Cook County, Illinois - The whole text, 1884 (part 37 of 61)

LEONARD ROEIIR, of the li rra of Rnehr A: Duggan. contractors and builder-, came to Chicago in the spring of iSf>7. and worked at carpentry. In 1877 he removed to Colehour and worked at his trade until 1S79. at which time lie engaged in business as c intraclor and builder. The above firm erected the large brick school building at Cummings in 1S83. and in this year they erected thirty houses in Cummings and the viciniiv. Mr. Roehr was born in Hesse. Germany. April t8. 184.7. In 1867 he came to the United States. He mirricd Mis. Catharine Stephens, of Chieigu, in May, 1S74. They have four children - John L., Margaretta. Adam Joseph nnd Elizabeth,

JOSEPH M. SPAHN, proprietor of the Spahn House, was born in Lake County, Ind.. March II, 1843. His patents removing the same year to Chicago, he was there raised and educated. He was a member of the Hyde Park police force five years, and a lumber inspector four years at Chicago. In April. 1S61 he enlisted in Company A. irjth Illinois Volunteer In'antrv. and participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Stone River, Missionary Ridge, and many skirmishes ; was mustered out in the <pring of 1S65 April 6, iSfcG, he married Miss Barbara Btemcr, a native of New York. They have two children, lacob and Joseph, In 1875 Mr. Spahn removed to Colehour, and erected the above hotel. Joseph Spahn, his father, came to Chicago in 1837. where he lives retired from aclive business.

On July 5, 1S75. a celebration was held DD the bank of the Calumet, near where One Hundred and Ninth Street would abut on the west bank of the river. The occasion was the laying of the comer-stone of the Joseph H. Brown Iron & Steel Company's rolling mill, and the fact of the Calumet River being opened for navigation twelve miles from its mouth. One batch ol the celebrants came on excursion train to Kiverdale and were welcomed by Charles H. Oolton, at Dolton Junction; where interminable tables of refreshments were prepared fur guests. His congratulations were replied to by Judge J. Lyle Dickey ami General L" F. I.inder. The guests then formed in line with a baud at their head and embarked on board the licet, commanded by Commodore James H, Howen, consisting of steamer Florence; steamer Ben Drake; schooner Mary Ellen Cook, towed by Belle Chase; schooner I .avinda, towed bv G. \V. Evans; the steam pleasure yacht, the Idler, and the tugs the Rover and Alert. Still another mass of excursionists came via the EL I. R. R. and the branch Belt Railroad to South Chicago, and thence bv branch to IrondaJe. Upon the junction of the two bodies of excursionists there were found to be present the following gentlemen, among many others: J. Lyle Dickey, U F Finder, 1'aul Cornell, G corge W. Gage, County Commissioners Hurdick, dough, Crawford and Jones: J. L. lameson, M I; lii ydcn.i harles E. Recs,< ieorgt s. Essex, K. J. Oglesby. E M. Haines, John Mc Arthur, John H. Hoxie, W. 1*. Grav, Leslie Lewis, W. H. Waters, George W. liinford, C. B. Write, T. H. Bryant, W. R. Cornell,

F. Guyton. Joseph T. Torrence, C. B. Hale, G. W. Hale, James' P. Root, Henry Wisner, I. W. Gregg, Charles Follansbe, J. A. Ellison. F. S. Wadsworth, N. Sherwood, A. D. Walclron, A. C. Calkins, O. S. Hough, Edward Ely, E. H. Blakely, M. A. Farwelt, Jerome Beccher, Charles Cleaver, A. N. Lancaster. George W. Waitc. Ira F. Bowen, W. S. Hinckley, C. Henrotin, George H. Waite, James Wadsworth. W. K. Nixon, Fernando Jones, I. Harrison Ely, George B. Armstrong, Thomas L Morgan, Charles S. Waite, William Bowers and Dr. Trowbridge. W. K. Burdick stated the object of the meeting, and a speech was then made by V F. I.inder. the friend Of Abraham Lincoln. J, 1). Webster was nominated, and elected, as president of the day. and after prayer by Rev. C. E Fcltcn and a speech by Irus Coy, the corner-stone was laid. This was made of Lake Superior sand-stone, and was about six feet high bv four and a half feet square, surmounted by an ornamented cap. Upon the side was carved a bee-hive, with a cornucopia on each side, and underneath:

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This was sent by James H. liciwcn's MM 10 notify Mr. Clark thai the propeller "J. L Hurd." Captain Lloyd, with two hundred and fifty tons of iron ore on hoard would he at the mouth of the river at the time designated. Mr. Clark, and a inimher of i ilizens, went to the mouth of the river ami boarded the propeller, which steamed up the river to brown's Mills, on November it, 1.S75, with the first iron ore for the mill, also with two hundred and fifty tons of pig iron mi hoard ; and by the trip of this first propeller up the river, tl emit nat rating the practicability and eligibility of the waterway for vessels uf large tonnage and deep draft. On June 27. 1S76, a large convention was held at South Chicago anil proceeded to the mills. The convention was that of the Civil Engineers' Association of the Northwest, and large n 11 ml tent of distinguished visitors came on three cars under the superintendence of Train Master Kerry of the Illinois Central Railroad. The occasion was the letting steam on to the machinery of the Joseph H. Ilrown Rolling Mills.

The proprietors of the Calumet Iron ti Steel Works arc the successors of the Joseph 11. brown Iron \ Steel Company, anil the Joseph II. brown Company. The works at present are commodious and convenient : a steamer from the Lake Superior iron region can steam into the company's yard and unload her ore. and railroad tracks likewise are laid into the yards, so that while the raw ore is received on one side, the finished rails and nails arc shipped on the other. The plant of the Company is worth $1,250,000, and ihcir output last year aggregated $2,000,000. A description of the manufacturing process is thus given in the South Chicago Independent :

"The vast establishment of tins company is located on the Calumet River, about one and a half miles from its mouth. Here the company have everything as convenient as any mill in the United States. They have an abundance of : .om, as they have nearly 100 acres of land. A slip has been dug from the river into the land of the company, so that a vessel can unload the ore or coal right at the mouth of the furnaces. All the ore, 45,000 tons annually, is brought from the Lake Superior regions,

"The process of converting the raw ore into merchant iron and nails, is one of great interest. The oreis placed into a seventy-five foot blast furnace, and is heated intensely hot. In order to do this, there are used two large blowing engines and three Cowper hotblast stoves. As the ore is heated, the iron sinks to the Imttom and the other substances rise to the top. The former is drawn off at the bottom of the furnace anil run into pig iron, while the latter is drawn off at the top, and forms a slag, which is used on roads, railroads, anil for such purposes. The capacity of the furnace is one hundred and twenty-five tons in twenty-four hours.

" There arc great piles of pig iron about the yards, and as one looks at them he is almost led to think he has stumbled into an extensive wood yard. The furnace is run on Hcssemer and foundry pig iron.

r.f which the company have eight double mil's Tfa capacity of these mills is about eighty tons daily. Thr pig iron is placed into these mills and heated very btt si, ,is to burn the impurities out of it. Strange « it may seem, although the iron is melted to a whit:' belt, it after awhile becomes thickened, and the workman stick great tongs into the boiling puddling mills and take out large chunks of iron. The iron is heated m these puddling nulls entirely by gas made on the grounds of the company, and it requires extensive gas works to supply enough gas. The gas used would light a good si/ed city, and to make it, requires lixty-Cult gas producers. After being taken from the puddling mills, the chunks of fiery iron are placed into machines called sojueexcrs. where they are rolled into 'hluums, or chunks of iron, anil then run through rollers into -muck' iron, and afterwards 'sheared' nr cut into pieces, and then taken to the heating furnaces, where they are again heated and converted into mere hant iron.

"After lK-ing taken out of the heating furnaces, the iron is run belt een rollers, of which there are three ' trains." One is a nine inch train, with a daily capacity of thirty tons, and another of forty-five tons. Through these rollers the iron is run into long strips, such as arr seen at hardware stores, blacksmith shops, etc., and i* called 'merchant* iron, because it is ready fur the market. The company makes all sizes of round, square, oval, half-oval and fiat. The third train of Toilers is twenty-tWO inches and is run day and night to firm* iron for the nail milt, and has a capacity uf sixty tor.s daily. In these rolls, the iron is rolled into flat strips of the desirci) width and thickness, cut into strips, and then taken to the nail mill.

"The nail mill is probably the most interesting pan of this great establishment. Here the company haw a hundred and twenty-fire machines pounding «W » , osantlv. and defllv turning out twelve thousand kt)!> of nails a day. These machines are let to 'nailers, each nailer having from two to four machines. It isinc doty of the nailer to keep the machines inorderandsee that" everything goes all right with their machine. KtKh machine must have a man who is caltal « ' feeder." These feeders are not hired by the ci«upj>'>> but bv the nailers. The nailers are paid so mucti pound or keg for the nails made at his machines.

" ' The busv bee ' is almost an idle creature compared with the men' in the nail mill who are termed It is the dutv of the feeler to feed his machine. - first places aflat strip of iron int.. the end uf a on made for the pun»ose ; he then places this into W machine, which chops a piece off from the end "I "< iron and instanllv makes it into a nail. I he teener < turns the iron over and slicks it into ^ma^**"! which docs the same as it did lieforc. cuts 0* the of the iron plate and makes a nail. .

"The .eason that the iron must be 5«ff"*"~ is because the piece of iron is not cut <>",slri,*nt the Sal strip, but l>ccause it is cut angling f < something the shape of a nail. The* all the is to place a strip of iron in the end of the PW ^ in his hand, and turn it as rapidly as he can. *ej"» against the machine. The feeders, by continued pR tice, of coarse become very skillful in the and turn their hands with wondrous rapimt>. so that it seems slow work to describe m P «* in the length of time it has taken to tell how it ^ a feeder would have made hundreds ami 1 nails.

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"Besides the machines fed by men. the company have twenty-five automatic machines, but these machines do not give the satisfaction that the others do. All machines are supplied with Coyne's patent for removing imperfect nails. All nails above six-pennies arc cut from hot plate, and are finished when leaving the machine; all below six -pennies are cut from cold plate and are afterwards heated and ' blued ' before being placed into kegs. Clinch nails are made from refined iron, and are afterward annealed in a furnace.

" The company have right at their works, a cooper shop, where all their kegs are made, a machine shop, a carpenter shop and a blacksmith shop, and also have in their yards five miles of tr.ick, and have their own engine to do their switching. This company gives employment to 1,20c men."

The early settlers of the adjacent region are thus summarized by John Klcinmann who came to South Chicago in 1845. and bought the toll-house at the old bridge ; he staid there about ten years and then moved to his present location, about the corner of Exchange Avenue and One Hundred and Thirteenth Street, where he became a tres|»asser upon the domain of the musk-rat. He remembers Cassidy, who lived at Chittenden's bridge, and Woodman who lived near htm, Klcinmann ; also James Carney, who subsequently lived in Woodman's house, also a man named Hunt, Samuel Ray and Joseph Reeves. Woodman kept a stage rant lie, and he got the road located, over which John Kleinman - he had apocopated his name bv this time - drove stage from the State line toClcaverville. Mr. Kleinman states that the first road made was put through in 1847, and that the first house in the region where he now resides was cither Cassidy 's or Bromley's, and the next was Woodman's. Prior to the running <>f a road through the country the travel all went by the Lake Michigan beach. The old gentleman distinctly remembers the Nimrod of early Chicago, John I,. Wilson; whose recollections of that epoch have formed interesting and instructive reading for so many of the present residents.

The first hotel of the paludal region was built by Abe Kleinman in 1873, and needs no description to make it a reality to the minds of those for whom it was built - the hunters. John Kleinman was bom May 29, 1811, in Wittenberg, the town where Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses in 1517: *«S married Match »5, 1S37, .ind has five boys named respectively John, Abe. Henry, George and William. He came to America in 1833 and settled in Pennsylvania, remaining there until his' removal to Illinois. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that the boys all shoot, and a legend slates tliat their "long clothes "were rubber boots; the trade mark of the Kleinman family. The old gengentleman is hale and sturdy, and carries his seventytwo years as sturdily as the twelve bushels of wheat he once carried while a vine dresser in Germany.

The boundaries of Curnmings arc hard to define, but a general idea of its location may be gained from the geographical definition that it lays east of the north end of Lake Calumet, and between that and Calumet River ; extends north to somewhere about One Hundredth Street, and south to the same river. The first resident was George Phillips, who was brought to Irondale to build the platform to lav the corner stone of Brown's Mills, and he was paid for the work by James H. Bowcn. Mr. Phillips's statement of the primordial events of the town arc that the first store was at the corner of Commercial Avenue and One Hundred and Sixth Street, kept by a Mr Riley, and the second was a saloon kept by A. Hartwig. Thomas Connors built the first hall, although the initiatory terpsichorean performance was held in the building erected by Mr. Phillips at the corner of One Hundred and Kourth Street and Torrence Avenue, in 1X74, Mr. Phillips also cut the first pound of ice and r.tailcd the first groceries in Irondale. The first butcher in the town was Christ. Meyer : the first baker, Charles Seipp, and Kred Tacger kept the first hotel ahout 1875. The first brick block was built in 1876 by Gagne and Morier. J. Smith kept the first blacksmith shop. The first birth was that of a child of Mrs. Mulhorn, and the death of J. Reilly or Mrs. David Reeves the first in the town.

The first school was called the Irondale school, and and was opened in June, 1876, in a rented room on Torrence Avenue, between One Hundred and Seventh and One Hundred ind Eighth streets, with forty-five scholars and Cyrus A. Stone, the present principal, as teacher. The Irondale School District, No. 9, Township 37 north, Range 1 4 east, comprises Sections 1 2, 1 3, 1 4, ami that part of Section 25 lying north of the Calumet River, and was organized in the spring of 1876. with Messrs. Hannett, Smith ud Kred. Taeger, school directors. The present Irondale school, on Hoxie Avenue and One Hundred and Seventh Street, was completed January 1. 1877 ; George Phillips, builder. A new brick budding will be ready for occupation January 1. 1884. The teachers now are; Cvrus A. Stone, principal, and Miss Marguerite Donovan, assistant ; the number of scholars is one hundred and ninety, and according to the school census of 1883, there arc five hundred and thirty-three children in the district under twenty-one, and three hundred and forty-five between six and twenty-one vears of age. The population of the district is about "twenty-six hundred. The present school directors are: Patrick Cough, president ; Patrick Carmody, and John H. Davis, clerk.

The Evangelical Association inaugurated a scries of meetings in Watson's Dining Room, in 1875, and subsequently the congregation met in Torrance Hall, where the Sunday-school was organized June 4, 1S76, with eighteen scholars, and Mr. Hodge, Mrs. Reeves and Miss Emma Phillips, teachers. The congregation at present numbers about twenty-live members and hold services in the public school, Rev. T. W. Woodside. of Colehour, supplying the pulpit. The Sunday-school now numbers about eighty-live scholars, and William Hughes is superintendent.

The Methodist Episcopal Church is situated at the COrnCI of Torrence Avenue, and now has a congregation of about one hundred and fifty, with a Sundayschool, under the superintendent')' of J. K. Runnels, of sonic ninety pupils. 'The pulpit is supplied by Rev

The Welsh population also attend services on Sunday, given in their native tongue by Rev. T. M. Griffiths ; the Catholics attend the churches in South Chicago.

The post-office was established on June 15, 1S78, with the present incumbent, A. Gagne, as Postmaster. Its name, from its opening, until January 1, 1882, was Brown's Mills, but upon that date, its name was changed to Curnmings, in honor of the president of the New York, Chicago ft St. Louis Railroad. From the nature of the prevalent industry of Curnmings, the secret societies naturally would have some relevance to the personal interests of the inhabitants; thus there are two lodges of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers' Associations ; the first :

Cummings and South Chicago, with the following officers : Abraham Harris, president ; John R. Lewis, vicepresident; Oeorge Carncv. recording secretary; Edward Parry, financial secretary : Jerrv Larkins, treasurer ; U ilhain I'icknel), inside guard, and < (liver Stanton, outside guard. The present officers are : John J. Davis president; Knoch Ward, vice-president ; Michael Mc Quade, recording secretarv ; Thomas Moore, financial secretary ; IVtcr Stirling, treasurer ; William McCnushn, inside guard, and Mdwanl Hickcv. outside guard.

No |wrticulars of Irondale Lodge could be obtained from the COrrBtponding secretary. The last list of officers published gives the following names: James Hagan, president ; Thomas Howler, vice-president ; lolm Kvans, recording secretary ; Edward Bennett, financial secretary ; William Aurclius, correspuding secretarv John Small, treasurer ; William Harris, guide ; Fr'ed Stevens, inner guard, and John Rafferlv, outer guard I hew two lodges meet on alternate week's at the public school building.

Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 90, Sons of St Georce was instituted on March 18. 1882, and the following officers were then made ; Samuel Adams. Charles lush John Wrathall, George Cotton. Robert Barlow hnoch Ward and Frederick Raft roe The present otfi ' cers are John Wrathall, John L. Thomas, William kundle, James Raftree. Thomas Stirling. I'eter Stirlintr John Lampier and Knoch Ward. The meetings are' church" ,va!iemc,» ,jf the Methodist Kpiscopal i t! V S.l"lu> W" y' h F Kunncls, R. S.; Mrs. L. Evans, A. R. S.; F. i>. O Neill. F. S.: T. W John stone l.; s. F. Willing, chaplain; IV, L lones - Mrs, J I. Welch, A. C; Miss M I. s.and Lmn' Kdwards, O. S. The number of initiations on the open ing night were twenty-three, and prior to the relinquishment of the organization, in February, 1883 one hundred and nineteen persons were initiated, the officers

Cum.Mi Nijs Biographical Sketches

CHARLES BUSlfwa, born in England IleeemLcr 24, 184, and came lo America in l36o. lir.l scttlmg in Pen,,,,],.,,-,! i|« has since visiicd all pans of the West, and came to Cook Coxtiit 111 the fall of 1576 and entered llie cmplov of the Calumet L Steel ( nmpany as healer. He is a member of ihc Ama|p»maied Association of Iron and Steel Workers of ihe I'l i'cd Suits. Jn 1870 Mr. Hush married Miss Kate llatciielor, of Polt-vilir Perm They have six sons - William C. Ilenrv. Charles, lolm Oeorrt and Jo.eph. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias

FRANK CRANE was born in Waddarai. Siephenson Co. III., September 21. 1849. At the age of eighteen he wen: to the Lake Superior country, where he had charge of vjtiuns fiirnaco until October 1. 18S3. December I, 1S83 he Wis made foreman of the bias, furnace of the Calumet Iron A Sieel Companvs woiii He was married in 1679 to Miss Katie Nackerma-.n, a'naine of Marquclle, Mich. They have one daughter. Josephine. Lorn lu« Si. 1883. '

P. C. CRAW FORD, proprietor of the C rawford House, *u horn in Chicago March 15, 1540. He began life as tea-ris er fof his father, clerked eight years, then was in the retail liquor bofiness. In May. 18&I. he opened his present hoiel. He is a llemocrot, and has been assistant lax collcclor for Norlh n\ clerk in ihe County Treaiurer's office, and also worked ia the County Clerk's nrticc a short lime. In 1878 he married Misi Mart l)oheriy. of Chicago, who had one son by her lotmei m.rmct, lames 11. Mr. Cra»fo.d is a member of the Mutual rtoreciire

A. CiAtJNK, general merchant and Postmaster, was Intra is Ihe Province of Qjnfbec, Dorchester County jiari^h of St. Amelmr, where bis father was a fanner, anil he remained with him mid eighieen years of age. From 183S lo 1851 he was engieed in Ik lumber business in Quebec ; frum there he went to New Vert, where be engngrd in ihe commission business for two yeai>; lien Was in the lumber Iradc at Cheboygan, Mich., until he came to Chicago, in 1S56, and there engaged in lite same business lor fourteen years. Afier this he gave his atleniion to real estate (or four years, and then retired fur two years. He came la CW nnngs in the spiing of 1876. when he erected his pieien: hriti block. In January. iSsV), Mr. Gagne mairied Mil? Ejiiabeih <jo*- a naiive of ihe same place, by wh^m he had three children, two boys, who died when young, and one girl. Mary Louise, bom in 1S64. Mrs. Gagni1 died in (une, 1S6S. and he ruarriei! for a second wife, in 1S72. Elizabeth Josephine De Unche. of Sianfold, Canada, by whom he had two children, one boy deceased and ixie girl living, born in 1S73

CHRISTOPHER HEANEV, stevedore and gcnersl rirjtto! vessels, was born in Chicago October I. 1S54, where he was riiwd and educated. 1 le engaged at his present occupation it) eatly life and has since followed the business, employing from twelve to thf men, as the case requires. Recently lie lias been in ihe empJny uf Ihe Calumet Iron & Steel Company's works at Ihe same business. Previous In lhat hcliad been employed by ihe Chicafti Gm4.UM and Coal Company, and various olher parties in the city Hcisx member of ihe A. 0. U. W. and Ancient Order of Hibernians, isd is now vice president or the latter. In 1679 he married Mm K.1I Crogaril, of Chicago. They have two children - Mary nnd Anns Viola.

WILLIAM HODGE was born in Scotland February 10. 1842, and from ten years of age ha? been employed in iron work", and is familiar with lit every deparlmenl. He has worked m Pittsburgh, Pcnn., Cleveland,' Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wit. I« lS761ie came to Cook Counly, entering the employ of ihe Calumet Iron \- S'ecl Curnpany,' and in 1S78 was pronioled lo b" present posiiinn. lhat of superinlendent of the puddle-mills, Mr. Hodge ts a member of the Koval Aicanum. In July, 1663. be married Miss Isabella Brown, a 'native of Scotland. They have seven children - Gcoige W., Gabriel B., Sarah, Isabella, EI>uW»- Ava an<l William U.

WILLIAM E. JAKW.W. of Jakway & Wink, dealers 10 general hardware, stoves and household furniture, was bmn '* Bradford County, Penn.. November 29. 1858. His F»tH<-r «=' ' commercial salesman, and moved lo Owego, N. Y., where tncf lived until he was thirteen ; then at Decatur. Mich , two yeAn, then clerked in a general store al Crown Point, Ind., until Dec ber l*a iS3o, he opened his present business in Cummings. year he admiltcrl Mr. Wink as partner, and lliey have no» t*« stores, une of hardw are, ihe olher household furnilure. 1= Mr. Jakway married Miss Virginia E. Millikan, ofCrown Point 111"-

19. 1842. At the ageof live he removed to Blaina, Monmouthshire, where from the age cf twelve he was brought up in the iron and steel manufacturing business, working through all branches af the steel department to the position of roller, which lie held Am twelveyears in the works of Ihe Blaina Iron Si Steel Company. In Jane, 1871, he came to America and took the position ol superin tendent of the Riverside Iron Company's works at Cleveland, Ohio, then in the Cleveland Bethel Union Relief Association, until November, iSSt. At that tune he took charge of ihe merchant steel department ol the Juliet Steel Company's works, at Jnliet. III. He took his present position November 15, 1SS2. Mr. Job is a member of Apollo Commandeiy. No. I. Chicago, and of the Baptist Chuieh at South Chicago. On April 7. 1871, he married Miss Ann Chiittmu. a native of Llanelly, South Wales. They have one daughter, Maggie.

THOMAS \V. JOHNSTONE, street builder, contractor and real estate dealer, was born in Kastporl. Prince Edwards Island, New Brunswick, April 2°i '846, and was raised and educated in Boston, Mass, His father, Thomas \V. J.>hnstone, was a Boston pilot. At the age of eleven the subject of this sketch went with an uncle on a trading voyage to the west coast ol Afiica, it taking thirteen and one lull munths to make the trip. A short time after this he went to the Island of Odessa, in the Black Sea, After following the sea until 1850. he went to Chicago, and was afterward engaged in the limber trade, between Tonawando ami Toledo. Ohm, two years. He than located in Chicago and opened an iiilelligcnr-e office in company with a Mr. William Kedpath. continuing in the latter business three years. January 15, 1S64, he removed to New York City, where he operated a porter and ale house three years, at the end ol which time he had spent a foitune of $61,000. Returning to Chicago he learned gram painting, and followed that occupation until the fall of 1674, then removed to Hyde Tarl.. where he engaged in trade until he removed to Irond.ile. At the latter place he assisted to erect the Calumet Iron ft Steel works. In these works he was promoted to foreman, and from that position to assistant superintendent. June I, 1RS3. he engaged in street building and contracting. He is a member ol Oriental Consistory. Home Lodge. No. 508, of Chicago ; Knights of Pythias, Ellsworth Lodge. No. 1 14 ; Calumet Council, No. }6o. R. A.; and Knights of Labor. In 1S72 he married Miss Katharine S. Swan, of Kacine, Wis. They have one son. Thetcher Walter. Fmn 1S7S until 1SS3. Mr. Johnstone was a member of the Hyde I'ark Hoard of Trustees.

HENRY H. KLEINMAN was born in Lycoming County, Penn,. in 1844. January 2S. 1864. he married Miss Rnbic A. Hallock. a native of Geaaga County. Ohio They have rive children - Hattie IL, Harry M., Walter IL, |ohn K., |cssie C .and Arthur H., deceased. His parents were John Klemman. horn in Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany, May 29, :8ll, and Christiana (Warner) Kleinman, a native of Germany, who came to the United States in 1S35. John J , Abraham S.. and Henry H. were bom in Pennsylvania, and George II. and William E. were bom at Calu met, Cook County. John J.. Abraham S., Henry H. and Gcoige 11. came to Chicago in lS44. and lived there about nine mouths, when, in 1S45 they came to South Chicago, then called Calumet In 1856 they removed to their present place, about three quarters of a mile southeast of Cummings Village, where they took up land and followed farming some time. Their land is now worth $1,000 per acre.

JOHN MclNERNEV, yard master for the Calumet Iron and Steel works, took charge of their yards in November. 18S0. Mr. Mclneincy was born in Burlington, Vt., December 10, 1S56, was raised there and educated In the common schools. He then went to Crown Point, N. Y., and ran a freight train for the Crown Point Iron Company some time, when he was promoted to conductor of a passenger train, which he ran four years. He then came to Chicago and went into the employ of the above company as a weighman for the blast furnaces for some lime, after which he was promoted to his present position. He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters of Illinois. In 1SS0 lie married Miss Jennie Fee, of Essex County. N. Y. They have two children - John Da and Edward.

ARCHIE McKINLEY was bom at Lubec, Me, April 13. 1846. He was raised in the nail business at Wheeling, W Va., and about the close of the war was a meinl-et of the West Virginia Militia* short time, lie came to Chicago April 25. 1S7S. to take a position as nail-maker in the Calumet Iron & Steel Company's works He is a membr-r of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Association of the United Slates.

CHARLES A. MULLEN, wholesale and retail dealer in meals, was born in Chicago September 25. 1857. his father. Bernard, coming in 1S31 and opening the second grocery in the city. He started In life as a groc-ry clerk, but in iS 74 opened in the meat business. In 1877 he began business at the Rock Island Railroad shops, removing it to South Chicago, and in April, 1S80, to Cummings, III., and Hammond, Ind.. having a market at both litter places He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. October 15. 1882, Mr. Mullen married Miss Maiy Elizabeth O'Connor, of Eailville, III. They have one daughter- Olive Bridget.

EDWARD O'CONNOR, grocer, was born in La Salle County. III., December 10, 1858. and was raised in his native county, lie came to Chicago in 1 87 1 , and began business at Cummings in iSSu; continued two years, went out of business until November, 1SS3. when he resumed and has since continued. In November, 1883. he married Miss Mary Ann McMannus, ol Cook County, 111.

TERRY O'NEIL. dealer in wines, liquors and cigars, was born at Port Henry, N. Y., October II, 1S58. Here he was raised and was drug clerk ten years, then for a year clerked for J. J. Harrington) diuggist, at Chicago. For two years he worked in ihe blast furnace of the Calumet Iron & Steel Company's works. July 1883. embarking in his present business. Mr. O'Neil is a member of the school board. District No. I. South Chicago.

GEORGE I'll I I.I.I PS, builder and contractor, was born in Merryworth. County Kent, England, May 28, 1825, and was raised a builder, this being the calling ol bis father and grandfather. He came to Chicago in the fall of 1S71, and there followed his trade. In 1875 became to Cummings, where he is now erecting for himvrir die Union Hall. Mr. Phillips married, in lSj.2, Maty Wiley, who died in 1850,, when he man led again, in t86o, Frances Bart, lell. They have three children - Elizabeth, Emma, and George, Jr.

JOHN E. SMALL was born in Pittsburgh, Penn,, July 17, 1821.J, and there he was raised. He was the oliie>t of thirteen children and at the age of eight he began woik in the iron business- II is parents were born in Pittsburgh, and removed to alarm in Gallia County. Ohio, on the Ohio River, and engaged in the coal trade. The family becoming rather lat^e, in 1S4Q John E. returned to Pittsburgh and entered the employ of Guff. Bcnnclt & Co. as a r "Her or finisher of iron. Afterward he was employed by Zug A- Painter, with whom he remained twentv-one years. In IS64 be located on a farm in Porter County, [mf. He has been identified with the Calumet Iron & Steel Company since it started as a finisher of iron and steel, and has remodeled three of their trains of rolls. He is now making nail plate for them. In 1851 he married Miss Maty J. Riley, who came with her parents to the United Stales when an inlant. They have eight children living, lour lsoys and four g"ls - Mary J., married to A. G. Hardesty. an attorney of Lincoln County, Kan.; Elizabeth, married John CrUsman, a farmer of Porter County, Ind.; Richard H.. Miss C. Ilaxion, of same county ; Isaac, proprietor of milk depot at Englcwood. 111.; John E , Jr., stock huyei of Porter County, Ind.; Kattic, married E. Wood, of Lake County. Ind., a miller; Indiana, the youngest daughter, now eighteen years ol age, resides with her parents ; Simon S,, the youngest son, married Miss Cora Deardolf, of Porter County. Ind., and is now controlling his father's farm of 2to acres. Mr Small is a member of 'he Amalgamated Association, and organized and drafted the constitution and by-laws of the first Heaters' and Rollers' Association in the United States. [lie is also a member of Valparaiso Commandery, No. 2B, K. T.; alio of the Sons of St. George. Cummings, Cook Co., III.

CHARLES H. SQUIER was l>orn in New Castle, Penn.. August 17. 1S52. After obtaining his education he began working at the ri ail business which he followed about eight years, and was then railroading for a short time before coming to Cook County. He came to Irondalcin April, 1S78, and assisted in erecting the mills of the Calumet Iron & Steel Company, in whose employ he is at present, in charge of four nail machines. He is a member of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Association of the United Slates, and of the Roval Arcanum ; also a member of Triluminor Lodge. U. D.. A. F. & A. M., of South Chicago. In 1876 Mr. Squier married Miss Mary Hughes, of New Castle, Penn. They have one son, Willie D.

WILLIAM STEWARTSON, engineer for the Calumet Iron & Steel Company, took charge of his engine January 19, 1SS2. He is a native of Prince George's County. Md.. born April 30. 1S47. lie was raised and educated at Peoria, III., living thctc until 1871, when he took charge of a freight engine (or the Chicago, Rock Island it Pacific Railroad, and run the same eleven years. Then he took charge of their roundhouse at Pem. III., from' Feb ruary. 1881, until July. 18S2. when he liegnn running a freight engine for the Peoria A Pckin Union Railroad, five months later coming to his present position. In February, 1883. he married MUs Amelia Heeler, of Chicago, III. By a former marriage Mr. Stewartson has two sons. William and George.

CYRUS A. STONE, principal of the Irondalc public school, was born in Solon, Somerset Co., Me., June I. 1847. son of Sidlman N. and Sarah (Mason) Stone, both natives of New Hampshire, and of English ancestry. 1 1 is father died in 1853; his mother is still living, in Neponset Village. Boston. Mr. Stone received his preparatory education in the schools of Salem. Mass., oston. Mr. Stone taught school in the State of Connecticut, and " "~ :" " ' ' J Will County, 111., until Septembei 1, 1879, when he look charge of the Irondale school. He is a member uf the Congregational

KKED TAEOER, retailer of wines, liquor*, cigars, and pro. pnelOTof billiaid parlor, was hum in Prussia, June 6 183-' and D.ere was raised a shoemaker. September 1, 1859, he came to America, and at Chicago, after one and a half years of general wi.rk, opened in the boot and shoe trade, losing all be had in Hie great fire. Then for two years he ran a boarding house and saloon removing in the same business to Cumming* in 1875 where he erected a house and has since been located. August zo 1865, he married Miss Minnie Schmidt, a native of the same place in Germany. Mr. Taeger is a member of the I. O. O. P.. the parties in the lands devoted to the site of the new Knrn are represented in the fallowing proportions - C ll' Roys 22 >; ,>er cent; William B. Keep. 9 per«tr

He married Mi,s Harriet Clark, of Potsdam, St. Lawrence they hare one sun. John K. In iS<->8 Mr. Taylor came to_ Chicago, and engaged in office woik until 1S79 when he Curomings and worked in the office of loscph H.

percent; J, IV. Kschcnburg. toft per ant"; V Ram . 25 per rent ; 1>. M. Mather, Herman Petoxn and Kmtl Petersen. together. 10^ pcr cent. The rcqustte dredging and docking is in prog.ess and nearly completed ; the side tracks for the distribution i building materials are completed, and those for the dissemination of the soil dredged from the river are in course of quick construction ; foundations are laid for the mam office building, fifty feet by one hundred few as are the foundations for three of the fivc-hundreilfeet-long buildings, and all the preliminaries require for the superstructure of a large manufacturing toun are well under way. Several railroads have made Hegewisch a station, and a telegraph office is established there. The land Company has subdivided a |tart of its adjacent lands in Section J I, and the work of openioj the streets was commenced in January of the present year. Among the contemplated improvements of the site are two canals ; one of which will run north to the Calumet River, cutting off a large bend in the rivet to the westward, and for over half the distance, which is about one mile, a species of gulch, or bayou, can be utilized, and thus dispense with a large amount of dredging that would otherwise be indispensable. By the natural course of the river the distance is about three miles; the artificial water-way will be bat one-half of that length, anil from the terminal point ol the canal the distance to Lake Michigan is about turelre mtlrs. The second canal will commence at a point i>n the first canal, about two-thirds of the distance betuwi the works and its entrance into the river. At this point an arm of Hyde Lake connects with the gtilih, or bayou, that will be employed In the manufacture of the first canal. The distance from that canal to Wolf I-akc is about one mile. The course will then be through Wolf Udceand its embouchure to Lake Michigan; whereby the distance by the present sinuous route is lessened onehalf. The work of erecting buildings, to accommodate the fifteen hundred employes of the Rolling Stork Company and their families, will be commenced as soon as the weather permits. The works are under contract to be completed by the first of J tine, 18S4; and it is a matter of veracious prediction, that this section will present a scene of marvelous activity and busy life, if sufficient accommodations are furnished to shelter the thousands who will ask for and require them, on the completion 01 the works. The main architectural features of these works may be thus described; The three wood-working buildings, and paint shops will be of the same sue and general appearance, and will l>e placed end to end in line with each other, separated bv spaces one hundred feet in width. They will be built of Chicago brick, with red brick trimmings, and have slate roofs with a large "monitor," or lantern, running the whole length of flic building, except the two bavs. They trill each be live hundred feet in length and one hundred and three feet in width, outside dimensions, and the walls twenty-l"'1 feet three inches in length from the floor level to the top of the galvanized iron cornice along the sides, eh* also form the gutter. The side walls are divided into thirty-one bays of sixteen feet each by pilasters, which support the roof trusses, each bay containing one corridor forty-two feet in width bv fourteen feel in heig*«, giving, with the windows of the lantern on the roof, ample light over the whole area of the shops. The end gables of the wood-working shop will be pierced for one large dour, eleven feet wide and fifteen feet eight inches high, capable of admitting n car, and four smaller doors used by narrow-gauge trucks, bringing in and removing lumber, etc., and will be lighted by four large windows below and three smaller windows above. The gables of the erecting and paint shop will have five large doors for the passage of cars, and four smaller doors for the passage of trucks as above. The car truck shop will be one hundred feet in length by eighty feet in width, on a design similar to that of the wood-working, erecting and paint shops, and will contain five tracks on winch the trucks will be built up, ready to be run into the erecting shop and placed under the cars. The machine shop, similar in design, will Ik; two hundred and ten feet by eighty feet, in extreme dimensions, and will have a single narrow-gauge track, down the center and be fitted with all necessary lathes, planers, drills, etc., required for finishing the iron work of the cars and for general machine work. The blacksmith shop will be two hundred and ten feet by eighty feet in outside dimensions, and be fitted with thirty forgers, steam and power hammers, arid all necessary tools. The foundry will be an irregularly-shaped building, divided into three parts, viz.: a '-wheel foundry," in which the wheels required for use in the works will be cast; a "general foundry," for all other cast-iron work required, and a '-brass foundry," for journal boxes and other brass work.

The wheel foundry will have a capacity lor two hundred wheels per day and be lilted with a hydraulic crane for each casting-pit. and a large set of annealing-pits, with a hydraulic crane for handling the hot wheels as they are taken from the sand and placed in the annealing-pits to cool, an operation which requires several days to complete. The floor of the foundry between the casting-pits is to be covered with cast-iron plates to give a smooth surface for running trucks with the exception of that portion used for inspecting the wheels, which is floored with wooden blocks placed with the grain on end. Between the wheel and the general foundries will be placed cupolas, four in number - two for the wheel and two for the general foundry. The general foundry will be fitted with a teu ton traveling crane, running from end to end and all necessary appurtenances. In the brass foundry will be a melting-furnac e having eighteen melting-pots.

Each of the foundries will have a sand-room attached, and there will be a pattern shop in connection with the building. A boiler and engine room will also be provided in connection with this building for supplying power for driving the blowers, handling the crane, etc. The car-repair shop will be arranged in the form of onehalf of a circular ring, with a turn-table in the center and tracks running therefrom in the building, and will be capable of holding sixty cars at one time undergoing repairs. This building will be five hundred feet in diameter.

The engine repair shop will have dimensions of two hundred by eighty-four feet. It will be a separate building, somewhat similar in appearance to the machine shop, and have a thirty-five ton traveling crane running the whole length of it, with which an entire engine maybe lifted if necessary-. On one side it will have a flatroofed annex, containing lathes, planes and other machinery required in making repairs, and provision will be made for two English five-ton walking cranes.

a wing to it, will be placed the offices and draftingrooms, where the accounts are kept and the necessary drawings, prepared for the use of the works. The draft'- ing-rooms will have spinning shed roofs, which will have light from the north. On the opposite side of the woodworking mill, and forming another wing, will be placed the boiler and engine-room for supplying the principal shops with power, the fuel being shavings, conveyed to it by a pneumatic tube. Separate store buildings will be supplied for paint, oils, and general stores, and a building will also be supplied for the fire department of the works. All the shops, with the exception of the foundries and smith shop, will be floored with asphalt on a concrete foundation.

During the winter the labor attendant upon the preparation of the foundations of these buildings will l>e maintained as far as possible, and the ultimate result of these preparations are predicted to be - a population of ten thousand people at Hegewisch within two years.

Rivcrdale is situated on the Little Calumet River in the southwest corner of the village of Hyde Park, about fifteen miles from Chicago. -The business interests there are distilling and lumber. The first settlers there were the Dolton family. In 1835, George Dolton, his wife Lena Ellen Stronach Dolton, their children, Andrew TL, Charles H, Henry II., George E , Mary- Ann, Jane A., and Emily C, Dolton moved to the Little Calumet region and settled upon the southwest quarter of Section 34, Township 37 north. Range 14, now forming Dolton's Addition ami a part of liowen's Market Addition to Rivcrdale. In 1836, J. C. Matthews and family settled upon the southeast quarter of Section 33 and there built a house ; they resided there until they moved to Iowa in 1846. In 1840, the inhabitants were augmented by the arrival of Levi Osterhoudt, John Sherman, Frederick Bachmann and John Hansford. In the years that elapsed prior to 1847, there were very few additions to the settlement ; lour or five families from Holland came in that year and settled upon the river's banks. In 1848, five families came and settled upon the Indian Ridge, north of Wildwood, viz.: Frederick G. Reich. Frederick Ran, Frederick Schmidt, Frederick Nitzsche and Emanuel Goldschmidt ; these likewise were Hollanders: under the constitution adopted that year, however, they In-came legal voters. In 1850-52, during the progress of the Illinois Central Railroad, a few of the workers thereupon located at Rivcrdale, and when the northern sections were completed, a number of Swedes and Hollanders settled in the vicinity. The first real estate transaction appears to have been the purchase by John Sherman of the Matthews homestead, occurring just after the panic of 1837. The first plat of Rivcrdale was made by David Andrews, surveyor, for George Dolton in 1868. and embraced the southwest quarter of Section 34 ; now owned by the school trustees. The second and main plat was made October 13, 1869, for A. H. Dolton, C. H. Dolton and Henry B. Dolton, by George E. Dolton and comprised a part of the west half of the southwest quarter of said Section 34 and was a portion of the homestead tract. Since 1S69, several plats have been made ; north of the river are Lock wood's subdivision, B. F. Carton's and Market additions.

The first ferry was established in 1S36, by George Dolton and J. C. Matthews, who also blazed the Chicago iV Michigan City highway, now known as State Street ; at the Rivcrdale crossing was a ferry-boat placed, which was maintained until about 1S42, when the first bridge was built by George Dolton and Levi Osterhoudt, and was known as the Dolton bridee. It was maintained as a toll-bridge until 1.S56, when it was purchased by the county and made a free bridge.

The first birth in this region was that of a child of J. C Matthews, and the first death that of Mrs. I'erriam's eldest son ; the mark of whose grave is still pointed out by old settlers.

In 1867, the school district was divided, and a Khool built at Kiverdaleby Mr. Kricgcr. of Mine Island; the school directors then 'were F. A. Reich, Jr., Nicklaus Van Heest and Christian Hoeffelman ;' the first teacher was a Mr. Jud<l and the number of pupils about ten. This frame building, of primitive stvle. stood upon the site of the present building. The subject of erecting the present school-house was agitated in 1871, but was opposed, because it was thought tl lat the scholastic necessities of the district did not require so extensive an edifice. It was built, however, in 1S74. The pres. ent directors are Charles E. Relun. F. August Reich and Theodor Hessetnwn j the principal of the school is Andrew S. Hickman ; first assistant, Miss Nellie Matthews; second assistant, Miss L, Haumgartncr ; the number of pupils ahout one hundred and thirty-eight. I he population of Riverdale, according to the' school census, is about six hundred.

The early days of Riverdale were not replete with opportunities for worship; a Mr. Williams, brother of Judge \\ illiams. was the first minister who preached in the district. Theologically, he was a l'rcshvtcrian. subsequently when a minister would arrive, either Mr lernam or Mr. Dolton would send out a messenger to acquaint the neighbors and they would assemble at one or the other of those gentlemen's houses on the ensiling Sunday. At present, the Methodist Episcopal denomination meets 111 Dolton, and the "German Evangelical Lutheran Saint Paul's Church - Unaltered Augsburg onfession, meets at their edifice on the township line < » March at}, 1858, a small church was erected about one and a half miles from the present one and farther down the Michigan City road, to accommodate the twentyeight worshipers who were preached to bv Rev W Hemennmn. The present church, situated' near the Michigan Xlty road, was built in ,882. and has a membersh11(()f lty-|,ve I he trustees arc Daniel Trapp, Frederick Ran Frederick Uachmann and laeob Schmidt. Attached to the church is a parochial school numbering ninety-three pupils ; the instructor is Charles' -Noak. the pastor of the church ; in addition to these duties he has .a congregation at Cummings and one at Lansing station, in Thornton Township.' The church and parsonage, with lots, are worth $7.ooo. A Sunday- ± i S '"^ersc-n superintendent, meets at the

The Riverdale distillery is one of the principal imrrests and was established, in 1*71, bv the Union (W I >isttlling Company of Chicago. Thev emplov an image of fifty men and upon their grains, etc, onc thousand four hundred cattle are fattened for market pn annum. The product of the distillery for 1S.S5 iWrt. gated §1,500.000. The officers at present arc Tbto Hessel man, president and resident superintendent of I ' * j Kissi%'er. secretary and H. ffisnatpr,

The lumber interest is represented by the Calumet Lumber Company, whose vard is on the river just east of the bridge : and by Reich \ Williams These latter gentlemen arc the successors of the Riverdale Lumber Company, formed in 1870. with F. A. Reich. Jr.. president ; August Aulich, secretary, and John Anderson, treasurer. In 1881. the company built a planing mill, and in 1883 sold the interest to F. A. Reich, Jr., and Walter S. Williams. The firm own the two-masted schooner "Anna Tomine," whose appearance at the wharf recall* in the minds of old settlers the aspirations tbey indulged in in 1858 ; when the arrival of Peter BattM'l schooner at Riverdale. en route to the prospective city of Portland, now lilue Island, was an event : and filial them with golden visions of being an important adjunct to Portland. The three railroad bridges and the highway bridge are all swing-bridges, so that navigation «s not impeded by them ; the tortuous and short windings of the river are the most serious bar to successful and compensative navigation. Three railroads enter the hamlet - the Illinois Central, the Pittsburg, Chicago &- Si. Louis, and Chicago \ Eastern Illinois.

FRANK R. ISAKEK. agent a-.d operator for the C, si L.i P. R. R., Riverdale Statiun. came to Coolc L'ouniy in Nnumbtt. 1871, and engaged in his present occupation at Laming, »l>e« lie remained until lie came lo Rirerdale. lie was born m 'an County. Miss., October 10. 1842. nnd was raised in Mwkinpn County, Ohio, on a farm. November 19. 1S61, he » Company C, 78th Ohio Vnlunleer Infantry, and pirticipated in 1" Ihe bailies of his command, including sieges of Vicbborg Ailanta, battles of Raymond. Jackson. Champion Hill and many skirmishes ; mustered oul in January. 1865. He was maiixd 11 186910 MUsl.uanna Huff, of Muskingum County. Ohio. lHr have ihrec children - Carrie F . Charles R- and an infant a»f»w unnamed. Mr. Haker is a member of Ihe I. O. O. F. ...

F. D. BRACKET I', foreman in the lumber yard of Keien « Williams, came to Cook County MarrJi 22 lESl.and MM" in his present occupation. He was born in C inton County, 1 - April 15. 1846. and was raised there until 185s. when witn pirenis he moved lo New Jersey, where he spent the greater pw" lion of bin life until 1S67. since which lime he 'H. '", ° West. lie was married in 1S66 to Miss Jennie E. Mar|r, au_" native of r\itcrson, N. J. They have live childien - Juhn Henri. Faveite D., Mvron M.. Edilh M. and Frederick. _,.

E.T. MARTIN, superintendent of Ihe l'ullman harm, in farm consists of 250 acres devoted to the production «' P , truck, and 750 acre* of grazing and meadow land. One ta«d«* and forty of the 250 acres now have the drainage system compK 3 . which required forty-two miles of different sued pipe', r» ni. k from a twoinch tile to a twenty-inch cast iron lube. |S four cents to $3.75 per foot. The sewerage of Pull,m,nF'';on<an here disposed of by irrigation and filtration on (he t*'°jTrf plan. In 1883 the garden products aggregated aK'^/jf'? *2O0 per acre, which were sold in Boston. -Mas... Haft'-wd. U« New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and cities '

For two years Mr. Martin was assistant engineer on the aiKive farm, and April I, 1883, he was promoted to hi* present position. In 1&64 he came to Chicago, where he was connected with the sewerage department of the city seven years, beginning as extra rodman, and through practical engineering worked hi* way up until he was promoted in charge of lh= sewerage department oT the city, where he continued until his resignation in 18B0 to go to the Pullman Farm.

Wild Wood

Wildwood was first settled by David Perriam and a man named Gillinger, who entered lands where this place is situated in 1K37. It is located upon the Indian Ridge and the Little Calumet River, and was originally platted for James H. Bowen, and an addition thereto made by Messrs. Warren <V Murray, entitled Warren's addition. Wildwood is the residence of the Bowen family, who have had it since 1S69. It used to be a magnificent summer residence, but since the death of Colonel Bowen it has manifested the ravages that time makes, and that can only l>e averted Of dispelled by a plentiful expenditure of money. The Fan- Handle and Illinois Central Railroatl traverse the s*. and east I tdary ol the estate: that comprises about one hundred acres. Where the Washington Ice Company's ice-houses stand was an Indian btirying-ground, and the Indians used regularly to visit that locality. Upon the estate tangible mementoes of the Indians are continually being exhumed, the last being an old Spanish piece of " Jus rra/rs," of date 1777, and a hammer-head of stone. This last is one of the largest found and is in excellent preservation ; it measures nine inches from pcin to edge, six inches from edge to groove, three inches thick, and five inches from top to bottom. Sitting in the quietude of Mrs. Bowen's house, the Indian implements tacitly demonstrating the existence of the departed race, the purling of the Calumet and the sough of the pines re-peopled the Indian Ridge with the native inhabitants, antl imagination gave to the sounds semblance of human voices murmuring their tale of love, trust and betrayed confidence. And glancing at the evidences of cultured taste and refinement, that betrayed, alas ! symptoms of a«e and decay, it was manifest that the hopes and aspirations of the primitive owners of the estate were no more realized than were the hopes of lames H. Bowen for his family. The children of his enterprise and calculation are far better cared for than his lineal descendants.

Kensington

This settlement is essentially a railroad town : first brought to light from a prairie chaos by the establishment of a railroad station in 185*. by the Illinois Central and Michigan Central railroad companies, and then known as Calumet Station. Apart from the saloon interest, the present factors of the town's prosperity are the Forging Company's shops and the labor attendant upon the transfer of freight. The surface of the earth in the vicinity of the town is seamed with the iron veins along which the arterial and venal circulation ret|uisite to its maintenance speeds and throbs. The town extends from State Street to a line east of the Illinois Central Railroad, and from One Hundred and

Fifteenth to One Hundred and Twenty-fifth streets. Although it is a large-sized hamlet, it appears dwarfed from its contiguity to Pullman, and upon every side .-r<- perceivable results ol the absorbent process Of the latter place - commercial and industrial.

The name, Kensington, is not popular with its inhabitants, who prefer the name identifying the town with the lake and rivers of the same name.

The first settlers were Patrick Fitzgerald, who built a small house south of the Forging Company's shops, in 1S5.;, or 1S53, since moved to Missouri ; James Ryan, who built near Fitzgerald, since deceased at Crown Point, Intl.; Patrick Shanahan who was a neighbor of Ryan's; John Cooper, now of Chicago, had a small house on Front Street, between Kensington Avenue and One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, and was the first to erect one of the principal buildings that was used for a boarding house for many years and is still extant. The station agent was F. Rexford, son of Norman Rexford, of Blue Island ; the name of the station was Calumet, and its location just south of the present Illinois Central Railroad depot of Kensington. But in the immediate vicinity of Kensington is an old settler who far antedates those mentioned, David Andrews, who came to Chicago in 1834, and occupied the same office with Wilson Brothers, of Chicago Journal fame ; lie was a civil engineer and surveyor, and after remaining in Chicago some lime settled upon the farm on the Indian Ridge, about half a mile northwest nf Wildwood,* i:i 1840. Mi. Andrews was horn in Sussex County, New Jersey, thence moving to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. In 1835, he was in the United States Land - Office at Chicago, under James Whillock, and subsequently was in the Recorder's office. At the time he moved to his present farm his only near neighbors were Davit! I'erriani, at Wildwood, and Norman Rexford, at Blue Island, three miles away. Then prairie wolves, tleer aild prairie chickens abounded, and occasionally a lynx was seen, as were large timber wolves. Mr. Andrews married Caroline Ward in Crete, Will County, since deceased, in 1840, and brought his wife to the farm and built his homestead. The farm originally comprised three hundred and sixty acres, but now has only two hundred. Seven children were bom to Mr. Andrews, of whom live are now living: Mary E. Becker, Edwin Rutlvven, Charles M., Milo J. and Warren J. Mr. Andrews is still hale and st rong, despite his seventy-eight years of age. Upon the farm have been exhumed numl>ers of Indian- antiquities arrow heads, hammer heads, etc., and not long since an Indian skull was discovered.

In the fall of 1854, Cornelius Roggevecn moved from Roseland, and erected a small frame shanty seven feet by fourteen feet, cast of the railroad track, between One Hundred and Fifteenth and One Hundred atul Sixteenth streets; at that time there were but three or four shanties, with the de|H>t, standing upon the site of Kensington. About 1S64. John Brandt hail a little bouse where the Michigan Central transfer house now stands ; he moved to Burnside, Hancock Co., HI., where lie resided at last accounts. John (lohring settled at Kensington about 1S65 and bought John Cooper's house and one acre of land, and fifty acres from one Buell ; these fifty-one acres Mr. Oviatt bought in 1SG0. lohn Holm's family made a settlement near the Gohrings, and Theodore Gohring and John Ortcll may be

-The surviving early settlers, so far as known, arc John Cooper, John Ortcll, Mrs. Henderson - formerly Mrs. Theodore Oohring, and Cornelius Rnggeveen. Ambrose Smith, who was one of the original owners of the land upon which Kensington is located, was one of the early settlers at Rivcrdale; hut does not appear to have resided at Calumet, now Kensington. First storekeeper was Theodore Gohring, and his store was situated at the Corner of Front Street and Kensington Avenue ; herein he kept a stock of general merchandise and had a saloon; in 1H7S this house was the onlv one upon that street, and in that year there were only some eighteen or twenty houses in the settlement. The first scIkioI, situated about half a mile south of the present school-bouse, at the corner of Kensington and Michigan avenues, was in existence hi 1*5 j, anil of which Daniel O. Kohmson was the lirst ten her. In 1.X61 the principal was Miss K|j/a Rexford, and the number of scholars was fmm twenty-five to thirty. In ,.s75 a s. ho,. I- house was built at the present location; in i.s.So it was raised and a basement put under it and an addition made; another addition was nude to n ,.SS;V At the present time about three hundred scholars, attend; Fretl W Nichols is the princ ipal, and Miss Adelaide Sullivan, assistant prim 1 pal. The school hoard are K I. Jiro-.ktield president; Edwin Ruthven Andrew* secretary -

On October 5, 1081, Kensington UoseCe,N";, was organized; their apparatus comprising one bifid hose-cart and one hand engine; after the water pita were laid to Kensington in June, i88j, the hand MgWC was sent to Colehour. The present members consist d (ioodrich II. Lane, captain; C. Curtis, John Oldata J N. Hastings, August Klec. R. W. Line. John M.i>- tenbrock. A C. Lane, Sell. Llllein, C M:ker.hf*t W. Mastenbrock. Thomas Harris. James Payr« Fh present engine house cost §175.00 and is in rear police station on Kensington Avenue, wherein arc It - the hand hose-cart and one thousand feet ofcotlon-hc« thai form the equipment of this company.

The Suburban Enterprise was inaugurated Apn - iSSi, |>\ D. li. Stancliff & Co, ; in about a month Mr Slam li IT was sole proprietor, and in September, is$l he associated with him William Henry Mansrirld. «h" bought out Standiff on November 10. 1S8.'. Thep^O has six editions, one for each of Pullman. Kens:Bp«l Rivenlale and Holton. Hyde Park. Washington Heigt* and Orand Crossing, and has two reporters; »- . Allen and C. P. Root, each of whom collate news I ' specific <listricts. On Octolier 2i. i8S,v the Stock ' - partially destroyed by (ire, but no interrupti* " occasioned in the business of the piper.

Chicago Forging Company's works arc loc.Ur: '" One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, near Pullman* ' card, and have an area of about' two hundred feel g seventv feet. The general manager anil treasurer B L. llro'wn; the superintendent, Thomas Voice. Al w.irks everv description of iron and steel forging b\ means of machinerv.and among their manufactures manv intricate shapes' of iron work that areasperlct 1 finish as those that'are hand-made, but with the >" ' ' tion that iK'ing made by machinery they arc epc,l|f/ , ilar in shape and demeiisions. Drop forging smithing what the great watch companies art t<> J ers. L'lili/.ation of" machinery of «r«lt PoWCr ' T. with the old blacksmith and helper system : '^..L, example the making of cant- hook ferules: l| oblong slit wherein a fervent fire blazes, a I'M ' 1 " " inserted, heated and placed under this half-t' ; l " 1 the hammer by a few blows upon the matrix. ^ the bar is placed, hammers it into shape! 1 " placed upon a hurdic and the hammer ilesccii' - it in i wo like a stick of candv. The pu 1 - ' 1 goes to the press where the rough edges are rut off at one fell squeeze ; it is then re-heated and l>ent into shape. Four hundred ami fifty per diem of tliise ran be made by these three successive operations ; a blacksmith and his helper ran turn out about iliirtv. Over three hundred different pieces of iron and steel of different shapes are manufactured by this company ; all that is required being matrices that are cut by diesinkers. The power is communicated to the machinery by a two hundred and fifty horse-power Rcynolds'- Corliss engine.

DAVID ANDREWS was ben in Su»» County. N. J.. Septemlicr 15. 1S07. Hi* parents immigrated wiihh s family to Northumberland County. Pen., when he was a small boy, where he was raised, completing his education in surveying and c;vil engineering at Harrisburg. In 1834 he came lo Chicago and engaged at his profession. He surveyed and laid out Dixon, III., which he named in honor or John Dixon, then a prominent resident of that place. Mr. Andrews ha* been engaged in surveying for many years in Cook County, and was connected with the early Government land sales. He remained in Chicago and vicinity unlil 1S40, and in October of that year tattled on the south part of Section 28, Township 37. Calumet, where he has since lived and now owns a good farm. This fnrm was bought of the Government by his brother under Martin Van I: urea'* administration, and afterward conveyed to David Andrews. Since 1840 he has been engaged at his profession, principally in the southern part of Cook County. He was once nominated to the office of County Surveyor, but declined the same. In 1S40 he married Miss Sophia Caroline Ward, who with her parents were early pioneers of Cietcm, Will Co., III. They had seven children - Mary E.. now Mrs. Christian Becker, living near Blue Island; William I'., deceased ; Kdwin R., . who has charge of the home farm, and has served in several township office*; David S., deceased; Charles M.; Milo James, now principal of the Rogers Park school ; and Joseph Warren.

E T. BROOK FIELD, Po-tmaster ami real estate dealer, came to Kcnsingion in October. 1 875. where he had charge of the Michigan Southern transfer yards five years, after which he engaged in the real estate business. He took charge of the Kensington Postoffice January 7, 1882, and is now serving his first term as Supervisor of Hyde Park Township. He was bom in Nile*. Mich., July 7. 1844, lived there until 1S72, and was conductor about fourteen years 011 the M. C- R. R. In Septemlier. 1S63, he enlisted in Company F, 77th Nrw York Volunteer Infantry, and participated in nil the battles of his command ; mustered out in April, tSb$. In 1S70 he married Miss Carrie Edgecombe, a native of Maine. They have three children - Olive. Edith and Arthur. He is a member of Select Knights Lodge, A. O. U. W.

JAMES II. I.OWEN was born March 7, I $22, in Manheim, HerkimerCo., N. V. He lived in Little Fall* seven year*, during which time he was treasurer and secretary of the Wool-Growers' Manufacturing Company, and also the first American Express agent. In 144(1 he removed to Jtfferson County, N. V., where he began business on his own account in general merchandise, and was appointed Postmaster at Evans' Mills, Jefferson County. He received ths appointment of Colonel of the 36th Regiment of New York State troops. In 1S53 he made another change, removing to Albany, N. V., where he was interested in the crockery trade. During 1S57 he removed lo Chicago, and with two brotheis constituting the firm of Ilowen Brothers, commenced business at No. 72 Lake Street, as jobbers of dry goods and notions. 'I he business grew unlil the annual sales reached the then astounding total of six million dollars. In 1867 he retired from active participation in the business and became a silent partner, lie organized the Third National Bank in 1S62. and was its president rive years. He also made a special effort in behalf of a systematic plan of bank exchanges, which resulted in the establishment of the Chicago Clearing House. Mr. Bowen was appointed United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1867. The greatest work of his aclive and useful life, was however, yet to be undertaken, the foundation and impiovement of South Chicago, The Calumet & Chicago Canal and Dock Company was organized in 1870, and as its president he threw his whole soul into the work of opening up the Calumet River, improving the harbor and developing the resources of the surrounding territory. How well he has succeeded can only be told by reciting the wonderful history of the place, which he has fostered with a parent's love. He was a member of the Board of Trade, of the Mercantile Association, and the Calumet Club. In November. 1S74, he was appointed Colonel, on Governor Oglcsby's staff. lie voted for Henry Clay in 1844, and ever afterward voted the Republican ticket. His membership of St. James' Episcopal Church dates from 1S57. H« uns thoroughly identified with the village and town of Hyde Park, and at the lime of his death was a member of the lluard of Trustees. In 1843 Mr. Bowen married Caroline A. Smith, by whom he had ^ five children - Ira P., James A., Arthur P, Lottie E. and Mis. W. II. French. May :. iSSl, as he was being taken to the depot in a buggy at South Chicago, steam escaped from an engine standing on the Fnit Wayne track, the horse became unmanageable and upset the buggy, throwing Colonel Bowen six feet to one side. He made no cry. showed no signs of consciousness, and although phys.cians were summoned, he was beyond medical skill. Thus amicl the scenes of his untiring energy his life passed away. The execution of the plan devised by him and through his instrumentality will pass into other hands, but his work* will live after him. and posterity will recognize Colonel Bowen as being in truth and deed the founder of South Chicago, and a man who did more than any other to build a city where once was nothing but thousands of acres of dreary swamps. He resided at Wltdwood, on the bark of the Calumet River, near Kiverdale.

JAMES K. BROWN, dealer in wines, liquors and cigars, was botn at Cornwell. England, December 10, 1834, where he was raised and served an apprenticeship to the trade of bricklaying. He immigratcdin 1S64, locating in Chicago, where he worked at his trade. In 1857 he married Miss Jane Ann Tambltn, a native of the same place. They have eight children - Thomas E., F:iiiabeth A., Sarah, Minnie, William, John F., Maude and Ann C. Mr. Brown is a member of the United Order of American Bricklayers.

A. BURC HARD, physician and surgeon, came to Chicago in 187.) and there practiced medicine two years. In July 18&1, he located at Kensington, where he has a large practice. He was horn in Albany County, N. Y.. January II. 1823 ; was raised in Schoharie County; studied medicine with J. II." Norwood and graduated at the Woodstock Medical College. Vt., in 1845, since which he has practiced medicine. During the Rebellion for a short time he was Acting Assistant Surgeon on a Government transport, and for some lime had charge of the Government hospital at Elmira, N. Y. In l&'>7 he married Miss Hannah Walkins, a native of Tioga County, Penn. They have two children - Latimer W. and Walter H. By a former marriage he had three children - Aslley C, John M.and Mary Alice.

O. B. CLARK, dealer in boots and shoes, hats. caps, and gents' furnishing goods, cmbaiked in business 11 Kensington in July, 1881. In 1:63 he located in Chicago and engaged in mercantile pursuits, first as clerk, and in the spring of 1869 went into business on bis own account, which he continued unlil the great fire, when his mercantile effects were consumed by the devouring element. Nothing daunted, he embarked again, continuing until 1877, when he retired from business unlil hi* location in Kensington, lie was born in Oneida County, N.Y., . April 7, 1S42, and was raised and educated there. He is a member of the Masonic Order. K. of P.. and A. O. U. W. In 1875 he married Miss Mary Myers, of Ohio.

C. D. DOLBEER, day yard-master Michigan Central Railroad, was born at Mendon, Monroe Co., N. Y.. May 10, 1850. He was raised and educated at Maltawan and Kalamazoo. Mich., where he afterward clerked for a short time. He then woiked two years for the American Expr. ss G rupany there, and two years at Fond du Lac, Wis. Then he became brakesman on the Michigan Central Railroad freight trains, and then two and one-half yearsat telegraph repairing. October 15, :87s, he came to Kensington, was switchman three years, made assistant yardmasler, and in November, 1 880. accepted his present position. Mr. Doll eer was married December 20, 1S8J. to MissS. E. Link, a teacher by profession, and a graduate of the Valparaiso Normal School. He is a member of Bowen Lodge, No. 216, A. O. U. W., of Kensington, Division Mo. 15 ; Yard Master M. B. A. Association, Chicago.

THOMAS GAINES, proprietor of Gaines Hotel, was born at East Bloomfield, N. Y.. November 6, 1S36. He lived in his native State unlil 1852, when he went to Michigan. In 1S57 he became agent for the American Express Company, which position he filled for twenty-four years, and in iSoo. manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, both which posilionshe resigned in August, 18S1. Coming to Kensington, December 15, of the same year, he opened his hotel, which can accommodate eighty guests He has also spent twelve years in mercantile and the livery business. Mr. Gaines is a mcmberof the Masonic Order. American Express Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Connecticut Mutual. In t86l he married Emaline Love, of Pontiac, Mich. He has one son by a former marriage, Edward II., now a clerk on the Chicago Board of Trade.

CHARLES GARDNER was born in Tompkins County, N. Y.. six miles from Ithica, September 10. 1833, and lived there until 1845, when he came to Chicago. After a short slay he went to Sandwich, 111., where he lived six years, then he removed to the town of Thornton. Here he wa* cngagrd in agricultural pursuits until 1879, but in the year 1859 he crossed the plains to California, where he spent two years in the gold mines. Returning to the town or Thornton in Februsry. 1661. he married Mill Susan Webb, a native of Collin. Gloucestershire, England. They have three ions - James II.. Clarence V , and Charles Ira February IS. 1S64. Mr. Gardner enlisted in Company <;, 39th Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, and during his service participated in thirty-two battles and skirmishers and was mice ununited, lie was mustered out with his regiment December 6, 1&65. M r. Gardner removed March 28. 1S79. from Thornton to Hvde Park Township, and located one mile south of Kensington, where he built the Gaidner House. Connected with this house are four acres of fine grove, which affords a cool retreat for pleasure-seekers during the summer season. Mr. Gardner deals largely in hay and straw both in Chicago and Kensington.

JOHN GOUR1NG, foreman of the east bound freight for the M. C. R. R. Co., was bom in ISararia. Germany, December tq, 1S34 He came to New York City in 1S50, and served as office boy two years. Then he came to Chicago and worked for I.uomis & Lewis until 1855, alter which he was 111 the employ of F, I'armelee & Co. fifteen year*, driving a bus and buggy wagon for five years, and ten yean on the I. C K. K.as check agent for the same company. In 1 S7-) he took his present charge. Mr. Gohring married, in 1S57. Miss Ida Bindcl, a native of Germany, and they hare one daughter, Nora L. He is sometimes known as the father of Kensington, and has been on its school board three years.

RICHARD I'. HILL, dealer in general liouiehold furniture, and undertaker for Kensington and vicinity, came to Kensington in I S33 and cmhirked in the above business. He was bom in KranklU County. Otiio, April 10. 1854, but was raised and educated in Licking County. He is a painter by trade, and followed contracting and painting until he came West. He is a member of the A. O. D. \V. of Kensington. In 1879 he married Miss Libbie M. Moore, a native of Michigan. They have two children - Florence C. and [. Farris.

JOSEPH K. HOWES, of Howes Bros., proprietors of a milk depot at Cullman, was born in Aslifield, Mass., May 18. 1 858. and csmew.th his parents and their family to Kankakee, III., where he was raised on a farm. There the family started the first dairy farm, and from thence sent the first milk to Chicago over the Illinois Central Railroad. I.. \V. Howes, one of the firm, has a large dairy farm at Kankakee, from which he supplies the milk. They also have a cigar store at Pullman and a restaurant at Kensington. Joseph K. was married January 25. 1SS3, to Miss Helen Sinclair, of Kensington. They are members of the Episcopal Church, and he is a Select Knight, A. O. V. \V , Kensington.

WILLIAM JOHNSON, proprietor of Johnson House, was born in Northampton, England, September 8, 1839 He came tu the United Slates in 1S72 and settled at Edgerton. Rock Co . Wis., where he was bridge watchman for the C. M. & St. I'. R. R. Co. eigh: years, beginning his present business in the spring of :SSl. In 1857 he married Miss Mary Coe. a native of Dcsboro. Northa nptonshire. England. They have one son - George. Mr. Johnson is a member ol the Independent Order of Foresters of Illinois.

AUGUST KI.KE, dealer in wines, liquors, cigars and proprietor of billiard hall, was born in Germany March 28. i«42. He came alone to the United States in 1S57 and settled in Nashville, Tenn., where he was a florist and gardener. In 1S63 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and enlisted into the 9th Ohio Cavalry, was made Corporal, and puticipatrd in four gcnetal engagements. Re-enlist, ing in the 106th Ohio Volunteer Infantrv, he served eight months, and was mustered out at the close of the war. After remaining in Cincinnati, Ohio, some time, he came to Chicago and engagecl in gardening. He has served as Constable of the town of Lake, Cook County, three years. He came to Kensington in 1S80. In 1869 he married Tillie Geske, a native or Germany. They have one daughter - Sophia. Mr. Klec is a member of Herman Sons and Druids.

{.CHRISTIAN G. KLENK. dealer in wines, liquors, cigars and proprietor of billiard parlor, was born in Wurtcmberg. Germany. September 26, 1840. where he wasa brewer and butcher. He came to America in 1&64 and settled at Richmond, Mo., engaged in brewing until, in 1S69, fie came to Chicago. Here he was in the butcher business until he came to Kensing-on in iSSi. The subject of this sketch was married in 1*07 to Miss Amelia Engler, of Baden. Germany, who died in the spring of 1SS1. leaving one son - Leonhardl. The same year he married Mm Anna Wills, of his native place. He is a member of the German Druids of

HERMAN I.ANGENHAHN, dealer in wines, liquors and cigars, came In Chicigo in 1861 and engaged in cabinet-making, which he followed fifteen years, embarking in the above business in Kensington in 1SS2. He was born in Dpniig. Germany, November S, 1 R35. and there learned cabinet-making. In i860 he married Miss Adelia Neuber. ol Saalfeld, Prussia, who has borne him one daughter - Mary Ann. They are members of the German Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Masonic Order, Knights »f Pythias. A. 0. U. W., and Knights and Ladies of Honor. He is also a member of the North Chicago and Chicago Sharp -Shooters' Association.

ALEXANDER McKENZIE, foreman of the forge depart, ment o( the Chicago Forging Company's works, was born in Scot, land March lb, 1842. He came with his parents to America in 1S46, settling at Auburn. N. V'.. where he was raised and educated. He began business life as a carriage i ship of thicc years ; afterward worked some time Next he worked ten years at drop-hammer forging at Auburn, N. V., for E. D. Clapp &- Co.; was then promoted to foreman of their works, and served two years in that capacity. He then became foreman for the Philadelphia Drop Forging Company, Pennsylvania, two years. 1 rum 1S76 to the time he came to Kensington July, 1883 - he was foreman for William Rose 4i Brothers, ol Phil, adelphia, in their laige forging woiks.

THOMAS M. MALONE was born in Ireland in 1S38. In lSbu he married Miss Margaret Gannon, a native of Ireland. They hare twelve children - Mary, Michael, Hannah, John, Patrick, Margaret, Kate, Thomas, Nora, Sarah, Dela and James. In 1864 he came with his family to the United Stales, coming to Chicago in 1 868. where he raised his family. He followed blacksmilhing fur many years, then moved to Kensington in 18S2, where he retails wines, liquors and cigars. Himself and son Michael are members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,

I AMES E, MURPHY came to Chicago in 187S and engaged in printing with J. L. Regan & Co. until he look charge of the hardware store of C. Mullen, in February. 1882. at Kensington. He was born in County Wexford, Ireland, January I, 1834. At the age of fourteen years he began teaming the printer's trade. In 1S60 Tie came to America, and at the age of eighteen became foreman of the Montreal Gazette printing office, Canada. He has made printing his occupation many years.

CHAR LES MULLEN, dealer in hardware, began business at Kensington in 1B80. In 1S6J he first came to Chicago and worked ( lor a stove firm, his business, until he began for himself. He was born in Ottawa. Canada, in 1844; was married in 187110 Miss Lillie Murphy, a native of County Wexford, Ireland. They have three children - Charlie, Theresa, and Harry. Mr. Mullen is a member of the A, O. U. W. and Knights of Honor.

BERNARD P. NETTLETON, of Kenworthy & Nttlleton, dealers in meats, was born near Iron Mounlain, Mo.. October 12, 1854. He was brought up at Duquoin, III,, and there began life as a clerk in a railroad office, continuing until he came to Kensington, in June, 1 881. Here he entered the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad as clerk, and in 18S2 engaged in the coal busi ness, and in a year after opened his present business. In 1875 he married Miss Ida M. Dickman. ol Duquoin. They have three children - Cora O.. Pearl L. and Emma B.

FRED W, NICHOLS, principal of the Kensington public schools, was born in Marengo, Mich., February 28, 1S58. He was raised and educated in his native Stale, graduating Irom Hillsdale College in 1878. and the next year from Michigan University. He also holds a State certificate for Illinois. He was principal of I he Carson City high school one year, and in the fall of 1882 took hit present charge. In 18S1 Mr. Nichols married Miss Viola Wilson, of Goshen, Ind. They have one son, Hcnrv William.

JOHN OKTEL. night watchman for the Illinois Central and Michigan Central railroads, came to America in August, 1854. and worked in a whiling factory in New Yoik City some time ; then engaged in farming in New Jersey. He came to Cook County. 111., March E, 1858, and worked for M. F. Kexford eight months, after which he began his railroad lite, which he has since continued. He has now been night watchman fourteen years. He was bom in Pru<*ia, Germany, January 12. 1825, and served two years in the] 20th Regiment, German Army, in Brandenburg, and one year in the 8lh Regiment during the Polish revolution. February 23. 1861. he married Miss Maiy Biedeimau, a native of Prussia, Germany, born May 23, 1838, She came with her parents to the United States in 1S46 and settled 111 Chicago. Mrs.0rtel'6 lather, Aug. Bicderman. was the firsi German M. E. member in Chicago ; he died September 25. 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Oriels have six chi - dren - Emma C, Edward E., Johanna A.. Willie J.. Walter II. and Franklin L. They are members of the German M. E. Church nf Kensington. Mr. Orltl was for nine years school director at Kensington, and for six years Postmaster. .

T. W. PRIESTLY, of T. W. Pricstlv & Co., proprietors ol American House, was born in Chicago May 13, 1853. and was raised and educated there. He began as a teamster and liack^ driver ; was engaged in the saloon business at C.ilroy, Sanla Clara Co.. Cal-, seven years ; then for four years was in the coffee and spice business in Chicago. He came to Kensington June 1. 1883- Mr. Priestly married, in 1872. Miss Kit Burdell. of Oakland, Cal., and (hey have one son, Frank. H. II. Pkck. member of the same firm, was born in New York City December jt, 1S53. and was there raised and educated. He came to Cook County in 1B71, and located in Chicago in 1S73.

JULIUS KEICHARDT. merchant taiior and dealer in gent*' furnishing good;, was born in Saxony, (Jermany, September S, 1S50. His parents with their family came the same year and settled at Blue Island. Cook Co., III., where he was raised and educated. He began in his present line of business at Kiverdale in 1S7S, where he yet owns some propeity. In the spring of lsSi he opened at Kensington, and is now erecting a store there. September 26. 1878. he married Miss Amelia Mctzncr, a native of Saxony, Germany. They have two children, Minnie and Clara. His wife has two children by a former marriage. Amelia and Henry. Mr. Reichaidl is a member of the K. & L. of 11., of Chicago.

G. T. SMITH, dealer in boots, shoes, and gents' furnishing goods, was born at Itattle Creek, Mich., August 19, 1845, and w.is there raised and educated, For many years he was identified in the lumber trade, finally embarking in merchandise business, which he has followed since, lie established his present business in Chicago in 1876. Mr. Smith is a member of lhe M. E. Church.

JAMES 11. SNYDER, train maMer M. C. R. R. at Reusing, ton. was bom at Danville, Livingston Co., N. Y., December 7, 1644, and was there raised and educated. He was a dental student two year-., after which he practiced until September, 1871. He then became brakeman on the M. C. K. R., was promoted freight conductor in 1873. and held this position until, in 1S78, he took charge of the company's yards at Michigan City as assistant train master; and in a year was promoted train master. November I, 1881. he married Miss Jessie Sovc-eign. of Valparaiso, Ind. They have three children - Haitie F... Flora and llatiy.

M. THORP, dealer in general merchandise, came to Kensington in August, 1881, erected a large store building and embarked in business January 1, 18S2. Mr. Thorpe was born in Sandusky County. Ohio, November 9 1814. He was raised in Cass County, Mich., on a farm until eighteen years old, smce which time he has been identified in merchandising. November 8. 1869. he married Miss Mary Lybtook, of Cassopohs. Mich,

JOHN C. TKAINOR. attorney at law, was born in Water town, N. Y., May 18, 1858, and was raised and educated in his native place. He was a student in the Walertown high tchool a number of years. He the study of the law in the office of Hannibal Smith, and was admitted to the Bar Januaty 6. 1SS2. He is a member of the A. O. U. of Kcnsinglon. III. In 18S0 he was married to Mt<s Dc Eite M. Cavanaugh, of Watertown, N. Y. They settled at Kcnsinglon in the spring of 1883.

THOMAS VORCE, superintendent of the Chicago Forging Company's works, was born in Cayuga County, N. August 19, 184S. He was raised on a farm in the town of Mcntz, same county, until, at thirteen years of age, he was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith trade; soon went into a machine shop and served a four years' apprenticeship at Port liyrnn. He worked at the trade of machinist three year* at Auburn N. Y., then for three years served an apprenticeship as die-sinker in a drop forging business, after which he engaged with James Cunnirgham, Son, \ Co., drop fotgers, at Rochester. N. Y'., 'inking charge of the manufaciure of coach hardware three years. He was then for a year superintendent of the l,)ueen City Forging Company, at Cincinnati, Ohio, His health tailing he spent some time at Rome, N. Y. He came to Kensington in April. 1383. and accepted his present position. Mr. Vorce was married. February 9. l3So. to Miss Minnie A. Dias. of Rome. N. Y., and ihev have one daughter. Adella. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M.

K. E. WARD, telegraph operator for the M. C. and I. C. railroads, came to Kensington. Cook Countv, in 1S60. and took charge of his present office. He was born in England November 2, 1840, and was there raised and educated. He came to America in 1S51. and settled in Oakville, Halton Co., Canada, where he completed his education. He began telegraphing at the age of eighteen years. In 1805 Mr Ward married Miss M. J. Bailey, of Danville, III. They have five children - Charles Willie F... Nellie. Ernest and Alice.

CHARLES VVIIITCOMn, foreman of freight car repaiis. was born at Bolton, Worcester Co., Mass., October 28. iSsi. He learned the carpenter trade, and worked at it until 1846. when he engaged in car building at Hartford, Conn. He came to Chicago November 7, 1852. and entered the employ of the American Car Company until 1S55, working since for different railway companies. From May, tSf>7, to August, 1876. he had charge of car repairs for the C. B. & Q. R. R.| then had charge of the wood machinerv in car building lor Wells & French. He received his present position June 8, iSSt. Mr. Whitcomb is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Massachusetts.