Joseph Kipley
Portrait of Joseph Kipley
33rd Head of the Chicago Police Department[1]
In office
1897–1901
Appointed byCarter Harrison Jr.
Preceded byJohn J. Badenoch
Succeeded byFrancis O'Neill
Personal details
Born
Joseph Kipley

(1848-11-25)November 25, 1848
Paterson, New Jersey
DiedFebruary 6, 1904(1904-02-06) (aged 55)
Chicago, Illinois
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Winefred Helen Wheeler
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(m. 1872)​
Children3
ProfessionPolice
CommitteesStar League
Police career
DepartmentChicago Police Department
Service years1871–1901
Rank General Superintendent of Police
Other workauthor of The Ice Pond Mystery

Superintendent Joseph Kipley (November 25, 1848 – February 6, 1904) was Head of the Chicago Police Department from 1897 to 1901. He succeeded John J. Badenoch and was succeeded by Francis O'Neill. [2]

Early life

Kipley was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1848.[3] He moved to Chicago in 1865. He worked at a picture frame factory which burned down in the Great Chicago Fire in October 1871.[4]

Police career

Superintendent Joseph Kipley
Superintendent Joseph Kipley

Three months after the fire, he joined the Chicago Police Department, and he worked there for many years. He was named Inspector and then an Assistant Superintendent, but when George Bell Swift was elected mayor of Chicago in 1895, Kipley no longer had a position in the department.[4] For the next two years, Kipley organized the Star League, a political group consisting of former Chicago police officers. Kipley was appointed Chief of Police of Chicago by Mayor Carter Harrison Jr. in 1897.[2]

Death

In early 1904, Kipley began to experience stomach problems. He underwent an operation, but it left him very ill and he died a few days later on 6 February 1904. A death notice in the St. Louis Republic called him "the most widely known Chief of Police Chicago ever had."[5]

Legacy

The Ice Pond Mystery, a detective novel written by Kipley as a police lieutenant, was published posthumously by the J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company as part of its Shield Series.[6]

The fictional character of Detective Joseph Kipley in Manacle and Bracelet; or, the Dead Man's Secret, A Thrilling Detective Story, by Edmund C. Strong, in which Detective Kipley solves a series of crimes in Chicago, including murder, is based on the real Joseph Kipley.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Heads of the Chicago Police Department, , accessed 3 November 2018
  2. 1 2 Lindberg, Richard. To Serve and Collect. Accessed 2 November 2018.
  3. ↑ Flinn, John Joseph; Wilkie, John Elbert (1887). History of the Chicago Police: From the Settlement of the Community to the Present Time, Under Authority of the Mayor and Superintendent of the Force. p. 489.
  4. 1 2 Illinois Political Directory. W. L. Bodine & Co. 1899. p. 119.
  5. ↑ "Chief Joseph Kipley dead". St. Louis Republic. 7 February 1904.
  6. ↑ The Shield Series. The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer. p. 247. 15 September 1914. Accessed 2 November 2018
  7. ↑ Kaser, James A. (2011). The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide. p. 346. Accessed 2 November 2018.
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