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Hurley was born at Galesburg, Ill. in 1864, the fourth son of Jeremiah and Ellen (Nash) Hurley, natives of South Ireland, and the fifth child in a family of ten children. His father was a mechanic at Galesburg in the machine shops of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and never made more than fifty dollars a month.
He found employment in the railroad shops. At the age of seventeen he became fireman of a switching engine. Two years later he was promoted to its throttle, and thence to engineer of a passenger locomotive. A member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, he went out in the strike of 1888. In the following year he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue, and later, chief engineer of the Cook County, Ill. , public institutions.
Since political jobs had no attraction for him, he accepted a position as traveling salesman for a Philadelphia firm dealing in railroad supplies. At the end of seven and a half years he was making two hundred and fifty dollars a month and had a family to support.
In 1896, dissatisfied with his firm, he left it and embarked on the manufacture of a piston air drill, the first ever made. He organized the Standard Pneumatic Tool Company, of which he was president and treasurer, 1896-1902, and developed the pneumatic-tool industry in both the United States and Europe. At the age of thirty-eight he sold his manufacturing interests for a million and a quarter dollars and retired from active commercial life to his country place at Wheaton, Ill. , where he engaged in farming and stock raising. In 1908, however, he organized the Hurley Machine Company, manufacturers of electrical home labor-saving devices, which became one of the most successful companies of its kind in America. He was its president, 1908-15; and also president of the First National Bank of Wheaton, 1909-19.
In 1910 Hurley first met Woodrow Wilson and had a small part in the movement that led to the choice of Wilson as governor of New Jersey. Two years later he warmly supported him for the presidency. Under these circumstances it was natural that Wilson should turn to Hurley for tasks requiring a supporter in whom he had entire confidence. In 1914 he sent him to South America to make a report on banking and credit in Argentina, Brazil and Peru, which was published that same year by the federal government. The following year he appointed him a member of the newly created Federal Trade Commission, in which he served until his retirement in February 1917, first as vice-chairman and later as chairman, and in connection with which he had an important part in establishing the federal regulation and investigation of business.
Soon after the declaration of war in April 1917, he became a member of the War Council of the American Red Cross, which was engaged in raising a million dollars for war relief. For a few weeks he represented the Department of Commerce in the newly organized War Trade Board. In July 1917, at the earnest request of the President, Hurley accepted the chairmanship of the United States Shipping Board and presidency of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, two interrelated agencies whose primary duties were the procuring and operating of merchant ships for war and commercial purposes. Among the tasks of these exacting and responsible offices were the superintendence of the construction of new vessels, the requisitioning of vessels already built, the purchase of vessels at home and abroad, and the commandeering of the interned vessels of the enemy.
In November 1918 the Shipping Board fleet consisted of 1, 386 vessels, believed to be the largest merchant marine ever assembled under one management. The United States possessed, actually or prospectively, fourteen million tons of ocean-going shipping, representing an investment of upwards of three billion dollars. It was Hurley's extraordinary driving energy that made possible the transportation to Europe of the American army with its equipment and supplies. He was one of the small inner circle, known as the "War Cabinet, " that met weekly at the White House.
Soon after the armistice he went to Europe as the shipping adviser of the American peace commissioners, taking with him a small staff of assistants to man his Paris office. He was appointed president of the shipping section of the Supreme Economic Council. He was chairman of the delegates of the Allies that, with Marshal Foch, met a group of German delegates at Treves, Germany to agree on a method of surrendering the German merchant marine. In February he was compelled to return to Washington.
After his retirement from the service of the government, July 31, 1919, Hurley returned to Chicago to the diverse employment of an industrialist. He served as a member of the board of directors of numerous companies and as chairman of the board of his own company. Believing that America should maintain a large merchant fleet, he published several articles, and one book, The New Merchant Marine (1920), elaborating his views. In The Bridge to France (1927) he gave an account of his war experiences. His first book, Awakening of Business (1917), is a plea for greater efficiency in business, a favorite topic which he also dealt with in several popular articles. He was the author of a world peace plan, in which he argued that wars could be prevented through the control of raw materials.
In 1924 President Coolidge appointed him a member of the World War Funding Commission; he was also a member of President Hoover's Advisory Shipping Commission. Devoted to the welfare of his home city, he served as chairman of a committee appointed to prepare a program for the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1933-34, and visited Europe in behalf of this enterprise. He was chairman of the committee that labored successfully to bring to Chicago the national Democratic convention and the Republican convention of 1932. In 1930 he donated two hundred thousand dollars for the erection of a commerce building at Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind.
He died of pneumonia at the Passavant Hospital, Chicago, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, of that city.
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On September 30, 1891, he had married Julia Keeley, of Chicago, to whom two sons were born.
After the death of his first wife in 1900 he was married, July 24, 1905, to Florence Agnes Amberg, of Chicago, who bore him two children, Helen Mary and John Richard.
