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A steam flouring mill was built here in -1865 by Mr. Wood, and its total cost was $15,000.
The first store was that opened by Holden Julius in 1857. The first school building was ereeted in 1859 of briek.
The first church was the Methodist Episcopal one ereeted in 1859. The Presbyterian, built in 1867 and Congregationalist, in 1870.
Another description of Harvard in 1877 reads thus: "All trains of cars shipped from Minnesota or Baraboo to Milwaukee have to be made up here. In one month last year (1876) there were 9,918 cars left here to be made up into trains. Some days as many as thirty trains are received here and it is no uncommon sight to see thirty engines in town at one time. Harvard is the headquarters for all division men to Bara-
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boo. About 125 railroad men work here constantly, the coal sheds alone employing thirty men ; the engines coming here consume 1,500 tons of coal a month, and the company pays ont about $8,000 here each month : no small item for so small a town."
But the coming and going of years make changes, especially in rail- road affairs. Divisions and shops are liable to be removed at anytime, as the railroad system extends on to greater distance, so it has been in Ilarvard, but the advantage of its early day boom has left its mark for good and other enterprises have made up for the loss of what was once supposed would be still larger railroad interests.
HARVARD IN 1885
The following is a list of business and professional men at Harvard prior to 1885 and during that year :
Eugene O'Connor, Sterns & Peters, Joseph C. Crumb, A. E. Axtell, E. J. Smith, J. H. O'Connor, W. H. Milligan, John Cullen, Thomas Collins, Albert Haffner, Edward Haffner, George Haffner, Elmer Car- penter, N. L. Jackson, Miles Munger, Haven Bros., Thompson & Hodkins, Henry Sewger, John Flemming, E. N. Blake & Son, Lewis Whitmar, Gault Bros, Dr. M. A. Adams, Samuel Richardson, Groesbeck & Wilkin- son, Stafford & Gardner, Edward Rector, J. M. O'Neil, J. Sullivan, W. C. Wellington, L. Van Wie & Co., Hubbard Bros., M. J. Powers, Matthew Ottman, IL. B. Miner, W. B. Walker, Hunt & Helm, Megraw & Wakley. Marshal & Saunders, E. D. Beardsley, H. Wellstein, L. R. Lines, Lake & Logue, D. C. Downs, Lake & Crumb, W. D. Hall, A. W. Young, G. R. Wager, Telcomb & Co., William Fay & Bro., George Ducker, Rupert Church, J. H. Callender, H. W. Binnie, Williams Bros., Rogers & Stevens, William George & Co., Scott & Walfrom, T. G. Spriggs, Dr. C. M. Johnson, B. H. Wade, M. D., A. C. Bingham, H. T. Woodruff, G. W. Parmley, Clark & Brainard, G. T. Barrows, Wm. I. Wooster, Elmer Simons, Simon Hill, Richard Powers, Thomas O'Brien, Wallen & Sloey. William McGee, John L. Hayes, E. U. Hayes, Henry Zyschach.
INCORPORATION
Harvard beeame an incorporated village February 28, 1867, and the following were the first officials: Il. G. Aver, president ; William Mar- shall, clerk. The trustees were : J. C. Crumb, Frank Cobb, Owen McGee, B. F. Groesbeck. In 1891 Harvard beeame an incorporated city and its
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affairs have usually been well administered to the best interests of its population. The mayors and clerks have been as follows : mayors, N. B. Helm, P. E. Saunders, M. W. Lake, L. A. Gardner, James Logue, John A. Sweeney, W. D. Hall, Richard Phalen, J. H. Vickers, C. J. Hendricks, F. O. Thompson.
The clerks have been few in number but very efficient. From about the date of the city's beginning P. E. Saunders was clerk until his death in 1913, when his son, Eugene Saunders, the present clerk, took the office and has attended to it ever since. No finer set of city records (mostly reduced to typewriting) can be seen in the state than those found at Harvard.
PRESENT OFFICIALS
The following are the officials of the city of Harvard: mayor, J. G. Maxon ; clerk, Eugene Saunders; health official, Dr. C. W. Goddard; magistrate, H. S. Williams; treasurer, E. A. Crumb; attorney, R. F. Marshall; aldermen, Jerome Crowley, J. M. Harris, Benjamin Hagar, II. A. Jordan, Amos G. Smith, and F. O. Thompson.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
The waterworks were established at Harvard in 1891, for which the city has been variously bonded, and for which some bond's are still un- paid. Water is obtained from two deep wells, one 900 and one 1,800 feet, and these furnish an abundant supply of pure water. A volunteer fire company of sixteen members looks after the fire department. In 1918 a $3,000 auto-fire-truck was purchased by the city.
The city receives its electric lighting from the Illinois Northern Utility Company and has since 1911 ; prior to that private concerns fur- nished the lights of Harvard.
A full square in the center of the city is devoted to public park pur- poses, however it has not been much improved.
The two story brick city hall was erected in 1895.
POST OFFICE
Harvard secured a post office in 1851. Its first postmaster was William Randall ; he was succeeded by the following persons: R. W. M. De Lee, A. E. Axtell, J. W. Groesbeek who was appointed in 1880 and
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he in turn by Messrs. J. A. Sweeney, Dr. Woodruff, J. A. Sweeney, M. F. Walsh and M. F. O'Connor.
There are numerous rural free delivery routes out from Harvard; the office in Harvard is well managed by competent help and general satis- faction is had by the patrons of the office.
INDUSTRIES
The various factory interests of Harvard include the branch of the famous "Black Cat" Hosiery Company of Kenosha, Wis., the Bowman Milk Bottling Works and the Hunt, Helm & Ferris factory which are treated in another chapter of this work.
CEMETERY
Just to the south and east of Harvard is found the beautiful, though silent eity, the cemetery which was laid out about the time the village of Harvard was platted. In all northern Illinois one ean find none so beautiful and well cared for. It can be seen from incoming trains, as having been originally planned, and is annually kept up to a high state of perfection. The shade trees and flowers in season are indexes to the passerby of a people of religious and cultivated tastes. This is indeed a true index of Christian civilization, proper care for the departed. The monuments erected here are in keeping with the grounds wherein repose hundreds of Harvard's deceased pioneers and later citizens.
POPULATION
The 1910 Federal eensus reports gave Chemung Township, ineluding Harvard city, a population of 4,101; and in 1920 it was 4,421.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS
The following are the township officials of Chemung Township : super- visor, W. H. Ward; assessor, John Dean; clerk, F. O. Thompson ; high- way commissioner, W. D. Cornwell; justices of the peace, John T. O'Brien and Charles J. Vierck; constables, R. W. Hall, James Hagen and Fred Dean.
CHAPTER XXVII
CORAL TOWNSHIP
BOUNDARIES-EARLY SETTLEMENTS-INDIAN VILLAGE-PIONEER EVENTS- VILLAGE OF CORAL-VILLAGE OF UNION-INCORPORATION-POST OFFICE- DEFUNCT HARMONY-POPULATION-TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.
BOUNDARIES
In the southwestern part of the county is found the civil township of Coral, which comprises all of congressional township 43, range 6, east, hence is six miles square. It is south of Seneca Township, west of Grafton Township, north of Kane County, and east of Riley Township. Its soil is fertile and especially well adapted for dairy purposes. The territory is well watered by Kiswaukee Creek and its small tributaries.
EARLY SETTLEMENT
The records show that Coral was among the first townships in the county to be settled. Its first settler was William Hamilton, who located near the present site of Coral Village, in November, 1835, but he did not long survive his migration here from Ohio, as he died in the following spring from injuries sustained assisting Calvin Spencer of Marengo, to raise a log cabin. The next to locate were Benjamin Van Vleet and his father, and they built a cabin near the old Indian camping ground, but they were not permanent settlers, for in 1836 they sold to William Jackson and moved to Pecatonica, where both later passed away. O. P. Rogers settled here March, 1836, upon a claim entered for him by J. Rogers in 1835, and his wife was the first white woman in the township. At that time the Rogers' home was the only one between Dundee and a residence three miles west of Elgin. For many years Mr. Rogers lived in Coral Township, but finally removed to Marengo. Frank Diggins and Enos A. Pease came to this township in 1836, to settle on a claim made for them the preceding year. Other settlers of 1836 were: L. Thompson, Clark P. Thompson, Joseph Bullard and
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Proctor Smith. A. Thompson came in 1837, as did John Jab, Robert Eddy, A. F. Randall, Sebas Frisbie, John Denison and Ira Nichols.
INDIAN VILLAGE
Prior to the white settlement in Coral Township, there stood near the present site of the village of Coral, a scattering village of Indian wigwams. From one of the earliest publications on MeHenry County, the following, bearing on this Indian village, is quoted :
"Among these wigwams of various architectural deseriptions, stood one of peculiar formation, being conical in form. This round building was about fourteen feet in diameter. Inside were plaecd seats which were about thirty inches wide, and formed of split stieks. It is believed that these were used during the daytime at eouneil meetings as places to sit on, and at nighttime as bedsteads, upon which they spread skins of animals. The walls presented a picture gallery of a one-idea artist. Ilere was presented the picture of an Indian in full rig, on a march, followed by a squaw on a pony and a dog in the rear. This trio was produeed over and over again till the walls were literally covered with its production. Though these lands had been purchased of the Indians, the time for giving possession had not arrived when the aggressive white man put in his appearanee. Those who settled in Coral Township in the autumn of 1835, were visited the following spring by the inhab- itants of this Indian village. They had spent the winter elsewhere and had returned to take up their abode and stay the balance of the time allotted them. Upon their return they found that much of the material comprising their wigwams had been taken by the white men and made a part of their shanties. They called upon Mr. Hamilton and secured their copper eooking pots, which he had found and was preserving as curiosities. They then opened up a pit of corn, which they had buried the year before, and commeneed housekeeping in their way. These In- dians only knew enough of our language to swear."
PIONEER EVENTS
The first marriage in Coral Township was that uniting Samuel H. Bullard and Samantha Dunham, by Beman Crandall, a justice of the peace, on Angust 25, 1839.
The first white child born here was Mary Eddy, a daughter of Robert Eddy and his wife, who was born in 1837.
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John Hamilton, who died within this township in the spring of 1836, was the first white person to die in the township. The first cemetery was not laid out till 1838, hence he was buried in private grounds. A little later a cemetery was provided in Harmony; also another one at Union, after the latter became a fair sized village.
VILLAGE OF CORAL
Coral was the first village in Coral Township. It was laid out or rather settled on in the northwest quarter of section 8, by Fillmore & Anderson who opened a store there, which was burned and never rebuilt. The post office, which was the first established between Chicago and Galena, was given to the township in 1837, and kept at first at the house of William Jackson, who was its first postmaster. He was succeeded by a Mr. Smith, and he was followed by Harriet Dunham. W. J. Fill- more then secured the appointment and moved the office to Coral vil- lage. Other postmasters at Coral were William Ross, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Valentine Alstine, Mr. Morris and Henry Stoddard. A large nursery was started at Coral, but it was later removed to Marengo. J. H. Ocoek, William Boice, T. Ross and W. L. Morse were among the first dealers at Coral. With the coming of the railroad, other towns were laid out and Coral never grew much more.
July 16, 1866, was the date on which Coral village was platted in regular and legal form.
VILLAGE OF UNION
Union village is located on the Chieago & Northwestern Railroad, in section 4, township 43, range 6, east. It was platted in 1851 by Wil- liam Jackson, with the idea of having it made a station point on the proposed railway when it should be constructed through the county. IIe really hit it nearer than men seldom do, for he secured a station. The first house was erected in 1851 by F. M. Mead, and it was later occupied by the station agent. The first store in Union was opened in 1852 by one Hathaway who acted as agent for Mr. Kimble of Elgin. Hungerford & Smith had the first drug store in Union, opening it in 1857. Cutler & Van Pelt and J. A. Crandall were among early mer- chants there.
INCORPORATION
Union has been an incorporated village sinee Angust, 1897, and the following is a list of names of those who have served as presidents: C.
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L. Kremer, HI. W. Kittenger, I. N. Muzzy, P. A. Ranie, H. W. Kittenger, E. H. Eggert, William D. Mallett, J. H. Calbow, P. A. Ranie, E. H. Eggert, P. A. Ranie, John Buchte.
PRESENT OFFICIALS
The following are the present officials of the village of Union: Presi- dent, John Buchte ; clerk, HI. J. Miller ; treasurer, H. F. Luhring; magis- trate, P. A. Renie; marshal, L. F. Nulle; attorney, C. B. Whittemore ; trustees, C. E. Guse, Fred Miller, August Kunke, Frank Trebes, Herman Trebes and William Clasen.
The village bonded itself in 1912 for a waterwork system. Good well water is their supply. A gasoline engine pumps the water to a pressure tank. The village maintains a volunteer fire brigade. The village is without debts at this date. Several years ago they purchased in conjunction with the Odd Fellows order, the old Universalist Church, a two-story stone structure built at a very early date. The Odd Fellows have the upper story, while the village has the first floor for its offices and meeting place.
POST OFFICE
The post office at Union dates back to the autumn of 1852 when its postmaster was a Mr. Cannon, who was sueceeded in a year by S. A. Randall. Other postmasters have been: F. M. Read, Mr. Sheldon, S. A. Randall, William HI. Alden, William M. Baldwin, J. D. Bliss, N. C. Gardner, Homer Darling, L. D. Fillmore, Mrs. E. E. Fillmore, and present postmaster, W. C. Null, who was appointed in February, 1915. This is a fourth-class office; has one rural route of thirty miles in length, with John Sehneider as carrier.
DEFUNCT HARMONY
Harmony was the name given a little community in this township. It was never dignified by being platted, but it was an early community center where ehureh and school privileges might be had by the pioneers. Here was built the first church within the township. In 1885 a store, a cheese factory, a school and church constituted the hamlet. It now exists in memory largely, for its eommereial days are forever gone.
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POPULATION
The population of Coral Township for four United States census periods have been as follows: In 1890 it had 1,432; in 1900 it reached 1,451; in 1910 its population was 1,354; and in 1920 it was 1,296.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS
The following are the township officials of Coral Township: Super- visor, Charles Ackman, Jr. ; assessor, Herman Trebes; clerk, C. M. Siems ; highway commissioner, Chris Fritz; justices of the peace, A. S. Peak and William Wertz; constables, L. F. Wilde and C. T. Can.
CHAPTER XXVIII
DORR TOWNSHIP
BOUNDARIES-ORIGIN OF NAME-EARLY SETTLERS-PIONEER EVENTS-CEME- TERIES-RIDGEFIELD-POPULATION-TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS-WOODSTOCK -IIIGHIEST ALTITUDE-FIRST BUSINESS INTERESTS-HOTELS-PUBLIC SQUARE-SOLDIERS' MONUMENT-POST OFFICE-POSTMASTERS-INCORPO- RATION-FIRST VILLAGE OFFICIALS-VILLAGE PRESIDENTS-FIRST CITY OFFICIALS-MAYORS-PRESENT CITY OFFICIALS-PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS -CHICAGO INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR CHILDREN-OLD PEOPLE'S REST HIOME -COUNTRY CLUB-COMMERCIAL AND COMMUNITY CLUB.
BOUNDARIES
Dorr Township is bounded on the north by Greenwood Township, a portion of which is included in the city of Woodstock; on the east by Nunda Township; on the south by Grafton Township, and on the west by Seneea Township. Originally this township contained some very fine timber, but no prairie land, although it is level. It is watered by Hanley Creek, and a branch of the Kishwaukee.
ORIGIN OF NAME
The township was named in honor of Governor Dorr, of Rhode Island, who opposed the English laws governing that state.
EARLY SETTLERS
The first white man to settle in Dorr Township was Uriah Cattle, who came here from Virginia in the fall of 1834, and made his claim, after which he returned to his old home. The following spring he eame back to this region, accompanied by William Hartman, Charles and John MeClure, and John Walkup, who composed what was known in the early days as the "Virginia Settlement." These pioneers showed such energy after their arrival on Monday morning, that by the end of
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the week they had their log shanties up and roofed, although there were no floors for a number of months. Mr. Cattle continued to reside in the township until his death, either late in the seventies, or early in the eighties. Charles MeClure died in the township in 1844. These original settlers were later joined by Christopher Walkup, John L. Gibson, James Dufield, and William Hartman.
PIONEER EVENTS
The first death in this township was that of the three-year-old danghter of Uriah Cattle, in September, 1836. In the fall of that same vear, a little daughter of James Dufield also died.
Martha MeClure was born in the fall of 1835, and she is conceded to have been the first white child born in the township. She died at the age of seventeen years.
The first wedding was that solemnized between Oscar H. Donglass and Sarah Gaff by Rev. Joel Wheeler, May 13, 1839.
CEMETERIES
Ridgefield Cemetery, the oldest burial ground in the township, was laid out in 1835 by Charles MeClure as a private cemetery, but later he permitted the interment of outsiders. It is divided by the eastern line of Dorr Township, and the greater part of it lies in Nunda Town- ship. Originally it comprised only two acres, but subsequently was increased to the present size.
Oakland Cemetery, located at the western limits of Woodstock, was purchased by the corporation, December 20, 1859, of M. T. Bryan, and then comprised ten acres. Two additional acres were added for a Pot- ters' Field, and other additions have since been made, as increasing space was needed. The Catholic Cemetery, known as "Calvary," is located just sonth of Oakland, across the highway, and both are kept in beautiful condition.
RIDGEFIELD
Ridgefield is located on section 25, township 44, range 7, and was platted by William Hartman, January 8, 1855, and it occupies the lands originally owned by members of the Virginia settlement. It came into being as a result of a station being located at this point, when the rail-
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road was built through the county. Lots were sold so low by Mr. Hart- man, in order to indnee outsiders to come here, that he failed to realize any profit. He ereeted the first building, in which a store was estab- lished by George K. Bunker. J. G. Hartman opened a wagonmaking shop; Miles Graff was the first blacksmith; Daniel Root was the first shoemaker, and David Graff opened a hotel, but soon thereafter sold to a Mr. Holmes. Ridgefield is now the center of one of the large milk plants of the county.
Ridgefield post office was established in 1837, and was located a mile and a half west of the present village, at the residence of Christopher Walkup, who was the first postmaster. After the building of the rail- road the office was moved to Ridgefield, and Isaae Hamilton was ap- pointed postmaster. He was sueeeeded by A. F. Davis. During the subsequent years the post office has been kept by the owner of one or other of the stores at this point, and is now located in the Economy store.
POPULATION
According to the United States census the population of Dorr Town- ship has been as follows: In 1890, 1,113; in 1900, 968; in 1910, 1,004, which was exclusive of Woodstoek, which in the latter year had a popu- lation of 4,331; and in 1920, 6,408, including a portion of the city of Woodstock, the remainder of the eity, with its population of 5,523, lying in Greenwood Township.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS
The following are the township officials: Supervisor, F. A. Walters ; assessor, A. J. Murphy ; elerk, J. C. Pierce ; highway commissioner, Fred Menges; justiees of the peace, T. J. Rushton and C. E. Loekwood ; con- stables, F. G. Behringer, William Conney and P. W. Murphy.
WOODSTOCK
Woodstock, county seat of MeHenry County, and one of the most beautiful of the smaller cities of Illinois, was laid out by Alvin Judd, in 1844. After the plat had been executed, Mr. Judd sold his interests to George C. Dean, who, in June, 1844, had the plat recorded. At that time the village was named Centerville because of its geographieal posi- tion in ahnost the center of the county, but in February, 1845, through
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the influence of Joel II. Johnson, the name was changed to Woodstock by Act of Legislature. This name was selected because Woodstock, Vt., was the birthplace of Mr. Johnson and other prominent men of the county, who sought to perpetuate pleasant memories of their old home, in their new one.
HIGHEST ALTITUDE
Woodstock has the highest altitude of any place in the state, the sur- vey, made many years ago, giving it at 373 feet above the waters of Lake Michigan, and 954 feet above the sea level of the Atlantic Ocean. An inscription on the face of the basestones of the courthouse testifies to this interesting fact.
FIRST BUSINESS INTERESTS
Bradford Burbank built the first log house in 1843, and the first frame one was put up by Alvin Judd in 1844. The latter was opened as a tavern. During the winter of 1844-5, Mr. Judd built another frame house. The first store was opened in 1845 by Josiah Dwight and Oscar L. Beach. Henry Petrie opened another store that same year. In 1848 A. W. Fuller established his general store, and the fourth mercantile establishment was conducted by William Dunning and Alfred Dufield.
Other very early business men were as follows: Neill Donnelly, John Donnelly, Ira C. Trowbridge, Leonard Burtchy, Jr., A. W. Tappan, L. B. Converse, Joseph Hateh, L. T. Salisbury, John Bunker, J. J. Murphy, George W. Bentley, J. C. Choate, F. C. Joslyn, C. B. Duffee, Joseph Golder, L. T. Hoy, J. S. Wheat, A. S. Wright, George F. Mills, George Sylvester, M. Sherman, E. W. Blossom, Eddy Brothers, II. P. Norton, and Ira C. Trobridge.
The commercial and industrial growth of Woodstock has been in keeping with the expansion throughout the county, and a history of its industrial interests, past and present, is given in the chapter devoted to this subject.
HOTELS
As above stated, the first tavern, or hotel, at Woodstock was the one put up by Alvin Judd in 1844. Others were the Exchange Hotel, kept for a long period by Mr. Trall; the American House, located on the
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west side of the Square, kept by Messrs. G. HI. Griffing, White and. Me- Masters; the Waverly, built by Roswell Enos, in 1856, on two lots which cost him $7 each ; the Woodstock House, built by Alonzo Anderson in 1852-3; and the Richmond House, built by E. H. Richmond, in 1874, which was conducted for some years by Mr. Richmond.
PUBLIC SQUARE
Woodstock is beautifully laid out, many of its business houses being located on the streets surrounding the City Park, at the head of which stands the courthouse. To the right is the city hall. On the hottest of days, the delightful shade afforded by the little park is never lessened, and the drinking fountain furnishes artesian water and a mineral water. In the center of the park is the monument erected in honor of the soldiers of the Civil War, through the efforts of the Woman's Relief Corps, No. 223, of Woodstock. It is about twenty-five feet in height, and bears these inscriptions :
"Auxiliary to Woodstock Post No. 108, Grand Army of the Repub- lie," on the north front: "Erected to the Soldiers of 1861-65," on the east front : "Ereeted in 1909 by the Woodstock Woman's Relief Corps No. 223," on the south front ; while on the west front is "In Honor of Our National Defenders."
Surmounting this shaft is a granite statue of heroic size, represent- ing a private soldier holding the Civil-War type of musket. The mon- ument is guarded by four large brass cannon, secured from the war department. one being placed near eaeli corner of the base of the monu- ment, but there is a wide walk between the cannon and the monument. A little to the west of the center of the park is the band stand, and in the eastern part of the park is the drinking fountain. The trees in the park and throughout the city are principally elm, and were planted more than sixty years ago, when the public square was graded by the eivil engineer of the Northwestern Railroad in 1856-7, and it was in accordance with his suggestion that these trees were set out promiseu- ously, instead of in rows. Many of these trees are now over sixty feet in height and afford a delightful shade.
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