The past and present of Lake County, Illinois, containing a history of the county a biographical directory war record early settlers statistics history of Illinois the Northwest etc., etc, Part 1

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Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Chicago : Wm. Le Baron
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THE


PAST AND PRESENT


OF


LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS,


CONTAINING


A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY-ITS CITIES, TOWNS, &c., A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF ITS CITIZENS, WAR RECORD OF ITS VOLUNTEERS IN THE LATE REBELLION, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN, GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS, MAP OF LAKE COUNTY, HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, ILLUSTRATED, HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST, ILLUSTRATED, CON- STITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, MIS- CELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC.


ILLUSTRATED.


CHICAGO: WM. LE BARON & CO., 186 Dearborn Street, 1877.


Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by


WM. LE BARON & CO.,


In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.


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PREFACE.


In presenting our Past and Present of Lake County in historical form, we deem a few prefatory words necessary. We have spared neither pains nor expense to fulfill our engagement with our patrons and make the work as complete as possible. We have acted upon the principle that justice to those who have subscribed, be they few or many, requires that the work should be as well done as if it was patronized by every citizen in the county. We do not claim that our work is entirely free from errors ; such a result could not be attained by the utmost care and foresight of ordinary mortals. Some of the Township Histories are indeed longer than others, as the townships are larger and older, containing larger cities and towns, and have been the scenes of more important and interesting events. While fully recognizing this important difference, the historian has sought to write up each township with equal fidelity to the facts and information within his reach. We take this occasion to present our thanks to all our numerous subscribers for their patronage and encouragement in the publication of the work. In this confident belief we submit it to the enlightened judgment of those for whose benefit it has been prepared, believing that it will be received as a most valuable and complete work.


THE PUBLISHERS.


CONTENTS.


HISTORICAL.


PAGE.


History Northwest Territory 19 Geographical. 19


Discovery of the Ohio ... 33


English Explorations and Settle- ments 35


American Settlements 60


Division of the Northwest Terri-


tory


66


Tecumseh and the war of 1812 70


Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War .. 74


Other Indian Troubles. 79


Present Condition of the Northwest 87


Illinois 99


Indiana


101


Towa.


102


Michigan 103


ILLUSTRATIONS.


PAGE.


Tecumseh, the Shawnee Chieftain ... 69


Great Iron Bridge of Chicago, Rock


Island & Pacific Railroad, Cross-


ing the River at Davenport, Iowa 96


A Western Dwelling


.100


Hunting Prairie Wolves at an Early Day. 108


Starved Rock, on the Illinois River, La Salle County, Ill .. 110


An Early Settlement .. 116


Chicago in 1833 133


Old Fort Dearborn in 1830. 136


Ruins of Chicago. 142


A Pioneer Dwelling.


61


Pioneers' First Winter


92


View of the City of Chicago. 144


Shabbona. .149


LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.


PAGE.


Bradbury, Samuel I


.253


Partridge, Chas. A. 235


Waterman, Amos S


271


Cook, Ansel B 307


Partridge, H. E 289


Robertson, Jno ....


325


LAKE COUNTY WAR HISTORY AND RECORD.


PAGE.


History.


Cavalry


PAGE. 492


Artillery.


496


Infantry .472


TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY.


Antioch 1


.350


Ela


371


Shields


424


Avon. 361


Fremont 389


Vernon.


429


Benton


.376


Grant ..


398


Warren 433


Cuba


367


Libertyville 401


Wauconda .. 439


Deerfield .382


Newport. 412


Waukegan .327


Avon 245


Coal


125


Benton. 250


Compact of 1787 117


Cuba 255


Chicago. 132


Early Discoveries. 109


Early Settlements 115


Fremont 277


Education


129


First French Occupation. 112


Genius of La Salle 113


Newport 299


Material Resources.


124


Shields 301


Massacre of Fort Dearborn 141


Vernon 313


Warren ..... .. 316


Wauconda


.. 318


Religion and Morals


.128


Waukegan.


.320


War Record of Illinois.


130


City of Waukegan


450


PAGE.


Mouth of the Mississippi 21


Source of the Mississippi. 21


Wild Prairie. 23


Black Hawk, the Sac Chieftain ..... 75


Big Eagle 80


Captain Jack, the Modoc Chieftain .. Kinzie House. 85


83


Buffalo Hunt. 27


Village Residence. 86 Trapping 29


A Representative Pioneer.


Lincoln Monument, Springfield, Ill. 88


Pontiac, the Ottawa Chieftain


43


A Pioneer School House. 89


Farm View in the Winter 90


Spring Scene. 91


Breaking Prairie 63


PAGE.


PAGE.


Wisconsin


.104


History of Lake County


219


Minnesota


106


The County at Large.


219


Early Exploration


20


Nebraska.


107


Township of Antioch.


241


History of Illinois.


109


Deerfield 259 Ela .. 269


Grant 286 Libertyville. .294


Physical Features. 121 Progress of Development. 123


PAGE.


Indians Attacking a Stockade ....... 72


La Salle Landing on the Shore of Green Bay. 25


Hunting. 32


87 Iroquois Chief. 34


Indians Attacking Frontiersmen ... 56 A Prairie Storm 59


Farwell, C. B 218


PAGE. 461


PAGE.


PAGE.


PAGE.


Apple Harvest. 94


PAGE.


PAGE.


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CONTENTS.


ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS.


PAGE. !


Adoption of Children .160


Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. 151


County Courts.


155


Church Organizations 189


Descent.


151


Deeds and Mortgages


157


Drainage 163


Damages from Trespass. 169


Definition of Commercial Terms. 173


Exemptions from Forced Sale ... 156


Estrays


.157


Fences.


168


Forms :


Articles of Agreement. .175


Bills of Purchase. 174


Bills of Sale ... 176


Bonds. 176


PAGE.


Chattel Mortgages. .177


Codicil.


189


Lease of Farm and Build- ings. Limitation of Action 155 179 Landlord and Tenant .. 169


Conveyances.


164


Lease of House ...


180


Liens


172


Landlord's Agreement.


180


Notes ..


174


Notice Tenant to Quit.


181


Orders


174


Paupers


164


Roads and Bridges.


161


Surveyors and Surveys 160


Suggestions to Persons Purchasing Books by Subscription 190


Wills and Estates


152


Tenant's Notice to Quit.


181


Weights and Measures.


158


Warranty Deed


182


Will


187


Game


158


MISCELLANEOUS.


PAGE.


How to Keep Accounts. 211


Interest Table 212


Miscellaneous Tables ..


.212


Names of the States of the Union and their Signification 213


Population of the United States ..... 214


Population of Fifty Principal Cities


of the United States ..


214


Surveyors' Measure ...


211


Population and Area of the United


PAGE.


States.


215


Population of the Principal Coun-


tries in the World ...


215


Population of Illinois.


.216-217


Business Directory.


446


Assessors' Report ..


.500


Population of Lake County .. 499


Official Vote of Lake County.


499


Lodges and Associations ...


497


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PAGE.


Interest 151


Jurisdiction of Courts. 154


Married Women 155


Millers


159


Marks and Brands


159


Quit Claim Deed


185


Receipt


174


Real Estate Mortgaged to Secure Payment of Money .181


Release.


186


Taxes


154


Tenant's Agreement


180


Wolf Scalps


.164


PAGE.


Map of Lake County. Front Constitution of the U. S .192


Electors of President and Vice Pres- ident. 200 Practical Rules for Every Day Use.207 U. S. Government Land Measure ... 210 Agricultural Productions of Illi- nois by Counties, 1870. 210


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THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.


GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.


When the Northwestern Territory was ceded to the United States by Virginia in 1784, it embraced only the territory lying between the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, and north to the northern limits of the United States. It coincided with the area now embraced in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and that portion of Minnesota lying on the east side of the Mississippi River. The United States itself at that period extended no farther west than the Mississippi River ; but by the purchase of Louisiana in 1803, the western boundary of the United States was extended to the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Pacific Ocean. The new territory thus added to the National domain, and subsequently opened to settlement, has been called the "New Northwest," in contradistinction from the old "Northwestern Territory."


In comparison with the old Northwest this is a territory of vast magnitude. It includes an area of 1,887,850 square miles ; being greater in extent than the united areas of all the Middle and Southern States, including Texas. Out of this magnificent territory have been erected eleven sovereign States and eight Territories, with an aggregate popula- tion, at the present time, of 13,000,000 inhabitants, or nearly one third of the entire population of the United States.


Its lakes are fresh-water seas, and the larger rivers of the continent flow for a thousand miles through its rich alluvial valleys and far- stretching prairies, more acres of which are arable and productive of the highest percentage of the cereals than of any other area of like extent on the globe.


For the last twenty years the increase of population in the North- west has been about as three to one in any other portion of the United States.


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EARLY EXPLORATIONS.


In the year 1541, DeSoto first saw the Great West in the New World. He, however, penetrated no farther north than the 35th parallel of latitude. The expedition resulted in his death and that of more than half his army, the remainder of whom found their way to Cuba, thence to Spain, in a famished and demoralized condition. DeSoto founded no settlements, produced no results, and left no traces, unless it were that he awakened the hostility of the red man against the white man, and disheartened such as might desire to follow up the career of discovery for better purposes. The French nation were eager and ready to seize upon any news from this extensive domain, and were the first to profit by DeSoto's defeat. Yet it was more than a century before any adventurer took advantage of these discoveries.


In 1616, four years before the pilgrims " moored their bark on the wild New England shore," Le Caron, a French Franciscan, had pene- trated through the Iroquois and Wyandots (Hurons) to the streams which run into Lake Huron ; and in 1634, two Jesuit missionaries founded the first mission among the lake tribes. It was just one hundred years from the discovery of the Mississippi by DeSoto (1541) until the Canadian envoys met the savage nations of the Northwest at the Falls of St. Mary, below the outlet of Lake Superior. This visit led to no permanent result; yet it was not until 1659 that any of the adventurous fur traders attempted to spend a Winter in the frozen wilds about the great lakes, nor was it until 1660 that a station was established upon their borders by Mesnard, who perished in the woods a few months after. In 1665, Claude Allouez built the earliest lasting habitation of the white man among the Indians of the Northwest. In 1668, Claude Dablon and James Marquette founded the mission of Sault Ste. Marie at the Falls of St. Mary, and two years afterward, Nicholas Perrot, as agent for M. Talon, Governor Gen- eral of Canada, explored Lake Illinois (Michigan) as far south as the present City of Chicago, and invited the Indian nations to meet him at a grand council at Sault Ste. Marie the following Spring, where they were taken under the protection of the king, and formal possession was taken of the Northwest. This same year Marquette established a mission at Point St. Ignatius, where was founded the old town of Michillimackinac.


During M. Talon's explorations and Marquette's residence at St. Ignatius, they learned of a great river away to the west, and fancied -as all others did then-that upon its fertile banks whole tribes of God's children resided, to whom the sound of the Gospel had never come. Filled with a wish to go and preach to them, and in compliance with a


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request of M. Talon, who earnestly desired to extend the domain of his king, and to ascertain whether the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean, Marquette with Joliet, as commander of the expe- dition, prepared for the undertaking.


On the 13th of May, 1673, the explorers, accompanied by five assist- ant French Canadians, set out from Mackinaw on their daring voyage of discovery. The Indians, who gathered to witness their departure, were astonished at the boldness of the undertaking, and endeavored to dissuade them from their purpose by representing the tribes on the Mississippi as exceedingly savage and cruel, and the river itself as full of all sorts of frightful monsters ready to swallow them and their canoes together. But, nothing daunted by these terrific descriptions, Marquette told them he was willing not only to encounter all the perils of the unknown region they were about to explore, but to lay down his life in a cause in which the salvation of souls was involved ; and having prayed together they separated. Coasting along the northern shore of Lake Michigan, the adventurers entered Green Bay, and passed thence up the Fox River and Lake Winnebago to a village of the Miamis and Kickapoos. Here Mar- quette was delighted to find a beautiful cross planted in the middle of the town ornamented with white skins, red girdles and bows and arrows, which these good people had offered to the Great Manitou, or God, to thank him for the pity he had bestowed on them during the Winter in giving them an abundant " chase." This was the farthest outpost to which Dablon and Allouez had extended their missionary labors the year previous. Here Marquette drank mineral waters and was instructed in the secret of a root which cures the bite of the venomous rattlesnake. He assembled the chiefs and old men of the village, and, pointing to Joliet, said : " My friend is an envoy of France, to discover new coun- tries, and I am an ambassador from God to enlighten them with the truths of the Gospel." Two Miami guides were here furnished to conduct them to the Wisconsin River, and they set out from the Indian village on the 10th of June, amidst a great crowd of natives who had assembled to witness their departure into a region where no white man had ever yet ventured. The guides, having conducted them across the portage,


returned. The explorers launched their canoes upon the Wisconsin, which they descended to the Mississippi and proceeded down its unknown waters. What emotions must have swelled their breasts as they struck out into the broadening current and became conscious that they were now upon the bosom of the Father of Waters. The mystery was about to be lifted from the long-sought river. The scenery in that locality is beautiful, and on that delightful seventeenth of June must have been clad in all its primeval loveliness as it had been adorned by the hand of


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Nature. Drifting rapidly, it is said that the bold bluffs on either hand "reminded them of the castled shores of their own beautiful rivers of France." By-and-by, as they drifted along, great herds of buffalo appeared on the banks. On going to the heads of the valley they could see a country of the greatest beauty and fertility, apparently destitute of inhab- itants yet presenting the appearance of extensive manors, under the fas- tidious cultivation of lordly proprietors.


THE WILD PRAIRIE.


On June 25, they went ashore and found some fresh traces of men upon the sand, and a path which led to the prairie. The men remained in the boat, and Marquette and Joliet followed the path till they discovered a village on the banks of a river, and two other villages on a hill, within a half league of the first, inhabited by Indians. They were received most hospitably by these natives, who had never before seen a white person. After remaining a few days they re-embarked and descended the river to about latitude 33°, where they found a village of the Arkansas, and being satisfied that the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, turned their course


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up the river, and ascending the stream to the mouth of the Illinois, rowed up that stream to its source, and procured guides from that point to the lakes. " Nowhere on this journey," says Marquette, " did we see such grounds, meadows, woods, stags, buffaloes, deer, wildcats, bustards, swans, ducks, parroquets, and even beavers, as on the Illinois River." The party, without loss or injury, reached Green Bay in September, and reported their discovery-one of the most important of the age, but of which no record was preserved save Marquette's, Joliet losing his by the upsetting of his canoe on his way to Quebec. Afterward Marquette returned to the Illinois Indians by their request, and ministered to them until 1675. On the 18th of May, in that year, as he was passing the mouth of a stream-going with his boatmen up Lake Michigan-he asked to land at its mouth and celebrate Mass. Leaving his men with the canoe, he retired a short distance and began his devotions. As much time passed and he did not return, his men went in search of him, and found him upon his knees, dead. He had peacefully passed away while at prayer. He was buried at this spot. Charlevoix, who visited the place fifty years after, found the waters had retreated from the grave, leaving the beloved missionary to repose in peace. The river has since been called Marquette.


While Marquette and his companions were pursuing their labors in the West, two men, differing widely from him and each other, were pre- paring to follow in his footsteps and perfect the discoveries so well begun by him. These were Robert de La Salle and Louis Hennepin.


After La Salle's return from the discovery of the Ohio River (see the narrative elsewhere), he established himself again among the French trading posts in Canada. Here he mused long upon the pet project of those ages-a short way to China and the East, and was busily planning an expedition up the great lakes, and so across the continent to the Pacific, when Marquette returned from the Mississippi. At once the vigorous mind of LaSalle received from his and his companions' stories the idea that by fol- lowing the Great River northward, or by turning up some of the numerous western tributaries, the object could easily be gained. He applied to Frontenac, Governor General of Canada, and laid before him the plan, dim but gigantic. Frontenac entered warmly into his plans, and saw that LaSalle's idea to connect the great lakes by a chain of forts with the Gulf of Mexico would bind the country so wonderfully together, give un- measured power to France, and glory to himself, under whose adminis- tration he earnestly hoped all would be realized.


LaSalle now repaired to France, laid his plans before the King, who warmly approved of them, and made him a Chevalier. He also received from all the noblemen the warmest wishes for his success. The Chev-


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alier returned to Canada, and busily entered upon his work. He at once rebuilt Fort Frontenac and constructed the first ship to sail on these fresh-water seas. On the 7th of August, 1679, having been joined by Hennepin, he began his voyage in the Griffin up Lake Erie. He passed over this lake, through the straits beyond, up Lake St. Clair and into Huron. In this lake they encountered heavy storms. They were some time at Michillimackinac, where LaSalle founded a fort, and passed on to Green Bay, the " Baie des Puans" of the French, where he found a large quantity of furs collected for him. He loaded the Griffin with these, and placing her under the care of a pilot and fourteen sailors,


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LA SALLE LANDING ON THE SHORE OF GREEN BAY.


started her on her return voyage. The vessel was never afterward heard of. He remained about these parts until early in the Winter, when, hear- ing nothing from the Griffin, he collected all his men-thirty working men and three monks-and started again upon his great undertaking.


By a short portage they passed to the Illinois or Kankakee, called by the Indians, " Theakeke," wolf, because of the tribes of Indians called by that name, commonly known as the Mahingans, dwelling there. The French pronounced it Kiakiki, which became corrupted to Kankakee. "Falling down the said river by easy journeys, the better to observe the country," about the last of December they reached a village of the Illinois Indians, containing some five hundred cabins, but at that moment


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no inhabitants. The Seur de LaSalle being in want of some breadstuffs, took advantage of the absence of the Indians to help himself to a suffi- ciency of maize, large quantities of which he found concealed in holes under the wigwams. This village was situated near the present village of Utica in LaSalle County, Illinois. The corn being securely stored, the voyagers again betook themselves to the stream, and toward evening, on the 4th day of January, 1680, they came into a lake which must have been the lake of Peoria. This was called by the Indians Pim-i-te-wi, that is, a place where there are many fat beasts. Here the natives were met with in large numbers, but they were gentle and kind, and having spent some time with them, LaSalle determined to erect another fort in that place, for he had heard rumors that some of the adjoining tribes were trying to disturb the good feeling which existed, and some of his men were disposed to complain, owing to the hardships and perils of the travel. He called this fort " Crevecœur " (broken-heart), a name expressive of the very natural sorrow and anxiety which the pretty certain loss of his ship, Griffin, and his consequent impoverishment, the danger of hostility on the part of the Indians, and of mutiny among his own men, might well cause him. His fears were not entirely groundless. At one time poison was placed in his food, but fortunately was discovered.


While building this fort, the Winter wore away, the prairies began to look green, and LaSalle, despairing of any reinforcements, concluded to return to Canada, raise new means and new men, and embark anew in the enterprise. For this purpose he made Hennepin the leader of a party to explore the head waters of the Mississippi, and he set out on his jour- ney. This journey was accomplished with the aid of a few persons, and was successfully made, though over an almost unknown route, and in a bad season of the year. He safely reached Canada, and set out again for the object of his search.


Hennepin and his party left Fort Crevecœur on the last of February, 1680. When LaSalle reached this place on his return expedition, he found the fort entirely deserted, and he was obliged to return again to Canada. He embarked the third time, and succeeded. Seven days after leaving the fort, Hennepin reached the Mississippi, and paddling up the icy stream as best he could, reached no higher than the Wisconsin River by the 11th of April. Here he and his followers were taken prisoners by a band of Northern Indians, who treated them with great kindness. Hen- nepin's comrades were Anthony Auguel and Michael Ako. On this voy- age they found several beautiful lakes, and " saw some charming prairies." Their captors were the Isaute or Sauteurs, Chippewas, a tribe of the Sioux nation, who took them up the river until about the first of May, when they reached some falls, which Hennepin christened Falls of St. Anthony


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in honor of his patron saint. Here they took the land, and traveling nearly two hundred miles to the northwest, brought them to their villages. Here they were kept about three months, were treated kindly by their captors, and at the end of that time, were met by a band of Frenchmen,




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