History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 172

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

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MORGAN PARK BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

CHARLES R. BAIRD. proprietor of Baindt's Express and T.ivery Stable, also dealer in coal, came to Chicago in 1870, where he was proprietor of the Garden City Express two years, In the spring of 1872 he moved to Morgan Park and worked at his trade of carpenter and joince some time, then began his present business. He was born in Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., September 13. 1836, where he was raised and educated. In 1861 he enlisted in Com- pany I. 7ist New York Volunteer Infantry, served three months, and was mustered out July 4. 1861. In 1862 he married Miss

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Anna M. Jayne, of Florida, Orange Co., N. Y. They have three children-Li'lie, Minnie C. and Charles S. Mr. Baird is Treasurer of the Commissioners of Highways.

SAMUEL BOYD settled at Morgan Park in November, ISSO. lle was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, May 10, 184t, came with his parents to the United States In 1844, and was raised near Zanesville, Ohio. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant; mustered out in the fall of 1864. He is interested in raising and dealing in cattle, being one of the firm of Boyd Brothers, Wyoming Territory. In 1874 he married Miss Sadie Frances Middleton, a native of Columbia, T'enn. They have one son, Joseph M. Boyd.

COLONEL. GEORGE R. CLARKE, real estate dealer, was born at Unadilla Forks, N. Y., February 22, 1827. His father. Dr. Henry Clarke, came to Chicago in 1836 and engaged In the practice of medicine, moving his family there In May. 1838, from Otsego County, N. Y. George R. first came to Chicago June 15. 1839. Ile was educated in Wisconsin, prepared for college at Chicago, and entered the Beloit College, completing his junior year. Then he was principal eighteen months of the seminary at Monroe, Wis., taught one term at Milton Academy, Rock County. Wis .: then at Baraboo, was Superintendent of Schools, and edited the Sauk County Standard eigliteen months. In 1853 he removed to Chicago, where he was admitted to the Bar, and practiced law one year, having previously studied. Ile also carried on the real estate business, which he continues to the present. In 1860 he spent two years in Colorado mining. In 1862 he assisted in recruiting the 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry: was made Captain of Company A: then Major of the regiment: then Lieutenant- Colonel. He married, January, 1873, Sarah Dunn, of Chicago, born in Cuyahoga County, N. Y. By a former marriage he had one daughter-Nellie A., now Mrs. John Black, Ile was a mem- ber of the Chicago Consistory, the highest lodge in Masonry. In 1869 he laid out Morgan Park. lle has been for the past seven years actively engaged in missiop work, as founder and principal supporter of the Pacific Garden Mission.

WILLIAM G. FERGUSON, manager of the Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, of Manchester, England. This company. under his management, does an extensive business in ten States and all of the Western Territories, with head office in Chicago. Mr. Ferguson came from Scotland with parents in 1839. and settled in Rockford, Ill. His father. Duncan Ferguson, came to Illinois in those early days to make Government surveys, and remained in Rocklord until he died in May, 1882. Mr. Ferguson learned the art of surveying with his father and assisted him until he became of age, when he engaged in the hardware trade at Rocklord, and con- tinued that business until t859. In 1862 he was chief elerk under his father, who was Revenue Assessor for the Second District of Illinois. In 1865 he was appointed State agent for the Security Insurance Company of New York, and continued in the service of that company until the great Chicago fire in the fall of t871. Soon after this he was made manager ol the Western department of the company he now represents. In 1853 Mir. Ferguson mar. ried Miss Leah J. Hill, of Toronto, Canada. They had four chil. dren -Lillian L .. Agnes M., Alice and William H. Mrs. Fer- guson died in 1973. In t880 Mr. Ferguson married Mary Clow. of Oakland, Cal., born in Rockford, Ill., a daughter of Mr. Robert Clow, formerly of Rockford.

WILLIAM HOPKINSON, firm of Hopkinson & Silva, deal- ers in real estate, and agents for the Blue Island Land & Building Company. Mr. Hopkinson came to Chicago in the spring ol 1853. where he engaged in the market business at the old State-street market, corner Twelfth Street and Blue Island Avenue, for three years. May 1, 1856, he opened a grocery, flour and feed store, which he operated a year. He then went to Madison, Wis., and kept a railroad eating-house for two years and a half, alter which he returned to Chicago and engaged in the market business, con- tinuing it until January 1, 1870. In 1856 he bought the canal boat " Long John," and kept a wood yard on the bank of the canal, supplying the first brick yards on the South Branch with wood a number of months. In 1868 he took a lease for filty years nf an old storage warehouse on the corner of State and Adams streets, and converted the same into a public market, which he operated until 1870, when he sold it out and retired from the market business. He has since been engaged in the real estate business. He moved to Morgan Park and built a residence in 18;1. it being the first residence erected at that place. He was born in England July 10, 1834, and came to the United States in 1853. In 1855 he married Miss Jane Huddart, a native of England. They have two children-Eva S. and Emma J. Mr. Hopkinson is a member of the 1. O. O. F., Royal Arcanum. Hle served as the first president of the Morgan Park Village Board.

JOHN E. INGERSOLL was born In Erie County, N. Y., August 3, 1832. He was raised on a farm until eighteen years old. then taught school a year, after which he was a messenger for the

American Express Company three years. He then came to Chi- cago and embarked in the grain and commission business, lle was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade twenty-three years. He located in Morgan Park in 1874, since which time he has been engaged In the grain and real estate business. At Buffalo, N. Y., in 1865, he married Miss Harriet J. Campbell, a daughter of Major A. Campbell, of the same place. They have one son- John C.

F. S. MOFFETT, attorney at law, Chicago, He came to Chicago November 29, 1871, and opened a law office, where he has since practiced his profession. Hle was born in Lucas, Richland Co., Ohio, April 25, 1846, where he lived until he was sixteen years old. August 4. 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany B, 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in all the battles of his command. May 3, 1864, he was taken prisoner and held as such in Texas until the close of war; mustered out July 8, 1865. When captured he was acting as Sergeant-Major. After his discharge from the army he clerked in a railroad office at Nash- ville, T'enn , until 1866. Ile attended school and studied law, being admitted to the Bar July 1, 1868. He then entered the practice of law at Mansfield, Ohlo, and on January 5, 186g. he married Miss Amanila Mason of that place, and a few days after- ward formed a copartnership with General R. Brinkerhoff. Octo- ber 5, 186g, he removed to Nashville. Tenn., where he was admit- ted to the Bar, but devoted some time to book-keeping. His wife died in October, 1870. The next year or two he spent in Mansfield, Ohio, and Nashville, Tenn. January 1. 1872, he married Miss Sue Mason, In August, 1882, They moved to Morgan l'ark. They have two children-Fred Dudley and Willard. Mr. Moffett is a member of the Royal Arcanum. Ile is Village Attorney for Morgan Park and for Washington Heights, and Police Magis- trate of Morgan Park. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

FREEMAN J. SHORT was born In Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 4, 1844. He graduated at Brown's University, Providence, R. I., in 1857, and spent some time in book-keeping. April 29. 186t, he enlisted in the zd Connecticut Heavy Artillery; was pro- moted to Brevet-Major, and was mustered out in July, 1865. "In 1865 he came to Chicago and engaged with A. S. Gage & Co., wholesale dealers, where he now has charge of the millinery de. partment of that firm. He is Deputy Grand Regent of the Royal Arcanum of Illinois, and a member of the Order at Morgan l'ark. Hle holds the office of vice-president of the National Union Con- tinental Lodge, No. 55, Chicago. February 2, 1866, he married Miss Nellie Valentine, of Rochester, N. Y. They have three sons -Edmund G., William and Ray.

GILBERT THAYER, A. B. and A. M., principal of the Chi- cago Female College at Morgan Park, was born at Wilmington. Essex Co., N. Y., June 4. 1823. lle was raised and received his academic education at Keesville Academy, same county, Ile then entered the State Normal School at Albany, N. Y., and graduated In 1845; soon afterward he began teaching, and received private Instructions. In 1850 he graduated at the Middlebury College. Vermont, and received the degrees of A. B. and A. M., also LL. D., after which he was principal of the public school at Keesville seven years, and seven years principal of the Keesville Academy. Ile then immigrated to Bloomington, III., where under an appoint. ment he was principal of the Model High School of the Staic Nor. mal University two years. He then accepted the appointment as principal of the Bloomington Female College six years; then for nine years was principal of the Jacksonville Female Academy, and in 1874 took his present position. The Professor is a member of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Chicago; Royal Arcanum, and Dear- born Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Chicago. In 1844 he married Miss Adaline M. Foote, of Peru, Clinton Co., N. Y. They have five children-Emma, now Mrs. 11. H. McDowell, of Pontiar, III .: Henry E., of Morgan Park, and a member of the Skeen & Stuart Stationery Company, Chicago : Julia H., a teacher of music in the Chicago Female College: Frank E., a book and stationery dealer at Butte City, and Addie, now a pupil at Chicago Female College.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.

This village is located twelve miles south of the city, on the "Pan Handle" and Chicago & Rock Island railroads. It is also one of the oldest settlements in the county. The Gardner House was built in 1836 by Jefferson Gardner, who leased it to various parties until in 1844, when he sold it to William Wilcox and wife, and left for parts unknown. The house is still standing on Oak Street and is occupied by Mr. Bartlett ; Mr. Wilcox died at Englewood the same year he purchased the property from Gardner, leaving his widow to be the

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first permanent settler, and at that time almost the sole inhabitant of the place. Thomas Finn is said to have been the first tenant of the house, and kept it for several years, when Carlton Wadhams took it and kept it up to the time of its sale to Mr. Wilcox.

Washington Heights comprises the high ridge of and extending from the south line of Lake Township southward to the village of Blue Island. This ridge is six miles long. The plat of the village, with its additions, includes over two sections of land, and lies in Sections 7, 17, 18, 19 and 20, in Township 37, Range 14, and on both sides of the ridge. Before their purchase in 1869 by the Blue Island Land & Building Company, these lands were the property of James R. Morgan. William Barnard, Sr., located in Hyde Park Township a few years after the panic of 1837, leaving his son, Will- iam Barnard, to view the country toward Blue Island with the object of selecting a home. In 1846 he came to Upwood as school teacher in the Morgan family, then settled in the vicinity of Washington Heights. In 1847 Erastus A. Barnard came out from Forty-seventh Street and settled on the high land near Morgan Park. In 1851 W. B. Barnard purchased a tract of land from the heirs of Jirah Rowley and settled there with his brothers, Erastus A. and 1). E. Barnard. The settlers, contemporary with the Barnards, were John Lynch, Martin Vanderstarre and James Garrity. Lynch located near what is now the business center of the village, and there too were the homes of Vanderstarre and Garrity erected. Following these were Henry Welp, Mathias Kay and S. H. McNab. The first death of a white person was that of Mrs. Abigail Wilcox, mother of William Wilcox, who died September 30, 1844, and was buried on the farm. A negro employed by Cariton Wadhams died previous to the settlement of the Wilcox family, while William Wilcox died in 1844, and a child of Mr. Wadhams was drowned in a sink-hole in 1843.

The first marriage was that of Frank Jackson, of Hyde Park, to Jerusha Wilcox, of the Heights, in 1845. This lady died May 22, 1845. just six weeks after her marriage. The first birth in the settlement was that of a daughter of Carlton Wadhams.

The first post-office was established after the village was platted by Hilliard and Ilitt, with S. H. McNab Postmaster. Messrs. Boutwell, Pochman and Diltman have respectively held the office since that time.

The first preacher was Rev. M. Foster, of Blue Island, who settled here in 1869. He died in the fol- lowing year and was buried at Blue Island.

In 1864-65 a floating population came in, composed principally of railroad employés. Since then the growth of the village has been fairly rapid, the per- manent residents numbering over one thousand, in June, 1883. Among those who have located in the vil- lage within the past fourteen years are the Parkers, Hilliards, Stebbenses, Heffrons, Fosters, Greenacres, Coxes, Kays, Howes, Bennetts, Collins, Allschoggers, Kingmans, Wymans, Lowenthals, Pochmans, Elmstedts, and others whose names are not now at hand.

The first survey of the village was made in 1870 by the Blue Island Land & Building Company, also by Hitt and Hilliard, Hilliard and Dobbin, Huff and Reed, and Nickerson and Young. The plats approved by the Village Board in 1874 was those made for Lynch, Ilitt and Welps and the South Division, Lot 10, Block 27, made for the Blue Island Land & Building Com- pany.

The neighborhood of Washington Heights also claims some archæological importance. Since 1859 the members of the Barnard family alone have collected

thirty-six flint arrow-heads, two battle axes, a spear- head, several pieces of ancient pottery, and other evi- dences of the former savage residents. 'The remnants of pottery were found in a small mound surrounded by large cobble-stones, and embraced, as it were, within the roots of a small oak tree which sprang froin the mound.

VILLAGE ORGANIZATION,-On the 20th day of Jan- uary, A. D. 1874, an election was held for and against village organization under the general law of the follow- ing territory : The east half of Section 7, Township 37 north, Range 14 east, of the third principal merid- ian, the northeast quarter of Section 18, the west half of Section 8, the west half of the east half of said Sec- tion 8, the north half of Section 17, all in township and range aforesaid. This election was held for the pur. pose of deciding whether the citizens residing within the territory as described should organize a village to be known as Washington Heights, under an act of the General Assembly, entitled " An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April ro, 1872. The result of such election was as follows : The whole number of votes cast was 104, of which 72 were for village organization under the general law, and 32 against village organization under the general law. The Trustees chosen February 13, 1874, were 1). S. Heffron, Isaac Greenacre, L. Lowenthal, August Schultze, J. N. Mason and George Martin. The board organized with John N. Mason president ; but further than that trans- acted no business. The first annual election took place April 1, 1874, and August Schultze, Isaac Greenacre, L. Lowenthal, N. Maurer, C. H. Gorton and J. N. Ma- son were elected Trustees. W. C. Wyman was chosen clerk of the board, a position to which he has been reg- ularly elected since that time, with the exception of 1876, when F. J. Short was elected. In April, the fol- lowing year, Mr. Wyman was re-elected, and still holds the office.

The treasurers have been William 'Bochmer, 1874 -76 ; Jolın Elmstedt, 1876-80 ; William Barnard, 1880-84.

The other officers, from 1875 to the present, are as follows :

1875, John N. Mason, President ; C. H. Gorton, L. Melcher. Erastus Wyman, J. N. Mason, I .. Lowenthal and N. Maurer, Trustees. 1876, P. F. Kingman, Presi- dent ; N. Maurer, C. H. Gorton, A. B. Stevens, J. Zan- der and C. Ahllchloeger, Trustees. 1877, P. E. King- man, President; A. B. Stevens, C. H. Gorton, J. Zander, J. D. Hack, P. E. Kingman and H. Evel, Trustees. 1878, P. E. Kingman, President ; A. B. Stevens, L. Melcher, J. Zander, C. H. Gorton, J. D. Hack and P. E. Kingman, Trustees. 1879, P. E. Kingman, President; L. Melcher, C. H. Gorton, J. Zander, W. Barnard and A. B. Stevens, Trustees, :880, William Barnard, Presi- dent; L. Melcher, C. H. Gorton, John Peschel, J. Zan- der and Henry Kay, Trustces.

April 22, 1880, the re-organization of the Town Board, under the law of May 28, 1879, was effected. This law provided for the election of three Trustees for two years. and three for one year. Messrs. Barnard, Gorton and Peschel drew lots for the two-year term. Since then the Trustees have been : 1881, William Barnard, Henry Kay, J. D. Hack and August Hise; 1882, Cornelius Cox, E. Smith and George Martin; 1883, Cornelius Cox, O. F. Hedrich, J. G. VanHorn and Mathias Kay.

In 1874 the Washington Heights Public School was proposed, and $20,000 were appropriated toward the erection of a suitable building. Adam Warner was the contractor and built the house, finishing it so that it

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was ready for use in the fall of that year. Previous to the erection of this new building, J. A. Wadhams had taught a graded school in the okl house from 1872 to 1874; he was also principal of the new school until 1876. The school is at present under charge of Pro- fessor Rice.

CHURCHES,-Bethany Union Church was founded May 5, 1872, by Rev. J. B. Dreer. The original mem- bers were, including the pastor and his wife, both Bap- tists, Loren P. Hilliard and wife, W. P. Hilliard, Epis- copalians; Misses A. L. and Elizabeth Barnard, Presby- terians; Alice Barnard, Mr. and Mrs. George Waters, T. B. Stehhins, and Mrs. J. A. Stebbins, Methodists, and Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Bartlett, Baptists. Rev. D. S. Heffron succeeded Mr. Dreer Jaly 1, 1872, and is the present pastor. The church building was erected in the summer of 1874. It is situated at the corner of Pros- pect aud Tracy avenues, and is a very handsome struct- ure; the original cost was $5,000. The present officers of the Church are C. (). Howe, T. B. Stebbins, and G. W. Tanbark, deacons; E. G. Howe, secretary, and George Graham, treasurer. The trustees are George Graham, E. G. Howe, A. B. Stevens, Elisha W. Bennett and S. J. Rogers.

Ninety-fifth Street, or Dummy Junction, forming the northern limits of Washington Heights, is the location of the convent of Our Lady, and Church of the Sacred Heart. The brick railroad depot was erected in 1876 for Messrs. Dean, Welp, McGinlip, and other owners of real estate in the vicinity. The Eleven. Mile House was built in 1875 by J. Peschel. Since that time a num- ber of cottages have been erected in the neighborhood of the church, and even east of the railroad the modern house bailder has been at work.

The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, on Ninety- fifth Street, was founded in 1874 by Rev. Father Sweetberth, now of St. Joseph's Church in Chicago. The present pastor is Rev. Theodosius Goth, of the order of Benedictines. In connection with the church is a large school for the education of boys

The convent of Our Lady was established in 1875 by a few sisters of Notre Dame. The schools estab- lished by these sisters have won a high reputation for efficiency, and for several years past have enjoyed a large and increasing attendance.

Nearly one hundred young ladies board at the con- vent, and are regularly entered pupils for the entire course at the schools, and nearly fifty inore are day scholars, and board at home or with friends in the vil- lage.

The German I.utheran Zion Congregation was founded in 1874, and in the same year their present house of worship was built, at the corner of Vincennes Avenue and Ninety-ninth Street. It has at present one hundred and twenty-five members, Rev. H. Fulton pas- tor. In 1879 a day school was organized, with the pastor as teacher; it has an attendance of thirty-five pupils

The Evangelical 1.utheran Trinity Church was organized in 1881, and the following year their Church building was erected on the corner of Tracy Avenue and Hilliard Street. The members of this Church forming found a part of the Zion congregat ou, above mentioned, but owing to dissensions arising on the question of "Predestination," they "split off " and organized a Church to themselves. Rev. H. Patzer is the pastor in charge and also teaches the school ovo- nected with the Church.

REMINISCENCES

J. T. Greenacre has contributed to the Standard a series of well written sketches, giving his reminiscences of early days and times in the settlement, also including a history of its railroads and the later growth of the vil- lage. These sketches from the pen of one who has lived here so long, and who has himself seen the changes and scenes he describes, are of such especial interest and value to the reader, that the publisher is pleased to insert them here almost as they originally appeared. Mr. Greenacre begins his article with his recollections of the old Gardner House, which he says " is now so improved that it would be impossible from its present appearance, to form the remotest idea of its looks in 1844. It was a spacious one and-a-half story frame house, and was situated on the cast of the present Oak Street, south of the new Rock Island Dummy Road (formerly known as the Washington Heights Branch Railway,. It was built about 1836 by a Mr. Gardner, who has long ago left for parts unknown. It had a peculiar appearance, the roof on one side being con- sidlerably longer than the other. The house may be regarded as the oldest in the vicinity, as it will require but three more years to give it the age of a half century. The farm belonging to this house was pur- chased of the Government by Mr. Gardner, and in 1844 the property was sold to a Mr. Wilcox, l'art of the farm was farmed, but the greater part was open to the prai. ric, and not under cultivation at all. By the way. this farm extended north of Ninety-fifth Street, south on South Street, west on Prospert Avenue, and east to about C'entre Street.

" Soon after it assumed the dignity of a village, the farm was sold to speculators, who, after subdividing it, soll it by the lot to individuals, many of whom are at present residents of the village. The farm-house was suldl to Mr. Bartlett, who has made many improvements thereon and now lives in it. Part of the orchard sur- rounding the farm-house has given way to the Wash- ington Heights Branch Railway, the other part is still in existence and affords an ample supply of apples in the summer for bands of boys, to whom the orchard is accessible, there being no fence around it. I.et us now view a second dwelling-the Blackstone House. "This building, like the former, is still in existence; it has been enlarged several times and thus greatly improved: it was built by a Mr. Blackstone prior to 1844. It is kwated on the brink of the hill, hard by the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway, and about one-half mile north of Ninety-fifth Street, and in the forest now sometimes known as Camphell's Woods. In 1845 it was purchased by Mr. Morgan, Sr .; Mr. Morgan also purchased an extensive estate of about 3,000 acres, com- prising the greater part of our present Washington Heights and Morgan Park, which latter place received its name from him. The estate abounded with deer and fox, which Mr. Morgan with his hounds often went to hunt. The dwelling was originally very small and com. posed of rough stone, all of which was quarried at Blue Island; the barns also of the same material, remained unchanged except from their antique appearance. Directly in front of the dwelling and on the slope of the hill is a stone structure, or rather a large pit, lined with a stone wall, which wall extends, or once did, far above the top of the hill, but of late years time has reduced it nearly to a parallel with the hillside. At the east side of the wall and at the base of the hill, is an immense

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opening, once composed of two tremendous oak doors (now broken and probably used for kindling wood), fastened to the wall by enormous iron hinges that reached across each door. The walls are built of very rough stone. Mr. J. Lynch, Sr., the contractor of this wall, quarried the stone of Blue Island, and did the haul- ing of the stone and all; he alone having to play the part of stone quarrier, teamster and stone mason. It must have been a very tedious job. On entering this pit, which seems to have answered the purpose of a sheep fold, you find its floors to be composed of bits of stones, in all probability fragments of the wall, and other rubbish, likely the accumulation of years, On the west side and leading in toward the hill is an open- ing in the wall. On crossing the threshold of what was once a doorway, you imagine yourself about to de- scend into the depths of darkness by a subterrancan passage. But 'ere you have walked within the distance of about thirty-six inches, you presently find yourself in a round turret-shaped cell, with an oval ceiling. In the ceiling is an opening which leads to the surface of the ground. This opening is covered by an immense stone placed over the hole where it makes its appear- ance on the hill. This cell is built of brick, and un- like the sheep-fold it has a good stone floor. It seems that at one time there was a door dividing the cell from the fold. It seems the cell answered the purpose of an ice house, and the opening a mere ventilator. The place seems to have stamped on its surface everywhere antiquity. The whole affair, on one of the finest resi- dence places in the vicinity, affords not only a very picturesque and novel, but also a very interesting sight for visitors and pleasure seekers and even travelers on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway. This vast estate, like that of Mr. Wilcox, was in 1868 sold to an organized association of speculators known as the Land & Building Company, by whom it was subdivided and sold to individual par- ties with a view to the formation of a village. A third house of the vicinity, the Peck House, was situated not far from the residence of Mr. Hitz, on Western Avenue, about a quarter of a mile north of Ninety-fifth Street. I cannot give as full a description of it as I would wish to, it having been burned in 1871. It was a very large frame farm-house, and deserves especial notice as having been the largest house in the vicinity in 1844. It seems to have been quite old, as an elm tree, evidently planted by the hand of man, near where the house once stood, is very large and massive, and has the appearance of having braved the wintry blasts for about fifty years. It was occupied by various tenants, whose names I have not been fortunate enough to obtain. As I before remarked, the elm is the only vestige of the former habitation. I must not neglect to mention that in 1844 there were two log cabins. These log cabins were used as dwellings prior to 1844, and one of them answered that purpose as late as 1846. Since that time they were used for everything and any- thing but a dwelling. I am not informed as to the fur- niture of these dwellings nor as to their construction, more than they were from the woods. These log cabins were situated as follows: One on the site of Dr. Kel- logg's present residence, and the other on the south side of the present Tracy Avenue, near where the Chi- cago & Grand Trunk Railway now is, and just on the brink of the hill, west of the railroad.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 172

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