History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 54

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

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(Organized in two companies in 1861-1 and K 23d Illinois Volunteer Infantry.)

NATIONAL. GUARDS CADETS. (Organized March 't9, 1856. )

Captain, S. W. Stryker ; Ist Lieut., W. B. Smith ; 2d Lieut., G. L. Sanborne : 3d Lieut., II. Turner ; Color Sergeant, B. Bots- ford ; Orderly Sergeant ; J. R. Scott ; 2d Sergeant, J. R. Ilay-

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den: 3d Sergeant, E. B. Knox: 4th Sergeant, J. A. Clybourne; Corporal, B. Forseth: 2d Corporal, A. G. Comstock; Staff Officers, Quartermaster, A. D. Wass; paymaster, W. T. Roath; Surgeon. Dr. J. A. Collins; commissary, S. G. Myers, Civil Officers- President, K. Koss; vice-president, J. R. Floyd; secretary, E. B. Knox; treasurer, 11. Turner. Drill every Tuesday and Friday evenings, al their armory, 16 and 18 south Dearborn Street. (Merged in the Zouave Cadets-a sketch of which organization appears in the following volume.)

CHICAGO DRAGOONS. (Organized, April, 1856 Captain, C. W. Barker. (1860.)

Captain, C. W. Barker; Ist Lieut., S. 11. Turrill; 2d 1.ieus .. E. D. Oshand; Orderly Sergeant, J. C. Kelley: surgeon, 11. B. l'ike: president. W. II. Eddy; vice-president, .A. T. Bage; sec- retary, J. F. [hitch; treasurer, S. II. Turrill. (Entered United States service in 1861. The above were all attached to the both Regiment.)

WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REGIMENT, NO. 1. (Organized September 29, 1854.)

Colonel, William H. Davis; Lieutenant-Colonel, Michael Diversy: Major, John 1 .. Peyton; Adjutant, Arno Voss; Quarter- master, William S. Davis; Paymaster, O. J. Rose; Surgeun, C. A. Ilelmuth.

Composed of the following companies:

WILLIAM TELL GUARDS (Bohemian). (Organized February 1, 1855.)

Captain, Anton Sten: ist Lieut., John Korber; 20 Lieus., Christoff Demon; 3d Lieut., Simon Eichenscher.

CHICAGO GUARDS OF LIBERTY. (Organized May 3. 1855.)

Captain, George W. 1. Cone; Ist Lieut., John Short: 2d Lieut., W. II. Read.

CHICAGO HIGHLAND GUARIA. (Organized August 10, 1355.)

Captain. John Mckay: Ist lieut., A. B. Mclean; 2d lieut .. William Lochart: 3d Lieut., John McArthur; ensign, Alexander Raffen.

(1856-1857.)

Captain, John MeKay; 1st lieut., John McArthur; 2d Lieus., Alexander W. Raffen: 3d Lieti., John Wood.

(1858.)

Captain, John McArthur; Ist I.leut., Alexander W. Raffen; 2d Lient., Johu Wood: 34 Lieut., John T. Raffen.

(1859-1860.)

Captain, John McArthur; Ist Lieut., Alexander W. Raffen; 21 1.ieut., J. T. Young: 3d Lieut., Andrew (Juade: 4th Licus., Robert Wilson; Secretary. T. McFarland; Treasurer, John Wood.

(Mustered into the service of Government in 1861, as Company E., 19th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.)

TWENTIETH Oun BATTALION. (Transferred to W. 1. Regiment February, 1856.)

Major, George W. I. Cone: Adjutant, John, Short; Quarter- master, P. A. Taylor; paymaster, Oliver I'. Booth.

The COMPANIES of BATTALION were:

" GUARD OF LIBERTY." (Organized May, 18:1.)

Captain, George W. I. Cone, (1856.)

Company A (Rifles)-Captain, William C. Leyburn: Ist Lieut., Judson W. Reed: 2d Lieut., Frederick Lyman.

Company B (Rifles)-Captain, Henry M. Kirke; ist Lieut., Charles Ml. Ilelliker.

Company C (Dragoons)-Caplain, Reuben Cleveland; Ist Lieut., James T. Hoyt; 2d Lieut., William F .. Judd; 3d Lieut, E. R. Brown.

No farther record.

WASHINGTON GRENADIERS. (1856.)

Captain, Theodore Weiler: ist Lieut., George Reifschneider: 2] Lieut., Henry Willin: 3d Lieut., John Schmidt.

WASHINGTON RIFI.ES. (1856.)

Captain, Antony Sten; Ist lieut., Frederick Mattern: 2d 1.icut., Martin Zieland.

CHICAGO GRENADIERS.

Captain, Augustus flaggerman; 1st Lieut., John Diversy: 2d I.icut., Peter Rink.

WASHINGTON LIGHT GUARUIS.

(Organized November 30, 1855.)

Captain, John Kerber; 1x1 1.jeut., William Heil; 2d Lieut., John Brown.

(1857.)

Captain, William Heil; Ist Lieut., Ernad Adams; zd Lieul., John Bolman; 3d Lieut., George Kosenbergen.

CHICAGO ARTILLERY COMPANY (German). (Organized December, 1956.)

Captain, Michael Mueller; Ist Lieul., August Freuer; 2d Lieut., Franz Ehlbruchi; 3d Lieui., laios Link.

WASHINGTON LIGHT CAVALRY (German). (Organized July 19, 1858.)

C'aplain, Frederick Schambeck; Ist Lieut., William T, Stoeber; zd Lieus., Alexander Weite.

(The Washington Independent Regiment was offered entire lo Governor Vales at the breaking out of the Rebellion, and accepted- many of the German companies doing service at Cairo.)

COOK COUNTY DURING THE REBELLION.

As early as 1848 two regiments of militia were or- ganized in Cook County, independently of those con- nected with Chicago, 'The Chicago Democrat, April 1. 1848, gives notice of the election of the regimental offi- cers of the 62d Regiment as follows:

" At an election held at Wheeling. Desplaines Pre- cinct, on Wednesday, March 29, for the field officers of the newly organized 62d Regiment* of Cook County, Illinois Militia, under the direction of Lieutenant George Davis of the Ringgold Guards, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected: Colonel, Joseph Filkins of Wheeling; Lieutenant-Colonel, Mason Suth- erland of Salt Creek; Major, Homer Wilmarth of Barrington."

On April 25, Colonel Filkins ordered an election of one Captain, one First and one Second Lieutenant, to be held in each precinct under his jurisdiction; authorizing as superintendents of election in their several precincts the following gentlemen: Lieutenant-Colonel Suther- land, Salt Creek precinct: Major H. Wilmarth, Barring. ton; Captain W. H. Davis, " R. G.," Lake, Gross Point, and north part of Chicago; Lieutenant Sherman, "W. R.," Monroe, and John Hill, Hanover.

The election was held on June 25, 1848, the follow- ing line officers being elected: First Company-Cap- tain, W. H. Davis; First Lieutenant, George Davis; Ser- ond Lieutenant, Benjamin Pryer.

Second Company-Captain John R. Thacher; First Lieutenant, Franklin Tanner; Second Lieutenant, Joel S. Sherman.

Third Company-Captain P. N. Culver; First Lieu- tenant, Giles Bushich; Second Lieutenant, Christian Asher.

Fourth Company- Captain Stephen Briggs; First Lieutenant, William Johnson; Second Lieutenant, Jolin Sabins.

Fifth Company-Captain, George M. Huntoon; First: Lieutenant, Sylvester Hill: Second Lieutenant. Isaac Burrows.

Sixth Company-Captain, Daniel Gould, Jr .; First Lieutenant, B. B. Young; Second Lieutentant, J. Draper.

Seventh Company-Captain, E. Moore; Second Lieutenant, J. Bradwell.

Eighth Company-Captain, S. W. Kingsley; First Lieutenant, A. Billings; Second Lieutenant, J.W. Kings- ley.

Ninth Company-Captain, A. P. Hayward; First Lieutenant, Peter Schunch; Second Lieutenant, William A. Oastrum; Third Lieutenant, Thomas Thanal; Cornet, Lysander Miller.

On the 29th of March, 1848, an election was also held at Blue Island to elect officers for the " newly or- ganized 63d " (106th, Regiment, with the following result: Colonel. Thodotus Doty; Lieutenant-Colonel, Morrill Kyle; Major, Jonathan Periam.

* 1 Hicially recorded in the State revueds as the 103th Illinois Mibtin.

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The company officers were:

First-Captain, B. B. Heacock; First Lieutenant, · Thomas Faherty; Second Lieutenant, Otis M. Wattles.

Second-Captain, Nathaniel T. Sherwood; First Licu- tenant, Caleb Sweet; Second Lieutenant, L. L. Butter- field.

Third-Captain, George Rheit; First Lieutenant, J. H. Batchelder; Second Lieutenant, Samuel W. Peirce. Fourth-Captain, Ausin Sweet; First Lieutenant, Charles H. Dalton; Second Lieutenant, William C. Bell.

Fifth-Captain, John Kettering; First I.ieutenant, James Austin; Second Lieutenant, Sidney Y. Brace.

Sixth-Captain, Artimus B. Kellogg: First Lieuten- ant, William Keith; Second Lieutenant, Peter Kerns; Adjutant, James Mechie.

Cook County 18th Odd Battalion, National Guards, organized in 1854:

Major, John L., Peyton,

Suburban Districts.

Number Enrolled.

Barring Ion.

186

l'alatine

234

Wheeling

250

Northfiekl

178

Evansion .

194

Hanover.

133

Schaumburg

116

Elk Grove

135

Maine

204

Niles.

166

Jefferson-

217

Proviso

237

Cicero

204

Lyons

272

Lake

153

Lemont

293

Palos ..

242

C'alumel

254

Orland.

153

Bremen.

"Thornton

225

Kich .

149

Lake View

161

New Trier.

of I

Hyde Park

1 8

120

588

5,267

Chicago.

1×1 ward

4.540

zd ward

for

2, Bin

311 ward

107

2.503

4th wand

1,442

5th ward

122

1,816

7th ward

2,067

8th ward

1.404

111h ward

10H

2,702

12th ward

1.461

13th ward

14th ward

1,241

15th ward

2,155

ruth ward

3,005

1,235

33.565

Total,

1,823

38,832

To avoid the hardships which might fall on indi- vidual conscripts, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance authorizing the issue of $300,000 in county scrip for the payment of bounties to soldiers, to be cred- ited on the quota of Cook County. At about the same time the citizens of Chicago organized the Citizens' Enroll- ment Committee, In co-operation with the Board of Supervisors, this committee secured the consolidation of

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Colonel S. B. Buckner.

Lieutenant-Colonel, John 1., McConnell; Senior Major, Elmer E. Ellsworth : junior Major, Samuel C. Green ; Company No. 1-Captain S. W. Stryker ; Com- pany No. 2-Captain S. A. Paddock ; Company No. 3 -Captain A. D. Wass; Company No. 5-Captain Thomas Shirley.

Chicago Dragoons-Captain Charles W. Barker.

Of the above companies, all except the 2d were credited to Chicago. There were six other companies raised in Cook County-1,600 men in all.

The following companies, and parts of companies were recruited in Cook County during the war of the Rebellion :

Infantry-12th, A and K: 13th, G: 19th, A, D, E. G, K; 23d B, C, F, G, H, I, K; 24th, A, C, D, E, F, G, H: 37th, G, entire, D, and 1, in part ; 39th, 44th, E entire, K in part ; sist, A entire, K in part ; F and G in part ; 420, A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, K .; 57th, C, E, G; 58th, B, D, F, entire, A, E, H, in part ; 65th, 1), 11, entire, K in part ; 67th, B, D, E. G. 1; 69th, C, E; 72d, A, B, C, D, E, F, H. K; 82d, A, B, C, D, I, K, entire, F, G, H, in part ; 88th, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K: 89th, C, K; 90th, E, F, G, H, entire, C, I, in part ; 113th, A, C, E, G,; 127th, B, G, H,

Cavalry-4th, A, and B, in part ; 8th, G, and K; 9th, D, F, L; roth, 1); 12th, D, H, 1; 13th, A, B, C, D, E; Thieleman's Cavalry - Companies A, and B; Schambeck's Battalion entire.

Artillery-Ist Regiment-Companies A, B, I., entire, E, H, M, in part ; zd Regiment-1., M, in part ; Chi-

cago Board of Trade entire ; Chicago Mercantile entire.

The reports of the patriotic efforts of the various towns and villages outside of Chicago will be noted in their historics.

THE DRAFT .- Under the call of July 4, 1864, for 500,000 men, the quota of Illinois was fixed at 16,182. Of this number Cook County was apportioned 4.250. This apportionnient was excessive and unjust, and was made under a misapprehension of the facts and on an entirely false basis, as was proven to the satisfaction of the Provost Marshal General, who ordered the quota of the Cook County district reduced fifty per cent. Under the reduced apportionment the county recruited vigorously, and, by September 1, reduced the quota to 1,823. The sub-districts of the county at that date showed the quota required, and number enrolled subject to military duty in each district as follows :

Company A-Captain, Thomas Shirley; First Lieu- tenant, George S. Wright; Second Lieutenant, M. H. Baker; Third Lieutenant, M. P. Roberts; Fourth Lieu- tenant, William W. Kenney.

Company B-Captain, Sylvester Sexton; First Lieu- tenant, William McMullan; Second Lieutenant, George Glasoner; Third Lieutenant, W. D. Sawyer.

In 1855 the official report shows:

Major, John 1., Peyton.

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Company A-Captain, W. B. Olmstead; the Lienten- ants were the same as above; Ensign, A. M. Carver.

Company B-Captain, W. W. Danenhower; First Lieutenant, Charles T. Hotchkiss; Secoml Lieutenant, A. F. Stoddart.

In 1856 the records show: Major, Simon B. Buck- ner; Quartermaster, Isaac Shelby, Jr .; Surgeon, J. C. Morfit,

The First Independent Regiment of Utah Volunteers, Cook County, was organized April 6, 1858,

1,830

6th waril

1,227

gth ward

tolh ward

2.204

Worth

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all the sub-districts of the county, to which Provost Marshal Frye gave his assent September 16. The county having thus become a unit and. all sources of rivalry or local jealousy having been dissipated, the rural districts united most zealously with the citizens of Chicago to furnish the required qnota. The appointed day on which the drafts began was September 26, at which date the quota of the county had been reduced to 1,650, The draft was continued intermittently for nearly a month, but during the time volunteers were furnished for all drafted men who did not choose to serve themselves for the bounty offered. One thousand five hundred and fifty volunteers were thus obtained in three weeks, and, on October 22, the quota of the district was officially declared to be filled.

Two months after, December, 1864, the last call for 300,000 more troops was made. On this call the quota assigned to Cook County was 5,200 men. The call was believed to be excessive in comparison with other dis- tricts of the State, owing to the large number enrolled of aliens and others exempt from military duty. At- tempts were made to equalize the apportionment by committees of citizens sent to Springfield and Washing- ton to lay the injustice of the excessive call before the authorities. Except procuring a tacit suspension of the draft on one-half the quota, on condition that the re- maining half should be promptly furnished, their efforts availed nothing, and the citizens set ahont the heavy task of raising this new and unjust quota. The task fell with excessive severity on the towns, in some of which the requirement was for one man for every five enrolled. The towns, or a majority of them, hy special bounties in addition to the county bounty, and by indi- vidual subscriptions and efforts, promptly raised their quota.

Up to February 7, there had been but 528 men fur- . nished on the new call. At that time the Board of Supervisors met in special session and voted a bounty of S400 to each recruit furnished the county. Follow- ing this the towns, as before stated, generally raised the men required and avoided a draft. In Chicago it was . otherwise. Bounty jumpers fairly swarmed about the city, and managed to absorh the bounties without filling the required quota. Preparations were completed for a draft carly in April, but the fall of Petersburg, followed quickly by the taking of Richmond, rendered it almost certain that the war was virtually at an end, and the draft was held in abeyance until April 13, when the welcome news was receivedl that no more soldiers would be needed from Cook County. At the time the Rebellion collapsed, and the draft was suspended Cook County was hehind as appears, by the final report of the Adjutant- General, 1,633 men on all quotas, aggregating 24,069; and this deficit was in process of extinction when the

close of the Rebellion caused the requirement to be with- drawn.

Chicago, within the county, being one of the most important military points naturally absorbed the re- cruiting strength of the whole county, and left thet owns, which furnished hundreds of brave soldiers, with little historie credit for the men they supplied.

The number of men furnished by Cook County was as follows:

I'revious 10 the establishment of the Provost

Marshal's office, end of October, 1863 ..... 16,66

From November 1. 1863, to December, 1864 ...

On call of December, 1564 3.055

Total, 22,532

The 5.872 men enlisted from November, 1863, to April, 1865, under the regime of the Provost Marshal. were classed as follows:

White Volunteer recruits

Colored Volunteer recruits.

1 16

Representative recruits.

Substitutes for enrolled men

655

Drafted men forwarded.

Substituted for drafted men J29

Recruits for veteran reserve corps

Total, 5.872

The bounties paid by county were:

I'nder Ist call, 1862 . $238,000

U'nder 2d call, 1863-64. 325.472

Under 3d call, 1864 .. 567,500

Under 41h call, 1865

1.440,000

Total, 87.571,272

The aggregate cost to Cook County in money was more than 84,000,000. The following items of expen- diture are authoritative:

l'aid by Chicago for bounties $ 119,742

Paid by county for bounties 2,571,272

Paid by lowns and ward. . 734.453

l'aid representatives and substitutes 56,350

Paid by county lo families ..

166,034

Paid by l'hicago to families

90, 809

Paid by Board of Trade lo families. 220,000

Paid by Mercantile Association to families ... 75 000

'Total, $4.033,660

Colbert, in his history, summarizes the expense in- curred by Cook County in the war as follows:

" The actual cost of the war to the General Govern- ment, amounting in round numbers to $3.350,000,000 was borne in part hy Chicago in addition to the above (local expense. The share of payments paid hy Cook County into the Federal treasury, was, in 1865, in the proportion of 858 to $3.350. $58,000.000 may therefore be assumed as the share of Cook County, to which add the $4000,000 of local expense, and we have a grand total of. $62,000,000, as the expense borne or assumed hy Cook County for the suppression of the Rebellion."

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WOLF POINT AND EARLY HOTELS.

The few travelers and emigrants who came to the site of Chicago prior to 1831 had more difficulty in finding the true town than at present. The fort could be seen, and from a distance might be taken for the nucleus of the coming village, but its forbidding inclo- sure showed, on nearer approach, that it was exclusive property and no village or even place of temporary so- journ for the weary traveler, except as the guest of the officers of the garrison. That was not the village of Chi- cago at that time. In the fall of 1829, among others looking for a place to stop " over night " was the family of Elijah Wentworth. It consisted of himself, wife and two daughters, Zebiah, then nineteen years old : Susan, eighteen years of age, and George, then a child of

ARCHIBALD CALDWELL ..

four years old. Whether Elijah, Jr., then twenty-six years old, came with his father, is a matter of doubt. He came soon afterward, if he was not at that time of the emigrant party. Elijah had come up from the Wabash country with three yoke of oxen, two covered wagons, containing all his household goods and earthly possessions, and, homesick, was trying to get back to Maine, where he was born. He was looking for Chi- cago as a point on the lake from which he might embark for the East. He arrived in October, 1829, and put up at the only tavern then having a sign-post. It was owned by James Kinzie who had built it the year before, and was then kept by Archibald Caldwell, who,

by virtue of his license, granted December 8 b; the Commissioners of Peoria County, was, without doubt, the first landlord who ever legally kept tavern in Chicago.

The family found refuge at this tavern, It came on prematurely cold that year, and it was certain that the family must winter at Chicago. The oxen could not be sold here, and were accordingly sent back to the " Wabash country" to winter. The family rented a small log-house owned by Mr. Kinzie, standing on the shore of the South Branch some little distance south of Caldwell's tavern, at $5 per month, and moved into it as a temporary home. While living there, Caldwell dissolved with Kinzie, left the hotel and removed to near Green Bay, Wis. Mr. Wentworth, in January or February, rented the hotel of Mr. Kinzie at $300 per year and became its landlord. Here he remained until the fall of 1830, when he gave up his lease and took a claim eight miles north, near what is now the Jefferson Station on the Chicago & North-Western Railroad. There he kept a hotel uninterruptedly, except during the spring and summer of 1832, when for a few weeks he took refuge in the fort fearing Indian depredations. When Scott came with the cholera, he returned to his house with many other families who, like him, became panic stricken by the pestilence.

Who kept the tavern afterward known as the Wolf Tavern :" the forks " had been known as Wolf Point long before during the year 1831, is not specially determined by the traditions or records of the period.

In addition to this first tavern there was another in 1830, kept by Samuel Miller. It stood on the east side of the North Branch, nearly opposite Wentworth's. He with his brother was living there in 1829, and kept a small store, besides entertaining such strangers as came along. In 1830, he having enlarged it materially, his place became known as a tavern, and he was the principal competitor of the "Forks Tavern" on the opposite side. He ran a ferry at that time to accom- modate the travel and help along his own trade." There was at that time no bridge. Mr. Miller kept the hotel until the death of his wife, in 1832, when he sold out and moved away. It was never known as a hotel after Miller left it ; various families lived in it tempo- rarily, and at one time it was used as a store.

Mark Beaubien had his log house, also a tavern, on the South Side, on the point made by the junction of the two branches. It was not at that time a pretentious hostelry. He afterward added to it and kept one of the most famous hotels in the city, known as the San- ganash.

These three hotels, connected only by a primitive ferry, with a few scattering buildings on the West Side, made the only pretense of a village at Chicago in 1830. and was known as " The Forks " and as Wolf Point. The origin of the name is buried in oblivion, Mrs. Juliette A. Kinzie, authoress of " Waubun." came here in the winter of 1831, and, at that early day discussed the origin of the name as shrouded in mystery, then ton old to be traced to its genesis. She states that at that

. The county, in 1831, when Mark Reaulen took the ferry established by law, bought Slitler's scow. See Colbert's History. p. s.

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time (1831' it was known as Wolf Point, and suggested some quite plausible origins for the name; among others, that it was the former residence of an Indian chief, whose name, translated into English, means " Wolf." The value of Mrs. Kinzie's testimony lies, not in her fanciful legend, but in the historic fact that at that time the land lying about " the forks" was known as " Wolf Point," and that the origin of the name was at that early day not known. As to the name and many other facts concerning Wolf Point, and the early taverns, Mr. Gurdon S. Hubbard, the oldest living citizen of Chicago, wrote the following letter to Rufus Blanchard, which is embodied in his History of the Northwest. See pp. 757-59-

what was thien called the Forks. About this date Samuel Miller bought a small log cabin on the opposite side of the river from Wentworth's, and south of the presen. Kinzie-street bridge, k which he added a two-story log building, finishing the outside with split claphoards, These two public houses were the first Chicago conld boast of. Miller by his influence and enterprise, erected a bridge built wholly of Ings, across the North Branch, just north of his tavern. Ile and Wentworth being competitors for public favor, the Forks house getting the most patronage, Jantes and Kober Kinzie built stores there, and here resorted some of the officers of The fort daily for social intercourse and ' drinks' at Wentworth's bar. Wolves were in those ilays quite numerous; one had the audacity tu enter in the day time Wentworth's meat-house, and was by him killed. Ilis house had for a sign a tall sapling toppeil off just alwwe a prominent branch ; it extended some distance above the top of the roof, and was a conspicuous notice, to be seen from the prairie and surroundings, that 'here was fond for man

WOLF POINT IN 1830

"CHICAGO, October 13, 1880,

" RUFUS BLANCHARD :

" My Dear Sir-Your favor of 11th is at hand, and 1 mnost cheerfully give you what information I possess on the subject mal. ler of your note.

"'Prior to 1800 the North Branch of the Chicago River was called by the Indian traders and voyageurs "River Ginarie,' and the South Branch ' Portage Kiver.' On the west side of the North Branch a man by the name of Quarie had a trading-house, situated on the bank of the river about where Fulton Street now is, This house was inclosed by pickers. He located there prior to 1778. This tradition I received from Messrs. Antoine Deschamps and Antoine Beson, who, from about 1778, had passed frum Lake Michigan to the Illinois River yearly; they were old men when I first knew them in 1818. This tradition was corroborated ly other "old voyagers The evidences of this trading-house were pointed nuit to me by Mr. DesChamps; the corn hills adjoining were dis- tinctly traecable, though grown over with grass.

" I am of opinion that these branches retained their names until about the time of the location of the first Fort Dearborn, and were afterwards known as the North and South branches,

** My Impression is that Elijah Wentworth opened his tavern on the West Side, near the present West Kinzie Street, in 1830, at

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History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Part 54

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