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History of New Milford, Illinois 1835-1975 [}j]O~i1@00W ·. ·· - oornw ::rr,~@oo© ~®~~~~®!I~ STUDY RESEARCHED BY JACK L. BAXTER ,..; [H]a~lf©rIBtr @r? ~rnw ~aa.r?©IBJOO> STUDY RESEARCHED BY ~®~~=~©tl~ JACK L. BAXTER -' - ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• + + + + + WE MUST ALWAYS HAVE OLD MEMORIES + + ·AND YOUNG HOPES. + + + + -Arsene Houssaye + + + ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••+ + Published By l(OCKFOl(O MAP PUBl/SHEl(S, Inc. 4525 Forest View Avehue, P.O. Box 6126 l(ockfor<I, llli1101's 61125 •········~························· • • YESTERDAY IS BUT A DREAM • • AND TOMORROW IS ONLY A VISION. • • BUT TODAY WELL LIVED MAKES • • EVERY YESTERDAY A DREAM OF • • HAPPINESS. AND EVERY TOMORROW • • A VISION OF HOPE. • • - From the Sanskrit • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • :r ; ' RESOURCES SPECIAL NOTE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS "Portrait and Biographical Record of Winnebago County", One hundred forty-one years have come and gone since September 1892 white men began to exercise dominion in the area that is tbday r known as the New Milford community. Those years have been "The History of Winnebago County, Illinois, Its Past and full of constant changes - unbelievable changes even in those Present'", 1877, H. F. Kett and Co. first forty-one years when pioneer men, their devoted and hardworking wives and their children were adjusting to the "Past and Present of Win,o.ebago County", 1905, Clarke I settlement life. There is little left of the old reminders. Publishing co, Advanced civilization and the progressive demands of revolving years have obliterated nearly all traces of Indian occupancy "Past and Present The City of Rockford, Winnebago County, and the early white men settlements until they are Illinois", 1905, Charles A. Church remembered only in name and written records. "History of Winnebago County", Church This study is an effort to continue that remembrance by preserving the information of the records, documerlts, pre­ "History of Winnebago County", 1877, H.F. Kett and Co. viously published writings and personal remembrances in a I "one place" reference book. This heritage is preserved for all .. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Winnebago'', future generations of the present day New Milford community 1916, Church residents. It is to those future generations that this study is ]j dedicated. "Sinnissippi Saga", 1968, C. Hal Nelson jack L. Baxter "We, The People", 1975, C. Hal Nelson Researcher "Private Laws of The ·State of Illinois", 1857, Lanphier & Walker "Land Ownership Maps'', 1967, Library of Congress ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "]1 "The Research Libraries", The New York Public Library - :'! • • • Oh! A wonderful stream in the river of time, • "History of Rockford 1834-1861", Church •+ As it runs through the realm of tears, • • With a faultless rhythm, and a musical rhyme, • "Topographical Map of Winnebago County", 1853, H. F~ Walling's, New York ] • And a broader• swe,ep, and a surge sublime, • • As it blends in the ocean of years. • "Stewards Record For New Milford Circuit", 1860-1874 : -B. F. Taylor ! ] •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••, . "New Milford Cemetery Association", 1858 "New Milford Scholars Leaf", 1861 "Vol. I, Winnebago County, Illinois, Cemetery Inscriptions", Hazel M. Hyde and Taylor Decker CONTENTS "State of Illinois and General Atlas", 1871, Warner, Higgins Special Note to Future Generations • . • • . • • . • • . • . 1 and Beers Resources • . • . • . • . • . • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • 1 Early Settlers , , . • • • • . • . • • • . • • . • . • . • • . 2 ] Earliest Illinois Settlement . • • • • . • • . • • • • . • • . • 4 Collection of personal letters of Angelina Hill, 1838-1839 Macktown ••...••••....•••..••.•.•.••••..•• 4 Midway and Rockford •••••.•.•.••••••••••.••.. 4 Personal conversations with and remembrances of: Winnebago County • • . • . • • • . • . • • • . • • • • . • • . • 5 Hope Miller Matthews (1974-1975) The Prairies • • • • • . • . • • • . • • • • • . • • . • . • • • . • 6 Myrna Graham Heivilin (1974) J Settlement Along Kishwaukee River . • • • • • • . • • • . • • 7 Fay I. Baxter (1955·1959) Rib Town •••••••••..•.•••••••.•••..•.••.•• 8 Thaddeus Wilbur Evans (1955·1966) Kishwaukee • • . • . • • . • . • • • • • . • • • . • • • • • • . 8 New Milford and New Milford Township . • • • . • • . • • . 9 Ellen McNeil McHugh (1975) Origin Of The New Milford Name ...••....•••••••.• 10 Harriett Elwood Jensen (1974·1975) ] Kilbuck and South Bend ••.••.•..•••.•••••.••... 11 Emery Watson (1974-1975) New Milford Commerce And Activities .•••.•.....••• 11 .. Inez Hall Ritchie (1975) Post Office. • . • • . • • • . • • • . • • • . • • • • • • •. 11 Bessie Robinson Mclarty (1955-1966) Town Hall ••.•..••..•••..• :••...••..•••.•••• 12 Kenneth Kinson (1975) Fountain Reaper •..•.•..... • i •• ••••••••••••••• 12 Asa Pagles (1974-1975) ] Other Industries ..••••.•.••..•...••.•••••••.• 13 The Railraod ..•.•...••••..•...••..•.•.•.•.. 14 Alice Samuelson Crumb (1974·1975) Harrsiville And The Railroad .•...••••••..•••••.•• 15 George Graham (1955-1973) The Road ..•.•..•.•••.••.••.••...••••••..•• 16 Frank Vaughn (1974) Earlier Bridges .•••.•.•••...••....••.••...... 1.7 Jack and Vivi Breit (1975) l Telephone Service ...•..•.••.•..•••..•••••••.. 18 Claude Winquist (1975) The Church ..•...•.•.........•.•..••.••••.. 18 Ila Main Johnson (1975) The Cemetery .•..•... : .•..••..••.•.....•...• 22 Eldora Kewish Mumma (1974-1975) The School. ...•.•..•.......•..•••...•.••..•• 24 Kinson School ..•.••••..••....•.•••.· ...••... 26 ,] Camp Grant ••.•.•.•.•.•...•..••..••..••.... 30 Rosecrance Home .••••..•..•••.•..••..••..•.. 33 ••••••••••••••••••••••• +::: New Milford Fifty Years Ago.•.•..•...•..••..•..• 33 Archaeological Interest ...••••...••...••.....•.• 33 • When I remember bygone days • History Of Buildings ...•.•.........•••.•••..•• 34 • I think how evening fo//o_ws morn; • ] History Of Dwellings •.........•.•••...•.•...•. 39 • Brief History Of Rockford . : ........•..•...••... 41 • So many I loved were not yet dead, • Rockford 1900-1975 .....•...•..•••.••.• : ..•.. 43 • So many I love were not yet born. • Index Of Pictures ....••.....•...•....•.•..... 44 • - Ogden Nash • l Index ••......•...••..•.......••...•.••..• 44 ••••••••••••••••••••••••• EARLY SETTLERS raised the first year in crops by the earliest settlers, except possibly sod corn, potatoes, vines and vegetables. Winter wheat, The area first white settlers generally came fro'TI New however, was sown for the following spring. York state and other localities of New England. They arrived in the Rock River valley and settled along the Kishwaukee River possibly as early as 1834. The earliest documented settlement in the area known today as the New Milford community was in October 1835. These early pioneers included, among others, Samuel Brown, Joseph D. Morris, John Pren­ tice, John Adams, Hor­ ace Allen Miller, Robert Rothwell, David Smith Shumway, Samuel Ram­ _sey, William R. Wheeler, Richard Hogaboom, Phineas. M. Johnson, James Campbell came in September 1835. Samuel Brown James Campbell, John arrived in 1836 and settled on eighty acres which he possessed B. Long, Benjamin Hor­ 23 October 1839. Joseph D. Morris settled at the mouth of ton, Luke H. Lee, Free­ the Kishwaukee River on seventy acres in 1836 coming to the man Clothier, R. H. area from Ottawa, Illinois, where he moved in 1834 from Harris, J. N. Saylor, Broome County, New York. Freeman Clothier came to the Thomas W. Evans, Dan­ area in the fall of 1838. R. H. Harris came to Winnebago iel Kinson, John Baxter, Mr. Paddleford, Dr. A. M. Catlin, County in the fall of 1839 from Brattleboro, Vermont, where. Jason Marsh, Mander Cone and Luther Maxwell. he was born in 1817, Mander Cone came to Winnebago County in 1837 when all was mostly a new country. Horace Allen Miller's brother, Ezra L. Miller, came to the Rock River valley in 1838. He induced his brother by letters to purchase land with him be­ tween 'the Kishwaukee and Rock Rivers. Horace Allen Miller was born in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massa­ chusetts on 20 September · 1798, the son of Jonathan Allen Miller. He was mar­ ried to H"annah Clark in Amstetdam, Montgomery County, New York, on t·~~.;.:.· 7 June 1817 when he. was nineteen years old. Hannah Clark was the daughter of Gardner " and Hannah Badger Clark. The Horace Millers lived in Portage t!'J'<r-­' . and Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York in 1835. · ·"' •. j ! .._ They had six children, including Horace Gilbert Miller, grand· ·.father of Hope -Miller Matthews, genealogist of the Miller All these men and their families .bore a conspicuous part family, who lives in Evanston, lllinols. Another child of the in the early settlement of the area Which was designated New· Horace. Allen Millers Was Nancy Eliza Miller Who married Milford Township on 6 November 1850. They were closely­ Philip Wells Marsh. conn.ected wi.th the early ma!erial P1ogress of ~he far~ing com­ munity. Their names were rnsepa"fably associated with many Mr. Miller left New York state in February 1839 with two events which constituted the pion'eer history of this section of teams loaded with farm tools, accompanied by two carpenters, the county. Their SYStematic labors and diligence brought two Irish workmen and a maid Sally Ann to cook for them. them to the goal of success toward which each man turned his They arrived in the Rock River valley on 1 March 1839 where life" as he started his pioneer future. These pioneers, with their · they spent the spring and summer putting in crops, building families, new land, dwellings, and other improvements, as well
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