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Officers, Directors, and Standing Committees ...... 2 One Family’s Nineteenth Century from New York to Chicago to Oregon: Joseph M. and Artamisia Ann (Talcott) Burdick by Harold Henderson ...... 3 Saint Ignatius College Prep, Class of 1958 compiled by Jeanne Larzalere Bloom ...... 14 Martin N. Olsen: A Chicago Family Property History by Craig L. Pfannkuche ...... 19 Chicago & North Western Railroad Job Applications, 1907–1908 by Craig L. Pfannkuche ...... 23 CGS Programs at a Glance, 2017 ...... 27 Surname Index ...... 29

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The following is the winning entry of the 2015–2016 Chicago Genealogical Society Writing Contest. Written by CGS member Harold Henderson, it is an engaging description of the experiences of some of his in-laws in nineteenth-century America. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Second- and Third-Place winning entries will appear in future issues of the Quarterly, as well as an Honorable Mention.

One Family’s Nineteenth Century from New York to Chicago to Oregon: Joseph M. and Artamisia Ann (Talcott) Burdick by Harold Henderson, cg®

INTRODUCTION The ashes of the ruined city of Chicago were still warm the day Joseph M. Burdick turned 45. The great fire of 1871 spared much of the west side, so Joseph, his wife Artamisia, and their three children were safely upwind the night of 8–9 October. But Joseph’s job went up in smoke faster than a north-side immigrant shack. For three years he had been selling — fire insurance. Somehow Joseph never quite managed to get upwind of the nineteenth century. The United States was evolving from a nation of independent farmers and craftsmen into a nation of city-dwelling clerks and factory workers. Joseph made this transition but had trouble finding his way. Before the fire, he farmed the prairie with his father and father-in-law, sought gold in California, and finally traded his land for a chance in the 1860s Chicago bubble. After the fire, he tried Kansas City but eventually returned to Chicago as a clerk. Son Frank began his working life as a printer in Chicago and ended as a railroad carpenter in the Pacific Northwest — the same trade his grandfather Rodman Burdick had followed, but now on someone else’s terms. Frank’s daughter Aleen was Joseph and Artamisia’s only grandchild with descendants. In 1930 she was in Portland, Oregon — divorced, supervising three daughters, and working as “floor lady” in a cannery. The 104 years since her grandfather’s birth in upstate New York had not been easy for the family. On the other hand, they did have a radio in the house.

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JOSEPH M. BURDICK Joseph’s father Rodman Burdick farmed in the summer and carpentered in the winter.1 He and Harriet Bassett married 4 March 1824 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York,2 and soon followed Harriet’s older siblings Elizabeth (Bassett) Porter, Peleg Hoxie Bassett, and William Riley Bassett west to the Town of Clarkson, Monroe County.3 The Burdicks did not live a subsistence-level pioneer life there; the Erie Canal had just reached the area.4 In the late 1830s Harriet’s sister Lucy and husband Matthew Hoffman went west to Vernon Township, Lake County, Illinois.5 Rodman and Harriet followed around 1846; Joseph was about 19 and brother Henry six.6 There Joseph met and married Artamisia Ann Talcott, daughter of neighbors Asahel and Eleanor (Rose) Talcott.7 The Talcotts were never wealthy, but Joseph may have been “marrying up.” In 1850 the Talcott farm was valued at $3,000 compared to the Burdicks’ $1,200.8 And even that soon vanished in foreclosure. On 18 August 1849 the four adult Burdicks — Rodman, Harriet, Joseph, and Artamisia — bought 120 acres from neighbor Thomas Pelton.9 They fell behind on their payments, and the farm was back in Pelton’s hands by 1853.10 Joseph may have tried to save the farm by joining the California gold rush in the spring of 1850.11 He did return and began to settle down. In 1855, he paid the real estate tax on 65 acres belonging to his father-in-law Asahel Talcott.12 Four years later Joseph bought the land

1 Unless otherwise noted, U.S. census citations refer to Ancestry.com digital images of population schedules citing National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publications and rolls. All URLs viewed 28 March 2016. Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County, Illinois (Chicago: Lake City Publishing Co., 1891), 711–2. 2 Lewis Bassett family record, Avis Bassett pension file W16835, service of William Bassett (private, Capt. Wells Col., R.I. militia), Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications (NARA M804, roll 171). 3 Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, Supervisor’s Minutes, 1820–1853, p. 73 (1825), line 16, Road District 2; Town Hall. Harold Henderson, “A Missing Heir: Reconnecting Elizabeth (Bassett) Porter to Her Parents, Lewis and Dorcas (Hoxie) Bassett” [Part 1], New York Genealogical and Biographical Record [NYGBR] 145 (July 2014): 166. 4 William G. Andrews, Early Brockport (Brockport, N.Y.: 175th Anniversary Committee, 2005), 23. 5 1840 U.S. census, Lake County, Illinois, p. 107, Matthew Huffman/Hoffman household; NARA M704, roll 62; Asa [Asahel] Talcott household on same page. “A Missing Heir” [Part 3], NYGBR 146 (April 2015): 117. 6 In 1897 he had lived in Illinois 51 years: Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., death certificate [cert.] 1467 (1897), Joseph M. Burdick. 7 Lake Co., Ill., Marriage Record B:9, Burdick-Talcott, 1849. S. V. Talcott, comp., Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876 (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1876), 294. 8 1850 U.S. census, Lake Co., Ill., agriculture schedule, Libertyville Twp., pp. 5–6, Rodman S. Burdick, and Vernon Twp., pp. 45–46, Asahel Talcott. 9 Lake Co., Ill., Deeds, M:10–11, Pelton to Burdick, 18 August 1849; Recorder, Waukegan. Burdick et al. to Pelton, mortgage, 18 August 1849; Lake Co., Ill., Circuit Court Chancery case A-150, Thomas Pelton v. Rodman S. Burdick et al.; Illinois Regional Archives Depository [IRAD], Northern Illinois University [NIU], DeKalb. 10 Lake Co., Ill., Deeds, R:352–3, Masters Deed to Thomas Pelton, 9 May 1853; Recorder, Waukegan. 11 Lake Co., Ill., Circuit Court Chancery case A-150, 20 February 1851. 12 Lake County, Illinois, Vernon Township, 1853–55 Collector’s Books; IRAD, NIU. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 5

for $800.13 In 1860 his farm was on a par with neighbors with similar properties,14 but Joseph was evidently not a farmer at heart. By early 1864 Joseph and family were in Chicago,15 joining the influx that tripled the city’s population in a decade.16 Joseph was joining the mainstream in another way: as of 1870, two of three working Americans were working for someone else.17 In Chicago Joseph worked in a meat market, then as a clerk.18 He also became one of eight original board members of the local Freewill Baptists, who in 1864 built a church at Peoria and Jackson streets.19 Joseph was probably on hand 7 December 1865, when Edmund Burke Fairfield (then president of Hillsdale College in Michigan) dedicated the new church with a sermon that re-fought the Civil War. “Our fathers had no right to form a constitution that should wink at slavery . . . In consenting that despotism may make a victim of others, we victimize ourselves by and by. . . . Glorious Old John Brown! . . . One man with the truth is stronger than a nation without it.”20 Within an hour, the “lightly insured” church was in flames. The Chicago Times applauded: “God … was of the opinion that we had one too many churches in this city prostituted to the celebration of abolition orgies.” The church was rebuilt.21 Perhaps this experience turned Joseph’s mind to insurance. In 1866 he began as a “sur- veyor,”22 giving insurers “accurate, current, and detailed information about the buildings they were insuring.”23 In 1868 he became an agent for the Mutual Security Insurance Company.24 During the 1860s the family’s worldly goods grew from $2,310 to $10,500.25 They sold their

13 Lake Co., Ill., Deeds, 38:212, Asahel Talcott to Joseph Burdick; Recorder, Waukegan. 14 1860 U.S. census, Lake Co., Ill., agriculture schedule, Vernon Twp., pp. 45–46, J. M. Burdick. 15 John C. W. Bailey’s Chicago City Directory, 1864–5, 83. Halpin’s Chicago City Directory 1864–5, 859 [159] (Joseph M. Burdick). 16 Henry Clyde Hubbart, The Older Middle West, 1840–1880 (1936, repr. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963), p. 261 n. 2. 17 Eric Arnesen, “American Workers and the Labor Movement in the Late Nineteenth Century,” 42, in Charles W. Calhoun, ed., The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1996). 18 Bailey’s Chicago City Directory, 1864–5, p. 83 (clerk). Halpin’s…Chicago City Directory 1864–5, 133 (butch- er). 19 Rev. D.M. Graham, “Our Work in the Cities — The Chicago Church,” Freewill Baptist Quarterly [FBQ] 15:111 (1867). 20 “Christian Citizenship,” dedication sermon, Chicago F. Baptist Church, 7 December 1865, FBQ 14:144, 145, 148 (1866). Fairfield is identified as the speaker in “Our Work in the Cities,” FBQ 15:115. 21 “Our Work in the Cities,” FBQ 15:115, 117-18, 120-21. “Church Dedication,” Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1870, p. 4. 22 Edwards’ Annual Director [sic] to . . . the City of Chicago, for 1866, 270. John C. W. Bailey’s Chicago City Directory for 1867–8, 147. 23 Walter W. Ristow, “Introduction,” Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress. 24 Bailey & Edwards’ Chicago Directory, 1868, 137. 25 1860 U.S. census, Lake Co., Ill., Vernon Twp., p. 686, dw. 2151, fam. 2121, Joseph M. Bendick [Burdick]; NARA M653, roll 193. 1870 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, dw. 1455, fam. 1657, p. 582, Joseph Burdock [Burdick]; NARA M593, roll 207. Page 6 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Vernon Township acreage for more than three times what they paid for it26 and bought a house on the west side at 346 Walnut.27 But their prosperity rested on a bubble of underpricing and overinsuring.28 Many insurance companies (including Mutual) charged merchants 40–50 cents per $100 of inventory.29 Joseph’s employer did not survive the fire: it owed $1.8 million and had assets between $150,000 and $500,000. A more cautious firm charged 75 cents per $100, and survived.30 The city rebuilt, and Joseph found work where he could. As the Panic of 1873 took the national economy down, he managed a telegraph office.31 They sold off Artamisia’s share of her late father’s farm32 and their Chicago house.33 Around 1875 they left town.34 In 1880 Joseph was a “traveling agent” in the hamlet of Linwood, Leavenworth County, Kansas, near grown children Minnie Barnum, Melissa Kirby, and Frank C.35 Their together- ness was short-lived: the Barnums returned to Chicago in 1881,36 Melissa was soon widowed and teaching school,37 and by 1883 Joseph and Artamisia were in Kansas City with Frank.38 Like Clarkson in the 1830s and Chicago in the 1860s, Kansas City in the 1880s was en- joying a post-frontier boom; it became “a place where individualism was carried to supreme lengths.”39 Joseph sold patent medicines40 and advertising.41 Back in Chicago by April 1891,42 he was a 65-year-old clerk.43

26 Lake Co., Ill., Deeds, 42:497, Burdick to Talcott, 24 February 1868; Recorder, Waukegan. 27 Cook Co., Ill., real estate transactions, Document 159584, 338:475-76, Scoville to Burdick, release, 28 March 1874, filed 2 April 1874; Recorder, Chicago. 28 James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton, The Great Conflagration, Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future (Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1871), 145. 29 Robert S. Critchell, Recollections of a Fire Insurance Man (Chicago: privately printed, 1909), 79. 30 “Dissolving Views,” Chicago Tribune, 1 November 1871, p. 4. The Chicago Fire and the Insurance Compa- nies (New York and Chicago: J. H. and C. M. Goodsell, 1871), 40. 31 Edwards’ Sixteenth Annual Directory of...the City of Chicago for 1873, 220. 32 Lake Co., Ill., Deeds, 49:247, Burdick to Talcott, quit-claim, 28 December 1874; Recorder, Waukegan. 33 Cook Co., Ill., real estate transactions, Document 40062, 351:439, Burdick to Chappell, 1 February 1875, filed 20 July 1875; Recorder, Chicago. Lake Co., Ill., deeds, 71:438-9, Burdick to Chappel, 1 February 1875, recorded 23 March 1880; Recorder, Waukegan. Edwards’ ...Directory of...the City of Chicago...for 1873, 247. 34 The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago 1875-76, 217. Joseph not found thereafter. 35 1880 U.S. census, Leavenworth Co., Kans., Sherman Twp., Linwood, ED 152, p. 185A, dw. 74, fam. 75, R. [Russell] S. Barnum; dw. 79, fam. 80, Joseph W. [M.] Burdick; p. 185B, dw. 85, fam. 86, David E. Kirby; NARA T9, roll 385. 1880 U.S. census, Jackson Co., Mo., Kansas City, p. 432D, dw. 77, fam. 108, Frank C. Burdick in John R. Williamson household; NARA T9, roll 693. 36 The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1881, 157. Also, in 1892 Russell had lived in Cook County 11 years: Chicago, Ill., Board of Election Commissioners, Persons Registered and Poll List of Voters (1892), 1:233. 37 1885 Kansas state census, Leavenworth Co., Sherman Twp., pp. 80-81, dwell. 1, fam. 1, for Mrs. D. E. Kirby in C. T. Machin household; Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. 38 Hoye’s Kansas City Directory for 1883, 77. 39 Paul C. Nagel, Missouri: A Bicentennial History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1977), 84. 40 1886-1887 Hoye’s City Directory of Kansas City, Missouri, 152 (Burdick), 946 (medicine). 41 1889-1890 Hoye’s City Directory of Kansas City, Missouri, 132. 42 Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, List of Voters, 2:108, J. M. Burdick; IRAD, Northeastern Illinois University [NEIU], Chicago. Joseph had resided 18 months in the state, city, and precinct. 43 Lakeside Annual Directory 1892, 266; similarly 1893, 297. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 7

In the end, no amount of money could have bought him the medical care he needed in his last illness. His abdominal pain began in July 1897. Doctors diagnosed “appendicitis,”44 but had no way to distinguish an inflamed appendix from dozens of other pains.45 Joseph lingered for three months.46 Joseph left Half Day in Vernon Township many times after he first saw the place in 1846 — for California, for Chicago, for Kansas — but he always came back. On 18 October 189747 he returned for the last time and was buried near his mother.48 Artamisia lived another two decades, often with daughter Minnie Barnum’s family in Chicago.49 ARMINDA “MINNIE” (BURDICK) BARNUM Less than a year after the Chicago Fire, Minnie married machinist and inventor Russell S. Barnum.50 Russell grew up much as his father-in-law Joseph had — aunts and uncles close by, near the frontier but not on it, among farmers but not of them. The family lived in northern Illinois in the 1850s51 and moved to Chicago in the 1860s. In 1867 Russell’s father was working as a machinist for Harry Clinton Goodrich,52 kinsman and son of Levi and Hortense (Barnum) Goodrich.53 In 1867 Harry began producing his version of the “tuck marker,” a sewing-machine acces- sory for placing folds or “tucks” in fabric.54 It sold well; he employed several of the Barnum clan at various times. Russell was more than just another employee, he was a fellow inventor who patented at least sixteen innovations over the next 25 years.55 Minnie took the lead in managing the family. In 1884 Harry deeded a house at 1066 West Jackson to her, not to Russell. She sold it in 188956 and bought 1188 Wilcox, where the family

44 Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., death cert. 1467 (1897), Joseph M. Burdick. 45 Dale C. Smith, “Appendicitis, Appendectomy, and the Surgeon,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70 (1996):420. 46 Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., death cert. 1467 (1897), Joseph M. Burdick. 47 “Deaths,” Joseph M. Burdick, Chicago Daily Tribune, 17 October 1897, p. 7. 48 Vernon Township Cemetery Inscriptions (Libertyville: Lake County Genealogical Society, 1998), 54, 55. 49 1910 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, p. 271, ED 635, dw. 22, fam. 27, Russell S. Barnum; NARA T623, roll 258. 50 Cook Co., Ill., Marriage License no. 3519, Barnum-Burdick 13 June 1872. 51 1850 U.S. census, DuPage Co., Ill., Addison Twp., p. 86, dw. 1203, fam. 1222, Lorson Banham [Barnum]; NARA M432, roll 105. 1860 U.S. census, Whiteside Co., Ill., Erie Twp. [wrongly indexed as Fenton], p. 794, dw. 1239, fam. 1229, Lawson Barman [Lorson Barnum]; NARA M653, roll 237. 52 John C.W. Bailey’s Chicago City Directory... for 1867-8, 70 (L. Barnum), 377 (Herman B. Goodrich). 53 Lafayette Wallace Case, ed., The Goodrich Family in America (Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1889), 233. Kane Co., Ill., Circuit Court Case 1314, petition of Isbon Barnum, September 1843; IRAD, NIU, DeKalb. Eben Lewis Barnum and Rev. Francis Barnum, S. J., Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family…1625-1695 (Gard- ner, Mass.: Meals Printing Co., 1912), 48. 54 Edward H. Knight, Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884), 3:2650. 55 U.S. Patent 114,254, 2 May 1871, Nelson Barnum and Russell S. Barnum; digital image, Google Patent Search, (http://www.google.com/patents). 56 Cook Co., Ill., real estate transactions, Tract Book 130B, p. 43, Document 561658, master’s deed to Minnie A. Barnum, 18 July 1884; 2812:111, Document 184848, “Minnie A. Barnum and Russel S. Barnum (her husband)” to John D. Broxham, 13 November 1889; Recorder, Chicago. Page 8 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

remained for more than three decades.57 In 1910, Minnie’s mother Artamisia, then over 80, was living with them. Her presence may have inspired Russell to patent an adjustable bed that could ease caregiving.58 Meanwhile the Barnum daughters Nell and Loie were growing up to join a different middle class than their grandparents’. The same changes that put independent farmers and craftsmen at risk gave young women opportunities that didn’t require marriage. In the early 1900s, they were “dramatic readers,” a quasi-theatrical and quasi-literary occupation then in vogue; later they took up stenography and bookkeeping.59 In 1911 Nell did marry neighbor Watson B. Scott.60 He died in 1918 and was buried in the Barnum family plot in Oakridge Cemetery.61 FRANK C. BURDICK In 1875 Joseph and Artamisia’s 20-year-old son Frank was running a printing business, Burdick & Alexander, at 701 Lake Street in Chicago.62 The business outlasted Frank, who by 1880 was in Kansas City, Missouri, working as an “engineer” at the Great Western Steam Laundry.63 Steam laundries — mechanized businesses that washed, dried, ironed, and starched — were starting to take the heavy labor of clotheswashing out of the home. Typically owned by white men, these businesses competed with Asian laundries and individual washerwomen.64 Kansas City had 13 steam laundries in 1880, and 44 in 1884.65 Frank was probably up between 6 and 8 a.m. “First in the door were the washmen and the person who stoked the engine and fired up the boiler, usually a specialized worker often referred to as the ‘engineer.’”66 In 1882 Frank set up his own laundry in his home at 1441

57 Cook Co., Ill., real estate transactions, Document 1198205, 2786:226-27, Earle to Barnum, 13 December 1889; Recorder, Chicago. The house was sold in 1927 (Cook Co., Ill., real estate transactions, Document 9,774,063, 25185:439, Russell S. Barnum to Richard F. Quinn, warranty deed, 9 September 1927; Recorder, Chicago) and the family was in Los Angeles about 1930 (Los Angeles Co., Cal., Death Certificate no. 12356 [1937], Nell Scott). 58 U.S. Patent 974,495, 1 November 1910, F. E. R. Jones and R. S. Barnum. 59 1900 U.S. census, Cook Co,, Ill., Chicago, ED 339, p. 300A, dw. 248, fam. 277, Russell Barnum; NARA T623, roll 258. Lakeside Annual Directory 1906, 240. Lakeside Annual Directory 1908, 245. 1910 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, ED 635, p. 271, dw. 22, fam. 27, Russell S. Barnum; NARA T624, roll 254. 60 Cook Co., Ill., Marriage Record 575934, Scott-Barnum, 1911. 1910 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, ED 635, p. 280, dw. 116, fam. 235, Watson B. Scott; NARA T623, roll 258. He was at 2744 Wilcox; the Barnums were at 2745. 61 Oakridge Cemetery (Hillside, Cook Co., Ill.), Barnum markers, section 14; personally read, 2008. 62 Lakeside Annual Directory 1875-6, 217, 1271 (Burdick), 121 (Alexander). 63 1880 U.S. census, Jackson Co., Mo., Kansas City, p. 432D, dw. 77, fam. 108, Williamson household for Frank C. Burdick. Business and employer: Ballenger & Hoye’s Tenth Annual City Directory, City of Kansas, Mo. 1880, 137, 283, 722. 64 Arwen P. Mohun, Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 1. 65 Ballenger & Hoye’s...Directory, City of Kansas, Mo. 1880, 722. 1884 Hoye’s City Directory of Kansas City, 638. 66 Steam Laundries, 74. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 9

Madison Avenue67 in the Mulkey Square neighborhood.68 Father Joseph moved next door and joined in.69 Unfortunately, “the technology was not idiot-proof, and it was forever changing; workers were not as tractable and dependable as their employers had hoped; and competition loomed on all sides.”70 In 1884 F. C. Burdick & Co. was gone.71 Frank married Ina Smith in Kansas City on 26 August 188572 and soon went to work for the Pacific Express Company as porter, then foreman, and after 1890 as a clerk.73 In 1903 the family left Kansas City for the Pacific Northwest, where Frank was a “car builder” in Portland, a carpenter in the “OR&N [Oregon Railroad & Navigation] Shops,”74 and a farmer in Cowlitz County, Washington.75 When he went west from Kansas City, Frank was 48, three years older than his father at the time of the Chicago fire. Was Frank living the dream, or living the American nightmare of downward mobility? ALEEN (BURDICK) (MILLER) (LAWSON) BAZZEL Frank and Ina’s daughter Aleen was just 17 in 1909, when she married Harry De Alton Miller of Spokane.76 Following Frank’s death in 1920, Aleen and Harry and their three children lived with Ina at 6509 63rd SE, in Portland. Harry’s occupation shifted from shipbuilder to wood sawyer to “driver” to stevedore,77 and by 1930, he was back home at his parents’ farm.78 Aleen stayed in Portland with mother, daughters, and boarder Marion L. Lawson,79 soon to become her second husband.80 In 1940 she and third husband Jacob Bazzel lived at 3708 Harbor View, Oakland, Alameda County, California.81 She m. (1) 15 December 1909 in Portland Harry De Alton Miller,82 b. September 1883 in Ohio to Samuel and Jessie L. (Osborn)

67 Hoye’s Kansas City Directory for 1882, 86. 68 Milton F. Perry et al., comp., Mulkey Square, Kansas City, Missouri 1869-1973: A Survey of the City’s First Suburb (Kansas City: Museums Council of Mid-America, 1973), 10. 69 Hoye’s Kansas City Directory for 1883, 77. 70 Steam Laundries, 60, 41. 71 1884 Hoye’s City Directory of Kansas City, 104. 72 Jackson Co., Mo., Marriages [at Kansas City], 5:323, Burdick-Smith 1885. 73 1888-1889 Hoye’s City Directory of Kansas City, Missouri, 136. Subsequent years under similar titles: (1890- 1891) 133, (1892) 130, (1893) 109, (1894) 122, (1895) 130, (1896) 134, (1897) 131, (1898) 137, (1899) 150, (1900) 171, (1902), 178. 74 Portland City Directory 1904, 250. Under similar title, (1905) 260; (1906) 260. 75 1910 U.S. census, Cowlitz Co., Wash., Lancaster Pct., ED 90, p. 187, dw. 110, fam. 131, Frank Burdick; NARA M624, roll 1655. 76 Portland, Multnomah Co., Ore., return of marriage 14420 (1909), Miller-Burdick. 77 Polk’s Portland City Directory 1920, 985. Under similar titles, (1921) 260, 874; (1923) 426, 1118; (1924) 415, 1165. 78 1930 U.S. census, Spokane Co., Wash., Green Bluff Twp., ED 32-134, p. 25, fam. 30, Samuel Miller household for Harry; NARA T626, roll 2514. 79 1930 U.S. census, Multnomah Co., Ore., Portland, ED 26-431, p. 266, dw. 101, fam. 112, Ina Burdick; NARA T626, roll 1953. 80 She was “Mrs. Aleen Lawson” on Ina Burdick’s 1932 Oregon death cert. 285. 81 1940 U.S. census, Alameda Co., Cal., Oakland, ED 61-213, p. 13A, dw. 301, Jacob Baggel [Bazzel]; NARA T627, roll 437. 82 Portland, Multnomah Co., Ore., return of marriage 14420 (1909), Miller-Burdick. Page 10 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Miller.83 She married (2) as his second wife84 about 1932 machinist Marion L. Lawson,85 b. about 1882 in Tennessee to O. J. and Maria (Burkhart) Lawson.86 She m. (3) as his third wife about 1940 Santa Fe railroad yardmaster Jacob John “Jake” Bazzel,87 b. 22 March 1881 in Monroe County, Kentucky,88 to Thomas and Louise (Myers) Bazzel,89 and reportedly d. 4 October 1946 in Alameda County, California.90

GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY First Generation 1. Joseph M.7 Burdick (Rodman6, Thompson5-4, David3, Deacon Benjamin2, Robert1)91 was born 13 October 1826 in Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, and died in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 15 October 1897,92 the son of Rodman Sisson and Harriet (Bassett) Burdick.93 He married 18 January 1849 in Lake County, Illinois,94 Artamisia Ann Talcott, daughter of Asahel and Eleanor (Rose) Talcott. Artamisia was born 1 May 1828 in Rome, Oneida County, New York,95 and died 9 December 1918 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.96

83 1900 U.S. census, Spokane Co., Wash., Chattaroy Pct., ED 48, p. 8A, dw. 179, fam. 181, Samuel Miller household for Henry; NARA T623, roll 1750. Osborn: Jackson Co., Ohio, Marriages G:341, no. 237, Samuel Miller and Jessie L. Osborn marriage and return 26 December 1882; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN3R-PWS), “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013.” 84 Marion L. Lawson first married Pearl Orr in Spokane, Spokane Co., Wash.: Washington marriage cert. A11932, 7 June 1911; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Washington, Marriage Records, 1865-2004.” 85 Aleen was “Mrs. Aleen Lawson” on Ina Burdick’s 1932 Oregon death cert. 285, the same year she first appeared in Marion’s household: Polk’s Portland (Oregon) City Directory 1932, 715. 86 Lawson-Orr marriage, Spokane, 7 June 1911. 87 1940 U.S. census, Alameda Co., Cal., Oakland, p. 13A, dw. 301, Jacob Baggel [Bazzel]. In 1935 he was in the same house and Aleen was in Portland; in 1939 he had no wife listed: Oakland, Cal., City Directory 1939, 97. Jacob married as his second wife Nellie S. Endriss 30 October 1921: Alameda Co., Cal., Marriages 118:154; digital image, Ancestry.com, “California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941.” In April or May 1910 Jacob J. Bazzel, age 23 [sic], and Hallie M. Butts were married in Stillwater, Oklahoma: “Oklahoma Mar- riages,” Wichita Daily Eagle (Kansas), 1 May 1904, p. 10, col. 3. In 1914 they were in Richmond, California: Richmond and Contra Costa County Directory 1914-15, 46. 88 Jacob John Bazzel, 1942 draft registration, serial no. U1441, Oakland, Cal., Local Board 61; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4DS-W3S), “United States World War II Registration Cards, 1942.” His right hand was missing “thumb and front finger.” 89 1900 U.S. census, Payne Co., Okla., Eden Twp., ED 186, p. 133A, dw. 109, fam. 110, Thomas B. Bazzel household for John J. [Jacob]; NARA T623, roll 1341. Louise’s maiden name: Alameda Co., Cal., Marriages 118:154. 90 Jacob Bazzel entry, 1946, Ancestry.com database, “California Death Index, 1940-1997.” Original not viewed. 91 Nellie Willard Johnson, Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Typesetting Co., 1937), 11, 19, 50, 116. 92 Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., death cert. 1467 (1897), Joseph M. Burdick. Age at death said to be 71 years 2 days. 93 Madison Co., N.Y., Surrogate’s Court, Lewis Bassett estate file, petition of Peleg H. Bassett, 30 March 1876. 94 Lake Co., Ill., Marriage Record B:9, Burdick-Talcott, 1849. 95 Talcott Pedigree, 294. Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County, 366. 96 Oregon death cert. 3478 (1918), Aitamshia [Artamisia] A. Burdick; Oregon State Archives, Salem. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 11

Children of Joseph M.7 and Artamisia Ann (Talcott) Burdick, all born in Illinois: + 2 i. ARMINDA A. “MINNIE”8 BURDICK, b. 19 October 1849 in Lake County, d. 5 September 1925 in Chicago; m. 13 June 1872 in Cook County Russell Stuart Barnum. 3 ii. FRANK T.8 BURDICK, b. 24 August 1853 in Half Day, Lake County, d. 29 January 1854.97 + 4 iii. FRANK C.8 BURDICK, b. 16 May 1855 in Half Day, d. 8 January 1920 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon; m. 26 August 1885, in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, Ina Smith. 5 iv. MELISSA H. “LITTIA”8 BURDICK, b. 19 April 1858 in Half Day,98 d. 14 June 1941 in San Diego County, California, and bur. at Glen Abbey Memorial Park in nearby Chula Vista.99 She m. (1) 30 October 1878 in Lenape, Leavenworth County, Kansas, David Edwin Kirby.100 The son of Benjamin Kirby, David was born about 1854 in Indiana101 and died between 1880 and 1885.102 Melissa m. (2) 16 December 1886 in Chicago, as “Mrs. Littia Kirby,” William Chapman Bassett.103 He was born 24 October 1863 to Edwin E. and Phebe Maria (Hamlin) Bassett in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and died 25 August 1947 in San Diego, San Diego County, California.104 The Bassetts spent 1890–1910 in or near Kansas City, Missouri, where William was a telegraph operator for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.105 After 1911 they were in Los Angeles and San Diego.106 William married second Lillian M. ______.107 6 v. ELEANOR “NELLIE”8 BURDICK, b. 20 or 23 March 1870 in Chicago, d. 12 September 1871.108

97 Vernon/Half Day Cemetery, Frank T. Burdick marker (Vernon Twp., Lake Co., Ill.; east of Milwaukee Ave. [Ill. Route 21], north of Ill. Route 22). 98 Talcott Pedigree, 294. 99 San Diego Co., Cal., death cert. 1346, District 3701, 14 June 1941, Melissa H. Bassett; Assessor/Recorder/ County Clerk, San Diego. 100 Leavenworth Co., Kans., Marriage Records, E:318, Kirby-Burdick, 1878; FHL 1,854,528. 101 1860 U.S. census, Clarke Co., Iowa, Franklin Twp., p. 466, dw. 870, fam. 859, Benj. Kirby; NARA M653, roll 314. And 1870 U.S. census, Clarke Co., Iowa, Franklin Twp., p. 19, dw. 80, fam. 80, Benjamine Kirby; NARA M593, roll 382. 102 1885 Kansas state census, pp. 80-81, dw. 1, fam. 1, for Mrs. D.E. Kirby in C.T. Machin household. 103 Cook Co., Ill., Marriage License and Return 109800, Bassett-Kirby 16 December 1886. 104 San Diego Co., Cal., death cert. 1860, District 3701, 25 August 1947, William Chapman Bassett; Assessor/ Recorder/County Clerk, San Diego. 105 1890-1 Hoye’s City Directory of Kansas City, Mo., 88. Similarly: (1891) 85, (1892) 93, (1893) 69, (1894) 89, (1896) 88, (1897) 83, (1898) 86, (1899) 91, (1900) 99. 1901 is missing. 1902 Hoye’s Kansas City Directory, 91. Similarly: (1903) 128, (1904) 103, (1905) 87, (1906) 166, (1907) 168, (1908) 152, (1909) 150. 106 Los Angeles City Directory 1911, 126. Similarly: (1912) 203, (1913) 236, (1914) 517, (1915) 376, (1920) 453, (1922) 477, (1923) 524, (1926) 452, (1928) 436, (1930) 396. San Diego City and County Directory 1930, 157, (1935) 116. 107 “Deaths, Funeral Announcements,” William Chapman Bassett, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1947, p. A7. San Diego Co. death cert., 25 August 1947, William Chapman Bassett. 108 23 March 1870: Talcott Pedigree, 294. 20 March 1870: Vernon/Half Day Cemetery, Nellie A. Burdick marker. Page 12 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Second Generation 2. Arminda A. “Minnie”8 Burdick (Joseph M.7, Rodman6, Thompson5-4, David3, Deacon Benjamin2, Robert1) was born 19 October 1849 in Lake County, Illinois, and died 5 September 1925 in Chicago.109 She married 13 June 1872, in Cook County, Illinois, Russell Stuart Barnum,110 son of Lorson111 and Catherine (Empie) Barnum. Russell was born 17 August 1849 in Salt Creek, DuPage County, Illinois,112 and died 15 December 1932 in Los Angeles County, California.113 Children of Arminda A. “Minnie”8 (Burdick) and Russell Stuart Barnum: 7 i. UNKNOWN9 BARNUM, b. say 1873, d. say before 1880. Minnie reportedly gave birth to three children.114 Placement within the family is speculative. 8 ii. NELL A.9 BARNUM, b. 10 March 1875 in Chicago, d. 30 December 1937 in Los Angeles County, California;115 m. 20 September 1911 as his third wife Watson B. Scott,116 son of Samuel and Mary (Haycock) Scott.117 Watson was born 22 November 1849 in Pennsylvania and died 9 December 1918 in Chicago.118 9 iii. LOIE C.9 BARNUM, b. 8 March 1877 in Illinois, d. 24 July 1962 in Los Angeles County, California.119 3. Frank C.8 Burdick (Joseph M.7, Rodman6, Thompson5-4, David3, Deacon Benjamin2, Robert1) was born 16 May 1855 in Half Day, Lake County, Illinois, and died 8 January 1920 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.120 He married 26 August 1885 in Kansas City, Jackson

109 Talcott Pedigree, 294. Ill. death cert. 23801, Minnie A. Barnum, 1925. 110 Cook Co., Ill., Marriage License 3519, Barnum-Burdick 13 June 1872. 111 Barnum Family, 48. Also, Harold Henderson, “When the Name’s Not the Same,” Crossroads 5, no. 1 (De- cember 2009):175-82 [mislabeled September on the pages]. 112 Los Angeles Co., Cal., death cert. 11549 (1932), Russel S. Barnum; Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/ County Clerk, Los Angeles. 113 “Deaths with funeral announcements,” Russell S. Barnum, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1932, p. 16. Los Angeles Co., Cal., death cert. 11549 (1932), Russel S. Barnum. 114 1900 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, p. 300, dw. 248, fam. 277, Russell Barnum. 1910 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, p. 271, dw. 22, fam. 27, Russell S. Barnum. 115 Los Angeles Co., Cal., death cert. 128 or 12356 (1937), Nell Scott; Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Los Angeles. Sister Loie informant. “Deaths with funeral announcements,” Nell A. Scott, Los Angeles Times, 3 January 1938, p. A24. 116 Cook Co., Ill., Marriage Record 575934, Scott-Barnum 19-20 September 1911; FHL 1,030,508. 117 Illinois State Board of Health, death cert. 41020, Watson B. Scott, 9 December 1918; FHL 1,308,652. Par- tial confirmation from 1870 U.S. census, Winnebago Co., Ill., Roscoe Twp., p. 199, dw. 203, fam. 209, Samuel Scott; NARA M593, roll 294. 118 Illinois death cert. 41020, Watson B. Scott, 9 December 1918. 1900 U.S. census, Cook Co., Ill., Chicago, ED 339, p. 293, dw. 64, fam. 133, Watson B. Scott; NARA T623, roll 258. 119 California Department of Public Health, death cert. 13817 (1962), Loie Barnum; Los Angeles County Reg- istrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Norwalk. 120 Oregon death cert. 5 (1920), Frank C. Burdick. Talcott Pedigree, 294. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 13

County, Missouri, Ina Smith,121 daughter of John H. and Elizabeth (Smith) Smith.122 Ina was born 25 December 1862 in “Oscalesia” [Oskaloosa], Mahaska County, Iowa, and died 12 July 1932 at Jennings Lodge, Clackamas County, Oregon.123 Child of Frank C.8 and Ina (Smith) Burdick: 10 i. ALEEN ELIZABETH9 BURDICK, b. May 1892 in Kansas,124 d. 20 December 1976 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.125 She m. (1) 15 December 1909 in Portland, Harry De Alton Miller,126 (2) about 1932 Marion L. Lawson,127 and (3) about 1940 Jacob John “Jake” Bazzel.128 *****

121 Jackson Co., Mo., Marriages [at Kansas City], 5:323, Burdick-Smith 1885. 122 Oregon death cert. 285 (1932), Ina Burdick; Oregon State Archives, Salem. Daughter Aleen was the informant. 1880 U.S. census, Osborne Co., Kans., Ross Twp., ED 209, p. 244, dw./fam. 6, John Smith; NARA T9, roll 392. Also, Harold Henderson, “Crossing the Continent with Common Names: Indiana Natives John and Eliza- beth (Smith) Smith,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 103 (March 2015): 29-35. For their genealogical summary, “Randolph County Relatives: Ina (Smith) Burdick’s Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins, Part One,” Indiana Genealogist 26(2) (June 2015): 5-29; and Part Two (September 2015): 5-11. 123 Oregon death cert. 285 (1932), Ina Burdick. 124 1900 U.S. census, Jackson Co., Mo., Kansas City, p. 211, dw. 63, fam. 76, Frank Burdick; NARA T623, roll 864. 125 “Funeral Notices: Bazzel, Aleen E.,” Oregonian (Portland), 25 December 1976, p. C3, col. 6. 126 Portland, Multnomah Co., Ore., return of marriage 14420 (1909), Miller-Burdick. 127 Aleen was “Mrs. Aleen Lawson” on Ina Burdick’s 1932 Oregon death cert. 285. That year she also appeared in Marion’s household: Polk’s Portland (Oregon) City Directory 1932, 715. 128 1940 U.S. census, Alameda Co., Cal., Oakland, p. 13A, dw. 301, Jacob Baggel [Bazzel]. In 1939 he had no wife listed: Oakland, California, City Directory 1939, 97. Page 14 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

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Name Home Address Home Parish Name Home Address Home Parish Christopher, 13050 S. Seeley; St. Barnabas Esenther, Keith 2313 N. Kedzie; St. Bartholomew Chicago 43, IL Joseph Chciago 47, IL Sylvester’s Richard Finegan, 2050 E. 69th St.; St. Philip Cicinelli, 1509 W. Erie; St. Thomas Francis Chicago 49, IL Neri Ronald Paul Chicago 22, IL Columbkille Fitzpatrick, 9233 S. Elizabeth St.; St. Margaret Comenduley, 927 W. 33 Place; St. George John Joseph Chicago 20, IL of Scotland Bernard Peter Chicago 8, IL Flahive, 3404 W. 72nd St.; Queen of the Costello, 6332 S. Hermitage; St. Theodore Douglas Chicago 20, IL Universe Edward Chicago 36, IL Eugene Michael Flanigan, 8454 S. Hoyne Ave.; St. Ethelreda Courts, John 6107 S. Maplewood; St. Rita Matthew Chicago 20, IL Joseph Chicago 29, IL George Cozza, Joseph 1506 W. Taylor St.; Our Lady of Flynn, John 8625 S. Hermitage St. Ethelreda Michael Chicago 7, IL Pompeii Edward Ave.; Chicago 20, IL Cronin, Francis 5615 W. Roosevelt St. Francis of Fosco, Robert 742 W. Arthington St.; Holy Patrick Road; Cicero 50, IL Rome Nicholas Chicago 7, IL Guardian Crowe, Robert 7030 S. Chappel St.; St. Philip Angel Brain Chicago 49, IL Neri Foster, Paul 513 W. 54th Place; St. Anne Cullen, George 5311 W. Jackson Resurrection Gregory Chicago 9, IL Philip Blvd.; Chicago 44, IL Fratinardo, 3935 W. Gladys Ave.; Presentation Darcy, Patrick 6611 S. Hermitage St. Mary of Domenic Frank Chicago 24, IL Thomas Ave.; Chicago 36, IL Mt. Carmel Gannon, John 8844 S. Winchester; St. Ethelreda Davis, Michael 6707 S. Artesian Ave.; St. Adrain Phillip Chicago 20, IL Thomas Chicago 43, IL Gianoli, John 3847 W. 71st St.; Queen of the Davis, Sidney 307 East 75th St.; St. Peter Chicago 29, IL Universe Anthony Chicago 19, IL Columbanus Gibbons, 8930 S. Bishop St.; St. Ethelreda Degnan, 3012 S. Throop St.; Immaculate Thomas Patrick Chicago 20, IL Timothy Chicago 8, IL Conception Glick, Arthur 10623 S. Campbell; St. John Francis Robert Chicago 43, IL Fisher DeJulio, John 1432 N. Kildare St.; Maternity Gottlick, John 2525 W. 115th St.; St. Walter Anthony Chicago 51, IL B.V.M. David Chicago 43, IL DeMaertelaere, 1114 W. Roosevelt Holy Family Grady, 9345 S. Racine Ave.; St. Margaret Ray Joseph Road; Chicago 7, IL Lawrence Chicago 20, IL of Scotland Denvir, Quin 10341 S. Hoyne St.; St. Barnabas Anthony Anthony Chicago 43, IL Grant, John 7841 Merrill Ave.; Our Lady of Doran, Philip 9615 S. Claremont; Christ the David Chicago 49, IL Peace Ambrose Chicago 43, IL King Grib, Robert 4137 S. Sacramento Five Holy Dragovic, 1933 S. Racine Ave.; Holy Trinity Ignatius Ave.; Chicago 32, IL Martyrs Michael Paul Chicago 8, IL Gutrich, 9349 S. Oakley; Christ the Duffy, Thomas 11242 S. Oakley; St. Cajetan’s Richard Donald Chicago 20, IL King Kevin Chicago 43, IL Guzik, Philip 9807 S. Ridgeway; Holy Dwyer, Patrick 9401 S. Ada; Chicago St. Margaret Allen Evergreen Park 42, IL Redeemer Edward 20, IL of Scotland Halvey, James 2710 W. Ogden Ave.; St. Agatha Ellinwood, 10420 S. Leavitt; St. Barnabas Joseph Chicago 8, IL John Bruce Chicago 43, IL Heffernan, 315 N. Mason Ave.; Saint Lucy Edmond Joseph Chicago 44, IL Page 16 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Name Home Address Home Parish Name Home Address Home Parish Hickey, John 2953 Archer Ave.; St. Bridget’s Klarich, 9009 S. W.ern Ave.; Christ the Kevin Chicago 8, IL Richard Chicago 20, IL King Hines, James 10437 S. Artesian; Saint John Michael Joseph Chicago 43, IL Fisher Koczor, 3828 W. 78th St.; Saint Denis Hobin, James 2864 W. 84 St.; Saint Thomas Sigmund Chicago 29, IL Thomas Chicago 29, IL More Robert Hoffenkamp, 32 N. Long Ave.; Saint Thomas Koenig, Daniel 8401 S. Seeley Ave.; Saint John Dennis Chicago 44, IL Aquinas Joseph Chicago 20, IL Ethelreda Hynds, William 3810 W. 62nd St.; Saint Kofl, William 1007 N. W.ern Ave.; Saint Mark’s Edward Chicago 29, IL Nicholas of John Chicago 22, IL Tolentine Konrath, Paul 845 S. Stone Ave.; Saint Cletus Hynes, Thomas 2024 W. 95th St.; Christ the Joseph LaGrange, IL Michael Chicago 20, IL King Kott, Michael 1709 W. 18th Place; Saint Vitus Janczewski, 5804 S. Sayre Ave.; Saint Joseph Anthony Chicago 8, IL Robert Charles Chicago 38, IL Koziol, Rafael 1441 W. Cullerton St.; Saint Pius Janetka, 1832 S. Morgan St.; Saint Joseph Joseph Chicago 8, IL Anthony Robert Chicago 8, IL LaBellarte, 1420 W. Taylor St.; Notre Dame Javor, Kenneth 2215 W. 19th St.; Saint Anne Rocco Michael Chicago 7, IL Frank Chicago 8, IL Lamb, Richard 1413 W. 79th St.; Saint Sabina Jardine, Charles 5700 W. Washington St. Catherine Joseph Chicago 20, IL Matthew Boulevard; Chicago of Siena Lamont, John 10514 S. St. Louis Queen of 44, IL Martin Ave.; Chicago 42, IL Martyrs Jensen, Edward 7438 S. Luella; Saint Philip Laport, Frank 713 Campbell; Saint Agnes Neil Chicago 49, IL Neri Joseph Chicago Heights, IL Jiganti, John 6848 S. Ashland Ave.; Saint Mary Laughran, 8012 S. Bishop St.; Saint Sabina James Chicago 36, IL of Mount Thomas John Chicago 20, IL Carmel Lavery, 9336 S. Greet St.; Saint Josh, Daniel 7545 S. Winchester Little Flower Kenneth John Chicago 20, IL Margaret of Anthony Ave.; Chicago 20, IL Scotland Kelleher, 8250 S. Carpenter; Saint Kilian’s Leahy, Thomas 5620 W. Madison St.; Saint Emmett Joseph Chicago 20, IL John Chicago 44, IL Catherine of Kelly, Michael 2125 W. 23rd Place; Saint Paul Siena Joseph Chicago 8, IL Leavy, Edward 7548 S. Seeley; Little Flower Kelly, Edward 147 S. Delaplaine Saint Mary’s Mathew Chicago 20, IL Francis Road; Riverside, IL Loritz, Richard 8401 S. Honore; St. Ethelreda Kelly, Raymond 10149 S. Leavitt; Saint Francis Chicago 20, IL John Chicago 43, IL Barnabas Lucafo, Frank 516 N. Aberdeen; Santa Maria Kelly, Thomas 9255 S. Oakley; Christ the Philip Chicago 22, IL Addolorata James Chicago 20, IL King Madigan, John 6714 S. Oakley; Saint Adrian Kempski, 2320 S. Kolin Ave.; Epiphany Thomas Chicago 36, IL Dennis Daniel Chicago 23, IL Maher, Frank 10639 S. Maplewood; St. John Kenney, 314 1/2 N. Menard; Saint Lucy Joseph Chicago 43, IL Fisher Leonard Daniel Chicago 44, IL Maloney, 4821 W. Jackson; Resurrection King, Patrick 4314 Lexington; Presentation Thomas Joseph Chicago 44, IL Thomas Chicago 24, IL Marren, John 4944 W. Gladys Ave.; Resurrection Thomas Chicago 44, IL Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 17

Name Home Address Home Parish Name Home Address Home Parish Mayer, Edward 2903 W. 102nd St.; St. John O’Brien, John 8131 S. Elizabeth St.; St. Sabina Francis Evergreen Park 42, IL Fisher Denis Chicago 20, IL McBride Jr., 4520 Middaugh St.; St. Joseph’s O’Neill, John 2831 S. Home Ave.; Saint Leonard John James Downers Grove, IL Patrick Berwyn, IL McCarthy, 5115 S. Ada St.; St. Augustine O’Toole, 9250 S. Racine Ave.; Saint Daniel David Chicago 9, IL Robert Joseph Chicago 20, IL Margaret of McDonough, 2039 Touhy Ave.; St. Margaret Scotland James Henry Chicago 45, IL Mary Pascente, 2414 W. Lexington Precious McCartin, 6515 S. Laflin Ave.; St. Brendan’s William Philip St.; Chicago 12, IL Blood Bartlett Jerome Chicago 36, IL Phillips, Glen 9431 S. May St.; Saint McGovern, 4708 W. Jackson Resurrection H. Chicago 20, IL Margaret of Terrence Blvd.; Chicago 44, IL Scotland Michael Picardi, Joseph 912 S. Halsted St.; Holy McNulty, 9031 S. Leavitt; Christ the Francis Chicago 7, IL Guardian Edward John Chicago 20, IL King Angel Miller, Robert 6031 S. Mulligan St. Pierini, 2644 Concord Place; Saint Anne Gignac Ave.; Chicago 36, IL Symphorosa Kenneth Hazel Crest, IL William Morley, John 10432 S. Hamilton St. Barnabas Francis St.; Chicago 43, IL Pinkowski, Lee 1709 S. Hamilton Saint Anne John Ave.; Chicago 8, IL Motekaitis, 714 W. 30th St.; St. George Ramunas Chicago 16, IL Ploszaj, 3110 S. Aberdeen; St. Mary of Joseph Richard Chicago 8, IL Perpetual Andrew Help Maston, 2339 W. 107th Place; St. Cajetan William Chicago 43, IL Poglajen, 6047 S. Campbell; Saint Rita Bernard Jerome August Chicago 20, IL Motherway, 2160 W. 117th Place; St. Walter’s Pribyl, Joseph 5039 W. 25th Place; Mary Queen Michael Harold Chicago 43, IL Francis Cicero, IL of Heaven Mulcahy, 3011 North Menard St. Ferdinand Quinn, Edward 8939 S. Marshfield Saint Patrick Joseph Ave.; Chicago 34, IL Joseph Ave.; Chicago 20, IL Ethelreda Murray, James 7719 S. Throop St.; St. Sabina Ranquist, 10056 S. Damen Ave.; Saint Thomas Chicago 20, IL Robert Charles Chicago 43, IL Barnabas Naughton, 1735 W. 85th St.; St. Ethelreda Ratkovic, John 10945 S. Campbell Saint Cajetan Michael Joseph Chicago 20, IL Bernhart Ave.; Chicago 43, IL Neidhart, Frank 8141 S. Wood St.; Little Flower Rea, Thomas 2627 W. 104th Place; Saint John Kenneth Chicago 20, IL Lowell Chicago 23, IL Fisher Nelson, Brooks 6743 Merrill Ave.; St. Philip Rigney, Austin 143 North Lorel; Saint Thomas Matthew Chicago 49, IL Neri Gerard Chicago 44, IL Aquinas Newell, James 4911 W. Ohio St.; Our Lady Roberts, John 7847 S. Wolcott; Little Flower Samuel Chicago 44, IL Help of Francis Chicago 20, IL Christians Rosensteel, 10001 S. Seeley Ave.; St. Barnabas Novak, Edward 1906 S. Throop St.; Holy Trinity John William Chicago 43, IL Henry Chicago 8, IL Rozhon, 2016 S. Canalport; Sacred Heart Nyhoff, Joseph 7238 S. Ridgeland Saint Thomas Charles Chicago 16, IL James Ave.; Chicago 49, IL Lawrence Rubinic, Frank 1933 S. Racine Ave.; Holy Trinity Oberuc, 1447 N. Laramie St. Peter James Chicago 8, IL Richard Edward Ave.; Chicago 51, IL Canisius Page 18 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Name Home Address Home Parish Name Home Address Home Parish Rutherford, 1133 W. 16th St.; Saint Joseph Tamul, Arvydas 2428 S. Lawndale Blessed Telkia Kermit Chicago 8, IL John Ave.; Chicago 23, IL Agnes Ruzanski, 3056 S. Keeler; Epiphany Tantillo, 5116 N. Mango Ave.; St. Constance Edward Frank Chicago 23, IL Anthony Joseph Chicago 30, IL Ryan, Daniel 1415 S. 56th Court; Saint Francis Tautvydas, 4333 S. Artesian Ave.; Immaculate Joseph Cicero, IL of Rome Jonas Kestutis Chicago 32, IL Conception Sakalauskas, 1419 W. 51st St.; Holy Cross Theis, Robert 2517 W. 107th St.; St. Cajetan Edward John Chicago 9, IL John Chicago 43, IL Salatino, 516 N. Noble; Santa Maria Tozzi, William 1426 W. Polk St.; Notre Dame Raphael Chicago 22, IL Addolorata Anthony Chicago 7, IL de Chicago Samec, James 8146 S. Wood St.; Little Flower Valaitis, 6641 S. Maplewood Nativity of Richard Chicago 20, IL Egidijus Ave.; Chicago 29, IL the Blessed Sarabia, Morris 1712 S. Ruble St.; Sacred Heart Anthony Virgin Mary Thomas Chicago 8, IL Veverka, Gerald 1846 Gunderson Ave.; St. Odilo Savaiano, 1016 S. Newberry St.; Holy Joseph Berwyn, IL Rocco Anthony Chicago 7, IL Guardian Viola, Robert 5621 S. Homan; St. Gall Angel Patrick Chicago 29, IL Scanlon, James 1941 S. East Ave.; Saint Odilo Visek, William 2421 Euclid Ave.; St. Odilo Edward Berwyn, IL Anthony Berwyn, IL Schackmuth, 3540 W. 80th Place; Saint Denis Walters, 7356 S. Paxton Ave.; St. Philip Thomas George Chicago 29, IL Richard Allen Chicago 49, IL Neri Schnaubelt, 342 Dover Ave.; Saint Francis Watson, Robert 2232 W. 109th St.; St. Cajetan John Michael Lagrange Park, IL Xavier Dentzell Chicago 43, IL Schreier, James 9153 S. Leavitt St.; Christ the Weingart, John 10859 S. Fairfield; St. Cajetan Mel Chicago 20, IL King Walter Chicago 43, IL Schuh, Allen 6942 S. Claremont St. Adrian Wendt, Stephen 9100 S. Bell Ave.; Christ the Anthony Ave.; Chicago 36, IL Michael Chicago 20, IL King Sharkey, Peter 5159 S. Meade Ave.; St. Jane de Wieczorek, 3708 Euclid Ave.; St. Leonard Edward Chicago 38, IL Chantel Stephen George Berwyn, IL Siemanski, 5346 S. Mozart St.; St. Clare of Wojcik, James 4556 S. Homan Ave.; St. Pancratius Michael Martin Chicago 32, IL Montefalco Raymond Chicago 32, IL Slattery, Lee 9431 S. Laflin St.; St. Margaret Wool, Clyde 5640 S. Sangamon Visitation Thomas Chicago 20, IL of Scotland Joseph St.; Chicago 21, IL Sliwa, Daniel 2903 W. 38th Place; St. Joseph Wren, Damien 9325 S. Leavitt St.; Christ the Walter Chicago 32, IL and St. Anne Thomas Chicago 20, IL King Smith, Philip 3149 S. Green St.; St. David Wright, Thomas 10924 Prospect Ave.; St. Cajetan John Chicago 8, IL Joseph Chicago 43, IL Soltys, 2036 W. 21st Place; St. Paul Zaura, Paul 2141 W. 23rd Place; Our Lady of Raymond Chicago 8, IL Joseph Chicago 8, IL Vilna Thomas Zimmermann, 1640 W. 101st Place; St. Barnabas Squyres, James 10644 S. Seeley St.; St. Barnabas August Joseph Chicago 43, IL Gately Chicago 43, IL Zulkey, Richard 3344 S. May St.; St. Mary of Sullivan, 9201 S. Hamilton Christ the Edward Chicago 8, IL Perpetual Robert Clifford Ave.; Chicago 20, IL King Help Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 19

Martin N. Olsen: A Chicago Family Property History by Craig L. Pfannkuche

In looking over a bundle of old papers, an archivist at the Chicago and North Western (C&NW) Historical Society archives ran across a land deed dated 12 March 1859. Beautifully preserved on blue paper complete with red wax seals, the document conveys two city lots on the near west side of Chicago from Samuel Russell and his wife, Frances, of Middleton Connecticut to a Martin N. Olsen and his wife, Maria. The property is described as being “Lots 15 and 16 of Block 69 in the Russell, Mather, and Roberts addition to Chicago.” That property today is the northeast corner of Carroll and Clinton Streets. A clue as to why the document was found in an old bundle of old Chicago and North Western Railroad records is the fact that the line of the Chicago and North Western out of its old Madison Street station (now Ogilvie Transportation Center) runs very near to where today’s “Union Pacific West” Metra commuter line diverges from the UP’s “Northwest” and “North” lines. The property today is covered by the condo complex called “Alta at K Station.” Who were these people mentioned in this deed from so long ago? Samuel Russell happens to have been a brother to Edward A. Russell of Middleton, Connecticut and a distant relative of the famous Gurdon S. Hubbard who was so prominent in the earliest years of Chicago’s history. Edward A. Russell

occasionally traveled to Chicago on business; visited again in 1833, and through Hubbard was alerted to the profit potential during the 1833–37 land boom. Hubbard then managed Russell’s substantial investments; the land that later became known as the Russell and Mather Addition [which] was originally entered (recorded) under the names of Russell, Mathers, and Roberts. (Early Chicago, by Ulrich Danckers and Janes Meredith, Inland Press, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1999, p. 304)

It is probable that Samuel Russell obtained ownership of section of the “North Branch Addition” from his brother and then subdivided the property. He never came to Chicago. He died in Middleton, Connecticut, on 14 May 1862 and is buried in the Indian Hill Cemetery in Middleton with his wife (d. 6/20/1882). Who were Martin N. and Maria Olsen? Enumerated in the 1860 federal census, living in the Chicago, 6th ward household of Elias and Matilda Olson, is an M. N. Martin. It is probable (based on the year and place of birth, and/or occupation) that this is the enumeration for Martin Nelson. Chicago’s “Ward 6” in those days covered that area where the Martin Olson owned property is located. Further, a probate file (P3-1053) for Martin N. Olsen states that a number of his heirs were “children of Elias Olsen and Eugenia Krohn.” Martin can be found in the Chicago City Directory for the Year 1860–61 (Chicago: D. B. Cooke & Co., 1860). He is listed there as a “bookseller” living at 167 North DesPlaines Avenue. That same listing continues in various city directories through 1866. Curiously, he cannot be found in either the 1870 or 1871 city directories. This may be because Martine Page 20 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Olsen, one of his daughters, is listed on the property record as being her father’s “guardian.” He is listed again in the 1875 as a “bookseller, 36 West Indiana” (now Grand Ave.). A search of the on line Chicago Tribune for Martin N. Olsen turned up the fact that there was a probate for such a person dated for 26 March 1878. A search of the “Index to Cook County Probates” found at the Archives of the Clerk of the Cook County Court turned up a probate listing for Martin N. Olsen who died on 1 February 1878. (#P3-1053). Sadly, no death notice for Mr. Olsen could be found in either the Tribune or the Chicago Daily News. That was not surprising since, until the mid-1880s, newspaper death notices were not common. Martin Olsen’s probate packet showed that he was no longer the owner of Lots 15 and 16 in Block 69 of the Russell, Mather and Roberts Add at the time of his death. Somehow, in some now unknown manner, the Chicago and North Western Railroad had obtained con- trol of those lots. It is possible that the railroad traded for that property by presenting the Olsen family with Lots 1 and 2 in Block 71 of the Russell, Mather and Roberts Addition to Chicago. It is the Block 71 property which figures as the property owned by Martin Olsen in the “inventory” of his assets found in his probate papers. Interestingly, the Chicago and Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 21

North Western donated lots 15 and 16 in Block 69 to the City of Chicago on 25 July 1957. The railroad retained the old, no longer valid, deed from 1859 (Torrens book #458-2). It was eventually found in a box of old records at the C&NW Historical Society archives. The executrix for Martin Olsen’s estate was his wife, Marie. Martin’s probate papers say that soon after his death, Maria married a John P. Bredshall. The “Index to Illinois Marriages” shows that John P. Bredshall did marry a Maria Olsen in Chicago on 7 November 1878. Curiously, Maria is replaced as the administrator of Martin Olsen’s estate by an independent “pro bono” administrator in April 1879. The 1880 Federal census of Chicago lists John and Maria Bredshall (age 63) as living at 36 Indiana Avenue (now Grand). This is the same address as the 1875 city directory listing for Martin Olsen. The “Final Report” in the probate packet dated 7 June 1883 states that Mary Olsen Bredshall was deceased by that time. No specific death date or place of burial for Marie Bredshall can be found. John P. Bredshall who, in 1880, was working as a cabinet maker for an organ building company, born in Norway about 1817, died in Chicago on 12 May 1896. He is buried in Chicago’s Mt. Olive Cemetery. Page 22 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Martin Olsen’s probate lists four children by Maria who were his heirs; Agatha Rierson, Christian Olsen, Martine CROSS, and Johanna Marcusau. The 1870 Federal census of Chicago lists an Agatha Rierson, the wife of Andrew, who was born in Norway about 1835. The 1875 Chicago city directory states that the family as living at 727 Sedgwick and that Andrew was working for “Higgins and Rierson” a pair of “vessel agents.” The 1880 Federal census of Chicago lists the occupation of Andrew Rierson as being a “retired captain.” Agatha and Andrew had three children; Orlando (b. 1856), Mary (b. 1858) and John (b. 1861). Agatha Olsen Rierson died in Chicago on 5 August 1883. No information as to any death notice or burial site for Agatha can be found by this author. Christian Olsen was listed in the “Proof of Heirship” sheet in his father’s probate packet as living in Plumb Creek, Nebraska, on 8 April 1878. He cannot be found in either the 1880 or 1900 Federal censuses of Nebraska. No data can be discovered concerning Albert and Martine Olsen Cross by this author. Martin Olsen’s Proof of Heirship sheet stated that Johanna Marcusau had died prior to the death of her father. No other data can be discovered concerning Christian and Johanna Olsen Marcusau by this author. Another heir to Martin Olsen’s estate was Eugene Krohn. The Proof of Heirship sheet noted that Eugene was living in Arendal, Minnesota, in 1878. The 1880 federal census of that community lists a Eugene Krohn, a son of Jens and Anna Krohn who was born on 10 February 1867. He was living in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, as of 1930. Three other individuals were also listed as heirs at law to Martin Olsen. They were Eddie C., Andrew N. and Niles S. Olsen who the probate stated were “children of Elias Olsen, deceased, and Eugenia Krohn.” Elias Olsen was certainly an older brother to Martin N. Olsen. They are shown in the 1860 Federal census of Chicago as living together (see above) in Chicago. No data concerning any of these three children can be found by this author. In the end, after the sale of the property in Block 71, Martin N. Olsen’s estate amounted to a little over $6,000. Following the payout by the administrator for all outstanding bills and expenses, $3,487.20 was left to be distributed to his heirs. The final distribution was made on 7 June 1883. The author would be pleased to hear that readers can make corrections and additions to the above information. *****

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Chicago & North Western Railroad Job Applications, 1907–1908 By Craig L. Pfannkuche

A search of a box of old, mixed records at the archives of the Chicago & North Western Historical Society has turned up three genealogically interesting applications for jobs as clerks with the Chicago & North Western Railroad from the first decade of the twentieth century. The first page of the application form covers personal data. The second page contains a series of math problems to be solved by the applicant. The third page is an “empty” lined page on which the applicant is required to hand write an application letter to Mr. M. M. Kirkman, a Vice President of the railroad. This was done to make certain that the future clerk had a clear handwriting. Marshal M. Kirkman, in his own right, was a very interesting person. Not only was he a Vice President of the C&NW in the early twentieth century, he was the author of a 17-volume set titled “The Science of Railways” as well as the author of a number of romance novels! A son of Henry and Sarah Cool Kirkman, he was born on 10 July 1842 near Peoria, Illinois. He began his railroad career before the Civil War as a telegraphic messenger out of Fulton, Illinois. He married Fannie Spencer in Glens Falls, New York, on 1 January 1867. As a C&NW Vice President, he established his home in Evanston, Illinois, where he would die on 17 April 1921. He is buried in Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery. Marshal and Fannie were the parents of two children. As of 1921 they were Minnie, the wife of John Noyes living in Seattle, Washington, and Bruce, living in Evanston. The last page of the application was a long printed agreement to be signed by the applicant stating that he, if he left company employment, would not share any company information with any other company which might hire him.

The first application, dated 8 February 1907, was from a Louis Lavezzorio. Louis, a son of John and Theresa Lavezzorio, was born in Chicago on 4 July 1891. He had gone to St. Columbkille’s grammar school for nine years but did not graduate. At the time of his applying for the job of clerk, he was living with his mother at 69 South Fall Street in Chicago. He wrote that his father was deceased at the time of the application. The Fall Street (now Talman) address is located between Lake and Warren streets just west of Rockwell Street. Louis’s three references were Frank Hoey, his uncle who was living at 2862 Keeler Street; Wallace N. Key, a druggist living at 482 West Lake Street; and E. H. Meyers, a grocer who lived at 1096 West Madison Street. As for himself, Louis wrote that he was “an honest and clean boy [who can] write very well.” Louis’s father, John (NOT John B. Lavezzorio), seems to have owned a saloon at 314 West Indiana Avenue (now Grand) with a residence at 330 West Indiana. He is so listed in the Chicago City Directories for 1885 and 1892. The 1900 Chicago City Directory lists a “Tracey, wid. of John r. 47 N. Sheldon.” This supports what Louis wrote in his application: his mother was named Theresa and his father had died prior to 1907. Page 24 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

A death certificate for John Lavezzorio, born in Italy about 1865, has been found which lists his death as having occurred on 15 December 1893 at 318 West Indiana Avenue. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery. Theresa Lavezzorio, a daughter of August and Carolotta Brizzoloro, was born in Italy on 14 September 1869. She came to the United States in 1872. At an unknown time and place she married her husband. They had two children, Louis and John, the latter born in August 1894 (never knowing his father). In 1900 Theresa went with her children to live with her parents at 47 North Sheldon in Chicago. Theresa would die in Chicago on 16 March 1930. She is buried in Calvary Cemetery, on the far south side of Evanston, Illinois. Louis Lavezzorio married Ann Baldazeroni in Chicago on 9 September 1916. He was not working for the Chicago & North Western. His 1917 draft card states that he was working as a drug salesman for Wallace Key, the druggist who was one of the references on his C&NW application. Sadly, Ann died within a few years of her marriage to Louis. She died in Chicago on 3 June 1922 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery. In Chicago on 22 April 1930, Louis married Eva Cella. He and Eva had two children: Mary (1932–1998) and Carole (married in Florida to James Gates in 1986). Louis Lavezzorio died in Oak Park, Illinois, on 21 January 1971. He is buried in the Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.

Eighteen-year-old Bryant S. Procter, a son of George H. and Emma Jones Procter, made application for a clerkship with the Chicago & North Western on 3 December 1907. He applied “because my father is dead and I must contribute to the support of my mother.” Bryant Procter was born in Chicago on 12 October 1889. He attended Hyde Park High School for only one year before he had to go out and find a job. He wrote on his application that

I started to work for Mr. Zanone[?] just a year ago last November on track elevation at 16th Street and Ashland and was transferred from there to Austin where I stayed until last Saturday. The work on track elevation was shut down and that is why I am applying to you [Kirkman] for a position.

Bryant had only one reference, F. J. Zanone[?], who was the storekeeper who had hired him for track elevation work as a messenger. At the time of his application, Bryant was living with his mother at 703 East 63rd Street in the city. Bryant’s parents married in Chicago 25 December 1883. The date and place of the death of George H. Procter as well as his burial site is unknown. Emma Jones Procter died in Chicago on 15 August 1929. She is buried in Chicago’s Oakwoods Cemetery. Bryant did not stay long with the C&NW. By 1917, he was, as he wrote in his 1917 draft form, a “Draftsman, Chicago Tel. Co.,” living at 818 East 63rd Street in the city. On 23 April 1919, Bryant married Ada Hazlehurst in Chicago. Unfortunately, she died in Chicago on 23 November 1926. She is buried in Chicago’s Oakwoods Cemetery. Before she died, she had become the mother of one child, Bryant Procter, Jr., born on 4 November 1922. Sometime in the mid 1930s, Bryant married a woman named Ruth. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 25

In the 1940s, Bryant was an employee of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. He died in Bradenton, Florida, on 13 September 1977. His wife Ruth died in Bradenton in 1984. They are buried together in the Bradenton’s Manasota Cemetery.

The third applicant for a C&NW clerkship was Harry Thomas Swanson. Harry Swanson, a son of Oscar and Emma Swanson, was born in Chicago on 8 August 1889. He attended seven years of schooling in the Hawthorne Grammar School but did not graduate. Probably because of the death of his mother, he went to work in January 1904 as an “errand boy” for the “J. Purdey Company,” but that company went bankrupt in March 1904. He then worked as an office boy and clerk at a couple of companies at 189 LaSalle Street until he went to work in January 1906 as a salesman for “King-Richardson Company” but wrote in his application that he was “not entirely successful” as a salesman. He said in his application that he was also seeking work with the company when he responded to a question about “debts or liabilities owed” because “I owe my father for board.” Harry’s three references were Mr. S. W. Youngquist, a shoemaker at 1904 Central Street in Evanston; Mr. J. B. Holmes, a tailor at 31 Oak Place in Chicago; and Alfred Sundquist, a shoemaker at 376 East Division in Chicago. Harry’s father was also a shoemaker. Harry’s younger brother, Wallace, was born about 1901. Their mother, Emma, seems to have died about 1903. No death data or burial site can be discovered concerning her. The 1910 federal census of Evanston states that Harry was still working for the railroad in that year. He was listed as living at 2632 West Railroad street with his father and his siblings and working as a “railroad bookkeeper.” Harry’s World War I draft registration form (1917) states that he had become a medical doctor living at 4335 North Springfield in Chicago. Earlier, on 13 November 1916, he married Edna Ohlson on 13 November 1916. It is not known when or where Harry got his medical de- gree. He was practicing medicine in Evanston in 1925 and was still married to Edna (Evanston City Directory, 1925). The 1930 Federal census of Evanston shows that he was still practicing in Evanston and that Edna was still his wife. By 1940 Edna Ohlson Swanson was living with her sister, Lillian Ohlson, at 4335 North Springfield in Chicago. This is the same address where Harry said he was living when he filled out his 1917 World War I draft registration form. Strangely, Edna listed herself in the census as being a “widow” although Harry did not die until 1958. Edna Swanson died in at the 4335 North Springfield address on 23 October 1955. Her death certificate states that she was “divorced.” She is buried at the Irving Park Cemetery on the far west side of Chicago. Harry Swanson seems to have married a woman named Virginia sometime in the mid to late 1930s. Virginia Swanson’s obituary can be found in the Chicago Tribune of 26 October 1946 (page 20), where she is listed as being the wife of “Dr. Harry T. Swanson.” She is buried at the All Saints Cemetery in DesPlaines, Illinois. Harry Swanson himself died in Chicago on 15 October 1958. His short obituary can be found in the Chicago Tribune of 20 October 1958 (page 18). He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. Harry had two sons by his first wife. They were Harry, Jr., born about 1921, and William, born about 1928. The Tribune obituary also lists children named Virginia, Miriam, Linda, Page 26 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Daniel, and Mary. Virginia and Miriam may have been daughters of his second wife with another husband.

Copies of the above described C&NW applications can be obtained from the author (craig@ pfannkuche.com). If the readers wish to have any corrections made to the above or wish to add additional family history information, such would be happily received by the author for publication in a future issue of this Quarterly. *****

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CGS Programs at a Glance, 2017

February 4 Speed Dating for Genealogists — Back by popular demand! Come participate in an exciting and fun program. Bring your “brick wall” research questions and you will have an opportunity to ask an expert. You will only have a limited time for each question. SPEED is the key, so be clear and specific with your questions. Participate and also learn from other CGS members as they get help on their “brick walls.” Our Expert Panel: Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG: A full-time professional researcher specializing in Chicago and Cook County research; Julius Machnikowski: Clerk at the Circuit Court of Cook County Archives specializing in Polish genealogy; Craig Pfannkuche: Independent research professional and President of Memory Trail Research, Inc.; Matt Rutherford: Curator of Genealogy and Local History at the Newberry Library; and Karen Stanbary, cgSM: A local professional genealogist with expertise in DNA analysis and regular lecturer in Genetic Genealogy topics at the Newberry Library.

March 4 National Museum of the American Sailor — This will be a special CGS tour of the museum exhibits and a talk on researching naval personnel. The National Museum of the American Sailor collects and preserves artifacts and personal archival materials about the United States Navy’s enlisted Sailors from 1775 to the present. The museum’s historical collections reflect the global travels of naval enlisted personnel. Donated personal materials include personal letters, photo albums, and scrapbooks of Sailors and WAVES; the largest public collection of recruit group photographs and yearbooks; uniforms, flags, and personal artifacts; and pam- phlets, postcards, and rare printed materials. Tour will begin at 10:00 a.m. at 610 Farragut Avenue, Building 42, Great Lakes, IL. Free for CGS members and non-members. There is plenty of free parking and the museum is a 7-minute walk from the Metra Rail Great Lakes stop on the Union Pacific North line. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/ nmas.html

April 1 Don’t Be FOOLED By Your Genealogy! — CGS welcomes writer and genealogist Harold HendersonCG for a special two-presentation day: (1) “Are We There Yet? Name-changing Ancestors, Proof and the Genealogy Police.” Follow the Chilcote Trail from the 1900 Chicago census to an unmarked grave in a country cemetery, and decide when there’s enough evidence for proof. Seven research lessons will be highlighted along the way that can be applied in more difficult cases. (2) “Why We Don’t Write – And How We Can.” We need to write in order to: prove our families, preserve our work, and propagate our information. Many genealogists dread this task and postpone it too long. But we can find the time — and learn how to write better and enjoy it more. These free presentations will be at the Newberry Library at 12:30 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. Note this is an earlier start time. Page 28 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

May 6 Chicago Genealogical Society’s 50th Anniversary Celebration! — Come join us as we celebrate this milestone in the Society’s history. The Society’s first meeting was on May 20, 1967, at the YMCA on LaSalle Street in Chicago. So what better way to mark this milestone than to have a celebration exactly 50 years later, in May 2017! Our speaker for this special event is genealogist, speaker, and writer Tony Burroughs. We are excited to have him help celebrate this milestone. We will also have a celebratory cake, highlights of the last 50 years, and even a few surprises. This event will take place at the Irish American Heritage Center (4626 North Knox, Chicago), which offers plenty of free parking and easy access using public transportation. So mark your calendar and join us for this great celebration! More details will follow.

June 3 Reading Between the Lines of the City Directory — Our speaker will be Teresa Steinkamp McMillinCG. This lecture encourages one to go beyond the obvious use of a city directory when locating an ancestor. Directories provide an opportunity to understand our ancestor’s historical context. Pictures, advertisements, maps of the city, and many more items are often included. The audience will be encouraged to understand each directory’s unique qualities. Examples will be used to illustrate various points.

Unless otherwise noted, all programs are held at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, and begin at 1:30 p.m. The Newberry does not have a visitor parking lot, but the garage at 100 West Chestnut Street offers discounted parking to Newberry patrons (enter on Clark Street). Remember to bring your parking ticket with you so it can be validated by the Newberry security guard. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 29

Surname Index

Alexander, 8 Chimel, 14 Goodrich, 7 Koczor, 16 Arruda, 14 Chlopek, 14 Goss, 14 Koenig, 16 Arunno, 14 Christopher, 15 Gottlick, 15 Kofl, 16 Bailey, 14 Cicinelli, 15 Grady, 15 Konrath, 16 Baldazeroni, 24 Comenduley, 15 Grant, 15 Kott, 16 Barnum, 6–8, 11–12 Cool, 23 Grib, 15 Koziol, 16 Bartholmey, 14 Costello, 15 Gutrich, 15 Krohn, 19, 22 Bartkus, 14 Courts, 15 Guzik, 15 LaBellarte, 16 Barton, 14 Cozza, 15 Halvey, 15 Lamb, 16 Bassett, 4, 10, 11 Cronin, 15 Haycock, 12 Lamont, 16 Bauer, 14 Crowe, 15 Hazlehurst, 24 Laport, 16 Bazzel, 9, 13 Cullen, 15 Heffernan, 15 Laughran, 16 Biestek, 14 Darcy, 15 Hickey, 16 Lavery, 16 Blyth, 14 Davis, 15 Hines, 16 Lavezzorio, 23–24 Bocchieri, 14 Degnan, 15 Hobin, 16 Lawson, 7, 9, 13 Boland, 14 DeJulio, 15 Hoey, 23 Leahy, 16 Boord, 14 DeMaertelaere, 15 Hoffenkamp, 16 Leavy, 16 Boyle, 14 Denvir, 15 Hoffman, 4 Loritz, 16 Bradley, 14 Doran, 15 Holmes, 25 Lucafo, 16 Brady, 14 Dragovic, 15 Hubbard, 19 Madigan, 16 Bredshall, 21 Duffy, 15 Huffman, 4 Maher, 16 Brizzoloro, 24 Dwyer, 15 Hynds, 16 Maloney, 16 Broniarczyk, 14 Earle, 8 Hynes, 16 Marcusau, 22 Brosnan, 14 Ellinwood, 15 Janczewski, 16 Marren, 16 Brown, 14 Esenther, 15 Janetka, 16 Maston, 17 Broxham, 7 Fairfield, 5 Jardine, 16 Mayer, 17 Burdick, 3–13 Finegan, 15 Javor, 16 McBride, 17 Butts, 14 Fitzpatrick, 15 Jensen, 16 McCarthy, 17 Byrnes, 14 Flahive, 15 Jiganti, 16 McCartin, 17 Caifano, 14 Flanigan, 15 Jones, 8, 24 McDonough, 17 Cameron, 14 Flynn, 15 Josh, 16 McGovern, 17 Cappiello, 14 Foley, 14 Kelleher, 16 McNulty, 17 Carroll, 14 Fosco, 15 Kelly, 16 Meyers, 23 Casey, 14 Foster, 15 Kempski, 16 Miller, 9, 13, 17 Ceddia, 14 Fratinardo, 15 Kenney, 16 Morley, 17 Cella, 24 Gannon, 15 Key, 23 Motekaitis, 17 Chappel, 6 Gates, 24 King, 16 Motherway, 17 Chappell, 6 Gianoli, 15 Kirby, 6, 11 Mulcahy, 17 Charbonneau, 14 Gibbons, 15 Kirkman, 23–24 Murray, 17 Chiaramonte, 14 Glick, 15 Klarich, 16 Naughton, 17 Page 30 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

Neidhart, 17 Pribyl, 17 Schackmuth, 18 Tozzi, 18 Nelson, 17 Procter, 24 Schnaubelt, 18 Valaitis, 18 Newell, 17 Quinn, 17 Schreier, 18 Veverka, 18 Novak, 17 Ranquist, 17 Schuh, 18 Viola, 18 Noyes, 23 Ratkovic, 17 Scott, 8, 12 Visek, 18 Nyhoff, 17 Rea, 17 Scoville, 6 Walters, 18 Oberuc, 17 Rierson, 22 Sharkey, 18 Watson, 18 O’Brien, 17 Rigney, 17 Siemanski, 18 Weingart, 18 O’Connor, 14 Roberts, 17 Sisson, 10 Wendt, 18 Ohlson, 25 Rosensteel, 17 Slattery, 18 Wieczorek, 18 O’Keefe, 14 Rozhon, 17 Sliwa, 18 Williamson, 6, 8 Olsen, 19–22 Rubinic, 17 Smith, 9, 11, 13, 18 Wojcik, 18 O’Neill, 17 Russell, 5–8, 11–12, Soltys, 18 Wool, 18 O’Toole, 17 19–20 Spencer, 23 Wren, 18 Pascente, 17 Rutherford, 18 Squyres, 18 Wright, 18 Pelton, 4 Ruzanski, 18 Sullivan, 18 Youngquist, 25 Phillips, 17 Ryan, 18 Sundquist, 25 Zanone, 24 Picardi, 17 Sakalauskas, 18 Swanson, 25 Zaura, 18 Pierini, 17 Salatino, 18 Talcott, 3–6, 10–12 Zimmermann, 18 Pinkowski, 17 Samec, 18 Tamul, 18 Zulkey, 18 Ploszaj, 17 Sarabia, 18 Tantillo, 18 Poglajen, 17 Savaiano, 18 Tautvydas, 18 Porter, 4 Scanlon, 18 Theis, 18

On the Cover

This photograph of the Chicago Coloseum was taken about 1895. Once located at 1513 South Wabash, the structure was originally built in 1883 to house a reconstructed Libby Prison; a Richmond, Virginia, Civil War prison which housed Union officer prisoners. Charles Gunther hoped that the prison, along with a large collection of Civil War artifacts, would attract a continuous flow of paying tourists. The building also hosted circuses, rodeos, and the wild political meetings on New Year’s eve called the “First Ward Ball,” hosted by aldermen “Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathhouse” John Coughlan. William Taft was nominated as the Republican candidate in 1912. Theodore Roosevelt bolted from the party in that year and held his own “Bull Moose” convention in the hall in the same year. As other large halls were built the Coloseum hosted less popular wrestling and boxing matches as well as roller derby contests. The Coloseum closed in March 1971 and was demolished in 1982. The Soka Gakkai International Temple now stands on the site. Chicago Genealogical Society Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Page 31 ✃ Page 32 Vol. 49 No. 1 Fall 2016 Chicago Genealogical Society

NEW TYPE OF RESIDENCY CERTIFICATE The “PROGRESSIVE”: 1894–1933

For years, the Chicago Genealogical Society “Certificates” program has offered two different types of ancestral Chicago resident certificates. The first is the well-known “Pioneer” certificate. This document certifies that one’s ancestor first came to Chicago between the founding of the city and early October 1871 (the Great Chicago Fire). The second type of document, the “Rebuilder,” certifies that one’s ancestor first took up residence in Chicago at some time between late October 1871 and the end of December 1893 (closing of the World Columbian Exposition). The CGS board felt that a huge amount of city growth had taken place in the forty years since the closing of the World’s Fair in 1893 and that a huge new mass of immigration during that period greatly changed the social and ethnic makeup of the city. Because of this, the CGS board is pleased and proud to announce that our society is now offering a third type of certificate, the PROGRESSIVE, which covers ancestors who took up residence in the city between January 1894 and the end of March 1933. The title of the certificate (based on winning contest entries) memorializes what historians call the “Progressive” period in American history. The closing date for the certificate represents the noted “Century of Progress” exposition hosted by the City of Chicago in March 1933 in part on what is now Northerly Island. This new certificate will be printed on vellum paper and features a stylized Art Deco image of Chicago’s skyscrapers adapted from the official seal of the Century of Progress event. Each issued 8 ½" by 11" certificate will have a “brass” colored official CGS seal affixed to it. Forms for the submission of family history data are available on our CGS website. Paper evidence (death notices, vital record data, cemetery records, etc.) of family connections between the ancestor and the submitter need to be submitted to the society by postal mail. This evidence will be archived in a closed section of the Newberry Library. At various times, lists of the “ancestors” will be printed in the CGS Quarterly. If another researcher discovers an interesting name, a letter will be sent by the CGS to the submitter asking of they would want to contact the reader. The material submitted will not be accessed in any other way. Because of the rapid rise in the cost of the paper we use to print the certificates, for the seals used, and postage, the Board has, sadly, decided to raise the price of receiving any of the three certificate types. The new charge will $25 for the first certificate issued for each individual ancestor and $15 for each additional certificate issued for the same ancestor. Specific questions about the CGS residency certificates can be sent to [email protected]. Please write “Ancestor Certificates” in the subject line. 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 through 30 April 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. In documenting your Pioneer, Rebuilder, and Progressive ancestors, you will be helping to preserve the records of your family and the history of the Chicago area. Applicants need not be residents of Chicago or Cook County or members of the Society. A certificate will be issued for each ancestor documented, and submitted as follows. 1. Complete the Application Form and Direct Lineage Chart as fully as possible. The Application Form and Direct Lineage Chart can be printed (or downloaded) from our website: http://www.chicagogenealogy.org, and obtained at our meetings. Please use maiden names where applicable. If unsure of any dates or information, place a question mark after them. 2. Submit proper documentation. You may include copies of census records, land records, birth/marriage/death records, church records and/or burial records (cemetery name and location), etc. Do NOT send the original documents. Family Group Sheets will NOT be accepted as proper documentation. All applications and copies of supporting documents become the property of the Chicago Genealogical Society. 3. Effective 1 January 2015, the first certificate costs $25.00 and each subsequent copy of the same ancestor to various descendants is $15.00. Send your Application Form, Direct Lineage Chart, proper documentation for each Certificate, and a check for the total number of Certificates ordered to: Chicago Genealogical Society Attn: Ancestor Certificates P.O. Box 1160 Chicago, IL 60690-1160

You may submit as much additional information about your ancestor as you wish. Please consider sending a short narrative of how your ancestor arrived in the Chicago area (by wagon, train, water), first residence, or experiences during and after the Great Fire. We may publish your story in the Chicago Genealogist.