Cook County, Illinois - The whole text, 1884 (part 34 of 61)

BARTOW ADOLI'IICS Cl.KIt'll was tiorn in 1S40 at Clenham, near l ishkill. N. V., being the nMM ol lour sons, and eight children, of Augustus Louis and Henrietta I Von kit-senkaiupff) Clrich. The father, bom in Jena, Saxe-Wcimar, t.crman)', in IJtD, was a son ol private Counselor and Professor John Augustus llenrv I'lrich. ol that city, and the grandson of Magister Prcderick Nicholas Clrich, director ol the Moot** college in Jena. A. L. Clrieh. who had been lor some year* .1 MNCCMIll merchant of St. Petersburg, causae to the Cnited Mates in t»i*. with his wife, and established at Glcriham, near Fishkill Landing, on the Hudson, a doth factory, in which John Jacob Astor, IVtrr II, Shenck and himself were' the principal stockholders. There he died in 1*41. His widow, now living with one ol her children in Illinois, and the mother of II. A. Clrich. i*a daughter of I uun. sclor Justus John Von RiescnkamprT. collector of the port of Kevel. in Russia, where she was born in 1707. Hat ing previously studied for two years in the I'niversity of Heidelberg, in Germany, It. A. Clrich graduated from the law depattment of the I'niversity nf Michigan in fi'14. The same year he married Helen Amelia, n daughter of William S. Russell, of Livingston County, near Ann Arbor, Mich.; located in C hicago, and took up his residence in Hyde I'ark. He was admitted to the liar ol Illinois, and practiced five years, but since l8fn) has turned his attention chiefly la real estate interests and investments. In ISSJ he located the limn ol I hcltcnliam Reach, on the lake shore. al>oul two miles south of the South I'ark, on Ihe South t-hicago Branch uf lbe Illinois Cc-ntlal Railroad. Mr. I'lrich has been foi many years a contributor lu the Press on literary and political topics. 1)1 the latter class the most conspicuous were his campaign documents in tM>4 and i>so. which received the indorsement, respectively, of < Governors Yates and Cullom. With their eldest child, Victoria, bom in 1866, Mr. and Mrs. Clrich arc members of the Presbyterian Church. Their other living children were bom as follows: Russell, in IMS; Augustus Louis, in 1R70; II, A.. Jr.. in I.sj2 ; Helen Kuwll, in l!*74 ; and tiertrudr. in 1*70, Mr. Clrich has now only one surviving brother, Kdward Von KeisenkamprT Clrich, a well-known grain merchant uf Springfield, III., bum October 10. tr>2<>, at Clenham. X. V. He has two sisters living 111 I artllage. III., Mrs. Erra Wi-ndcl. and Mrs. l>avid Muck, wife ol an attorney. Mrs. II. A. I'lrich has two brothers, Frank I.. Kussell. an attorney in llelroit. and W. H. H. Kussell. an attorney in New York ; one sister, Mrs. M. Brooks, Grand Rapids. Mich. Her lather was from Worcester, Mass.. her mother from Bennington, Vt.; her maiden name, Jane A. Knox. Her parents located in Michigan at an early day : were independent farmers ; owned n large farm ; were well known and respected citizens, and educated their children. HeWitt Clinton, their second sun. died in the service of his country in I $63.

Our only sovereign. Gud. S. I). YEAZKY, retired, was born in New Hampton, X. II.. (-ctober 18, |92<>. At the age of hflcen he commenced railroad, mg. which he continued during the war. at the outbreak of which he was employed on the Cincinnati ,\ Marietta Railroad, and ran truups |o different points along that road anil South with but one man to assist him in the management of the train. At the close of the war he located in Chicago, where he began the wholesale and retail commission business. Being burnt our in the lire of 1*71, he turned his attention to building, which he fullowcd until 1KK1, when he retired from all active business. His wife was a Mi<s Mary Davis., liom and raised in Hiram, Ohio, the home of the late President (iartield, and was .1 schoolmate of both (iarlicld and his wife. They have one son hulding a respunsible position with the Western Indiana Railroad Company.

JOHN II, YOLK, monumental artist and designer. Chicago. ».i native of the State of New York, though raoa* of his early life was spent in Massachusetts, where, in his father's studio, he received his first instruction in sculpture and monumental art, In 1865 he ln-camr connected » ilti the Chicago Marhle Granite MaatuVlar. ing IVutipany, having the management of the monumental dcaattri' Ot ol 11. 1 le established lunisclf in business imrncdulelt* jiter the eventful lire of 1871, and lus become the acknowledged head 4 nioiuii-.icutal art in this country. In nearly all the prcannrni w-nivt. rns his work may Ik- seen, and whether in elaborate or p-ria 1 - no, j marked difference in style and proportion, as well aj tianht l-.nri Mirrounilmg work, may lie seen in his favor. Mr. Volk I .. , Inert i-.-il 111 his present plare business, comer nf lieu, born and U.uid"lp i sire. is. about eight, years, lr. 1874 U aanioj Miss Uatllc C. Town, of Elgin, 111., their union being blessed by four children.

JAM ES WADSWOKTH was born in 1828 in New lUrtlord. Conn., son of Daniel and Martha (Williams Moore) VYads«oith, and is descended in the seventh generation from William Wicworth. who arrived at Boston, in the " Lion." in 1632 ; and ra hU mother's side descended direct from Roger Wili »ms, launder uf Rhode Island, and General Scth Pomeroy. of Rcvoutiontryfamr. Mr. Wadswnrlh received an academic education in Mexico N. V_ whither his parents removed in 1S31. In 1845 they came to Chicago where the father died of cholera in 1851. in 1*53, JJ whn had been a clerk since 1 843. engaged in the wholesale jiocrry trade with George W. Flanders, firm of Flanders & Wad>wurlh He sold out in February. 1857. having a handsome cnoipeuacT. He engaged in banking in May of that year, and suffered severely by the panic in September and October. He dealt largely awi succeisfully in cotton in the Southern Stales in tS«2 and 1S63 ; invested largely in Hyde Park properly in 1867, 1 Rh5 and 1 ;«-;, and made I irgc profits: eagaged in the hide trade in Ihe wmaier of 1866. which he continued until 1S73. His productive nropertT was all destroyed in the great Are of 1871. as also his store and stock of hides. In lS'3 he withdrew from all active pursaittbut the care of his properly, which was both cutenstve and produtiirt. In December. 185'., he married Emily Wadsworlh WtiittlcXT, of Farmington, Conn., also a descendant on the mother's side of Ik* Wadsworths or Connecticut. They have had six children - Ruben Strong, 1857 ; Grace Lucretia, 1S59; Ellen Ruth. 1865 ; an infant, James Robert. 1863. and Alice Emily. 1870. of whom only the tw last survive. Tney are members of the First Presbjlerian Church of Hyde Park, where they have resided since iBjo. Mr.Wadr worth was made one of the first Trustees at the incorjiorilHin of the village in 1861. He carries on an extensive dairy and breed, ing faim in Cook County, and is a broker in real ettate and tout on ihe same.

WAKEKM was bom in Switzerland May 21), tSto. and after leaving srhonl was employed in a rug factory, lie can* to Chicago in August, 1863. and early in 1864 enlisted WMTfa Illinois Volunteer favalrv. and served one year, after which he went to St. loseph. Mo., where he was employed ma buichermc establishment. Returning to Chicago in W. ^SSTSS opened a meat market, and in April. 1S72, muved to Hyde I art. lie is thciddest in the business in this locality, and h»a MB trade. Mr. Wakerli is a charter member of the I. l>. 0. r.. Iljut Park Lixlge. Xo. 722. . , ...

Historv Of Hvdk Pakkv

HENRY WILLIAM WOLSELEY was born November 3. 1S40, in Liverpool, England, son of Kev. Koben W. Wolseley. a clergyman of the Church of England, anil cousin of the now celebrated General Lord Wobeley, ol Egyptian fame. The maiden name of Ins mother was Gcorgina Nixon, of County Carlow. Ireland. In 1*63 young Wolseley left St. Peter's College, S'ork, where he was prosecuting his studies, and went to sea. prompted bv a cherished inclination for a sea-faring life and for his health, lie entered the merchant marine, in that branrh known is tea ships of that day, where he rose to the position of mate, and served seven years. In IS71 he came to America, settling in Chicago, where he began the study of law in 1S72 in the oltice of Norman C. Perkins. He was admitted to the liar of Illinois in June, I H74: ami went immediately into the practice of his profession. January if, iSSo, Mr. Wolseley was married 10 Ella C. Williams, of Lincoln. Neb., by whom he has one daughter - Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Wolseley are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of Hyde Park, where they have resided since and Mr. Wolseley is a vestry,

South Park

South Park is hardly a separate village or hamlet ; its individuality is completely absorbed by that of Hyde Park - the station alone perpetuating the cognomen. This, however, is but a recent name for the station. On December 12, 186;, Charles Augustus Norton came to the vicinage of South Park. There then was a stopping-place for trains, and *uch stoppingplace was dignified by the name of Woodpile; there the locomotive gathered ligneous food. The name was changed shortly afterward to Woodville, and then, by consent of Mr. Norton, to South Park. The first depot there was an old log building, and the ultima tkule in those days was deemed to be the vicinity of South Park. It was one vast swamp. Closely contiguous to the quasi depot was an old tree that was used by the soldiers camped near there in war times. as a post-office. Mr. Norton was born in Charlestown, Ohio - the town being named after his grandfather - in 1826, and was a graduate of the law school of Cambridge, Mass., also from the school of the Western Reserve, Ohio. He came to Chicago in 1854, and went into the real estate business; resuming the practice of law in 1858 with James M. Hill, of Oakland, and subsequently with Paul Cornell. He married, on September 30, 1858, Miss Lucy Bond, a grand-niece of Judge Reeves, of Litchfield, Conn , the gentleman who first kept law school in America. Mrs. Norton states that the earliest residents of the vicinity of South Park were the Fassctts, Roots, Downs and Wrights The only distinctive feature of South Park is its name, associating it with the vast system of parks described elsewhere, and the magnificent depot, costing $30,000, erected by the Illinois Central Railroad. Mr. Norton died on February 12, 187a.

The Sooth Park Hotel was built about 1874 by a Mr. Hoyt, and after a varied course of existence as a hotel, was destroyed by fire October 25, 1883. A description of the destruction is thus given in the Chicago Times of the 26th of October :

At an earlv hour yesterday morning the South Park Hotel, situated at the northwest corner of Fifty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, in the town of Hyde Park, was burned to the ground. At 4:15 o'clock a colored cook named Williams, employed in the hotel, was aroused from his sleep by the strong smell of smoke, and on arising discovered fire in the rear part of the building in a room usually occupied by Mrs.

Chandler, the wife of the proprietor, Tom Chandler, of pugilistic notoriety. He at once aroused Chandler and then the other inmates, seven or eight in number. The building being built of wood, and well seasoned, was in a few minutes a mass of flames, the inmates having lime only to gather up a few articles and escape with their lives. A strong southeast wind, accompanied by blinding rain, was blowing at the time. Two streams, with a water pressure of over one hundred pounds, were at once directed toward the burning building, one from the east and the other from the opposite direction. It was soon seen, however, that the attempt to save the building was useless, and an effort was then made to save some of the contents. Two pianos and a small amount of furniture were taken out and placed in .in adjoining lot. In the meantime a large crowd, principally composed of stock-yards toughs, had gathered. Fire Marshal Crapo, of Hyde Park, seeing that his force of two men was unable to handle the stream, so great was the pressure, called for assistance from the crowd, but no response followed. A large number of hangers-on had gained admittance to the house and to the store-room and proceeded to make free use of the cigars and liquors therein. The scene was one of intense confusion on all sides, and can better be imagined than dcscrilied. The building was in an hour a mass of ruins. Tom Chandler, the proprietor, stated that his loss was in the neighborhood of $18,000. The building was a two story and attic frame structure, about one hundred and twenty-five by fifty feet, and was built in 1873. It was owned by Charles F. Miller, of Milwaukee. One of the Hyde Park firemen, named Adams, had his hands b.tdly scorched by the flames, and Crapo himself had his neck blistered. I 'he firemen remained at their posts, playing on the smouldering ruins, until ten o'clock.

A proje t is in agitation whereby a large plat of residence properly near the station will be subdivided, ft large number of first-class housis, with all modern improvements, erected thereupon, and this residence property thrown upon the market for sale and lease. Judicious speculation will find ample Opportunity for its exhibit in this enterprise, as the locality is a favorite one for residences.

South Park Biographical Sketches

JAMES FRANKLIN ALDR1CI1 was born in 1S53 in Two Rivers, Wis., nf William and Anna Mary (Howard! Aldrich. The father is the wi ll -known c v-memberof Congress from the First Illinois district, who served from 1S76 to tSSJ. and is of early New- England ancestry. The mother is descended from John Howard, the English philanthropist (1736-00). They removed to Chicago in 1 $61, where young Aldrich received an academic education, lie afterwards entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ol Troy. N. V., where he graduated in 1S77 as a civil engineer. Returning home, he went into oil manufacturing at Grand Crowing, in the Chicago Linseed Oil Company, of which he was the secretary and general manager for over four years. Since then he has been in the commission gram business, on the Hoard of Trade, being now the senior mcmlier u( the firm of Aldrich. Norton \ Co. He is a memtxT of the Western Society of Engineers and of the L nion League Club, and is a Republican in politics. November 13. 187?. Mr. Aldrich was married to I 11I11 M., a daughter of General T. T. Sherman, and grand-daughter of Eraneis C. Sherman, three times Mayor of Chicago, and builder of the Sherman House. They are the patents of three children; are members of the Episcopal Church, and have resided in llvde Park since the fall of |S8l.

JOHN IRA BENNETT was born November 27, 1S31 .in Otsego County. N. V.. of Joseph and I.ydi.1 (Hirdsalh ltvnnctt, who were members of the Society of Friends. In 1S43 the family settled in Knox County, III., but in 1S46 returned ami took up their residence in Delaware County. In 1S49 J. I. Itcnnett became a pupil of Charlotte Academy where, in 1S50. he became a teacher as well as student. In tSjt he entered l nion College, and graduated in 1S54. From August, 1S54. to June, 1S57, he was principal studied law anil was admitted IO the liar of Tennessee M lime, 1H57. A monih later he » admitted in IIHW>K and t*K.»n 'he practicv ->( his profession ai (ialva. McHcnry Cuwrty. Inning the Rebellion. l*-ing disabled bv sickness for service in the field, he rendered all the aid in his power I" the Union cause - as a tncmlx-r the ilovcmor's staff, bv poimoiing enlistments, and otherwise, lb- n> presidential elector im the Republican lic-kcl in |S«|. In lS<>5 he was admitted in practice in United Stales courts, (rot two years hi owned the (ialva Union, and was a mcliihcr <>( the Hoard of Education. He was interested in goal mines Iwtldea attending to his profession, anil was the unsuccessful competitor of Judge I'lrasants for the llench of that circuit. In June. 1*72, he remoicd u> Chicago, taking tip his residence in Hyde Park, where he was eleeted a Yillagc Trustee, and chosen I'resiilenl in isjS and j S In the latter year he was appointed a master in chancery of the lrnilc-d States courts in northern Illinois, which office la- still holds. In 1*55. at HiBiWraoa, Ky.. Mr. Itennelt was married to Mis* Maria K. Reynolds, a native of 1 Iclaware County, N. V.: they are the parents of seven children - l-'annie, horn in lajfc, HOW Mrs. W. C. Nelson, of Hyde lark; Frank Ira, horn in isjs a.lmittcd to the liar in iWo: Fred Fuller, in i860. Aldcn Lewis, in 1S65: Cicorgc, in l*"7. lohn in 1S70, and Will in 1S73.

JAMES CI. IN ION' CALHOUN was bom in May, 1S24. in West Charlton, Saratojja lav, N. ¥., son of James ami Marion Htoyd) Calhoun. The father was a niannfailtircr -.( woolen goods lor many years - also a farmer, and died in llrlvoir. Kan., after three years' residence, in I&79, aged ninety-two, Itolh Holds and Calhoun* arc of Scotch origin. Young Calhoun received most of his early education near Utica. N, Y.,and in Kandolph, N. Y.. whither his parents had removed while he was yet a child. A clerk anil accountant in several siores from 1*3') to tSco, lie formed in the latter Year a connection with the Atlantic ft I ireal Western Knilwav, which lasleil seventeen years, in almost ever)1 ca|Mciiy eccepl that of president. From iStiS to 1670 he was in the employ of the Krie Railway Company as and i lot ; from 1*7010 is74«<:crctaiy and treasurer of the tdenwood 1 \m1 Company - a Jay lional corporation; from 1S74 to t«7<> secretary and treasurer of the Knickerbocker Coal Company, and since 1*77 treasurer of tin- Chi. cago *: Kaslern Illinois Kaiiway Company In 1S40 he married Marv I. I lulslander, of New York Citv. who died in ls(>4. In iSott he married Martha I., liaker, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He joined the Masonic I Irdcr in I Sol;, becoming a Royal Arch Masiiu in I$66: and in polilics. is a Kepubliean.

JOHN WILLIAM HRANT was in |s53, in Hull. Kngland, being the fourth son of ( ieorgc- and Margaret (Hodgson) iJrant. The family came to the Cnited Males, and settled in Chicago in iSb$. In lab* young Hrant began to learn the business of an engraver with Hark, the wcll-knn»n New York artist in that line. In 1S7J he returned to Chicago, going into business on his own account, and in 1*77 formed a partnership with Waller K. Ilawtin, under the style of Hrant \ tlawtin. which still continues. The lit 111 has hail a steady growth in the volume of business done from year to year, in keeping with the unprecedented development of the city. In 1S70, Mr. Dram married K. I.., a daughter of Colonel II. Pease, of Chicago. 'I hey have one child, Chester, tiorn in ls8t. In lU] Mr. Hrant bought some ground in Hyde I'ark. near South I'ark Station, as the site of a permanent home.

HENRY VAKKI'M FREEMAN, lawyer, was born in Hridgeion, X. J.. Daeewber M, 1*42, of Mi nei liniall 1 parentage. The family moved to Illinois in 1*50, ami ihe father. Henry, was superintendent of schools at Uockford from i860 to 1881. ' °h* mother's maiden name was Mary II. Hangs, of Hrewster. Mass. Through both parents Mr. 1kxiii.ui is descended from the early scltlrrsof Massachusetts; his grandfather, Solomon, was a member of Ihe Massachusetts Senate from Harnstable Cnunly for twenty years, succeeding his father. Solomon who had served twcnlv-lwo years, and had previously lies-n a Judge for many years. The original immigrant was F.dmund Freeman, who sculcd in the Plymouth Colony in 1(135. Henry Y. was prepared for college at'lieloil. Wis, I '.it went into the army In August. iW>3, and served to the end of the war. arriving home luly 3, lSo<, He enlisted as a private, but was soon made t Irderly Sergeant , and on August 14, iM,j, was promoted to a captaincy, serving in the Army ol the Cumberland. At the opening of the fall term in iSdf. he entered Yale College, where he graduated in t'69. Me spent some time in the (aw olivets ol Rich & Noble, and of King, Scott ft Pu>x>n, of Chicago, where he was admitted to the Par in 1S70 and entered cm the practice of his profession, [mtiieiliatclv after the lire lie was one year principal of Ihe- high sehuol of Charleston, Coles Co.. III. On hU return in 1872, he went to reside in Hvdc I'.irk, and resumed the practice of law in the ourls of Chicago. He was married October 16. 11*73. to Miss Marv I... ;, daughter of Rev.William S. Curtis, a Presbyterian derg) man. for inn Iv a professor ar Ann

Arbor, and at Hamilton College, and president of Knox I'otVji, al tialcsburg. III. Kroin 1876U 1^71) Mr. Freeman wis Jtoociittii with Mr. Haitney in the practice of law, but since then his bin alone. Ill 1S77 he was chosen attorney of the village of |UJ, I'ark. lake their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman are roemlufsof Ihe Presbyterian Church. I hey have three children - MiIh) II, born November SI, 1S74; Mary F.thel, November tl. 157(1. Helen, tktolxr 3.

NICHOLAS HUNT was born in 154(1, in Ireland, and imrmgrated to the Cnited States in lS6(, settling in Fast I'my. X, Y., with his brother John, who is now SU|x-rcisor of lite Tenth Ward. In 1- > voting lluni, came 10 Chicago, and obtained enipluyrrKni from the South Park Conimissioners. September 15. 1871. lit »» enrolled as a tulnilman of the town ol Hyde Pari. In U was promoted to the position of captain nf police for thr shale tillage, which he still holds- In 1S74 Mr, Hunt was married to Mi« Johanna I'ruminitis, a native of jhinkirk, N. \'., 1*1 a resxlrct i.{ Chicago since 1S70; they are the parents of three children - MkLael, in 1S74: Annie, in l*7<). and Nellie, in lS7!i.

From 1877 to i99i He was a member of the Stale Hoard of Kqual- Icilinn by appoimratnt, anil since ISSi by election. Octolier 2. 1S56, he was married to Anna, a daughter of kcv. Charles Marlvn. of Ver.ma, Oneida Co.. V V. Thev arc the parents of live children anil have one grand-child. They removed 10 Hyde I'arfc in t«Jt. where Mr. Root Idled the position of school director in 1862, 1S63 and 1 3f>4. and achieved ximc reputation anions his townsmen as a prudent officer.

KUWARD KVAN WOOPLE was liorn March S. iSjj. in lancsvillc. Wis., son of Isaac and Cornelia (Sheldon) Woo He; the lather was a lawjer, and was interested in securing the charter of the Chicago & KccSi River Valley Railroad; now a pari of the Chi. cagn \ North.Wcstern. lie dies! in Jancsvillc April 3. tfKii. The mother was the second daughter nf "t icncral William II. Sheldon, originally nf Delhi. Crawford Co.. N. V., and later of Milwaukee and Jancsvillc: she died In May, 1S117. Voting Woodlc studied at Racine College, graduating In the class of 1873, and has since received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater; he then studied law under Samuel Handles, of Waukesha, and afterward entered the Law School of Madison I niversity; whence he graduates) in !$75 with the degree of LI.. B-, and was admitted to the liar of Wisconsin. In is-n he came to Chicago, entering the law office of Isham & Lincoln, and in 1S7; was admitted to the liar of Illinois, In April. 1S7S. he entered the service of the law department of the Illinois Centra! Railroad < omp-inv; a position he still holds. Mr. Woodlc is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Hyde I'ark. where he has resided since IS77.

South Park System

Everything that has made a permanent antl extensive mark in the histories of nations will lie found capable of being traced to a germinativc idea in the brain of one individual. Confraternities may carry on and amplify the work succeeding to the thought ; the thought was in the brain of one num. Gulvuni and the frog-legs ; Watt and the tea-kettle ; Franklin antl the kite; Daguerre and the nitrate of silver, ail were embryonic gems of thought, whose expansion, by the brains and actions of others, has been illimitable. And the atom, around which other atomic ideas segregated, until the vast park system of Chicago became a belt of verdure, whose every leaf voiced the thanks of the half a million of Chicago's workers? the little park upon the lake shore created by Paul Cornell, in 1*57, near the foot of what is now Fifty-third street. The idea engendered thereby simply was to enhance the value of the real estate in Hyde- Park by attractive environment ; ami what was feasible and successful in a restricted locality, would probably be advantageous if applied to much larger sections ; if, in its application, the design was commensurate with the area to which it was to be an ornament. In 1S66, the idea of such adaptation to the region where the South Parks now are began to be discussed ; and the following gentlemen became subjects of the attractive cohesion of similarity of thought, and commenced making definite efforts to locate the South Parks. These gentlemen were Paul. Cornell, George M. Kimbark, Chatincey T. Bowen, George R. Clarke, Obadiah Jackson, Jonathan Young Scammon and J. Irving Pean e. These gentlemen sent letters of inquiry to various places where public parks are maintained, asking for descriptions of the systems whereby they are originated, supported, etc., and from such descriptions they eliminated such features as seemed undesirable, and incorporated the remainder, with such amendments as were necessary, in a bill for the action of the Legislature, with which Paul Cornell went to Springfield, and there remained timing the winter of 1867, advocating the measure. This bill provided for the appointment of five commissioners, whom the Governor should appoint; the amount of bonds to be issued were not to exceed $1,000,000, and the amount of tax to be levied in any one year was not to be more than §200,000. No specific properly was designated as the intended location for the parks, part of the duty of the commissioners being to select the sites for improvement ; but the prevalent idea was that Egandale, which had already been made a public pleasure-ground by Dr. William Bradshaw Egan, lying between Forty-seventh and Fifty-fifth streets, antl east of Cottage Grove Avenue, would be selected ; the hill providing that the prospective park was not to be farther north than Thirty-fifth Street, nor farther south than Sixty-third Street, antl was to also be between Michigan Avenue and Lake Michigan. The bill was signed and submitted to the people at the spring town election of Hyde Park, as a special vote. The voters, through misunderstanding the sentiment of the people, and possibly chicane, voted their ballots both affirmatively and negatively as to the park tpiestion ; and the act was killed by a majority of one hundred and sixty-nine votes. This, however, only acted as an incentive to another effort, and accordingly a bill was compiled w herein the location of the parks was defined. The situation of them was decided by a committee of citizens, comprising Jonathan Young Scammoii, George C. Walker, George R. Clarke, J li ving Pean e, joseph M. I lake. Ilenrv H. Honore. Chatincey T, Bowen, A. F'.migh, P. R, West fall. Schuyler S. Hcnjamm, John Fitch and John I). Jennings, The bill was given to Mr. bowen to t ike to Springfield; and by the Legislature it was passed, by a vote of fiftyeight to two in the , House, and by a vote of twentythree to one in the Senate. The act was approved February 24, 1869; the eighteenth section of such act providing that an election should be held in the towns of Smith Chicago, Hyde Park antl I -ike, on the fourth Tuesday in March next after the passage of the act, to ratify or annul sai3 act ; the act without such ratification by the popular vote being null and void. Such election was held, and resulted ; For the parks and boulevards, 9,66? ; against the parks and boulevards, 6.035 : majority, making the act a law, 3.737. The land set apart by the act for the parks and boulevards was described as follows : " Commencing at the southwest corner of Fifty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, running thence south along the west side of Cottage- Grove Avenue to the south line of Fifty-ninth Street; thence east along the south line of Fifty-ninth Street to the east line of Hyde Park Avenue; thence north on Hyde Park Avenue to Fifty-sixth Street ; thence cast along the south line of Fifty-sixth Street to Lake Michigan ; thence southerly along the shore of the lake to a point due cast of the center of Section twenty-four 24 . in Township thirty-eight 1 38 north. Range fourteen (14; thence west through the center of said Section twenty-four 24 to Hyde Park Avenue; thence north on the east line of Hyde Park Avenue to the north line of Sixtieth Street, so 'called : thence west on the north line of Sixtieth Street, so t ailed, to Kankakee Avenue ; thence north on the east line of Kankakee Avenue to Fifty-fust Street ; thence east to a point to the place of beginning. Also, a piece of land Commencing at the southeast [amended to northeast by act of April 16, 1869] corner of Kankakee Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, running thence west a strip two hundred feet wide adjoining the north line of Fifty-fifth Street, along said Fifty-fifth Street to the line Ix-twcen Ranges thirteen (13 : and' fourteen 14 east ; thence north, cast of and adjoining said line, a strip two hundred feet wide, to the Illinois & Michigan Canal. Also, a parcel of land beginning at the southwest corner of Douglas Place and Kankakee Avenue, running thence south a strip of land one hundred and thirty-two feet wide, along the west side of said Kankakee Avenue, to a point one hundred and fifty feet south of the south line of Fiftyfirst Street. Also, a strip of land commencing at the intersection of Cottage Grove Avenue ami Fifty-fin! Street, running thence east one hundred feet in width on each side of the center line of Fifty-first Street, to a point one hundred feet east of the center line »f IJrexel Avenue. Also, a strip of land extending north from the intersection of Fifty-first Street with Drcxcl Avenue, one hundred feet in width on each side of the center line of said avenue to the north line of Fortythird Street ; thence northerly, a strip of land two hundred feet in width, till it meets or intersects with Elm Street in ("leaverville ; thence northerly along said Elm Street. t«0 hundred feet in width, west from the east line of said street to its intersection with Oakwood Avenue." The first Hoard of Commissioners appointed were : John M. Wilson, Paul Cornell who has remained continuously in office as such commissioner , Levered H. Sidway, George W. Gage and Chauncey T. Bowen, At the first meeting of the board the following gentlemen were chosen officers: John M. Wilson, president ; Paul Cornell, secretary ; George 15. Smith, treasurer ; and George Washington Waitc, chief engineer. Naturally, the next question discussed by the board was the best method of hypothecating the $j,ooo.ooo of bonds they were authorized, by the act, to issue ; and which were to bear not to exceed seven per (entiim per annum. The bonds were disposed of at prices averaging eight f>tr centum discount, and with the money thus realized the commissioners proceeded to procure the real estate designated. An appraisal of the eleven hundred acres by five prominent real estate dealers, during the winter of 1869 -70, was $1,700,000. The Circuit Court appointed, as commissioners to estimate the augmentation of value to property by the park improvements, Benjamin F. Hadduck, W. L Grecnleaf and George Washington Waite. Their estimate was that the land would be benefited fifteen millions of dollars; a pretty good result from an investment of §1,700.000. Then the commissioners proceeded to purc hase the land ; and the prices paid then, and the value of land in the immediate vicinity, will manifest how chary Messrs. Waite, Hadduck and Greenlcaf were of over-estimating the augmented value. The pnncii»al part of the land was purchased in 1869 and 1 870.

The following table will exhibit the prices paid by the commissioners for the acre property ; in some cases the price was only decided after protracted litigation; but in the main, the lots were sold at a fair price by the proprietors, without recourse to appeals.

Washington Park

* This p|i»« was offered to the cnmn.is*iioicrs al priswte sole for fuoassa, ;it lite time Ittiiratton was tsuumenced ; but the eoinmwsinivrrs. after coaaujltlliloith soch authorities upon value of land as Janes M. Hoes, A. J. Avrrill, and others of like acumen, all »4 »!»»« .uisiilered the price esressivelj- Inn*, pro. ereded with the lioutitlun foe condetnnalinei. and, after lliree trials, were compelled to pay tlic sum named awl Lhr ci»*t» of the litigation t la 1*71. the two hundred anil rWsauo the Phillips, now [tunics v. traci cnold lmrc been condemned at a valuation ol about %iy.ooo: but by advice ol counsel, an 3i.-irei~.it as made with Mr, Phillips to purchaie the laud for lloo pel acre, but the title proved defective, and the land IV still in lilir.li.oi. lni»lo.this s»,r. mrrtl. of over two hundred acre.

H. S. Monroe, it «/., transferred the property to H. 0 Stone for §7.500, and this grantee In turn conveyed tn James Marks, in 1S67. for $10,500. In 1870, Messrs. Marks and Turner sold it for §51,500. In 1S35, Chartea IV. Cook pan] 8200 for the whole southeast quarter wherein the twenty-six acres sold by Mrs. t ook are located, and in the same year sold one-half of the quarter section for §100 to George W, Merrill. In 1&6&, Mrs. Cook paid Thomas Foster, H *A, §17.500 for seven and one-half acres in the same tract. The north fifty acres in South Park were entered - with eighty-three more acres - in 1835, by J. Smith, for §iS7.'oR. In 1X37, the fifty acres was sold to Norman Kcw. for §1,000. In 1S54. Mary L Watson conveyed to John R. Pollard, ft ,1/., consideration. §4,250; in 1857. Henry II. I'enniman sold the plot to Samuel

Relative, to the disproportionate amounts paid for the various tracts, it may be authoritatively stated that, at the time the first Park Act was passed, property in the district hounded by Forty-seventh ami Fifty-first streets and Cottage drove ami Vincenues avenues, was selling for from §100 to 8300 per acre, and property south of Fifty-Ant, and north of Sixty-third streets, for from §100 to §150 an acre. Therefore it is no illusory idea to consider, that the one thousand acres of ground could have been purchased for park purposes, in their present locality, at an average of $500 per acre at that time. Hut the defeat of the first park bill, ami the period that elapsed prior to the second bill passing, thoroughly Informed the people of the prospective demand for their real estate for park purposes ; and from 1 S67 to 1X72-7.;, the amounts asked were simply enormous. Not alone were the exaggerated ideas of property value caused by the park necessities, but likewise by a disproportionate conception of the augmentation of prices caused by the location of the parks. In many cases, in real estate transactions, four and five times as much as the property was actually worth was asked. 'The actual increase in value, however, has In-en enormous, as property in the vicinity of the parks that, in 1867, bad been averajjed at §500 per acre, now is worth from five to twenty thousand dollars per acre, according to location ; some choice tracts adjoining the park being salable at much higher prices than the last quoted, Hut. had the fust bill passed by the vote of the people, and the property been bought ere the park demand had excited individual cupidity, there is no doubt that the land would have cost less than three quarter! of a million, whereas now the purchase price, with interest, costs of litigation, etc., will bring the amount to the vicinage of §6.000,000.

'The present park commissioners arc Barnard Callahan, John H. Sherman, I^mis Wahl, John R. Walsh and Martin J. Russell. Paul Cornell, the commissioner who was 011 the Ixiard from its establishment, went out by reason of a decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Under the act of 1881. Mr. Cornell was appointed commissioner for the third time, hut the court decreed the act void and Louis Wahl was appointed in his place.

A statistical statement of the amount of land converted into park*, etc., will be found in the iV.lowintable of the Snutl) Parks and boulevards: paid on Mint, all discounts, premiums, and Interest on bonds, nil penalties, costs and expend--., and the difference of interest betw een the time <>f purchase of the park land* and the payment of the final installment of the South I'ark assessment, ruining the whole account on a final settlement greatly in arrears to land account.

The Washington Park Ct.rn arc the proprietors <if the Washington Driving Park, comprising eighty acres of land, just south of South Park, and located between Sixty-first and Sixty-third street*, and Cottage Grove Avenue and Grand Boulevard, The history of this club is thus given by the Chicago Inter-Ocean:

"The first thought of this club originated in the brain of Albert S. Gage, Esq., who has never faltered for a moment in bis efforts to make the club a grand success. Through his instrumentality a stock WMnnany was formed w ith the capital stock of $150,000. With this start the club has to-day one of the finest courses in the country, if not in the world. Upon their lot has been erected a club house which cost upward of $50,000, and which far surpasses anything of its character in the world. There is nothing in America that can compare with the Washington Park Club. When the gates are opened Chicago will see the handsomest club house in the United States. In the laying out of the ground the club has bail the good fortune to have the combined talents of S. S. Beman, the architect of Pullman, and X. F. Barrett, the well-known landscape gardener. 'These gentlemen have worked together with a view of making the buildings and landscape harmonize, and the entire plat as picturesque as possible. There will be ample drives for the club members, and a perfect track for public meetings and members' speed trials. 'The grand stand will be the finest in the world, being five hundred feet long, two stories high, fitted with refreshment rooms, parlors and reception rooms, the whole costing upward of $40,000, and capable of seating ten thousand people. Stables are now completed to accommodate two hundred and eighty horses, and as many more will be erected in the spring. The clubhouse, which will occupy a position twelve feet alxne the track, with a lawn sloping from it, will I>e completed by May 1. It will be one hundred and thirty-six feet long by ninety-seven wide, and two stories, basement and attic in height, In the basement will be the kitchen, storerooms, heating apparatus, cellar, etc., and the attic will contain the servant and lumber rooms. On the main floor will l>e a spacious entrance hall, club oflice, cafe (with serving anil wine rooms off , billiard-room, a ladies' waiting-room, a )>arlor for the directors, a lavatorv, and live private dining-rooms. Extending around the entire building on this floor is a veranda sixteen feet wide, which will be provided with chairs and other conveniences for witnessing the rates. The second floor contains a grand dining-hall, seven private diningrooms, wine and serving-rooms, a grand hall, ladies' parlor, ladies' toilet and private-room and cloak room, A covered balcony sixteen feet wide also runs around the entire building of this story. All of the rooms and halls have lire-places specially designed for each by Mr. Beinan. Upon the third floor are also some sleepingrooms and bath-rooms, and upon the roof of the building are two open observatories, from which every part of the parjc and surrounding country can be seen. The grand dining-hall referred to wilt have an elaborate timbered ceiling, antl all of the private dining-rooms will have sliding doors, so. if desired, they may be thrown together. 'The main entrance halls and staircases will be finished in white ash, and the rest of the structure will Ik- treated in white pine, The main staircase will be an elaborate affair, and will be a very attractive feature of the large hall. The families of members are expected to visit the club, consequently the necessity of the strict scrutiny spoken of previously. At the present moment there are three hundred members admitted to this club. The initiation fee is $150, and the applications for membership are quite numerous. Before the gates open it is expected that there will be five hundred members. There is not a name on the rolls but what has passed the most rigid scrutiny, and a membership in the Jockey Club is virtually a guarantee of the owner's standing in s<K;iety. The club have opened stakes for the various ages of thoroughbreds, and will give their inaugural meeting beginning June 28, closing July 12. Racing on alternate days. In the young classes the stakes closed October 15, with three hundred anil seventy-five nominations. The entries for the general meeting close January 15, at which time fully as many more entries will probably be made. This new club will offer an opportunity to those who enjoy the letter qualities of the turf sports The thousands who have each summer gone to Saratoga and other Eastern resorts to enjoy racing will now make this city the terminus of their summer tours. The residents of Chicago who have long desired an objective point for their drives will find in this club the fulfill ment of these desires. It will elevate the taste and benefit the turf. Fine turnouts will he numerous, and the sport will be dignified. Mr. J. J. E. Dewater, the late secretary, did much to further the success of the club, he being a member of the American Jockey Club of New York."

At the annual meeting of the Washington Park Club the following officers were elected: Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, president : N. K. Fairbank, first vicepresident ; Samuel W. Allcrton, second vice-president ; John W. Doane, third vice-president ; Albert S. Gage, fourth vice-president ; John R. Walsh, treasurer ; John E. Brewster, secretary. Executive Committee - The president, vice-presidents and the treasurer, ex-officio ; H.J. Mncfarland, John Dupee, Jr.. George II. Rozet, 1 n.es Van Inwage 1. Martin A. Rverson, Morto , B. Hull and John E. Brewster. Building Committee- Morton B. Hull. Albert S. Gage, Martin A. Ryerson, Charles A. Schwartz, S. H. Sweet, Racing Stewards - Albert S. Gage, George H Rozet. H. J. Macfarland, John Dupee, Jr., John E. Brewster. Furnishing Committee - 11. J. Macfarland. John Dupee, Jr., C. D. HamiN. House Committee - Charles -Schwartz. Albert S. Gage, James Van Inwagen.

Oak Woods Cf.mftkrv. - On the nth of February, 185 V an act of incorporation was legalized, whereby Joseph B. Wells. William B. Herrick, John Evans. Norman B. Judd, William B. Egan, Ebenezer Peck. J. Voting Scammon, R. K. Swift and Charles N. McKubbin were crystallized into "'The Oak Woods Cemetery Association." The purport of such corporation and the powers granted by the act can l>e readily inferred from the caption ; the land that they now own as a necropolis is situated bet wen Sixty- seventh and Seventy-first streets and Cottage Grove Avenue and the right of way of the Illinois Central Railroad. The great event that has occurred at the cemetery was the unveiling of the monument to the memory of the soldiers deceased in the War of the Rebellion; on Decoration Day, May 30, 1875. 'The ceremonies were under the auspices and direction of the ladies of the Soldiers' Home, and Whittier and Hilliard Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic. Four companies of the First

Regiment I. N. G. participated in the procession, which was headed by Nevans and Dean's band; in tliis procession appeared a wagon, drawn by eight white horses, containing the customary thirty-eight young ladies dressed in white, emblematic of the States of the Union. On approaching the c emetery, the " I Had March in Saul " was played, and the military marched with arms reversed. Arriving at the monument the services were commenced pursuant to the ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic ; the pupils of Knglewood school sang two songs under the leadership of Miss Mack and Mr. Murray, prayer w.is offered by Rev. Johnson, of Hyde Park, and Rev. Donnelly, of Knglewood. read a scripture passage and the assemblage sang " America." The consuetudinal original poem was read by Mr. Samuel West, of Hyde l'ark, and the mind* of the auditors being in a mournful mood attuned to this portion of the ceremony) the monument was unveiled. It is a handsome work of art, representing a soldier, dressed in fatigue uniform, standing at "parade -rest," upon a pedestal of white marble, and a base of granite. After the unveiling, T, R. liryan made a speech, the band played, Bishop Charles K. Cheney and H. S. Vail spoke ; the doxology was sung and the benediction pronounced, after which the audience dispersed to lay the customary floral offerings upon the graves of the quiet sleepers. The present cemetery is neatly laid out and contains many handsome mausolea of departed citizens. The officers of the corporation are MarCUS A. Farwcll. president; George M. Itogue, secretary ; W. C. D. G rami is, treasurer, and William Dcnnison, superintendent.

Grand Crossing

In 1854, two railroad trains collided at the crossing of the Illinois Central and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads, on what is now Seventv-fifth street. One result of that accident was a decree from the lail road companies that all trains should stop before reaching the crossing of the roads ; and this suggested to Paul Cornell that the adjacent countrv would be a convenient site for a village, and on November 10. 1855, he bought a section of land there and gradually added thereto, merely paying taxes on the proi>crtv and keeping improvements away - so as not to enhance the property valuation, and consequently the taxes levied thereupon - until 1X71. Nine hundred and sixty acres in Sections 26 and .55, Township 38 north, Range 14 east, were platted and subdivided as the final plat being filed on Fcbniarv 16, 1872 ; the original plat of the village ascended, with a quantity of other possessions of Mr. Cornell, in the smoke of" the great fire. Cornell is four and a half miles south of the oty limits, and is especially eligible for manufacturing Rites; the large number of railroads centering there, over which three hundred trains run dailv, render the receipt of raw material and the shipment of the manufactured article a facie process. The town has a hotel-the Grand t ross.ng Hotel built in .87,. by Mr. Cornelland furnishes educational facilities at two schools. The firs school, called the Cornell school, was built, ,87, on land given by Mr Cornell, but the extension of & '3 ;,ruSaml ,he rcPleti*nof the Cornell school

1870-71, and was the Cornell Watch Factorv. This building was erected at a cost of S7a,oeo, and the wat, hmaking was successfully carried on until 1875. irkcn the machinery, etc., was transferred to California and in December. 1875, the Wilson Sewing Machine Company occupied the building and remained therein until t&$>, when the plant was removed to Wallingford, I t., the administration of the W ilson Sewing Machine Company having changed. In i860, or 1861. Paul Cornell purchased the territory around, and comprising die settlement of anil Charles A. Norton and Paul Cornell subdivided it This hamlet lies west of Cottage Grove Avenue ind north of Seventy-fifth street, and was one of the early settlements of the village of Hyde Park. They had a little school there in 1808; and the death of Mr Field, Sr., during the same year, is supposed to have hecn the demise of the first white man in all that section of country. The earliest settlers were John, Peter ami tames Storms; John and Orvillc Field; Peter Cudmore. then connected with the Prairie Farmer, and the Nichols family. Prior to the erection of the Cornell Watch Factory the section which was sulHlivided and legally named Cornell, but subsequently renamed Grand Crossing by Mr. Cornell, because there was another pestofiiec in the State called < orncll," was one vast expanse ot water meadows. The early history of Cornell may be epitomized as - a small depot, a railroad crossing and a telegraph office. VV. H. Albright was the a^ent of tine Illinois Central Railroad Company, until April 1, 1866, when the present agent, R. 1'. Dunne, was appointed, and he. literally, was the first settler at Cornell. The first store-keeper was Joseph Lawton. who kept a neutral stock of goods on Seventy-sixth Street near Kgandale Avenue, and he was the first person resident of die Mini of Cornell, arriving there April 11. 1872. Those irho built the first dwelling-houses in Cornel! were Jo-e|<h Lawton, John llurke, Paul Cornell and Adam Neeh. in 1 87 a. The first Postmaster was R. P. Dunne, appointed April 1, 1872 ; the present Posmastcr, Joseph Lawton. succeeded him July 1, 1872. In April, 1873, the name of the village was changed from Cornell to Grand Crossing, bv Mr. Cornell, to avoid the confusion created by the identity of names of this Cornell and another in Livingston County ; and the applicability of the new name has so forcibly commended itself that it ims adopted by the railroad authorities and gradually hy the inhabitants.

The first religious services held were by Rev w H. Holmes in the railroad station on October 2;. he and Henry C. Northrop commenced religious work in that month, and on January s l<4j»,** organization was made with a congregation of nine members and three probationers. July 1.5. iSjj. tlc church edifice was dedicated, the land upon was erected having been donated by Mr. Cornell, wh<< also gave §1,200 toward the building fund. The money with which the church was built was solicited principally by Miss Nina G. Lunt. In the summer of i^j ->" addition twenty feet by twentv-four feet was ball to 'te church. The Sunday-school at organization had irr.rtcen scholars ; it now has three hundred and seventeen, the number of members now is one hundred and eight. The church property is worth §5-5°° following have been the pastors of the church : »uPr plies; at organization. W. H Holmes : October. 1S7-1 J. W. Duncan; October, 1875-76, D. M. lomp^. October, 1S76-79, J. W. Richards, pastor; Uctulxr,

The Calholie Congregation at ( Irand Crossing numbers about three hundred, with an attendance at the Sundayschool of some eighty scholars. Their spiritual Deeds arc supplied by a priest who visits the village and says mass at Social Hall, hut this method will shortly be abrogated, as steps arc now l>eing taken to erect a church edifu e befitting the size of the congregation.

1 here are several secular societies which meet in the village. Amo Lodge, Knights 0/ Honor, No. 1,826, was instituted October 14, 1879, with fourteen charter members. The first officers elected were : A.J. Davis, dictator ; C. H. Pattisun, vice dictator ; R. 1>. Kirbv, assistant dictator; H. L Pease, reporter; M. M. Barnes, financial reporter; J. \V. Tinsley, treasurer: J. W. Halliday, chaplain; William McDowell, guide; A. Hunt, guardian, and John Dutnall, sentinel. The present membership is sixty-one, and the officers are : G. H. Chapman, dictator; \V. I.. Cray, vice dictator; J. S. Scovel, assistant dictator; Hiram L. Pease,* reporter ; Julius Mailer, financial reporter ; A. C. Rantzler, treasurer ; William Gill, chaplain ; K. Burns, guide ; A. J. Davis, guardian ; William Everett, sentinel ; HVL. Pease, medical examiner ; J. C. Scovel, G. G. Thomson, H. L Pease, trustees ; E. C. Scovel, sitting past dictator. There have been but two deaths in the lodge in four years, with an average of thirty-six members.

The Athletes of Grand Crossing likewise have a Turn Verein, which was organi/.ed February 21, 1878, with a membership of about forty ; the officers elected the same day were : First sprec'her president . Julius Miiller; second sprecher ( vice-president , H. IlackenbfOCh ; William Scidlcr, secretary; H. Kettler, treasurer ; Joseph Kocnig, first turnwart ; Fred Werdele, Second turnwart, and John Wodrich. steward. The society at present has a membership of thirty-six persons, and has a complete paraphernalia of gymnastic apparatus. It also has two lots on the corner of Seventy-fifth Street and Dobson Avenue, where it intends erecting a Turn-Halle when the requisite funds shall have been subscribed. Its officers at present arc: George Ruhr, president; O. Landolf, vice-president: E. SeltS, secretary, from whom these particulars were obtained ); J. Wodnch, cashier ; G. Hackenbroch, treasurer ; Ferd Hansen, first turnwart; Joseph Roedel, Second turnwart, and II. Hackenbroch, steward.

There is also a West Side Draining Association that contemplates draining the locality by pumping off the surface water. Its officers are ; Joseph Lawton, president ; F. Patzaek. vice-president ; Hugo Boos, treasurer, and H. C. Robinson, secretary.

The M anckac iukk.s ok Granu Crossing. - The Wilson Foundry, Williamson \' Barker, proprietors, was established in 1876, at an outlay for buildings and machinery ol $16,000: the number of men employed at the outset was nineteen, the augmentation of the busi- ness since increased the number to fifty-two. The amount paid out last year for freight received by the foundry was $j,32o; the value of manufactured goods

The Chicago I.inseed Oil mill was erected in 1879 by William Ray. William Aldrich, J. F. Aldrich, II. T. Yaryan and P. C. Hanford. The last named gentleman bought out the interests of the other partners in 1883, and now controls the manufactory alone. The capacity of the mill is slated at one thousand bushels of seed and fifty barrels of oil |>cr diem, the latter being produced by what is known as the naphtha process of extraction. The average number of employes is fourteen.

Chapman, Green & Company's chemical works were established in 1876, having been removed from Hudson, Mich., in that year, where they had been in successful operation since 1865. The value of the annual product of the works is estimated at §150,000; an increase in their trade of over $130,000 in seven years. The estimated cost of buildings and chemical apparatus is $ 1.000. The members of the linn are: Dennison, W. Chapman, George W. Green, C. A. Baker and Alonzo Cook. They employ from twenty-five to thirty-live workmen.

The sewing-machine furniture factory of F. Patzack, Hugo Boos and J. Routchke was established in 1868 by Pat/ack & Schultz. This firm dissolved in 1876, and F. Patzack removed to Grand Crossing and erected a cabinet-making shop one hundred and twentyfive feet by forty feet, three stories high; a finishing, packing and shipping shop one hundred feet by thirty feet, three stories high; both of brick; a drying kiiii, seventy-five feet by twenty feet, and a store-house for veneers, seventy-live feet by twenty-five feet. The capital invested will aggregate $100,000, and the value of the thirty thousand pieces manufactured per annum will amount to about $80,000. The linn employ one hundred ami ten hands during the busy season.

The Chicago Tack Company, Orrin I.. Basalt, proprietor, established their works on September 1, 1S76, at an outlay of §12.000, and the number of men employed the first year was ten, ami the value of the manufactures $40,000. In the present year thirty-three hands were employed, and the sales aggregated $160,000. The charges paid to railroad companies for freights to their factory last year amounted to about $5,000. The supply of iron used is obtained principally from Sweden.

The Lyman Barbed Wire Manufacturing Company was established in April, 1879, by F. T. Sherman, E. j'. Marsh, E. N. Sherman and E. S. Marsh, the members forming an incorporated company with a capital of $10,000. The building was leased from William Aidrich, and was successively used as a linseed oil mill, a furniture factory, and in October, 1880, as a barbedwire factory, when $20,000 worth of machinery was placed in the building. The patent under which this firm manufacture was obtained by Ross I.yman, of Des Moines, Iowa, and purchased from him in 1879. The number of men employed in 1S80 was twenty; in 1883, seventy-five. The product for the year ending October, 1881, was valued at $250,000; for the same period of 1SS3 it aggregated $600,000. The company receive and ship about ten thousand tons of wire annually, and pav $40,000 per annum freight charges. The 1 >oniinion Barbed Ware factory, at Montreal, Canada, was established by Marsh & Sherman in 1880, and sold to Cooper, Fairman & Company January 1. 18S3. November, 1SS3. the works were shut down, but' their opening

The Mason & Davis foundry WtU> built in 1S.S1, and furnishes cniploynictU to about one hundred men. 1l manufactures a large variety of small canting*, as well as those n-tpiired for large healing and conking stoves.

their factory at tlr.ind Crossing in July, 188*, at an expenditure ol $10,000. an<l the works placed in Charge of J. S. itedinglon. Thirty mechanic* are employed, and" the annual produc t of the factory estimated at one million yards of rubber cloth, worth $iSo.ooo. The total sales of robber cloth and duthinty for the year terminating July, 1883, amounted to about $.500,000.

The Chicago Lock Company, organized under the laws of the State in July, |XS», established their factory at Grand Crossing in August of the same year. The machinery, patterns, building, ett, cost about $15,000. The works are at present inoperative, but the management expect to open them shortly, and furnish employ ment to forty men. The officers of the company are: H. I). Huff, president; S. S. Calkins treasurer, and James T. (ianson, secretary.

The Grand Crossing Tack Company was incorporated August zrf, 1883, with a capital of $10,000/ The stock company comprises Arthur J. BosSett, Fdward W, Hutchinson and Tht-ophila F.. liasscll. The factory employs twenty-two hands, and although they have been running but about three mouths, they have already secured a large and increasing trade.

Wilson ffjttt Ci'ta/><t/i\; .V,\ J. - On June iS, 1X76, Wilson Hose Company, No. 4, was organized with the following members: j. I 'ill, captain : IV. C Cogswell, lieutenant ; J. (.'. Mulcahey, first assistant lieutenant ; Wi H. Ravnor, president; l>. U. Kirby. vice-president; Martin King, treasurer; Henry Ellsworth, secretary ; James I iamcy. steward ; Sylvester lirai ken, Thomas Raynor. John Hr.u kcn. Robert Shirley. Joseph Mulcahey, Ccorgc Trotter, R. A. Seites and William R. Gill, privates. The name of this company has since l>cen changed to ('.rand Crossing Hose Company, No. 4 ; their apparatus originally consisted of one band hook and ladder truck and one hand hose carl. Their present engine house is situated at the corner of llolison and Seventy- Fifth streets, ami cost $2,500 ; and the company now has a double horse honk and ladder tnn k and one two-wheeled hand hose cart, with one thousand feet of rubber hose ; and an auxiliary company of No. 4 has a hand hose cart and five hundred feel of rubber hose. The present meinliers of the company are : A. Hackenbrock, captain ; R. F. I5oos, lieutenant ; F. Hansen, first assistant; <i. Hackenbrock, president ; M. Wolf, vice-president ; J. Mullen, treasurer ; 0. Hansen, cashier ; Joseph Roedcl, secretary; T. Schlinsky, steward ; J. Wodrich, O. A. Scidler, T. Helton. William Kllfclt, Enoil Scitz and H. Hackenbrock, privates.

Grand Crossing Biographical Sketchf.S.

A. J. UASSKTT, president and treasurer of ihe Grand Crossing Tack Company, was born in Taunlon, Mass., in 1S53. and was educated in his native tnwn. In 1S72 he settled in Chicago as agent (or the Taunton Tack Company, and remained in their empluy until 1876 when lie hecaroe connected with the Chicago Tack Company as commercial manager. This he continued until iSSj. when the Grand Crossing Tack Company was organiicd. of which he is a co partner.

OUR IN L. BASSETT, proprietor of the Chicago Tack Company, was born in Taunton, Mass.. Apiil [6, 1624. A/tcr leaving school he worked on Ihe home (arm, also learning the trade of carpenter and pattern-maker, which he followed until ihe year 1648. lie then went to California and engaged in nfthing. Remixing to Massachusetts after an aV.ence ot abuul two years, he Wis tmpluyed in Ge.-rge I'. Foster $t Co's gun manulaclary ai a pal. tcni-maker. tie was next einpoyed by General tlumtiile ai ass staut superintendent in the witud department in a gun nui. factory at Rhode I. land. In |3$S he accepted a puaituiu i> the Tauninn Tack Fac'ory. in Taunlon. of which he was an iiwnrt and director, running and building machines. At the end ol the second year he had constructed a- id built on a new plan a k-alktr, carpet and .1 tack machine, the same pallern of tack machine thai is 11 -ed to day by the Chicago Tack Company, and frow whit* nearlv every lack machine built since has copied. Wiih the ei. cepiinn of eleven month* (from 1S63 to IWJ] during which he served in the war in the 3d Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Company K. lie remained with the Taunlon Tack Company eighteen ye.111. In 157; he removed to Cook County and estllitished the Chicago Tack Company at Grand Crossing.

J. C. IlLEvV ETT. superintendent of the Western Steel Company, was burn in Huff 1I0. New York, in 1841. Me war educated in his native city At ihe age of nineteen he engaged in sailing on ihe lakes in the summer. In the winter he was employ.d in machine shops, being what is called a "natural mechanic." la 1 S70 he removed to Chicago, where he engaged in lake service, having charge nf steam dredge and flee:. In 167) he bnill the " Uret Ilarte." »n excursion steamer, and commanded her until l9so, when he sold oul, and the following year took present position. Mr, lllewetl is a member of the A. O. U. W. of Chicago; being a Select Knight of the Older.

JOHN HURLING, of the fiim ol Gu-tarson 4 florlinr. ccatraciors and builders, was but 11 in Ostergotland, Sweden. Jane 30, $45. Afier leaving school he was engaged in manu'ictiirirg estahli-hmenta in various positions until 1867, when hecuneliithc U ited Slates. He first located on Long Island lor a lew mentis, then removed to Pennsylvania ; ftom tlieie he removed M l"r"c>i<x Shortly afterward he came to Hyde Paik. whete he fol nwrd the tr.ide of carpenter some four years. Thence he removed loGniid Crossing and followed tl.c fame business until the present fi-rtiwu nrgmired. He was matticd in Hvde Park in 1S7J to MM r>m» Skag, a native of Sweden. They have two ch.ldrrn-Juhn Victor nnd Augusta Elvira. Mr. Ilorling is a member of ihe h.olll.of Grand Crossing. .

t;, II. CHAPMAN. M. D., physician and surgeon, wu wre in Tallmadge. Summit Co., Ohio, November 10, 1*5"- uc was educated in the schools and academy of hrs native town In wp he settled ill Hudson. Mich., where he commenced studying mencine under his faiher. a practicing physician. The M.owing mi he entered the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor. At cm" o( the course he removed to Chicago and studied under W * Reeves Jackson, at the same time attending lectures al Ku.-n Medical College. He graduated February. 1S74. ;e,u/"rT Hudson and engaged in practice with his f.lher. IS 1 settled in Grand Crossing in the practice of his ptUltS«W» Chapman is a memberof the American Medical Association and a

WM.I.IAM DENNISON. superintendent «l Oak Cemetery, was appointed t" his present P"'«'"» He was born in South Shield. Durham Couniy. E"fl,nd;;*; education in hi. native coonly. He was bcourht uu followed the «ame business in BflW"" United States aud sealed in Ui «l where for some years he followed the business of contracts

1 S6u, when It came to the United States and sealed JjO^E where for some years he followed the business of «I'SU»I'"" fronts for business blocks and private houses At ir« employ*, afterward in business fur himself. Ht JWf'^JJ engaged in general occupalions until apjwnted to his pre

Septembe, i, tS42. His parents moved After Conn.v. when he was an infant. He waseducated In 1 Undo n. A"P leaving achool he learnt telegraphy at ftsg*;^ engage<l in clerking, in a hardware store in Henry, 1 l»ja c i||ei) about three years, the las! year being in charge ol me ^

MRS. A. J. FRENCH, M. D, physician and surgeon. i> a native of Oneida County. New Voik, the lamily altcrward moving to Si. 1-awreticcCounly and from thereto Milwaukee, \\ is, finally settling in Chicago in !&;*. In 197S. Mis. French entered the Hahnemann Medical College in Chiogn. graduating in jSSo, and the same spring commenced practice in Grand Crossing.

CALEB GKAV, assistant foieman in the nickel plate car repairing shops at Stony Island, was horn in Chester County, I'enn,, September 12, 1S31. He was raised and educated at Allegheny City. I'enn., where he began woik in the car repairing shops ol the Pittsburgh, Ft, Wayne «c Chicago Railroad in 1652. when thai railroad was first projected, and remained in their employ until 1S7S. Duiing his employment wiih the ahove company lie was promoted to foreman. In iSjS he removed to the Pittsburgh Division o( Ihc Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Connelsville. Fayette Co., Penn., wheie he had charge ol their shore until 1SS1. Thence he removed 10 Lafayette, Ind , where he was car inspector for the latter railroad a year, after which lie went to Conneaul, Ohio, and look charge of the same company*> shops until he came to his present place in January, IM4. He Is a member oflhe Royal Arch Masons, anil Eureka Chapter. Fidelia Unlge. N0.415, I. O. O. F. May 24. 1*55. he married Miss Julia A. McClelland, of Ohio Township, Allegheny Co., I'enn, They have four sons - Chailes, Frank, Lewis and Hariy.

GUSTAPSON (t BORLItiG, contneton and baJMm This firm was organized in 1S76, and ha* remained in active operation since. They do a brge and increasing business, doing all the principal work in this vicinity. Among their prominent contracts may be enumerated one of thirty cottages, built in ninety day*, (or Mr. Jacob;, of Chicago, the Chicago Linseed Oil works and four blocks of cottages, the Wmncpeg Itlock at South Chicago and Hyde I'ark School. Fred Gustafson, of above firm, was horn in Wearnersbury, Sweden. DwHnbtN 18, 1S4G. After leaving school he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade at the age of fifteen, and followed this, with the exception of a shoit time he was engaged in a manufacturing establishment, until 1667. when he came to the United States and located in Chicago. He afterward followed his trade in Hyde I'ark until 1 3 7 1 , when he settled in Grand Crossing. He was married in Valparaiso, Ind., to Miss Clara Andersnn, a native of Sweden, They have three children - Fiank, Matilda and Lutlwig. Mr. Gustafson is a member of the A. F. It A. M.

EDWARD P. HANSEN, attorney at law. came to Cook County in I S4S, his father. Henry Hansen, locating on a farm near Blue Island. The subject of this sketch was brought up on the farm, and at the age of eighteen he entered a printing office in Chicago, at the same lime reading law in bis leisure hours. In 1S61 he diluted in the 3<)t!i Illinois Volunteer Infantry; and the following year was translcued to the 7th Independent Battery, attached to the Aimy of the Potomac. He took part in the Campaign* in the Peninsula and in West Virginia. In 1864, on account of disability caused by wounds, he was discharged, and returned home, when he engaged in fanning. In 1871 he engaged In incicantile business in Blue Island, in which he continued until 1S76. He then entered the office of Barber .t Lightncr and began the regular study of the law. He was admitted to the liar by the Supreme Court of Illinois, January 4. 1S7S, and immediately be gan practice in Chicago, where he remained until 1SS0, when tie removed to Grand Crossing. Mr. 1 1 anson is a member of Calumet Lodge, No. 760. A. F. <v A. M. ; and Washington Chapter, No. J3, Royal Arch Mason. He is also a member of the Mavonic Mutu I Benefit Association.

REV. WILLIAM II. HOLMES. B. D., pastor of Grand Crossing Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Caledonia County. Vl., Match if, 1S44. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of bis native State, and at I'.n-tnian College. I'oughkeepsie, N. V. August 13. 1S62. lie enlisted for three years in Company E. 6th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and was attached to the Old Vermont Brigade. Sixth Corps, Army of the I'otomic. He took part m the attack on Fredericksburg. December 1 1 - 13. 1862 ; the Chancellorsville campaign ; capture of Fredericksburg Heights; battle of Salem Heights; the third baitle of Fredericksburg. June. 1563, and lite tattle of Gettysburg. Afterward, by reason of sickness, he was sent to a hospital and thence to Convalescent Camp, from which he was honorably discharged January 2, 1864. He returned home, and shortly after, on account of poor health, removed to New Vork State and served for some lime as a coachman and gardener. As conn as his health would admit he entered EastUlH College, from which he graduated in 1867. and immediately engaged as a teacher in Jonesville Academy, Saratoga Co. N. V. Two years later he accepted a position in Genesee Wcsleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingstone Co., N. Y.. where he taught three years, but having decided to enter the university, resigned June,' 1372, and removed West to enter Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanslon, Cook Co., III. During his studies he preached regularly. He assisted in starting the work at Gram! Crossing, serving for a time at his own charge. He also served the Chuich at Palatine, a second year at Grand Crossing, and one year at Arlington Heights. In May, 1S75, he graduated from the institute, and one )ear later received bom his alma muter ihe degree of 11. I). In October. 1S75. he joined the Rock River Conference w&x ordainid, and api*oinled to La- Grange, Cook County, and two years later to Fulton-street Church, Chicago. On account of loss of voice he wasobliged toleavc the lake front, and in 1871} was appointed to Turner Junction, Du Page Co., 111., where he served three years, and was then appointed 10 a thud term of service at Gland dossing. He has had succc--ful c\ .-I- 11. every charge, ami V, left 1:1 each instance a church stronger in all respects than when he assumed its pastorale. Mr. Holmes was mairied at Lima, N. V.. June, 1675, to Miss Melanie Gnddard, a graduate of Ingham University, Le Roy. N. V., and previous to her marriage was principal of the Art Department in the Genesee Wcsleyan Seminary, and for some time teacher in Genesee Stale Normal School, and Ingham University. They have two children - Ralph William, bom Octuber I, 1876, and Marion. born November 10, 1378.

E. W. HUTCHINSON, secretary and superintendent of the Grand Crossing Tack Company, was born in Abington (now known as Rockland). Ma-s.. November 1 3, 1353, and was educated in his naiive town. At the age of fifteen he went into the tack factory of D. II. Gurney, at South Abington. Mass., wilh whom he remained until 1B76. when he removed to Cook County, and became connected With the Chicago Tack Company. In 1863 he entired into partnership with his brother-in-law. A. J. Basscll, and formed the present company. Mr. Hutchinson is a Knight Templar in the Masonic ftaternitv.

A. C. KANTZLER, dealer in groceries and meats. The business was established in 1878 by Kantzler tt Ruhr. Mr. Kanlrler has been alone since October. 1863. He occupies a handsome brick building, the store-room being 22x65 feet In area, with a large ice-house in addition, lie entries a stock of some $3,000. and is doing a large and increasing business - in fact, the leading one in town. A. C. Kantzlcr was born in Saxonv, Germany. His parents settled in Blue Island, Cook Co.. III., in 1856. Finishing his education, lie learned the trade of butcher, afterward engaging in business in Blue Island until he removed to Grand Crossing. He was mairied at Blue Island, September 25. 1S70, 10 Miss Mina Wctner. They havejhrce children - Hermann. Edward and August. Mr. Kanuler is a member of the K. of H. of Grand Crossing, and the I. O. O. F. and Turn Veiein of Chicagn. In 1SS2 he was delegate to the Republican county convention.

KEMP & THOMPSON, proprietors Grand Closing Hotel. W. M. Kemp was born in St. Lawrence County. N. V'., September 6, 1S44. He engaged In farming and clerking in hotels until 1S64, when he enlisted in the United Stales navy, serving until the close of the war in the United Slates steamer "Susquehanna." He then returned to St, Lawrence County and opened a hotel in Fots lam. which he operated about nine years. lie then sold out and removed to Philadelphia, duiing the Centennial being in the employ of the association. In 1878 he went to New Yoik City, where he clerked for a lime, and then entered the employ of M rs. Commodore Vanderbilt, where he had charge of the stables. He continued in this position until I S3 1 . when he resigned and went to Chicago. After running theJLjrand Ciossing Hotel a few munths he opened a restaurant 111 Chicago, which he operated until the present In was organized. C. E. THnxtrsoN, of the above firm, was born in Livingston County. N. Y.. August 17. 1834. His parents moved to Mcllenry County, III., in 1842. wherehc engaged in fanning as a hoy, afterward being in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington 4; Quincy Railroad at Mendota. In August. 1862, he enlisted in the 72d Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infnniry. known as the First Board of Trade Regiment, and was commissioned Second Lieutenantin 1863 ; in May. lSfi4. First Lieutenant, and in November of the same year Captain of Company II. At the close of the war he engaged in the hotel business at Vicksburg, Miss., where he remained ahout twelve years. He then returned North and engaged in various occupations until the present firm was formed.

JOSEPH LAW I ON, Postmaster at Grand Crossing, was first appointed in July, 1872, and has since held the office He was born in Lancashire, England, January 26, 1S33. His parents settled in Stwlliport, Wis., in 1S42, afterward removing to Vorkville, The subject of this sketch was educated In Racine County. In August, 1861, lie cnlbMd in Company K, 8th Wisconsin Infantry, known as the " Eagle Regiment." and served until August, 1804. the expiialion of his torn of enlistment. He then returned to Racine County and engaged in commission business. In lSci6 he removed to Chicago and organized the firm of Law ton Brothers & Marr. produce commi-sion merchants, continuing in this until the fall of iSys. when he settled in Grand Crossing, and opened the first store in that place, first dealing in groceries, afterward adding

WILLIAM Mcl'MAIL, foreman of the Nickel-Plate Railroad shop*, on Stony Island Avenue, two mile* south of Gtand Crossing, took charge in September, 1BR3 having come to Cook Courtly. Ill, in August of that year. In these shops there are 350 men employed, about eighty of whom are in the machine shop. 59X Jig in area. They repair and rebuild Incnmotivcs. Mr. Vcl'hail was born in Scotland in 1S25, and was there raised and educated, lie served an apprenticohip of seven year* as a machinist at Tain, Scotland, after which he followed the trade. In 1848 he came to the United States, settling at Schenectady, N. where he worked at locomotive building for sometime. Removing to Fort Wayne, Ind., he was foreman of the Wabash locomotive car shops eighteen years, when he changed to the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati Railroad sh -ps, where he was master mechanic eight years. Me then spent two yeans at Slater, Mo., on the Western Division of the Chicago & Alton Railroad as division master mochanie, and thence icmoved to his present position. He is a member of the Masonic Order of Fort Wayne, Ind.

CHARLES K. MERRILL dealer in book-, stationery, fancy goods, concctionary, etc., is doing a prosperous business' and is now preparing to add a circulating library of some rive hundred volumes. The business was established in 1 S79. Mr. Merrill was born tn the city of Chicago March 2. i5f>o. He was educated in that city, and after leaving school engaged in clerking until he established his present business.

MRS. S. A. MILNEK. principal Madison avenue school, is a native or Watertnwn, N. V. Her parents settled in Lake County, 111. where she received a partial education in the public schools, finishing at the Waukegari Academy, under I'rofessor H. M. Twombly. In 1SG1 she began teaching in Lake C ounty, having charge of county schools eight terms; was then appointed to the p imary department of the Notth School in Waukegan. in which position she remained fiveyeais; was then appointed principal of the fcast Division School, and two years later principal of the North School, a position she resigned on her mair.agc. After the death of Mr. Milncr she taught in the Central School of Waukegan until 1333, when she removed to Cook County.

HIRAM L. PEASE, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Jefferson County. \\ is., February 13. ,849. In iSfx, he entered Lawrence Lntversity at Appleton, Wis., remaining three vears. lie then engaged 111 clerking in Milwaukee, WK In 1674 ne removed to Chicago and entered the Chicago Medical College, from which he graduated March 20, 1B77, immediately afterward settlmg in Grand Crossing in the practice of his profession. I)r I ease is secretary of the Knights of Honor of Grand Crossing, and member of the Grand Lodge of K. of II. of Illinois, and Chief Kanger of the A. 0. F.

in 2^R»? EI'"KAIM REES> P°>*« Magistrate, was born in 1832 jn Hativia, Genesee Co.. N. Y.. of Jacob and MarvtTelton) Re«. In 13,6 he came to Chicago, and worked at b.s trade of shoe maker for a short time. Having saved some money he purchased an outfit and followed the business of teaming from about 1340 to 1852. He purchased a farm on Wolf Lake within what arc now the corporate limits of Hyde Park, in 1853. The last

Cfu » hC S°ld in ,SS3- 'or viIlls-« lo,s in Alnsworth. in 1I571 Mr Rees was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Cook County, tn the town of Hyde Park, to replace James Bennett. He ZV k I T ,uccc"°' '» "S73. but he resigned in 1S74.

HvX P«!!*V. K?5$3 "ndid»"= '« Pol.ce Magistiate of Hyde I ark. At the close of his term in 1S78. he turned his alienon to business pursuits. But in April. |S& he was again elected ohce Magistrate for the full tetm ending in ,886. fn ,3<n Mr

WILLIAM. C.SCOVEL, XI. D. , physician and Mrceu, and notary public, was born in Columbia County. N. V., December 6, 1834. He received his education under his lather, the principal ol the Hudson River Seminary, and afterward engaged in teachinj in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In I S60 he entered tin University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, graduating in [Mj, and immediately afterward began practice at Bloomir.gtoa. Ill, where he remained until 1S72, when he removed to Crand Clo ving. He has been a notarv public some ten or eleven veai'.

TINSLEV BROTIIERs.dealers in clothing, bonts' ami Am. hats and caps, etc. The film is composed of J. W. mil I. R. Tinsley, the latter having charge of their store in Soolh Chicago. The business was established in Grand Crossing in iSjfi. They carry a stock in both stores of about $10,000. J. W. Tindey wis born in lioonevi.le, Oneida Co, N. V., Decemhcr it. 1S10. He was educated in his native county. After leaving school he wis employed in his father's store, afterward engaged in clerking in New York city some two years. He then learned the photographing business in Albany, N, V., and in 1864 opened a gallery in Chicapn until 1 87 1, when he told out, after this following photogrsphr at different points until ,874. Mr. Tinsley is a mender of Knight, of Honor of Grand Crossing.

JOHN WATSON, proprietor of the Grand Crossing Sh.vtisg Paik, was bom in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1858 he came to the United Slates and located in Burlington t auniy. New Jersey, where he engaged in farming. During the war he was attached to the General Hospital at Washington at chief clerk, afterward to the pay and Quartermaster department. At the close of the war he returned home and resumed farcing. About 1S69-70 he engaged in prndnce busineis in Philadelphia. I'enn. In 187, he removed to Grand Crossing, where lie has unte remained. In addition to his duties in the Shooting Park. hen also extensively engaged in the real estate business, oukmj » specialty of subdivisions in this vicinity.

G. T.WILLIAMSON, proprietor Williamson's foundry, ms born in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his business life in ,870 si s clerk in a hardware store, afterward buying out the business, which he continued to operate until 1S76, when he removed 10 Cook County and establUhed the foundry which he at present opefrate*. -

H. WU1.FF. dealer in coal, wood, flour and feed. The badness was established in June, ,S83. He carries a lull stock of hard and soft coals and does the leading husiness in his line in the tow n. Mr. Wulff was horn in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Ji»»- ary ,0. ,844. After leaving school he learned the machinist trade, which he followed at home until 1S70. when he came to the United States and located in Chicago; afterward followed hi" trade some years in Ohio, Returning to Chicago shortly after thi>. he moved to Grand Crossing to take charge of the attachment room in Wilson's sewing-mi chine factory, a position he retained until the establishment closed. He was married at Grand C'01"l,6 in September, ,877, to Miss Emilie Housen, of Chicago. They have two children - Henry and Ferdinand. Mr. Wulff is a mrmber of the K. of H. of Grand Crossing.

Cheltenham Beach

This is a residence property on the hike slwre: first known bv the name of While Oak Ridge, then as West fall's subdivision, and is one of the latest acloitions to the lisLiof suburban property. H extends fr<>m Seventy-fifth to Sevctrtv-ninth streets, and fr»m track of the South Chicago division of the Illinois Central Railroad to Lake Michigan ; it is nine miles south of Chicago and one and one-half miles north ol So«« Chicago. The South Shore school, located at toe corner of Seventy-fifth Street and Railroad Avenue, furnishes scholastic facilities for the children of residents.

South Chicago

It has always been a mystery to the student of history whv the United States Government decided »]>-« placing 'a fort at Chicago in lieu of placing it B," near, the embouchure of the Calumet : the established by La Salle would designate a southerly location for the post, and a fort at the mouth of the Calumet would certainly be more centrally located, relatively to the Indians over whom it was intended to terrorise, and would have been just as accessible as at Chicago, Explicatory of this matter tradition narrates the following somewhat apocrypha] anecdote, as the reason why Fort Dearborn was "located upon the bank of the Chicago River: .Sometime about 1S00, the commanding officer of the troops stationed at Chicagou fell in love with a black-eyed Jntwiullt Franchise named I.e Mai, the daughter of an Indian trader who was in the employment of the American Fur Company, and whose shack, or hut, was situated in the elbow of the river, about where Rush-street bridge now stands. In consequence of the affection borne by this modem Mars for the Venus of I* Mai, Chicagou was reported to be the most eligible and effectual position for a fort, and there, in 1804, Fort Dearborn was placed; rumor further states, upon the exact spot where Le Mai's cabin stood ; but whether as a trophy of successful military ardor, or as a monument to the coldness of this Diana, legend fails to disclose. Few people, in traversing the prosaic region around Rush-street bridge, think of this idyllic reminiscence of near a century since ; and few people think of the difference that the selection of the Calumet region as the location of the fort, would have made in the histories of the two places. But there arc destinies, genii brf, that overrule the affairs of cities as of men ; the Eternal City was necessitated to be the alxxle of the Catholic hierarchy despite the efforts of the pontiffs of Constantinople and Alexandria, and notwithstanding the selection of Avignon by Clement V. in 1309. Chicago was to be the western metropolis in contravention of all the natural advantages of the Calumet region, notwithstanding many potent influences brought to bear upon legislators in favor of the latter place ami adverse to the former ; and for many years it seemed as though the Calumet region was doomed to be nothing but a hunting and fishing region for the relaxation of the inhabitants of Chicago. How its fortunes waxed and waned ; how its inhabitants grew heartsick and weary, wailing for the improvement that came so slowly, and how the achievement that resulted upon the patient working and tenacity of a few, far transcended their wildest imaginings, be it the pleasant task of this history to show.

ASHKUM. - The first proprietor of the land whereon Calumet City was intended to be erected, appears to have been Ashkum, Indian chief of the Pottawatamies and lord of the Callimink Valley, who here held his tribal autocracv. His name meant " more and more." The district donated to him by the Treaty of Tippecanoe was Section 7, south of the Indian boundary line. Ashkum gave the land to l ather 1. a Salle and his heirs confirmed the title "in Father E. Sorin, of South Bend, Ind., a religious of the convent there, and thence came the present name of the property ; the Notre Dame Addition to South Chicago. Section 8, the one contiguous on the east, was likewise donated to a Pottawatomie chief of the Great Father and from him \V. G. Ewing derived title.

The next chronological event that is connected with this region is a document concerning the first ferry, and that is taken from the old records of Peoria County, as follows:

Onlsnd: That William St-c be allowed to keep a ferry aernss the Callimink at th<- head of l-akc Michigan, pay a tax of MO Milan, and charge ihe following rates :

There is no evidence that William See - who was a Methodist clergyman and the first to perform the marriage ceremony in Chicago - ever ran this ferry himself ; if he did, he was the first clergyman of Calumet. Mr. Thomas Gaughan states that one Hale was the first ferryman over the Callimink, and that he sold all the property around that region to Lewis Benton for $8,500. However this may be, the Rev. William See upon August 3, 1830,* married John Mann to Arkash Sambli, a three-fourths white, one-fourth Indian, girl, and the adopted daughter of Antoine Ouilmette ; and Mann is known to have ran the ferry in 1835; he may have done so much earlier than that. He was one of the voters of Chicago in 1S30. but at what time he left Chicago and ran the ferry under the license accorded to the Reverend See. it is impossible to determine. He lived on the east side of the Callimink^ River about where Ninety-third Street terminates. His business, besides the ferry, was that of primitive Indian tradership, bartering whisky for peltries, and became quite well-to-do from his business. But he was cf intemperate habits and the remonstrances of Mrs Arkash Sambli Mann were unavailing to restrain his dipsomania. When the last of the Pottawattomies ieft the Callimink, about 183S, Mrs. A. S. Mann informed Mann that she must reverse the example of Ruth, as she could not leave her people, so she forsook John. The presumption is that Arkash was not unmindful of the marital claims of Mann, but that all her efforts at reclamation had been so utterly futile that she had no recourse but to abandon him. After he was forsaken by his wife, poor John hist the little restraining influence that she exerted over him. and became a drunken ne'erdo-weel. He left the Callimink and went to Wisconsin; when last heard of there he was keeping a sort of garden at Racine ; after which he was lost sight of. Some of the children of John and Arkash Sambli Mann, arc buried nearly opposite the southern end of the Ninety-second street bridge, which was the general cemetery of the early settlers, and there -

Many attempts have. been made to have the remains exhumed and re-interred in some established cemetery; but the relatives and descendants of the hundred sleepers who there calmly rest, prefer to have them remain there, near the unquiet surges whose song they loved so well in life. Here rest G. M. Jackson, died January 23, 1850, --E, thirty-three years; Patrick Henry, a.\ three years; Lory, ;e. six months, and William a... five months, C.iMrrn n: < 1. M. ui\! I!. M. lack* <;; BattA Ellen, daughter of A. T. and Matilda Gage, died November 1, 1854; also " Hicr ruhet in Gott dem Herrn der Wohlgebome Andreas Zimgibl, geb. den 30 Marz, 1797, gest. den 21 August, 1855. Sanft ruhe seine Asche." Other graves are there; unmarked and undisturbed. August Mageriu, who lives on the Point, is a self-constituted sexton and nails up an occasional board or props up a

States Government directed that a critical curve? should be made uf the Calumet and Chicago rivers, to diseriillinatc as to the superiority for marine and commercial purpose*. This duty was entrusted l<> Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. u( the United States Engineer Corps, whose name has since been prominently identified With the so-called Confederate Stales This officer strongly recommended and urgently advocated the improvement of the Calumet khrer, and the establishment of the harln>r there; not alone because of the superior natural depth and liberal seaboard of the river, but because of Lake Calumet having such ample facilities as a hidingplace and refuge for the American navy. The spirit of prophesy might have been with him, and he have descried the need of a harbor of refuge from the discriminating eyes of reporters and naval inspectors, for the navy. Actually, the idea of those days was to have a place where the navy could be hidden I" avoid a general engagement being forced upon it, and from whence it could make sorties on the enemy; something of the naval tactics of the buccaneers of the Caribbean Sen.

Lewis I'i nios nbout this time determined upon migrating to the Callimink-. fondly anticipating that the terminus of the Illinois \ Michigan Canal would be near its mouth. Stephen A. Douglas considered Calumet as the most proper outlet for the canal; among other reasons for its construct ion esteeming that it would alTord a water-way for the shipment of grain, ami thus avoid s t much wagon transportation: and he thought that the Calumet was tmt natural outlet for such canal. Lewis Benton built a store -the first store in Calumet - on the west b.mk of the Callimink. and about sivty yards from its mouth at that time. This store was replete with everything that Could be needed by a pioneer family; the counterpart of Mich stores can be seen in any frontier settlement. Closely contiguous to this store he built several houses for Ins employes, and then quietly sat there to await the arrival of the canal. That it never came is unnecessary to state; the result of its destined terminus at Chicago was to cause the almost complete abandonment of the settlement at the mouth of the Callimink; the settlers going to the line of the canal to endeavor to recover the losses they estimated they had sustained by their settlement. Political influence, more potent than any that Ronton could wield, decided for Chicago against Calumet, and the Parens seemed to have nothing but a tangled skein for the latter locality. About 1833, Denton became the owner of a Government patent, and platted the majority of Sections 5 and 6, west of the Calumet River, which in that year, was known as the