History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 223

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

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to Brighion, and'put up the machinery for the Brighton Feed Mill, acting as engineer of the same for three years, when it was changed 10 the Brighton Silver Smelting Works, and Mr. Leggate was ap- pointed nghi superintendent, a position he filled for four years. In 1875 he was appointed engineer at the Brighton Cotton Mills, remaining there until 1880, he entered the employ of the Northwest Horse-Nail Company. Ile pui up all the machinery, and also put in the boilers, etc., in the company's shops at this place. Mr. I.eg. gate is a member of the A. F. & A. M. Ile was elected Justice of the Peace at this place in 1877, and still fills that office.

JOHN NOONAN, dealer in dry goods etc., was born in Brigh- ton, Cook Co., Ill., July 4, 1854. At the age of fourteen years he began business life as a teamster in the employ of his father, and suba quently he carried on the business of teaming, etc., up to 1878. He was elected County Constable from this locality in the spring of 1878. and re-elected in 1881. He established his dry goods busi- ness at this place in August, 1883. lle carries a nice stock, and is building up a good business.

THOMAS RANKIN, foreman of the carpenter department Fowler Bros. Packing llouse, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1835, where he learned the trade of carpenter. In 1852 he immi- grated to Montreal, and in 1854 came to Chicago. For two years he worked at his trade. then engaged in business as a contractor and builder. In 1858 he went south to Memphis, Tenn., where he carried on business as a builder. Returning to Chicago in 1863, he engaged in his former business. Five years later he entered the employ of the C., A. & St. L. R. R. Co. as foreman of car repair. ing department, which position he resigned in June. 1881, 10 accept his present one with Fowler Bros. Mr. Rankin has resided at Brighton since the spring of 1878. In 1882 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of Cicero to fill an unexpired term of five months. lle is a member of the A. F. & A. M.

JOHN B. SEGERS, contractor and builder, was born in Belgium May 19, 1829. Here he learned the trade of carpenter. serving as an apprentice some five years, and carried on for some years business as a contractor and builder. He also followed his trade in Paris, France, for several years. In 1865 he immigraled to Peoria, I11, where he worked at his trade until the fall of 1871. when he changed his base of operations to Chicago, and in 1874 came to Brighton, where he has since carried on a large business as a builder. For some years he has been in partnership with John Skerry. They employ some ten men, and besides building the Catholic church at this place. they have erected a large number of private residences. Mr. Segers is the oldest contractor in this place.

HARRY A. WILLS, master mechanic of the Northwestern Horse Nail Company, was born at Tanbridge, Essex Co., Vt., in 1814, and fourteen years later his parents moved to Essex County. N. Y. In 1830 he went 10 Keesville, N. Y., and learned the trade of machinist. About 1830 he entered the employ of E. and J. D. Kingsland in their rolling mill and nail factory. In 1871 in connec- tion with J. J. Kingsland he invented a machine for the finishing of horse nails. The machines are now used by the Northwestern Horse Nail Company, and Mr. Wills came West to Chicago in 1872. the enter the employ of that company as master mechanic at the factory. The shops being moved to Brighton, Mr. Wills located here in May. 1881. Ilis machine is a fine invention and yields him a handsome royalty.

MORELAND.

This village is located on the Galena Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railroad, five and six-tenths miles from Chicago, The settlement here was the nat- ural result of the location of the car shops of this com- pany in the spring of 1873. A depot was built here, on Lake Street, and called West Forty-Eighth Street, one mile from the limits of the city of Chicago. C. E. Crafts laid out a subdivision of forty acres, northwest of the depot, built sidewalks and five houses in his subdivision. These were the first houses built at what is now Moreland. Soun afterward the West Chicago Land Company laid out three hundred and twenty acres south of the railroad and extended one mile westward from the limits of Chi- cago, and being one-half mile from north to south. Will- iam M. Derby then laid out ciglity acres southwest

from the depot, also in 1873, and in the same year the West Chicago Land Company laid out one hundred and twenty acres, one fourth of a mile north of the depot, on which they built about half a dozen houses. C. E. Crafts built ten more houses on his subdivision in 1876. In 1881, E. A. Cummings & Co. laid out forty acres im- mediately north of the depot, and procured from the railroad company the change of the name of the station from West Forty-Eighth Street to Moreland. Since then a great many houses have been erected in this suburb. Thirty have been built by C. E. Crafts and forty by E. A. Cummings & Co. There are at Moreland a grocery store, drug store, dry goods store and a meat market, and a post-office. The post-office was estab- lished in January, 1883. The first Postmaster was Mr. Barclay, and he continues in the office to the present time. At Moreland there is no Church organi- zation, but a flourishing Sunday-school is regularly held in the Amerson school-building. under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church at Austin. The population of the town is now about five hundred.

The Tilton school is a large three-story and basement brick building, situated on Lake Street.

CLYDE.

Clyde is located on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, nine and seven-tenth miles from Chi- cago. 'The original plat comprised one hundred and sixty acres in Sections 17 and 29, Township 39, Range 13 cast. This plat was purchased in 1866 by W. H. Clarke of New York City, of the canal trustees, for $1,800. In August, 1872, forty acres in the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 17 was sold to Mr. Wat- erman, of Sheldon & Waterman, at $750 per acre. Clyde proper was the eighty acres lying in Section 29, the sulxlivision being made by W. H. Clarke, Jr., D. Goodwin and Mrs. Il. G. Catlin in March, 1872. A number of improvements were made during this year. and in May, 1872, W. H. Clarke, Jr., sold at auction thirty-one lots, at prices ranging from $440 to $575. Among the improvements made was the building of a very neat depot at a cost of $5.000. In 1874 a neat little church of the Swiss Gothic style of architecture was erected. It is 56x32 foot in size, with open timber roof, with doriner windows at the sides, and with aud- itorium 31x36 feet. James McKenney was the pioneer settler of Clyde, hauling his first lumber in 1872. Secur- ing lots on easy terms, he erected several cheap honses and a store worth $4.000, near the depot. Clyde has of late years kept pace with other suburban towns, and is at present one of the prettiest resident villages in Cook County.

HAWTHORNE.

This place is located on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, eight and a half miles from Chicago. The sulxlivision, originally made in 1873, includes two hundred and forty acres, and v as divided into thirty-six blocks, each block containing twelve lots. Each lot was . 100X 183, and the streets vary from 80 from 150 feet wide. The principal streets are Ogden, Hawthorne and Hymen avenues, This, like Clyde, is a pleasant suburb of Chicago.

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HISTORY OF PROVISO.

This town lies in the western part of Cook County. It is bounded on the north by Leyden, on the cast by ('icero and Riverside, on the south by Riverside and Lyons, and on the west by DuPage County It origin- ally contained thirty-six sections, but in 1870" the town- ship of Riverside, consisting of the four southeastern sec- tions, Nos. 25, 26, 35 and 36, were set off into a separate township. The surface is for the most part level, with some slight elevations in the western portion, and the soil is for the most part prairie loam. The Desplaines River flows south through the center of the cast third of the township, and Salt Creek enters it from the west near its southwest corner, and after flowing northeast- erly, flows southeasterly and unites with the Desplaines immediately south of Riverside. When first settled, as well as now, the township was mostly open prairie. There was some timber, however, along the Desplaines River and along Salt Creek, and there were two groves -Bennett's Grove on Section 17, and Cat Grove on Section 7. The former contained about one hundred and sixty acres, and was named after a Mr. Bennett, who had a log house there in which in early days he lived for some time, but never owned any property, and moved away. Cat Grove was so named from the fact that Mr. Covell, one of the early settlers, reported to some of his neighbors that on a certain occasion he saw a wild cat in the grove. The total area of timber land in the township originally was about six hundred and forty acres, and some of the elm trees were about five feet in diameter. At the present time there is in area about three-fourths as much as when first settled, but there are now no large trees, Besides the timber there is considerable quarry stone in this township.

The first settler in this township was Aaron Parsell, in 1832 on Section 29, near Salt Creek. The first enter- prise started here was the erection of a saw-mill on the east side of the Desplaines River, about one-fourth of a mile north of the present Chicago & North-Western Railway bridge across that stream by George Bicker. dlike and Mark Noble in 1833. This mill was run a number of years, but changed ownership a number of times. Theophilus W. Smith was at one time owner of it, and built a house near it. Ashabel Steel, who settled on Section 12 in 1836, also built a house not far from the mill. Among the other early settlers in this township were the following in 1837: Thomas Covell on Section 28. John Bohlander and P. H. Fippinger on Section 7, J. S. Sackett on Section 18, James Ostrander on Sec- tion 31, Reuben Whaples on Section 6, and A. B. Kel- logg un Section 36 ; in 1838, John Walters on Section 32 ; in 1840, Samuel Giles on Section 8, Nathan Dod- son on Section 31, Mr. Noyes on Section 11, Henry Mesenbrink on Section 19, Peter Miner on Section 11, P. Granger on Section 28, S. Y. Bruce on Sertion 31, and E. W. Thomas on Section 11 ; in 1841, Peter Boh- lander on Section 7 ; in 1842, Augustine Porter, George Darmstailt and C. Limberger on Section 18 ; in 1845, C. G. Puscheck on Section 28, D. F. Deibert and H. F. Deibert on Section 7 ; Charles Longgood about the same time on Section 6 ; 10 1848, John Pfeifer ou Sec- · Ser History uf Riverside,

tion 7 and Solomon Buek on Section 18, and in 1849 Stephen l'ennoyer on Section 17.

By this time as indicated by the vote at the first election of officers in the township, there were about two hundred inhabitants within its limits. The organi. zation took place April 2, 1850. Phineas Stanton was chosen moderator, and A. S. Funston, clerk of the meet- ing held that day. A number of resolutions was passed relating mainly io animals running at large. The sixth resolution instructed the Commissioners of Highways to lay out the town into suitable road districts and to ap- point path masters. The election of officers then or. curred, with the following result : Stephen Pennoyer was chosen Supervisor by fifty-one votes ; Daniel F. Deibert. Clerk, by thirty-six votes ; Augustine Porter, Assessor. by fifty-two : Daniel Stanton, Collector, by nineteen; Joshua S. Sackett, Overseer of the Pour by fifty-two; Phineas Stanton, Phares Granger and E. W. Thomas, Commissioners of Highways by thirty-seven, forty- seven and fifty-two votes respectively ; Charles G. Puscheck and Avery M. Pitts Constables by thirty-six and twenty-nine vores respectively ; and Nathan Dod- son and A. S. Funston, Justices of the Peace by forty- seven and thirty-six votes respectively. The total num- ber of votes cast at this election was fifty.two The Commissioners of Highways soon after this election divided the town into four road districts-that part west of the Desplaines River into two and that part east of the river into two. This town was organized under the name of Taylor, but during the month of April the name Proviso was substituted for Taylor-Proviso being sug- gested by the prominence still maintained in the minds of the people by the Wilmot Proviso.

The first road laid out by the Commissioners of Highways commenced at a point in the Chicago and Naperville road near Forbes's place; thence northerly to the Chicago and St. Charles road near Whaples : thence east with the Chicago and St. Charles road to near Ket- tlestrings's cast line, and thence northerly to the north- east corner of Section 6, Township 39, Range 12 east, and this road was cleclared to be a public highway. On the first of April, 1851, a resolution was passed that five mills on the dollar be raised for the purpose of building a bridge across the Desplaines River, "where the Chicago and Grand DeTour State Road crosses the said river," by a vote of twenty-four for the resolution to nineteen against it, and this resolution was followed" by another authorizing the commissioners to negotiate a loan of not over Sooo, at any interest not to exceed twelve and one half per cent for the purpose of build- ing the bridge, and that the debt thus incurred should be liquidated by the five mill on the dollar tax. At the annual election beld this day, April 1. 1851, fifty-one votes were cast. The following list of officers shows the results of this and subsequent elections to 1883 inclusive :

Supervisors .- Stephen Pennover, 1851 ; Solomon Kellogg, 1852 ; Daniel F. Deibert, 1853: A. S. Fun- slon, 1854 : A. Miniere, 1855 : Stephen l'ennayer, 1856- 58; W. E. Ginther, 1859-61; Stephen Pennoyer, 1862; C. G. Puscheck, 1863 to 1867 inclusive; Philip Bohlan-

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der, 1868 to 1870 inclusive, H. H. Scharenberg, 1871; M. F. Covell, 1873: Henry Volberding, 1874-75; R. B. Barney, 1876 to 1878; Christian Schlund, 1879; Frank A. Merrill, 1880; Henry Soffell, 1881 to 1883 inclusive,

Clerks .- A. S. Funston, 1851-52; M. F. Covell, 1853-54; Henry P. Flowers. 1855: Augustine Porter, 1856; M. F. Covell, 1857: Henry Soffell, 1858; C. G. Puscheck, 1859-60: Philip Bohlander, 1861 to 1866 in- clusive; G. F. Senf, 1867-68; Henry Volberding, 1869 to 1873 inclusive, and Philip Bohlander, 1874 to 1883 inclusive.

Assessors .- Angustine l'orter, 1851; Stephen Forbes, 1852; J. S. Sackett, 1853: l'eter Miner, 1854; Peter Bohlander, 1855-56; Augustine l'orter, 1857; Philip Bohlander, 1858; C. L .. Thompson, 1859; John Pfeifer, 1860; Ilenry Soffell, 1861; John Pfeifer, 1862; Henry Volberding. 1863: John Fippinger, 1864 to 1868 inclu- sive; Lucian Weiss, 1869; Joseph Schlund, 1870-71; John Fippinger, 1873; Lorrence Wolf, 1874 to 1883 inclusive.

Overseers of the Poor .- Joshua S. Sackett, 1851-54 ; James Smith, 1855 ; E. S. Cook. 1856-57 : Solomon Buck, 1858 ; Augustine Porter, 1859; W. E. Ginther, 1860.

Collectors .- Avery M. Pitts, 1851; D. F. Deibert, 1852-53: P. H. Fippinger, 1854; John Pfeifer, 1855; P. H. Fippinger, 1856; M. C. Covell, 1857: Fred Weiss, 1859; Philip Bohlander, 1860; M. C. Covell, 1861; John Fippinger, 1862; John Pfeifer, 1863; Fred Weiss, 1864; Henry Soffell, 1865; Lucien Weiss, 1866; Henry Vol- berding. 1867; Lucian Weiss, 1868; Lorrence Wolf, 1869; Charles Schreiber, 1870-71; Henry Zimmermann, 1873-75; John Fippinger, 1876-77: George Vorass, 1878, C. G. Puscheck, 1879-82; John Wolf, 1883.

Commissioners of Highways .- Solomon Buck, Arte- mas B. Kellogg and Charles G. Puscheck, 1851; Stephen Forbes, Stephen Pennoyer and Christian Longgood, 1852; Artemas B, Kellogg. A. S. Funston and Henry Degener, 1853 ; Charles G. Puscheck, M. F. Covell and Henry Miller, 1854; George Darmstadt, John Bohlander and Charles G. Puscheck. 1855: M. F. Covell, George Darm- stadt and Charles G. Puscheck, 1856; Stephen Pennoyer, M. F. Covelland Henry Decker, 1857: Martin Kuhn, Fred Weiss and John I'feifer, 1858; Fred Weiss, Hiram Hast- ings and Henry Volberding. 1859; Fred Weiss, Ferdi- nand Haase and Henry Miller, 1860; Charles G. Pns- check. John Pfeifer and Christian Thiele, 1861; Henry Miller, 1862; Fred Weiss and Lucian Weiss, 1863; Christian Bonholzer, 1864: Philip Schroeder, 1865; Fred Weiss. 1866; John Pfeifer, 1867; Henry Volberding, 1868: Ferdinand Haase, 1869: William T. Nichols, 1870; M. C. Covell, 1871; John Pfeifer. 1872; F. J. Lange, 873; M. C. Covell, 1874: M. C. Covell, 1875; Henry Volberding. 1876; Jamies Broddie, 1877; Asa Knapp, 1878; Henry Volberding, 1879; C. Schlund, 1880; Frank A. Merrill, 1881; Henry Mesenbrink, 1882; I.co G. Haase, 1883.

Justices of the Peace .- A. S. Funston and Charles G. Puscheck, 1854; Augustine Porter, 1855; Augustine Porter and William E. Ginther, 1858; Charles G. Pus- check and Edward Gleason, 1862; Henry Soffell and Edward Gleason, 1866; M. F. Covell, 1869; R. B. Bar- ney and C. I. Thompson. 1870; M. F. Covell and C. L. Thompson, 1874; L. V. Ferris and M. F. Covell, 1877 and 1881.

Constables .- Avery M. Pitts and Peter Miner, 1851 ; M. F. Covell, 1853 ; Christian Mendell, 1854 ; Frank- lin Barber and James Smith, 1855 ; J. Porter, 1856 ; M. C. Covell and John Pfeifer, 1857 ; C. I .. Thompson and Philip Bohlander, 1858 ; Phillp Bohlander, 1860 ;

Philip Bohlander and John Fippinger, 1862 ; John Fip- pinger and John Mclaughlin, 1866 ; Gustav and Henry Zimmermann, 1870 ; H. H. Scharenberg and Charles Dagmer, 1874 ; August Rattle and Henry Zimmermann, 1877: John Sullivan and Frank Meyer, 1881, and Henry Warncke in 1882.

It is not easy to state with certainty who was the first minister to conduct religious services in Proviso, but in 1840 John Brandsteadter, a Lutheran minister, commenced preaching, and conducted religious services at the house of Christian Longgood for about two years. Rev. E. S. Cook, a Methodist minister, preached a number of years at private houses. Others preached at the school house, and at length in 1850 a Lutheran Church was organized in the west part of the town, the school house already built being used as a house of worship until 1862. This Church society owns forty acres of land in Section 30, upon which their church, erected in 1862, stands. A portion of the land is used for cemetery purposes. The church building cost about $8,ooo, and will seat five hundred people. The present membership of the Church is forty-five fami- lies. The first preacher was Rev. M. Zucker, the sec- ond Rev. Mr. Meyer, and the third and present one, who has been pastor about ten years, is Rev. John Streator. The school connected with this Church, and started even before it, now has about seventy-five schol- ars in attendance.

MAYWOOD.

This village is located on the Galena Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railway, ten and four-tenths miles from Chicago, and on the west bank of the Des- plaines River. This bank is here a table-land about thirty feet above the river itself. Early in the summer of 1868, Colonel W. T. Nichols of Rutland, Vt., came to Chicago and contracted for the purchase of this tract of land, one and three-fourths miles in length from north to south, and one-half mile from cast to west, containing five hundred and sixty acres of land, through which the Galena Division of the Chicago & North-Western Rail- way passes. After completing the purchase of this tract, Mr. Nichols organized a stock company with a capital of $75,000, and composed of the following persons: W. T. Nichols, president; J. P. Willard, secretary: P. S. l'eake, treasurer; A. S. Eaton, I. O. Gifford and A. M. Moore. In April, 1869, this company sceured a special charter of the Legislature of Illinois, organizing the May- wood Company, the date of the charter being April 6, 1869. After the money was paid in, the streets were laid out, trees planted, building commenced, and other improventents begun. The streets running north and south were called avenues, and numbered from one to nine; those running east and west were also numbered, commencing at the railroad and numbering either way. Eleventh Street is the northern boundary, and Eight- eenth Street the southern. A tract extending from First to Fifth Avenue, and about two blocks in width, imme- diately south of the railroad, was reserved for " May- wood Park." On the northwest corner of this park a large hotel was erected. It is a four story and base- ment brick building, erected at a cost of $30,000. The next building erected was a frame store two stories high, finished by the company and opened as a general store in 1870 by George R. Hall. Soon after this, in May, the post-office was established, with George R. Hall for first Postmaster. During the same summer the Chicago & North-Western Railway Company built their depot, the trains, however, having begun to stop here on the ist

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of May. In the summer of 1870 the Maywood Compa- ny erected a two-story Gothic brick school-house near the center of the town plat, the first story being de- signed for school pur poses, and the upper part being finished off with the view of holding religious services therein. It stands ou Block 89, and cost about $5,000. As a church, the upper part was iledicated January 1, 1871. Any denomination was permitted to hold ser- vices in this church. In the spring of 1871 a school, sustained by privatesubscription, was opened in this building, Miss Ida Barney being the first teacher, In the following fall arrangements were made with E. I .. Hallock, by the terms of which he opened in the same building with the Maywood Military Institute. The Maywood Company was very liberal toward religious denominations, setting apart four blocks for church purposes, and donating one block to any religious society that would erect a church upon it. The Congregationalists selected Block 90, and the Method- ists Block 92. The first settlers in Maywood were W. T. Nichols, R. B. Barney and P. S. Peakc, all of whom erected residences in 186g, and H. W. Small and Allen S. Eaton. Improvements continued tobe made in the vil- lage, eighty-three houses being erected in 1872, and the caphal stock of the company was from time to time increased. From $75,000 it was increased to $500,000, and the business of the company extended so as to include manufacturing interests as well as real estate. In 1874 their present brick factory was erected on Block 54. It is a three-story building 240x110 feet in size, and is devoted to the manufacture of the Chicago Scraper and Ditcher, of which there are now about seventy-five thousand in usc. The Maywood Company manufacture here also the Chicago Screw Pulverizer, of which, as well as of the Scraper and Ditcher, they own the patents. During the same year a three-story brick building was erected by the company, the first story being occupied as stores, the second as offices of the company, and the third as a public hall, the hall being capable of seating eight hun- dred people. At the present time the population of the village is somewhat under one thousand. The distance from the Wells-street ilepot to Maywood is ten and four- tenths miles, the time thirty-five minutes, and the fare thirty-two cents. George R. Hall remained Postmaster until 1873. when he was succeeded by Gustav Schrei- ber, who retained the office until 1876. Hale Bliss was then Postmaster until 1878. when he was succeeded by the present incumbent, Orrin II. Benson.

Maywood was incorporated October 22, 1881. The petition to Ilon. Mason B. Loomis, Judge of the County Court, was signed by thirty-three persons, and asked for an election to decide upon the incorporation intu a vil- lage of the territory included in the north-west quarter of Section 14, the west half of Section 11, and the south half of the southwest quarter of Section 2, Township 39. Range 12. The total number of votes cast at this clection was fifty-five, of which thirty-one were cast in favor of incorporation, and twenty-four against. The election for trustees was held November 26, 1881. Bay- ard L. Chamberlain, Augustus Maas and H. B. Good- rich were judges of election, and the following persons were elected first Trustees of Maywood: John W. Sharp, by 42 votes; Samuel H. Donaldson, by 42; John T. Rockafellow, 42; John Hofford, 43; Abel A. Westering. ard, 40; and Charles HI. Robison, 38. Henry K. Good- rich was elected Clerk, and served until 1883, when John A.Guilford, the present Clerk, was elected. The Trustees elected in 1882 were Filmund Kingsland, George A. Herrick, John T. Rockafellow, John W. Sharp, John Hof-

ford, and S. H. Donaldson, In 1883 the Trustees elected were George H. Brewster, Robert Dennis, Samuel H. Donaldson, George A. Herrick, John T. Rockafellow, and John W. Sharp. Orrin H. Benson has been an- nually appointed Treasurer since the incorporation of the village.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 223

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