Mrs. Huntley sued Colonel Schoenberg , Sheriff Louis Nolte , General Frank Rumbold and U.S. District Attorney Charles A. Houts , who had suggested the picture be painted . Houts was served with a subpoena at the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago on June 18 . Hadley and Nolte were also summonsed into the Cook County , Illinois , Circuit Court to show cause why they should not be compelled to pay $ 1,500 for the portrait . All were in Chicago for the 1912 Republican National Convention . Only a thousand dollars was received in donations , and she did not receive any of it , a petition by Mrs. Hadley to the Circuit Court asserted
1912 Republican National Convention
1912 Republican National Convention
Samantha Littlefield Huntley