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GRAND CROSSING.
In 1854, two railroad trains collided at the crossing of the Illinois Central and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads, on what is now Seventy-fifth street. One result of that accident was a decree from the tail- road companies that all trains should stop before reach- ing the crossing of the roads; and this suggested to Paul Cornell that the adjacent country would be a con- venient site for a village, and on November 10, 1855. he bought a section of land there and gradually added thereto, merely paying taxes on the property and keep- ing improvements away-so as not to enhance the property valuation, and consequently the taxes levied thereupon-until 1871. Nine hundred and sixty acres in Sections 26 and 35, Township 38 north, Range 14 east, were platted and subdivided as
CORNELL,
the final plat being filed on February 16, 1872 ; the orig- inal plat of the village ascended, with a quantity of other possessions of Mr. Cornell, in the smoke of the great fire. Cornell is four and a half miles south of the city limits, and is especially eligible for manufacturing sites; the large number of railroads centering there, over which three hundred trains run daily, render the receipt of raw material and the shipment of the manufactured article a facile process. The town has a hotel-the Grand Crossing Hotel built in 1871, by Mr. Cornell- and furnishes educational facilities at two schools. The first school, called the Cornell school, was built, in 1873, on land given by Mr Cornell, but the extension of vil- lage boundaries and the repletion of the Cornell school necessitated the erection of another, and the Madison- avenue school was built in 1883." The first manu- facturing establishment was erected by Mr. Cornell, in · For particulars of These schools, vre "Schools " in article on Hyde Park.
1870-71, and was the Cornell Watch Factory. This building was erected at a cost of 870,000, and the watch- making was successfully carried on until 1875, when the machinery, etc., was transferred to California, and in December, 1875, the Wilson Sewing Machine Company occupied the building and remained therein until 1882. when the plant was removed to Wallingford, Ct., the administration of the Wilson Sewing Machine Company having changed. In 1860, or 1861, Paul Cornell pur- chased the territory around, and comprising, the settle- ment of
BROOKLINE,
and Charles A. Norton and Paul Cornell subdivided it. This hamlet lies west of Cottage Grove Avenue and north of Seventy-fifth street, and was one of the carly settlements of the village of Hyde Park. They had a little school there in 1868; and the death of Mr. Field, Sr., during the same year, is supposed to have been the demise of the first white man in all that section of country. The earliest settlers were John, Peter and James Storms ; John and Orville Field; Peter Cudmore, then connected with the Prairie Farmer, and the Nichols family. Prior to the erection of the Cornell Watch Factory the section which was subdivided and legally named Cornell, but subsequently renamed Grand Cross- ing by Mr. Cornell, because there was another post- office in the State called "Cornell," was one vast expanse of water meadows. The early history of Cornell may be epitomized as-a small depot, a railroad crossing and a telegraph office. W. H. Albright was the agent of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, until April 1, 1866, when the present agent, R. P. Dunne, was appointed, and he, literally, was the first settler at Cornell. The first store-keeper was Joseph Lawton, who kept a general stock of goods on Seventy-sixth Street near E.gandale Avenue, and he was the first person resident of the town of C'ornell, arriving there April 11, 1872. Those who built the first dwelling-houses in Cornell were Joseph Lawton, John Burke, Paul Cornell and Adam Neeb, in 1872. The first Postmaster was R. P. Dunne, appointed April 1, 1872 ; the present Posmaster, Joseph Lawton, succeeded him July 1, 1872. In April, 1872, the name of the village was changed from Cornell to Grand Crossing, by Mr. Cornell, to avoid the confusion created by the identity of names of this Cornell and another in Livingston County ; and the applicability of the new name has so forcibly commended itself that it was adopted by the railroad authorities and gradually by the inhabitants.
The first religious services held were by Rev. W. H. Holmes in the railroad station on October 27. 1872 ; he and Henry C. Northrop commenced relig- ious work in that month, and on January 3, 1873, an organization was made with a congregation of nine members and three probationers. July 13. 1873, the church edifice was dedicated, the land upon which it was erected having been donated by Mr. Cornell, who also gave $1, 200 toward the building fund. The money with which the church was built was solicited princi- pally by Miss Nina G. Lunt. In the summer of 1883 an addition twenty feet by twenty-four feet was built to the church. The Sunday-school at organization had thir- teen scholars ; it now has three hundred and seventeen ; the number of members now is one hundred and twenty- eight. The church property is worth $5.500. The following have been the pastors of the church : Sup- plies : at organization, W. F1 Holmes : October, 1874-75, J. W. Duncan : October, 1875-76, D. M. Tompkins; October, 1876-79, J. W. Richards, pastor; October,
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1879, F. S. Parks became pastor, and in February, 1880, was clected president of Simpson Centenary College, Indianola, Iowa, and the church was supplied hy E. Trevor, S. Cord, R. Shorts and T. M. Hartley until October, 1881, when B. F. Hardin became pastor. February, 1882, J. R. Welborn supplied, continuing until October, 1882, when the present pastor, W. H. Holmes, assumed charge.
The Catholic Congregation at Grand Crossing numbers about three hundred, with an attendance at the Sunday- school of some eighty scholars. Their spiritual needs are supplied by a priest who visits the village and says mass at Social Hall, but this method will shortly be abrogated, as steps are now being taken to erect a church edifice befitting the size of the congregation.
There are several secular societies which meet in the village. Amo Lodge, Knights of Honor, No. 1,826, was instituted October 14. 1879, with fourteen charter inem- bers. The first officers elected were : A. J. Davis, dicta- tor ; C. H. Pattison, vice dictator ; R. D. Kirhy, assistant dictator ; H. L .. Pease, reporter ; M. M. Barnes, financial reporter ; J. W. Tinsley, treasurer ; J. W. Halliday, chaplain ; William McDowell, guide; A. F. Hunt, guardian, and John Dutnall, sentinel. The present membership is sixty-one, and the officers are: G. Il. Chapman, dictator; W. L. Gray, vice dictator ; J. S. Scovel, assistant dictator; Hiram L. Pease, * reporter ; Julius Müller, financial reporter ; A. C. Kantz- ler, treasurer ; William Gill, chaplain ; E. Burns, guide ; A. J. Davis, guardian ; William Everett, sentinel ; H> I .. Pease, medical examiner ; J. C. Scovel. G. G. Thomson, H. L. Pease, trustecs ; E. C. Scovel, sitting past dicta- tor. There have been but two deaths in the lodge in four years, with an average of thirty-six members.
Court Star of Hope, No. 6,847, A. O. F., was insti- tuted in 1880. The last list of officers given in the directory was W. Van Vorst, P. C. R .; A. Ward, C. R .; E. Fletcher, S. C. R .; H. S. Kern, secretary ; H. L. Pease, treasurer ; W. Graham, S. W .; J. Groom, J. W .; L. H. Knapp, S. B .; R Edmunds, J. B.
The Athletes of Grand Crossing likewise have a Turn Verein, which was organized February 21, 1878, with a membership of about forty ; the officers elected the same day were : First sprecher ( president ), Julius Müller ; second sprecher ( vice-president ), H. Hacken- broch ; William Seidler, secretary ; H. Kettler, treas- urer ; Joseph Koenig, first turnwart ; Fred Werdele, second turnwart, and John Wodrich, steward. The society at present has a membership of thirty-six per- sons, and has a complete paraphernalia of gymnastic apparatus. It also has two lots on the corner of Sev- enty-fifth Street and Dobson Avenue, where it intends erecting a Turn-Ilalle when the requisite funds shall have been subscribed, Its officers at present are : George Kuhr, president ; G. Landolf, vice-president ; E. Seitz, secretary, from whom these particulars were obtained ); J. Wodrich, cashier ; G. Hackenbroch, treas- urer ; Ferd Hansen, first turnwart ; Josephs Roedel, second turnwart, and HI. Hackenbroch, steward.
There is also a West Side Draining Association that contemplates draining the locality by pumping off the surface water. Its officers are ; Joseph Lawton, presi- dent : F. l'atzack, vice-president ; Hugo Boos, treasurer, and H. C. Rohinson, secretary.
THE MANUFACTURES OF GRAND CROSSING .- The Wilson Foundry, Williamson & Barker, proprietors, was established in 1876, at an ontlay for buildings and machinery of $16,000; the number of men employed at the outset was nineteen, the augmentation of the busi-
ness since increased the number to fifty-two. The amount paid out last year for freight received by the foundry was 81,320; the value of manufactured goods $55,000,
The Chicago Linseed Oil mill was erected in 1879 by William Kay, William Aldrich, J. F. Aldrich, H. T. Yaryan and P. C. Hanford. The last named gentle- man bought out the interests of the other partners in 1883, and now controls the manufactory alone. The capacity of the mill is stated at one thousand bushels of seed and fifty barrels of oil per diem, the latter being produced by what is known as the naphtha process of extraction. The average number of employes is four- teen.
Chapman, Green & Company's chemical works were established in 1876, having been removed from Hudson, Mich., in that year, where they had been in successful operation since 1865. The value of the annual product of the works is estimated at $150,000; an increase in their trade of over $130,000 in seven years. The estimated cost of buildings and chemical apparatus is 84,000. The members of the firm are; Dennison, W. Chapman, George W. Green, C. A. Baker and Alonzo Cook. They employ from twenty-five to thirty-five workmen.
The sewing-machine furniture factory of F. Pat- zack, Hugo Boos and J. Routchke was established in 1868 by Patzack & Schultz. This firm dissolved in 1876, and F. Patzack removed to Grand Crossing and erected a cabinet-making shop one hundred and twenty- five feet by forty feet, three stories high; a finishing, packing and shipping shop one hundred feet by thirty feet, three stories high; both of brick; a drying kiln, seventy-five feet by twenty feet, and a store-house for veneers, seventy-five feet by twenty-five feet. The capital invested will aggregate $100,000, and the value of the thirty thousand pieces manufactured per annum will amount to ahout $80,000. The firm employ one hundred and ten hands during the busy season.
The Chicago Tack Company, Orrin L. Bassett, pro- prietor, established their works on September 1, 1876, at an outlay of $12,000, and the number of men em- ployed the first year was ten, and the value of the man- ufactures $40,000. In the present year thirty-three hands were employed, and the sales aggregated $160,000. The charges paid to railroad companies for freights to their factory last year amounted to about $5,000. The supply of iron used is obtained principally from Sweden.
The Lyman Barbed Wire Manufacturing Company was established in April, 1879, by F. T. Sherman, E. J. Marsh, E. N. Sherman and E. S. Marsh, the members forming an incorporated company with a capital of $10,000. The building was leased from William Ald- rich, and was successively used as a linseed oil mill, a furniture factory, and in October, 1880, as a barbed- wire factory, when $20,000 worth of machinery was placed in the building. The patent under which this firm manufacture was obtained by Ross Lyman, of Des Moines, lowa, and purchased from him in 1879. The number of men employed in 1880 was twenty; in 1883, seventy-five. The product for the year ending October, 188t, was valued at $250,000; for the same period of 1883 it aggregated $600,000. The company receive and ship about ten thousand tons of wire annually, and pay 840,000 per annum freight charges. The Dominion Barbed Ware factory, at Montreal, Canada, was estab- lished by Marsh & Sherman in 1880, and sold to Cooper, Fairman & Company January 1, 1883. November, 1883, the works were shut down, but their opening
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was anticipated for an carly date with new and im- proved machinery.
The Mason & Davis foundry was built int t881. and furnishes employment to abont one hundred men. It manufactures a large variety of small castings, as well as those required for large heating and cooking stoves.
The Chicago Rubber Clothing Company established their factory at Grand Crossing in July, 1882, at an expenditure of $10,000, and the works placed in charge of J. S. Redington, Thirty mechanics are employed, amil the annual product of the factory estimateil at one million yards of rubber cloth, worth $180.000. The total sales of rubber clitlt and clothing for the year terminating July, 1883, amounted to alwout 8300,000.
The Chicago Lock Company, organized under the laws of the State in July, 1882, establishedl their factory at Grand Crossing in August of the same year. The machinery, patterns, building, etc., cost about $15,000. The works are at present inoperative, but the manage- ment expect to open them shortly, and furnish employ ment to forty men. The officers of the company are: 11. D. Huff, president; S. S. Calkins, treasurer, and Jantes T. Ganson, secretary.
The Grand Crossing Tack Company was incorpo- rated August 29, 1883, with a capital of $10,000. The stock compatty comprises Arthur J. Bassett, Edward W. Hutchinson and Theophila E. Bassett. The factory employs twenty-two hands, and althought they have been running but about three months, they have already secured a large and increasing trade.
Wilson Hose Company, No. 4 .- On June 18, 1876, Wilson Hose Company, No. 4. was organized with the following members: J. Ditt, captain : W. C. Cogswell, lieutenant ; J. C. Mulcahey, first assistant lieutenant ; W. H. Raynor, president ; D. B. Kirby, vice-presi- dent; Martin King, treasurer; Henry Ellsworth, secretary : Jantes Damey, steward ; Sylvester Bracken, Thomas Raynor, John Bracken, Robert Shirley, Joseph Mulcahey, George Troller, K. A. Seites and William E. Gill, privates, The name of this company has since Ixen changed to Grand Crossing Hose Company, No. 4 ; their apparatus originally consisted of one hand hook and ladder truck and one hand huse cart. Their pres- ent engine house is situated at the corner of Dulsson and Seventy-Fifth streets, and cost 82,500 ; and the company now has a double horse hook and ladder truck and one two-wheeled hand hose cart, with one thou- sand feet of rithber hose ; and an auxiliary company of No. 4 has a hand hose cart and five hundred feet of rubber hose. The present members of the company are : A. Hackenbrock, captain ; R. F. Boos, lieuten- ant : F. Hansen, first assistant ; G. Hackenhrock, president ; M. Wolf, vice-president ; J. Mullen, treas- urer ; O. Hansen, cashier ; Juseph Roedel, secretary; T. Schlinsky, steward ; J. Wodrich, O. A. Seidler, T. Belton, William Ellfelt, Emil Seitz and H. Hacken. brock, privates.
GRAND CROSSING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
A. J. BASSETT, president and treasurer of the Grand Crossing Tack Company, was born in Taunion, Mass., in (852, and was educated in his native town. In 1872 be settled in Chicago As agent lor the Taunton Tack Company, and remained in their em- ploy until 1876 when he became connected with the Chicago Tack Company as commercial manager. This he continued until 1883. when the Grand Crossing Tack Company was organized, of which he is a co-partner.
ORRIN L. BASSETT, proprietor of the Chicago Tack Com- pany. was born in Taunton, Mass., April 16, 1624. After leaving school he worked on the home farm, also learning the trade of
wheelwright under his father. He afterward learned the trade of carpenter and pattern-maker, which he followed until the year 1548. He then went to California and engaged in mining. Returzing to Massachusel:s after an absence of about Two years, he was em- ployed in George I'. Foster & Co's gun manufactory as a pal- tern-maker, ile was next employed by General Burnside as ass stant superintendent in the wood department in a gun mass. factory at Rhode Island. 1x 1358 he accepted a position in the Taunion Tack Factory. in Taunton, of which he was an owner and director, running and building machines. At the end of the second year he had constructed aud built on a new plan a leather, carpet and a tack machine, the same pattern of tack machine that is used to-day by the Chicago Tack Company, and from which nearly every tack machine built since has enpied. With the ex. ception of eleven months (from :563 to 1864) during which he served in the war in the 3d Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Company K. Ile remained with the Taunton Tack Company eighteen yeats. In 1877 he removed to Cook County and estab. lished the Chicago Taek Company at Grand Crossing.
J. C. BLEWETT. superintendent of the Western Steel Com- pany, was burn in Buff ilo, New York, in 1841. Ile was educaled In his native city A1 the age of nineteen he engaged in sailing an the lakes in the summer. In the winter he was employed in machine shops, being what is called a " natural mechanic." la 1870 he cemovel to Chicago, where he engageil in lake service, having charge of steam dredge and flee :. In 1873 he baill the " Dret liarte," an excursion steamer. and commanded her until ISso, when he sold out, and the following year took present posi- tion. Mr. Hleweit is a member of the A. O. U. W. of Chicago; being a Select Knight of the Order.
JOIN BORLING, of the firm of Gustafson & Borling, com- tractors and busklers, was born in Ostesgotland, Sweden, June 30, 1545, After leaving school he was engaged in mandaeturing establishments in various positions until 1867, when he came to the United States. He first located on Long Island for a lew months, then removed to Pennsylvania ; from there he removed to Chicago. Shortly afterward he came to flyde Pask. where he fol nwed the trade of carpenter some four years. Thence he removed in Grand Crossing and followed the same business until the present film was organized, He was married in Ilyde Park in 1872 to Miss Emma Skag, a native of Sweden. They have two children-Jubn Victor and Augusta Elvira. Mr. Borling is a member of the K. of H. of Grand C'rowing.
G. H. CHAPMAN, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Tallmadge, Summit Cn., Ohio, November to, 1850. He was educated in the schools and academy of his native town. In iš7t he settled in Iludson, Mich., where he commenced studying medi- cine under his father, a practicing physician. The following year he entered the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor. At the elnse of the course he removed to Chicago and studied under Dr A. Reeves Jackson, at the same time attending lectures at Rush Medical College. He graduated February, 1874, then returnei to lludson and engaged in practice with his father. In 15 ;; he settled in Grand Crossing in the practice of his profession, Dr. Chapman is a member of the American Medical Association and of the K. of 11.
WILLIAM DENNISON, superintendent nf Oak Woods Cemetery, was appointed to his present position March, ist2. He was born In South Shield, Durham County, England, and received his education in his native county. He was brought up at gardening and followed the same business in England until 1866, when he came to the United States and settled in Chicago, where for some years he followed the business of contracting sione fronts for business blocks anst privale houses. At first as an employé, afterward in business fur himself. lle subsequently engaged in general occupations until appointed to his present position.
R. P. DUNN, agent I. C .. P., Ft. W. & C., I. S. and M. C. railways, also agent for American and United States Express, was appointed to this station in 1563, and has retained it uninter- ruptedly since. He was born in Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio, September 2, 1842. His parents moved to London, Madison County, when he was an infant. He waseducated in London. After leaving school he learnt telegraphy at l'eoria, Ill. In 1959 he engaged in clerking in a hardware store in Hlenry, Ill., remaming about three years, the last year being in charge of the business. He then removed to Plymouth, Ind., when he began his railroad life as operator in the office of the P. & FI. W. R. R. In 1863 he went to Chicago as telegraph and ticket agent of the P. & Fl. W. R. R., a position he retained u ntil app inted to Grand Crossing. He was married in Henry County, JIt., February 2, 1563. to Miss Mary 11. Collins. They have had eight children, of which three survive-Mary F., George If., Walter Lu Rufus P., Francis H. and Robert B. Mr. Dunn is a member of ile B. HI, " Grand {'roteing.
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MRS. A. J. FRENCH, M. D., physician and surgeon, is a native of Oneida County. New York, the family afterward moving to St. Lawrence County and from there to Milwaukee, Wis., finally settling in Chicago in 1572. In 1878. Mis. French entered the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, graduating in 1830, and the same spring commenced practice in Grand Crossing.
CALEB GRAY, assistant foreman in the nickel plate car repairing shops at Stony Island, was born in Chester County, l'enn., September 12, 1831. lle was raised and educated at Alle- gheny City, Penn., where he began work in the car repairing shops ol the l'ittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad in 1852, when that railroad was first projected, and remained in their employ nntil 1878. During his employment with the above company he was promoted to foreman. In 1875 he removed to the Pittsburgh Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Counelsville, Fay- ette Co., Penn., where he had charge of their shops until t8St. Thenee he removed to Lafayette, Ind., where he was car inspector for the latter milroad a year, after which he went to Conneaut, Ohio, and took charge of the same company's shops until he came to his present place in January, 1884. Ile is a member of the Royal Arch Masons, and Eureka Chapter, Fidelia Lodge, No. 415, 1. O. O. F. May 24, 1855, he married Miss Julia A. McClelland, of Ohio Township, Allegheny Co., T'enn. They have four sons- Charles, Frank, Lewis and Harry.
GUSTAFSON & BORLING, contractors and builders. This firm was organized in 1976, and has remained in active operation sinee. They do a large and increasing business, doing all the principal work in this vicinity. Among their prominent contracts may be enumerated one of thirty cottages, built in ninety days, for Mr. Jacobs, of Chicago, the Chicago Linseed Oil works and four blacks of cottages, the Winnepeg Block at South Chicago and Hyde Park School. Fred Gustafson, of above firm, was born in Wearnersbury, Sweden, December 28, 1846. After leaving school he was apprenticed in the carpenter's trade at the age of fficen, and followed this, with the exception of a short time he was engaged in a manufacturing establishment, until 1867, when he came to the United States and located in Chicago. Ile afterward followed his trade in llyde l'ark until t871, when he settled in Grand Crossing. He was married in Valparaiso, Ind., to Miss Clara Anderson, a native of Sweden. They have three children -Frank, Matilda and Ludwig. Mr. Gustafson is a member of the A. F. & A. M.
EDWARD P. HANSEN, attorney at law, came to Cook County in 1848. his father, Henry Hansen, locating on a farm near Blue Island. The subject of this sketch was brought ap on the farm, and at the age of eighteen he entered a printing office in Chicago, at the same Time reading law In his leisure hours. In 186t he enlisted in the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry ; and the following year was transferred to the 7th Independent Battery, attached to the Army of the Potomac. He took part in the campaigns in the Peninsula and in West Virginia. In 1864, on account of disability caused by wounds, he was discharged, and returned home, when he engaged in farming. In 1871 he engaged In mercantile business in Blue Island, in which he continued until 1876. He then entered the office of Barher & Lightner and began the regular study of the law. He was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois, Jannary 4, 1878, amil immediately be. gan practice in Chicago, where he remained nnill 1880, when te removed to Grand Crossing. Mr. Ilanson is a member of Calu. met Lodge, No. 760. A. F. & A. M .; and Washington Chapter, No. 43. Royal Arch Mason. Ile is also a member of the Masonic Matn .I Benefit Association,
REV. WILLIAM II. HOLMES, B. D., pastor of Grand Crossing Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Caledonia County. Vt., March 15, 1844. Ile received his preliminary educa- tion in the public schools of his native State, and at Eastman Col- lege, l'ouglikeepsie, N. Y. August 13. 1862. he enlisted for three years In Company E, 6th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and wns attached to the Old Vermont Brigade, Sixth Corps, Army of the l'otomic. lle took part in the attack on Fredericksburg. Decem- ber 11-13. 1862 ; the Chancellorsvitle campaign ; capture of Fred. ericksburg Ileights; battle of Salem Heights; the third battle of Frederleksburg. June. 1863, and the battle of Gettysburg. Afterward, by reason of sickness, he was sent to a hospital and thenee to Convalescent Camp, from which he was honorably dis- charged January 2, 1864. Ile returned home, and shortly after. on account of poor health, removed to New York State and served for some time as a coachman and gardener. As soon as his health would admit he entered Eastm in College, from which he graduated in 1867, and immediately engaged as a teacher in Jonesville Academy. Saratoga Co., N. Y. Two years later he accepted a position in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingstone Co., N. V., where he taught three years, but having decided to enter the university, resigned June, 1872, and removed West to enter Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Cook Co., Ill, During
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