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noted doctors at, 178-81, 189, 216, 224-26;
pictures : main building
(1882), 182; examining room (1890), 183; wards (1890), 184, 186; main building (1954), 190; group of 21 buildings (1958), 190; tents for tuber- cular children, 192; blood bank, 199; modern operating table, 206; dummy street car used by physiotherapy department, 202;
wardens: in 1876 to 1877, 184-85; in 1894 to 1898, 193; in 1915 to 1947, 194-95; im- provement in service of, 194-95.
See also Babies; Children's hospital; City hospital; Dental service for school children; Fantus outpatient clinic; Hek- toen Institute for Medical Re- search; Laboratory, Cook coun- ty hospital; Physicians; Psy- chopathic hospital; Salaries
Cook County Hospital Mental Health Clinic, 230-31
308
Cook County School of Nursing, 234-50; operating cost, 164; personnel studies, 233; board of directors, 236; history recounted by Mary E. Reglin, 243-50; affiliation with University of Illinois, 247; directors, 249; picture of residence, 215
Cool, Nelson A., 268, 269 Counties of Illinois, Their Origin and Evolution (cited), 38
Counties of state, classification of, by legislature, 108
County board, see Board of com- missioners
County Building, see Courthouse, Cook county
County court, removal of office of clerk, 80
County Normal School, 99
Court, see Appellate court; Cir- cuit court ; County court, Fam- ily court
Courthouse, Cook county, 112-30; the first, 115 ; erection of the sec- ond, 115; the second destroyed in Chicago fire, 137-40; descrip- tion of the second, 138; the third, 116-17 ; the third wrecked by explosion and fire, 116; the third built after Chicago fire, 140; erection of the present, 112, 118-19; description of the present, 121-23; laying of cor- ner stone, 115, 123;
pictures : first courthouse, 114; second courthouse, 114; second courthouse after enlarge- ment, 115; combined courthouse and city hall (1882), 116; lay- ing of corner stone, 117; pres- ent courthouse (1908), 118; combined courthouse and city
hall (1959), 119; assembly room of board of commissioners, 120
Coutra, Louis, 55
Coyne, Mrs. Thomas R., 236
Crafts, John, 55
Crane, John J., 97
Crawford, William, 51
Crocker, Ada Reitz, 249
Cromie, Robert, 133
Crosby, Dr. Edwin L., 300
Cross, Dr. Roland R., 300
Cubbins, Dr. William R., 226
Culberg, Maurice E., Memorial
Fund for Cancer Research, 204 Cullerton, P. J., 146
Culver, Dr. Harry, 226
Cummings Foundation, 204
Cunningham, James A., 168
Curtis, Dr. Arthur, 224
Daley, Richard J., 126, 129, 161- 62
Dana, Charles A., 88-89
David, Dr. Vernon, 225
Davis, Chester R., 208
Davis, Ethel H., 207
Davis, Dr. Nathan S., III, 250
Davis, Thomas O., 81
Davison, Dr. Charles, 224
Davison, Dr. Marshall, 226
Dearborn, Fort, see Fort Dearborn
Dearborn, Henry, 23
De la Barre, 14
de la Durantaye, see Durantaye, de la
de la Huerga, Dr. J., see Huerga, de la, Dr. J.
DeLee, Dr. Joseph B., 226, 240
Deneen, Charles S., 123
Dental service for school children,
197; first mobile unit, 203
309
Dern, Mrs. John, 236 Dern, Dr. Raymond, 209
DeSable, Jean Baptiste Point, 15, 18-22; meaning of the name, 20. Also spelled DeSaible, Sable, DuSable
DeSaible, Point, see DeSable, Jean Baptiste Point
Desmarres hospital, leased by Cook county, 176; army hospital, 176- 77
De Soto, Hernando, 5
Detention hospital, see Audy, Ar- thur J., Home for Children ; Psychopathic hospital
Dick, Dr. Gladys Henry, 207
Dick, Dr. George F., 207
Dictionary of American English (cited), 89
Dillon, Dr. Robert F., 209
Dixon, Joseph, 185, 239
Dock, Lavinia L., 243
Doctors; famous at Cook county hospital, 178-81, 189, 216, 224- 26. See also Physicians
Doenecke, Stanley F., 284
Dole, George W., 93
Dolezal, Jerry, 109, 111
Donne, William G., 109, 111
Dormitzer, Mrs. H. C., 236
Dowling, Dr. Harry, 208
Dublin, Alvin, 208
Duffy, John J., 109, 166, 227, 228, 233, 235, 295
Duncan, Joseph, 51
Dunn, Dr. Arthur, 226
Dunn, Loula, 300
Dunne, Edward F., 123
Dunning, early hospital at, 175; poor farm, 258; care of mental- ly ill at, 259, 260, 270; general hospital at, 260; tuberculosis hospital, 261 ; number of patients
and inmates (1910), 262;
pictures: administration building and detention hospital, 272; inmates working in field and some of the vegetables grown, 274; chickens and hogs produced at, 275
Du Page, voting precinct estab- lished by Cook county, 59
Du Page road, 63
Durand hospital, 184, 201, 207
Durantaye, de la, 17
Durbin, Fletcher M., 236, 250
DuSable, see DeSable, Jean Bap- tiste Point
DuSable high school, 22
Dvore, Oliva Sue, Foundation, 204
Eastman, Anthony, 236
Eastman, F. A., 128-29, 130
Edwards, Dr. Arthur R., 225
Edwards, Julia Catherine, 45. See also Cook, Julia Catherine Edwards, Ninian, 44, 47, 49, 52, 57
Ehrhardt, O. H., Jr., 235
Eisenberg, George M., Founda- tion, 204
Eisendrath, Dr. Daniel N., 226
Elected officials, Cook county : ap- propriations from tax funds for offices and help, 106; names of, 106-7; reports of, to board of commissioners, 107
Election, first (1826), 56-57 ; first precincts in county, 59 Ellert, Peter J., 122
Elrod, Arthur X., 226-27
Emigrants' guide (quoted), 173
Erickson, William N., 107, 124,
166, 195, 203, 208, 219, 226,
310
245, 280, 281, 298 Erie canal, 5, 22, 70, 82 Evanston, Illinois, 97 Ewen, John M., 118, 121, 264
Fairbanks, Charles W., 117, 123 Falls, Dr. Frederick H., 208 Family court, 167, 280
Fantus, Dr. Bernard, 183, 199, 200, 232
Fantus outpatient clinic, 168, 183, 231, 232 Federal Reserve Bank, 56
Fell, Dr. Egbert H., 209
Fenger, Dr. Christian, 186-87, 189, 237, 239
Ferry, established by board of Fenger high school, 186 commissioners, 61-62
Fire, Chicago, see Chicago fire Fishbain, Benjamin, Hematology Research Fund, 204 Fishbein, Dr. Morris, 207
Fitzgerald, Joseph M., 122 Foley, Dr. Edmund F., 208 Fonda, Dr. D. B., 175 Forest preserves, board of com- missioners, 102; establishing and maintaining, 104; prophecy con- cerning, 130; picture of dedica- tion of an area in, 281 Fort Dearborn : on site of French fort, 17; establishment of, 23- 32; rebuilt after Indian mas- sacre, 28; closing of, 32; popu- lation (1829-37), 57 ; first meet- ing of Cook county board of commissioners held in, 59; re- occupied, 69; free medical serv- ice provided in, 171;
pictures : in 1820, 26; model of first fort, 27; second fort, 33
Fort Dearborn massacre, 25-26, 29, 30, 31
Fort Dearborn Square, 125
Fox, Dr. William, 226 Fox Indians, 69
French, claims on country's in- terior, 3; settlers in Mississippi river villages, 35
Friedell, Dr. Morris T., 209
Friedman, Dr. Irving A., 209 Frontenac, governor of New France, 4, 14 Fulle, Fred A., 152
Fulton county: Putnam county created from, 40-41; levies first tax in area of present Cook county, 54
Galter, Jack, 208 Galter Foundation, 204
Garden City, nickname for Chi- cago, 88
Gassette, Norman T., 139-40
Gasul, Dr. Benjamin M., 208
Geary, Joseph T., 196
Geiger, E. Elizabeth, 249
Gibbons, Roy, 230
Gindele, John G., 147
Goldblatt, Robert L., Foundation, 204
Goldsmith, Samuel A., 300
Goodloe, Mrs. N. Maury, 236
Goodspeed and Healy, 97 Goodwin, Edward P., 147
Government, advance of civil in early settlement, 32-41; com- mission form retained in 17 counties, 95; structure of town- ship, 95-96
Government, Cook county: de- velopment of, 58-59, 91-111; change to township form, 92-
311
94; present form, 101; operating cost, 164
Governmental center, proposed for city, county, state, and federal offices, 125
Graf, J. Frank, 144 Graham, James H., 193 Grant, James, 59
Great Lakes, early exploration via, 2; General Scott's forces travel to Chicago via, 70; possibility of waterway from the lakes to Gulf of Mexico forseen by Joliet, 6, 10
Greenspan, Samuel, Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, 204 Gremp von, Zella, 236
Grignon, August, 20 Grossman, Dr. Morton, 209
Gunn, Dr. Moses, 239
Gutknecht, John, 108
Guy, Dr. Chester C., 208
Haas, Joseph F., 148, 264 Halstead, Dr. Albert E., 226
Hamilton, Writings of James Monroe, 37 Hampton, Isabel, 243 Handy and Co., 144 Handy, Simmons and Co., 144 Hanson, Mrs. Joseph O., 236 Harrington, Cornelius J., 126 Harris, Dr. Frederick G., 225 Harris, Dr. M. L., 226 Harrison, Benjamin, 88 Harrison, Carter H., 185 Harrison, William Henry, 39 Hart, Mrs. Harry, 250 Hartray, William C., 117 Hatcher, The Great Lakes, 3 Hay, Helen Scott, 243 Hayes, Patricia, 199
Heacock, Russel E., 60 Heald, Nathan, 24-26
Health department, see Public health department Healy, Daniel D., 193
Healy and Goodspeed, 97
Hektoen, Dr. Ludvig, 187, 205-7 Hektoen Institute, Women's Aux- iliary, 204
Hektoen Institute for Medical Re- search, 184, 200-205, 207-9
Hennepin, Father, 74
Henry, Patrick, 34
Hergott, Alfred O., Foundation, 204
Herguth, Robert, 229
Herrick, Dr. James B., 226
Hertwig, Fred A., 167, 171, 173, 183, 195, 196, 199, 203, 226, 231, 236
Hickory Creek, voting precinct established by Cook county, 59; early road to, 63 ; holds a dance, 63-65
Higgins, Mrs. Claire, 196
Highways, see Roads
Hilliard, Raymond M., 166
Hirsch, Bernice Berger, Memorial Foundation, 204
Hoard, see Shortall and Hoard Hodgman, Charles R., 234
Hoffman, Peter M., 105, 106
Hoffman, Dr. Samuel J., 201, 207, 208, 216 Hogan, John S. C., 58-59
Holabird and Roche, 121, 128-29, 264
Horses, epidemic among, 260-61 Hospital, see Cook County hospi- tal; Dunning; Oak Forest Houlihan, Raymond F., 124 Howard, Lee J., 104, 297 Hubbard, Gurdon S., 69
312
Hubbs, Idols of Egypt, 49 Huehl, Harris W., 117
Huerga, de la, Dr. J., 209 Hungerford and Co., T. A., 142 Hury and Sheppard, 93 Hyde, Dr. James Nevin, 171-72
Illinois : part of included in Knox county, 38 ; part of Indiana Ter- ritory, 38; included in St. Clair county, 38, 39; Cook county part of, 40; statehood urged by D. P. Cook, 46-47; enters union as slave-free state, 46-47 ; wins race with Missouri for statehood, 47 ; first constitutional convention, 47; Kaskaskia se- lected as capital, 47; dispute with Wisconsin over boundary, 53-54
Illinois, county of, created by Vir- ginia, 34 Illinois Appellate court, 107
Illinois Blue Book, 95, 96 Illinois Centennial Publications, 22 Illinois Herald, 44 Illinois Indians, 10, 13, 14, 17 Illinois and Michigan canal, 13, 50, 94
Illinois Territory, 39, 40 Illinois Training School for Nurses, 234-43 ; history recount- ed by Mary E. Reglin, 237-43 Indian agency, Chicago, 22; Green Bay, 23 Indian wars, 16
Indiana, included in St. Clair and Knox counties, 38, 39 Indiana Territory, 38 Indians, 5, 24, 28, 32, 57, 67, 68. See also Chippewa Indians; Fox Indians; Illinois Indians; Iro-
quois Indians; Miami Indians ; Ottawa Indians; Potawatomie Indians; Saux Indians; Winne- bago war
Indigents, care of 103, 255, 271- 74
Ingalls, Dr. E. F., 225
Insane, see Mentally ill
Iroquois Indians, 13, 14, 15, 17 Ishom, Dr. Ralph N., 239
Ivy, Dr. Andrew C., 208
Jackson, Andrew, 51 Jacobs, J. L., 289 Jacobson, Dr. S. O., 237
Jail, picture of early stockade, 114; rehabilitation of, 280
Jaranowski, Mrs. Salomea, 148 Jefferson, Thomas, 23 Jensen, Christ A., 126 Joliet, Louis, explores Mississippi river, 4-6; foresees possibility of canal to provide waterway from Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico, 6; portages from Des Plaines river to Chicago river, 6-10; plaque dipicting passage thru Chicago river, 8 Jones, David B., 118
Jones, Dr. H. Webster, 178
Jones, Dr. Noble M., 226
Jones and Sellers, 143
Juvenile Detention home, see Audy, Arthur J., Home for Children
Kaindl, Edward J., 148 Kanavel, Dr. Allen B., 189 Kaskaskia, seat of St. Clair coun- ty, 36, 38; first capital of Illi- nois, 47
313
Kasperski, Thomas, 122 Kearney, J. J., 99-100 Keeler, Edwin R., 236 Kemeys, Edward, 73 Kenealy, Edward J., 97 Kentucky, county of, 32-33
Kercheval, Gholson, 58, 63, 65, 67
Kerfoot, W. D., 145, 160
Khuen, Dr. Edward C., 105 Kinsman, Myrtle, 212
Kinzer, David M., 300
Kinzie, James, 58, 61, 66
Kinzie, John, 21, 22, 26, 28, 30, 54, 55, 57
Kinzie, Mrs. John H., 63
Kinzie, Robert A., 61, 63
Kleckner, Robert S., 230 Knight and Zeuch, 6, 11
Knox county, creation of, 38; in- cludes Cook county, 38
Kohlmann, Fred, 264
Kohn, Alfred D., 236 Kohn, Clyde F., 113
Kozoll, Dr. Donald D., 209
Kribben, Earl, 124-25
Kucharski, Edmund J., 148, 150
Kupcinet, Irv, 208 Kushner, Dr. Daniel, 209
Laboratory, Cook county hospital, 232-33 Laframboise, Claude, 55
Lalime, Jean, 20-21
La Salle, de, Sieur, 10-15, 74
La Salle county, creation of, 39 Lasdon Foundation, 204 Laughton, Bernardus, 61, 62 LeCount, Dr. Edwin R., 187 Leddy, James J., 270
Lee, Dr. Edward W., 188-89
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 154
Leukemia Research Foundation, 204
Lev, Dr. Maurice, 209
Levinson, Dr. Abraham, 209
Levinson, Dr. Julian D., Memori- al Foundation, 204 Lewis, Dr. Dean D., 225
Licenses, tavern, 60, 104; liquor, 104; roadhouse, 104
Lincoln, Abraham, 115, 132
Lind, Jack, 229
Liquor control commissioner, 104
Logan, Laura, 242, 243, 249 Ludby, Peter, 258
Lyman, Dr. Henry M., 179-80
Lynch, Henry, 269
McArthur, Dr. Lewis L., 226
McCloskey, Manus, 194 McCollom, George R., 100
McCormick, Edith Rockefeller, 207 McCormick, Harold F., 207
McCormick, John Rockefeller, 207
McCormick Institute for Infec-
tious Diseases, 184, 201, 207
McDonough, John J., 236
McFetridge, William, 208
McGarigle, William J., 185-86
McIlvaine, Charles M., 88
McIsaac, Isabel, 243 Mack, Louis H., 117
McKee, David, 55
McKibbin, George B., 236, 250
McKinley, William, 225
Mackler, John, Jr., 109, 111, 203, 256 McLaren, William, 117, 118, 262, 264
Mclaughlin, Hugh 184 McLean, John, 48
314
Maclean, William H., 122 McLean county, largest in area, 97
MacLeish, Mrs. Bruce, 236, 250 McNealy, Dr. Raymond W., 225 Mail service, early, 80-81
Marquette, Father Jacques, ex- plores Mississippi river with Joliet, 4-6; portages from Des Plaines river to Chicago river, 6-10; plaque depicting passage thru Chicago river, 8; picture of building occupied by, at mouth of Chicago river, 9 Marriott, A. R., 146 Martin, Virgil, 236
Mason, Dr. Michael, 225
Mason, Roswell B., 138
Matousek, Thomas J., 148
Maue, History of Will County, 63 Mayr, Charles J., 113 Meacher, Dr. Byron C., 226
Medical care for indigent, provid- ing, 103; required by state law, 165; contribution by family re- quired, 165; cost at Cook county hospital, 166; cost at Oak Forest, 166; state contribution toward, 166; in early days, 171-73; chronically sick, 255 Medical research, 200-205. See also Hektoen Institute for Med- ical Research
Melum, Helmer A., 236
Mental health clinic, see Cook County Hospital Mental Health Clinic
Mentally ill, care of in early days, 259-60; care taken over by the state, 261; eye-witness account of former treatment of, 270-71 Mercy hospital, 175
Meyer, Dr. Karl A., 167, 188,
189, 197, 201, 204, 205, 207, 214-24, 216, 226, 231, 232, 233, 236, 256, 298, 302 Meyer Hall, 197, 215 Miami Indians, 17, 25-26 Michigan, included in St. Clair county, 38, 39; part of, includ- ed in Knox county, 38 ; part of
Wayne county given to, 139 Microfiling county records, 150-51 Miller, Alice R., 147 Miller, Dr. DeLaskie, 237
Miller, Dr. Edwin M., 225
Miller, George A., 122, 291 Miller, Samuel, 58, 60, 61, 66 Mills, Daniel W., 184, 185
Minnesota, part of included in St. Clair and Knox counties, 38, 39 Minsk, Marjorie, 229
Mississippi river, explored by Joliet and Marquette, 4-6; full length of traveled by La Salle and Tonty, 10-14
Mississippi waterway, full length of traveled by La Salle and Tonty, 10-14
Missouri, loses race with Illinois for statehood, 47
Monroe, James, 36-37, 45, 47
Moreau, Pierre, 7-8
Moriarty, Daniel, 122
Muller, Jack, 118
Municipal 191
Reference Library,
Murphy, Dr. John B., 189 Murray, William, 75
Nash, Gordon B., 108
Negri, Anton C., 288-95, 297-98 Nelson, Jean, 213 Nelson, Dr. Ole C., 210, 211-
13, 216
315
Nelson, Mrs. Ole C., see Kins- man, Myrtle Nelson, William G., 212 Newberry and Dole, 84 Newman, Edna Sadie, 249 Newspapers : published and edited by D. P. Cook, 44; early, in Chicago, 75-87; stimulate im- provements at Cook county hos- pital, 228-30. See also Chicago American; Chicago Democrat ; Chicago Daily Democrat; Chi- cago Daily News; Chicago Evening Mail; Chicago Sun; Chicago Sun-Times; Chicago Tribune; Illinois Herald ; Washington Globe; Western Intelligencer
Nicollet, Jean, 4, 5
Nixon, George F., 295
Normal school, see County Nor- mal School
Normoyle, Dennis J., 148
Northwest Territory, 36
Nowak, Albert, 122
Nurses, domitory erected for, 183. See also Cook County School of Nursing; Illinois Training School for Nurses
Oak Forest, 252-303 ; mismanage- ment charged, 98-99; number of patients treated annually, 164; one of Cook county's charitable institutions, 167; hospital pa- tients, 255-58; appropriations for, 257; purchase of land for, 262-64; construction of first buildings, 265-68; opening of, 269; outings for children, 269; retrenchments in 1930's, 274- 80; tuberculosis hospital, 276;
rehabilitation and improvements after depression, 280-85; im- provements in tuberculosis hos- pital, 283-84; farm operations discontinued, 285-95; efficiency expert enters, 291; fiftieth an- niversary, 298-302; speech de- livered by Daniel Ryan at fiftieth anniversary, 300-302
pictures : entrance (1959), 251; from the air, 254; pa- tients enjoying a game, 276; kitchens (1912 and 1959), 277; centenarian patients, 279; vol- unteer beauticians treating women patients, 283; teen-age volunteers, 286; patients' picnic, 286; store for patients, 288; patients at Christmas, 293; physical therapy for patients, 296; presentation of typewriter to patient, 299
Oak Park, Illinois, 97
O'Donoghue, Dr. John B., 208
Ogden, William B., 75, 83
Ohio, part of included in St. Clair and Knox counties, 38
O'Leary, Catherine, 135
O'Leary Patrick, 135, 145
O'Malley, Owen, 122
O'Neil, Joseph V., 234
O'Shaughnessy, T. A., 9
Ott, Mrs. John Nash, Jr., 236
Ottawa Indians, 28
Ouilmette, see Wilemet
Outpatient clinic, see Fantus out- patient clinic
Overbeck, E. C., 245
Owen, Colonel, 77-78
Page, Claire, 249 Park, Dr. Roswell, 225
316
Parker, Ross I., 236 Pasteur, Louis, 163
Pease Theodore Calvin, 82
Penfield, Mrs. Graham, 236 Peoria county, claim that part of Cook county belonged to, 40-41 ; levies taxes for area of present Cook county, 55
Perlstein, Dr. Meyer A., 208
Personnel management, studies of, 233
Petersen, Robert S., 235, 245 Pfifer, Dr. Frank, 226
Phemister, Dr. Dallas B., 225
Physicians, appointments to Cook county hospital : sometimes
bought, 186-88; highly prized,
187-88; present method of ob- taining, 189, 191. See also Doctors Piche, Peter, 55
Pierce, A History of Chicago, 38, 39, 40
Pierson, Dudley D., 122
Poor farm, purchase of land for, at Dunning, 175, 258
Pope, Nathaniel, 39, 44, 45, 47, 49, 53
Popper, Dr. Hans, 207
Population : Chicago, in 1833, 72; at incorporation, 75; in 1950, 97; in 1985, 129-30; Cicero, in 1950, 97;
Cook County, in 1850 and 1870, 96; in 1950, 1, 97, 113; in 1960, 113; in 1985, 129-30; Evanston, in 1950, 97;
Fort Dearborn, in 1829 to 1837, 57; Illinois, in 1950, 97; Oak Park, in 1950, 97
Portage, Chicago: first made by Joliet and Marquette, 6; dis-
cussed by La Salle, 13; used by Tonty, 13-14, held by Indians, 15
Potawatomie Indians, 24-28, 68, 173
Powell, Frances L. A., 235, 245, 249
Powell, Sally, 279
Prendergast, Richard W., 126, 231, 284
President, board of commissioners : method of selecting in 1871 and at present, 102; salary of, 102; ex-officio liquor control commis- sioner, 104
Property records, re-establishment of those lost in Chicago fire, 140-47
Property titles, guaranteed by county, 147-48
Psychopathic hospital, 183, 191, 230-31
Public building commission, see Chicago public building commis- sion
Public Health Department, Cook county, 167
Public service committee, Cook county, 103, 226-27
Putnam county, created from part of Fulton county, 40-41; under Peoria county, 41; smallest in state, 97
Quaife (historian), 19 Quales, Nils T., 177
Queen city, nickname for Chi- cago, 83
Quine, Dr. William E., 175, 176, 178, 189 Quisno, Ray, 229
317
Rabies control, 104, 105 Radiation center, 197-98 Radisson, Pierre Esprit, 4, 5 Ragen, Frank, 122
Randolph county, included in Illi- nois Territory, 39 Rankin, Robert, 229
Ranson, Amherst C., 54
Real estate, records of, in record- er's office, 134. See also Prop- erty records
Recorder, Cook county, records legal documents, 133-34; re- storing of records after Chicago fire, 140, 146
Records, Cook county : loss of, in Chicago fire, 133, 138-40; mod- ern measures for safeguarding, 150-51
Reed, Guy E., 208
Reglin, Mary E., 236-50
Reinberg, Peter, 122, 194
Research, medical, see Medical research; Hektoen Institute for Medical Research
Revolutionary War, 34-36
Rex, Frederick, 130
Rhoades, Dr. Paul, 249
Richter, Dr. Harry M., 225
Ricketts, Dr. Howard Taylor, 189, 209 River, Dr. Louis P., 209
Rivera, James, 40
Riverside, road to, 63
Roadhouses, 104
Roads, first county, 62, 63; con- struction and maintenance of, 103
Robb, Isabel, see Hampton, Isabel Robertson, James, 152
Robinson, Alexander, 55
Roch, Dr. Sumney, 225
Roche, see Holabird and Roche
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 221, 255 Ropa, Joseph F., 21, 148 Rosenheim, Edward, Jr., 152 Rosi, Dr. Peter A., 226
Ross, Dr. Joseph P., 176-77, 180 Rothschild, Mildred, Memorial Foundation, 204 Rovetta, Charles A., 236
Rowan, Dr. Charles J., 226 Rubins, Pearl, 229
Runyon, Damon, Fund, 204
Russell, James C., 182, 184, 185- 86, 259
Ryan, Daniel, 101, 107, 108, 109, 110, 127-28, 151, 166, 167-68, 196, 199, 208, 217, 226, 228, 230, 231, 233, 255, 256, 280, 281, 284, 298, 299, 300-302
Ryan, Mrs. Ruby, 208
Ryan, Daniel, Sr., 122, 298
Sable, Jean Baptiste, see DeSable, Jean Baptiste Point
Sac Indians, see Saux Indians St. Clair, Arthur, 36, 38 St. Clair county, 36; counties and states included in, 38-40; Cook county in, 39; included in Illi- nois Territory, 39
Salaries, of commissioners, 67, 102, 103; at Cook county hospital, 191-93
Salisbury, Stephen M., 92
Salk, Dr. Jonas E., 203
Samelson, Miss, 249
Sandquist, Elroy C., 108
Sanford, Dr. H. N., 236 Sanitary and Ship canal, 13
Sarle, Warren F., 236
Sauers, Charles G., 108
Saux Indians, 69
Schaffner, Dr. Fenton, 209
318
Schlaeger, Victor L., 148 Schlaes, Dr. William H., 209 Schmidt, Carl K., 256, 279, 285, 286, 295, 298, 299, 303 Schoolman, Dr. Harold M., 209 Schryver, Grace F., 237, 250 Schultz, Arthur W., 236 Schwartz, Dr. Steven O., 208 Schwengel, Frank, 208 Scott, William D., 122
Scott, Winfield S., 70-71 See, William, 59
Seidel, Albert L., 236 Selfridge, Harry G., 117
Selig Photoplay Co., 29 Sellers, see Jones and Sellers Senn, Dr. Nicholas, 178-79 Senn high school, 178 Shedd, John G., 117, 118 Sheppard, see Hury and Sheppard Shortall and Hoard, 142-43 Silverstein, Dr. Joseph, 209 Simmons, see Handy, Simmons and Co.
Simonds, Dr. James P., 208 Sippy, Dr. Bertram W., 226 Siragusa, Ross D., 208 Skinner, Laila D., 245
Slavery, Illinois enters union with prohibition against, 46-47; de- bates on, 49; advertisements for runaway slaves, 81
Slutsky, Dorothy, Memorial Club, 204
Smart Family Foundation, 204 Smith, Dr. Charles G., 180-81
Smith, Clayton F., 148, 194, 207, 226, 229, 281, 289, 290 Smith, Clinton F., 295 Smith, Frank, 229 Smith, H., 93 Sneed, Edward M., 109, 111, 203 Snider, Arthur J., 230
Sokol, Edward D., 229 Spaeth, R. J., 236 Speed, Dr. Kellog, 226 Sprague, Otho S. A., Memorial Institute, 204
Stearns, Torrey, 222-23
Steele, Dr. D. A. K., 225, 237, 239
Steigman, Dr. Frederick, 208
Stein, Edward N., 269
Stevenson, Adlai E., 218
Stewart, Graeme, 117 Straub, Walter F., 236
Street repairs, 66
Struckman, William F., 263
Stuart, W. H., 20-21 Stuart, William, 83 Sullivan, Gerald J., 257
Sulzberger, Mrs. Frank, 236 Supervisors, board of : makeup of, 92; feud between country and city, 98; harmony restored, 102; replaced by board of commis- sioners, 101
Swenson, Sven, 223 Szanto, Dr. Paul B., 209 Szymanski, John M., 299
Taverns, price regulations for, 60- 61. See also Licenses Tax delinquency committee, 108- 11,109
Taxes: first assessment, 54, sec- ond assessment, 55; early tax bills, 55; then and now, 56; first levied by Cook county, 60; supervisor of assessments, 95-96; to raise money for county gov- ernment, 104, 166; collecting delinquent, 104, 108-11
Tenney, Henry F., 300 Terry, Dr. Richard B., 209
319
Thompson, James, 72 Thompson, Samuel H., 57 Thompson, Warren E., 145 Thorson, Reuben, 236 Tice, Dr. Frederick, 189, 210, 216 Tieken, Dr. Theodore, 226
Tippecanoe Hall, Cook county hospital in, 173, 175, 258 Title Guarantee and Trust Co., 144
Tobin, Dr. John R., 209
Todd, John, 35
Toman, John, 289 Tomlinson, Mrs. Ernest B., 236
Tonty, de, Henri, 11-14, 17
Torrens, Sir Robert Richard, 147 Torrens system, 147-48
Touhy, John J., 165, 203, 227 Township form of government, 92-97
Townships, Cook county : names and population in 1850, 93; number of, from 1840 to 1871, 94; the present, 94; feud be- tween city and country super- visors of, 98; harmony restored, 102; officers of, after 1870, 100- 101
Traut, Dr. Eugene F., 209
Tuberculosis, treatment of, 261, 265-67, 269, 276 Turner, Dr. George C., 256
United States Army, 204 United States Public Health Serv- ice, 204
University of Chicago, 151, 235, 242, 243
University of Illinois, 190, 247 Urse, Dr. Vladimir, G., 230
Van Den Bergen, A. L., 27 Van Hook, Dr. Weller, 225 Vaughan, Dr. Roger T., 225 Venecek, Frank, 262, 287, 293, 295
Vincennes, Indiana, 38 Virginia, 32-35
von Gremp, Zella, see Gremp, von, Zella
Walker, Edwin K., 117 Walker, James, 58, 62
War, with Indians, 16; of 1812,
24, 28; Revolutionary, 34-36 Ware, William R., 118
Washington Globe, 77 Waterway, Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico, possibility of fore- seen by Joliet, 6-10
Watkins, Frances B., 236
Watkins, Joan, 299
Wayne, Anthony, 16
Wayne county, inclusion of Cook county in, 38; given to Michi- gan, 39
Weaver, Dr. George H., 226
Weinberg, Dr. Milton, Jr., 209 Weissman, Dr. Leonard H. and Louis D., Medical Research Foundation, 204
Welfare, Cook county department of, 167
Wells, Dr. H. Gideon, 187
Wells, William, 25-26
Wentworth, Elijah, 60
Wentworth, "Long John," 76 Weresch, Joe, 229 Western Intelligencer, 44, 49
West Side hospital, 183
Wheeler, Mary C., 242, 243
Whistler, John, 23, 27 White, Julius, 101
320
Widow Brown, 63 Wiedrich, Robert, 229
Wiegman, Carl, 89 Wilemet, Antoine, 55
Wilson, Walter H., 117 Windy City, nickname for Chi- cago, 88-89
Winnebago war, 68-69
Wisconsin, included in St. Clair and Knox counties, 38, 39; dis- pute with Illinois over boundary, 53-54
Wisconsin Historical Society, 20 Wohl, R. Richard, 151-61 Wohl, Rhoda L., 152
Wolcott, Alexander, 55, 57 Women's Auxiliary of Hektoen Institute, 204
Wooley, Jedehah, 59 World's Columbian Exposition, 88 Worthington, Daniel, 140 Wysockey, L. F., 284
Yoyez, Joseph, 21
Zeuch and Knight, 6, 11 Zimmer, Michael J., 194 Zoning, regulations, 104
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