Merton Yale Cady

[1] Cady passed his childhood in Newport, where his grandfather had been mayor, and was educated at the Cooper Institute, in Cooperstown, New York.

He learned the trade for five years and then became a bank-lock expert, working at the Yale Lock Company until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

[2] He designed plans for a chapel of the Congregational Church in the city, and the S. S. David & Company building next to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Depot.

[10][11] It would be inherited thereafter by their daughter, Mabel Cady, wife of Charles Porter Skinner, three times Mayor of Moline, Illinois.

[13] He was one of the judges of the Manufacturers Department of the fair, had office in the Pacific Building, and was involved on the Award Committee with Governor George White Baxter and Senator John Boyd Thacher.

[17] The luxurious apartments were built for the company's executives in 1872, and would be preserved in 2007 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

[18] It was renamed Washington Square and they received a State award from Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois for the restoration project.