Album of genealogy and biograghy, Cook County, Illinois, 10th ed., Part 100

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Chicago, Calumet book & engraving co
Number of Pages: 916

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He has always been employed in the interest of other men, receiving a salary, and was eight years foreman for Busse & Mayer. From this employ he entered that of Chandler & Lovedale, where he was dock boss and had charge of the yard six years. He measured lumber one year for Mr. Dean on North Avenue and was two years with Thomas Hallihan, having complete charge of his business. About the year 1890 he retired front active business and has since that time enjoyed a well-earned rest. He purchased property on Cleveland Avenue in 1861, and was burned out in the great fire of 1871. He obtained no in- surance at that time, making his loss total. He erected his present liandsome residence on Cleve- land Avenue in 1885.

Mr. Frehse has supported the candidates of the Republican party, but is independent in local affairs, voting in favor of the man, rather than the party. He.was married in 1847 to Miss Dora Burkholtz, by whom he became the father of three children, only one of whom is now living, Sophie the widow of Thomas Poole, and residing at No. 18 Crystal Street. Mrs. Frehse died of cholera in 1854, and Mr. Frehse was married to his present wife in 1857. Her name was Berni- dena Green and is a native of Germany. By his second marriage he had one daughter, Carolina, who grew to womanliood and married Julius Bruhuke, by whom she had five children, namely: Julius William, Edward Anton, Bertha Caroline, Emma and Ernest T. Mrs. Bruhuke died in IS90.

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F. L. MILLER.

Mr. Frehse is a well-known and highly re- spected member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, where his influence is felt for the right and his views are sought by all as those of a man who sanctions all that tends to further the good

works for the benefit of humanity at large. Mr. Frehse was one of the organizers of the Cook County Building & Loan Association and is still a stockholder in the same and has been a director sixteen years.

FRANK L. MILLER.

RANK LESTER MILLER, superintendent of public schools at Harvey, Illinois, was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, July 16, 1860. His parents were Rev. A. R. and Elizabeth (Grant) Miller, his mother being of the same family as Gen. U. S. Grant. Both Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Miller were teachers, and went into Tennessee some years before the war and conducted a private school.

Born and bred in Ohio, Mr. Miller's opinions, of course, were not in sympathy with the people among whom he had settled, and the agitation of the slavery question became so heated, that he found it expedient to return to a more northern clime. However, he did not do this until his personal freedom was involved, and he had been forced to step up to the polls in 1860 and cast a vote for John C. Breckenridge. This so outraged him and encroached upon all sense of independ- ence that soon after he returned with his family to Ohio, after suffering the total loss of his prop- erty by confiscation.

Always a Methodist, he soon after entered the ministry and henceforth devoted his life to the cause of the Master, preaching in central Ohio until his deatlı, some five years since.

The boyhood of Prof. Frank L. Miller was uneventful, but as a Methodist minister's son he acquired an extensive knowledge of people by observation and contact. In his seventeenth year lie entered the Ohio Central Normal School, and, teaching both public schools and music classes,

worked his way through the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, at Delaware, Ohio, graduating in the class of 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years later the institution conferred the de- gree of Master of Arts upon him. Entering upon the profession of teacher, he has, since his college days, been constantly employed in the school room and possesses two state certificates given by the State Board of Examiners of Ohio. He served as superintendent of the schools of Good Hope, Gahanna and Jeffersonville, Ohio, and in 1891 came to Harvey. He was at first superintendent of the Harvey Academy, but in a few months was chosen superintendent of the public schools, a position that has enabled him to accomplish inost gratifying results.

There were several schools taught in detached buildings, sometimes in basements, but without order or connection. It was his work to take these heterogeneous pieces and work them into one homogeneous whole, a system. The prog- ress was necessarily slow and tedious and the conditions were unfavorable, but by skillful direc- tion and co-operation, mixing and amalmagating, there finally appeared the semblance of a school system. The school board entered heartily into the plans and furnished the buildings and appli- ances needful. The associate teachers were fully aroused, and the people were not slow to respond. In three years the academy ceased to exist, being lost in the public school, which had assumed conditions in keeping with the growth of the

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town and on a plane embodying the principles of the foremost education, with whom the professor kept in close touch, so that, at this writing, citi- zens feel a just pride in the Harvey schools and are warm in his praises. In1 1891 the schools had ten teachers, with four hundred pupils. In 1898 the enrollment was nine hundred and forty-five, with twenty-one teachers. The high school contains eighty pupils and three teachers. Its facilities are up to the times, with well-equipped chemical and physical laboratories.

Professor Miller is necessarily alive and wide- awake as an educator and, appreciating the broader education, has himself taken a summer post-graduate course at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Cook County, Northern Illinois and State Teachers' Associations, and also of the Superintendents' Round Table, and

in these contacts with experienced and able ment, enlarging his own views, has fully equipped him- self to be the head of a live city school of to-day. His interest in music has increased with years, and he is a member of the Choral Club of Har- vey and chorister of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church choir.

He was married in 1882 to Miss Lucy M. Bragg, of Logan, Ohio. They have two sons: Paul Huston and Foss Potter. Mrs. Miller is a working member of the Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union, and both are communicants in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has held various offices. The Epworth League in the church with which they are connected has made Mr. Miller its president. He is found to be a worker and an aid as an instructor in the Sunday- school and an active advocate of temperance.

ARVID JOHNSON.

RVID JOHNSON, one of the large and suc- cessful contractors and builders of Chicago, was born October 12, 1860, in Dalarne Province, Sweden. His parents, John and Caro- lina Johnson, resided on a farm named Enbacken, at Gustafs, at the time of his birth. He is one of that nationality which is well known for its people of strong, hardy natures and healthy bodies and minds.

Arvid Johnson was the first of his father's family to emigrate from the land of his nativity, and reached Chicago October 3, 1886. He had learned the trade of carpenter, at which he be- came very efficient. His brothers, Andrew and Gustaf, and sister, Matilda, came to America in September, 1887. The parents and other brother, Emil, came to October, 1888. Mr. Johnson

started to work in Cook County at his trade, im- mediately after his arrival. He was with the Cook Foundry Company, making patterns, for a time, and then returned to his chosen trade. March 1, 1889, he began work on contract and his first job was a residence at the corner of Fifty- third Street and Hibbard Avenue. He has since been occupied at all sorts of contracting, much of which has been out of the city. He held the contract for the Mary Holmes Seminary, at Jack- son, Mississippi, which he built in 1892. This burned down in 1894, and Mr. Johnson built its successor at West Point, Mississippi, in 1897, the contract price being seventy-five thousand dol- lars. He built a Presbyterian Church at Hot Springs in 1897, and the college at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1892. His work in this city has

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been principally confined to Hyde Park, where he has erected flat buildings and residences. He also built a factory at the corner of Indiana and Franklin Streets. He takes entire contracts on inany large undertakings.

John Johnson died June 25, 1898, and his widow has since made her home with the son whose name heads this article. Arvid Johnson

is connected with the Swedish Church. He votes in favor of the candidates of the Republican party and upholds its principles at all opportu- nities. He was enabled, in 1891, to build a resi- dence at No. 6517 Rhodes Avenue, which was the second in the block, and still resides at that location. He is a man of sterling character and is ambitious and progressive in all things.

ALFRED J. SMITH.

LFRED JACKSON SMITH. The vast city of Chicago has such thousands of enter- prises and such a vast amount of machinery and factories within its range that it takes men of all nationalities, professions and occupations to keep the general machinery of its works moving. In the factories, of which there are so many species, must be a peculiar set of men, each niall having a different duty, and thus allowing all men a chance at whatever trade they may be best able to master. The simple care of the con- dition of buildings affords many positions and requires a large amount of money, as, even if the task is not great, it takes up the valuable time of some men and must therefore be accounted for in so much money.

However, all are citizens, and all help to make up the world. It takes men, and they must be willing to fill their positions, whether prominent or irresponsible. Alfred Jackson Smith was at one time a lover of the life upon the lakes, and was many years employed on the various steam- boats that traverse the Great Lakes and river systems of the United States. He was born April 3, 1841, on Second Street, near the river, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were Alfred and Lauretta (Lewis) Smith, and he re- sided in the Smoky City many years.

At the age of sixteen years he left the public

school .and went to Alleghany Institute three years. He inherited from his father the desire to enter into the life of a sailor and was first em- ployed on board a steamer on the Ohio River, being cabin boy on the "Messenger." It was com- manded by Captain Postler and the vessel had for a run the trip from Pittsburg to Cincinnati. Mr. Smith's father was a steward on the boat. Mr. Smith was subsequently employed on the "Telegraph, No. 2," a period of three years and then went on board the "New Telegraph, No. 3," remaining eighteen months. He then went with the "Henry Graff," which ran from Pittsburg to St. Paul and Minneapolis. After six weeks on this vessel he left it at St. Louis and went on the old "Falls City," which he stayed with four years. The boats above mentioned belonged to the At- lantic Steamship Line and after three years on the last-mentioned one, it being in the time of the Civil War, the Confederates captured the boat and took it up Red River. Mr. Smith left it at Cairo. His father left it at New Orleans. Mr. Smith went to Detroit and remained there until the spring of 1860, when he returned to St. Louis and became porter on the "G. W. Graham," o11 which his father was steward. This boat be- longed to the Anchor Line, and he remained with it two years. One season subsequently he was on the "Belle of St. Louis," a boat which had the

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same run as the "G. W. Graham," from Memphis to St. Louis. He transferred to tlie "Mollie Able," which ran from St. Louis to New Orleans, on which boat he was second steward for a period of two years.

Desiring a change in occupation he removed his residence to Chicago, arriving in 1869. He became employed by the Pullman Palace Car Company on the combined hotel car and sleeper, "Western World,"this being one of the first hotel cars built by this company. The car had a run from Chicago to Rochester, New York, and re- turn. He remained on this car six years, chang- ing to a run from Chicago to Omaha, and holding the last-mentioned position three years. He subsequently held a run from St. Louis to New Orleans one year. He was occupied through the summer months of one season with a position on the Pullman train running from Chicago to Green

Lake, Wisconsin, later running from Chicago to Ishpeming, Michigan, four years. He then left the railroad service and engaged in general labor, at which he has been occupied until the present day. He was for a short time janitor in the Winnipeg Block and two years oiler at the Sixty- eighth Street pumping station.

Mr. Smith was married in 1865 to Miss Maria Ramsey, a native of Chatham, Canada. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Smith is named George Ramsey, and was born in Detroit, Michi- gan. He is a liveryman in Chatham, Canada. Mr. Smith is a man of strong characteristics and stability of mind and has always been regarded by any who have dealt with him in any manner as a generous and just man, kindness ruling his spirit to the last degree. He is an ardent up- holder of the principles of the Republican party, though he never seeks office of any kind.

MARK TURNER.

ARK TURNER. Among the residents of the city of Chicago many have come to the great western metropolis with images of boundless wealth in their minds, or others have the belief that the facilities for gaining a livelihood in the Land of the Free exceed those in their na- tive land. Some are deceived, even in this last- mentioned particular, and others prove the rule and are satisfied with the results, while they ad- mire our customs and the sociability of the peo- ple. Mark Turner is one of the latter class. He was born in Helsham, Sussex, England, Jan- uary 5, 1835. His parents were Jolin and Mary (Martin) Turner. His grandfather was also named Jolın Turner, and was a farmer.

Mark Turner was married September 2, 1855, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Kenward) Lepper. Mrs. Turner was

born June 25, 1835. John Turner, father of the inan whose name heads this article, was born February 11, 1800, in Essex, England. He oc- cupied himself with general labor, and came to America in 1883. He died July 11, 1893, and was buried in Oakwoods Cemetery. His wife died September 1, 1882. She was born in 1807, and reared the following children: Mark, John, Mary, Matthew, Luke and Spencer. Twelve others died when very young.

Jolın Turner married Sarah Small and resides in Paxton, Illinois. He is the father of thirteen children. Mary married William Small and re- sides in Hastings, England. Matthew lives on Champlain Avenue, Chicago. Luke married Mary Ann Bissenden. They have four children and live in Indiana. Spencer resides at Park- side.

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M. M. GREEN.

Mark Turner was reared in Hastings, Eng- land, and at the age of twenty-three years learned the trade of stone-cutter and was occupied with the trade the remainder of his life. He was the first of his father's family to emigrate from his native land and arrived in Chicago in August, 1869. His wife and four children-John, Mary, Emma and Elizabeth-came in March, 1870, and settled in Ford County. Two years subsequent- ly the family removed to Chicago. Mr. Turner held the contract for erecting the factory of the F. Patzack Manufacturing Company at Grand Crossing, and also did other contract work.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Turner were eight in number. John Thomas is spoken of on another page of this work. Mary Ann died September 29, 1893, aged thirty-six years. She married William J. Budd, and they were the parents of seven children, none of whom are liv-

ing except the eldest, William J. Emma was married January 18, 1881, to Horace Tong and their only child is named Elsie Gertrude. Sarah Emily died at the age of five years. Elizabeth married Sidney E. Lemon and resides at No. 1361 North Maplewood Avenue. Her children are named Walter and Earl. Mark Spencer died at the age of eighteen months. Alfred Arthur died when six days old. Mark resides in Kan- sas City, Missouri, and is married to Ruby L. Hopkins. Their only child is named Merrill Edward.

Mark Turner is connected with the Brick- layer's Union. He is interested in the promo- tion of all good moves and sanctions all that will tend to uplift and elevate mankind in general. He is a Republican, and at every favorable op- portunity expresses his views for the benefit of his party.

MILTON M. GREEN.

M ILTON MERRITT GREEN, merchant, postmaster and contractor and builder of North Harvey, is one of the progressive and successful citizens of the community and one who is alive to the best interests and advance- ment of the village. Born in Penfield, New York, he was, when a lad of five years, brought to Hillsdale County, Michigan, where he re- ceived the educational advantages afforded by the common schools. His youthful years were passed on the farm, where he was not unfamiliar with the life of the average country boy.

At the age of eighteen years lie became an employe in a flour mill at Litchfield, Michigan, and devoted his attention to that industry until he was master of the miller's trade. He worked at the same some nine years at Litchfield and

South Allen, Michigan. Learning of the broader field offered to young men of ambition in Chicago and the surrounding towns, in March, 1890, he engaged in real-estate trade in that city, meet- ing with success. Two years later he came to Harvey and served one year with the Harvey Hotel Company. He was made postmaster in North Harvey in May, 1892, and has since con- tinued to fill the duties of that office, having opened and operated in connection therewith a general store. He lias also reached out into lines of real estate and insurance and is one of the larger contractors and builders of the vicinity. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he has served three years as the village treasurer.

Mr. Green was married at Hillsdale, Michigan,

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H. F. RICHMOND.

to Miss Nettie E. Bowen and they are the parents of one child, Louise Lillian. He is a respected citizen and identifies himself with every interest of the community. Sociable in his inclinations,

he is a gentleman possessing a wide circle of friends, both outside as well as in the fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias, with which he is affiliated.

HENRY F. RICHMOND.

ENRY FARNAM RICHMOND is a car- riage and wagon painter and dealer, and has an extensive and reliable business. He is one of the well-known citizens and is hon- ored and esteemed by all who come in contact with his brisk and genial person, whether in a social or business manner. Born November 25, 1854, his parents, Ezra and Sarah (McPherson) Richmond, resided on a farm in Marshall County, Illinois, at the time of his birth.

The paternal grandfather of the man whose name heads this sketch, Riley Richmond, was born February 22, 1783, probably in Vermont. He married Meta Farnam, November 15, 1806. She was born May 15, 1786, and died March 17, 1849, her husband surviving her until April 26, 1854. Their children are as follows: Henry Farnam, born September 4, 1807; Ezra, father of our subject; Electa Loraine, born January 8, 1812; John, born May 10, 1816; Harriet, April 5, 1822, and Samuel Lee, June 15, 1824.

Ezra Richmond was born in Vermont Septen- ber 8, 1809, and died March 18, 1874, his re- mains being interred at Henry, Illinois. He was a tiller of the soil, having removed to Cleveland, Ohio, when a young man and later, in 1845, lo- cating in Marshall County, Illinois, where he re- sided the remainder of his days. His wife died February 21, 1881, when sixty-two years and ten months of age. She was born in Ohio, and her remains were interred in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago. Her children were six in number.

William, born September 5, 1846, resides at

Lexington, Kentucky. He is master mechanic of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, and is a valued and competent employe. August 5, 1871, he married Miss Mary E. Laurie, and their children are: William, Elizabeth, Hattie and two others whose names have not been ob- tained. Alice Della, born June 2, 1848, died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 29, 1885. She married William Ellingsworth, March 27, 1871. He was born July 17, 1842, and their children are: Frank, born March 19, 1872, and Clara, March 16, 1877, who died February 24, 1878. Myra Viola Richmond, born March 28, 1850, is still unmarried and resides in Chicago. Emma O., born September 6, 1852, is deceased. Henry F. is the next in order of birth. Charles F., born January 27, 1859, resides at No. 3808 Wentworth Avenue and is still unmarried.

Henry Farnam Richmond left home March 17, 1873, and after spending three years in Henry, Illinois, at the carriage-maker's trade, located in Chicago. For two years he was employed by Peter Schuttler, corner of Clinton and Monroe Streets, and was subsequently with I. & W. Sherman, corner of Quincy and Franklin Streets, until 1886. In March of that year he estab- lished a business of carriage and wagon manu- facture at No. 3954 State Street. In December, 1890, he removed to No. 3736 Wentworth Ave- nue, where he remained two years. In January, 1892, he opened a business at No. 244 East Thirty-first Street, with C. A. Baum as partner. The firm name became Baum & Richmond, and

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remains so to the present day. March 1, 1898, the concern removed to No. 3451 Cottage Grove Avenue, where it is still located.

Mr. Richmond was married to Miss Mollie, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Vogt, Decem- ber 19, 1881. She died February 12, 1884, at the age of twenty-two years. Her only child was Lulu, born March 11, 1883.

Being very successful, Mr. Richmond was en- abled, in 1887, to build a residence at No. 6409 Rhodes Avenue, which was the seventh one erected on the street south of Sixty-third Street, and which he has continued to occupy since June, 1887. May 25, 1887, Mr. Richmond was married to Miss Catherine, daughter of John and Marga- ret (Erbes) Meserth. Mrs. Richmond was born August 7, 1863, her parents residing on Pacific Avenue, near Polk Street, at the tinte of her birth.

Her children are accounted for as follows: Arthur, born April 3, 1887, died at three days of age; Westley Lee, born March 1, 1888; Alice, born February 13, 1890, died September 17, 1891; and Charlotte, born April 3, 1892.

The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Richmond,

Andrew Meserth, was a tiller of the soil. Jolin Meserth, father of Mrs. Richmond, was born in 1822, in Bavaria, and now resides at No. 5126 Dearborn Street, Chicago. He was the only one of his father's family to emigrate from his native land, and came by way of Baltimore in 1848. He had served six years in the army in his native land and had learned the trade of shoemaker. After two months in Baltimore he continued on to Chicago, and did journeyman work in this city until 1885, when he retired.

He was married in 1849 to Miss Margaret Erbes, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Rho- denmeyer) Erbes, his wife being born May 16, 1828, on a farm in Germany.

Mr. Richmond was made a Mason in Waldock Lodge No. 674, of Chicago, having been raised May 1, 1893, and is connected with Columbia Council No. 1296, Royal Arcanum. He is inde- pendent in politics, believing that it is better to vote for the nian best fitted for the office in ques- tion than to adhere to party prejudice. He and his family are worthy and consistent members of the Oakwood Union Church.

WILLIAM HEYSTEK.

W ILLIAM HEYSTEK, who is descended from a long line of Dutch ancestors, was born December 10, 1865, in Holland, and is a son of Anton and Paulina Anna (Hendricks) Heystek, both natives of Holland.

The great-grandfather of the man whose name heads this article, John Heystek, died at about the age of forty years, in 1808. He was a silver- smith, and married a widow, Mrs. Heysdy, by name. She was the mother of three daughters and two sons: John Heystek, who was born in 1795, and Antonio, father of Anton Heystek.

Antonio Heystek was born May 8, 1798, in

Holland, and was a shoemaker. He later follow- ed the occupation of a tanner, and died in 1886. His wife, Marie Van Ernst, was born December 5, 1791, in Holland, and died in April, 1866. Her children were: Samuel, August, Mary, Christina, Helen, John, Anton and Gertrude. The first three died when very young, and Chris- tina died at the age of twenty-five years. John died in Australia, and Gertrude lives in Germany.

Anton Heystek was born January 27, 1826, in Holland. He learned the trade of a tanner and continued at this occupation as a proprietor until five years before immigrating to America. Dur-

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ing the last-mentioned period he traveled as salesman for a distillery, and came to Chicago November 28, 1870. He was employed a short time in a tannery and also in a shoe shop. He then established a furnishing business and con- tinued at the same until he retired in the year 1894.

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Album of genealogy and biograghy, Cook County, Illinois, 10th ed., Part 100

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago, pub Publication date: 1898 Publisher: Chicago, Calumet book & engraving co Number of Pages: 916

Author: Calumet Book & Engraving Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Chicago, Calumet book & engraving co
Number of Pages: 916