other lands purchased by his Uncle, Hassan A. Hopkins, to add to Hyde Park.〔
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