History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 152

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

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N. G .; J. A. Danielson, L. S. N. G .; G. D. Uebele, R. S. V. G .: P. Jefferson, L. S. V. G .; N. Heinsen, O. G .; J. D. Williams, I. G .; G. Prosser, R. S. S.

Harbor Lodge, No. 731, A., F. & A. M., received its dispensation April 15, 1875, and was chartered Octo- ber 5, 1875. with the following charter members : A. R. Beck, W. M .; George K. Edwards, S. W .; W. B. Arnold, J. W .; R. Ransom, T .; Peter Schlund, S .; W. J. McVay, S. D .; William Culver, J. D .; John B. Char- bonneau, tyler ; Abe Kleinman, A. M. Ellis, F. M. Web- ster, A. J. Burroughs and Andrew Krimbill. The first raising was in September, 1875, that of A. M. Ellis. The present officers are : R. L. Lindley, W. M .; T. D. Avann, S. W .; W. H. Jones, J. W .; A. R. Beck, treasurer ; W. J. McVay, secretary ; George K. Edwards, S. D .; E. Daugherty, J. D., and S. M. Ar- nold, tyler. The membership is ninety-six.

Triluminar Lodge, U. D., has the following member. ship : S. B. Bendell, W. M .; A. W. Mclaughlin, S. W .; George O. Brine, J. W .; Jacob Hermann, T .; John Mergenthaler, S .; J. G. Laning, S. D .; L. A. White, J. D .; E. Erfurth, tyler ; G. D). Uebele, G. A. Bengston, W. H. Wilkenson, Oscar Patterson, Joseph Snyder, William C. Clark, Mauritz Keil, William Farnsworth, S. P. Miller, H. J. Ellis, Thomas W. Johnston and James McElvoy.

Sinai Chapter, No. 185, R. A. M., received a dispen- sation December 15, 1881, and was chartered October 27, 1882. The first officers were A. R. Beck, M. E. H. P .; W. B. Arnold, E. K .; George K. Edwards, E. S .; E. P. Summers, secretary. The first team that passed through the arch were R. L. Lindley, J. D. Wright and R. J. Rowlands, and the feat was successfully accom- plished on March 6, 1882. The present officers of the chapter are : A. R. Beck, M. E. H. P .; W. B. Arnold, E. K .; Thomas Dowler, E. S .; J. D. Wright, C. of H .; J. G. Laning, P. S .; Louis Bush, R. A. C .; Ambrose N. Smith, G. M. 3d V. : Isaac H. Bendell, G. M. 2d V .; J. Hermann, G. M. Ist V .; T. D. Avann, secretary, and August Schnell, treasurer. The number of royal arch companions is forty-eight. The Chapter and Bhe Lodge meet at the Masonic Hall, corner of Houston Avenue and Ninety-second Street.

South Chicago Division, No. 85, S. of T., was organized October 10, 1881, with James Henshaw, W. P .; Mrs. Flora Grant, W. A .; B. F. Hill, Jr., R. S .; W. Willis, F. S .; C. E. Bacon, T .; B. C. Garside, C., and T. D. Avann, D. G. W. P. The present offi- cers are : William Henshaw, W. P .; I,izzie Jones, W. A .; W. Cletenberg, R. S .; J. Alsop, F. S .; T. D. Avann, T .; B. A. Powers, C., and George W. Richards, D. G. W. P. The membership is one hundred and ten.

A. E. Burnside Post, No. 109, G.A. R., Department of Illinois, located at South Chicago, was organized pursu- ant to a call from Alfred Wilson, inserted in the news- papers and circulated by means of hand-bills, asking the ex-soldiers living in the vicinity to assemble at Eig- enman's Ilall on the evening of August 17, 1881. In answer to that request there assembled the following, by whom Alfred Wilson was unanimously selected as chair- man of the meeting ; C. B. Rushmore, T. R. Grant, W. H. Ford, George W. Richards, James Henshaw, E. Newell, C. E. Bradford, William A. Nuckels, Adolph Oelkers and William Kratzenberg. Another meeting was hekl August 27, and arrangements made for the organization of a post, on the evening of September 14, 1881. On that evening the post was organized, with the following charter members : Alfred Wilson, T. R. Grant, W. H. Ford, W. T. Monical, A. J. Scott, James Henshaw, Adolph Oelkers, George W. Richards, C. B.

Rushmore, Chris. O'Bryan, William Kratzenberg, Charles E. Bradford, William Schneegass, Henry B. Newsam, R. W. Washburn and George A. Wilson ; and the following officers were elected : James Henshaw, commander ; Alfred Wilson, S. V. commander ; T. R. Grant, J. V. commander : Adolph Oelkers, O. D .; Chris. O'Bryan, O. G .; C. B. Rushmore, chaplain ; A. J. Scott, Q. M .; M. B. Arnold, surgeon, and Newton Mckee, adjutant. The present officers of the post are: Alfred Wilson, commander ; I .. A. White, S. V. com- mander: L. L. Fosberry, J. V. commander ; C. B. Rushmore, chaplain ; M. B. Arnold, surgeon ; A. N. Smith, O. D .; Charles Ricksicker, O. G .; L. L. Den- nick, Q. M., and H. C. Hoffman, adjutant. The post has now a membership of fifty-five.

Calumet Council, No. 569, R. A., was instituted March 8, 1881, with thirty-one charter members, The present membership is fifty, and the officers are : S. A. Pow- ers, regent ; P. M. Conboy, vice-regent ; Fenton Tins- ley, orator ; Michael Smith, past regent ; W. HI. Sulli- van, secretary, (who furnished this data) ; George F. Long, collector ; John R. Emerson, treasurer ; C. F. Swan, chaplain ; C. H. Howell, guide ; P. Cratty, war- den : A W. McLaughlen, sentry, and Drs. C. F. Swan and A. W. Mclaughlin, medical examiners.

Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers' Associa- tion, Michigan Lodge, No. 1, meets at South Chicago ; David Ray, president ; Thomas MeNamara, vice-presi- dent ; Theophile Laramie, secretary ; William McVey, financial secretary, and William Lowry, treasurer.

E. E Ellsworth Division, No. 12, K. P., was instituted August 16, 1883, with the following officers : J. P. Otto, C .; P. C. Davies, L. C .; G. A. Samonski : H .; Charles O'Neil, R .; H. Evans, T .; J. Hagan G .; D. Reid, S., and J. Lyon, S. B. It now has thirty mem- bers and is in a flourishing condition.

Bowen Lodge, No. 122, was instituted on January 18, 1884, by District Deputy George O. Garnsey, with the following officers: W. II. Colehour, P. C .; John Hamburg, C. C .; Charles Boldt, V. C .; W. H. Taylor, P .; W. M. Dixon, K. of R. and S. ; 1 .. N. Dikkey, M. of F .; Peter Carr, M. of E .; Gotlieb Edelman, M. at A .; William Scholing, I. G .; and J. C. Gomichson, O. G.

Division No. 9, A. O. H.,* was instituted Novem- ber 7, 1878, with the following officers: Michael Doyle, president; E. D. Tobin, vice-president; Edward Owens, recording secretary: James Conley, financial secretary; and John Fogarty, treasurer. The present officers are: E. D. Tobin, president; Thomas Egan, vice-president; Michael McManus, financial secretary; John Colbert, recording secretary: Thomas Farrell, treasurer, and Bernard Conway, marshal. The present membership is three hundred and fifty.

South Chicago Land League was organized March 27. 1881 : Dan Duggan, president ; James F. Duffy, vice-president ; J. J. Larkin, secretary, and Michael Doyle, treasurer. The membership numbers four hun- dred. The National League was organized October 12. 1883, with Michael Doyle, president ; John Murphy. vice-president : Dan Duggan, secretary ; John Colbert, treasurer, and fifty members.

THE MUTUAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF HYDE PARK has the following officers: Fritz Jaeger, president; August Busse, vice-president; P. C. Crawford, secretary, and C. Eigenman, treasurer.

THE SOUTH CHICAGO BUILDING & LOAN ASSO- CIATION has the following officers: A. R. Beck, presi- dent; J. Beynon, vice-president; T. D. Avann, secretary;

"Data relative to this and kindred organizations were courteously furnished by Michael Doyle.

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J. R. Flood, treasurer: J. H. Schlund, attorney; A. R. Beck, J. Beynon, C. Rasch W. D. Phillips, E. 1). Tobin, H. Heinson, J. E. Danielson, J. Dorrans and A. Krim- bill, directors,

SOUTH CHICAGO SPORTSMEN'S CLUB has the follow- ing officers: Joseph H. Hubercheck, president; E. 1 .. Hassenstein, vice-president; Charles J. Danielson, sec- retary and treasurer, and Charles H. Krinshill, assistant treasurer.

SOUTH CHICAGO DRAMATH: CLUB first came into existence on December 15, 1882, with the following officers: George W. Richards, manager; George I'. Long, stage manager : B. C. Garside, secretary; C. S. Bowman, treasurer; Frank G. White, musical director. The manager is also the manager of the South Chicago Opera Hause-owned by R. A. Davis-in the Winnipeg Block.

FIDUCIARY INTERESTS are represented by the de- positary of John 1 .. Marsh, the Home Bank, and the Cal- umet National Bank of South Chicago, which purchased the interest of the South Chicago Bank, of which J. Ram- sey. Flood was manager. The officers of the Calumet National Bank, whose organization was completed in December, 1883, are H. P. Taylor, president ; E. G. Clark, vice-president, and C. P. Wilder, cashier. The tlirectars are H. P. Taylor, E. G. Clark, Andrew Krim- bill. A. R. Beck, C, F Swan, C. E. Bacon and William A. Hammond. The capital is $50,000 ; the stock be- ing fully paid up and bekl hy the directors, except an interest of which C. R. Cummings is the proprietar.

The Citizens' Literary Association supports this praiseworthy institution, the rooms pertaining to which are in the Winnipeg Block. The Chicago daily papers as well as local issues, are un file there, and a library also furnishes mental food gratis to those who desire it.

Company K, second regiment of infantry Illinois National Guard, was mustered into the service on April 19, 1883. The present members are John A. Melntosh, Captain; Charles H. Krimhill, First Lieuten- ant, and Harry C. Hoffman, Second Lieutenant; Martin Ant, John W. Boyer, James W. Ball, Bernard F. Clet- tenberg, Williams Cook, George H. De Kay, Max Eck. stein, William S. Farnsworth, Elmer M. Gates, Harry Grant, Edwin E. Griswold, Frank F. Goodsite, George B. Hannahs, David Hazard, Louis Hansen, August F. Kestermeier, Matthew Kramer, Charles W. landner, John W. Lagergren, Henry R. Lakin, Cyrus W. Long, Henry McGee, Riley 1 .. Mickey, Charles M. Matthews, Thomas E. Martin, James C. Mauer, John Mahony, Charles McSloy, Jeremiah Nolan, Victor E. Pauline, Martin Peterson, Michacl Ricksecker, John Rielly, W. N. Shute, John Spittal, Dave W. Slottabeck, John E. Salade, Stephen 1). Spargs, John, Todhunter, John J. Tobin, John Wright, Louis Wiborg. Alfred Wilson, Frank S. Kekling, Ben C. Garside, Cornelius S. Pear- san, Max Austerman, Howard Squier and George Gramlich.

THE PRESS .-- The following account of the various papers of which the Post is the successor is given by Mr. Krimbill. In the spring of 1873 H. 1 .. Goodall & Company started the South Chicago Enterprise; on June 26, 1875, Walt Whitman first issued the Times. In the fall of 1875 Mr. Goodall bought ont Mr. Whitman and consolidated the papers under the name of Enterprise and Times, In the spring of 1875 Messrs, Mudge & Mead started the Bulletin ; in November, 18;6, Mr. Goodall bought out that paper and consolidated the Enterprise and Times and the Bulletin into the Dollar Weekly Sun, which he in turn soll to the South Chicago Post and Printing Company, who issned the Post as a

dar'y newspaper. It is edited under the auspex the company, is the official organ of the village Hyde Park and is owned by ahout sixty of the busine- men of South Chicago ; the capital invested being Ste,Doo. The South Chicago Post Printing Compare was organized May 1, 1883, with the following officers. K. 1. Davis, president : W. B. Arnakl, secretary , An- diew Krimbil, treasurer : R. A. Davis, W' B. Arnold, \ Krabi:1, Charles 1. Danielson, G. A. Russell and 4 . Rasch, directors, The South Chicago Independent was started September 21, 1882, and is not the official argan of the village of Hyde Park. This is its mani- festo in its head-lines, and its issues corroborate the assertion. It is a daily issue, and is published by the South Chicago Publishing Company, whose officers ate: W. H. Colebour, president ; Ernst Hummel, vice-presi- dent ; D). B. Stancliff, secretary ; Jacob Bremer, treas- urer, and Edward Fleischer,* managing cilitor. The capital stock is $10,000, and although ill success was predicted for the paper, it tided over the evil tlay, and the stockhoklers appear well satisfied with their invest- ment. Its merit and its advocacy of the interests of South Chicago have been its appreciated recommendla- tion.

South Chicago Tribune was first issued on June 30. 1881, by E. E. Griswold, editor, publisher and pro- prietor, as a weekly paper. It is the oldest paper pull- lished in the village of Hyde Park, has a circulation if about one thousand, is independent in politics with a tendency toward Republicanism, and is an eight-page paper, thirty inches by forty-four inches in size.

From the foregoing recapitulation of existent insti- tutions in the Calumet region, it will be seen that the pioneer days of South Chicaga are long since past, and its standing in the commercial world is an assured fact; assured from three reasons : its excellence for manufac- tories-demonstrated by those now occupying the region : its accessibility for receipt and shipment of freight evinced by the number of railroads now there and authorized to go there, and its contiguity to materials, with which to construct the factories that are the units in the sum of South Chicago's future great- ness. Schuols, churches, societies, business-blacks, banks ; every attribute of a metropolis is there and the seekers after eligible locations for manufacturing industries, for lumber-yards, for coal-yards ; for every species of locality, where large areas can be artificially or naturally made accessible to cheap transportation facilities ; find them at South Chicago. The latent facilities that induced George M. Pullman to build his city on the shore of Lake Calumet ; the favorable pre- sentients that created the inchoate town of Hegewisch, are just as potent at South Chicago; and there those who want to build factories, where they employ a few less than two or three thousand operatives, will seek and find their sites. Only one thing can retard the progress of South Chicago-save a panic and that is- the holding of real estate at such prices as will. from their excess, counterbalance the economy found in the facile transportation. If no advamage to the manufact- urer or shipper is achievable hy his settlement at South Chicago, he will select some other site where such advantage is desirable ; a short-sighted policy, that quarantines the advent of capital and labor, is the one thing that can retard the progress of South Chicago, and this policy is not the characteristic of the people of the place. Therefore, the statement made earlier in this history, that the possibilities of South Chnage ate

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only limited hy her territory, is a simple, unvarnished fact, as every acre is eligible for a manufacturing site, a yard, a warehouse or a dock, and those are the steps wherehty the town mounts to unlimited prosperity, and the sides of the ladder are the means of transportation.

RAILROADS,-The Belt Line, encircling the city, and connecting with every road entering, has completed its system, and is now prepared to transfer the freight of that great railroad center. Its southern terminus is South Chicago, Coal, lumber and merchandise in bulk will conte by vessel to South Chicago, thence to be distrib- uted to the various roads. Grain and the heavy products of the West will come by rail, converging over the Belt Line to South Chicago, thence cast by lake. The Calumet has built its Soutlt Chicago steel-rail, double-track branch from its main tracks at Parkside, is doing a large and increasing passenger business, and intends to cross the river, extending its line south and east until it again reaches its main line, and has con- structed a fifth and sixth track from Grand Crossing to Forty-third Street on its main line. The Nickel Plate has joined the Lake Shore at Grand Crossing, crossing the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne, and expending 850,000 for its right of way through the necessary three blocks. Its shops at Stony Island are completed and the ma. chinery up. The Calumet River Railway Company, the Calumet Bridge & Railroad Company, the Ewing Avenue Horse Railway Company, and the Inter-State Railway & Transfer Company have been organized. The first is a line in the interest of the Pennsylvania company designed to run from South Chicago to Glohe station on the Pan Handle ; the second is in the interest of the Calumet & Chicago Canal and Dock Company, to gain access to the coal station at South . Chicago ; the third is a street car line connecting the east anıl west sides of South Chicago with a branch to Cummings ; and the last is organized to obtain valuable franchises to sell to other roads wishing to enter South Chicago.

SOUTH CHICAGO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THOMAS D. AVANN. undertaker and cmbalmer, also dealer in undertaker's gouds, came to South Chicago in 1880 and engaged in book-keeping for A. R. Beck & Co., lumber dealers, continuing in that capacity until December, 1882, when he began business as undertaker, etc. He was born in Albany, N. Y, February 23. 1850, and was raised and educated there. Ile spent two years in the lumber business in Canada. In his native city he was a book- keeper by profession. Ile is a member of the Masonic Order, Roval Arch Masons, I. O. O. F., Royal Arcanum, and Knights of l'ythias. In 1871 he married Miss Maggie E. Wilson, of Albany. N. V. They have three children-Lillian M., Mabel I .. and Miriam C. JIr. Avaan is also book-keeper and secretary of the South Chicago Building and Loan Association.

REV. M. W. ItARTII, Catholic priest, now in charge and pastor of St. Peter's and St. Paul's Church (German congregation) at South Chicago, was born in Prussia, Germany, April 23, 1851. coming with his parents to America the same year, and arriving in Chicago August 12. They lived in the city two years, then re- moveil to Freeport, Ill., where he lived until 1870, At eighteen years of age he entered St. Francis Seminary, at Milwaukee, Wis .. as a student in July. 1878. graduating therefrom. July 24. 1878, he was ordained to the holy ministry by Bishop Foley. of Chicago. Ile was then appointed assistant in St. Francis Church. Chicago, where be continued until April. 1882, when he took charge of the above Church.

SAMUEL B. BENDELL, nail plate shearer In the Irondale Rolling Mills, has charge of nine men, who shear and regulate the plates for the size and manufacture of nails. Ile is a native of Iluntington County, Penn., born In 1835, and was raised and educated in West Virginia, where, after spending his school days, he engaged in manufacturing nails, which business he has since continued, removing to South Chicago in May. 1878. The manu- facture ol nails in West Virginia, when he first removed there. was a new industry in that State, as there were only sixteen nail machines there in operation. Wheeling is now one of the greatest nail manufacturing cities in the world. Mr. Bendell is a member

of Apollo Commandery, No. 1, Chicago; Bendell Chapter, No. 7: Ohio Lodge, No. 1, of Wheeling, W. Va .: Calumet Council, No. 569. South Chicago; master of Triluminar Lodge, U. D) .. A. F. & A. M., and a mutual benefit association of Columbus, Ohio. Ile is now president of the South Chicago Board of Education. In 1560 he married Miss Elizabeth Lanning, of Wheeling, W. Va.

JAMES BEYNON, firm of Beynon & Co., dealers in coal, woud, lime, brick, cement, etc. They began business in February. 1582. employ six men and ruo four delivery wagons. Their store- room capacity is 1,500 tons of coal. In 1883 their sales exceeded 852,000. Mir. Beynon was born in Wales January 27, 1833. Hc was reared in the manufacture of iron and steel, and came to the United States in 1867, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Works until 1873, when he went to St. Louis, Mo., and took charge of the Vulcan Iron Works for three and one-half years; thence removed to Beilville, lil., where for two years he was superintendent of the Bellville Nail Company's works, and in 1878 came to Irondale, Cook County, and took charge of Brown's Mills. In 1880 and 1881 he engaged in the building of the North Chicago Rolling Mills at South Chi- cago, In February, 1982. he embarked in his present business. lle was Supervisor of Ilyde l'ark Township the same year. In 1854 he married Miss Margaret Bowen, a native of Wales. They have two daughters and two sons-Rosie, Lizzie, Alfred and John. Mr. Heynon is a member of the Knights of Honor of Grand Cross- ing. 111.

JOHN P. BLOOM, traffic manager, has charge of all freight received and shipped from the North Chicago Rolling-Mill yards at South Chicago. Of this department, in which there are from two hundred and fifty to two hundred and cighty men employed. Mr. Bloom took charge April 1, 1883. He came to South Chicago April 19. 1980, and went into the employment of the above com- pany as timekeeper : from that position he was promoted to dock- master, and from the latter to his present position. Ile was born at Kenosha, Wis., in 1840, and was principally raised at Waukegan. Ill. At St. Joseph, Mich., in 1860, he married Miss Clara C. Moulton, a native of Chicago. They have four children -- Martha J. {now married to Mr. E. J Dooley, of South Chicago), Mary L ... Anna M. and John C. January 2. 1863. he enlisted in the First Michigan Heavy Artillery, participating in all the actions of his command ; he was mustered out June 11. 1865. January 1, 1872. be removed to Chicago, where he entered the employment of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company.

CHARLES BRAND, of Brand & Iluminel, proprietors of the South Chicago Brewery, was born in Germany February 21. 1856, Coming to .\merica in 1872, he worked a year in Toledo, Ohio, in a brewery, and the next year came to Chicago and engaged in the same occupation for some time. Thence he went 10 Blue Island, where he followed the same until 1878, when he became a memher of the firm of Bush & Brand, continuing until the summer nf 1882. At that time he removed to South Chicago, where the firm of Brand & Ilummel was formed. The brewery they erected Is 76x150, the front three stories high, the rest two stories high in the center. The manufacturing capacity is 6,000 barreis of beer per annum, and has a storage capacity of 1, 700 toas for ice. They paid out in erecting the brewery, and for fixtures, $35,000, employ lifteen men in the business, and pay out annually for material $35,000, and for help $9,000. Mr. Brand is a member of Calumet Lodge, No. 716, I. O. O. F., of Blue Island. In 1881 he mar- ried Miss Sophia Foss, born at Blue Island. They have one daughter, l'hillipena.

MRS. ELLA BRANIGAN, proprietress of the South Chicago Exchange llotel. Mrs. Ilmanigan rebuilt this hotel in 1880, and opened it to the public September 1 of the same year. It was for- merly a Catholic church, originally owned hy a Dr. MeMullen of Chicago. It is 25x85 feet in area, two stories high, and contains twenty-nine rooms, with a capacity for forty guests. Mrs. Itran- igan for some time did the largest business of any hotel in South Chicago. She was born in County Oxford, Ontario, October q, 1837, and was reared there. In 1871 she was married to Mr. Patrick Branigan, of Detroit, Mich., who is a steamboat steward. By a former marriage Mrs. Branigan has four children-James W., Mary E., Charles E. and Rose A. She and family are members of St. l'atrick's Church, and she is a member of the Altar Society of the same.

JACOB BREMER, real estate and general fire insurance agent, Justice of the l'eace and notary public, came to South Chi- cago in 1873 and engaged in the real estate and insurance busi. ness. lle is now serving his second term as Justice of the Peace. and is a director and treasurer of the South Chicago Publishing Company, publishers of the South Chicago Daily Independent. and director and secretary of the Colehour Building & Loan Asso. ciation. Ile was born in Germany February 24. 1852, and the same year his parents immigrated to America and settled in Chi- cago, where he was raised and educated In 1883 Mr. Bremer married Miss Anna B. E. McMannus, of Montreal, Canada,

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LEWIS HUSHI was born at Boonton, N. J., December 4, tSgt. When eighteen he located at Wheeling W. Va., where he learned nail-naking, remaining until he came to Cook County, III. lle took charge of four nail machines of the Calumet Iron & Steel Company's works in May, 1878. fle is a member of the Amal- gamated Iron and Steel Association of the United States, the Blue and Chapter Lodges of South Chicago, and Royal Arcanum. In 1876 he married Miss Agnes Clark, of Boonton, N. J. They have two children-Aggie and Edward R.

AUGUST BUSSE, retail dealer in wines, liquors and cigars, began business in South Chicago April 20, 1865, when the place was called Ainsworth. Hle first opened a grocery and saloon, and is one of the first German settlers of South Chicago. He was born in Berlin, Prussia, January t4, 1839. Coming to the United States in 1959, he settled in Chicago, where he was employed as an engineer in the old gas works. In 1862 he removed to Racine, Wis., where he was engineer in the large tannery of Burback & Son two years, after which he removed to South Chicago, where he has built himself a home, and grown into a large business In his present line. In 1864 he married Miss Caroline Albert, a native of Kaup, on the River Rhine, Germany. They have four children -Amelia, Barbara, August HI. and Frederick William. Mr. Husse was a member of the German llarugari Lodge, also one of the originators and members of Fire Department No. 5, of the vil- lage of Hyde Park, and one of the first members of the Saloon- Keepers' Protective Association of Hyde Park.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 152

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