Summer 2018 Volume 50, No.4 Chicago Genealogist
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Table of Contents
Officers, Directors, and Standing Committees ...... 110 Honoring My Korean War MIA/KIA Cousin by Carol Zsolnay ...... …….….. 111 CGS Pinterest Board: Chicago Military Research Recommendations by Marsha Peterson-Maass……………...... 114 Chicago’s First Suburb: Wabansia by Craig L. Pfannkuche……………………….. . 116 The Inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831, Part 2 K-Z by Ernest E. East…………….. 125 Chicagoans from the Past ...... 135 CGS 20017-18 Writing Contest ...... 138 Surname Index ...... 141 CGS October 2018 Genealogical Bus Tour Registration Form……………………. 143
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On the Cover This picture was taken on 30 August 1922 of the “new” Madison Street Bridge over the south branch of the Chicago River. Behind the leaf of this bascule bridge is the old Chicago and North Western Madison Street C&NW terminal, now the site of the Ogilvie Transportation Center. Courtesy of the Chicago & Northwestern Historical Society.
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Chicago Genealogical Society Board of Management P.O. Box 1160 Chicago, Illinois 60690
e-mail address: [email protected] Website: http://www.chicagogenealogy.org
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – OFFICERS President ...... Stephanie Pierce Carbonetti 1st V.P. / Program Chair ...... Julie Benson 2nd V.P. / Membership Chair ...... Ginger Frere Treasurer ...... Wayne D. Weber Recording Secretary ...... Caron Brennan Corresponding Secretary ...... Jill Weiss DIRECTORS To June 2018 ...... Terri O’Connell To June 2018 ...... Thomas Mackowiak To June 2019 ...... Joan M. Billingham To June 2019 ...... Sydney Shaw
EX OFFICIO Immediate Past President ...... Julie Benson
The Board of Management consists of the Executive Committee and Chairpersons of Standing Committees STANDING COMMITTEES – CHAIRPERSONS Ancestor Certificates (Pioneer, Rebuilder & Progressive) ...... Craig Pfannkuche Archivist/Historian ...... Wayne D. Weber Cemetery Project ...... Vacant Conference Exhibits…………………………………………………… .... Joan Billingham Hospitality ...... Thomas Mackowiak Mail Distribution ...... Jeanne Larzalere Bloom Newsletter Editor ...... Marsha Peterson-Maass Nominating……………………………………………………………...... Karen Stanbary Publication Sales ...... Stephanie Pierce Carbonetti Publicity ...... Juliana Szucs Quarterly Editor ...... Stephanie Pierce Carbonetti Webinars…………………………………………………………………….Jill Baumeister Website ...... Terri O’Connell 110
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Honoring My Korean War MIA/KIA Cousin by Carol Zsolnay
Since 2016, the Chicago Genealogical Society has twice invited its members to honor our veterans and their families by researching for Purple Hearts Reunited (“PHR”) http://PurpleHeartsReunited.org to help return lost military purple heart medals. Along with the importance of helping to return this valor to the veterans and/or their families, our researchers have also learned many new genealogical skills and the steps to finding even more information using new online sources including Social Media. One researcher, Carol Zsolnay, has taken these new skills and has enhanced the research of one of her own military ancestors, Douglas Bruce Kern (KIA Korea-1951). Following is Carol's "How To" article with the moving story and her steps. If you, a Chicago Genealogical Society member, would like some suggestions for enhancing your Chicago military ancestors' biographies, see the links at the end of the article from our new CGS Pinterest Board called, "Chicago Military Research Recommendations" at https://www.pinterest.com/ChicagoGenSoc/chicago-military-research-recommendations/.
I retired last fall and connected with Marsha Peterson-Maass to volunteer time to reunite Purple Heart Medals with the families of those injured and killed. After working on a few, I realized how much of a sleuth one had to become, and also how much information is now available that provides a portrait of the veterans. It then occurred to me that I could use what I had learned through Purple Heart Reunited to research an unsolved military mystery in my own family.
Both of my parents were only children and came from small extended families. Hence, my mother grew up “as close as siblings” to her three maternal first cousins. One of those first cousins was Douglas Bruce Kern. He was an only child to my maternal grandmother’s brother, Theodore Douglas Kern. I was born after Doug went missing and a piece of sad family history growing up was that Douglas Bruce Kern, age 25, was MIA in 1951 as a navigator on a plane during the Korean War. As far as we all knew, his plane and body were never recovered. My mother and grandmother “As close as siblings" cousins circa 1938 thought no one had survived the crash. Doug Bruce Kern second from left
Doug’s father was a colonel in the US Army, and the commanding officer of the Oakland (California) Army Base when he died of natural causes in 1965. Doug’s mother died in the mid- 1980s, without ever finding out what had happened to her son. The last of Doug’s three first cousins died a year ago, so if anyone were to find out about him, and maybe bring his remains to rest; it would be up to the six of us in the next generation who remember the story of the loss. It is not likely that our children or grandchildren would know enough nor have interest enough, to do this research to honor Doug. 111
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Harding High School, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1944, page 48
I decided to use what I had learned from my searches with PHR to investigate Doug. It is wishful thinking, but I thought that IF there is thawing with North Korea, maybe there would be information or parts of the plane or his remains that could be returned. I am moving forward to put his name on a list to be found and recognized.
I found more details about Doug online by googling his name + keywords “Purple Heart.” I was also able to find out through a MIA/KIA site details of the plane crash, such as date, location, other personnel on the plane. I searched on NewspaperArchive.com for the names of the others on the plane and found two articles. One article had a photo that included two of the other crew members on the plane from a few weeks before the crash. The other article was from the lone survivor. In August of 1951, this survivor wrote of his experience in the crash. He was a captain, new to that theater of war, just along for the ride that night with the three crew members. The article described his recovery from the water where he was lucky enough to hang on to a tire of the plane for buoyancy. He was picked up by a helicopter, taken to a destroyer then to a floating military hospital. Through searching the U.S. Social Security Death Index (“SSDI”) at FamilySearch.org, I could tell that he died in his 90’s about ten years ago.
The article listed the name of the sole survivor’s two-year-old son. I then searched for the son (also a US Army veteran) and sent him a snail mail. He e-mailed right back. His father was the correct captain, but as a stoic military man, he never talked about his work, nor brought it home with him. The son shared that his father had been a fighter pilot for 36 years of military service, including during WWII, Korea and Viet Nam—clearly he was one tough guy. 112
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Doug was the navigator referred to in the article: https://newspaperarchive.com/oklahoma-city- daily-oklahoman-aug-01-1951-p-13/. After reading the account in the article, I cannot believe that the surviving captain would not have just quit that day instead of continuing on missions. Like a cat with nine lives.
I also learned that someone must have placed their DNA on file in case the remains are ever found. https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_project_remembrance_search_6_2013.html ?key=15763. I am in the process of finding out who those people might be, or if it was Doug’s parents maybe my cousins and I could share our DNA. I was referred to the Air Force Casualty number (1-800-531-5501) to update to the most current information. Also, I found his name on the Courts of the Missing War Memorial in Honolulu, and his other war honors by googling his name here: http://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=4744
Great Uncle Ted, father of Doug, was a career military officer, a Colonel who was the Commanding Officer of the Oakland (CA) Army Base (see pictures below): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Army_Base
POSTSCRIPT: Subsequent to writing this article, Carol checked whether any matrilineal relatives had contributed mtDNA for comparison in case Doug's plane was found off the waters of Korea and any remains were exhumed. She called the U.S. Air Force Missing Persons in San Antonio at 1-800-531-5501. They confirmed that they had mtDNA samples from four of Doug's matrilineal relatives, their names and cities so Carol can contact them. They also suggested that Carol/Doug's matrilineal relatives contact the U.S. Military Mortuary in Delaware (1-800-531-5803) to give them mtDNA samples to compare to the remains of unidentified soldiers. 113
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ANNOUNCING Chicago Genealogical Society's Pinterest Board "Chicago Military Research Recommendations" by Marsha Peterson-Maass
https://www.pinterest.com/ChicagoGenSoc/chicago-military-research-recommendations/
We Chicagoans are lucky to have local onsite repositories along with the many important online military resources to help us enhance our Chicago military ancestors' biographies. We’ve created CGS Pinterest Board to help you quickly navigate the Internet to find repository information and documents themselves. Among the pins you’ll find on this new board are:
• American Battle Monuments Commission https://www.abmc.gov • Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/ for their family trees and military records. • Archive.org https://archive.org/ an indispensable source for locating military unit histories. • FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ for their family trees and military records. o FamilySearch Wiki https://familysearch.org/wiki/ many articles about military records. • FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/ especially for overseas military burials. • Fold3 https://www.fold3.com/ (subscription) for records, memorial pages, unit histories, etc. • HathiTrust.org https://babel.hathitrust.org • HonorStates.org http://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=4744 • Korean War Archive http://www.koreanwar.com/ • National Archives & Records Administration-Great Lakes Regional Repository, 7358 S. Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL, 60629-5898 https://www.archives.gov/chicago → Some Military & War Records https://www.archives.gov/chicago/holdings/subjects.html • The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL, 60610 https://newberry.org/ → Collection Guides and Research Tools - Military Resources https://newberry.org/genealogy-collection-guides-and-research-tools • Newspapers for military and local news (including veteran/family obituaries). → Newspaper Databases Subscriptions (many via public library access) like www.GenealogyBank.com www.NewsLibrary.com www. NewspaperArchive.com www.Newspapers.com www.ObitsArchive.com/ and “America’s Obituaries and Death Notices.” → Google Searches for free newspaper info in the general public and at Google News Archive https://news.google.com/newspapers. • Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 104 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60603 https://pritzkermilitary.org → Library Resources Overview http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/library/overview/
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• State Digital Collections – for example, Illinois Digital Archives www.idaillinois.org/cdm and Missouri Digital Heritage www.sos.mo.gov//mdh. • State Historical Societies – Google by state. • State Rosters from Adjutant General Reports – Google by state. • U.S. Army Center of Military History www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/index.html • U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence www.benning.army.mil/library • U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History http://history.amedd.army.mil • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 – check Ancestry.com. • U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC https://www.archives.gov/ → U.S. Veterans’ Records https://www.archives.gov/veterans → Access to Archival Databases (“AAD”) https://aad.archives.gov/aad/ • Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund “The Wall of Faces” http://www.vvmf.org/Wall- of-Faces/ • The Virtual Wall® Vietnam Veterans Memorial http://www.virtualwall.org/ • You may find this helpful military info for your ancestors who were in WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam, etc. → Draft Registration Index and Cards – check Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. → Memorial Pages for specific units – search Google. For example, Log Cabin Memorial - Veterans 314th Infantry Regiment A.E.F. http://www.314th.org. → Military Camp Info - Defense Technical Information Center www.dtic.mil/dtic. → POW – Google for databases and articles for Americans held in POW camps. → Veterans Service and Compensation Files
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Chicago’s First Suburb: Wabansia By: Craig L. Pfannkuche
Walk or drive across the Kinzie Street bridge west bound (which crosses the north branch of the Chicago River) and look to your right for the next 200 yards or so. One would be looking at the site of Wabansia, the first of Chicago’s many suburbs which would eventually be incorporated into the modern City of Chicago. Wabansia was platted by James KINZIE on the west side of the north branch of the Chicago River north from Kinzie Street on 26 August 1831. [See map below]
This was almost six years before Chicago was incorporated as a city (4 March 1837). A plat for Wabansia can be seen on Joshua Hathaway, Jr.’s 1834 map of Chicago titled “Chicago with the School Section, Wabansia, and Kinzie’s Addition.” The community disappeared as a residential area by the late 1850s being covered by then by the railroad tracks of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad and warehouses serving both that railroad and river traffic. High rise condos now sit on part of the site. It is no surprise that the site was buried under railroad tracks since the main railroad passenger station for Chicago’s first railroad, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was located on the southwest corner of Kinzie and Canal Streets, just across the street from Wabansia. [Photo of G&CU station on the following page] The G&CU was the brainchild of William Butler Ogden who, in the early 1840s, convinced both monied men from New York and farmers from west of the city to invest in a railroad which would bring both the great wheat harvests of the Illinois 116
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prairies, produce of the farms of the Des Plaines and Fox River Valleys, and the steam boat traffic which might go to St. Louis into Chicago, much to the profit of the city’s landowners. The C&GU began operating from its Kinzie Street Station along tracks laid in Kinzie Street westward in early 1848. By late 1851, because of a “controversial business transaction,’ Ogden left The main railroad passenger station for Chicago’s first railroad, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was located on the southwest corner of Kinzie the G&CU but remained and Canal Streets deeply involved in Chicago railroad development. He became involved with the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad (I&W) which planned to build from Chicago into southern Wisconsin. Ogden hoped to build from the G&CU station along the north bank of the Chicago River northwestwardly out toward Janesville, Wisconsin, a developing industrial community along the Rock River. To this end, Ogden began buying up properties in the heart of Wabansia where the I&W, in which Ogden had a large ownership share, could lay tracks. Such railroad history along with the fact that almost all Cook County property records – which contain a great deal of genealogically interesting material - from before 1871 were destroyed by the Chicago Fire of October 1871. It should, thus, be of great interest to historians and genealogists of early Chicago that a number of original deed documents concerning land purchases in Wabansia from the 1840 – 1853 period have been recently uncovered at the archives of the Chicago and North Western Historical Society. [Sample of Deed on following page] By 1855, the I&W, now owner of rights of way through Wabansia, had become a part of a newly formed railroad, the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad, which, in turn, merged with the G&CU in 1862 to become known to history as the Chicago and North Western Railroad. This is the reason why the Wabansia related deeds have been discovered in the archives of the Chicago and North Western Historical Society. The following is an extraction of the names involved with and the dates of the various transactions concerning lots in Wabansia as well as “thumbnail” biographies of those involved with those transactions. The following listing is set up using lot numbers in the Wabansia Addition beginning with Lot 1 in Block 1. The documents themselves can be inspected by researchers by appointment at the archives of the Chicago and North Western Historical Society (www.cnwhs.org).
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Lots 1 and 2 in Block 1 – A document dated 29 May 1851 shows that Frederick and Leticia FLAG of Orange County, New York quit claimed their rights to that property to Isaac and Thomas CROW of Chicago. Thomas Crow was a nephew of Augustus GARRETT. August Garrett and his wife, Elizabeth were living on Franklin Street in Chicago when he made his will out and dated it on 24 February 1849. That original will is a part of the packet of legal documents held at the archives of the Chicago and North Western Historical Society. Augustus Garrett’s will stated that he owned his home on Franklin Street in the city as well as property on the southwest corner of Adams and State streets along with 160 acres of land near Dixon, Illinois. Listed in that will as heirs Original William Butler Ogden Deed concluded 25 February 1853 were his wife, Elizabeth, his sister, Mary BANKS of Philadelphia, Leticia FLAGLER of Newburgh, Orange County, New York, James CROW a nephew, Thomas Crow another nephew and Willett SEAMAN, Jr. of Dixon. On 29 May, 1851, Elizabeth Garrett quit claimed any rights to the properties mentioned in the will of Augustus Garrett to James and Thomas Crow. Nothing can be found concerning Frederick Flag or about his wife, Leticia. Augustus Garrett was born in New York State about 1801. He married Eliza CLARK in New York State in 1825. They moved to Chicago in 1834 but returned to New York State for a year. He returned to Chicago in 1836 in an almost bankrupt condition. Given a small “grubstake” by the local Methodist Church, he began to speculate in Chicago properties. It is said that, within two years of moving back to the city, he was worth almost $2 million. He is listed in the 1844 Chicago City Directory as being “of Garrett and Seaman, res. Sauganash Hotel.” He was elected mayor of Chicago between 1843 and 1846. He and Eliza did not have any children. He died in Chicago on 30 November 1848 and is buried in Chicago’s Rose Hill Cemetery (having been moved from the
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Chicago City Cemetery). His tall monument there, in Lot 153 in the north half of Section “F,” has the badly eroded family history carved high up in the air and unreadable. Following her husband’s death, Eliza Garrett invested her inheritance in the formation of the Garrett Bible Institute which became the Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary which still exists today. Eliza Clark Garrett died in Chicago in November 1855. She is buried with her husband. Isaac Crow may have been the father of Thomas and James Crow. All that is known is that Thomas and James Crow were named as “nephews” of Augustus Garrett in his will. James and Thomas Crow purchased a plot in the old Chicago City Cemetery (north of North Avenue and east of Clark) for $10 in November 1851. (CHICAGO CITY CEMETERY RECORDS 1847 – 1863, Page 10) A James Crow is listed in the 1850 Federal census of Chicago but it is not known if the two are the same person. Mary Banks was a sister to Augustus Garrett and lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as of 1849. Nothing else could be found concerning this person. Leticia Flagler was a sister to Augustus Garrett and lived in Orange County, New York as of 1849. Nothing else could be found concerning this person. Willett Seaman, Jr. is listed in the 1844 Chicago City Directory as being a clerk living at the Sauganash Hotel. He may have moved back to Dixon following the death of Augustus Garrett. Lot 4 in Block 1 – A document dated 1 November 1832 shows that James and Leah KINZIE sold that property for $100 to Samuel G. DeCAMP of Chicago. On 31 May 1834, Samuel DeCamp and his wife, Nancy, sold Lot 4 to George R. LEWIS of New London, Connecticut for $450. On 30 June 1835, George R. Lewis sold Lot 4 to William W. SALTONSTALL of New London, Connecticut for $1,000. On 13 September 1848, William Saltonstall sold Lot 4 to William Butler OGDEN for $1,750. On 1 October 1852, William B. Ogden sold Lot 4 to the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad for $8,000 “subject to a lease of the [lot] to Alexander FERGUSON with benefit of rent after October first 1852.” James Kinzie, a son of John and Margaret Kinzie, was born in Detroit, Michigan on 2 April 1793. He was deeply involved with his father, often called the “first white settler in Chicago,” in a variety of real estate ventures. Late in life, he moved to Wisconsin. Some claim that he lived in Racine, Wisconsin until his death on 13 January 1866. James Kinzie is also said to be buried in Avoca, Iowa County, Wisconsin.
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Samuel DeCamp was born in Lower Longwood, New Jersey on 7 May 1788. He married Nancy WOOD in New Jersey in 1809. He came to Chicago as an Assistant Surgeon in the US Army stationed at Fort Dearborn in June 1832 bringing his wife and son, John (b. 10/5/1812) with him. He worked to alleviate the cholera epidemic which additional army groups coming to fight in the Blackhawk War brought to Chicago. Nancy Wood DeCamp died on 7 March 1855 at an unknown location. Samuel died on 8 September 1871 in Saratoga County, New York. He is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Saratoga Springs. Son John joined the United States Navy and rose to the position of Rear Admiral. He died on 25 June 1875 and is buried with his father.
Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Station once located at the northwest corner of Kinzie and Canal George R. Lewis, a son of James and Harriet Lewis, was born in New London, Connecticut on 25 May 1809. In New London, he married Mary CHEW. Two children were born to them in New London, Thomas in 1848 and Mary in 1852. George R. Lewis died in New London on 16 June 1853 and is buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in that community. William W. Saltonstall was born in New York City on 10 November 1808. He arrived in Chicago in 1835 possibly just after purchasing the property from George R. Lewis when both were in New London, Connecticut. His obituary in the Chicago Tribune of 16 August 1886 (page 5) says that he became a dry goods merchant on Lake Street in Chicago after he arrived. His wife, Mary, died in Chicago in 1839. His second marriage was to Sarah AIKENS in Chicago in 1840. William Saltonstall died in Chicago on 13 August 1886. Six children, three sons and three daughters were
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alive at the time of his death. He is buried with his wife (d.10/9/1910 Cheboygan, Michigan) in Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery. William B. Ogden is very well known in Chicago history. A son of Abraham and Abigail Weed Ogden, he was born in Walton, New York on 15 June 1805. He came to Chicago in June 1835 to deal with his brother-in-law’s (Charles BUTLER) real estate investments in the city. It was believed that Butler had been sold useless land. Ogden was ready to return home to report bad news but noticed how rapidly and profitably lots were being sold in the city. He became a noted real estate dealer along with his brother, Mahlon. Ogden because the first of a line of Chicago “boosters.” In 1837 he became the first mayor of Chicago. He came to believe that if Chicago became a Midwest railroad center, the city’s future would be assured. To this end he was instrumental in founding the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad which was the first railroad out of Chicago. At first, it ran from Chicago through Oak Park out to Turner’s Junction (later – West Chicago) in 1848. (The first locomotive to be used on the line, the “Pioneer,” can still be seen on the second floor of the Chicago History Museum.) The terminal for the line was located at the southwest corner of Kinzie and Canal streets, just across from the Wabansia “subdivision.” Losing control of the G&CU, he worked to form another line, the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad, which was proposed to run northwest from the Kinzie and Canal terminal along the west side of the north branch of the Chicago River. This is why Ogden was buying properties in the Wabansia subdivision. Ogden finally returned to Bronx, New York where he died on 3 August 1877. He is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Nothing can be discovered concerning Alexander Ferguson. On 12 February 1851, the State of Illinois issued a charter for a railroad called the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad to be given the authority to build from Chicago “through McHenry County, Illinois to Woodstock in the same county.” William Butler Ogden, the road’s founder planned that the right of way of the line would following the west bank of the north branch of the Chicago River to a point which would be called “Clybourn” after Peter CLYBOURN, an early Chicago pioneer and land holder in the area. Today, the ”Union Pacific – North and Northwest Lines” still follow the very same right of way to and past the original terminal site. Lot 5 in Block 1 – A document dated 19 June 1840 shows that William S. JOHNSON and his wife, Clarinda, of Cincinnati, Ohio sold Lot 5 to Samuel WIGGINS who also lived in Cincinnati. On 15 February 1855, John and Harriett CHAPIN of Chicago sold Lot 5 to William Butler Ogden who also lived in Chicago. All that is known about William S. Johnson is that he is listed in the 1850 Federal census of Cincinnati, Ohio. The census listing says that he was born about 1790 in Connecticut and that he had the occupation of “Lawyer.” Samuel Wiggins is listed in both the 1850 and 1860 Federal censuses of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1860 he has the occupation of “Banker.” He seems to have never resided in Chicago. He died in Cincinnati some time in 1864 and is buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery in that community. 121
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John P. Chapin was born in Bradford, Vermont on 21 April 1810. He came to Chicago in 1832. He went back to Lancaster, New Hampshire where he married Harriett WHITE on 28 April 1843. He was elected mayor of Chicago in 1846 for a one-year term. In Chicago, Chapin was a “general wholesale and retail merchant.” His thumbnail obituary in the Chicago Tribune of 28 June 1864 stated that Chapin sold anything he could “for in those days of our city’s infancy, the successful merchant had to sell nearly everything salable.” John Chapin died in Chicago on 27 June 1864 and is buried in Section “D” of Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery. His wife, Harriett, who died in 1895 is buried with him along with the children, Henry (1845- 1897) and Fanny (1855 – 1907). Lot 6 in Block 2 – A document dated 19 June 1840 shows that William S. Johnson and his wife, Clarinda, of Cincinnati, Ohio Sold Lot 6 to Samuel Wiggins who also lived in Cincinnati. Lot 7 in Block 2 and Lot 19 in Block 5 – A document dated 7 January 1832 shows that James Kinzie and his wife, Leah, sold those lots to Almanson HUSTON who was living in Niles, Michigan at that time for $440. On 26 March 1832, Almanson Huston and his wife, Elizabeth, obtained a mortgage from Ira MEEKER of Unionville, Ohio. A thick document dated 6 July 1851 which details the history of a lawsuit first filed on 24 September 1833 in which Ira Meeker living in Unionville, Ohio at the time sues Almanson and Elizabeth Huston who were living in Berrian County Michigan concerning the non-payment of a mortgage loan by Meeker to the Hustons. An additional document, dated 10 April 1832, which shows that Almanson and Elizabeth Huston obtained a mortgage from Ira Meeker is included in the document collection. The case was settled in Meeker’s favor but, since the Cook County sheriff could not find the Hustons, Meeker had to go back to court again and again in an attempt to have the judgement served on the Hustons. The case, according to the 1851 document, dragged on until June 1835 when it was settled in Meeker’s favor on 5 June 1835. Another document dated 7 January 1850 concerning two properties attests to the fact that a tax sale by the Cook County sheriff in which the property was sold to Alexander N. FULLERTON on 8 October 1835. The last document concerning Lots 7 and 19 is a warranty deed in which Alexander Fullerton sells those properties to WILLIAM B. OGDEN for $25,000 on 31 March 1856. Information from Ancestry.com suggests that Almanson Huston, a son of Thomas and Susannah CAMPBELL Huston, was born on 22 October 1799 in Lebanon, New York. He married Elizabeth NEWTON in Erie, Pennsylvania on 16 April 1891. They are listed in the 1830 Federal Census of Berrian County, Michigan. Thomas Huston died in Niles, Michigan on 18 September 1841. Almanson seems to have journeyed often to Texas in the 1840s. He is said to have died in San Augustine, Texas in 1861. Nothing can be discovered concerning Ira Meeker. Alexander Fullerton was born in Chester, Vermont in 1804. He married Ann HUBBELL in November 1830 at Troy, New York. He came to Chicago in late 1833 and set up a law practice. He is also said to have opened a lumber yard on “North Water Street” in 1838. The main north- south street in Wabansia was called “Water Street” on the August 1831 map. Lot 7 in Block 2 of Wabansia is sited directly on the north branch of the Chicago River. Thus, his lumber yard may 122
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have been situated in Wabansia. Lot 19 in Block 5 is sited diagonally to the southwest of Lot 7. Alexander Fullerton died at Chester, Vermont on 23 September 1880 in the same house where he was born. He had been an invalid for many years “from a lingering disease.” He is remembered in Chicago with Fullerton Avenue being named after him. Lot 9 in Block 2 – A document dated 28 September 1847 shows that Philip F. PECK and his wife, Mary, of Chicago sold Lot 9 to John REID, Jr. of Brooklyn, New York. John DUNHAM of Chicago at that time, was the Reid family attorney. Peck also sold Lot 2 in Block 28, Lot 6 in Block 41, Lot 6, in Block 44 and Lot 3 in Block 55 all in the “original town of Chicago” on the same day. On 29 October 1850, Robert and Jane MORLEY of Chicago who had obtained ownership of Lot 9, sold the property to Richard L. SHERMAN of Chicago. On 17 July 1851, Benjamin and Jane Sherman (Benjamin being a brother to Richard) of Chicago sold the lot to Edwin NORTON, a Chicago lumber merchant. The sale price was $4,500. On 4 August 1852, Edwin A. Norton and his wife, Abby B., who were listed at that time as living in Portland, Maine, sold the lot to Henry SMITH of Chicago. The attorney who handled the transaction was Nathanial NORTON who was living in Chicago as of that date. The sale price was $6,000. On 30 March 1853, Henry Smith and his wife, Malina, again of Chicago, sold the lot to William Butler Ogden for only, curiously, $100. Philip Peck, born in Providence, Rhode Island on 16 January 1809, came to Chicago via lake schooner with a small stock of merchandise to sell in July 1831. He quickly turned to dealing in Chicago real estate. He married Mary WYTHE in Chicago on 24 June 1835. They had eight children. (She died in Chicago in 1899) In 1836, he built the first brick residence in the city, once located at the corner of South Water and LaSalle streets. He was injured during the October 1871 Chicago Fire and died on 23 October 1871 and is buried in Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery. With the exception of the fact that it is known that he was living in Brooklyn, New York in 1847, no information can be found concerning John Reid, Jr. No information at all can be found concerning John Dunham. A Robert Morley is listed in the 1850 Federal census of Chicago with a wife listed as “J. C.” He was age 41 being born in England. His occupation was that of “miller.” No further information can be found concerning this couple. The 1844 Chicago City Directory lists a “Sherman, R. D. agent, B.F. Sherman h. Clark St. bet Mad. & Mon.” He is not listed in the Chicago City Directories after 1849. Nothing more is known of this person. Nothing more can be found concerning this person
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The 1844 Chicago City Directory lists a “Sherman, B. F. dry goods and groceries, Corner of Lake and Clark.” A Benjamin F. Sherman, an attorney, is listed in the 1851 and 1854 Chicago City Directories. Nothing more can be found concerning this person Edwin Norton was born in Maine about 1811. He married Abigail BASBON in Maine on 10 October 1833. Although the deed dated 17 July 1851 describes Edwin Norton as a “Chicago lumber merchant,” he is listed in the 1850 Federal census of Portland, Maine with a wife named Abby and a daughter named Harriet who was born in Maine circa 1843. Edwin A. Norton died in Brookline, Massachusetts on 19 June 1897. He does not seem to have come to Chicago. Nathanial Norton was born in South Berwick, Maine on 10 March 1804. He married Sally GETTY (1812- 1893) in Sharon, Ogle County, Illinois on 21 February 1839. Their daughter, Anna, was born in Illinois about 1840. He is listed in the 1850 Federal census of Chicago as being a “lumber dealer.” His obituary in the Chicago Tribune (12/21/1886 p. 6) says that he was “Chicago’s largest lumber dealer in the 1850s.” He partnered with Edwin Norton. The Tribune obituary also stated that he “retired to manage his real estate holdings in his later years” and that his worth at the time of his death was up to $300,000. He died in Chicago on 19 December 1886 and is buried in Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery. He left two daughters, Mrs. Lemuel HALL and Mrs. Samuel Baxter FOSTER, both of Chicago. Henry Smith is listed in the 1844 Chicago City Directory as “of H. & E. Smith.” They offered dry goods and groceries. He may have been offered as a candidate for mayor of Chicago by the Abolitionist Party in 1842. Nothing more is known of this person. Water Lots 4 and 5 – Sylvester MARSH sold those lots to The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad for $10,000 worth of Galena and Chicago Union Railroad bonds. Sylvester Marsh was born in Campton, New Hampshire in 1803. He came to Chicago in 1833. He found a job with Gurdon HUBBARD, as a meat packer. He is often said that he was the founder of the meat packing industry in Chicago which got its start near Webster and Ashland streets. It is said that he made a fortune in that trade but lost it in the Panic of 1837. He restarted in the grain business and “acquired a substantial fortune.” Some testimony by him can be found in Andreas, Volume One, pages 561-62. He moved to Littleton, New Hampshire in 1864 and then to Concord, New Hampshire after 1879. After getting lost during a hike on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, he vowed to build a railroad to that mountain’s summit. He accomplished that goal and that cog railroad is still used by tourists there today. He died in Concord, New Hampshire on 30 December 1884 and is buried with his wife, Cornelia HOYT Marsh, and their children in the Blossom Hill Cemetery in Campton, New Hampshire. The Chicago and North Western Historical Society holds numerous other such documents from before the Chicago Fire of October 1871. Individuals interested in researching in such documents can contact the Chicago and North Western Historical Society at www.cnwhs.org for information concerning access to that material.
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The Inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831 (Part 2 K-Z) By: Ernest E. East
Note - This article was originally published in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 27 No. 2 June 1944 p. 131-163. Transcribed exactly as appeared in original publication. Permission has been granted to reprint. Part 1 was published in the Chicago Genealogist Vol. 50 No. 3, Spring 2018.
A key to symbols used to indicate sources follows:
CR – Peoria County Commissioners’ Court Record “A” PR – Peoria County Probate Court Record, 1825-1835 PF – Peoria County Probate Files MR – Peoria County Marriage Records, 1825-1832 CCR – Peoria County Circuit Court Records, 1825-1832 CCF – Peoria County Circuit Court Files
Below is the list of inhabitants of Chicago in 1825-1831 (K-Z):
K KELLEY, Henry. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826, and July 24, 1830. Wentworth said that he worked for Samuel Miller. KINZIE, Eleanor Little. She married, first Daniel McKillip; secondly, John Kinzie; died 1834. KINZIE, Elizabeth. Daughter of John and Margaret McKenzie Kinzie, and sister of James and William. Married, Aug. 18, 1825, to Samuel Miller, Justice John Kinzie officiating (MR). She dies in 1832. KINZIE, Ellen Marion. Born in Chicago, Dec., 1805, of John and Eleanor Kinzie. Married, July 20, 1823, to Alexander Wolcott, Jr. Ceremony performed by John Hamlin of Fort Clark [Peoria], justice of peace of Fulton County, said to have been first marriage in Chicago authorized by civil law. Married, secondly, George C. Bates of Detroit, Mich. Mentioned in letter of D. Hunter to Norman Hyde, April 2, 1831. Died at Detroit, 1860. KINZIE, James. Son of John and Margaret McKenzie Kinzie, and brother of Elizabeth and William. Born at Detroit, April 21, 1793. Married Leah See, daughter of William See, Methodist preacher. Trader at Chicago. First sheriff of Cook County. Removed to Racine, later to Iowa County, Wis., where he died in 1866. Appraiser's clerk, estate of John Crafts, May 25, 1826. Receipted for $73.87 from estate of W. H. Wallace, including item of $56.87 "To Boarding, Lodging and Drinks for himself and Mr. Joseph Ogee," 1827 (PF). Bondsman, A. Wolcott, admr., estate of John Kinzie, April 11, 1828. Appraiser, estate of Francis May, May 10, 1828 (PR). Presented bill of $1.20 for window glass sold to W. H. Wallace, Nov. 24, 1826, sworn to before Justice Beaubien (PF). Appointed judge of election, July 7, 1828; allowed, Sept. 2, 1828, $1.00 for service as election judge (CR); clerk of election, voted, May 11, 1828; judge of election, Aug. 4 and Aug. 20, 1828. "Judgment" against him for selling liquor in violation of law entered by Justice Alexander
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Doyle, July, 1829 (record printed by Peoria Herald Transcript, bet. 12, 1902). Received, Oct. 10, 1829, of Isaac Perkins, admr., two notes, $27.44 and $23.37 1/2, signed by Antoine Ouilmette in favor of Perkins, Kinzie to hand to Ouilmette to balance an account Ouilmette held against the estate of W. H. Wallace (PF). Defendant, Perkins v. Hall et al .(CCR). [See David Hall, Jr.]. Claimed $22.18 against estate of Francis May, including item of March 19, 1828, "Amt. of expense incurred by hunting the corpse, $1.00;" receipt for payment, Aug. 21, 1829 (PF). Voted July 24, Aug. 2, and Nov. 25, 1830. Allowed, Sept. 8, 1830, $1.00 for service as judge of election (CR). He was awarded $485 under treaty of Prairie du Chien [sic], July 29, 1829, for debts owed to him by Indians. Wentworth said that he married, secondly, Virginia Hale. KINZIE, John. Born at Quebec, Dec. 27, 1763, of John McKenzie and wife. (The son shortened the name to Kinzie. Sometimes, also, he signed as Kenzie). Mrs. McKenzie's first husband was William Haliburton, who died. Kinzie married (1) Margaret McKenzie, native of Virginia and Indian captive, by whom he had three children, William, Elizabeth, and James; he married (2) Eleanor (Little) McKillip, by whom he had John Harris, Eleanor Marion, Maria Indiana, and Robert Allen Kinzie. Silversmith; trader at Detroit and Chicago; succeeded Crafts as agent of American Fur Co. at Chicago. Appointed justice of peace, Peoria Co. (Journal, Ill. Sen., Jan. 12, 1825); sworn in, July 28, 1825 (supplement, CR). Assessed on $500 personal property in Peoria Co., 1825. Appointed judge of election, Dec. 8, 1825 (CR). Appraiser, estate of John Crafts, May 25, 1826 (PR). Appointed judge of election, June 5, 1826 (CR). Voted Aug. 7, 1826. As agent of American Fur Co. took judgment against John L. Bogardus at Peoria before Justice John Dixon; Bogardus appealed, Oct. 13, 1826; appeal dismissed, May term, 1827 (CCR, CCF). Bought 2,408 muskrat skins at 33 ½ cents each, $806.68, at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, among other purchases, May 10, 1827; as agent of the American Fur Co., Kinzie received $10 from the estate of Wallace "to freight of 17 packs of furs from Millewe [Milwaukee] to this place [Chicago]," May 11, 1827 (PR). Appointed judge of election, June 5, 1827 (CR). Affidavit of Kinzie’s death filed by Alexander Wolcott, Jr., April 11, 1828, date of death not stated; Wolcott admr.; estate appraised at $805.40 by J. B. Beaubien and Alexander Doyle, April 22, 1828; sale, April 28, 1828; sale proceeds, $254.87 ½, certified by Robert A. Kinzie, clerk; affidavit of David Hunter, successor to Wolcott as admr., filed Dec. 17, 1830, fixed the death of Kinzie at Jan. 6, 1828; inventory filed by Hunter, May 2, 1831, cash received $740.72; due from American Fur Co., $2,190.12 with interest at five per cent from May 10, 1828 (PR, PF). Kinzie officiated at the following marriages: Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Kinzie, Aug. 18, 1825; Daniel Bourassa and Theotis Arnwaiskie, May 20, 1826; Alexander Robinson and Catherine Chevalier, Sept. 28, 1826; Peter Laclair and Margarett Pechequetachai, Jan. 1, 1827. Kinzie's death, as the record subsequently disclosed, occurred on Jan. 6, 1828. KINZIE, John Harris. Son of John and Eleanor McKillip Kinzie; born at Sandwich, Upper Canada, July 7, 1803; clerk, American Fur Co.; secretary, Gov. Lewis Cass of Michigan; Winnebago Indian agent with residence at Fort Winnebago; removed to Chicago, 1834; died, June 21, 1865. KINZIE, Juliette Augusta Magill. Wife of John H. Kinzie. Author of Wau-Bun, The "Early Day" in the NorthWest.
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KINZIE, Maria Indiana. Daughter of John and Eleanor McKillip Kinzie. Born in Chicago. 1807; married, Sept. 18, 1829, to David Hunter. Witnessed will of Alexander Wolcott, Jr., Oct. 18, 1830. KINZIE, Robert Allen. Son of John and Eleanor McKillip Kinzie. Born at Chicago, Feb. 8, 1810; married Gwinthlean Whistler. Appraiser's clerk, estate of John Kinzie, April 22, 1828; appraiser, estate of John Kinzie, Dec 17, 1830 (PF). Died at Chicago, Dec. 13, 1873. KIRCHEVAL, Goldson [Gholson]. He was sub-agent under Col. Thomas J. V. Owen, Indian agent. Mrs. John H. Kinzie said that he had a small trading establishment at Wolf Point. Appraiser, estate of John Kinzie, Dec. 17, 1830 (PR). KNAGGS, ______. Laughton & Knaggs paid estate of W. H. Wallace $21.80, May 10, 1827; Laughton & Knaggs, same date, received $6.00 from estate of Wallace in payment of one kettle, sold Oct. 1, 1826 (PF). William Knaggs, Indian agent, was present at Chicago when the treaty was made with the Indians, Aug. 29, 1821. He was the son of Ches-qua. William G. Knaggs and George B. Knaggs were beneficiaries under Chicago treaty of Sept. 26, 1833. L LACLAIR (LACLERC), Peter (Peresh). Married, Jan. 1, 1827, Margarett Pechequetachai, Justice John Kinzie officiating (MR). Voted, July 24, 1830. Pierre Le Clerc, son of Moi-qua, received a section of land on Elk-heart River under Chicago treaty of Aug. 29, 1821. LACLAIR, T[?]. Bought 800 gun flints and 1 deer skin for $3.00 at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, April 27, 1827 (PF). Jean B. Le Clerc, son of Moi-qua, received one-half section of land under Chicago treaty of Aug. 29, 1821. LADUCIER, Francis. Voted, Aug. 7, 1 826, and Aug. 2, 1830. Gave deposition before Justice Alexander Doyle, July 7, 1829, testifying to purchase of whiskey of James Kinzie whom Doyle found guilty of unlawful sale (record printed by Peoria Herald Transcript, Oct. 12, 1902). Wentworth said that Laducier died at Archibald Clybourn’s house. He had no family. LADUCIER, Jean Baptise. Voted, July 24, 1830. LAFORTUNE, Jean Baptiste. Signed by his mark at Chicago, June 5, 1826, an engagement to serve W. H. Wallace as "Enterpreter " to May 25, 1826 [1827?]. Wallace bound himself to pay Lafortune $130 (PF). Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Isaac Perkins, admr., at Chicago, May 10, 1827, certified that Lafortune had balance of $22.53 due from Wallace estate (PF). LAFRAMBOISE, Alex. [Alexis]. Heir of Francois Laframboise, receiving, July 13, 1831, a one-fourth share, equal to $253.04 ¼ (PF). LAFRAMBOISE, Frabcois (Francis), Sr. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Received, Dec. 17, 1827, of W. H. Wallace estate, $60 for services as clerk from Sept., 1826, to June, 1827. Died, April 26, 1830; affidavit of death filed, Dec. 17, 1830, by J.B. Beaubien; Beaubien appointed admr.; appraisers' bill, valuation $464.45, dated Aug. 25, 1831, Stephen Forbes and James Kinzie, appraisers; both "qualified" before William See, justice of the peace, same date; administrator’s report, April 3, 1832, indorsed, “Chicago, Cook County;” receipts, $1,492; disbursements same. Claude, Joseph, and Alex. Laframboise and Mrs. J.B. Beaubien each received $253.04 ¼ in cash and merchandise (PR, PF). LAFRAMBOISE, Francis, Jr. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. He is not listed as heir of Francois Laframboise.
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LAFRAMBOISE, Globe (Claude). Assessed on $100 personal property, 1825. Signed by his mark at Chicago, May 1, 1826, an engagement to serve W. H. Wallace as "Enterpreter " for one year at $200 (PF). Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Bought "sundry Indian credits" at sale of Wallace estate, May 10, 1827; made claim, same date, for $41 in wages against the estate of Wallace; testimony on behalf of Laframboise offered by Antoine Ouilmette before Justice John Kinzie; Isaac Perkins, admr., at Chicago, same date, certified that Laframboise had balance of $119.11 due from Wallace estate; testified before Justice Beaubien on claim of Antoine Ouilmette for $91 against the estate of Wallace. He was an heir of Francois Laframboise, and received, July 13, 1831, a one-fourth share, amounting to $253.04 ¼ (PF). LAFRAMBOISE, Joseph. Assessed on $50 of personal property, 1825. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Bought one casimere vest and other articles at sale of W.H. Wallace estate, April 27, 1827; presented bill to Wallace estate “for my services in unloading the vessel last fall $3,” sworn to before Justice Kinzie; Isaac Perkins, admr., certified, May 10, 1827, that Laframboise had balance of $29.35 due from Wallace estate for “hunting 3 horses” (PF). Voted, July 24 and Aug. 2, 1830. On July 13, 1831, took a one-fourth share of Francois Laframboise estate, amounting to $253.04 ¼ (PF). Joseph Laframboise, son of Shaw-we- no-qua, received one section of land under Chicago treaty, 1821. Went west with the Potawatomi. LAFRAMBOISE, Madame Joseph. Received payment of $9.36, April 9, 1827, for shirt- making and other service rendered W. H. Wallace, beginning Oct. 15, 1826, and ending Jan. 11, 1827; statement in the French language (PF). LAMSET, Pierre. Made two purchases, May 12, 1828, at sale of Francis May estate, including one martingale (PF). LARANT, Alexander. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826 LAUGHTON, (LAWTON, LAURTON), Bernard H. He and his brother, David, had a trading house on the site of Riverside. Bought 1,375 earbobs for $116.87 at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, April 27, 1827; Laughton & Knaggs received, May 10, 1827, $6.00 from estate of Wallace for one kettle, sold Oct. 1, 1826; Laughton & Taylor at "Farm House, Chicago,” May 13, 1828, sold to Maj. Perkins flour, biscuit, corn, whiskey, and sugar at $3.50 (PR, PF). Voted, Aug. 2, 1830. Married, Nov. 7, 1830, Sophiah [Sophia] Bates, the Rev. William See officiating (MR). LAUGHTON (LAWTON), David. John Crafts made note for $500 to him, Sept. 11, 1824; Crafts also made undated note to him for $22 (PF). His wife was Waish-ke-shaw, a Potawatomi woman. LE MAI. Mrs. John H. Kinzie said that he took possession of improvements made at Chicago by Point de Sable [See Francis May]. LEROI, Joseph. Bought one half-axe for 58 cents and one small kettle for 13 cents at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, April 27, 1827 (PF). LITTLETON, Samuel. Voted, July 24, 1830. LOZON (LAUSON), Clemon (Clama). Signed, by his mark, at Detroit, Aug. 31, 1826, an engagement to serve W. H. Wallace at Chicago until June 1, 1827, for $75; signed by William H. Wallace, witnessed by William Brewster; Isaac Perkins, admr., certified, April 28, 1827, that Lozon had balance of $47 ,75 due from Wallace estate (PF). LOZON (LADSON), Morice (Maurice). Signed, July [?], 1826, by his mark, at Detroit, an engagement to serve W. H. Wallace at Chicago until June 1, 1827, for $140; signed also 128
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by William H. Wallace, and by William Brewster and Franklin Brewster, witnesses. Bought, April 27, 1827, one dirk for $3.75 at sale of Wallace estate (PF). LUCIER, Chas. Bought, April 27, 1827, "shaving apparatus" for $2.50 at sale of W. H. Wallace estate (PF). M McDOLLO [McDALE?], Alexander. Voted, July 24 and Aug. 2, 1830. MACK, Stephen. Wentworth said that he was the son of Major Mack of Detroit and clerk of the American Fur Co. Clerk of election, voted, May 11, 1828; voted, July 24 and Aug, 2, 1830. MCKEE, David. Born, Loudon Co., Va., 1800; government blacksmith. Assessed on $100 of personal property., 1825. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Bought, April 27, 1827, at sale of W.H. Wallace estate, one grey horse for $29.12 1/2. On May 12, 1828, paid $14.62 ½ for a frock coat, at sale of Francis May estate. Wrote Isaac Perkins, admr., Aug. 4, 1828, concerning indebtedness to Wallace estate (PF). Voted, July 24, 1830. Testified by deposition, Oct. 2, 1830, in divorce suit of Emily v. Archibald Caldwell (CCF). Voted, Nov. 25, 1830. Removed to Aurora. MALAST, John Baptiste. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. MANN, John. Voted, July 24, Aug. 2, and Nov. 25, 1830. Married, Aug. 3, 1830, Archange Tramble, the Rev. William See officiating (MR). MARANDER [MIRANDEAU], Victoire. Married, May 24, 1828, to Joseph Pothier, Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR). MARTIN, Laurant. Voted, Aug. 2, 1830. MAY [LE MAY, LE .MAI], Francis. He probably was the French trader whose house Mrs. John H. Kinzie said that John Kinzie bought. Affidavit of his death filed, May 5, 1828, by Isaac Perkins, public admr. of Peoria Co.; letters of administration to Perkins; estate appraised, May 10, 1828, at $103.563 1/4; sale, May 12, 1828; proceeds, $81.96 3/4; appraisal and sale bills filed, May 19, 1828; James Kinzie received payment on claim of $22.18, including items dated March 19, 1828, "Amt. of expense incurred by hunting the corpse, $1.00"and "2 diets previous to his death $1.50;" William Eaharts [?] "of Indiana" furnished list of property belonging to estate, bearing signatures of Joseph Bay and William Kirk as witnesses (PR, PF). The name of Francois L'May was on the roll of a company of militia of St. Clair Co., Aug 1, 1790. MILLER, Samuel. Wentworth said that he was born in Virginia, kept a hotel on the north side of Chicago near the forks, and moved to Michigan City, where he died. He married, Aug. 18, 1825, Elizabeth Kinzie, Justice John Kinzie officiating (MR). She was the daughter of John Kinzie and Margaret McKenzie Kinzie. Miller was licensed, May 2, 1829, to operate a tavern at Chicago jointly with Archibald Clybourn; licensed, June 2, 1829, to keep a ferry across Chicago River at lower forks near Wolf Point, jointly with Clybourn. Appointed, Dec. term, 1829, trustee for Section 16, Township 39 North, Range 14 East [school land] (CR). Voted, July 24 and Nov. 25, 1830. MINER, Horace. Voted, Nov. 25, 1830. MULLER, Peter. Voted, Nov. 25, 1830. MULOCH, Jean B. A. Debtor to W. H. Wallace estate, Aug. 3,1830, in sum of $10.25 (PR).
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MURRAY, E. Bought, April 27,1827, bleached sheeting and other items at sale of W. H. Wallace estate (PF). O OGEE, Joseph. French-Indian, lived earlier at Peoria and on Rock River at a crossing and settlement later called Dixon's Ferry. Bought, May 10, 1827, one blue dress coat for $10.50 at sale of W. H. Wallace estate. Made seven purchases, May 12, 1828, at sale of Francis May estate, including one bear skin. Account of I. Perkins, admr., contains following: "May 4, To expenses at Ogee's $1.65; to amt. paid Ogee as Pilot and interpreter, $5" (PF). OUILMETIE (WILMETIE, WEMET), Antoine. Came to Chicago about 1790. His wife was Archangel, a Potawatomi, who received for herself and two children two sections of land on Lake Michigan under treaty of Prairie du Chien. As Wilmette, he was assessed on $400 of personal property, 1825. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826, and May 11, 1828. Signed, by his mark, Oct. 6, 1826, a receipt for payment by "Mons. Wellace [Wallace],"sum not stated; written in the French language, evidently by F. Laframboise, who signed as witness; purchased, April 27, 1827, at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, 16 halters, $10; 1 frying pan, 88c; 3 augurs, 8 qrs., 56 ¼ c; one saddle, $8.00; one doz. pr. blankets, $87; and 1 augur, 4 qrs., 38c. With Joseph Bauskey gave his joint note for $10.39 to Wallace estate; signed by his mark, May 3, 1827, claim against Wallace estate for $70.12, including item of $1.00 for "washing by Mrs. Ouimett ," and $20 for "portage of merchandiz canoe to lik a la Cashe;" made affidavit before Justice John Kinzie to prove that Wallace was indebted to Claude Laframboise for $41 wages; presented claim, Oct. 4, 1828, "to hire a house for one year for $100" against Wallace estate; claim not signed but sworn to before Justice John B. Beaubien; presented claim, Oct. 14, 1828, for $91 against Wallace estate for beef, "baken," portage of sundry goods, potatoes, and boarding one man for eight months; Claude Laframboise and J. B. Beaubien on oath before Justice J. B. Beaubien asserted that claim was proper; Ouilmette made affidavit, Sept. 16, 1829, before Justice A. Doyle to prove that Wallace estate was indebted to Alexander Robinson, in sum of $3.66 for 12 muskrat skins (PR, PF). As Antwine Wemet, he made affidavit, June 5, 1830, in Archange. Tousant Tramble, divorce (CCF). Voted, July 24, 1830. Received $120.51 ½ from Wallace estate, Aug. 3, 1830 (PF). Probably died at Chicago. OUILMETTE (WILMETTE), Elizabeth. Daughter of Antoine. Married, May 11, 1830, to Michael Walsh [Welch], Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR).
P PECHEQUETACHAI, Margarett. Married, Jan. 1, 1827, to Peter Laclair, Justice John Kinzie officiating (MR). PEPIN (PEPOT, PAPAN), Joseph. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826, and July 24, 1830. On Aug. 3, 1830, he was listed as debtor to estate of W. H. Wallace, $1.50 for one black silk handkerchief, purchased Sept. 27, 1826 (PF). PICHE, Peter. Assessed on $100 personal property. He was a French trader living at Fiche's Grove, east of the present Yorkville. POTHIER, Joseph. Wentworth said that he was striker in McKee's blacksmith shop. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Married, May 24, 1828, Victoire Marander [Mirandeau], Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR). Voted, July 24, 1830.
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PROUX, J. B . Bought one nail hammer for 25 cents and 147 gun flints for 35 cents at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, May 10, 1827 (PF).
R ROBINSON, Alexander. A half-breed chief of a Potawatomi band, said to have been the son of a Scotch trader, and called "Chee-chee-been-quay (the Squint-eye)." He died at his reservation on Des Plaines River at a very advanced age, April 22, 1872. Robinson was assessed on personal property of $200 in 1825. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Married, Sept. 28, 1826, Catherine Chevalier, Justice John Kinzie officiating (MR). Receipted, by his mark, Oct. 25, 1826, for payment of note made by John Crafts, Chicago, Oct. 24, 1824, in behalf of the American Fur Co., for $700 with interest, rate not stated. Purchased, April 27, 1827, at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, 59 1/2 yds. of plaid cotton at .18, $10.71, among other articles (PR, PF). Allowed, June 5, 1827, by county commissioners, $16 for services as election clerk and making return of poll list (CR). Received, Sept., 1829, from Wallace estate, $3.66 for 12 muskrat skins delivered May 7,1826 (PF). Licensed, June 9, 1830, to keep a tavern at Chicago (CR). Voted, July 24, 1830. ROSE, Russell. Voted, July 24, 1830; received 21 votes for constable; received 1 vote for justice of the peace. RUSSELL, Benjamin. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826.
S SAMBLI, Arkash. See Archange Tramble. SCARRITT, Isaac. Methodist Episcopal minister. Performed ceremony that united Archibald Clybourn and Mary Galloway, June 9, 1829 (Tazewell Co. marriage register). Officiated at a double ceremony uniting John K. Clark and Permelia Scott, and Willard Scott and Caroline Hawley, July 22, 1829 (MR). SCOTT, Permelia. Daughter of Stephen J. Married, July 22, 1829, to John Kinzie Clark, the Rev. Isaac Scarritt officiating (MR). SCOTT, Stephen J. (Quaife, ed., Wau-Bun, The "Early Day" in the North-West, by Mrs. John Kinzie, said that he was a native of Maryland. Wentworth said that he was born in Connecticut, and came from Bennington, N. Y.). Lived at Grosse Point and later operated a tavern near the present Riverside. He purchased numerous items at sale of W. H. Wallace estate, April 27, 1827; gave bond of $330 to Isaac Perkins, admr. of Wallace estate, May 10, 1828, to secure payment, David McKee and James Kinzie, his sureties (PF). Appointed "constable pro tern" by Justice Alexander Doyle, July, 1829 (letter, Doyle to John Dixon, clerk at Peoria, printed by Peoria Herald-Transcript, Oct. 12, 1902). Voted, July 24, Aug. 2, and Nov. 25, 1830. He died in Sept., 1852. SCOTT, Willard. Son of Stephen. Lived on site of Naperville. He was clerk of election, Aug. 20, 1828. Married, July 22, 1829, Caroline Hawley, the Rev. Isaac Scarritt officiating (MR). Voted, July 24, 1830. SCOTT, Willis. Son of Stephen. Married, Nov. 1, 1830, Lovisa B. Caldwell, the Rev. William See officiating (MR). SECOES (SECOR), Jean Baptiste. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Received, May 12, 1828, $1.00 "for transporting the goods of the late William H. Wallace from hard Crabble to Chicago"
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(PF). Receipt appears to have been written by James Kinzie. Wentworth said that he died of cholera in 1832. SEE, William. Methodist Episcopal minister, blacksmith and ferry owner. Licensed, June 9, 1830, to keep a ferry across the Callimink [Calumet] River (CR). Voted, Aug. 2 and Nov. 25, 1830. Received eight votes for justice of the peace, Stephen Forbes being elected with 18 votes. Received $20.45 from the estate of Francois Laframboise, July 13, 1831. Signed, as justice of the peace, certificate of appraisers, estate of Laframboise, Aug. 31, 1831 (PF). Officiated at following marriage ceremonies: John Mann and Archange Tramble, Aug. 3, 1830; Willis Scott and Lovisa B. Caldwell, Nov. 1, 1830. SHEDAKER, John. Voted, Nov. 25, 1830. SMITH, Horatio G. Elected constable at special election for justice of the peace and constable, July 24, 1830, receiving 32 votes. SMITH, Mary Ann. Married, April 15, 1830, to Samuel Watkins, Justice John B. Beaubien officiating"(MR). SMITH, Mathias. Voted, July 24 and Nov. 25, 1830. STALY, Julia. Married, May 18, 1830, to Alvah L. Gardner, Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR).
T TAYLOR,______. Laughton & Taylor at "Farm House, Chicago," May 13, 1828, sold Maj. Isaac Perkins flour, biscuit, corn, whiskey, and sugar, amounting to $3.50 (PF). Anson H. Taylor had a stock of goods at Kinzies old house. TAYLOR, Elias. Employed as clerk by W. H. Wallace, May, 1826. Made affidavit, May 11, 1827, before Justice John Kinzie that Kinzie settled $60 account for Indian goods bought of Wallace (PF). THIBEAUT, Joseph. Voted, July 24 and Aug. 2, 1830. THOMPSON, Enoch. Voted, Nov. 25, 1830. Lieut. Thompson was at Fort Dearborn. TOMBIEN (TOUBIEN), Jean Baptiste. Voted, July 24, 1830. TRAMBLE (TRAMBLI, TAMBLE), Archange (Arkash). Brought libel for divorce against· Tousant Tramble, June 8, 1830, A. W. Cavarly, attorney. Married Tramble in Cahokia in 1813, and lived with him until 1827. [Cavarly spelled defendant's name three different ways.] Antwine Werner [Antoine Guilmette] by his mark, June 5, 1830, at Peoria, made affidavit that Tousant Tramble was in Michigan Territory; summons returned indorsed "not found" (CCF). At June term, 1830, Judge Richard Young found defendant was non-resident, ordered him to appear in Oct., and directed court's order be printed in Western Observer [Jacksonville, Ill.]; cause continued; on Oct. 11 it was ordered that cause be continued and order of publication renewed. "Arkash Tambli" was married to John Mann, Aug.3, 1830, the Rev. William See officiating (MR). [Marie Tremble was a beneficiary under Chicago Indian treaty of 1833.] TRAMBLE, Tousant. See Archange Tramble. V VAN EATON, David. Voted, Aug. 2 and Nov. 25, 1830. VAN HORN, John. Voted, July 24 and Aug. 2, 1830. VANSICLE, Martin. Signed by his mark at Chicago, Dec. 23, 1825, an engagement to serve W. H. Wallace one month for $10 (PF). Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. 132
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VAN STOW [VAN EATON?], David. Voted, July 24,1830.
W WALKER, Jesse. Methodist Episcopal minister. Voted, Aug. 2, 1830; allowed $1.00 for service as election clerk, Sept., 1830; voted, Nov. 25, 1830; commissioners in 1832 allowed him $16 for making return of 1830 'election (CR). Walker was born June 9, 1766, in Rockingham Co., Va.; died near Plainfield, formerly Walker's Grove, Oct. 5, 1835: WALLACE, William Henry. Trader. He was at Chicago as early as Dec. 23, 1825. In the. autumn of 1825 and thereafter, he bought quantities of merchandise from William Brewster. of Detroit, also of New York merchants. Signed engagements with Martin Vansicle, Jean B. Lafortune, Glade Laframboise, John B. Bersier, Clemon Lozon, Morice Lozon, and Augustin Bordenois. Had his post at Hardscrabble on south branch of Alexander Wolcott; on the same date, an inventory of the contents of his trunk "at Chicago under charge of Joseph Laframboise" showed $539.75 in specie; appears also to have had a stock of goods at "Miliwaki;" proof of death, date not stated, filed by Isaac Perkins, public admr., April 9, 1827; appraisal bill, showing $3,800.48, filed April 27; Alexander Wolcott, James Kinzie and J. B. Beaubien, appraisers, D. Hall, Jr., clerk; inventory of "sundry goods" taken May 9, 1827, by same appraisers, probably Milwaukee merchandise, $1,104.16; proceeds of sale, April 27, 1827, $3,200.30; sale, May 10, 1827 [Milwaukee goods], $1;333.94; Perkins, May 12, 1828, paid Brewster 3,084.18; admr.'s account, May 19, showed receipts of $5,304.6672 and expenditures of $4,124.12 1/4; distribution of $1,040.35 1/4 ordered by probate court, Aug. 3, 1830, two-fifths to Sarah Kennedy Wallace, mother, and onefifth each to Mary Hamilton Wallace Humphrey, sister, and John Kennedy and Hugh McAdam Wallace, brothers (PR, PF). Wallace was born on Feb. 9, 1790, at Montreal, Quebec, of William and Sarah Kennedy Wallace, lately residents of Schenectady, N.Y. The trader was with Astor's Columbia River expedition and entered the service of the Southwest Fur Co. about 1819. WALSH [WELCH], Michael. Married, May 11, 1830, Elizabeth Wilmette [Ouilmette,] Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR). Voted, July 24 and Aug. 2, 1830. WATKINS, Deborah. Filed libel for divorce, May 18, 1827, against Morrison Watkins through Attorney Jonathan Pugh, charging "repeated and brutal cruelty and drunkenness;" complaint says that she was married to Watkins in May, 1821, place not stated; summons returned "not found;" May term, 1828, Judge Samuel D. Lockwood granted complainant leave to amend her bill; October term, on motion of complainant, cause was dismissed (CCR). Deborah Watkins was married to Joseph Bauskey, Nov. 5, 1828, Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR). Wentworth said that she was the daughter of Stephen J. Scott. It is uncertain whether Morrison Watkins lived in Chicago. WATKINS, Samuel. Married, April 15, 1830, Mary Ann Smith, Justice John B. Beaubien officiating (MR). WEEKS, Cole. Voted, Aug. 7, 1826. Bought "J black silk vest, old" for 25 cents at sale of W. H. Wallace estate; Isaac Perkins, admr., certified that Weeks had balance of $52.26 due from Wallace estate; testified before Justice Beaubien that a claim held by the admr. against Antoine Wilmette [Ouilmette] was paid by Wilmette to Wallace in presence of Weeks (PF). Wentworth said that he married the divorced wife of Caldwell, evidently meaning Emily Hall Caldwell, that he was a discharged soldier and worked for John Kinzie. Mentioned in Wau-Bun as “Mr. Weeks,” an employee at Laughton's. 133
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WELLMAKER, John. Voted, July 24 and Nov.. 25, 1830. WENTWORTH, George P. Voted, July 24, 1830. WILMETTE, Antoine. See Antoine Ouilmette. WOLCOTT, Alexander, Jr. Physician and U.S. Indian agent at Chicago. Assessed on $572 personal property, 1825. Appointed judge of election, Dec. 8, 1825, June 5, 1826, June 5, 1827, and July 7, 1828, receiving $1.00 compensation for each day's service (CR). Appointed admr. estate of John Crafts, April 24, 1826; visited Peoria, May, 1826, June, 1827, April, 1828; Mackinac, June, 1826, and Detroit and New York, July, Aug., Sept., 1826, in settlement of Crafts estate; received, April 10, 1827, from Franklin Brewster $97 for medicine and attendance upon W. H. Wallace and for boarding men five weeks; received, May 11, 1827, $8.00 for appraising property of Wallace, including three days at the Laframboise settlement; bought bread trough and other articles at sale of Wallace estate April 27, 1827. Bid in for $254.8772 all property offered at sale of John Kinzie estate, April 28, 1828 (PR, PF). Judge of election, voted, May 11, 1828; judge of election, Aug. 4 and Nov. 3, 1828. Sworn in as justice of the peace, Sept. 10, 1828 (supplement, CR). Witnessed signature of James Kinzie who received for Alexander Robinson $3.66 from W. H. Wallace estate, Sept. 25, 1829 (PF). Voted, July 24, 1830. Will executed Oct. 18, 1830; equal shares to Ellen, wife, and Mary Ann, daughter; witnessed by Margt. Helm, David Hunter, and Marie Hunter; recorded July 2, 1831, at St. Ignace, Mich. (Liber I. p, 10, records of Mackinac Co., Mich.). WOLCOTT, Mary Ann. Daughter of Alexander and Eleanor Wolcott. Shared jointly with mother in father's will. WYCOFF, Peter. Voted, July 24 and Nov. 30, 1830. Wentworth said that he was a discharged soldier and worked for A. Clybourn.
NOTE Sixty-nine men on Oct. 20, 1828, petitioned the Illinois General Assembly to set off a new county from Peoria to be named Michigan County. Proposed boundaries embraced all territory in Illinois north of th Kankakee River and east of the Fox River. It appears that the legislature did not act on the petition. Among the signers were forty-three men named in the foregoing list of inhabitants. Other Chicago names on the petition were Oliver Mett, George Furkee, Bazil Displat, Francis Lavaye, John Clyburn, Thomas Clyburn, Charles Shelifore, B. Tousille, Samuel G. Gulpin, Joseph Furhka, Gabriel Abe, Nicholas Grence, Abraham Martin, Paul Primo, Henry Buche, Joseph W. Pierre, Joseph Babby, and John Willsiver. Eight other men, including Probate Judge N. J. Hyde and County Commissioners George Sharp and Isaac Egman of Peoria County, signed the petition.
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David Froehlich
The Siegel and Cooper photo is of David Froehlich. It was taken in Chicago in 1895. David Froehlich was born in Chicago on 17 August 1892. His parents were Louis and Sophia Meyerhoff Froehlich. Louis came to Chicago from Germany in 1870 and Sophia an Austrian came to Chicago in 1884. They were a Jewish family. David died in Chicago on 18 November 1985. He is buried in the Waldheim Jewish Cemetery, Forest Park, Cook County, IL. Note - The contributor of this photo has a photo of the parents as well.
Sister “Unknown”
This picture has no data on the back and the photo data is obscured by tape on the front. It was included in an album recently purchased with other pictures dated about 1878. Many of the other pictures were of Catholic Priests and Nuns from Chicago.
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Nicholas Jax
The reverse of this photo says "Grandpa Jax." It is out of an old Olson/Jax family album. Grandpa Jax was Nicholas Jax, born on 9 January 1837 in Chicago. His mother, Catherine, died at the family home at 197 Mather (pre 1909) on 9 June 1892. Nicholas married a woman name Catherine who died on 25 March 1887 and then a woman named Emma. He died at home at 249 Seminary Street (post 1909) on 4 August 1916. He is buried in the St. Boniface Cemetery with his two wives. A daughter of Nicholas (his only child) named (of course) Catherine, married William Olsen in 1883 in Chicago.
Nils (Nels) Olsen
The reverse of this attached photo says only "Nils Olsen." His name could also be Nels. With such a common name, research could not identify any more information about him. The Chicago city directories do not show anything about any "Reverend/Minister" which he certainly seems to have been; probably a Swedish Lutheran.
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Edward Bartnik and Lillian Jasinski
The wedding couple are Edward Bartnik and Lillian Jasinski. They married in Chicago about 1911 when they were both about age 20. Edward was born on 24 February 1900 in Illinois, son of Walter and Anna Bartnik. In 1918, he was living at 2228 N Hamilton, Chicago. Edward died in July 1954 while Lillian died in July 1969. They are buried together at the St. Adalbert's Cemetery
Ella Boines (Boyens)
The Reil Company photo was taken about 1899. While the reverse of the photo says "John Boyens, 7076 S. May St. The 1900 Federal census lists a John and Henrietta BOINES with a child born in October 1895 by the name of "Ella Boines." She is the person in the photo. She married a Joseph Wagner. She died in 1987 and is buried with her parents and husband in Section "R" of the Waldheim/ Forest Home Cemetery.
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Chicago Genealogical Society 2017-18 Writing Contest Rules and Requirements
The Chicago Genealogical Society is pleased to announce its 2017-18 Writing Contest for original material on topics of interest to genealogists and family historians. The contest is open to members and non-members of the CGS. Hobbyists, transitional, and professional genealogists are welcome to submit entries. Submissions may include genealogies, family histories, and case studies that demonstrate use of genealogical methodology, techniques, and sources.
Entries will be accepted through September 30, 2018. Winners will be announced by January 1, 2019.
Goal: To encourage members to share their genealogical research: either a family history that covers three to four generations, or a personal history about life in Chicago.
Prizes: First Place: $500. Second Place: $250. Third Place: $100.
Requirements:
• Manuscript length: 750 to 5,000 words, including footnotes (3–10 typed pages). Manuscripts generated by a genealogical software program will not be accepted. • The history must have some connection to the City of Chicago. • A paper with multiple authors will be accepted if it meets the requirements of the contest. If a winning paper has multiple authors, the prize will be awarded to the lead author. • Original work not previously published and not submitted elsewhere for publication, with proper citation (for style, see Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2015) • Submit with no author but with a cover letter (for anonymity). • The Author will retain all copyright to material submitted to CGS. The Author grants to CGS the right to publish the listed material electronically and in hard copy for the life of the society. • CGS Officers and Directors are not eligible to participate.
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Index
Abe, 136 Eaharts, 130 Kinzie, 116, 119, 120, 122, Aikens, 121 Egman, 136 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, Arnwaiskie, 127 Ferguson, 119, 121 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, Babby, 136 Flag, 118 135 Banks, 118, 119 Flager, 118 Kircheval, 127 Bartnik, 139 Flagler, 119 Kirk, 130 Basbon, 124 Forbes, 128, 133 Knaggs, 127, 129 Bates, 126, 129 Foster, 124 Laclair, 127, 128, 131 Bauskey, 131, 135 Froehlich, 137 Laclerc, 128 Baxter, 124 Fullerton, 122, 123 Ladson, 129 Bay, 130 Furhka, 136 Laducier, 128 Beaubien, 126, 127, 128, Furkee, 136 Lafortune, 128, 134 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, Galloway, 132 Laframboise, 128, 129, 131, 135 Gardner, 133 133, 134, 135 Bersier, 134 Garrett, 118, 119 Lamset, 129 Bogardus, 126 Getty, 124 Larant, 129 Boines, 139 Gholson, 127 Laughton, 127, 129, 133, Bordenois, 134 Goldson, 127 135 Bourassa, 127 Grence, 136 Laurton, 129 Boyens, 139 Guilmette, 134 Lauson, 129 Brewster, 129, 134, 135 Gulpin, 136 Lavaye, 136 Buche, 136 Hale, 126 Lawton, 129 Butler, 121 Haliburton, 126 LeMai, 129 Caldwell, 130, 133, 135 Hall, 124, 126, 134 LeMay, 130 Campbell, 123 Hamilton, 134 Leroi, 129 Cass, 127 Hamlin, 126 Lewis, 119, 120, 121 Cavarly, 133 Harris, 127 Little, 125, 126 Chapin, 122 Hathaway, 116 Littleton, 129 Chevalier, 127, 132 Hawley, 132, 133 L'May, 130 Chew, 120 Helm, 136 Lockwood, 135 Clark, 118, 119, 132 Hoyt, 125 Lozon, 129, 134 Clybourn, 121, 128, 130, Hubbard, 124 Lucier, 129 132, 136 Hubbell, 123 Mack, 130 Clyburn, 136 Humphrey, 134 Magill, 127 Cooper, 137 Hunter, 126, 127, 136 Malast, 130 Crafts, 126, 129, 132, 135 Huston, 122, 123 Mann, 130, 133, 134 Crow, 118, 119 Hyde, 126, 136 Marander, 130, 132 DeCamp, 119, 120 Jasinski, 139 Marsh, 124 Displat, 136 Jax, 138 Martin, 130, 136 Dixon, 126, 132 Johnson, 121, 122 May, 126, 129, 130, 131 Doyle, 126, 127, 128, 131, Kelley, 125 McAdam, 134 132 Kennedy, 134, 135 McDale, 129 Dunham, 123, 124 Kern, 111 McDollo, 129 141
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McKee, 130, 132 Pothier, 130, 132 Tremble, 134 McKenzie, 125, 126, 130 Primo, 136 Van Eaton, 134 McKillip, 125, 126, 127 Proux, 132 Van Horn, 134 Meeker, 122, 123 Pugh, 135 Van Stow, 134 MeMai, 130 Reid, 123, 124 Vansicle, 134 Mett, 136 Reil, 139 Wagner, 139 Meyerhoff, 137 Robinson, 127, 131, 132, Walker, 134 Miller, 125, 127, 130 135 Wallace, 126, 127, 128, 129, Miner, 130 Rose, 132 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, Mirandeau, 130, 132 Russell, 132 135, 136 Morley, 123, 124 Saltonstall, 119, 121 Walsh, 131, 135 Muller, 130 Sambli, 132 Watkins, 133, 135 Muloch, 130 Scarritt, 132, 133 Weed, 121 Murray, 130 Scott, 132, 133, 135 Weeks, 135 Newton, 123 Seaman, 118, 119 Welch, 131, 135 Norton, 123, 124 Secoes, 133 Wellace, 131 Ogden, 116, 117, 119, 121, Secor, 133 Wellmaker, 135 122, 123 See, 126, 128, 129, 130, 133, Wemet, 131 Ogee, 126, 131 134 Wentworth, 126, 128, 130, Olsen, 138 Sharp, 136 132, 133, 135, 136 Olson, 138 Shedaker, 133 Werner, 133 Ouilmette, 126, 128, 131, Shelifore, 136 Whistler, 127 135 Sherman, 123, 124 White, 122 Ouimett, 131 Siegel, 137 Wiggins, 121, 122 Owen, 127 Smith, 123, 124, 133, 135 Willsiver, 136 Papan, 131 Staly, 133 Wilmetie, 131 Pechequetachai, 127, 128, Tamble, 133 Wilmette, 131, 135 131 Taylor, 129, 133 Wolcott, 126, 127, 134, 135, Peck, 123 Thibeaut, 133 136 Pepin, 131 Thompson, 133 Wood, 120 Pepot, 131 Tombien, 133 Wycoff, 136 Perkins, 126, 128, 129, 130, Toubien, 133 Wythe, 123 131, 132, 133, 134, 135 Tousille, 136 Young, 134 Piche, 131 Tramble, 130, 131, 133, 134 Pierre, 136 Trambli, 133
Neither the Quarterly Editor nor the Chicago Genealogical Society can assume responsibility for contributors’ errors of fact, and opinions of contributors are not necessarily those of the Editor or of CGS. Proven errors of fact will, of course, be corrected.
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Reservation for CGS Genealogical Bus Tour Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum and Graceland Cemetery Craig Pfannkuche, Guide Saturday, October 6, 2018 9:30am - 4:00pm
The Chicago Genealogical Society will be hosting a bus tour which will include exploring the Rosehill Cemetery’s beautiful, fascinating mausoleum and Chicago’s famous Graceland Cemetery on October 6th. Our guide, Craig Pfannkuche, will share along the way some of Chicago’s intriguing history.
“Burial” in an above ground niche is becoming more and more popular. The Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum has been on site at the Western Ave side of the cemetery for many years and has undergone a number of beautiful renovations and expansions. A walk through the quiet, colorful and historic halls among the many rooms containing both the remains and cremains of many of Chicago’s most well-known leaders such as the Shedd family, is a fantastic thing for family history researchers to do. A walk through an “older fashioned” but still especially beautiful Graceland Cemetery where a large number of historic Chicagoans from John Kinzie and John Peter Altgeld to George Pullman and the Palmers are buried is a superb way to come “in touch” with the city’s interesting past will take place in the afternoon.
Our luxury bus will depart from (and return to) the northwest corner of the Ogilvie Transportation Center (where food & bathrooms are easily available, located on Madison St between Canal & Clinton Streets) at 9:30am. We will drive west on Madison St (the second of Chicago’s “skid rows) to Western Ave. We will turn north on Western Ave and drive up this most interesting thoroughfare (past such wonderful places as Margie’s Candies) to the west entrance of Rosehill Cemetery.
At Rosehill, we will hear a short lecture on the history of above ground burials and then receive a basic orientation of what we will be seeing. HERE WE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT! We will be asked to wander “on our own hook” through the various halls looking for “known” names and your ancestors. We want the group to spread out and explore the building so we can experience more than a limited guided walk might show us. We will gather back together at the entrance for an outdoor lunch “among the stones” so we can sit together and share what we have seen and found. Some time will be allowed for wandering among the stones, but, PEASE, not too far!
Once back on the bus, we will drive to the entrance of the Graceland Cemetery where we will go on an about a one mile walking tour of the most notable sites in the cemetery. After our tour, we will get back on the bus and return to the Ogilvie Transportation Center by 4:00pm.
Tour Cost: $40 per CGS member $15/per person Panera Box Lunch $50 per non-member No Lunch – will bring my own lunch
Panera Box Lunch includes Sandwich, Chips, Pickle and Cookie. Sandwich Choices are: Ham & Swiss: Smoked lean ham, Swiss cheese on Whole Grain Bread. Turkey & Bacon: Smoked turkey breast, applewood-smoked bacon, smoked Gouda on Tomato Basil Bread. Tuna Salad: Tuna with leaf lettuce, tomatoes and red onions on Whole Grain Bread. Mediterranean Veggie: Zesty sweet Peppadew™ piquant peppers, feta cheese, cucumbers, hummus on Tomato Basil. Sandwiches are prepared with mayo, spicy mustard, lettuce, tomatoes, salt & pepper unless otherwise requested. Bottled water and soda will be provided for all participants for lunch.
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CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY ANCESTOR CERTIFICATES
The Chicago Genealogical Society will issue ancestor certificates to descendants of early residents of Chicago or Cook County. There are three categories of Certificates: (1) Pioneer – an ancestor who settled in Chicago or Cook County from the city’s founding in 1833 through 8 October 1871 (Great Chicago Fire), (2) Rebuilder – an ancestor who settled in Chicago or Cook County from October 9, 1871 to the end of December 1893 (World’s Columbian Exposition), and (3) Progressive – an ancestor who settled in Chicago or Cook County between January 1894 and the end of March 1933.
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