USA > Illinois > Will County > Souvenir of settlement and progress of Will County, Ill. A review of the lives of our presidents, political, military and commercial history of the United States and of the state of Illinois Business directory of Joliet Comp. specially for the people of the county > Part 10
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
Cavalry .- 1st, Colonel Thomas A. Marshall, mustered in June, 1861, at Bloomington, with 1,206; 2d, Colonel Silas Noble, mustered in August 24, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 1,861 men; 3d, Colonel Eugene A. Carr, mustered in September 21, 1861; at Camp Butler, with 2,183 men; 4th, Colonel T. Lyle Dickey, mustered in September 30, 1861, at Ottawa, with 1,656 men ; 5th, Colonel John J. Updegraff, mustered in December, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 1,669 men; 6th, Colonel Thomas H. Cavanaugh, mustered in November, 1861, January, 1862, Camp Butler, with 2,248 men; 7th, Colonel William Pitt Kellogg, mustered in August, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 2,282 men; 8th, Colonel John F. Farnsworth, mustered in September 18, 1861, at St. Charles, with 2,412 men; 9th, Colonel Albert G. Brackett, mustered in October 26, 1861, at Camp Douglas, with 2,619 men; 10th, Colonel James A. Barrett, mustered in November 25, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 1,934 men; 11th, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, mustered in December 20, 1861, at Peoria, with 2,362 men; 12th, Colonel
122
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
Arno Voss, mustered in December, 1861, February, 1862, at Camp Butler, with 2,174 men; 13th, Colonel Joseph W. Bell, mustered in December, 1861, February, 1862, at Camp Douglas, with 1,759 men; 14th, Colonel Horace Capron, mustered in January 7, 1863, at Peoria, with 1,565 men; 15th, Colonel Warren Stewart, mustered in December 25, 1863, at Camp Butler, with 1,473 men; 16th. Colonel Christian Thielman, mustered in January and April, 1863, at Camp Butler, with 1,462 men; 17th, Colonel John L. Beveridge, mustered in Jan- uary 28, 1864, at St. Charles, with 1.247 men.
Light Artillery .- Company A, Captain C. M. Willard, mustered in at Chicago, with 168 men; Company B, Captain Ezra Taylor, mustered in at Chicago, with 204 men; Company C, Captain C. Haughtaling, mustered in October 31, 1861, at Ottawa, with 175 men; Company D, Captain Edward McAllis- ter, mustered in January 14, 1862, at Plainfield, with 141 men; Company E, Captain A. C. Waterhouse, mustered in December 19, 1861, at Chicago, with 148 men; Company F, Captain John T. Cheney, mustered in February 25, 1862, at Camp Butler, with 159 men; Company G, Captain Arthur O'Leary, mustered in February 28, 1862, at Cairo, with 113 men; Company H, Captain Axel Silversparr, mustered in February 20, 1862, at Chicago, with 147 men; Company I, Captain Edward Bouton, mustered in February 15, 1862, at Chicago, with 169 men; Company K, Captain A. Franklin, mustered in January 9, 1862, at Shawneetown, with 96 men; Company L, Captain John Rourke, mustered in February 22, 1862, at Chicago, with 153 men; Company M, Captain John B. Miller, mustered in August 12, 1862, at Chicago, with 154 men; Field and Staff, 7 men; Recruits, 883 men.
Second Light Artillery .- Company A, Captain Peter David- son, mustered in August 17, 1861, at Peoria, with 116 men; Company B, Captain Riley Madison, mustered in June 20, 1861, at Springfield, with 127 men; Company C, Captain Caleb Hop- kins, mustered in August 5, 1861, at Cairo, with 154 men; Company D, Jasper M. Dresser, mustered in December 17, 1861, at Cairo, with 117 men; Company E, Captain Adolph Schwartz, mustered in February 1, 1862, at Cairo, with 136 men; Company F, Captain John W. Powell, mustered in December 11, 1861, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, with 190 men; Company G, Captain Charles J. Stolbrand, mustered in Decem- ber 31, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 108 men; Company H, Cap- tain Andrew Steinbeck, mustered in December 31, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 115 men; Company I, Captain Charles W. Keith, mustered in December 31, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 107 men; Company K, Captain Benjamin F. Rogers, mustered in December 31, 1861, at Camp Butler, with 108 men; Company L, Captain William H. Bolton, mustered in February 28, 1862,
123
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
at Chicago, with 145 men; Company M, Captain John C. Phillips, mustered in June 6, 1862, at Chicago, with 100 men; Field and Staff, 10 men; Recruits, 1,171 men.
Independent Batteries .- Board of Trade, Captain James S. Stokes, mustered in July 31, 1862, at Chicago, with 258 men, Springfield, Captain Thomas F. Vaughn, mustered in August 21; 1862, at Camp Butler, with 199 men; Mercantile, Captain Charles G. Cooley, mustered in August 29, 1862, at Chicago, with 270 men; Elgin, Captain George W. Renwick, mustered in November 15, 1862, at Elgin, with 242 men; Coggswell's, Cap- tain William Coggswell, mustered in September 23, 1861, at Camp Douglas, with 221 men; Henshaw's, Captain Ed. C. Hen- shaw, mustered in October 15, 1862, at Ottawa, with 196 men; Bridges', Captain Lyman Bridges, mustered in January 1, 1862, at Chicago, with 252 men; Colvin's, Captain John H. Colvin, mustered in October 10, 1863, at Chicago, with 91 men; Busteed's, Chicago, with 127 men.
A recapitulation of the above shows: Infantry, 185,941; Cavalry, 32,082; Artillery, 7,277; or a grand total of 225,300. - The actual number of enlistments from 1861 to 1865 was 259,147, which includes re-enlistments in veteran reserve corps, and ordinary re-enlistments. This number, however, does not include 20,000 or 30,000 citizens of Illinois, found in various branches of the army and navy and in the volunteer regiments of other States. The conduct of the troops, from the day they took possession of Cairo to the close of the war, was one magnificent testimony to the worth of citizen soldiery.
CHRONOLOGY OF ILLINOIS HISTORY.
1671 Exploration by Nicholas Perrot.
1672 Exploration by Fathers Allouez and Dablon.
1673 Exploration by Louis Joliet.
Exploration by Father Marquette.
Marquette's Voyage up the Illinois and Desplaines Rivers. 1674 Establishment of the Mission of the Immaculate Concep- tion near Utica, La Salle county.
16:5 Death of Marquette, May 18.
1680 Fathers Ribourde and Membre at Starved Rock.
Chevalier La Salle takes possession of Illinois for France. La Salle at Lake Peoria, January 3.
La Salle returned to Fort Frontenac (Canada).
Henry Tonti, the Italian, and fifteen men at Fort Creve- cœur.
Invasion of Illinois by the Iroquois.
Father Louis Hennepin left Fort Crevecoeur in February for the Upper Mississippi.
Father Ribourde murdered by Kickapoo Indians.
124
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
1680 Anthony Auquel and Michael Ake explored the Illinois river country.
Tonti returned to Green Bay.
Annihilation of the Illinois and Tamaroas by the Iroquois. La Salle returned to Illinois.
1682 Building of Fort St. Louis.
La Salle descended the Mississippi, and named the country Louisiana.
1682-7 La Salle visited France; brought out a colony to the Gulf States; explored New Mexico.
1687 La Salle and twenty men left Fort St. Louis (Matagorda Bay) for Illinois, January 12.
Assassination of La Salle's nephew by Du Haut and Leotat, en route to Illinois.
Assassination of La Salle by Du Haut and Leotat.
168- Tonti's expedition in search of La Salle and colonists.
1689 Execution of Du Haut and Leotat, the assassins.
1690 The Mission of the Immaculate Conception removed from Old Kaskaskia, or Fort St. Louis, on the Illinois river, to Kaskaskia, six miles above the mouth of the Kaskas- kia river.
1690-1 Settlement of Cahokia, five miles below St. Louis city, near mouth of Cahokia.
1698 Kaskaskia founded by Rev. Father Gravier. Father Pinèt at Cahokia.
1712 M. Crozat, of Paris, granted a monopoly of trade in Illinois. 1717 Settlement of St. Philip, forty-five miles from Cahokia. Philip Renault, 1719.
M. Crozat surrendered his charter. Company of the West organized.
1718 Settlement of Fort Chartres, twelves miles above Kaskas- kia, by Mississippi Company.
Settlement of Kaskaskia, six miles above confluence of Kaskaskia and Mississippi.
Settlement of Prairie du Rocher, near Fort Chartres.
1720 Philip Renault introduced Negro slaves into Illinois.
1730 Total population of settlements: 140 French families, 200 French traders, 600 converted Indians.
1750 Father Vivier preaching to the Illinois tribes. He places the population of the five French villages at 1,100 whites, 300 blacks, and 60 red savages. The three Indian vil- lages did not then contain more than 800 souls, all told. There was not a settlement between the Arkansas and Illinois rivers at that date.
1765 The French flag replaced by the British flag on Fort Chartres, October 10, 1765.
Pontiac and two hundred French families settled on the Kankakee, near Wilmington.
125
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
1769 Pontiac assassinated by Illinois Chief at Joliet Mound after the Council.
1773 The Illinois Land Company organized. Purchased lands from the Peorias and Kaskaskias.
1775 The French trader Viviat organized the Wabash Land Company of Virginia, aided by Pere M. Gibault, July 4. Total defeat of the British.
1776 Shabbonee born near Wilmingon, Illinois.
1778 La Ville de Meillet founded near Lake Peoria.
Capture of Kaskaskia by the Americans under Colonel George Rogers Clarke.
M. Gibault negotiates for the surrender of Vincennes, the establishment of American courts, etc.
Establishment of the county of Illinois in October. John Todd appointed Lieutenant-Commander by Patrick Henry, December 12.
1779 Surrender of the British Governor and General Hamilton (the hair-buyer) to General Clarke, February.
1780 The Illinois and Wabash Land Companies consolidated.
1784 Virginia ceded all her territory north of the Ohio to the United States, when a territorial form of government was instituted.
1787 Ordinance for the government of the Northwestern Ter- ritory. Major-General Arthur St. Clair appointed Gox- ernor by Congress.
Illinois a county of Indiana Territory.
1796 J. B. Pointe au Sable, a resident of Chicago.
Old Peoria abandoned.
1804 Building of Fort Dearborn at Chicago. Treaty with Sacs and Foxes.
1805 First mail route (Vincennes to Cahokia) established.
1809 The Territory of Illinois organized. John Boyle, of Ken- tucky, appointed Governor by President Madison. Boyle declined this position, when it was offered to Ninian Edwards.
St. Clair and Randolph counties only political divisions of Territory.
1811 Peace Convention with Pottawatomies at Peoria.
Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7.
1812 Building of Fort Russell, near the present village of Ed- wardsville.
Massacre of Fort Dearborn, August 16.
Governor Edwards' militia attacks the Pottawatomie vil- lage at Peoria, August.
Captain Craig burned Peoria, November.
1813 General Howard's command of nine hundred men build Fort Clarke, at Peoria.
1814 Illinois Herald established at Kaskaskia.
126
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
1814 Governor Clarke's expedition up the Mississippi.
The Sixty-sixth Illinois Rangers' terrific fight near Rock Island.
Major Taylor, Captains Rector and Whiteside attack the English and Indians near Rock river.
Defeat of the Americans.
Peace of Ghent, December 24.
1816 Treaty of St. Louis. Lands between Illinois and Missis- sippi rivers ceded.
1818 Fort Clarke destroyed by fire.
Territorial Legislature petitioned Congress for admission as a State in January.
The Enabling Act was passed April 18.
Convention of Kaskaskia, July.
Illinois admitted, December 3.
Change of northern boundary so as to secure Chicago.
1820 Reverend J. M. Peck was the first educated Protestant minister in the State. He settled in St. Clair county.
1818 Adoption of whipping, stocks, pillory, and gibbet for punishment of criminals.
First State election. Shadrack Bond, Governor; Pierre Mesnard, Lieutenant-governor.
1819 Peoria re-occupied and settled by American citizens.
Vandalia, the seat of government. (Removed to Spring- field in 1837.)
1821 Appropriation of $10,000 by State Legislature for survey of Illinois and Michigan canal.
Incorporation of the Bank of Illinois.
Henry R. Schoolcraft and party at Fort Joliet.
1822 The slavery and anti-slavery questions raised for election purposes.
1824 Direct mail route from Vandalia to Springfield; and to Chicago in 1832.
Aggregate vote polled, 11,612.
The proposition to make Illinois a slave State defeated at the polls by 1,800 votes.
1825 Lafayette accepted invitation of Assembly and visited Kaskaskia in February.
Bills for the support of schools and construction of roads by public tax passed.
1826 Sanganash, or Billy Caldwell, appointed Justice of Peace of Peoria county.
Congress granted 800,000 acres of land to the State to aid in building the canal.
1827 Winnebago War under Chief Red Bird. General Cass, of Michigan, visited Illinois.
1828 Line of Illinois and Michigan canal re-surveyed.
127
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
1828 The Methodist Episcopal College, Lebanon, established. First in State.
1830 The legal rate of interest established. Previously 150 per centum was reached.
1831 Criminal code adapted to penitentiary punishment.
Black Hawk established himself upon his disputed terri- tory.
General Gaines, commanding 1,500 Illinois volunteers, de- stroyed the Indian town, and forced Black Hawk's peo- ple to cede all lands east of the Mississippi, and settle on the west side of the river.
1832 General Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, Jeff. Davis, and Lieutenant Robert Anderson, at Dixon, Illinois, in re Black Hawk's war.
Black Hawk recrossed the Misssissippi to war on the whites.
Building of Fort Joliet.
Governor Reynolds collected 1,800 volunteers under com- mand of Brigadier-General Whiteside. This command destroyed Prophetstown, and proceeded to join General Atkinson's division. The flight from Stillman's Run was one of the comicalities of this war. The assault on Apple River fort, June, 1832. Black Hawk and 150 warriors defeated by 25 men. Generals Henry and At- kinson at the battle of Rock river. Three hundred sav- ages killed and 50 made prisoners, against 17 whites killed and 12 wounded. Black Hawk and his special warriors, who escaped from the Rock river affair, were captured by the Winnebagoes and handed over to General Street. He was interned in Fortress Monroe with other hostile Sacs, until June 4, 1833, when the chief and his party were conveyed to Rock Island, Illinois, and there set at liberty. He settled near Des Moines, Iowa. In 1838 this old ally of the British died.
Massacre of the settlers on Indian creek.
Rachael and Sylvia Hall captured by Indians. Ransom, $2,000 and a number of horses.
1833 Treaty of Chicago.
1834-5 Beginning of Governor Duncan's administration. Ap- propriations aggregating $10,230,000 made by the State. Town lot fever. Railroads for every man, or a money compensation. Legislators magnificently reckless.
1834 First payment of annuity, at Chicago, under treaty of 1833, in October.
1836 The construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal com- menced.
1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy, Abolitionist, mobbed and killed at Alton, November 7.
128
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
1838 The first locomotive run on Northern Cross railroad, No- vember S.
Thomas Carlin elected Governor, opposed by Cyrus Ed- wards, Whig.
1840 Settlement of the Mormons at Nauvoo.
Improvement laws repealed, after a debt of $15,000,000 was contracted.
1841 Arrest of Joe Smith and his release by Judge Douglas. Pirates of the Prairie before the law. The Regulators administering law.
1842 Second arrest of Joe Smith and his escape.
Adam W. Snyder nominated for Governor; died previous to election, when Thomas Ford was nominated to oppose Duncan.
The Mormon war. Joe Smith and Hiram Smith killed at Carthage. End of Nauvoo and Mormonism, September 1846. The action of the Gentiles narrow and uncon- stitutional. The Mormon exiles reached Salt Lake, July 21, 1847.
The Illinois Institute for Deaf and Dumb was founded in 1839, and the buildings erected at Jacksonville in 1842. Work on canal resumed by Illinois and Michigan Canal Company.
1846 Nine regiments (8,370 men) answered the call for troops to serve against Mexicans. Four regiments, or 3,720 men accepted. Generals James Shields, Baker, Coffey, Harris, Hardin, Bissell, Houghton, McKee, are names identified with this State in the Mexican war.
1847 River and Harbor Convention at Chicago, July 5. State Constitutional Convention.
The Illinois Hospital for the Insane was established by the act of March 1, 1847.
1848 Opening of the Illinois and Michigan canal.
1850 The Galena railroad opened to Elgin.
1851 In 1851 the hospital buildings were commenced near Jack- sonville.
1852-54 Railroad building era in the West.
1855 Chicago the focal point of 2,933 miles of railroad.
1858 The Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary Association, in May. Was made a State institution in 1871.
1859 Selection of Lincoln's name for President at the Spring- field caucus.
1860 Abraham Lincoln elected President.
1861 Ten thousand volunteers offered before April 24, and $1,000,000 tendered by patriotic citizens.
Captain Stokes and 700 men, of the Seventh Illinois Infantry, took 10,000 stand of arms from St. Louis arsenal.
129
CHRONOLOGY AND STATISTICS OF ILLINOIS.
1862 State Constitutional Convention.
1865 The Asylum for Feeble-minded Children established by the act of February 15.
First steel rail rolled in America at Chicago, May 25, 1865. Illinois was represented in her own regiments by 256,000 men, and in other States by about 30,000 men.
Great State Fair at Chicago netted $250,000 for soldiers' aid and military purposes.
1867 The Illinois Industrial University at Urbana was chartered. 1869 The Northern Asylum for the Insane was established at Elgin.
1870 State Constitutional Convention.
1871 Chicago destroyed by fire, October 9. The number of buildings burned was 17,450, and amount of direct loss, $190,000,000, of which $44,000,000 returned from in- surance.
State resumed control of Illinois and Michigan canal.
The events since 1871 are of such a character as to come under the head of ordinary news. The return of the Illinois and Michigan canal into possession of the State, its cession by the State to the General Government, and the redemption of the public debt, or State bonds, form the leading events.
9
WILL COUNTY.
HISTORY AND STATISTICS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
PART III.
PIONEER SETTLERS OF WILL COUNTY-ELECTION RETURNS 1836-1884-MILITARY HISTORY 1832-1865-NAMES AND REC- ORD OF SOLDIERS-TAX PAYERS OF 1842-STATISTICS.
T T THE first actual settlement of the county is credited to
the Ottawa chief, Pontiac, and the remnant of his tribe, who, after the Franco-British war, selected the coun- try in the vicinity of Wilmington for his principal village, and there located in 1764-5. In 1769 he was killed by a chief of the Illinois-Kineboo-during the council of Joliet Mound, held that year. In this Indian village the first full- blood Indian friend of the whites-Shabbonee-was born about 1776. Although an Ottawa, he married a daughter of the Pottawatomie chief, Spotka, at the mouth of Fox river. At that village he was declared chief of the Potta- watomies, and shortly after removed the tribe to the head of Big Indian creek, in DeKalb county. In 1807 he visited Tecumseh, which visit was returned in 1810. In 1811 he was present at the council of Vincennes, presided over by General Harrison. In 1812 the couriers of Tecumseh arrived in Illinois offering largesses to the tribes who would aid the British against the United States. Shabbonee resisted the offer until the fall of 1812, when he and twenty- two of his warriors left to aid Tecumseh. He was present at the battle of the Thames, in Canada, as was also Billy Caldwell or Sanganash. During the Winnebago and Black Hawk war he rendered incalculable good to the settlers, and died regretted in Grundy county, July 17, 1859. His wife, Pokanoka, was drowned in Mazen creek, Grundy county, November 30, 1864.
The Indian Boundary Line, drawn on official maps of Cook and Will counties, has been a source of curiosity to many. The official certificate, as summarized by William
135
136
GENERAL HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY.
Milburn, of St. Louis, surveyor-general, August 19, 1839, gives the following information. It was surveyed by James M. Duncan and T. C. Sullivan early in 1819, on the lines of tracts ceded by the treaty of St. Louis of August 24, 1816, viz., from a point on Lake Michigan, 10 miles south of Chi- cago creek to a point on the Kankakee river, ten miles above its mouth. In the summer of 1834 D. A. Spaulding retraced the line and placed mile posts thereon. It was to this line the surveys of the Northwest were closed.
Pioneers of the County .- Long before the Indians left the county, the French trader was among them. Vetal Vermette had settled in Plainfield about the year 1825; George Forquier, a half-breed, made the place his home for some years. In 1821, when General Cass and Henry R. Schoolcraft visited Joliet Mound, they were accompanied by a few French half-breeds and French- men. After the treaty of Chicago (1821) was negotiated, two or three of those voyageurs settled along the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, making the district their home until the first trans-Mississippi movement of the Indians was made in 1833-4.
In 1826 American emigrants began to direct their attention to the country of the Illinois, so that by the close of the year 1831 a few hamlets could be found between LaSalle and Chicago. W. H. Woodruff, in his Fifty Years Ago, states that, " At the breaking out of the Black Hawk war, fifty years ago, the largest settlement, except at Chicago, north of the Illinois river, was on Bureau creek, where there were about thirty families. A few other settlers had located on the river at Peru and La Salle, and a considerable number at Ottawa. On Indian creek, a tributary of the Fox, near what is now known as Munson, in the town of Freedom, La Salle county, there was a settlement known as Davis settlement consisting of eight or ten families. This settlement was soon to have a fearful history. At a place then known as Holdeman's Grove, near Newark, Kendall county, there were five or six families. At Walker's Grove, or Plainfield, there were twelve or fifteen families. Along the two branches of the Du Page, partly in Will county and partly in Du Page county, there were about twenty families. In Yankee settle- ment which embraced part of the towns of Homer, Lockport and New Lenox, there were twenty or twenty-five families. Along the Hickory in the town of New Lenox, including the Zarley settlement in Joliet township, there were probably twenty families more, and at Reed's and Jackson Grove there were six or eight more.
Of the Will county settlement, there were residing then in Yankee settlement, including in that name Homer and Lock- port, and part of New Lenox, the following men, most of whom had families: John Pettyjohn, 1829; Benjamin Butterfield,
137
GENERAL HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY.
Thomas Fitzsimmons, James Glover, John McMahon, Joseph Johnson and two sons, James Ritchey, Edward Poor, Joseph and James Cox, John Helm, Salmon Goodenow, Joseph McCune, Selah Lanfear, Peter Polly, David and Alva Crandall, Uriah Wentworth, John Blackstone, John Ray, Mr. Ashing, Mr. McGahan, Armstead Runyon, Holder Sisson, Calvin Rowley and Orin Stevens.
On the Hickory, from the Des Plaines to Skunk's Grove, were the following, most of whom had families: Reason Zarley, Philip and Seth Scott, Robert G. Cook and father, Wm. Bills- land, Daniel Robb, Jesse Cook, Robert Stevens, Azariah Em- mett, David Maggard, John Grover, Isaac and Samuel Pence, Thomas and Abram Francis, Aaron Ware, Wm. Gougar and sons, Joseph Norman and son, Judge John I. Davidson, Lewis Kercheval and son, Aaron Friend, Rufus Rice, James Sayers, Michael Runyon, Wm. Rice, John McGovney, Wm. Osborn, C. C. Van Horn, Abram Van Horn, Henry Watkins and John Watkins, of Chicago.
In Jackson and Reed's Groves were Charles Reed, Joseph and Levi Shoemaker, George and John Kilpatrick, James Hemphill, Wesley Jenkins, Charles Coons, Jefferson Ragsdale, Henry and George Linebarger and sons, Charles Longmire and and Daniel Height, most of them having families.
The residents of Plainfield or Fort Beggs in 1832, were: Jesse Walker and family including Shononise, 1829, James Walker and family, Reuben Flagg and family, Timothy B. Clark and family, Rev. Stephen R. Beggs and family, John Cooper and family, Chester Smith and family, Wm. Bradford and family, Peter Watkins and family, Samuel Shively and family, Thos. R. Covel and family, James Matthews and family, Mr. Elisha Fish and family; Rey. Wm. See and family, Chester Ingersoll and family, James Gilson and family, Robert W. Chapman, James Turner, Orrin Turner, John Shutleff and Jedediah Wooley, Sr., 1830, who purchased Vermette's squatter's interest.
The settlements on the Du Page comprised that on the east, including the junction, now embraced in Will county, and the other about Naperville in Du Page county. Of course at the time both were included in Cook county. On the east, Du Page, were the families of Pierce Hawley and wife, Stephen J. Scott and wife, Willard Scott and wife, Walter Stowell and wife, Israel P. Blodgett, father of Judge Blodgett, of Chicago, and wife, Rev. Isaac Scarrett and wife, Harry Boardman and wife, Robert Strong and wife, Seth Wescott and wife, Lester Peet, a hired man at Hawley's and another at Harry Boardman's, John Dud- ley, Ralph Stowell, Simon Terrell, John Barber and Samuel Goodrich.
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.