History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 250

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

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Clerks. 1851, Alonzo Campbell ; 1852, John McEl. downey; 1853, Elisha Barrett; 1854-57, William Millar; 1857, H. H. Ayers; 1838, Robert Wallace;

1859, William Millar; 1860-62, Robert Wallace; 1862, James Millar ; 1863-65, Robert Wallace; 1865, ('lark Holbrook ; 1866, William McEllowuey : 1867-69, Theore Weiderholl; 1869-73. W. MeEldowney; 1823-76, Jumes Millar ; 1876-78, S. W. Wallace; 1879, George Paine; 1880-84, James D. Wilkie.

Collectors .- 1851, John Millar; 1852, James Millar ; 1853. David Millar; 1854, Joseph Edlebrook : 1835, HI. H. Avers; 1856. Charles Morris; 1857, Charles Santer; 1858, J. R. Holbrook ; 1859. Lewman Hews; 1860, Job Campbell : 1861, L. Oswald ; 1862, Charles Weiderhold ; 1863, C. J. Reed ; 1864, Orson Pickens; 1865. C. T. Beard ; 1866, Theclore Weiderhold; 1867-69. Jacob Kirgies; 1869, Lewis Clans; 1870, John Millar; 1871, James Mil'ar; 1873," William MeEllowney; 1874. Theodore Weiderhold; 1875, A. J. Millar; 1876. J. Kirgis; 1877, Jacob Berringer ; 1828-80. John Held ; 1880-82, John Becker; 1882-84, Clans Jurgenson.

Justices .- 1850-54. Charles Sauter and Job Camp- bell ; 1854-58, Charles Sauter and John II. Scott; 1858-70, Charles Sauter and John McEldowucy; 1820-84, Clark Holbrook and Charles Weiderhold.

BLOOM.

The village of Bloom, originally named Thoru Grove, is situated at the crossing of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and the Joliet Division of the Michi- gau Central railroads. It is twenty-seven miles dis- tant from Chicago, and five miles west of the Indiana State line.

The first white men who made a settlement here were members of the Wells family, who came in the spring of 1833 and built a small house on the north- east quarter of Section 20, Township 35, Range 14, eust, on the banks of South Creek, just north of the present site of Bloom. They did not, however, stay long, but left with the Indians ou their removal by the Government to the far West.

Samuel Sloam settled two and a half miles south- east of the village in 1835, and Morris Murphy who kept the first store here, came also in the same year. The following year came Timothy Smith, from Iudi- ana; James Bell, from Kentucky, and John Hume, from Michigan; John Wallace, Caleb Sweet, John Call, John McCoy and John McEllowuey. Jr., also arrived abont the same time and located lands in Sec- tions 20 and 28.

Robert Wallace came in 1836, as did also Jolın Me Eldowney, senior, with his family, which, besides the son above mentioned, two other sons-James and Thomas, und six daughters. Of the latter, one ouly, who married the Rev, Mr. Morrison, is now living.

Benjamin Butterfield came to Lockport from New York in 1831, and moved to Bloom in 1834. He was one of the first Justices of the Peace for Thoruton

"No election held In 18.2, owing to the change from November to April, made that year; officers held over.

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Precinet. Adam Brown arrived in this neighborhood shortly after the Wells family, and built a log cabin at the intersection of the Vincennes & Sac Trail rouds. In the spring of 1840 Mr. Brown planted an orchard and also built the first frame barn 'in this part of the country. His daughter, Lovina, who now resides in the village of Bloom, was the first white child born in the settlement. Benjamin Ross settled on the Brown farm, John Lyons on Thorn Breek. John Caklwell and John Wilson, at Thorn Grove, in 1837; and in the year following came Jacob Bowder and family. Joseph Cuklwell and C. Culver. Frederick Richards and Vineint Santer enine to Bloom in 1839, and sub- segmently settled at New Strasburg. Christian Millar, the first blacksmith, and 11. Beekley, the first house carpenter, located here in 1842. James Millar who wrote the Centennial History of Bloom, came with his parents in 1842; Jeremiah Marony and William Orr came in 1843. In the year following quite a num- ber of new settlers came in, among them were Stew- art B. Aiken, James Pickens Farnam, Joseph Gloss, James Rice, Jalan Little and the Prestage, Dixon and Cushing families.

In 1849 the name of the village was changed to Bloom in deference to the wishes of the German set- tlers, und in honor of Robert Bluhm, the jmtriot, who was executed at Vienna. in 1848, In 1835, Willian: Caskey came from Green County, Al., anal setthal ouc-half mile west of Bloom, and three years later, he was joined by his mother, three brothers and five sis- ters. In the smue year. Captain Finn and John Holmes located in the same vicinity. In 1848, John Camp- bell settled a mile northwest of the village on the farm where he still resides.

It is said that the first merchant in the neighbor- hood was a man named Morris Murphy, who, as early as 1835, kept a store one and a half miles north of the village." He purchased his goals at Chicago, and used an Indian pony to transport his purchases, often loading the little animal so heavily that three or fonr days were consumed in making the trip. The next store-keepers were lhinter and Aikins, in 1856, who then kept a general store in the village.

The first school-house was built aud completed in 1836; it was located just sonth of the railroadl bridge and west of the village. A Miss Cooper was the first teacher, and the sehol at that time contained but seven pupils.

The first cemetery was laid out in 1842, and the first interments therein were Rosanna McEldowney and a daughter of Mrs. Noble. The first post-office of the district was established at New Strasburg with Charles Santer, Postmaster. It was afterwards removed two and a half miles west to Thorn Grove, How Bloom, and Robert Wallace was commissioned Postmaster. He was succeeded by Stewart Aiken, and he by 1 .. Oswald, the present incumbent.

The first church at Bloom was the Presbyterian, which was organized by Rev. John McMaster, with twenty-five members, in 1843. Two years later, n house of worship was built and used until replaced hy the edifice now standing, and which was erected some eight years ago. It is said by some of the oldest sut- tlers that as early as 183% Rev. J. W. Morrison from South Carolina, and a travelling minister used to preach in the settlement at stated intervals; also that he then attempted to establish a church but failed in his certainly laudable undertaking.

The first plat of the village was made by Robert Wal- lace in 1863. The survey embraced fifteen acres at

the intersection of the Michigan Central Railroad with the main street. In 1871 an addition of forty acres was added, the survey being made by Mr. Dolton.

In 1840, land in the neighborhood of Bloom was sold by patentees for from $5 to $6 per aere. During the succeeding twenty years prices advanced to $20 per acre, while the last two decades have eclipsed even that fair advance in value. When the spirit of euter- prise, now growing so rapidly, reaches farther ont, Bloom, which is now n happy rural village, contented, peaceful aud industrious, will realize its relations to the great city, and win hundreds, perhaps thousands, of busy Chicagoans to share the bliss of country life. The aufvantages which the railroads offer, and its own undoubted claims to a beautiful and healthy location, pure water, rich soil, woodlands, hill and dale, tell that snch advantages will not long be left to the sele enjoy- ment of its present limited population.

GLENWOOD.

Formerly known as Hickory Bend, is located in the north central portion of the township, on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, abont twenty-three miles due sonth of Chicago. The first white settlers here were Job Campbell, O. P. Axtell, who located on lands near the village in 1846, and Floris Young, who came in 1847. In the same year came Benjamin Baker. Jacob Dull and Lott Chapman. In 1848. George R. James arrived, and in the following year, James Pick- ens and his son. Orson, settled on a farm some three miles south of Hickory Bend, as the village was then called, while about the same time, the Holbrook fam- ily settled on a farm west of the village, where they still reside. Joseph Kinsley and Thomas Borrows came in 1854, Kinsley moved away the following year, hut Mr. Borrows still lives on the old homestead. Among those who were residents here before the village was surveyed ure: William: D. Wilkie. Caleb Sweet, Clans Jargensen, Henry Krolin, Chris. Krolin, Robert Bolford, George Nutting. John Wagner, Rob- ert Kiaser, JJames and Richard Hemmingway, Fre- mont and Clark Ilolbrook.

The first birth and death in the settlement was the infant daughter of Thomas Borrows; the child was born in 1855 and died the same year. As early as 1838 John D. and Job Campbell purchased a large traet of land in the vicinity of Hickory Creek, but did not themselves come here until 1846, as has already been mentioned. Other early land owners here were Thomas Dyer, Inlins Wadsworth, Johu Finn, Samuel, James and Sheldon Peck : these purchases were made as early as 1854.

In 1871. the village was surveyed for Campbell aud Young, and at the suggestion of O. P. Axtell, the name was changed to Glenwood. On March 3, of the same year, a post office was established under the same name, with Il. K. Axtell, Postmaster, and George H. l'aine, assistant.

The first minister to hold services in the settlement was a Mr. Ball, a Baptist, who preached here in 1848. In the year following, a Mr. Gilbert, a Presbyterian minister. and a Rev. Mr. Bartlett, a Congregationalist, visited the settlement occasionally and held services at the honses of the farmers in the neighborhood. In January, of the present year, the Catholics of the vicinity began the erection of a church edifice, which, when completed, will have cost near $2 000. The Presby. terians of the neighborhood hold meetings in the

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school-house each Sunday, Rev. William Morrow, of the church at Bloom, officiating as pastor.

The first school-house in the district was built in 1850 and was situated one and a quarter miles east of the present site of Glenwood. It remained there until the sunner of 1882, when it was moved into the vil- lage and located on Main Street, some eighty rods cast of the railroad track.

The Glenwood House was built hy Job Campbell in 1871 and was rented to O. P. Axtell and John Dnll ; subsequently it was conducted by H. K. Axtell and others. It was finally sold to Theodore Weiderhold who converted it into a general store, which is now kept by F. Kobal. This, with the post-office store, of which George H. Paine who is also the station agent, is proprietor, a saloon and a blacksmith and wagon shop, constitute the present business honses of the place.

New Strasburg is the name of a settlement made in 1839, near to where is now the village of Bloom. It was originally the post-office town for the southeast quarter of the township. James Morrison kept a store here as early as 1836. At New Strasburg were held, it is claimed, the first religious services in the township, the officiating clergyman was a Catholic, named Fischer ; and in 1847 the Church of St James was built, which, in 1870, was destroyed by lightning, but was rebuilt in 1883.

BIDON BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THOMAS BORROWS, farmer sad stock-raiser, P. O. Bloom, in the spring of 1874 bouglit the east half of the northwest quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 10, being 120 acres of prairie att woodland, on which he settled, and has siace followed agricultural pursuits. Hle was born in Lincolnshire, England, January 24, 1819, and lived in various places in his native county until 1850, when he came to Chicago. Soon afterward he removed to Lake Connty, Ill., and farmed n year, then returned to Chicago, and went into the employ of the Galena Railroad. afterward being employed in the muilk trade for two years. He hanted the first ties for the Rock Island Itmilroad into Chiengo. In 1834. he married Mrs. Mary A. Blek, of Lincolnshire, England. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

ADAM BROWN, farmer, P. O. Bloom, was born in Guil- ford County, N. C., March 18, 1804. His parents removed to Preble County, Ohio, when he was a child, nud there he was raised on a farm. In 1833 he came to Cook Conaty, and setiled on a farin in Section 32. Bloom Township, where he now resides aud owns about 434 neres of fine agricultural lands, composed of prairie and timber. When, in 1×33. he came to Cook County, wolves. deer and all kinds of game abounded in profusion, and the Indian was not unknowa. Ilis nearest neighbor oa the south was a Mr. Osborn, six iniles away, and there were but three others within twenty-five miles distanec. Mr. Brown is a Universalist in belief. In 1830 he married Miss Phieba Myers, who was born March 23, 1810, in Tennessee. They have nine children-Christopher, Lavina, Elizabeth, George, William, Sarah A., Mary J., Phelm A. and Adam 11.

JOHN McELDOWNEY, retired farmer, Bloom Station, was born in County Tyrone, in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, October 11, 1811. llis father's name was also Jolin McEldowney. The family emigrated from their native land in 1833 for Chicago, but the cholera was then raging in the latter city, and as there was a family of fifteen of themu. including his wife's mother's people, they all settled at Comje ton, Quebee, where the subject of this sketch worked on a forin three years. In May, 1835, he enine to Chiengo, having walked 120 miles through Vermont and some distance through Indiana, and after many vicissitudes renched his destination. After working for two months at winterer he could flat to do, he went to Bloom Township (then Thorn ('reck Precinct), and made n land elnim on Sections 28 and 29. Township 35, 400 acres of fine agricultural land, which he deeded, in 1882, to his three sons. lle now lives in a house and lot of his own. In 1836 he married Miss Ann Wallare, who was born, June 4. 1814, in the same place in Ireland. They were the first couple

married In the township. The two families immigrated to America at the same time. In 1836 he erected a log house on his land and moved into it. Mr. MeEllowney remembers cutting grass with a seythe where the court-house now stands, in Chicago, and at the time would not have given $50 for the place. Hle assisted in orgnaizing Bloom Township and Village, has served one term as Supervisor of the township, and as Justice of the Peace twenty years; has also served as Rond Commissioner, town and school treasurer, etc. He assisted to organize and build the Presbyterian church in Bloom, and has been elder in the same since Its organization, in 1842. The family consists of eight children-Dorothy. bora March 28, 1838, died Jannary 28 1870: Mary Ann, born November 17. 1840, now married to Samuel McDowell an attorney at Beatrice, Neh .; William John, born June 30, 1843; Martha Eliza, May 19, 1846: James Henry, May 20, 1848; Margaret June, June 13, 1830; Rebecca, October 8. 1H51, now married to Hon. William Campbell, of Blue Island; Andrew Wallace, born February, 6 1854.

MISCELLANEOT'S BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

WALTER P. HAWTIN, of Clarendon Ilills, Du Page County, was born in 3848, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, and was brought by his parents to Chicago, in 1855. In 1864 he began to learn the profession of wood-engraver, and afterward worked for a leading house in that line, as a recognized expert from 1867 to 1876. Sickness and a season of recuperation intervened, and in 1877 he joined his present partner, J. W. Drant, nudler the style of Drant & Hawtin. The firm com- prises the two youngest men, in their line, In Chicago, and hy their energy and attention to the interests of their customers they have been remarkably successful in building up a busi- ness, second to none in the city. In 1822 Mr. Hawtiu married Lriln, a daughter of Iir. Wells R. Marsh, of Chicago, and their children have been born and named as follows: Wells Walter in 1873, Irene Marsh In 1876, and Raymond Marris in 1883. They have reshled, since 1877, in Ciarendon Hills, a suburb of Chicago, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- road, where they own a pleasant home and handsome grounds,

NATHANIEL SAWYER, residence Lake Forest, Lake County, was hora April 29. 1824, in Albany, N. Y., son of Nathaniel sad Ophelia (Bachelor) Sawyer. Ilis father was a mitler, and a native of Vermont. In 1840 young Sawyer came to Chicago, and entered the drug store of his brother, Sidney Sawyer, where he remained as clerk until 1855, when he bought the business in connection with n consin, forming the firm of Sawyer, Paige & Co. The business was wound np h 1800, when Mr. Siwyer removed to Madison, WIs., to take the position of superintendent of public property, under his brother-in-law. Governor Hardey. In 1864 he returned to Chicago to take the position of paymaster of the Chicago & North-Western Rallway .- Since 1865 he has been engaged in real estate, largely as manager of the Sawyer and Butterfield exintes. Aber the fire he took up his residence in Lake Forest, where he was elected Alderman in 1879, and again in 1883. Mr. Sawyer was married October 11. 1848, to Eliza Terrine, of Kenoslin, Wis. They are the parents of one ehill, Mary Elizabeth: and all three are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sawyer is n Republican in politles.

OMITTEN FROM LAKE VIEW HISTORY.

WALTER CHADBAND was born in Surrey, England, September 23. 1854. Hle received his education at Reigate, Englaad, and then went into the employ of S. IL. Miller, watchmaker, at Reigate, as a clerk and continued as such up to 1879 when he went to Toronto, Canada. In 1880 he came to Ilydle l'ark and the same year came to Lake View Towa- ship, where he has since held the position of Assistant Super- intendent of Rose Hill Cemetery.

OMITTED FROM HYDE PARK HISTORY.

CHARLES MILLER, foreman of the boiler-shops of the Nickel Plate Railroad Company at Stony Island, he took charge of this department June 22, 1882. Ile was born in Muskingum County, thio, February 12, 1845, and lived in his native county until nineteen years of age. Hle worked a year for the Columnbus Machine Company, after which he went to Chilli- rothe where he was employed by the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad us a boiler-inuker fifteen years. He then took charge of the locomotive boller-shops at Portsmouth for about a year when he resigned to necept a similar position for the Nickel Plate Railroad June 29, 1882. Hle is a member of Tecumseh Lodge, No. 80, 1. 0. 0. F., of Chillicotte, Ohio. In 1868 he married Miss L. J. Lentz, of the latter city. They have two sous, now deceased, William and Alfred, and a daughter, Minnie M., living.

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 250

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