History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 176

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

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Ancient Order Hibernians, Division No. 6, which holds its meetings in the Town Hall on the first Sun- days of each month, was organized September 12, 1875, with only fourteen members. Its first officers were Ed- ward By ne, president ; Daniel Boyle, vice-president ; Patrick Byrne, secretary; Patrick Egan, financial secre- tary, and John McMahon, treasurer. An idea of the rapid growth of this organization may be gleaned from the fact that it now has over three hundred members. Its present officers are : Edward Byrne, president ; James Burke, vice-president ; James Byrne, recording secretary ; John Moon, financial secre ary, and Patrick Tierney, treasurer.

Rising Star Lodge, No. 240, Ancient Order United Workmen, was instituted May 28, 1883, with the following charter members: G. W. Fisher, John B. Thomas, C. P. Caldwell, Francis Jones, John Moore, Patrick Tierney, Thomas Fallon, Fred Cummings, Thomas Gahan, Paul Reiser, A. F. Council, Peter Bagly, Ed. J. Bennett, H. Lewinsohn, M. Flemming, Albert Otto, John W. Schuldt, Louis Sutler, John R. Cook, George F. Doster, A. C. Berndt, James West, Albert Strobel, Benjamin Brown, Henry Coyle, James Ferguson, Edward Byrne, George F, Scully, M, Bracken,

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John G. Wilson, Louis Koehler, James Kingswell, Vic- tor Rofinet, William Rosencrans, Jeremiah Curtin, Thomas M. Cogan, M. J. Mallon, J. M. Sutcliffe, Allen F. Bailey, Dennis Burgen, Emil (). Langer, Frank Becker, F. D. Miner and Patrick Donahue. On the organization of the lodge the following-named persons were chosen as its first officers : J. B. Thomas, P. M. W .; G. W. Fisher, M. W .; Thomas Gahan, F .; F. D. Cummings, O .; Edward Byrne, R .; Mathew Flemming, R .; Francis Jones, I. W. ; L. Lutter, O. W .; John R. Cook, guide, and C. P. Caldwell, medical examiner. The present officers are : J. B. Thomas, G. D. M. W. ; George W. Fisher, P. M. W. ; F. D. Cummings, M. W .; Thomas Gahan, F. ; Edward Byrne, O .: F. D. Miner, R .; F. Becker, R. ; John Moore, F. ; Thomas J. Fal. lon, guide ; Francis Jones, I. W .; James West, O. W. ; and C. P. Caldwell, medical examiner. At the date of its organization this society had forty-five members, which number, by January. 1884, was increased to sixty- five. Its meetings are held on Thursdays of each week at Temperance Hall, on Halsted near Forty-third streets.

There is also an organization here of the Select Knights of the A. O. U. W., which bears the same rela- tion to the latter order that the Knights Templar do to the Order of Masonry. This lodge, which is known as Union Legion, No. 29, S. K., A. O. U. W., was instituted October 28, 1883, with the following charter members: J. B. Thomas, J. R. Cook, F. D. Miner, M. Flemming, F. D. Cummings, M. Bracken, Paul Reiser. W. Rosen- crans, C. P. Caldwell, Albert Otto, M. G. Mallow, Den- nis Burgen, Edward Byrne, John Moore, John W. Tennison, J. D. Flannigan, Jeremiah Curtin, H. Schu- macher, H. Fredericks, Charles Mueller, Hyman Lewin- sohn, G. W. Fisher, l'hilip Bertmes, Frank Becker, M. Fitzsimons, T. J. Fallow, Patrick Bogley. F. M. Cogan, Thomas Gahan, G. F. Doster, L. Koehler, John Wall, J. D. Tulley, A, Campbell, R. Hattendorf and L. Beck. The first officers, whose terms do not expire until the close of 1884, are: J. B. Thomas, S. C .; H. Schu- macher, O. C .: F. D. Cummings, L. C .; F. D. Miner, R .; C. P. Caldwell, treasurer; J. D. Flannigan, R. T .: J. R. Cook, M ; M. G. Mallow, chaplain, William Rosen- crans, S. B .; M. Bracken, S. W .; Henry Fredericks, · J. W .; T. J. Fallow, Guard, and C. P. Caldwell, medi- cal examiner. The regular meetings of the legion are held on 'l'hursdays of each week and the drill meetings on Tuesdays.

Amelia Lodge, No. 708, K. and I .. O. H., was insti- tuted July 21, 1883, at Bishop's Hall, at the corner of Forty-eighth Street and Ashland Avenue, and where its meetings are still held. The society was organized with twenty-nine members, but such has been its growth that that number has been increased to fifty. The officers of the lodge are Henry Schumacher, P .; Mary Scholl, V. P .; John Stege, P .; John Krohn, secretary; John Jaap. F. S .; Frank Bischoff, treasurer; Mary Heinz, chaplain, and Mrs. George Bohme, guide.

General Washington, No. 6282, A. O. F., was in- stituted February 4, 1877, the first meeting being held at No. 5217 State Street. The charter members of this lodge were James Williams, Harry Vernon, Henry Behm, George Lee, Thomas Marshall, John Mills, William Love, James Pinney, James Booty and Harry Beck. The following named persons were its first officers: James Williams, C. R .; H. Vernon, S. C. R .; Henry Behm, R. S .; George Lec, F. S., and Thomas Marshall, treasurer. The society meets in Brown's Hall, at the corner of State and Forty-seventh streets, where it has been located for the past three years, It

has experienced a steady and prosperous growth from the date of its organization to the present. The present officers are Alfred Mills, C. R .; Joseph W. Tanner, S. C. R .: 11. Vernon, R. R .; Thomas Paulson, F. S., and William Thompson, treasurer.

Hyde l'ark Lodge, No. 722, I. O. O. F., and which also holds its meetings at Brown's Hall, was organized October 16, 1882, with the following charter members: E. F. White, Charles McDougall, George W. Baker, John Nelson and C. Taverneer. The first officers were Charles McDougall, N. G ; John-Nelson, V. G .; George Baker, R. S .; E. F. White, P. S., and J. Walker- lee, treasurer. This lodge was organized with nearly fifty members, but so rapidly has it grown that it now has fully double that number. The present officers are Alfred Mills, N. G .; George H. Sheyerling, V. G .; Charles McDougal, R. S .; James Kinloch, P. S .; Z. Hallien, treasurer, and John Nelson, P. G.

Sons of St. George Order, which is of recent exist- ence in the United States, was first introduced into the East in 1871. In its principles and workings it bears a close resemblance to the Order of Foresters, with the single exception that a candidate for membership must be either the son or grandson of an Englishman. Mis- tletoe Lodge was organized at Brown's Hall January 17, 1884, and is the fourth lodge organized in this State. The charter members were Alfred Mills, Thomas Daw- son, Richard Hiles, W. H. Donald, William Preston. Alfred Luke, Joseph Jessup, Smith Noble, Alfred Larke, Alfred Noble, Reuben Bridle, H. Atkins, A. Baker, Edward Young, George E. Pursey, Thomas A. Marshbank, William J. Cairns, Robert Wilson, George A. Bilkey, Thomas Marshall, William B. Nicks and John Stubberfield. The officers are Alfred Mills, W. P. P. ; Thomas Marshall, W. P. ; William Preston. W. V. P. ; Thomas Dawson, treasurer ; William H. Donald, W. R. S .; J. Cairn, W. A. R. S.

Ashland Assembly, Knights of Labor organization, was instituted in May, 1882, and held its first meetings at Quinn's Hall, corner of Forty-seventh Street and Ashland Avenue. Subsequently, as its membership increased, the Buckley School building at the corner of Forty-third and Elizabeth streets, was secured, and where its meetings are still held. The first officers were John Long, M. W. ; john McDonough, treasurer ; and Thomas Brennon, V. S. This assembly, which was organized with but forty-eight members, now has an enrollment of over five hundred, composed of the work- ingmen of that locality. The present officers are Michael O'Brien, M. W .: Michael Byrne, treasurer ; and Michael Corbett, V. S.

WATER WORKS,-Not the least among the advan- tages enjoyed by the inhabitants of Lake is that of a plentiful and constant supply of pure water, which by an excellent system is taken from the exhaustless depths of Lake Michigan and distributed to every part of the town. The works, located at the lake and Sixty- eighth Street, were built in 1873, and were at that time the joint property of the towns of Lake and Hyde Park. In 1880, however, the entire ownership of the works was purchased by the town of Lake, and two years later important improvements were made, increas- ing the capacity of the works to twenty million gallons per day. In thus perfecting the efficiency of the water service and in extending new and needed mains, of which there are now over sixty miles in working order, $225,000 were expended. The officers of the water department are George 1., Chetfield, commissioner ; R. J. Colburn, superintendent ; George W. Carsons, cash- ier ; and W, W, Sprague, chief engineer,

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In this connection it may be observed also, that in 1881 there was not a completed sewer within the limits of the town, and the present admirable system of sewerage was only outlined, During the year 1882 $75,000 were used in pushing forward the work of this department, and as a result, almost every portion of the town has been materially benefitted. In the same year $30,000 were expended upon bridges, street grading and repairs. A number of the resident streets in and about Englewood have been boulevarded, and a number of the others graveled or paved. For repairing old, and building new sidewalks, over $zo.ooo were expended. The first of January, 1883, the total indebtedness of the town was only $261,000, which in view of the number and character of improvements made is indeed a good showing.

MANUFACTURING,-There are, in and about the Stock Yards district of the town of Lake, a number of manufacturing establishments of various kinds, includ- ing machine shops, car shops, round-house and foun- dries belonging to the many railroads whose lines or

At the intersection of State and Forty-second streets are located the division shops and round-house of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. They were built in 1871, and consist of the round-house, which has accommodations for twenty-five engines, a machine shop employing ten men, where light repairing is done on both yard and road engines, and the shops devoted only to the repair of freight cars. In the latter seventy-five men are constantly employed.

Of more importance, and equal in extent, perhaps, to any similar institution in the West, are the car and locomotive works of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, located on the line of that road and extending from Forty-seventh to Fifty-first Street. At these im- mense shops, which were erected in 1868, are built the locomotives, passenger coaches, dining and sleeping cars, freight cars, and in fact all the rolling stock of every description used by the company in operating its various lines, Nearly one thousand skilled workmen are em- ployed; in the locomotive department are one hundred and sixty-eight machinists, twenty-six boiler-makers, one hundred and forty-four blacksmiths, eighty-six engi- neers, eighty-six firemeu, and thirty-four wipers; a total of five hundred and fifty-four. In the car department are eighty-six coach builders, one hundred and twenty freight car builders, sixty cabinet-makers, forty-five iron workers, forty wood workers, seventy-two painters, and and fifty-three laborers employed about the shops and in the lumber yards; total in this department four hun- dred and seventy-six, making a grand total of one thousand and thirty men, whose monthly earnings foot up over $60,000.

Connected with the car shops, although a private enterprise, is the large foundry of J. H. Bass, which does all the work required in this branch for the roads. In this establishment one hundred and eighty-five men are employed, classed as follows: Sixty-five molders, fifteen core-makers, and one hundred and five laborers.

At the southwest corner of Clark and Thirty-ninth streets are situated the large refining works of the Horn Silver Mining Company. These were first established in 1879 at the junction of Twelfth and Lumber streets, but in May of the following year were removed to their pres-

ent location. Seventy-five men are employed. The company's mines, which are located in Beaver County, Utah, in the southeastern portion of the Territory, are said to be among the richest in that district. The offi- cers are : Charles G. Franklin, president ; Frank G. Brown, vice-president ; William S. Hoyt, secretary ; William F. Van Pelt, treasurer, and Fred Honkomp, manager.

The American Bridge Company's works, the most extensive in this branch of industry of any in the West, are also situated in the town of Lake, at the intersec- tion of Egan and Stewart avenues. They were estab- lished in 1868-69, and their iron bridges built since that time may be found spanning streams in almost every State in the Valley of the Mississippi. The force em- played varies from one hundred and fifty to four hun- dred men, owing to the demands of the trade. In ad- dition to building bridges a specialty is made of the manufacture of railroad turn-tables, hoisting machinery and heavy engines.

The division shops and round-house of the Chicago main divisions have Chicago for their terminal point. . & Atlantic, also those of the New Albany & Chicago These institutions in which, in the aggregate, millions of dollars of capital are invested, and which furnish employment to thousands of men, have contributed great- ly to the population, wealth and prosperity which the town of Lake now enjoys. Railroad, are located at Forty-ninth and Wright streets, The New Albany shops were erected in 1880, and em- ploy twenty-five men ; the shops of the Atlantic rond were built in 1882, and give employment to about the same number of men. At both places only light repair- ing is done, besides furnishing stabling quarters for the switch engines employed on the companies lines in aud about the city limits.

At Stewart Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street the Pitts- burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago road has similar shops, together with a large round-house, furnishing accom- modations for thirty-six engines. Including wipers, machinists and blacksmiths, seventy-five men are em- ployed.

On the opposite side of the tracks and just east of the shops, are situated the works of the Agnew Shafting Company, in course of completion, and which are ex- pected to be in operation by the spring of 1884. These works, which will give employment to twenty-five men, will be devoted to the manufacture of iron and steel shafting, such as are usual in extensive mills and facto- ries. The officers of the company are : W. Chisholm, president ; A. C. Way, secretary, and S. S. Chisholm, treasurer.

At Forty-first Street and Stewart Avenue are sit- uated the shop and engine houses of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad, which employ over a hundred men, most of them skilled workmen, divided as follows : six machinists, four machinist's helpers, four black- smiths with four helpers, four boiler-makers with two helpers, six carpenters, thirty-four car repairers, one painter, one store keeper, one stationary engineer, thirty-six engineers and laborers, fifteen switch engi- neers and firemen, one general foreman and two sub- foremen, making in all a total of one hundred and sev- enteen men employed. The shops at present receive from the road nearly three hundred cars per day for repairs, and turn out from the shops about the same number.

BRICK YARDS-This branch of the many manu- facturing interests centered in the town of Lake, is to be classed among the most important, employing as it does hundreds of men, the product of whose labor amounts annually to over one million dollars. The total output of the different yards located here is nearly one hundred million of brick per annum. J. B. Leg- nard is the oldest brick-maker in this locality, having been established here since the spring of 1867. In his

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yards are nine large machines for making brick, which are operated by steam power and turn out during a season of six months nearly twenty-two million brick. Mr. Legnard, whose yards are the largest and most extensive of any here, was also an early settler in Chi- cago, to which city he came in 1839. He is a large property owner and has his residence now at Waukegan, III.

Hoyt & Alsiep are also large manufacturers. They came to Cook County from McGregor, Iowa, and opened brick yards in Chicago, on the West Side, in the spring of 1872. There they ran five machines. In 1879 they changed their location to the South Side, near Thirty-fifth-street bridge, purchasing the old yards of Staples & VanLoan. In April, 1880, they moved to their present location, at the corner of Thirty-ninth and Long John streets. Here they have a large and valuable piece of property, a quarter of mile river front by six hundred and fifty feet in depth. They run eight large machines, employing two hundred and fifty men, and turn out twenty million brick each season. They also have a yard of forty acres on Forty-third Street, where they have improved Chambers machine, which turns out five million brick during a season, making the total output from their yards twenty-five million brick per annum.

The other firms engaged in this industry and which also do a large business each year are Harland Bros., John Whiting, John Busse and J. McKenna.

TOWN OF LAKE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

ALFRED ANDERSON was born In Sweden in August, 1851. and after receiving a good education learned the business of wood" worker. In January, 1870, he immigrated to Ohio, and in March, 1872, came to Chicago. For two years he worked at various em- ployments, after which he was city agent for a large bakery for two years, and for four years engaged in taking care of and driving fast horses. In the summer of t878 he entered the employ of Richard T. Hambrook & Co., manufacturers of school furniture, as shipper, which position he filled for about eighteen months. Then he gave his attention 10 his trade, that of wood-worker, and was employed in a large organ manufactory. In May, 1882, he moved to the town of Lake and opened a retail liquor store. Mr. Ander- son is a member of the I. O. O. F., Stockholm Lodge, No. 745, and is president of the Scandinavian Political Club for the ensuing year, and takes a great interest in politics.

DAVID G. BARNETT, grocer, was born in Logan County, Ohio, in 1839, and after leaving school became employed in mer- cantile pursuits. In 1872 he came to Cook County, and located in the town of Lake. For nearly three years he was employed with the L. S. & M. S. R. R. in the freight department, then for a few months in . the office of the Collector of the town of Lake. In May. 1876, he engaged in the grocery business, and in the summer of 1882, erected later his present handsome business building, where he carries a fine stock to supply the demands of his trade,

JOHN BERG, of John Berg & Bro., manufacturers of Jadders. woodenware, etc., was born in Sweden April 27, 1842, and reared on a farm. After reaching the age of maturity he was employed in various capacities, cabinet-maker, baker, merchant, etc., in En- gland, Denmark and other places. lle immigrated to Chicago in 1868, was employed as a wood-worker, and in 1869 entered the em- ploy of the Udell Ladder and Woodenware Factory, remaining with that concern some seven or eight years, six of which he was foreman in the factory. In 1877 he became associated with his brother, Lars Berg, and engaged In his present business. The firm have large premises in Chicago, and do the largest business in this line In the city. Mr. Berg has resided in the town of Lake since September, 1873. He was one of the on;anizers of the town of Lake Co-operative Grocery Company, and in the spring of 1883, that company being desirous of disposing of their stock of goods, he purchased the same, and now in connection with other pursuits also carries on a grocery establishment. He is a member of the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church, and is chairman of its board of trustees,

JOHN BEYERI.EIN, manufacturer and repairer of carriages and buggles, was born in Germany August 19. 1857, where his father was engaged in business as a millwright. John assisted his father in that business, and emigrated with him to Chicago in 1873.

After his arrival he learned the trade of carriage-maker and painter, and has worked at that occupation since. In 1975 he came to the town of Lake, and shortly after opened a small shop for repairing carriages, which has since greatly developed, he now having quite a large place.

RUDOLPH BIESTER, general foreman of machine depart- ment C., R. I. & P. R. R. shops, was born in Hanover, Germany. August, 1839, where he learned the trade of mechanical engineer. and for four years attended a polytechnic school. He came to Chicago in 1868, and entered the employ of the C., R. I. & P. R. R .; in 1869 was appointed mechanical draughtsman, and in 1880 pro- moted to his present position. He has resided in the town of Lake since 1869, taking an active interest in politics. In 1875 he was elected clerk, serving three years, and in 1878 as member of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Biester is a member of the Mystic Star Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of this place; E. M. Jarrett Chapter, En- glewood, and Apollo Commandery, Chicago.

J. S. BLACKNEY, watch-maker and jeweler, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., In 1845. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to the trade of wateh-maker at Oberlin, Ohio, and served five years, after which he was employed by the Elgin Nation- al Watch Company in their works at Elgin, III. In April, 1876, he commenced business in Chicago as a watch-maker and jeweler, beginning with nothing but his tools. In the spring of 1881, be removed to the town of Lake; the following spring sold out his stock of jewelry and went to Brainerd, Minn., and in November, 1883, returned to Lake. Mr. Blackney has been in his present business eighteen years.

CHARLES E. BROWN, merchant, was born in l'rovidence, R. I., December 28, 1851. His parents inoved to Champaign County, III., when he was nine years of age. He assisted them on the farm until he reached the age of hfteen, when he came to Chicago, and for three years was a student at the Chicago Uni- versity, and for two years attended Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. In th spring of 1873 Mr. Brown came to the town of Lake and embarked in the dry goods business. Beginning with a small stock, his business has increased materially. In 1877 he built his fine brick store known as Brown's Block. He is a mem. ber of the Masonic fraternity, is Master of Mystic Star Lodge, No. 758, and is a member of Van Rensselaer Grand Lodge of P'er- fection. Chicago Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Gourgas Sovereign Chapter, and Oriental Sovereign Consistory.

LOUIS A. BRUCKS was born near Coblenz, Germany. in July. 1844. Hle came to Chicago with his parents in January, 1856. Ilis father followed the business of contractor and builder. Louis worked in a grocery store until March, 1862,when he enlisted in Company C. 53d Illinois Volunteer Infantry, better known as Cushman's brigade. He was three times wounded, and took part in the battles of l'ittsburg Landing, the taking of Memphis, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Natchez, Baton Rouge; from there his reg- iment was sent with General Sherman to Chattanooga, Tenn. Af- ter the taking of Atlanta, he was with General Sherman in the march to the sea, entering Savannah January 1, 1865, and in April was mustered out of the service at Goldsboro, N. C. Return. ing to Chicago, he became employed in the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad ear shops, where he remained for some time. In May, 1881, he took a leading part in the big strike of the carpen- ters at the shops, and with two other committeemen, was discharged, after an hour's conference with the managers. In 1867 Mr. Brueks, in connection with William Jeggle, invented and patented a steam condenser, largely in use at the present time. Shortly after he sold his interest in the patent for a handsome sum, which he In- vested in real estate in the vicinity of the shops. In the spring of 1881 he built the hotel on the corner of Fifty-first and Butterfield streets, known as the Fifty-first Street House, As a hotel-keeper he has been very successful, and he is looked upon as one of the most respected citizens of the town of Lake. A.r. Brucks is a mem- ber of the Englewood Union Veteran Club, and a stockholder in the Memorial building at Englewood. He was one of the organ- izers of Fire Company No. 3 of Lake, formed in 1873, and seere- tary for seven years. Mr. Brucks takes an active part in town elcc- lions, and, though repeatedly solicited, has declined nominations fur office.

JEREMIAH E. BUCKI.EY, dealer in wines, liquors, etc., is a native of Peterboto, Canada, born November 1, 1852. Ile moved to Berea, Ohlo, when quite young, where he was engaged in gen- eral work, working for six years in a stone quarry, manufacturing grindstones, filling the position of assistant foreman for several years. He came to Chicago in 1869. continuing In general work, being for a time engaged in coffee roasting. After the fire he re- moved to Trenton, Mo., where he became manager for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He closed out In the panic of 1873. and took charge of the Elmore House for two years. Returning to Chicago he was employed in various capacities. He came to the town of Lake November 19, 1867, and at once engaged in his pres-

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 176

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