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The first settlement in this township, as has been stated, was in 1835. During this year, Thomas Jenkins, of Chicago, and others commenced the con- struction of a building in which to open a store of goods. In 1836, a stock of merchandise was opened in this building by Mr. Jenkins. This building was a two-story frame structure, about twenty by forty feet in dimensions, and situ- ated under the bluff on the north bank of the river, immediately east of the present track of the Northwestern Railroad. This was the first framed build- ing and the first stock of goods in the township. In the course of a year, Mr. Jenkins abandoned his undertaking and returned to Chicago. Soon there- after, James B. Gorton came with a stock of goods ; but, a controversy arising as to the right of occupancy of the land upon which he had settled, he removed his stock out to the O'Plain Bridge, on the Milwaukee road, where he remained until the title became settled by the re-location of the county seat, in 1841.
About the year 1838, Burleigh Hunt, formerly of Canada, came and built a house on the south side of the river, near where is now the residence of Judge Blodgett, at the southwest corner of State and Liberty streets, in Tiffany's Addition to Waukegan.
The place at this point, as has been mentioned, was then, and had been from the beginning of the settlement of the Northwest, known as Little Fort.
Mr. Hunt soon after built a dam across the river, near the present site of State street bridge, on the west, the remains which are still visible,, and built a saw-mill there ; to which, in 1840, he added a grist-mill.
About the same time, Dr. David Cory came and made a claim of Govern- ment land on the northeast quarter of Section 21, and built a house of hewn logs near the present residence of I. R. Lyon, on State street, just north of Clayton street. He was the first physician who settled in this township. It is proper, to remark, in this connection, that Mrs. Cory, widow of Dr. David Cory, who still lives in Waukegan, is now the oldest resident in the city, in point of time of residence.
The next settler after Dr. Cory at this point was Dennis S. Dewey, from Chicago, who came a few months thereafter. He built a house, and settled at the place where is now the elegant residence of Dr. C. V. Price, on Grand avenue, near the north branch of the Little Fort River. He made a claim of Government land on the northwest quarter of Section 21, on which he built his house. Following this he built a dam across the stream, and erected a chair and furniture factory.
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The object in view by the early settlers at this point was to build up a town on the lake, and make it an important one for shipping and trade. But the make of the country being such as not to bring it upon the line of any important thoroughfare, its progress was slow, and the prospect rather discouraging ; and hereupon arose the agitation of the subject of the removal of the county seat from Libertyville to this place, a pretty full account of which has already been given.
In pursuance of a vote of the people, the county seat was removed and located at Little Fort, April 13, 1841. This was a great day for the inhabitants of the surrounding country.
At this time, the habitations at the point known as Little Fort were five in number. The day was fine, and everybody for miles around turned out to wit- ness the ceremony of the event.
The ground which is the site of the present city was at that time covered with forest trees and underbrush. That where is now the business portion . of the city, extending to the bluff, was covered with what appeared to be a second growth of trees, confirming the assertion so often made, that this had once been a place of some importance as a trading post.
The usual mode adopted by Commissioners in early days, in organizing new counties, in designating the precise locality determined upon, was to put down a stake or post at the point selected. For the purposes of this occasion, Mr. Dewey had turned out at his manufactory, and painted in neat style, a post of red cedar, which he presented to the County Commissioners to set in the ground as marking the particular spot where the county seat should be located-in other words, where the Court House should be erected. This post was set on what was considered the highest point of ground at Little Fort. This was before the town plat was laid out, consequently the place could not be designated with reference to streets or blocks. But when the town plat was surveyed immediately thereafter, this stake came about upon the east line of the block where the Court House was afterward built, which was reserved as a public square.
The work of building up the town of Little Fort immediately commenced, and it has continued in its growth until, in 1877, it contains about six thou- sand inhabitants.
A post office was established at Little Fort by that name in the summer of 1841, and Joseph Wood appointed Postmaster.
The first lawyer who settled at this place was Isaac Hopkinson, who came in May, 1841, and was employed by the County Commissioners as counsel in making their first sale of lots, being at public sale during that month.
The first school taught in Little Fort, or what is now the township of Wau- kegan, was by E. M. Haines, in the Winter of 1841-2 ; it was in the upper story of the dwelling house of Andrew Rice, situated on State street, a short dis- tance south of Madison street, and about where the present residence of S. I.
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Bradbury now is. It was a private school, sustained by subscription of the patrons, and continued three months.
About the year 1850, an appropriation was made by Congress of $15,000 to commence the construction of a harbor at Little Fort. The work was com- menced in 1853, under the charge of Capt. Gamble. The sum was soon ex- hausted, and as no further appropriation could be obtained, nothing more was done, and the work performed went to waste.
The first town meeting held in the township of Waukegan, under township organization, was commenced at the Court House, in Waukegan, on the first Tuesday in April, 1850. Daniel Brewer presided as Moderator, and Nathaniel P. Dowst acted as Clerk. The following persons were chosen as town officers : James B. Gorton, Supervisor ; George Wood, Town Clerk ; S. H. Flinn, As- sessor ; Jeremiah Porter, Overseer of the Poor; William B. Benjamin, Jacob Montgomery and Eber Hinkston, Commissioners of Highways; John L. Turner and Phillip King, Justices of the Peace ; L. Belshaw and Harley Sage. Constables ; Harley Sage, Collector. The number of votes cast was 302. The township has a school fund of $3,600.40
The assessed value of property for the year 1850, including both real and personal, was $365,639. The amount of tax computed on the same for collec- tion was $5,756.25.
The total assessed value of property for 1877 was $800,132.
The following article, which appeared in a newspaper published here, March 4, 1845, called the Little Fort Porcupine, being the first paper and the first number thereof, published in Waukegan, is interesting in contrasting the city of Waukegan with the present day, and as affording a pretty fair idea of its progress :
" The village of Little Fort is situated upon the shore of Lake Michigan, forty-five miles down the lake from Chicago, nine and a half miles south of the north line of the State, and sixteen up the lake from Southport. There is nearly one-half section of land laid out into lots, a great portion of which are sold and improved. A court house, the best in the State, has been constructed the past season, and sixty-one other buildings, among which we enumerate a brick block, of three stories, by D. S. Dewey ; a fine tavern house, by Michael Du- lanty ; a large addition to Dickinson & Co.'s warehouse; and a warehouse. 100x24 feet, two and a half stories high, by A. B. Wynkoop.
" The place contains 452 inhabitants, three commodious public houses, seven stores, two groceries, two blacksmith shops, one tin and sheet-iron factory, two shoe shops, three tailor shops, one chair and cabinet factory, one watchmaker, one gunsmith, two wheelwrights, one plow manufactory, three warehouses, one pier, and a second being constructed by A. B. Wynkoop. The timber is now being framed for a steam flouring-mill. There is good clay and two yards. where brick is made, of a superior quality. The facilities of this place for a heavy produce and lumber business are not surpassed by any place on the west-
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ern shore of the lake, north of Chicago. It is backed up by the best wheat- growing country in Illinois, and must become a town of considerable impor- tance ere it gets to its teens."
For the first ten or twelve years of the existence of Waukegan, it was a place of much importance as a shipping port on the lake. The trade of the place extended back into the country for a distance of forty miles. But after the lapse of about twelve or fifteen years this trade became materially reduced by the construction of railroads through the country.
When Little Fort had reached a population of about 2,500 inhabitants, it became incorporated for municipal purposes as a village, by an Act of the Legislature approved February 12, 1849; in the act of incorporation was a provision, that at the first election for Town Officers the inhabitants might change the name of the town to Waukegan ; which election was held on the second Monday in March, 1849, at which the following persons were elected as officers :
President, D. O. Dickinson ; Trustees-First Ward, W. C. Tiffany and H. Hugunin ; Second Ward, Jas. B. Gorton and A. Dougherty; Third Ward, E. S. L. Bachelder and Ransom Steele.
By a unanimous vote of the inhabitants at the same election, the name of the town was changed to Waukegan, it being the Indian word, in the Pottawattomie language for Fort.
The name of the Post Office was also changed accordingly.
The Court House spoken of, an account of the building of which was given in the fore part of this history, under the head of the county at large, was destroyed by fire about two years ago, and at the last meeting of the County Board of Supervisors a new Court House was ordered to be built, on the public square, on the site of the former building, to cost about $38,000, the work of which is now rapidly progressing.
Since the completion of the railroad through Waukegan, and the excellent facilities afforded by the frequent running of passenger trains, this place and vicinity have become a place of summer residence for business men and others of Chicago ; besides, a large number of permanent residents of Waukegan carry on a regular established business in Chicago.
Waukegan is further made a point of attraction in the summer season from its being in the vicinity of the great cluster of small and beautiful lakes lying in Lake County.
(For particular account of the City of Waukegan and its institutions, see page 450.)
JOHN ROBERTSON ESQ. (DECEASED.) LAKE ZURICH.
ERRATA.
WEBB, ALBERT, Antioch Township, Farmer ; P. O., Hickory ; owns 165 acres; was born Jan. 4, 1809, in Providence, R. I; married Feb. 3, 1837 ; wife was born April 24, 1814, in Springfield, N. J .; moved to Illinois in 1846; four children-Nancy M., born March 19, 1844 ; Wallace H., born March 14, 1847 ; James A., born May 14, 1849; John A., born March 16, 1854.
J. R. Rowland, Waukegan, should be J. L. Rowland.
Andrew Gartlety, in Shields Township, should be Andrew Gartley.
John Fearson, in Waukegan Township, should be John Fearon.
In the Township History of Shields, the amount raised by subscription for the build- ing of the Academy should be $3,800 instead of $38,000.
Philipp Siegele, of Deerfield Township, should be Philipp Seigele.
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY.
ABBREVIATIONS.
Adv ..
Adventist
fdry
foundry
agt ..
.agent gro .grocer
Bapt.
Baptist lab.
laborer
bkpr
bookkeeper
Metlı Methodist
bwr
.. brewer mfr. manufacturer
brklayr.
bricklayer
mclı
machinist
carp.
carpenter
mkr.
.maker
Cath.
Catholic
mech
mechanic
clk
clerk
mer.
.merchant
Ch
Church
min ..
.minister
com. mer.
commission merchant
l'ong.
.Congregational
Dem.
Democrat
pr ...
.printer
dgst
.druggist
prop
.proprietor
Episcopal
. Episcopal
Rep.
Republican
Evang
.Evangelist Rev
Reverend
Ind
Independent sec
section or secretary
I. V. I
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
slamın
salesman
I. V. C
Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
Spir.
Spiritualist
I. V. A.
Illinois Volunteer Artillery
supt
superintendent
far ....
farmer
treas
treasurer
WAUKEGAN
A BBOTT, MARTIN, grocer; P. O. Waukegan.
ADAMS, GEO. K., lumber merchant ; Waukegan ; born in Lake Co., Ill., April 3d, 1846.
Adams, Dan, bookkeeper; P.O. Waukegan. Ackenback, Ernst, lab .; P. O. Waukegan. Allen, T. N., loan agent; P. O. Waukegan. Allen, Wm., clerk; P. O. Waukegan.
Alford, W. D., clerk; P. O. Waukegan. Arnold W. H., mfr .; P. O. Waukegan.
Arno, John B., laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Austin, Perry L., carp .; P. O. Waukegan. Avery, E. W., P. O. Waukegan.
Avery, J. A., local ed .; P. O. Waukegan. Arnold, D. W., lime dlr .; P. O. Waukegan. Andreas, Dan'], tailor; P. O. Waukegan. Armstrong, Wm., P. O. Waukegan.
Atchison, W. D., M. E. minister; P. O. Waukegan.
Adams, Geo., P. O. Waukegan.
Adams, C. E., P. O. Waukegan.
Ackley, G. N., P. O. Waukegan.
Avery, N. S., grocer; P. O. Waukegan.
TOWNSHIP.
Allen, Alex., farmer and speculator; P. O. Waukegan:
Adam, David, farmer ; P. O. Waukegan. Arnold, W. B., P. O. Waukegan.
B ERRY, PATRICK, laborer; P. O. Waukegan.
BROWN, O. B., of firm of Beard & Brown, photographers; Waukegan ; born in Lake Co., Ill., 1855; Rep. ; Bapt.
BEARD, HENRY ASHFORD,
firm of Beard & Brown, photographers; Waukegan ; born in Bristol, Eng., 1855 : Rep .; Epis.
Berry, A. C., merchant; P. O. Waukegan.
Bell, John, sailor; P. O. Waukegan.
Besley, Wm., brewer; P. O. Waukegan.
Besley, Win. B., brewer; P.O. Waukegan.
Besley, E. D., brewer; P. O. Waukegan.
Besley, Geo. W., dgst .; P. O. Waukegan.
Besley, John, W., City Clerk; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Becker, August, min .; P. O. Waukegan.
Co.
.Company or County
phot.
photographer
phys.
physician
Presb
.Presbyterian
dir.
.... dealer
ptr.
.painter
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Beauman, Wm., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Benedict, Andrew, loan agent; P. O. Wau kegan.
BERRY, H. S., of H. S. Berry & Co., millers; Waukegan; born in Frank lin Co., N. Y., 1816; settled in Wauke. gan in 1845; married twice; first wife Miss Eliza Caple, second wife Miss Helen Montgomery ; four children-Albert C., Fred C., Helen M. and Lawrence C.
Bishop, L., salesman; P. O. Waukegan. Biddinger, Peter, shoemaker; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Biddinger, N., tailor; P. O. Waukegan.
Biddinger, J., tailor; P. O. Waukegan.
Biddlecom, Milton P., capitalist; P. O. Waukegan.
Biddlecom, J. C., mer .; P. O. Waukegan. Billings, Chas., laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Bilhartz, Joseph, carp .; P. O. Waukegan. Bilhartz, Otto, cabinet maker; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Biddinger, Mich'l, mer .; P. O. Waukegan. BOWER, A. C., lumberman; Wau- kegan; born in New York State, 1843, and came to Waukegan in 1867; Rep .; Epis .; married Miss Carrie Velie in 1867; has four children-Jennie, Alida, Geo. W. and Albert L .; held office of Alder- man in Waukegan.
Barker, James S., fdry .; P. O. Waukegan. Ballentine, David, P. O. Waukegan.
Baker, John C., vocalist; P. O. Waukegan. Baker, J. A., vocalist; P. O. Waukegan. Bangs, L. D., broom maker; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Bauer, Adam, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Barker, Wm., mason; P. O. Waukegan. Barnum, H. P., carp .; P. O. Waukegan. Barker, W. G., student; P. O. Waukegan. Barker, W. C., phys .; P. O. Waukegan. Bacon, L. C., mfr .; P. O. Waukegan.
Barker, Walter, clerk; P. O. Waukegan. Badger, E., contractor; P. O. Waukegan. Bachelder, E. S. L., merchant; P. O. Waukegan.
Baker, E., P. O. Waukegan.
Baker, G. E., vocalist; P. O. Waukegan. Beard, Harry, phot .; P. O. Waukegan.
Badaker, Casper, lab .; P. O. Waukegan. Baird, Alex., farmer ; P. O. Waukegan. Bassett, F. C., clerk ; P. O. Waukegan. Barker, D. N., salesman ; P. O. Waukegan. Belden, Ephraim, far .; P. O. Waukegan. Belden, E. C., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Benjamin, W. B., far .; P. O. Waukegan.
Bedall, Jno., farmer, P. O. Waukegan. Berry, A. C., merchant; P. O. Waukegan.
BLANCHARD, PHILIP, farmer ; Secs. 3 and 4; P. O. Waukegan; born in N. Y. 1804 and came to Lake Co. in 1837 ; was engaged in teaching school in N. Y .; owns 90 acres, worth $100 per acre; Rep .; Meth. A society of a hundred families, formed for the purpose of emi- grating west, appointed an agent who came west and made claim on several thousand acres of land. The families came and settled, and through poor man - agement they became involved in trouble and were broken up. Married Miss Hannah Frost, of N. Y., born 1807, married 1829; seven children-Martha Ann, John, Arthur, Hannah, James, Sarah E. and Mary, all living; lost one, Levi. Belonged to Co. I, 47th Ill. V. I .; enlisted in 1861 ; was taken sick with ty- phoid fever, and died at Savannah, Ga., March 25, 1862.
Biddenger, Mathias, tailor; P. O. Wauke- gan.
Botsford, R. S., commission merchant; P. (). Waukegan.
Botsford, A. B., P. O. Waukegan.
Botsford, R., grocer; P. O. Waukegan.
Boyland, Wm., capitalist; P. O. Wauke- gan.
Boyland, E., laborer ; P. O. Waukegan.
Boller, Fred, carriage manufacturer; P. O. Waukegan.
Boucher, Fred, laborer ; P. O. Waukegan. Bohn, John, carpenter; P. O. Waukegan. Bohn, Fred, tailor; P. O. Waukegan.
Bower, J. K., planing-mill; P. O. Wauke- gan.
Bower, A. C., lumber; P. O. Waukegan.
Bodwell, A. J., slsmn .; P. O. Waukegan. Boyington, E. E., slsmn .; P. O. Waukegan. Buell, C. G., ex-Sheriff; P. O. Waukegan. BISHOP, JOHN, farmer; Sec. 9; P. O. Waukegan; born in Genesee Co., N. Y., July 2, 1822; came to Lake Co. October, 1843; Dem .; liberal in re- ligion ; married twice; first wife Lucy Viley, of N. Y., born July, 1824, died April 28, 1854; second wife, Matilda Irish, of N. Y .; she was born July 18, 1830; has one child, Lorenzo B., born May 27, 1848 (married Nellie Arnold, of Waukegan). His father's name is. H. B. Bishop, of N. Y., born January, 1797; was killed by a falling tree May,
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1832. His mother was Jolettie Law- rence, born Sept. 14, 1802, and died April 2, 1877. Wife's father was John Irish, born Sept. 5, 1797, died Nov. 5, 1857; mother was Betsey Jennings, born May 25, 1804, died Feb. 2, 1866. Buell, W. A., hostler; P. O. Waukegan. Buell, Abram, farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Bubb, Geo., wagon mfr .; P. O. Waukegan. Burk, David, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Burk, Eberhart, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Burk, D., laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Burk, E., P. O. Waukegan.
Burk, John, farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Burns, Thomas, laborer ; P. O. Waukegan. Burns, Henry, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Bullock, J. R., phys .; P. O. Waukegan.
Butterfield, Hiram A., laborer; P. O. Waukegan.
Butterfield, Isaac, janitor ; P.O.Waukegan. Butler, Geo., carpenter; P. O. Waukegan. Butler, Wm., machinist; P. O. Waukegan. Burtis, Melvin, brklayr .; P. O. Waukegan. Burling, Jos., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Burnett, G. H., gunsmith; P. O. Wauke- gan.
Burton, J. C., P. O. Waukegan. Burton, Victor, clerk; P. O. Waukegan. BUBOLTD, MRS. HENREAT-
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TA, farmer; Sec. 19; P. O. Wauke gan ; born in Prussia, Germany, 1838, and came to America August, 1857 ; married Feb. 7, 1858, to R. Buboltd, at Waukegan. Her husband belonged to 13th U. S. Inf .; he died in the South. Came to Lake Co. in 1857; five chil- dren-Amelia, born Dec. 19, 1858; Ephraim, Aug. 25, '60; Mary, Jan. 4, '68, John, Sept. 25, '63; and Emma, June 20, '65.
Brown, J. D., tea dealer; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, M. J., lumber; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, Jno., P. O. Waukegan.
Brown, J. M., P. O. Waukegan.
BRADBURY, SAMUEL I.,
Waukegan; born in Albany, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1828; apprenticed to printing busi- ness in that city Nov. 8, 1842; came to Waukegan (then Little Fort) Nov. 25, 1847; married Mary A., daughter of Luther and Charlotte Spaulding, of Spaulding's Corners, Nov. 25, 1851; three children-Frances M., Dewitt H. and Samuel H .; sons both printers ; has been engaged in the publishing business in Waukegan for the best part of thirty
years; now owns and edits the Lake County Patriot (the lineal descendant of the Little Fort Porcupine, the first paper published in Lake Co.), indepen- dent on all subjects ; like Andy Johnson, has been " Alderman of his village sev- eral years ;" says his ambition is confined to publishing the best paper in the county, and to serving the interests of the people of Lake Co. to the best of his ability.
Brown, Norman, collector; P. O. Wauke- gan.
Brown, A., physician; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, Frank, hostler; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, V. J., painter; P. O. Waukegan. Brewster, Dan'l, harness ; P. O. Waukegan. Brewster, J. L., harness; P. O. Waukegan. Brand, P. P., barber; P. O. Waukegan. Bray, Wm. A., carp .; P. O. Waukegan. BLODGETT, A. Z., agent C. & N. W. Ry., coal and grain dealer, buys and sells fine stock; Waukegan ; born in Du Page Co., Ill., 1837 ; Rep .; came to Lake Co. in 1854; married Miss Mary E. Porter, of Canada, in 1857; has five children-Henry P., Cyrus E., John H., Frank P. and Lewis D.
Bradbury, Andrew, pr .; P. O. Waukegan. Brewer, Dan'l, atty .; P. O. Waukegan. Brewer, Chas., salesman ; P. O. Waukegan. Brewer, Dan'l, tailor; P. O. Waukegan. Brain, H., gardener; P. O. Waukegan. Bryant, M. A., carp .; P. O. Waukegan. Bruce, C. G., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Brogan, Jno., scale mkr .; P. O. Waukegan. Blanchard, Arthur, far .; P. O. Waukegan. Blanchard, Jas., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Blodgett, H. W., Judge U. S. Dist.'Court ;
P. O. Waukegan.
Blowney, B. G., harness maker; P. O. Waukegan.
Blows, Chas., carpenter ; P. O. Waukegan. Breischack, Geo., lab .; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, S. S., sewing machine agent; P. O.
Waukegan.
Blanchard, W. S., P. O. Waukegan.
BARBOUR, JOHN, P. O. Gurney ; born in Scotland, 1841; came to Amer- ica in 1862; liberal in politics; Chris- tian; works 270 acres of land; married Miss Jane Dilley, of Pa .; have two chil- dren-James C. B., born July 28, 1872, and Meyrta A., born April 16, 1875; works farm belonging to Henry J. Sligh- field, of Waukegan.
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Baxter, Wm., saloon; P. O. Waukegan. Baxter, R. A., saloon; P. O. Waukegan. Biddlecom, Z. L., carp .; P. O. Waukegan. Boyington, T. M., P. O. Waukegan. Baker, E. H., minister; P. O. Waukegan. Boening, Lewis, phys .; P. O. Waukegan. Bradbury, D. H., pr ; P. O. Waukegan. Beuckmann, Frank, scale mkr .; P. O. Wau gan.
Brown, O. L., P. O. Waukegan.
Buckman, Henry, mechanic; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Baskerfield, Richard, tailor; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Barnum, C. A., slsmn .; P. O. Waukegan. Burns, Peter, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, Edwin, P. O. Waukegan. Burns, Henry, Jr., lab .; P. O. Waukegan. Bell, Robt., P. O. Waukegan.
Barker, E. W., P. O. Waukegan.
Burris, Sam'l, farmer; P. O. Waukegan.
Burris, O., farmer; P. O. Waukegan.
Burris, Wm., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Brown, W. J., farmer; P. O. Waukegan. Beauman, Fred, mech .; P. O. Waukegan. Bierhaus, Fred ; P. O. Waukegan.
Barker, F. M., P. O. Waukegan.
Beck, Geo. B., P. O. Waukegan.
Brown, W. J., P. O. Waukegan.
C YOMPTON, ROBT., speculator ; P. O. Waukegan.
Cole, E., laborer; P. O. Waukegan.
Cole, W. S., laborer; P. O. Waukegan.
Colburn, N. E., P. O. Waukegan. Conners, J. W., slsmn .; P. O. Waukegan. Colgrove, Geo., laborer ; P. O. Waukegan. Coman, B. A., P. O. Waukegan.
Cawler, David, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Cochrane, Wm., wagon maker; P.O. Wau- kegan.
Chamberlin, Wallace, laborer; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Cheever, A. R., P. O. Waukegan.
Clark, Edward, drayman; P.O. Waukegan. Clark, Jas. B., drayman; P. O. Waukegan. CLARKSON, DR. R. W., Dentist, Waukegan ; born in N. Y. Dec. 1, 1822; graduated at the Baltimore college in 1846; came to Lake Co. (then McHenry) 1838; married Miss Julia Lytle 1872; two children-Maud May and John Gor- don.
Clark, Geo., carpenter; P. O. Waukegan. Clarkson, John E., baggage master; P. O. Waukegan.
Clement, Stephen, capitalist; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Crapo, Walter, carp .; P. O. Waukegan. Crell, Julius, piano tuner; P. O. Wauke-
gan.
Cromer, John, P. O. Waukegan.
Crooker, W. W., P. O. Waukegan.
Crossley, J. P., produce dealer; P. O. Wau- kegan.
Cronan, Jerry, laborer; P. O. Waukegan. Cutter, S. R., carpenter ; P. O. Waukegan. Curtis, Jno. L., P. O. Waukegan.
Curtis, E. H., Presb. min .; P. O. Wauke- gan.
Cunningham, P. W., harness maker ; P.O. Waukegan.
Curtiss, Clinton, P. O. Waukegan.
Crawford, E. C., Principal high school; P. O. Waukegan.
CLARKE, FRANCIS E., attorney ; Waukegan; commenced the practice of law in 1856; born in Williamstown, Vt., March 4, 1828; graduated at the Dart- mouth College, N. H., in 1851; set tled in Waukegan same year ; Rep. ; held office of County School Commis- sioner from 1853 to 1860; was Principal of the Waukegan academy for five years ; married Hannah C. Scott, of Mass., Jan. 13, 1858 ; have three children-Mary E., Helen C. and Lucy H.
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