History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 115

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 875

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S. T. LAXPHEAR, grocer, was born in Morristown, Lamoille County, Vt., September 13, 1837, Ile was engaged in farming until he was twenty-two years of age, when lie engaged in the manufacture of cane-bottomed chairs, mop sticks, etc., with Case, Thomas & Co., in Waterbury, Vt. Iu 1870 he went to lowa and engaged in stock-raising with G. A. Smith up to 1880, when he came to Rogers Park, and for two years manu- factured ink for L. HI. Thomas, In 1882 he opened his pres- ent grocery. He was married Seplember 29, 1872 to Miss Margaret Ruttan, of Belleville, Ontario, They have two chil- dren, Frederick O, and Florence M.

MATHIAS MANN, farm gardener, was born in Chicago February 16, 1844. His parents. Tillman and Katrina Mann, settled in Chicago in 1842, when his father worked in a brick yard shortly afterward coming to Evanstown Township, where he bought the present farm from Philip Rogers. The father died there January 26, 1872, and the mother September 10. 1882. Mr. Mann lived with his parents on the farm up lo their death, since which time he has carried on the farm. He has been Trustee of Rogers Park for two years, school director for six years, and director of St. Henry's Catholic Church. Ile was married to Miss Margaret Muno, of Prussia, April 23, 1868. They have six children-Mary, Kate, Henry, Elizabeth, Birdie and Falward.

ROLAND P. MARKS was born in Durham, N. Y., Novem- ber 26, 1844. Ilis father, Almeron Marks, a native of Con- necticut, was an attorney und a member of the New York Stale Legislature. He died in 1853. His mother in 1860 married Channey Brooks, of Baltimore (his uncle by marriage), and formerly president of the Ballimore & Ohio Railroad. The subject of this sketch canwe to Chicago in 1865 as a clerk in the house of Field. Palmer & Leiter,through application to Potter Palmer, who had previously been a clerk in his father, Al- meron Marks's store at Durham, Mr. Marks has ever since that time been connected with that wholesale house, and at this time has charge of the departments of flannels and blankets in the house, which is now Marshall Field & Co. In October, 1873, he took up his residence in Rugers Park, but from the first of the following year up to 1879 was nhsent in New York City on business connected with present firm. In 1881 he returned to Rogers Park, where he now resides, lle has been one of the Trustees of Rogers Park. lle was married to Miss Emma Hutchinson, of Sonthold, Long Island, December 3, 1872. They have two children, Grace E. and Edith II.

J. J. PITKIN, farmer, P. O. Rogers Park, was born lu Hartford, Conn., August 15, 1829, He learned the trade of

tool-making in Massachusetts, and worked for ten years at Amherst. From there he came to Chicago in 1857, and worked for six years for different firms, when he engaged in business for himself. Ile took up his residence in Lake View in 1869, while carrying on his luisiness in Chicago up to 1874, when he moved to Rogers Park, where he was engaged in farming. lle was one of the Village Trustees of Rogers Park for four years from its organization, and was president of the board during the years 1881-42, He is now street commissioner. Mr. Pit- kin was married to Miss Susan J. Thompson, of Northampton, Mass., February 3, 1852, They have three children-Charles T .. Susan L .. and Esther A.

J. F. PRATT was born in Sterling, Worcester County, Mass., January 1, 1852. He came to Chicago in the fall of 1873, and January 1, 1875, he connected himself with the wholesale boot and shoe house of Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, and the following two years traveled in Illinois and Missouri. In January, 1877. he gave up traveling, and accepted a position as house sales- man, which he has occupied up to the present time. Ile has re- sided in Rogers Park since 1870, and has been one of the Trustees of the village forthe last five years. Mr. Pratt married Miss Helen A. Chaffin, of Holden, Mass., in Worcester, Mass., August 20. 1873. They have three children-Ilelen I .. , George E, and Ida M.

II. E. ROUNDS was born in Enosburg, Vt .. September 29, 1838. His parents, Lester and Auriila, came West in 1840 and settled in Southport {now Kenosha), Wis., where his father taught school. He was one of the original "Fourierites" who founded the village of Ceresco, adjoining Ripon, Wis. He now lives at Enreku, Wis., engaged In mercantile busi- ness. Mrs. Rounds died April 15, 1882. The subject of this sketch came to Chicago in the spring of 185t. Ile learned the printer's trade with S. P. Rounds, and was for some time employed as his foreman. In 1860 he went to Pike's Peak in charge of a mining outfit, and remained there three years, eighteen mouths of the time mining, and eighteen months connected with the Rocky Mountain News at Denver, having a one-fourth interest in that newspaper. In 1863. hav. ing returned to Eureka, Wis., he engaged in the mercantile Intsiness with his father. He also served four months in the 41st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Inte Civil War. He published forone year the Eureka Journal, and in company with lleram Merley (now deceased), started the Oshkosh Journal, at Oshkosh. Wis., and carried on the same for five years, and having sold ont. the paper to the Oshkosh Northwestern, returned in 1873 to Chicago, and since that time has been connected with the business of S. P. Rounds and Rounds Type & Press Company. He has resided in Rogers Park since 1874; was school director and also Trustee of the village. Mr. Rounds married Miss Hattie N. Porker, in Racine, Wis., September 26, 1887. They have three chil- dren-Elinor. Lafayette and Anrilla.

MATHIAS SCHMIT, dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Luxembourg. Germany, February 13. 1846. He learned his trade in Luxembourg, and worked at it up to 1872, when he came to Chicago, where he was employed at his trade up to 1877, in which year he came to Evanston Township and opened his present boot and shoe store, He married Kate Schmit, of Luxembourg, in Chicago.

ROBERT M. SCHOLES, dealer in teas, coffees and spices, Chicago, was born in Belfast, Ireland, October 31, 1899. At the age of three he came with his parents, Willuun and Jane, to Montreal, Canada. Ilis mother died when he was quite young, and his father in 1855. In 1860 ho commenced the manufacture of brass work, which he continued up to 1865, when he came to Chicago and engaged in different employments up to 1876, the date of his present business. Ile has resided in Rogers Park since 1880. He was married to Miss Isabella Brough, of Montreal, Canada, April 15, 1851. They have four children-Lewis A., Florence F., Fremont and Parker.

GEORGE J. SERRIN was born in Terre Haule, Ind., March 21. 1862. Ile clerked in the grocery store of R. W. Rippetce in Terre Ilante, up to September, 1882, when he came to Chi- cago in the employ of J. J. Fishel & Co., grocers. He con- tinned with them up to Jannary. 1883, when he engaged as a clerk in the grocery store of S. T. Lamphear, of Rogers Park, which position he now holds.

PETER SMITH. farmer. P. O. Rogers Park, was born in Prussia, Germany. June 7, 1824. His parents catue to Chleago in 1840 and in 1842 settled in Evanston Township. having purchased the land of John Smith, upon which they lived up to the time of their deaths, his father dying in 1876 and his mother in 1880. Mr. Smith assisted his father on the farm up to 1849, when he took entire charge, and has carried it on ever since He was elected Justice of the Peace for four years, but resigned after the expiration of two years; was also Town Clerk in 1877. He was

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married to Miss Elizabeth Phillips, of Prussia, tiermany, April 29, 1849. They have ten children-Peter K .. John J .. George. Mlehnel. Philip. Andrew. Charles, Mathias, Annie M. and| Jamisn.

P. L .. TOUHY was born in Feakle. county of Clare. Ireland. March 15. 1842. In 1800 he came with his brother to New York City, and engaged in the carpet business with Hiram Amlerson, with whom he remained up to 1864. when he camne to Chicago and first opened a grocery at the corner of Market and Illinois streets, Hle then forined a copartnership with Alexander Henderson atul P. M. Rogers, as the firm of Tonhy, Henderson & Co., which continued up to 186 ;. when he came to Rogers Park. Mr. Touhy is the founder of Rogers Park, having surveyed and laid out the plat of the village. In 1860 he built his present fine residence, which was completed in 1870. In 1870 he sold an interest in Rogers Park to S. P. ,unt, L. L. Gircenleap, C. Il. Morse and A. B. Jackson, who formed the Rogers Park Buikling Assorintion, with S. P. Lunt as trustee. The only members of that organization who retain any interest in the partnership are P. I .. Tonhy and C. 11. Morse. Mr. Tonby is also interested in the North Side dry goods store of J. W. Touhy & Co., which was opened September 15. 1883. He has been Trustee of the vil- lage since its organization and school director for three terms. De was married to Miss Catharine ('. Rogers September Li. 1863, daughter of Philip Rogers, after whom the village of Rogers Park was named. Mr. Rogers settled in Chicago in 1830, aml In 1814 came to Rogers Park and purchased at fio- vernment sale the land now laid out as Rogers P'ark. Hle died in 1854, leaving two children-Philip M. and Mrs. Touhy. Mr. Touhy and wife have seven children-Mary Is., Eilmind R., Stephen G., Cathrine. Patrick J .. Alice and Grace. B. II. VARY, attorney, was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., August 18. 1824. His grandfather. Samuel Vary, cate to the Colonies during the French War as a Captain under the British General. Gage, and was with him at the battle east of Lake Champlain, which oreurred before the Revolutionary War. Upon his marringe the British Government gave him a tract of land nt Johnstown, N. Y. Richard, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born on July 4. 1726, and was the youngest of nine children. B. II. Vary commenced the study of law with the late Attorney-General Myers, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., in 14-16. In 1849 he was admitted to the Bar of New York, and for fifteen years practiced law under the style of Morris & Vary. For two years he was also a partner of llon. Horace Russell. now Judge of the Supreme Court of New York City. In INN1 he practiced Inw also in partnership with Ilon. William II. Sawyer, Inte Jauge of the Supreme Court of New York, Mr. Vary for fifteen years hekl the position of District Attorney of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., and became

noted as an able and successful criminal lawyer. He took up his residence in Rogers Park March 1. 1882, and has been engaged since that time in the general practice of law in Chi- cago, aml has been employed in a great many important law cases. Hle nasisted in the organization of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Rogers l'ark, and has since been the Lay Reader. He was married to Miss Emina A. Witherell, daughter of the Inte IIon. Thomas I). Witherell, of De Peyster, St. Lawrence Co .. N. Y .. September 29. 185]. They have one son, Charles II .. proprietor of Vary's Express, between Wilmington and l'hiladelphia

C. II. WHARTON, of the firm of Carpenter & Wharton. builders, was born in Laurel, Del., November 16. 1849, Ileenme with his parents to Evanston in 1857. His father being a ear- peuter, he learned the same trade, and worked with him for live or six years, In 1878 he came to Rogers Park, working at his trade us n journeyman up to 1927, when he engaged in business for himself, in 1892 forming a copartnership with G. 11. Car- penter, as the firm of Carpenter & Wharton, builders. He has been Village Clerk for one year. He married Miss Louise Woodbury, of Whitewater, Wis., June 1, 1876. They have two children-Clara and Belle.

HARRISON M. WILD, organist of the Church of the Ascension, and teacher of musie, was born in Hoboken, N. J . March 6, 180]. At the age of fifteen he commenceil his mo- sienl education with Arthur J. Creswold. After two years of study he went to Germany and spent one year at the Con- servatory of Music, at Leipzig. Ile returned to Chicago in 1×40, evinmeneed teaching imusic and at the same time carry- ing on his studies under Il. Clarence Eddy. In August, 1893, he herame connected with the Hershey School of Musical Art. Mr. Wild has resided with his parents in Rogers Park since

THOMAS S. WILD, of Wild & Hills, brass founders, Chi- engo, was born in Sheffield, England, March 6, 1812. Learn- ing the trade of surgical instrument maker, in Sheffield, bu worked for Ilutehinson Bros., of the same place, up to the age of twenty-one. From that time up to 1856 he engaged in the ojitival instrument Imsiness, when he came to New York and for eight years worked, first in a surgical instrument manufac- tory, then in a sewing machine manufactory. after which he learned the trade of brass founder. In 1864, he came to Chi- eago and took charge of the business of D. C. Smith & Co., manufacturers of organs. In 1872, he started the present busl. ness, as firm of Imee, Wild, Fawcett & C'n., which one year after- ward was changed to the present firm of Wild & Ifills. Mr. Wibl has resiliel in Rogers Park sinee 1852, He married Min Georgian 11. Major, of Bath, England. April 8, 1860. They have three children-Ilarriso- Frederick S. and Georgiana.

HISTORY OF NEW TRIER.

EARLY SETTLEMENT .- In July, 1829, the United States made a treaty with the Pottawatomie Indiaus, at Prairie du Chien, and 1,280 acres of land on the shore of the lake, about fourteen miles from Chicago, were ceded to Anton Quilmette, a Frenchman, who had married a Pottawatomie womau of " roval blood," named Archange. After the Black Hawk War most of the friendly Indians removed to Green Bay, but among those who remained upon their reservations was Quilmette, or Wilmette. At the time of the arrival of the first white settler they had eight children. In the summer of 1836 Erastns Patterson, with his wife and five children, and six other families left their homes in Vermont to make new ones either in Illinois or Wisconsin. They made the journey in covered wag- ons, or " prairie schooners," and on the fourteenth of August, 1836, eucamped on the hill, near where the Episcopal church of Winnetka now stands. At this time there was scarcely a house between Chicago and Waukegan, the latter place being then a small military station called " Littlefort." Mr. l'atterson was so well pleased with the general location that he began, with his friends, to build a log house on the southwest quarter of Section 16, in the present vicinity of Will- iam Garland's fine residence. One of Mr. Patterson's assistants in raising the house was Alexander MeDan- icl, who was also seeking a homestead. This land had not been surveyed by the Government, and those who built upon their claim acquired many advantages in obtaining their choice of real estate. When completed, Mr. Patterson's house, then located on the military road from Chicago to Green Bay, was opened as a " way-side inn." In October, of this year, Mr. McDan- iel bought a Government claim upon the preseut site of the village of Winnetka, and now known as the " Peck Place." In the spring of 1837 he purchased land and built himself a house where John Garland now lives, sonth of the railroad depot. Here he resided for five years, keeping "bachelor's hall," and accommodating all his Chicago friends and others who could not " put up" at the " Patterson House." Mr. McDaniel afterwards removed to Evanston and to Wil- mette. That gentleman writes of his coming, more in detail, as follows : "On the fourteenth of August, 1836, I left Chicago in the morning, and about uoon I brought up at the house of Anton Quihette. The place was then called Gross Point, being located about fourteen miles northwest from Chicago, on the lake shore. The house that the " Wilmette" family then occupied was a large double hewed log block house, considered in those days good enough for a very Congressmau to live in. At least I thought so, when I was dispatching the magnificent meal of vegetables grown on a rich soil, which the young ladies of the house had prepared for me. I was then a young. man about twenty-one years old, and this being my first trip ont of Chicago since I had come West, I nat- urally was curious to know more about my hosts. Upon inquiry I soon found out that the family con- sisted of Anton and Archange, the heads of the fam-

ily, and their eight children-Joseph, Mitchell, Louis, Francis, Elizabeth, Archouce, Sophia and Josette ; Lucius R. Darling, husband of Elizabeth, and John Derashee, husband of Sophia. The father being a Frenchman and the mother a half-breed, the children were uearly white, very comely, well dressed and intel- ligent. Josette, in fact, had obtained quite a reputa- tion as a beauty. The Wilmettes owned cattle, horses, wagons, carriages and farming implements, working a large tract of laud. After lenving the family passed along in a northwesterly direction, for a distance of about two miles, to where Winnetka is now located. There I purchased the claim on 160 acres of Govern- ment land of Perry Baker and Simcon Loveland. In March, 1837, I built a honse on the land aud kept ' bachelor's hall' there for five years. I had occasion to become very well acquainted with my Indian friends and found them most agreeable neighbors."

About the time Mr. McDaniel settled at Winnetka, Auson II. Taylor came to live in the same neighbor- hood. In 1837 Phillip Marshall and A. M. Talley set- tled at Glencoe. Mr. Talley was a printer in the Democrat oflice, but longed for fresh air and country life. Wendel Allis, with his sons Jacob and John, located on Section 20 in the fall of 1838. John is still a resident of Winnetka. During the same year Harrisou Lowe and Simon Doyle settled on the lake shore on the southeast quarter of Section 21, and Timothy Sunderland and family a short distance south of them, on the fractional northwest quarter of Section 27, where Jacob Schmitt now resides. Joel (. Stebbins located himself on the north half of Section 35, a little south of Westerfield's pier. Charles HI. Beaubien, a cousin of Mark, settled near the center of Section 27, on the place now ocenpied by Henry Gage. Charles Beaubien, like his cousin Mark. was a great fiddler, and was always in demand when the early set- tlers of New Trier wished torelieve the tedium of their life by a " whirl" with the few blooming white girls of that vicinity and those even of a duskier tinge. The Wilmette family were upon such occasions in almost as pressing demand as Beaubien himself. In 1838 Mr. Ellis, a brother-in-law of Mr. Patterson, came to reside in his neighborhood, and in 1839 John Foster, who now lives with his son Frauk, at Evaus- ton, settled on Section 33. Marcus Gormly, with his son Michael, settled at Gleucoe iu 1839, Robert Dag- gert arriving about the same time. In 1840 Joseph Feltman located on Section 29; Lambert Dusham and Joseph Fountain, ou the lake shore, opposite Wilmette, on Sectiou 27; Auruna Hill, with his fam- ily, ou the northeast quarter of Section 33, near John Schaefer's saloon ; Edward Dalton and John Armstrong, on Sectiou 32 ; E. Crane, uncle of Charles and Osro Crane, of Evanston, ou Section 33, opposite the church ; and Dennis Cliffert, on Section 29. In 1841 Samuel Jerome settled on the northeast quarter of Section 21; James Hartrie located on Section 31, and John Malter and Peter Schmitt upon Section 28. The next year (1842) the following settlers located

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themselves : Franz Engels, John J. Schreiner, Brady and Peter Schaefer on Section 3%, and Hubert Herrig and Hermann Passbach on Section 33. In 1843 John Barre, John Wagner and John Lanermann located on the southeast quarter of Section ; 28, the latter where Joe Lanermann's store now stands. Other early settlers are as follows: John Schiklgen and Reinhard Nanzig, 1844; John and Jacob Schimitt, on the lake shore, 1845; Joseph Schneider, 1846, and Andrew Reinwald in 1847.

Township History .- The township of New Trier was organized at a meeting called by the County Clerk, at the house of Jolin Gurland, on the first Tuesday of April, 1850. Jesse Mattison acted as Moderator, and William H. Garland as Clerk. The first officers elected were : James Hartry, Supervisor ; John Garland, Clerk ; Andrew Hood and Anson H. Taylor, Justices of the Peace ; Michael Gormly, Assessor ; John Lauermann, Collector ; Anton Schneider, Overseer of the Poor ; Michael Deidrich, Michael Gormly and James Hartry, Commissioners of Highways. The Supervisors up to date havo been as follows: James Hartry, 1851; Michael Gormly, 1852-53; John Garland, 1854; Michael Gormly, 1855-57; John Schielgen, 1858-59 ; Michael Gormly, 1860; John Schielgen, 1861 ; Michael Gormly, 1862-64 ; Lambert Blum, 1865-66 ; Thomas M. Thompson, 1867-68; Jacob Conrad, 1869; Anton Hascamp, 1870-71 : election changed from November, 1872, to April, 1873; Anton Hascamp, 1873-79; J. N. Smith, 1880-84. The present town officers are: J. N. Smith, Supervisor ; John G. Wosterfield, Clerk ; Michael Gormly and John Schielgen, Justices of the Peace; Jolin Schaefer, Assessor ; Baptiste Mueller, Collector ; Panl Fehd, Daniel H. Mahoney and D. S. Kloepfer, Commissioners of Highways.

WILMETTE.

The reader has already learned who first settled upon the land afterwards platted as Wilmette and Win- netka. In 1838-39 Wilmette sold a portion of his lands and removed to Council Bluffs, lowa. Several of the family returned in 1843-44 and sold the re- maining interest, occupying the old homestead until July of the latter year. After subsequent transfers the village fell to its present proprietors. J.G. Woster- field, who had purchased the Wilmette homestead, tore down the old house in 1865. In 1861 HI. A. Din- gee, of New York, purchased 270 acres of the Wil- mette property for $4,000. Alexander McDaniel moved to Wilmette in the spring of 1869, and during this year, in connection with Messrs. Dingee, Westerfield,. Henry W. Blodgett and Simon V. Kline, platted the original site of the village. Several houses and a depot were built at this time. The village was at first called "Gross Point," as was the whole voting precinct north of Chicago and east of the Chicago River. Tho first plut consisted of about five hundred and twenty- five acres of land, to which subsequent additions of over three hundred acres have been made. The post- office dates from June 25, 1870, when Alex. McDaniel, the present incumbent, was appointed Postmaster. The principal proprietors of the villag: are now Messrs. McDaniel, Dingee, Westerfield, Lombard Dusham, Andrew J. Brown and John Gage.

The village of Wilmette was incorporated in October, 1872. and the following officers elected : Board of Trustees, A. McDaniol (President), C. F. Boggs, A. T. Sherman, B. M. Munn, Antos Shantz and John G. Westerfield ; Charles A. Vail, Clerk. B. M. Munn

was elected President in 1873 ; A. T. Sherman, 1874; A. Shantz, 1875-77; H. Latham, 1878-79; J. W. Finney, 1880-82. C. A. Vail served as Clerk until 1875, at which time he was succeeded by C. P. Wester- field, who continued in office for three years. R. S. M. Bennett was elected in 1878. John G. Westerfield has acted as Clerk since 1879.

Amos Shantz, so long connected with village affairs, died in December, 1883. The present officers are as follows: S. M. Dingee, Rev. William Nestrater, B. F. Hill, F. P. Sheldon and Frank L. Jey (President), Trustees; F. M. Cornell, Police Magistrate.

Wilmette is a pleasant suburb of abont nine hun- dred peoplo, situated on the line of the Chicago & North-Western Railroad, fourteen miles north of Chi- cago. The location is one of the most healthful that can be found, being more than thirty feet above the level of Lake Michigan, and made attractive by the deuse growth of oaks, elms, maples and bass-wood which is found in this vicinity. This also acts as a barrior against the cold winds of winter, and fur- nishes a delightful retreat from the heat and dust of the city in summer. In addition to its natural bean- ties it may be said, with truth, that the religions, social and educational advantages of Wilmette are all that could be wished. The village has three churchos and the sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited by ordinance.

The Churches -The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in October, 1878, with Rev. M. Auer as pastor. Since that time Revs. C. W. Thornton, J. P. Bushingtrom, J. A. Mattock, R. W. Arms, H. B. Ridge- way and J. H. Alling. The society has no church.

The First Congregational Church of Wilmette was organized June 13, 1875, Rev. E. P. Wheeler being pastor. He continued in charge of the society from May, 1876. to January, 1880; Rev. S. T. Kidder for two years thereafter, and Rev. J. H. Parr from May, 1883, to date. In September, 1883, the building was comploted and the society entered its new house of worship, having previously occupied the school-bouse. The present membership is abont thirty, the society being ont of debt and self-supporting.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 115

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas Number of Pages: 875

Author: Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore), 1839-1900
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago : A.T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 875