USA > Illinois > Cook County > History of Cook County, Illinois From the Earliest Period to the Present Time > Part 86
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128 | Part 129 | Part 130 | Part 131 | Part 132 | Part 133 | Part 134 | Part 135 | Part 136 | Part 137 | Part 138 | Part 139 | Part 140 | Part 141 | Part 142 | Part 143 | Part 144 | Part 145 | Part 146 | Part 147 | Part 148 | Part 149 | Part 150 | Part 151 | Part 152 | Part 153 | Part 154 | Part 155 | Part 156 | Part 157 | Part 158 | Part 159 | Part 160 | Part 161 | Part 162 | Part 163 | Part 164 | Part 165 | Part 166 | Part 167 | Part 168 | Part 169 | Part 170 | Part 171 | Part 172 | Part 173 | Part 174 | Part 175 | Part 176 | Part 177 | Part 178 | Part 179 | Part 180 | Part 181 | Part 182 | Part 183 | Part 184 | Part 185 | Part 186 | Part 187 | Part 188 | Part 189 | Part 190 | Part 191 | Part 192 | Part 193 | Part 194 | Part 195 | Part 196 | Part 197 | Part 198 | Part 199 | Part 200 | Part 201 | Part 202 | Part 203 | Part 204 | Part 205 | Part 206 | Part 207 | Part 208 | Part 209 | Part 210 | Part 211 | Part 212 | Part 213 | Part 214 | Part 215 | Part 216 | Part 217 | Part 218 | Part 219 | Part 220 | Part 221 | Part 222 | Part 223 | Part 224 | Part 225 | Part 226 | Part 227 | Part 228 | Part 229 | Part 230 | Part 231 | Part 232 | Part 233 | Part 234 | Part 235 | Part 236 | Part 237 | Part 238 | Part 239 | Part 240 | Part 241 | Part 242 | Part 243 | Part 244 | Part 245 | Part 246 | Part 247 | Part 248 | Part 249 | Part 250
1.076.667 61
1,626,279 51
1.577.734 08
1377.
1,425,359 of
1,41.037 22
1,004,671 10
730,468 08
3.576,605 99
2,564,477 85
1981
1,532,095 05
1.019.920 93
1832
1,411,399 23
1,016,691 92
1983
2.443.444 93
1,694.105 08
VALUATION OF PROPERTY .- The following table gives the assessed valuation of real and personal pro- perty from 1839 to 1855, inclusive :
1839
$1,820,420
ISJO
1,661,206
1841
r. BSS, SGo
18.42
2,325,240)
1843
2.250,705
1844
3.186.945
1845 .
3.688,124
1846
5.011.402
1847
6,180,305
1548
9.986,000
1849 -
7.617,102
1850
8.101,000
1851
9.531,826
· Ending December.
+ Ending September.
1852
12.035,037
1853
.18,067,103
1854 . 24,406,288
1855
.34.747.709
COUNTY SCHOOLS.
The United States census report for 1850 gives the number of schools in Cook County as sixty-eight, the num- ber of teachers as eighty-eight, and the number of pupils as 3,910. The annual income was $16,396, comprising taxes $13,676, public funds $1,360, and revenue from other sources $1,360. There was then no college in the county, but there were nine academies, employing sixteen teachers, and furnishing tuition to 477 pupils, their annual income being only $4,000. The statistics of education were, in 1850 : Attendance-2,585 white males ; 2,643 white females ; 11 free colored males ; 18 free colored females. Aggregate 5,257. comprising 3,702 natives and 1,552 foreigners, Adults who could not read ur write in Cook County in 1850 were 302 white males ; 379 white females ; 47 free colored males ; 34 free colored females. Aggregate 762, constituted by 110 natives and 652 foreigners.
The first report of the County School Commission- ers, on file in the office of the County Superintendent, is for the year ending October 1, 1860, and that fur- nishes the following compendium : Number of schools, 192 ; average attendance. 22,965. The expenditures for that year were $178,972.62, and the receipts 8174,- 260.13. For the year ending October 1, 1865, the report gives the attendance as 37,880 ; the expenditures as $252,379.84, and the receipts as $218,594.75. The year ending July 31, 1870, the figures were as follows : Public schools, 231 ; private schools, 145 ; total, 376 ; attendance, 49,988 ; receipts from all sources, $1,056,- 714.29 ; expenditures, $983,770.66, and the value of school property was 84,733,338.06. In the year 1879-80, the public school-houses numbered 297, and the private schools 202 ; total, 499. The number of pupils enrolled was 78,971, and the expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, were $1,615,173.65 ; the receipts for the same period $1,853,894.06, and the valuation of school property at the end of the fiscal year $3,051,430.
Albert G. Lane, County Superintendent of Schools, in his report to the Commissioners for the year endling June 30, 1882, exhibited the following :
The total receipts for school purposes, including balance of $220,898.10 in Town Treasurers' hands at beginning of year, were $2,175,347.86, of which amount $1,231,325.10 was for city schools.
The total expenditures were : City, $1,231,325.10 ; county, $619,498.70 ; amount loaned by county and in default, $33,669 ; amount on hand in county, $290,- 855.06 ; total, $2,175,347.86.
There were 157 ungraded, 140 graded, and 9 high schools in the county, 62 of which were Chicago schools.
The total enrollment in public schools was 93,563 ; in private schools, 36.333 ; total, 129,896, There were 1,607 teachers in public, and 883 in private schools. There were but 420 persons in the county unable to read and write.
The total value of school property was $4,159,628_
'The same Superintendent, from whose report the last facts are quoted-Mr. Lane-reports to the Secre- tary of State for the year ending June 30, 1883, the following facts : Total number of children in the county under twenty-one years of age, 318,134. The graded schools are taught by 1,387 teachers, and the ungraded by 191 ; of the 1,778 teachers who are em-
Drones Google
19764
1879.
875,737 71
344
HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY.
ployed by the county, 1,590 are females. Cook County is divided into 202 districts, in which there are 313 schools ; nine of these are high schools, and during the year twenty-two school-houses were built. All the dis- tricts in the county have schools except Rich andl Bloom. The 219 private schools in the county are attended by 36,454 pupils, and employ 852 teachers. For the support of the public school system of Cook County a tax of $1,809,386.18 was levied. The estimated valuation of school property is $5,426,898.36, the bonded debt $1,921,641, and the cash on hand (principal of township fund, on the 30th of June, 1883, $14,648.07.
AGRICULTURAL.
From the census reports of the various decades cited, the following facts are compiled :
In 1840, the only crop noticed in the statistical sum- mary of productions of States as worthy of mention from Illinois, was that of tobacco, wherein the State is accredited with 564,326 pounds.
The following table shows the value of live-stock and agricultural products, and the number of bushels of grain and pounds of wool produced in 1846 in Cook County :
PRECINCTS.
Live-Stock.
Bushels Grain l'rue duced.
Value Other Agrirolt- ural Produce tiums.
Number Poonde Would.
Chicago City.
$44.834
$1),000
Chicago
1,354
4.583
3.134
33
Blue Island
8,735
5.201
815
10,728
Monroe
18,625
11.497
4.471
324
Lyons
10,290
4.755
935
3,600
Desplaines
18,295
19.155
6,050
1,509
Hanover ..
23,240
28,130
3,019
2,402
Bridgeport
6,900
SOM
Quo
Thorniun .
12.940
11,550
1,915
1,423
Salı Creek
24.975
24.731
6,045
4,204
Total city and county. 8241.793
11,835
842,045
The census of 1850 gives 154,090 acres of improved farming land, and 109,844 acres of unimproved land. 'The cash value of farms was $2,573,325, and of farm implements $121,198, making an aggregate of $2,964,- 523 invested in agriculture at that date. There were then reported in the county 3,579 horses, 7 asses and mules, 8,596 milch cows, 2,321 work oxen and 11,155 other cattle, 13,496 sheep, and 9,398 swine. The value of live stock was $419,839, and the value of animals slaughtered during the year $42,550. The agricultural products for the year ending June 30, 1850, were : Wheat, 238,952 bushels ; rye, 2,864 bushels ; corn, 429,- 513 bushels ; oats, 403,234 bushels ; barley, 6,068 bush- els ; buckwheat, 14.565 bushels ; peas and beans, 531 bushels ; Irish potatoes, 204,972 bushels, and sweet potatoes, 67 bushels The following were also produced in the county the same year : 27,954 pounds wool, 656,690 pounds butter, 78,06z pounds cheese, 48,449 tons hay, too pounds flax, 375 bushels flax seed, 60 bush- els grass seeds, 10 pounds hops ; 1,750 pounds maple sugar, 19,138 pounds honey and bees wax, 35 gallons wine, orchard products valued at $5,230, products of market gardens valued at $3,080, and home-made manu- factures valued at $4,131.
The census of 1860 exhibits farms improved 267,- 927 acres, and unimproved 70,623 acres ; the cash value of farms being 810,005,774, and of farm implements and machinery $394,693. The augmentation of value in the farming interest is particularly noticeable in this decade. There were also reported 11,312 horses, 72 asses, 20,674 milch cows, 1,791 work oxen, 19,312 other cattle, 8,653 sheep, and 13,587 swine. The value of live stock was $1,250,694, and the value of animals slaughtered was $110,834. The amounts of farm prod- ucts were as follows : 299,770 bushels wheat, 20,455 bushels rye, 877,062 busliels Indian corn, 1,092,340 bushels oats, 4.941 bushels peas and beans, 713,195 bushels Irish potatoes, 748 bushels sweet potatoes, 42,- 394 bushels barley, and 19,629 bushels buckwheat. 'There were also produced 4,000 pounds tobacco, 15,667 pounds wool, 487 gallons wine, 1,125,559 pounds butter, 59.075 pounds cheese, 121,404 tons hay, 335 bushels clover seed, 6,660 bushels grass seeds, 90 pounds hops, 13.500 pounds flax, 789 bushels flax seed, 100 pounds maple sugar, 1,521 gallons sorghum, 1,328 pounds bees' wax, 17,803 pounds honey, orchard products valued at $7.373, market produce valued at $51,005, and home- made manufactures valued at $1,112. The acreage of specific farms was also tabulated as : Farms containing three acres and more, three to ten acres, 260; ten to twenty acres, 397 : twenty to fifty acres, 959; fifty to one hundred acres, 951 ; one hundred to five hundred acres, 905 ; five hundred to one thousand acres, 13; one thousand acres and over, none.
The census report of 1870 furnishes the following Statistics : 348,824 acres of improved land, 19,635 acres of woodland, and 17,337 acres otherwise unim- proved, while the cash valuation of improved farms was 822,873,349, and of farm implements and machinery 8740,468. Of live-stock there were reported 12,770 horses, 127 mules and asses, 23,063 milch cows, 55 work oxen, 14,431 other cattle, 101,662 sheep, and 15,- 521 swine. The total valuation of live-stock was $2.612- 441, and the value of animals slaughtered was $387,891. Of farm products there were 144,296 bushels spring wheat, 4,904 bushels winter wheat, 20,171 bushels rye, 570,427 bushels corn, 1,584,225 bushels oats, 59,973 bushels barley, 1,098 bushels buckwheat, 4.890 bushels peas and beans, 444,554 bushels Irish potatoes, and 804 bushels sweet potatoes. There were also produced 7,800 pounds tobacco, 57,372 pounds wool, 490 gallons wine, 129,210 tons hay, 1,088,963 pounds butter, 79,285 pounds cheese, 2,644,960 gallons milk sold, 4,897 gallons sorghum, 103 pounds bees' wax, 3.644 pounds honey, 663 bushels grass seeds, 600 pounds hops, 36,505 pounds flax, and 20,771 bushels flax seed. There were also orchard products valued at $19,327 ; produce of market gardens valued at $149,489 ; forest products worth $20,- 565, and home manufactures valued at $605, reported in the year ending June 30, 1850. There were 3.546 farms in the county, in 1870, varying in size as follows : Under three acres, 6 ; three to ten acres, 127; ten to twenty acres, 182 ; twenty to fifty acres, 788; fifty to one hundred acres, 1,087 ; one hundred to five hundred acres, 1,343 ; five hundred to one thousand acres, 9 ; one thousand acres and over, 4.
In 1872 there were 4,288 acres of wheat under cul- tivation, 30,954 acres of corn, and 37,032 acres of oats; in 1878 there were 4,073 acres of wheat, 52,301 acres of corn, and 55,212 acres of oats. In 1882 there were raised 2,184,102 bushels of oats, 1,361,770 bushels of corn, and 29,388 bushels of wheat. During 1882 there were 84,836 acres of land devoted to pastoral purposes, and 12,458 acres in woodland.
Athens.
8,605
2.062
1,004
York. .
10,043
11.365
2,651
524
I.ake ..
13,156
7.518
2,473
659
Summit
3.370
1,670
Gross Point.
5,670
6,335
3.893
150
Barrington.
15.405
25.260
1,910
76g
345
SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND AGRICULTURAL ..
In 1883 there was the following acreage and pro- duction of Cook County : Winter wheat, 218 acres, producing 4,142 bushels ; spring wheat 2,155 acres, pro- ducing 32,325 bushels ; corn, 48,937 acres, producing
685,118 bushels ; oats, 6,004 acres, producing 192,128 bushels. The Assessors' returns for the same year exhibit that there were in the county 34,616 horses, 39,- 537 cattle, and 13,394 hogs.
The following table gives the agricultural status of towns of Cook County, as given in the United States census report of 1870:
TOWNS.
Acres of Improved 1.and.
Value of Farmas and Farming Implements.
Value of Live-Stock.
Value of all Pruduction»,
Bushels of Corn Raised In t820.
Barrington
26,350
$1.403,730
$184.450
$402,000
53.833
Bloom ..
22,362
1,169,650
125,960
169,016
28,810
Bremen ..
18.552
953.525
127.330
150,790
27,000
Elk Grove
17.088
931,430
143.610
262,290
30,256
Hanover.
18.774
1,000,315
168.306
228,800
32,904
leyden
7.766
1,596,415
102,025
372.487
27,420
Lyons
16,801
1,282,835
110,200
101.950
22,270
Mainc ..
14,167
867.500
115,390
152.930
15.435
Northfield
16,417
983.980
153.900
180,975
22.145
Orland.
19.652
971,260
116,120
149,980
41,115
Palatine.
19.164
630,105
156,050
175.775
31,830
Prowiso
10,058
392,710
93.150
115,000
17,800
Kich ...
20,656
1.132,990
136,850
170,600
33.555
Schaumburg
19,415
812.441
124,840
180,500
31,785
Thornton
14,632
788.830
78,770
107.956
20,599
Wheeling.
22,227
1,174.544
192,330
348,500
34.495
Worth .
17,166
1,005,520
85,945
142.786
23,302
Digitized by Google
348
HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY.
divided into seven districts, Cook County being em- braced in the Fourth District, and being represented by John Wentworth from 1843 to 1851, inclusive. The Fourth District was represented by Richard S. Molony up to 1853, an apportionment having been made the previous year by which the State was divided into nine districts, Cook County becoming a portion of the Second. John Wentworth served during the next session (1853-55); James H. Woodworth, Chicago, from 1855-57 ; John T. Farnsworth, Chicago, 1857-61 ; Isaac N. Arnold, Chicago, 1861-65; John Wentworth. 1865-67 ; Norman B. Judd, Chicago, 1867-71.
By act of July 1, 1872, the State was divided into nineteen districts, Cook, DuPage and Lake counties constituting three of them. John A. Logan, of the First District, was followed by John I .. Beveridge December 4, 1871, and resigned January 4, 1873, the latter's successor having been elected in the person of Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago. The Second District was represented from 1871-73 by John F. Farnsworth, of St. Charles, Horatio C. Burchard, of Freeport, rep- resented the Third District for the same period.
John B. Rice, of Chicago, elected as congressman from the First District, died in December, 1874, and was succeeded by Bernard G. Caulfield, who served until the end of the term 1873-75. The Second Dis- trict returned Jasper D. Ward, of Chicago, who served the entire term. Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, represented the Third District.
The Forty-fourth Congress (1875-77) was repre- sented by Bernard G. Caulfield, Chicago, for the First District ; Carter H. Harrison, Chicago. Second Dis- trict ; Charles V. Farwell, Chicago, Third District, whose seat was contested, declared vacant, and filled May 6, 1876, by John V. Le Moyne, of Chicago.
The Forty-fifth Congress (1877-79) was served as follows : First District, William Aldrich ; Second District, Carter H. Harrison; and Third District, Lorenz Brentano, all of Chicago.
William Aldrich, First District ; George R. Davis, Second, and Hiram Barber, Jr., Third, represented Cook County in the Forty-sixth Congress, during 1879-81.
The Representatives for 1881-82 were William Aldrich, G. R. Davis and C. B. Farwell.
The present incumbents are : R. W. Dunham, J. F. Finerty, G. R. Davis and G. E. Adams.
Stephen A. Douglas was the first resident of Cook County to serve in the United States, his terms of office extending from 1847-61. When first elected he resided in Quincy. Senator Douglas died June 3, 1861, and Orville H. Browning, by gubernatorial appointment, and William A. Richardson, by election, served out his unexpired term. Lyman Trumbull served from 1867-73, and John A. Logan from 1879 to date.
LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATION.
Cook County formed but a fractional part of the Eighth General Assembly of Illinois, which sat from December, 1832, to March, 1833. The counties of Peoria, LaSalle, Putnam and Jo Daviess were also included in the same senatorial and representative district. James M. Strode, of Galena, afterward of Chicago, was Senator, and Benjamin Mills, Representa- tive.
The county of Rock Island was added to the dis- trict which, for 1834-36, was represented by James W. Stephenson and James W. Strode (Vice Stephenson), Senators, and John Hamlin, Representative.
For 1836-38 the Senatorial District comprised Cook and Will counties, and the Assembly District Cook County alone. Peter Pruyne was elected Senator, and Albert G. Leary, John Naper and James Walker, Rep- resentatives.
With the gradual formation of new counties the complexion of the district changed, Cook, Will and McHenry counties forming the district at the com- mencement of the Assembly for 1838-40. Ebenezer Peck, of Chicago, who was returned as Senator, resigned, and was succeeded by James H. Woodworth, also of that city. DuPage County having been organized was added to the district. The Representa- tives were Gholson Kercheval, Richard Murphy and Joseph Naper.
John Pearson was elected Senator for the session of 1840-42, and Albert G. Leary, Richard Murphy and Ebenezer Peck, Representatives.
Lake County became a portion of the district for 1842-44, John Pearson being again elected as Senator. Cook County had become a representative district, Isaac N. Arnold, Hart L. Stewart and Lot Whitcomb being sent to the Lower House.
Cook and Lake counties formed the Senatorial District for 1844-46, being represented by Norman B. Judd. The Assembly District continued the same, Isaac N. Arnold, Francis C. Sherman and Hart L. Stewart being elected.
Senator Judd was returned for the session of 1846- 48, J. J. Everett, Francis C. Sherman and Mark Skinner being elected as Representatives.
By the constitution of 1848, Cook and Lake coun- ties were constituted the Twenty-fifth Senatorial Dis- trict. and Cook County the Fifty-fourth Representative District, the latter being entitled to two representatives. Senator Judd served until the year 1860. Up to the time of the new apportionment in 1854, the Repre- sentatives were : 1848-50, Philip Maxwell and Francis C. Sherman ; 1850-52, Philip Maxwell and Thomas Dyer : 1852-54, W. B. Egan and Homer Wilmarth.
An act of February 27, 1854, apportioned the rep- resentation so that Cook County was made the Fifth Senatorial District and the Fifty-sixth and Fifty- seventh Representative districts. Each of the latter districts was entitled to two members.
The Representatives, up to the year 1860, were : 1854-56 (Fifty-sixth District), Robert H. Foss and Thomas Richmond; (Fifty-seventh), M. L. Dunlap and George F. Foster.
1856-58 (Fifty-sixth), John H. Dunham and George W. Morris; (Fifty-seventh), Isaac N. Arnold and A. F. C. Mueller ; 1858-60 (Fifty-sixth), Van H. Higgins and Samuel L. Baker; (Fifty-seventh), Ebenezer Peck and Casper Butz.
William B. Ogden served as Senator from 1860-62, the Representatives being as follows : (Fifty-sixth Dis- trict), J. Young Scammon and William H. Brown; (Fifty-seventh), Solomon M. Wilson and Homer Wil- marth.
By act of January 31, 1861, the apportionment was changed, and Cook County was accorded two Senators, and was divided into three Representative Districts, which were entitled to seven members.
Below is a continuation of the political roster :
1862-64-Senators, (24th Dist.) William B. Ogden; (25th) Jasper D. Ward.
Representatives, (59th Dist.) Ansell B. Cook, Amos G. Throop, William E. Ginther : (60th) Melville W. Fuller, George W. Gage (Michael Brandt admitted to his seat) ; (61st) Francis A. Eastman, Lorenzo Brentano.
le
349
POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
1864-66-Senators, (24th) Francis A. Eastman ; (25th) J. D. Ward.
Representatives. (59th) Nathan W. Huntley. Ansell B. Cook, Chicago ; William Jackson, Orland ; (601h) Edward S. Isham, Chi- cago; Andrew H. Dalton. Hope; (61s1) Alexander F. Stevenson, Chicago ; George Strong. Wheeling.
1866-63-Senators, The same as for 1 864-66.
Representatives, (59th) Lester 1 .. Bond, Joseph S. Reynolds and Ilorace M. Singer, Chicago ; (60th) Moses W. Leavill and Henry M Shepard, Chicago; (61st) Alexander F. Stevenson, Chi- cago; Edward S. Taylor, Evanston.
1869-70-Senators, (24th) John C. Dore, Chicago; (25th) Jasper D. Ward, Chicago.
Representatives, (591h) Henry B. Miller, Lester I .. Bond and Josephi S. Reynolds, Chicago ; (60th) Francis Munson and Joshua C Knickerbocker, Chicago; (61st) Iver Lawson, Chicago, and Edward S. Taylor, Eransion.
1970-72-Senators, (24th) jonn C. Dore and John N. Jewetl. Chicago ; (25th) Willard Woodard, Chicago, John L. Beveridge, Evanston (resigned), Artemus Carter (vice Mr. Beveridge).
Representatives. (95th) llenry W. Austin, Robert Hi. Foss. James L. Campbell, Carlisle Mason, W. M. Egan, Richard P. Derrick son, Chicago, John D. Easter, Alexander 1 .. Morrison, John W. Heafield and John Humphrey, Orland! ; (96th) A. J. Galloway. Hardin B. Braylon, Simon D. Phelps, James P. Root, William 11. King. Arthur Dixon, Chicago ; (971h) Horace F. Walle, Rollin S. Williamson, Augustus If. Burley, William Vocke, W. K. Sullivan, Chicago, and Henry C. Senne, Des Plaines.
The apportionment made, under the constitution of 1870, divided Cook County into seven senatorial and seven representative districts, being numbered from one to seven, inclusive.
1872-74-Senators, Joseph S. Reynolds, Richard S. Thompson, Miles Kehoe, Samuel K. Dow, J. MeGrath, Horace F. Waite and Koliin S. Williamson, Chicago.
Representatives, (1) James B. Bradwell, John A. Lomax and William Wayman ; (2) Solomon P. Hopkins, Frank T. Sherman, Charles G. Wicker: (3) E. F. Cullerton, Constantine Kann, Thomas M. Halpin ; (4) John F. Scanlon, Thomas E. Ferrier, William H. Condon : (5) William A. Herting. Ingwell Oleson, Hugh MeLaughlin ; (6) Otto Peltzer, John M. Rountree, George E. Washburn, alf of Chicago; (7) Daniel Booth, Chicago, and Charles 11. Dolion, Dolton Station.
1874-76-Senators, James C. Haines, Richard S. Thompson, Miles Kehoe, Samuel K. Dow, John Buehler, Ilorace F. Waite and Michael W. Robinson, Chicago.
Representatives, (1) James B. Bradweil, Lincoln Dubois and Moses J. Wentworth ; (2) John Hise, George M. Bogue and Solo- mon P. Hopkins : (3) William HIonan, Conrad 1 .. Niehoff, Thomas M. Halpin : (4) Orin L. Mann, William H. Condon and Michael M. Miller ; (5) Michael J. Dunne, John S. Arwedson and Carl L. Linderberg ; (6) Robert Thiem, John C. Barker and William H. Stickney. Chicago ; (7) William Il. Skeily, Jr., Lemont"; George Dunlap. Norwood Park, and William Freise, Desplaines.
1876-78-Senators, John C. Ilaines, Daniel N Bash, Miles Kehne, Francis H. Riddle, John Buehler, Martin A. DeLany and Michael W. Robinson, Chicago.
Representatives, (1) William H. Thompson, Charles L. Easton and Moses J. Wentworth ; (2) Solomon P. Ilopkins, J. W. E. Thomas, Joseph E. Smith ; (3) James B. Taylor, Henry F. Sheri- dan, P. J. Hickey ; (4) Elijah B. Sherman, George W. Reed, Joseph J. Kearney ; (5) John A. Roche, Peter Kiolbassa, Michael J. Dunne : (6) Eugene A. Sittig, Arno Voss, Austin O. Sexton ; (7) J. S. Bielefeldi, Thornton ; John H. Kedzie. Evanston ; George C. Klehm. Niles Center.
1878.80-Senators, George E. White, Daniel N. Bash, Sylves- ler Ariley, Francis A. Kiddle, William T. Johnson, Martin A. De. Lany and W. J. Campbell.
Representatives. (1) W. 11. Thompson, Moses J. Wentworth, David W. Clark, Jr .: (2) Benjamin M. Wilson, Solomon P. Hop- kins, Patrick T. Barry ; (3) Leo Meilbeck, T. J. Walsh, John B. Taylor : (4) lewis 11. Bisbee, Elijah B. Sherman James Emmet Murray ; (5) William E. Mason, Charles Ehrhardt, Thomas F. O'Malley : (6) Christian Meyer, Austin Sexion, Horace M. Thomas ; (7) Lorin C. Collins, Jr .. Norwood Park ; George G, Struckman, Hanover ; Bernhast F. Weber, Ilavelock.
1830.82 -- Senators, George E. White, I .. D. Condee, S. Ariley. Chris. Mamer. W. T. Johnson, George E. Adams and W. J. Campbell.
Representatives, M. R. Harris, A. L. Rockwell, D. Sullivan, O. S. Cook, R. If, White, J. R. Cook, G. W. Kroll, J. Gorman, P. Cloonan, R. M. Pearson, J. L. Parish, L. McMahon, W. A. Phelps, Charles E. Schariaw. T. McKone, H. H. Thomas, Charles
Plotke, A. O. Sexton, 1 .. C. Collins, G. C. Struckman and B. F. Weber.
1882 93-Senators, George E. White, Leander D. Condee, John 11. Clough, Chris, Mamer, W. H. Ruger, George E. Adams, W. J. Campbell, W. E. Mason, Thomas Cloonan and Millard B. Hereley.
Representatives, John Fairbanks, Robert B. Kennedy, David Sullivan, William H. Harper, Hilon A. Parker, Eugene J. Fellows, John W. E. Thomas, Thomas McNally, Isaac Abrahams, John L. Parrish, Joseph F. Lawrence, Redmond F. Sheridan, David W. Walsh, James A. Taylor, Erwin E. Wood, Edward D. Cooke. Theodore Stimming. A. O. Sexton, Lorin C. Collins, Jr., George G. Struckman, Clayton E. Crafts, Julius Pedersen, A. Wendell, Mark J. Clinton, Jesse J. Rook. J. O'Shea. Aug. Mette, Peter Sundelius, Gregory A. Klupp and John F. Dugan.
THE JUDICIARY.
SUPREME AND CIRCUIT COURTS .- Under the con- stitution of the state of Illinois approved by Congress in December, 1818, the judicial power was vested in one Supreme Court and such inferior courts as the General Assembly might, from time to time, establish. The supreme judges were to hold terms of the circuit courts, their commissions to expire until the end of the first session of the General Assembly of 1824. Joseph Phillips was appointed Chief Justice Oct. 9, 1818, resigned July 4, 1822, and his place was filled by John Reynolds, who had been serving with him as an Associate Justice. William P. Foster served as an as- sociate from October 9, 1818 to July 7, 1819, when Wil- liam Wilson became his successor. The bench until lan- uary 18, 1825, consisted in addition to these gentlemen, of Thomas C. Browne. On the 29th of December, 1834, an act was passed declaring that in addition to the justices of the Supreme Court there should be ap- pointed by the General Assembly five circuit judges. Cook County was included in the Third Circuit, and Richard M. Young was commissioned as judge January 19, 1825. The five circuit judges remained in office but two years, however, as by act of January 12, 1827, they were legislaled out of office and their powers re- turned to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and his three associates, viz. : William Wilson, (C. J.), Samuel D. Lock wood, Theophilus W. Smith and Thomas C. Browne. In pursuance of an act passed by the Gen- eral Assembly January 8, 1 829, the Fifth Judicial circuit Was created, and Judge Young elected by that body and commissioned January 28, 1829. He was to preside in the circuit north of the Illinois River. The Justices of the Supreme Court performed their duties in the other four circuits. The circuit courts con- tinued to be thus held until the passage of the act of January 7, 1835, which provided that the General As- sembly should elect five circuit judges, in addition to the one authorized by law. Richard M. Young resigned his office January 5, 1837, and was succeeded by James H. Ralston, February 4, of that year. Judge Ralston served from February 4, 1837 to August 31, 1837, when he resigned. Judge Peter Lot, his successor, was com- missioned September 9, 1839, and elected and recom- missioned December 20, 1839. As the business of the courts required, the number of judicial circuits was increased until by 1841, the State had been divided in nine. By act of February 10, 1841, the circuit judges were again legislated out of office, and pro- vision made for the election, by the General As- sembly, of five associate justices, who with the Chief Justice and three associates then in office were to preside over the nine circuits. The election re- sulted in the return of Thomas Ford, who resigned in August, 1842, and was succeeded by John Dean Caton, who served until the adoption of the new constitution,
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.