John H. Edelmann

[3] Before coming to New York, Edelmann had worked as a draughtsman for the Chicago architects William LeBaron Jenney and Dankmar Adler.

It was Edelmann who introduced the young Louis Sullivan to Adler, with whom he formed a partnership.

Edelmann had married Rachelle Krimont, an Eastern European immigrant whose family were radicals.

[5] In 1893 he, Francesco Saverio Merlino an Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism, and other radicals published an anarchist journal Solidarity, and after it folded his contributed articles to The Rebel, published in Boston.

[6] These activities brought him into the circle of the eminent American anarchist and writer Emma Goldman.