History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 226

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


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The Lutheran Church of Harlem was organized in 1862 with forty members. They occupied the school- house about six years, when they creeted a church of their own at a cost of $8,ooo, During the first six years of its history this Church was independent, but the desire of the minister being that it should belong to the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, it finally in 1870 con- sented to the connection, and has since belonged to that Synod. John Mente was president of the society from 1862 to 1865, when he was succeeded in that office by Andrew Vogt, who also hell it three years. The first minister was Rev. Mr. Zucker, from 1862 to 1868, and the second and present one, Rev. F. M Grossc. There are now about sixty members in the Church,


The Frangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Society of Har- lem, was organized in 1878. It hield its first service in the public school-house, about six families at that time constituting its membership. The first minister was Rev. Mr. Irion, who remained from 1878 to 1880. The Rev. Mr. Bohngstengel then succeeded and remained until February, 1881. He was followed by Rev. W. E. Wer- nter, who was pastor from February, 1881, to July, 1883, attd was sucreeded by Key. John W. Kircher, who remained until November, 1883. The present pastar,


Rev. W. G. Weissinger, came to the Church in January, 1884. At the present time the society is negotiating for the purchase of two lots near the public school-house, upon which to erect a church building, and to assist in raising funds for this purpose a fair is to be held April 14 and 15, 1884.


Schools .- The present school-house was erected in 1878. It is a two-story brick building, thirty-six by fifty-six feet in size, and cost nearly $4.000. There are four rooms in this building, with an agregate capacity of about two hundred scholars. When the school was opened there were about one hundred scholars in at- tendance. A Mr. Wilcox was the first teacher, remain- ing one year, from 1878 to 1879. Homer Bemis taught during the school year 1879-8o. W. I). Simons, 1880-81; Philip Recher from 1881 to 1883; Frank Curtis is the present principal. His assistants are Miss Anna B. Martin, assistant in the grammar department; Adeline I .. Evenden, teacher of the intermediate, and Francis C. Carter in the primary. At present there are about one hundred and fifty pupils in the schools.


MELROSE.


Melrose is located west of the north part of May- wood, and north of the railroad. The town was started in 1873, by the Melrose Company, which dealt very liberally with those who might desire to accept their pru- position in regard to becoming residents of the place. This proposition was to give two lots, each twenty-six feet front, to any one who would erect thereon a house to cost not less than $500. About fifty houses were erected in the town by 1874, before the Melrose depot was erected. Since this time the growth of the town has been slow, like that of Maywood. The Chicago Tyre & Spring Works, are located here, a sketch of which is appended. The incorporation of Melrose as a village under the general law of the State, occurred in 1882. The petition for its incorporation was signed by thirty-seven petitioners, and contained a description of the territory to be incorporated as fol- lows: Commencing at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of Section 3, Township 39, Range 12, east; thence south to the north boundary line of the lands used and occupied as a right of way for a railroad by the Chicago & North-Western Railway Company ; thence southeasterly along said land to the western boundary of Maywood; thence north to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of Section 3, and thence west to the place of beginning-including the south half of Section 3, and all that part of Section 10 lying north of the Chicago & North-Western Railway. An election was ordered by Juilge Mason B. Loomis, 10 whom the petition was presented, to be held July 29, 1882-Albert W. Mason, David Allen aml Gustavus F. Gehrke being appointed judges of election. At this election there were cast thirty-eight votes, of which twenty-three were cast in favor of incorporation and fifteen against it. An election for six Trustees was held August 26, 1882, at which the total number of votes cast was thirty-eight. The following Trustees were elected: Herman C. Klug, by 36 votes; George Bigden, by 17; Gustavus F. Gehrke, 38; Albert W. Mason, 37: David M. Allen, 25, and William Chapman, by 37. The Trustees clected in 1883 were Asa Knapp. Albert W. Mason, William Chapman, Gustavus F. Gehrke, A. Maitland and Herman (. Klug. 1., E. M. Allen was appointed ('lerk in 1882, and elected in 1883.


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established by F. M. Atkinson, in 1878, and incorporated in 1881, with F. M. Atkinson president, and C. H. Ferry secretary. The capital stock of the company was fixed at $200,000. The buildings, one of which is 75x 100 feet, and the other 75x150 feet, were constructed especially for the manufacture of tyres and springs. One hundred hands are employed, many of whom are skilled artisans and mechanics. Power is furnished by three steam engines, two of which are of one hundred and fifty horse power each, and the third of thirty horse power. An average stock of about $50,000 is carried, and the transactions will reach annually about $200,000. The manufacture of locomotive tyres and car springs is one of the most important in the railroad service, as upon the skill and honesty of the workmanship depend the elasticity, tensile strength, expansive power and dura- bility of these manufactures, and consequently the comfort and safety of the traveling public.


PROviso is a small village located in the southwest- ern part of the town of Proviso. It was settled as early as 1855, and has now about fifty inhabitants, As busi- ness and industrial institutions, etc., it has a store, a shoe-maker's shop, a wagon shop, a blacksmith shop, two cheese factories and a saloon, besides a German school and church. A sketch of the latter has been given in connection with the early history of the town of Pro- viso. The post-office was established here in 185.3. The first Postmaster was Augustine Porter. He has been succeeded by the following officials in turn : Fred Weiss, Philip Bohlander, G. F. Senf, Charles Heipol- shemer. M. L.eudhauser and John Groshauser, the present incumbent.


PROVISO MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


MARIAS C. COVELL, farmer, Section 28, Township 39. Range 12, P. O. LaGrange, was born at Plainfield, Will Co., Il1 .. February 15, 1934, In the fall of that year his father, Thomas R., moved to l'roviso Township, and Marias C. was reared on the farm where he now resides. He has a nice place consisting of 133 acres, all nicely improved, with good residence, Mr. Covell was married here. November 16, 1853. 10 Louisa A, Sackett, who died in February. 1855, leaving one child. He was married again, at Chicago, to Sarah B. Sackent, on July 2, 1856. They have a fam- ily of five children.


JOHN G. PUSITECK, farmer, Section 16. Township 30, Range t2, 1º. O. l'roviso, was born in Prussia September 29. 1835. In September, 1839, his father, Christian, imunigrated to Illinois. and resided in Lyons Township, Cook County, up 10 1845, when he moved to Proviso Township, locating on the farm. John G. as- sisted his father in conducting the farm up to 1861, when his fath- er died and he has since followed agricultural pursuits on his own account. Ile has a very fine place consisting of 200 acres, highly improved, and a beautiful home, le is an extensive grain farmer and raise's considerable stock. Mr. Pusheck was one of the organ- izers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church here, and was for several years trustee of the same. lle served one term as Overseer of Roads, and has for the past three years been director of district school. He was married here, July 6, 1856, to Mary Steinal; this union has been blessed with eleven children, ten of whom are now living.


HENRY VOLBERDING, farmer, Section 30, Township 39. Kange 12, P. O. Proviso, was born In Germany June 25, 1831, where he was reared on a farm, Hle immigraled to Illinois in June, 1850, and localed in Proviso Township. Mr. Volberding has a fine farm, consisting of 139 acres, and gives his allention principally to the growing of grain and produce. He has for many years been identihed with the local politics, being eleven years Commissioner of Highways, Assessor one year. Collector one year. Town Clerk five years, and Supervisor two years, Mr. Vol- berding was married here in 1853, to Mary Schultz; she died in t 866, leaving five children. Ile was married again in 1807 10 Margaret Hinrichs, who died in Isst, leaving three chihren, and Mr. Vol- berding was married here a third time, to Augusta Keuster. They have one child.


HISTORY OF LYONS.


The township of Lyons is bounded on the east by the township of Lake, on the south by those of Worth and Palos, on the west by the county line of DuPage County, and on the north by the townships of Proviso and Cicero. It comprises fifty -four sections and is nine miles wide by six miles in length, and is traversed by the Desplaines River and the Illinois & Michigan Canal, Prior to the inoculation of the suburban resi- dence fever its population was composed wholly of farmers, who pursued the even tenor of their bucolic way undisturbed by the agitations of speculative prices in real estate, and unhampered by considerations of personal aggrandizement by sales, at a large advance upon the actual value, to the home-hunter in the suburbs.


Long before the locality was even considered espe- cially eligible for farming purposes on any portion of its acreage, when people feared to build a log house upon the prairies, lest the winds should sweep it away; then some pioneers of the township wandered into the voting precincts of Lyons and Summit and built them- selves homes.


In exploring the cobwebbed reminiscences of Lyons precinct the earliest are those that relate to David and Bernardus H., called " Barney " for short, Laughton, who settled at Bourbon Springs, near the present Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy depot at Riverside, in the year 1828 .* These may be deemed the primal settlers *Sce History al Riverside .


of Lyons precinct, and they were followed by Stephen Forbes, whilom Sheriff of Cook County. In 1830, Stephen White came to Lyons, and was through the region at intervals until his settlement therein in 1840. Mr. White states that the early settlers in the township were Edmond Polk, Russel E. leacock, Thomas Flah- erty, Samuel Mars, John Jay, George W. Beebe, Thomas Butcher, Wilson and James Mel.intock, Elijah Went- worth, Jr., Joseph Evans, " Scotch " Brown, Joseph Vial, and Henry and William Carrington. There were also Joseph Evans, who kept a tavern at Mount Pleas- ant, a Colonel Witt, and Joshua Sackett, who built the first log dwelling house at the present hamlet of Lyons. These primitive settlers had no appreciable augmenta- tion to their commonwealth until 1834, when a ripple of emigration invaded the region, and this was suc- ceeded by a-for those times-tidal wave of settlers, who came to work on the canal and erect buildings along its prospective and excavated site. In 1843, however, the "canallers" again left the region when work upon the canal was suspended, but returned when it was resumed, and from that time the influx has been constant.


In 1850 the question of having a township organiza- tion was broached, and as Township 38 north, Range 12 east, did not possess the requisite number of inhabitants for the organization, the west half of Township 38 north, Range 13 east, was added thereto. The election for township organization was held on April 2, 1850,


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and thereat seventy-one votes were cast. E. Eaton was moderator of the election, and James McLintock was clerk; Theodorus Doty, a Justice of the Peace, admin- istering to them their oaths of office. Thereupon the township was organized on May 2, 1850, the following heing the vote polled at this election ;


Samuel Mars, for Supervisor 71


William Carrington, for Town Clerk 20


fames Michie, for Town Clerk .. 47


Ebenezer Eaton, for A.sessor 71


Alfred Ward, for Collector 45


James Kerr, for Collector 2C


Theodorus Doty, for Overseer of l'oor 67


Theodorus Doty. for Commissioner of Highways 65


Pat Doyle, for Commissioner of Highways. 66


R. B. Hleacock, for Commissioner of Highways 68


W. D. Knapp, for Justice of the Peace 29 James Michie, for Justice of the Peace 40


Alfred Ward, for Constable. 42


Michael Upton. for Constable. 66


James Kerr. for Constable. 18


George Jeffry. for Constable. 7


George Jeffry, for Collector 3


For the place of holding the town meeting in 1851, Peter Kern received z4 votes, W. R. Green, 20 votes, and l'. Doyle. 7 votes. No certificate of election is of record, but the first township officers presumably were: Samuel Marrs, Supervisor; James Michie, Town Clerk; Ebenezer Eaton, Assessor; Alfred Ward, Collector; Theodorus Doty, Overseer of Poor; Pat Doyle and R. B. Heacock, Commissioners of Highways; James Michie, Justice of the Peace, and Michael Upton, Constable; place for holding town meeting, Peter Kerns's house. Samuel Mares, W. R. Green, Starr Carrington, W. 1). Knapp and Peter Kerns were made overseers of high- ways in the road districts in which they respectively residled. A vote taken, decided also that hogs should be allowed to run at large in the township.


The name of the township came within a few votes of being Mel.intock in lieu of Lyons, the popularity of the gentlemen of the former name nearly eradicating the attachment of the residents for the old name of Lyans,


The following is the poll-list* of the election of t850-Wilson MeLintock, W. D. Knapp, Theodorus Doty, Elijah Wentworth, Ira Eaton, Ezekiel Briggs, W. R. Green, David Shumboagh, James Mclintock, John Varwon Yarwood, E. Eaton, Alfred Ward, William Martin, William Rohb, James Tayler, Nelson Jonson, P. Mulany, W. Sherry, Henry Yarwood, Sam Vial, Con Hicky, John Bartly, John Rochford, Mich. Upton, R. B. Heacock, Amasa J. Grover, Robert Leech (Leitch , Thomas Welburn, E. Clifford. Stephen Brown, Rufus Brown, 1. S. White, Joseph Northup, Peter Kerns, E. Donnelley, D. Driscol, John Gillam, Joseph Evans, 1 .. F. Smith, John Murray, Stephen White, John Garner, R. Roe, Spencer Root, Edmond Polk, John Shrigly. James Kerr, John Crowley, John Kirk, Henry Glass, Martin Henigan, Lary Haffic, James Gavin, P. Selon, Thomas Russel, John O'Shae, W. O. Heacock, John P. Heron, Thomas Riley, Dennis Fitzpatrick, Henry Hines, 1. T. Edson, James Vial, W. Kirk, Mich. Murphy, Fred Warren, Pat Doyle, S. Marrs, George Jeffries, Nat Vial and W. Lunn.


'The first road recorded in the township records, as having been opened under the auspices of the new regime, was a private road two rods wide beginning on the Lockport & Chicago road, on the section line between Sections 15 and 16, amil running due south about ninety-two rods on said line; the petitioners and


owners being James Michie, Eben Eaton and Samuel Vial.


The polling-list of the election held April 1, 1851, contained the following names not mentioned in the preceding list: J. D. Tyler, Peter Kunken, Pat Cody, Phelix Cody, John Cody, R. A. Brown, Charles T. Scofield, N. S. Carrington, George Beeby (Beebe), I. R. Curtiss, James Young, John Katon (Caton), A. Kelsey, E. Kelsey, H. Lumis, I. Wells, I. C. Utter, L. McEvoy, Fred Shogman, Luke Dunn, I. Kent, Jonathan Rines, Jerome Curtiss, John Fisher, I. Threadgold, Owen Me- Gir, Joseph Morgan, Jacob West, James Michie, Phillip Kerns, James O'Niel, John Bartly, W. M. Latcher, lewis Thorn, and there were seventy-two votes cast at the election. The officials elected were: Samuel Marrs, Supervisor; Joseph Evans, Clerk; Peter Kern, Assessor; Charles T. Scofield, Collector; Jolin O'Shae, W. D. Knapp and S. Vial, Commissioners of Highways; Samuel Marrs, Poor-master, and C. T. Scofield, Constable, At the town meeting it was decreed that proprietors of hogs running at large were liable for damages com- mitteil by such hogs, and that no one was obliged to fence their property against the porcine peculators. The overseers of highways chosen were: Peter Kerns, District No. 1; George Beeby, No. 2; Stephen White, No. 3; N. Starr Carrington, No. 4: D. W. Knapp. No. 5, and the next annual meeting was to be held at the house of Peter Kerns.


At the election of April 6, 1852, there were seventy- three voters, and Samuel Marrs was elected Supervisor: Robert Vial, Town Clerk; H. H. Polk, Assessar; Charles T. Scofield, Collector; Starr Carrington, George Beeby and J. T. Edson, Commissioners of Highways; R. B. Hea- cock, Overseer of the Poor, and Edward Docely, Consta- hle. The overseers of highways were Charles F. Sco- field, District No. 1; George Beeby, No. 2; Stephen White, No. 3; N. S. Carrington No. 4, and John Killam, No. 5. The next town meeting was decided to be held at the house of Joseph Evans.


At the election of April 5, 1853, there were seventy- seven voters, but no record is extant of the candidates nor of the elected officials. The following however is of record: " James Clausen cast an illegal vote and was eeusured by a vote of the electors present; the vote was put in the ballot-box clandestinely while other business was before the meeting." The overseers of highways appointed were: Samuel Cooper, District No. 1; Edward Connell, No. 2; E. S. Prescott, No. 3: Robert Vial, No. 4. anıl H. H. Polk, No. 5; and the next town meeting was ordered held at the Lyon's Hotel, kept by J. T. Edson. Upon March 5, 1854, the township was divided into six road districts.


The election of April 4, 1854, resulted in the choice of James Michie, Supervisor; Robert Vial, Town Clerk; Stephen White, Assessor, C. T. Scofield, Collector; Peter Kern, Samuel Vial and John White, Commissioners of Highways; C. F. Scofield and James Michie, Justices of the Peace, and S. Y. Brace and S. Hill, Constables, by one hundred and thirteen voters. At the town meeting there was more legislation relative to the circumscribing of the realm of the vagrant hog, and the following over- seers of highways were appointed: Edward O .- Dis- trict No. 2; Peter Kern, No. 1; M. H. Eaton, No. 3; E. S. Prescott, No. 5; H. H. Polk, No. 4; Robert Bilby, No. 6, and the next town meeting was decreed to be held at the house of Joseph Evans.


The election of April 3, 1855, was attended by onc hundred and seven voters, and thereat James Michie was elected Supervisor; Robert Vial, Town Clerk; E. Ilol- ton, Assessor; S. Y. Brace, Collector; Samuel Vial,


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Thomas Cavenaugh and John White, Commissioners of Highways; James Michie, Overseer of the Poor, and the overseers of highways appointed were: Patrick Dowd, District No. 1; William O. Heacock, No. 2; George Cheese, No. 3: D. C. Havens, No. 4: E. Holton, No. 5; S. Ketchan, No. 6. The next town meeting was to be held at the house of Lewis Jones, at Summit, and the unsettled hog was decreed a free-commoner, the propri- etor of the abomination of Israel to reimburse any one who suffered damage from his predatory inclinations and actions.


On April 1, 1856, an election was held whereat one hundred and eighteen voters manifested their suffragan propensities; as a result James Michie was re-elected Supervisor; Nathaniel Caven was elected Town Clerk; Stephen White, Assessor; Alfred Ward, Collector; Sam- uel Vial, Thomas Cavanaugh and, Jolin White, Commis- sioners of Highways, and Lewis Jones and John White, Constables. The overseers of highways were C. F. Sco- field. District No. 1; Samuel Marrs, No. 2; O), C. Gro- ver, No. 3; H. H. Polk, No. 4: H. Rice, No. 5; H. L. Swartwout, No. 6, and the next town meeting was to be held at the house of William Lunn.


The election of April 7, 1857, made the following officers: James Michie, Supervisor; Joseph Evans, Town Clerk; Stephen White, Assessor; Alfred Ward, Collector; Henry Yarwood, Thomas Cavanaugh and Lewis Jones, Commissioners of Highways; G. H. Muller, Justice of the Peace, and A. S. Gager, Constable. There were eighty-six voters at this election. The overseers of highways appointed were: Patrick Doyle, District No. 1; William Cronan, No. 2; William Lunn, No. 3: Joseph Evans, No. 4; Robert Bilby, No. 5; Starr Carrington, No. 6, and the next meeting was to take place at the house of Lewis Jones, at Summit.


At the election of April 6, 1858, one hundred and seventy-six voters were present, and elveted E. Holton, Supervisor; G. M. Fox, Town Clerk; Robert Bilby. Mitchell Eaton and John Brown, Commissioners of Highways; Starr Carrington, Assessor; Wesley Polk, Collector; H. H. Polk and Pat Doyle, Justices of the Peace: George Witt and F. Conway, Constables. The overseers of roads appointed were: R. P. Pollock, Dis- trict No. 1: - Dee, No. 2; O. Grover No. 3; C. Havens, No. 4: R. Hugunin, No. 5; R. Bielby, Na. 6; and the next meeting was ordered to convene at the house of Joseph Evans. Upon March 29, 1869, the township was re-districted into eight road districts.


November 8, 1859, an election was held, whereat one hundred and sixty-six votes were cast, resulting in the election of E. Holton, Supervisor; George M. Fox, Town Clerk; S.White, Assessor; George Witt, Collector; D. C. Havens, Robert Bielby and M. H. Eaton, road commissioners. The following overseers of highways were appointed: Frederick Espert, District No. 1; Jacob Wills, No. 2; Isaac Pool, No. 3; Samuel Killam, No. 4; Frank Sherman, No. 5: Seeley Ketchum, No. 6, and N. S. Carrington, No. 8. The next annual meeting was ordered to be convened at Summit, which it did not do, the house of Willian Wellbourn, at Lyons, being the favored locality.


November 6, 1860, the annual election was held, two hundred aad forty one votes being polled thereat, and the officers elected being: E. Ilolton, Supervisor; Stephen White, Assessor; George M. Fox, Town Clerk; Richard Witt, Collector; William Wellbourn, pound- master; D. C. Havens, William O. Heacock and Peter Hansen, Commissioners of Highways. The overseers of highways appointed were: Lawrence Riley, District


No. 1; Denis O'Brien, No. 2; Charles Engelhart, No. 3: H. H. Polk, No. 4: F. T. Sherman, No. 5: George Savage, No. 6; Edwin Fuller, No. 7, and J. I .. Wells, No. 8. A post-and-board fence consisting of at least three boards, and four feet high, was decreed a lawful fence, as was a worm fence four and a half feet high; prior to this the Commissioners of Highways had decided from year to ycar what should be a lawful fence, no ediet being passed until this date as to any specific standard of fence. Summit was decided upon as the locality for the next annual meeting, but again William Wellbourn's house was the location.


The election of November 5. 1861, resulted in the following officers: Stephen White, Supervisor; E. Hol- ton, Assessor; George M. Fox, Town Clerk; Richard E. Witt, Collector; E. Holton, 1 .. Riley and W. O. Heacock, Commissioners of Highways. Overseers of highways appointed were: Joseph Bently, District No. 1; George Beebe, No. 2; Michael Eaton, No. 3; Samuel Vial, No. 4: John Dubriel, No. 5; Alfred Ward, No. 6; David Ferris, No. 7; J. Wells, No. 8. The next meeting was ordered to meet at the house of William Palmer, but met at William Lewis's residence. The number of votes cast is neither given in the record of this election nor in that of the two elections following.


November 4, 186z, were elected : Alfred Ward, Supervisor ; George M. Fox, Town Clerk ; S. Vial, Assessor ; Robert Stevenson, Collector ; William Robb and John Briggs, Commissioners of Highways ; R. P. Pollock and H. H. Polk, Justices of the Peace, and Thomas MeKinzie and R. E. Witt, Constables. Over- seers of highways appointed were : Charles Fox, Dis- triet No. 1 ; John Brown, No. 2 ; Charles Englehardt, No. 3; D. C. Havens, No. 4; John C. White, No. 5 ; Richard Gce, No. 6; John R. Fuller, No. 7; J. L. Wells, No. 8; R. P. Pollock, No. 9, and Frederick Harm, No. 10. At this town meeting the question of setting off a portion of the township to the town of Lake-presumptively the half township geographically belonging to Lake-was discussed, and the board unanimously voted, " that the town should oppose as far as possible the setting off any portion of her terri- tory whatsoever."


November 3. 1863, the clection was held at the house of William Wellbourn, and resulted in electing : A. Ward, Supervisor; George M. Fox, Town Clerk ; F. M. Prescott, Assessor ; Robert P. Billby, Collector ; Charles Englehardt three years and John O'Shea (two years), Commissioners of Highways; Samuel Vial, Pound- master, and R. J. Allison, Constable. Overseers of highways appointed were : R. J. Allison, District No. 1 ; George Bebee, No. 2; N. H. Biglow, No. 3; R. E. Witt, No. 4 ; George Niggs, No. 5 : Robert Stevenson, No. 6 ; J. R. Fuller, No. 7 : J. L. Wills, No. 8; William (). Heacock, No. 9, and Henery Haigh, No. 10.




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