Cook County, Illinois - The whole text, 1884 (part 51 of 61)

Irving Park

This is a beautiful suburb of Chicago, six and sevtnlenths miles therefrom, 011 the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. It is near the t enter of Jetferson Township, on the original Major Noble farm, w hich was purchnsnl in by Charles i'. Race. Mr. Race's first intention in the purchase of the farm was to engage in farming, bin a short time ;-fterward decided to start a town, and took into company with him R. T. Race, W. B. Race, John R. Wheeler anil John S. Brosvn. The railroad company, upon application, agreed to slop their trains at Irving l'ark upon the condition that the proprietors of the proposed town would build a depot, and shortly after the depot was completed the trains began stopping. This was on 1X60. The original plat of the village comprised the northeast quarter of Section 15, Township jo north, Ranj;e 13 east. Kighty acres on the west was bought of John Cray, and one hundred and forty acres of A. Ii. Brown and others. Baxter's addition was made in 1869 and included the southeast quarter or the southwest quarter of Section 15.

Stevens's addition was filed for record April 10, 1874; Miller's addition, March t. 1S77 j Barnes's addition was made June 26. 1S78; Wheeler's addition includes a part of the northwest quarter of Section 23, the land of Joseph Bickerdike lying to the east, south and west of this subdivision.

The first child born in Irving Park was Irving Park Jones. August 30, 1869. The first marriage was that of J. B. Juliand and Martha Brown, daughter of Krastus Brown, September 12, 1872. and the first death that of Delia Race, daughter of Charles T. Race, Novcnilier 26, 1870. The first Postmaster was L. B. Hull, appointed in 1871, who retained the office one vear. The second Postmaster was Charles T. Race, who has since retained the office. George W. Jones is his present deputy. The first store was built in 1870 by Charles T. Race. It is a two-story brick, the upper story of which is now used as a hall'by the Court Irving of the I. O. F. The store has changed hands frequently and is at present leased by George W. Jones.

Court Irving of L O. F. was organized in December. 1883. with sixteen members. The membership has now increased to twenty-eight The officers are Franklin Hobba, chief ranger: f. T. McCarthy, recording secretary ; Frederick Smith," treasurer.

The Christian Union of Irving Park was organised in September. 1S83. The object of the Union is to hold stated meetings for consultation respecting Church work in Irving- Park and vicinity, and the best methods of accomplishing the work; the' visitation and evangelization of the Chiirchless classes ; the distribution of papers ami good literature, the establishment of new mission-; when needed: the rare of the poor, the suppression of vice and crime by the enforcement of law; the furnishing of proper amusement and the securing of United action toward these ends liy founding social intercourse among all who are interested in these objects. The committees appointed to carry on the work thus mapped out are a missionary committee, an entertainment committee, an executive committee and a visiting committee, the latter numl>ering twenty members. The officers of the Union are the following: A. J. Nowlen. president; Rev. I). Mcdregor, vice-president; W. M. ( lager, secretary; C. A. Cook, treasurer.

The school and Church history of Irving Park will be found in the sketch of Jefferson town. The population of Irving l'ark is now about seven hundred.

JOHN BUTLER, blacksmith ami wagon-maker, at Glccsons Corners, was born in County Antrim. Inland, mar the town of lial!y I astle, about 1847. Wiu-n Ik- was about hvc years 0I1I his parents settled in Montreal, Canada. At the aye of twelve he left home and went to live with a married sister in Upper Canada, lie was almost immediately bound as apprentice to the blacksmith trade, serving his time with the well-known carriag --maker George A. Hrown. A few months alter completing his apprenticeship he went to Albanv. N. Y.. and from there, alter an interval, to New- York City. In the latter city he iRcanie connected with the Herring Safe Company. In l-os they sent him to Chicago to take charge of a detriment in I lie works in that city. Shortly aftcrward he engaged in contracting lor the manufacture of the safes, hiring his own assistants He remained with the Herring Sale Company alMttit ten years, and then opi-tud a large blacksmith and wagon making shop in Chicago. This continued until when he removed to Gieeson's Corners Mr. Kuller was married in Nilcs Center, Cook County, to Miss Elizabeth A. (ilecson, daughter of Thomas ( ilecson, of Jefferson. They have two children - Anna E. anil Mai J.

RI/SSELL O. Dl'NNl.NG, commission merchant. Chicago, a son of D. S. Illuming, was born in Ilul'age County, 111.. Novcm. ber 13. 1 84s He graduated at the Cook County Normal School, at KnglewcHtd. a member of the :irst graduating ih.ss. Afterward he attended the Agricultuial College, at Champaign. III., some two years. He removed to l ook County with his father in 1*4.5. and remained associated with him in business until l«-s. when the hrm ol R. O. Dunning A: Co. was organised. He marrie<l in JeiTcrs.ni 'township, Octolicr SI. lS-f. Miss Kllila Mercereau, of Jefferson. They have two children - ( iertrudc and Andrew.

JAMES T. GI.EESON', proprietor of the Seven-Mile House, (ileeson's Corners, was Iw.rn in the city of Chicago l-chmary 4, 1862, and was educated in the pub.'ic schools. In isso he engaged in Ihe saloon business in the city, which continued until 18.81, when he took his present place. The Seven-Mile House is on the site of the old lluckhorn Tavern, which was kepi by Major Noble lor many vears. and was a well-known Landmark to the old settlers.

IIIOMAS GI.EESON, old settler, was l>orn in QueeM Tounly, Ireland, about 1822. The heads of the family for generations had been stone cutlers, and Thomas al an early age began the trade, which he followed in different parts of England until 1S54, when he emigrated and located in Westchester County, N. Y. In issj he came West and settled in Chicago. In 1S57 he began business on his own account in contracting and building, which he continued until 1.871, when he bought land in Jefferson Township, anil removed to what is now known as (ileeson's t urners, the junction of F.lslon Ho.nl ami (lyhourn Avenue, where In erected several handsome buildings, and opened the "Seven Mi.e House." He Operated this hotel unlil 1-17.1, when he turned it over to his son. During his residence in the city Mr. Glee-son built the North Side water works, the residences of George M. Pullman. G. M. Thompson, three or four of the most prominent churches in the cily. and manv other private and public buildings. Mr. (.let-son was married in Queens County. Ireland, to Miss Elizalieth M. Dugan, of that county. Mrs. Gieeson's mother live- with them, still active, though over one hundred years old. Mr. and Mrs. (ilecson hive four children - Edward, James T. , John, and Eliza, now Mrs. Butler.

HIRAM E. ItOI.COMIt. president Holcomb Manufacturing -V Mating Company, Chicago, was born in Windsor. Conn., December 11, 1S34' At the age of fourteen years he entered the employ of the Rogers Brothers, manufacturers of silver-plated ware, Hartford. Conn. He afterwards Moved the same trade in New York and Philadelphia. In the spring of ISbohe settled in Chicago, where he connected himself with plating works, and was in business for himself for a li-c. Then selling out to the Chicago Nickel Plating Works, he acted as their superintendent for twelve years. In 1 ?S| he organized the Holcomb Manufacturing Company, and has done a very successful business. He employs eleven nun in the manufacture' of plated ware, nuking a specially of tine bronzing. He has been a resident of Irving Park some ten years. During that time he has been a member of the Hoard of

Trustees five years, being three years l'rcsidcnt of the Hoard. He is at the present time president of the school board. Mr. Holcomb is a member of Garden City Lodge. No. 141, A. K. & A. M.; Washington Chapter, No. 43; St. Iternard Cnmmanderv, No. 3t; and Oriental Consistory, S. P. R. S. He is a P. W. M. of liarden City Lodge, and was grand lecturer of the State about ihree vears, He is also a member of Home Lodge, No. 416, I. O. O. E, and Chicago Encampment No. la,

WILLIAM JOHNSON, Township Assessor, was elected to his lirst term in the spring of ISS2, and re-elected the following year. He was born in Sweden December 24, 1832. Asa boy he adopted the life of a sailor, and followed this upon the sea until tst.2. In that year he located in Chicago, sailing upon the lakes until 1857. He then removed to Minnesota, where he engaged in farming in Wright County until |8fi;. After an interval devoted to mining in Idaho 'Territory, he returned to Chicago, where he opened a boot and she* store. In 1807 he sold out and subsequcntb engaged in fishing some four years. After this he kept a toll gate on the Elston Ko.nl some two years, then bought a country store business, w hich he operated about two years, since then has engaged in farming and gardening. He was' married in Chicago, March 20, iSfi7, to Miss Minnie S. Hrown, a native of Sweden.

GEORGE W. JONES, Postmaster and dealer in groceries, provisions, coal, etc. 'The business was established in 1870 by Kan- Jt Co., whom Mr Jones bought out in 1883. Mr. Jones was born in St. Lawrence County. N. \ .. in 1S3S. lie began business life in Sandusky City. Ohio/and afterward engaged in the lumber business in Sanilac' County. Mich. In August, t8fi2, he enlisted in Company E, 3d Ohio Cavalry, and served unlil the close of the war. lie was Postmaster of the cavalry department of the Army of the Cumberland, with the pay of a Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1865 he returned to Sandusky City, w here he was on the staff of the Sandnskv Daily Register until 1*08. when he removed t» Chicago. In this city he" engaged in dealing in grates and mantels, afterward adding the tin ami galvanized iron manufacture. Selling out the former department in 1870, he continues) in the latter until 1878. I rum that time until 1883 he engaged in mining in Colorado and New Mexico. Mr Jones was married in Sandusky. Ohio. May 30, i8bfi, to Miss Rose. M. Dewey, of that city. They have three children - George C, Irving P. (the first child born in Irving Park) and Rosa M. Mr. Jones is a member of the A. E. & A. M. and the G. A. K. of Colorado. He is still Mayor of the town of Maysville. Colorado. He has been a delegate to both county and Slate conventions.

R. R. MA TES, architect and contractor, was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in January. 1833. In 1S40, he came to the I'nited States and located in Chjcago, where he learned the carpenter's trade, serving his time with Jacob Harris. In 1853 he removed to Harrington Township and engaged in contracting and building on his own account, and resided there until the breaking out of the war. He enlisted in the early part of iSr.a. in Company E, 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was immediately elected Third Sergeant. After the fall of Vicksburg. he raised a company of colored troops in Corinth. Mississippi, which was mustered into the service as the Second I'nited Slaics Heavy Artillery, shortly afterward changed into Company E. Itth I'nited States Colored Infantry, of which he was appointed Second Lieutenant, and remained with them until the close of the war. Mr. Mates -luring his services took part in the siege of Vicksburg, and battles connected therewith, Arkansas Post, etc., and had many engagernents with colored troops against General Eorrcst and others. On the close of the war he returned to Harrington and resumed his profession. In i860, he settled in Irving Park, where he has since resided, lis- has built al! Ihe principal residences in Irving Park, in addition to manv in Harrington. Wauconda, Zurich, etc. Mr. Mates was married in Lake County, III., January 4. 1*59. ta Miss Annie I-auric, daughter of John Murphy, a wealthy farmer of Lake County, who came to Chicago in 1836, and after ten years' residence there settled on Government land. Their children arc - Lillie. now Mrs. J. Ijnborg, Fred and Erank (twins), Charles and Richard,

II. REHWOLDT, architect, Chicago, was horn in Mecklcnburg-Schweriii, Germany, in 1832. After ieaving school, he began the studv of architecture, spending some time under the instruction of the master mason engaged in the building of the ducal palace at Schwerin. In 1852, he came to the I'nited States and was engaged ai^rchitectural draughtsman in Memphis. Tenn., many years. In 1862 he settled in Chicago, and fiw or si< jwaf* later opened an office on his own account. Mr has been largely engaged in church work since that lime, the St. losepli cunvent, deMmytd in Ihe lire o{ 1I7I, being an example, lie hasdesigncd most of ihc lUMlMMal in Irving I'ark. having resided there since 1S70.

M. H. REYNOLDS, M. A., rink uf ihc Board of Trustee*, was hrsl elected to his present position in t?79. and re-elected in 1*80. 13!)2 and 18*3, lie was born in Putnam Cumity, N. V.. March 12. 1S44. Hi* parents inove>l lo Kalonah,Westi-hi-<.lcrCo.. N. V., in 1*47. lie was partially educated there, aflerward pursuing his studies in Gent-sec Wcsleyan Seminary, the 1'iiivcrsity of Michigan, and linallv entering the Rochester University, from which he graduated in IM6, with the degree A. U . "he degree M. A. being eonfercd bv his aim., mater in l««), In 1M6 he located in Chicago, and engaged in reading law; was admitled lo the far in I $67, and immediately engaged in practice in the city, which continued until he removed to Irving I'ark about 1*71. Here he engaged in the practice of his profession; also dealing in real estate, until clcried Clerk. Mr. Kevnnlds was. married in l.nckport, N. Y.. in tM*), to Miss Matilda L. Hunting, of that city. They have [our children- Fred II.. Josephine G., kalpli R. and Alke.j

Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park P. O., commonly called Humboldt, is a thriving suburb of Chicago, situated immediately north of Humboldt Park. The original plat comprises eighty acres - the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 36, Township 40. Range 13, east. My streets it is bounded as follows: north by Armitage Avenue; east by California Avenue; south by North Avenue, and west by Humboldt Boulevard. Prior to 1870 this eighty-acre tract was surrounded by a common rail fence and planted to corn. A frame shanty was the only residence upon it. The location is on a ridge from seventeen to nineteen feet above the Chicago datum. At the time above mentioned it was owned by Hurling ti Davis, of New York City, but during this year 1870 it was sold to Hansbrough & Hess for $2,500 per acre. They divided the tract into si.Ueen blocks, with the following streets: Humboldt, Heine and Mozart running north and south, and Cortland, Btootnington and Waubansia running cast ami west. Alniut this time Henry Orccncbaum became interested in the suburb, and made such immediate and extensive improvements in the place that its success was at once assured, from which fact he became known as the "rather of Humboldt Park " He was very enthusiastic as to its early development, on account of its proximity tn the park bearing the same name and its nearness to Chicago. He erected four houses - very neat two-story frame structures - at a cost of $2,000 each, for which he soon found purchasers. This was in 1S72. By the time there were thirty houses in the suburb Mr. Oreenebaum procured the organization of the Humboldt Park Literary Union, which furnishes social and literary advantages for such as desire to avail themselves of them. Humboldt I'ark Lodge, No, 6581 I. < ». <>. V.. was organized also about the same time. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St; Paul Railway Company extended a branch road to the place ami erected a depot there, thus providing easv act ess to the chy, and the street-car tracks were extended front Milwaukee Avenue along North Avenue to California Avenue, thus adding the great advantages of slreet-car communication with the city of Chicago, The postoffice was secured early in the history of the place, a drug store was established and now there arc, besides, a number of other stores. Settlement is now extending west ol the boulevard and east of California Avenue, and there are aliout fifteen hundred people there in all. The population is composed of Americans, Germans and Scandinavians, and an- peaceable and industrious. Up to the present time they have depended on wells for

MARTIN BROSTMEYF.R. of the lirm of Krecse \- Brestmeter, was born in Hesse-Cassc!. Germany. December 31. 1853. where he was educated. At the age of founccn he commented the cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed there until 1S70. when he came to the United Slates and settled in Chicago, lie has since been engaged ct.nsl.mlly al his trade, lie was married in Chicago, Seplemlier i8So, to Miss Annie l.aulcrbach, a native nf Pennsylvania. Mr. Drostmcycr is a member of the Social Workmen of Chicago.

CHARLES 1). CAMP, M. 0., physician and surgeon, was lx>rn in Wayne, Ashtalnda Co., Ohio. November 25, 1S44. lie went to Cleveland in 1S57 and attended school two years, after which hr was employed as a clerk in the City Itank of Cleveland until enlisting, April 10, 1862. in the S41I1 Ohio Volunteer Infantry foe three months. The regiment was mustered out Scplcmlwr 20, of this same year, and on reorganizing for three years was consolidated with tut 124th Ohio. He was a member of Company II of the 124th until October. |SY>3, when he was discharged for disability. Reluming to Cleveland, he engaged in telegraph and railwav service, in connection with which Ik came to Chicago in tS&i, and was aflerward slalioucd at Fort Wayne. St. Louis, Hecalu ami Springfield in the same service. He commenced thestudyof mnhcine at Springfield. III., in 1S74, attending St. l.ouis Molicjd College, and after practicing a short lime removed to Chicago in ]ST». He attended Rush Medical College the following winter, and commenced prat-lice in Chicago in the spring of lS"9,_ which he has continued to date. Hr. Camp is a member of the Chicago Pathological Socielv, is a Royal Arch Mason, Surgeon of Post No. 28, G. A. R.. member of Chicago Council. No. 6, Order of Chosen Friends, and ol the Telegraphers' N.ulual llenefit Association; for llti- |aM Iwo soeielies he is medical examiner.

I C. CCRTH, manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of furni- Mrc. The business was established originally in Chicago in lS7f. and removed to present stand in 1863. He' keeps * full line of g<»«ls: having the onlv "lore of the kind in lown. Mr. lutlh was born in the Khinish Provinces of Prussia, August S. 1S48. After leaving school he learned ihc lradeof cabinet-maker and wood-woikcr. In tSfrj he came to the United State*, Incaiing in Baltimore, following hi* trade there and in other parts of the United Slates unld lie settled in Chicago in 1*7'. He was married in Baltimore. April, 1808. lo Miss Hanner, a native of Iterlin. lYussia. They have lour children - William. John, Albert and F.mma. Mr. Curth is a member of K. of P.. I. O. 6. I'., and of the Turn Verein.

KITZPATRICK BROS., dealers in groceries and provisions were born in Chicago. Thomas E. l'itrpalriek formerly engaged in saw.milling and lumber business in M ichigan and Arkansas. Bernard l'itzpatrick was for some years a draughtsman in flW CWj Engineer's office. Chicago: afterward engaged upon topngrnphical work in Mexico, and later in Oregon.

I'REEsK & BROSTMEVKR. wholesale manufacturers nl bedsteads of all descriptions. This, though a young firm, already gives promise, their business being an increasing one. I he hrm was organized in 1683. when their present building was ertcieil. Thev employ fourteen hands and lum out len dozen bedsteads weelilv. John II. Kreesc was bom in the city of Oldenburg. I. crmanv,' April 6. 1S50,. He engaged in cabinet -making with his lalher al an earlv age In 1S75 he came tu the t'nited Slates and settled in Chicago, where he engaged in wood turning until the present linn was organized. He was married in Chicago May 20, 18*1. to Miss Rumsfeld, a native of Oldenburg. They have one daughter. Alma.

KRKESE & HAM LINE, wholesale manufacturers of bureaus, birc...i fi.ii-.ics and «r««IU«tanA. This business was originally established in IS72 by Freest- & Co., the four partner* doing all the work, and was MtbsMpjenlly enlarged from time 10 time. JW buildings I hey now occupy were erected in iSSo. The main wiilding is :i frame structure, (10x124 feel in area, three stones in height. In addition to this they have a brick building. 35*f>5 'l'rt> l*° stories, containing I he drying kilns, engines and boiler?- The) employ sixty-seven persons and turnout eighty-five pieces da"). I. I>. Vrcese, the senior member of the firm, was born in Oldenburg. Germane February 1, 1*51. Afier leasing school he earnc-i the cabinet-maker's trade and followed it in Germany until WO* In <hat near he cainc 10 the United States, and after working al his trade' one tear in Marengo. Iowa, he linallv srtllfd in <- bK f where he worked as a journeyman until he started for him*'!! » l»72. He was married in Chicago October 3, 1872. 1° Miss 1 *r>" line l.ehinkuhl. a native of < llilenburg, Germane. They have three children - Herman. Ilrnrvand Ida. .

lo the United States in 1*68, settling in Chicago, where he engaged in clerking. In 1*74 he l>egan clerking in drug*, continuing in this capacity until 1*^2, when hr established the business which he now operate*. In November. 1**2. he was np|Munleil Postmaster. Mr. Irerkse': is a graduate from the Chicago t ollegc ut Pharmacy,

JlT.il S 1. lill.HFRTsON. grocer, established liusincss May, 18S3. lie was born in Christiana, Norway, August *. 1*3*. lie MM apprenticed to the grocery business jt the age o( fifteen, and continued in it there until 1S07. when lie came to the United States and settled in Chicago. Here he engaged in general nccup.i. lions until 1*76, when he entered the employ of Npraguc. Warner \ Co.. with whom he remained until 1883. He was married in Christiana. Norway, to Miss Nine Evanson. Mr. (-ilbcrtson is a member of the Scandia Lodge, No. 1311, K. of II.

JOHNSON ft ELLERsoN, manufacturers ol sideboard*, center tables, etc. The business was originally established in Chicago in t S77. then employing some eight or ten men. Their present establishment was erected in I&S3. It is a frame building, three stories in hight, 40x90 feet in area. They employ thirty-rive men and turn out about St«> pieces monthly. Amos. Johnson, the senior mcmticr of the firm, was horn in Norway March 7, Is4'i After leaving school, at the age of fourteen years, he was taught 1 he management of wood-working machinery In l*t»bhe came to the United States and settled in Chicago. He was engaged in running wood-working machinery, and also in Wood carving until he organized his present business. lie was married in Chicago September. I SOS, to Miss Audrea Nelson, a native of Norway. They have six children - Kmma M., Nets T., Julia A , Homer I)., Ilatlie and Lottie T.

IAMBS A KEENEV, of the firm of D F. Keeney & Son. dealers in real estate. This lirm is the leading one in town. They have disposed of two subdivisions of thirty acres each in the last two years, and ha\e hail entire charge of real estate matters in the town of Pennock. James A., now junior member of the tirm, was bun. in IV* Moinc*. Iowa. March 27, ISI14. Hi* parents removed to Cook County in i860,, where he received his education. Iinishing at the Fvanston high school. He commenced his business life in l&Sl. Hi* father, U. F. Kcciicv. is a Realm also ol the prominent real estate tirm of J. F. Kcciicv *V llros., of Chicago.

HON. AITtiCVrrs KoVATS. Justice of the Peace and dealer in real estate, also representative of the Traders" I'-.re Insurance Company. Judge Kovals was born in Hungary August M, 1*30. He entered a military school ill 1*4*. and on the breaking out of the revolution in 1*4* look up arms under Kossuth. < In the suppression ol the movement lie was ordered into the ranks of the Austrian Army. While in that position he accompanied an Austrian Army to Schlcswigl lolstein. He succeeded in evading his officers at Hamburg ami took ship for London, where he arrived in tS$Ok The following spring he ailed (or New York, arriving in March. Shortly after he organized a force to assist General l.opcz in his Cuban expedition. The party got a* far as savannah and there learned of the capture of l ope*. The party then dissolved and Mr. Kovals remained in the South, engaged in giving instruction in sword exercise. The secessionist feeling at the time l>eiiig strong, and his sympathies being with the Government, he soon returned North, locating in Cincinnati. Ohio. In 1850 he settled in Chicago, engaging in various occupations until 1*61, when lie raised a company known as the Lincoln Kifles. This company was mustered into the United Mate* service as Company F, 24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, of which he was commissioned Captain. In December, 1863. he resigned on account of wounds, and shortly afterward was appointed Captain by 1'rcsidcnt Lincoln in the United States Veteran Corps; also Major, and was honorably discharged for gallant and meritorious service during the war, June Jo, t*b<>. After the war he was for a few months Inspector of Customs at Chicago, after which until 1*70 he was Justice of the l'eace. He then opened a real estate and law office in the city. He removed to Jefferson in 1871. and has since been twice elected to his present office. Judge Kov.its was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in |5j2 to Miss Martha A. Wallace, of that city. They have one son. F.ugcne G.a and also an adopted daughter.

PETER NFFF. grocer, established business in May. 1883. Hi- was born in ltaden, Germany, March 14. 1828. After leaving school he was apprenticed to a tanner. In 1 841) he came to the United States and engaged in tanning in Mullica Hill. N. J.: afterward in Philadelphia and Ph<rnixville. I'enn. In 1852 he settled in Chicago, where he engaged in the sale of paint*, oils. etc. Heinn Imrncd out in 1S7!. he started again and continued until 1S77. He then closed out his bnsinr** and removed to Yankton. Dak., where he engaged in the same business until I 'S3, when he started in the grocery business.

S. K. PARKER, ("reman. Armitage-avcnuc stables of the W< *t Division Railway Company, was born in Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y., July 23, 1S24.' He was brought up on a farm and followed that business "until 1S0I, when he removed to Chicago. Here he at once became connected with the horse railroad system. After alvout ten years he was ihin appointed foreman of the Collage (. rove barn, on the South Side: was afterward transferred to the \\<«t Side, and took charge of the present stables on their creel ion He m married in Shelby. N. V.. in i860, to Miss F.mma L. Norman. a native of the latter Slate. Mr. Parker is a life member of Superior l.odyc, N040, A. F. & A. M.

FRANCIS He I'l l III., attorney for the school board and Hoard ol Trustees, Jefferson, was born in the city ol Prcsbnrg, Hungary, in 18*5. lie took a collegiate course' in his native city, and also a ccurse in a law school. Afterward he settled in New York t ily, where he was admitted to the Itar in 1851. and was engaged in practice until 1S55. In tjie latter year he removed to Chicago, about live years later ri turning to New York lo take -1 position as attorney lot the I nug Island Kailwaj Company In isfio, he was offered and accepted the same position upon ific Chi. cago \ North-W estern Railroad Company, with headquarters in Chicago. From 1871 to 187O he held a position as attorney for the New York Central \ Hudson River Railroad, with headquarters in New York City, In 187(1 he finally settled in Chicago, where he has engaged in general practice. He married in New York City, in 1S53, Miss Mary A. Clark, of that city. They have live children - Clarence, Frank, liola, Mary F. (now Mrs. C. I'. RtlMell), and Anna. Mr. I>c Pfuhl is a Knight Templar in the Masonic Fraternity, also of the Consistory in Scottish Rite.

S. W. RIDERBURG, member of school board of the Eleventh District of Jefferson, was elected in the spring of 1RS2. He was born in Gothenburg. Sweden. July 1, 1846. In 1859 lie came to the United- States, located for a time in Albany, N. Y.. anil other places, ami then came West. In 18112 he settled in Chicago, wheie hi- engaged in floral gardening about two years. He then took a p .sition on the Chicago ft ^North- Western Railway in Iowa, as lo.omotivc engineer. In 1866 he took a position in the Union 1'acitic shop* al Omaha, Neb., as foreman of the truck making department. He returned to Chicago in tSuS to take charge as foreman in A. II. Andrews \ Co*.' furniture factory, and some two year* later he took charge of the picture frame factory of Sammons, i 'l.irk »v Co , with whom be remained until thr buildings were destroyed by fire in 1881. He then engaged in the manufacture of moldings on his own account until the spring of 1*83. when he received an appointment to the County Recorder's office, where he still remain*. Mr. Riderburg married in Chicago. March 21, 1871. Miss Alice llurquist, a native of liothenburg. Sweden. They have five children - Ililma, Alice, Waller. Lily and Arthur Alexander. Mr. Riderburg was a member of the Jefferson Hoard of Trustees from 1*7') to 1881, during two years lemg President of the board.

JOHN RASMUSSEN. proprietor of the Humboldt Park Coal Company. The business was established in the fall ol 1883. The company have erected buildings one hundred and twenty-live by one hundred and twelve feet in area, u*ing over forty thousand feet of lumber in their cousin 'it ion. and covering their entire stuck. Mr. Rasinussen was born in Denmark in 1850. He was educated there, and after leaving school engages! in farming. In I he spring of 1S72, he settled in Chicago, and was employed in a paint factory there many years. He was married in Ihmmark in 1871, to Miss Ann a Jocrgeiiscn. They have three children - Marios, Mary and Henry.

I.' J. RUM IT', agent Commercial Union Assurance Company of London, England, and the Springfield Insurance Company of Springfield. Mas*. The business was established in Humboldt Park in l*St. Mr. Rumpf was born in the city of Hamburg, tiermany. September lo 1855, and was educated in his native city. In iSm) he located in Chicago. where he took a position in the office of the agent of the llaltimore ft Ohio Railroad. In 1S73. he received an appointment in the Hank of Montreal, with which institution he is*i,|| connected. Mr. Rumpf is a member ol the K. of P.. and of several (icrman societies, all of the city. He is now a member of the school board of the Eleventh District of Jefferson.

IOIIN STklTSI.F. M. IV, physician and surgeon, wa» born in Westmoreland County. I'enn., January 8, 1846. His parents moved to Mercer County. III., about |8jf>. He finished his lili-rary education in Whcaton College. Dupage County, and commenced his professional studies in 1876. graduating from DelMttl Medical College in 1879. and in the sunt year from the Chicago College of Ophthalmology and Otology, lie commenced practice at once in lirand Island. Neb, the same year. In June, 1881. he returned to Chicago, w here he has since remained in practice. Dr, Slruble i< a very painstaking physician to secure pure medicines, compounding most of the material he use*. He is a member of the Chicago Eclectic Medical and Surgical Society, Illinois Slate Eclectic Medical Society, and i* a reg«*tered pharmaei*!.

P.'A. THOMPSON, manufacturer of splint and stave baskets of all kinds, established business in iSso. The buildings are thirty bv one hundred and twenty-five feel in area; employs twentylive 'hands and turns out three hundred dozen baskets daily. Mr.

Thompson was bom in Christiana, Xurway. March 15, 1542. He was educated in his native city, anil a! ihe age of lifteen went In sea. In 18*0, he came to the United Stale*, and after spending a short lime in New York City, finally settled in Chicago the «mc year. He was engaged in McCormick Kcapcr Works some live years: afterward some six or seven years in the ship supply business. He subsequently entered the employment of S. f. Kussell, basket manufacturer, where he remained until iSSo. He was married in Chicago, June si. 167:. to Mi»s Agnclta Troseth, a native <.f Norway. They have four children - Arthur I.. Josephine. Adelaide and (leotve.

H. TIMMKRMANN & SON. grocers, established business in 1S79. H. i'iminrrniann. the senior member of the firm, was born in Mecklenburg, liermany. January 15. 1*31. He was educated there and engaged in teaching until I&OJ, when he located in Chicago Here he opened school ami continued in charge of it up to 1879. His wife, whom he married in Mecklenburg, died, leaving seven children.

E. F. TIMMKRMANN was born in Mecklenburg August S5. iSoi, and was educaied under his father's infraction, lie commenced his business life in 1S75 in the employ of the American District Telegraph Company. In 1877 he commenced clerking in a grocery, in which he continued until 187a. Mr. Timmermann is a member of Humboldt Park l odge, No. 1113, A. O. V. W., and Humboldt Park I.iRlgc. No 531. K. uf H.

WILLIAM A. WEYLAND, senior member of the firm of Wcyland & Bandww. was born near the city of Uerlin. Prussia. December iS. 1*47. His parents billed in Milwaukee, Wis. in 1&4S, m which city he received his education. In iMis he located in Chicago and engaged in clerking in a grocery until 1874. when he organized the business of which be is now the head. Mr. Wcvland was married in Chicago May is, 1S70. to Miss Emma L. Uandow. of Waukesha County, Wis. They have one son, Charles

" WARREN WHITE, agent for Western Union White Bronze Company, 'of Detroit, Mich., manufacturers of bronze monuments, etc. Mr. White has been representing this companv in Jefferson I ownship since the fall of ||c was borii at

Boston. Mass.. in 1S33. He was educated in his native city, and afier leaving school learned the carpenter's trade. In 1S57 he removed to St. Taul, Minn., where he was captain of police two years. In 1361 he enlisted in the sd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged on account of disability after serving about nine months. He afterward engaged in mercantile business in New Wk City and in lvtr.nl. Mich., 'ater engaged in dipping horses and mules Smith. In 1H64 he engaged in traveling for a mercantile house in Indianapolis. Ind., and subsequently traveled fur a fitrnttL.ru house in Dubuque, Iowa several vears In iKSohc settled in Cook County. III., representing the piano firm of

Crag In

Cragin is situated on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad, seven miles from Chicago. The station was established here a short time after the openingof the previous to which lime there we're but few houses here' At present there are twenty-seven houses and a population of over two hundred. There is also one general store, two school-houses and three saloons \ Congregational Church was organized hereon Sundav December 9, 1883, with eleven members, by the Rev. J M w dhams. Cragin is situated 011 the south half of Section 33. Kclvyn Grove is situated about one mile northeast oT Cragin, on the southwest quarter of .Section 2- aud on the Relt Line of railway around Chicago At this point there are but a few houses.

The Cragin Manufacturing Company's works are located near the station at Cragin. The iirm of Cragin Brothers commenced busincs> in Chicago at -10 I akc Street May , 1866. The firm was then composed of Henry R, Charles (.., William P. and Edward F Cragin. I he business was that of jobbers of tin plate sheet iron, tinners' supplies and house furnishing goods' \\tthm two years Charles C. Cragin left the firm and >n April, ,?69 Henry B. Cragin retired. Their places were supplied by Charles G. Chandler and Henry S Sla> maker, the firm name changing to Cragin Bros. &

Co. In the fall of 1S71 the firm removed to 139 Lake Street, and were scarcely settled in their new quarters when the great fire reduced their store to ashes. Within five days new quarters were secured at 56 and 58 North Clinton Street, and they were carrying on their business asusual. In 1872 they removed to their present location, '43 aml M5 Lake Street. On January 1, 1874, Mr. Slaymaker retired, and the firm name was changed to Cragin Itros. & Chandler. In 1S7S the firm commenced to manufacture coal hods and other sheet iron goods, and also commenced the business of galvanizing and the manufacture of tinware. Owing to ill-health, Mr. Chandler retired from the firm in December, t88i,and Charles L. I ludley entered, the firm name again changing to Cragin Bros. & Co. In the spring of 1882, on account of the increase of business, their factory was removed from Michigan Street to the junction of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. l'aul Railway with the Chicago ft North- W estem, about six miles from the Chicago Court-House. The place was named Cragin, a depot was built, a postoffice established and a prosperous town commenced. The Belt Line Railway Company have since made this station the terminus of their road, and thus the shipping facilities of Cragin are among the best in Cook County. In the same year the firm purchased the entire plant of the Northfield Rivet Company, of Northfield, Conn., antl moved the machinery and workmen to the new works at Cragin. At present this is the only manufactory of rivets in the West.

Early in 1883 the Cragin Manufacturing Company was organized with a paid in capital of $150,000. The following officers were elected; President, W. P. Cmgin; secretary, Charles L. 1 >.uKc\ : tic a Mirer, Edward F. Cragin. These with General John L. Thompson and J. V. Taylor were elected directors for the year. During the year their galvanizing department was enlarged to include the manufacture of galvanized sheet iron. The diiferent departments of their business include the manufacture of rivets and bolts, tinware, oil stoves, peerless stove-pipe, coal hods, patent oil cans, egg beaters and miscellaneous goods, and galvanizing and japanning. On the 1st of X oveniber, 1883, Charles Dudicy, secretary of the company antl superintendent of the factory, in attempting to get on a moving train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, missed his footing and fell under the cars. He survived but a few hours. Edward F. Cragin was elected secretary to fill the vacancy, and W. p. Cragin assumed the duties of superintendent. The plant of the company is on eleven acres of land owned by them. Building A is used fur the japanning department, having two large ovens attached for baking and drying. Building B is used for galvanizing, the arrangements being complete for galvanizing large and small castings and sheet iron.

The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, drawers of iron and steel wire, was established at Worcester, Mass., in 1831. It has now the largest wire mills in the world, employs between three anil four thousand operatives and manufactures over one hundred different varieties of wire. The officers of the company are: P. L. Moen. president : Charles F. Washburn, vicepresident and secretary, and Charles G. Morgan, general superintendent. In August, 1877, it was deemed advisable to try the experiment of opening a branch at Chicago, and a conditional engagement was made with H B. Cragin to take charge of such branch. It was believed that Mr. Cragin would have special qualifications for the position. Before six months had passed it became evident that the branch would be a success Quartan were at once procured at 215 Lake Street.

desk room on the second floor ami storage on the fourth floor. At first it was designed to take orders for direct shipment from the works at Worcester, carrying only a light stock at Chicago to supply the smaller demands and to fill the orders ot parties who could not wait for the goods to be sent from the factory. But the business developed v> rapidly that on January 1, 1879, the premises at No. 107 I,ake .Street, with basement, first, third and fourth floors were engaged for three years. At the expiration of this period the business had still more largely developed and a lease was made of the whole building, Nos. 107 and 109 Lake, for a period of five years from January 1, In the meantime it became evident that a larger stock should be carried in Chicago, and it became necessary to hire outside storage. The weight of the goods is so great that it was necessary to store in basements Short lea-.es were taken as a rule, for storage was required only during the close of navigation. But it was found inconvenient to have warehouses situated at different points, and it was sometimes difficult to procure sufficient room. Consequently, on June 1, 18S2. nearly three acres of land were purchased at the intersection of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, with the Belt Line at the point subsequently named Cragin upon which the erection of a warehouse was commenced May 1. 1883. The warehouse was completed Octobei 1 of the same year. It is at this time one of the finest, if not the finest warehouse in the West, as regards size, care in construction, and adaptability to the purposes for which it was erected. Its dimensions'are one hundred and seventy-two by two hundred feet, and its capacity from five hundred to six hundred cars. Although but one story it is forty feet high. It is constructed entirely of brick, stone, iron and asphaltum, and is absolutely fire-pr.x>f. All the openings are provided with iron shutters that are handled from six points, making it possible for one man to shut them all in a few minutes. Several thousand dollars were expended for gravel, so that the floor might be on a level with the floors of cars, and as the building is surrounded by railroads on three sides, loading and Unloading cars on any of the roads can be accomplished most expeditiously. There has also been erected on the smith of the warehouse a comfortable dwelling for its superintendent. The total amount of this expenditure has been about $40,000. Such a saving has been effected in insurance, cartage and time, that it is probable the example set by this company will at no distant day be followed by other wholesale houses of Chicago, anil that within a few years the entire line of the Belt railway will be occupied by warehouses and manufacturing industries.

WkUky Point. - This famous point is in the immediate vicinitv of Cragin. It is where the first quarterly Methodist meeting was held in Jefferson Township. There are various " true reasons " given for the origin of the name. One is that Deacon Lovett used to keep herein early days, a barrel of "genuine copper distilled " whisky, which he sold at "two cents per thttl bottomed tumblerful." Another is that George Merrill, in those same early days, kept tavern in the vicinity, that at his tavern good whisky was much more plentiful then good water, and that farmers living to the westward, who were in the habit of stopping at this tavern on their way to and from Chicago to regale themselves on Mr. Merrills excellent whisky, gave the place this name. And still another is that there were living near the Point two early settlers who were, like the majority of their neighbors,' addicted to bibulous habits, and that on a certain occasion when their favorite beverage had run low, in order to gratify their appetite, they resorted to the whisky that had been used by their wives to make -'whisky pickles," and thus pretty nearly spoiled themselves and quite spoiled the pickles.

And yet another theory is that previous to the removal of the Pottawatomie Indians from the western shores of Lake Michigan, a certain liquor merchant in Chicago buried a number of barrels of whisky in the earth at this Point, carefully strewing leaves over the place of interment, for the purpose of concealing the whisky from the before-mentioned marauding Indians.

Another theory still is that Mr. Rowley, who lived at the point of the grove, usually kept on hand a barrel of whisky for the purpose of "dispensing it to such of the early inhabitants as had to have it to take their quinine in."

Cragin Biographical Sketches

C E. BELLEW. agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. an«l assistant Postmaster, was born in Ccdarburg, Ozaukee CO., Wis., November 19. 1*53. lie was educated al the Madison University, and commenced hi* business life in IS70 as telegraph operator in a railroad office. He was subseoucnllv agent of the C, Si. ft St. P. K. R. at IVnaukee and Richard. Wis. lie rame to Chicago as operator and chief clerk at the North Chicago office, and from there was promoted to assistant train dispatcher at the main office. In March. 1id3.be look charge of his present office, and on the transfer to the C. M, .V St. P., retained it.

HENRY S. UREEHEN', foreman of the machinery departmcnt of the Cragin Manufacturing Company, was born in Martford, Conn., in 1846. lie was educated in his native city, and at the age of seventeen entered the employ of the Hartford Foundry ,v Machine Company, with whom he learned his trade, lie had previous to this been employed for short intervals in a lithographing establishment and in a boiler shop, and rolling mills. Alter rinMiing his trad.- he was employed in the Oovernment shops at Ihc Portsmouth Navv Yard: thence he removed to New York City, where he was connected with the Ouinted Iron Work*. His spcci.il work has l>ccn in mathematical instrument making, in which line he worked in the United States coast survey, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and with J. W. tiuccn. of Philadelphia, l'cnn. In I.Hjo'he removed West/locating in tjuincy. III., where he was appointed engineer on a locomotive on the Wabash vV St Louis Railroad. From Ouincy he returned to Chicago and. after a short interval, was appointed in 1.S71) to his present position. Mr. Bneden was married In Hannibal. Mo., to Miss Florence t;. (.ray. a native of New York Slate. They have one child. Herbert F.

IIKNRY COOK, foreman of ihc galvanizing department of the Cragin Manufacturing Company, was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1*39,. Al the age of fourlcen years he learned the trade of galvanizing, and followed it until 1862. lie then went into iron and steel manufacturing, in which he continued until |s<,7, when he came to the United States and settled in Chicago. Here he organized .1 firm 10 engage in the manufacture of galvanized iron, and retained his connection with the tirm until he took hi- present p.«iiion in 1*7*- Mr. Cook was married 111 Staffordshire. England, June 20. I*<>2. to Miss Sarah Hurt on. I hey have live children-William J- Thomas E., Edwin B., Henry A. and Alfred I. . , ,

I). M. FULLER, foreman of the rivet department of the Cra- .-in Manufacturing Company, was born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., September 16. 1S47. tic was educated ill his native town, and at ihe age of sixteen began the machinist's trade at Holyokc, Mass. He afterward followed his trade in Meriden. Wallingfor.l, ami New Haven, Conii., wosequcnily entering the employ of the QumnepiK Rivet Company, at nulnncpiar, Conn., and also a rivet company at N'orlhford, Conn. In 1SS2 he came West, and in August of the same year was appointed to his present position. He was married in Chicopee. Mass.. August 3. '867. W Miss Mary Ann I rawford of North l ee, Mass.; two children survive her - Jennie A. and J.vdia E. Mr. Fuller again married June 12. 1S71, at Meriden. Conn., Miss Celia E. Harrow, of Wallingford. Conn. I hey have one son. Walter Everett.

tiEORCE 1. OUROH'S, foreman of the tin and sheet iron department of'thc Cragin Manufacturing Companv. is n son of Hubbard Gurgius, who settled in Chicago in 1846, and engaged in shoe-making on the North Side for many years, and died in 1877, leaving l»o sons am! three daughters. George I. was born in Chi. cago lanuarv 25. 1*47. and was educated in the city schools. In 1S64 he began the trade of tinsmith, and has followed it uninterrnptedly since, having been in business on his own account some years. He was appointed to his present position October lO, diatcly west of Irving Park. It was named in honor of John Gray, whose fine residence is quite near the station. It is located on Section 22.

Grayland Biographical Sketches

GEORGE L.GRAY, manager of the Home Insurance Company, al Chicago, is a son or Honorable John Gray, ol Jefferson, - and was bom in Chicago March aS, 1846. During the war he was connected for a time with the Quartermaster's department at Nashville, Term. In 1870 he entered the employ of Ine Home Sewing Machine Company, at Chicago, in a subordinate capacity, and has since then passed through all the departments, in 1S79 being appointed manager. He married at Jefferson, Cook County. February 17, i37t. Miss Mary A. Fleming, a native of Ohio.' They have one child. Cora. Mr. Gray is a member of l'rovidence Lodge, No. ni. A, F. & A. M.

HON. JOHN GRAY, ex-county sheriff and old settler, was born in Franklin County, N. V., November 3. 1B10. He was brought up on a farm and followed farming there (with the exceplion of some two years when he was employed in a saw mill) until 1837. "hen he settled in Chicago. About one vear after his arrival he took charge of the Chicago Hotel, corner West Lake and Canal streets, and afterward opened a livery stable, operating the up to 1S50- lie sold out and opened a hotel at Dutchman's

Point, Nile* Township, Cook County, where he remained about five years- He then bought a farm in Jefferson Township, on which he still resides. In 185S he was elected Sheriff, and held the office until i860; he then returned 10 his farm. Mr. Gray was married in Franklin County, N. Y.. February 20, 1S34. to Miss Fhebe M. Allen, of the same county. Tliev have six children- Jane E., married H, Howland; Caroline M., married M, Hoffman ; Allen W., married Sarah H. Adams ; Clara M.. now Mis. I.T. Merchant; George L, married Mary Fleming, and Hattie. now Mrs. F.J. Sherman.

F. J. SHERMAN, son of Oren Sherman, one of the settlers of [836. was born in Jamestown. Chautauu.ua Co., N.Y.. April 7, 1S47. He was educated in Chicago, and since entering upon his business life has principally been r

Forest Glen

This embryo village is located on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway, ten miles from Chicago. I he part already platted, about ten acres, lies on \V. C. Ha/Ieton s farm, ami is described as the center of the cast half of the west two-thirds of the northeast quarter of Section 9 Township 40, Range 13 east. The name comes down from the home of Dr. Mcrcereau. which is situated just north of the North Hank of the Chicago River, past which « Forest Glen Avenue" runs. Ihe railroad station, village and post-office are thus naturally named Forest Glen. Forest Glen Avenue here intersects the hlston r-iad, and the old Indian boundary line intersects both, a short distance north of their intersection. I he plat has not as yet been recorded, nor the village surveyed. Application for the establishment of a post-office has been made, and \V. C. Hazleton's namesent forward as Postmaster. The location is very fine surrounded by groves on the north and east. Excellent drainage is furnished by ravines running up from the North Branch, which is about sixty rods distant to the northeast. The station is a very neat brick structure limit at a cost of $2,700, and was opened on the 17th of December. ,8*3. I he depot grounds were donated to the railroad company by the citizens of the place, and he brick of which the depot is built were donated by the rorest Glen Brick & Tile Company, a company recently organized for the purpose of making brick and tile at this place, with a capital of §100,000 enlisted September 18, 1861. in Company D, 8th Illinois Cavalry On (he organization of the regiment he was etecied Orderly Sergeant, promoted to Second, afterward First Lieutenant, and at the close of the war he held Ihe commission of Captain of the same com. pany. This Slh Regiment wasattached to the Armyol the I'otonuc. and had inscribed on its banners the names of one hundred bailies. Captain Hazelton was with his regiment continuously with ihe exception of some six months, during which time he was detached on special duly. He look part in the bailies of Anlielam, Gettysburg, Peninsula campaign, Petersburg campaign, and many others. At Ihe close of the war in 1S65, he bought where he now resides. Mr. Haichon married in Merrimack Cnunty, N. II.. in 1863. Miss Fannie A. Morrill, of thai county. They have four children, one son and three daughters. Mr. Hatellon is a prominent memberof ihe Congregational Church. During his residence in lefferson he held the office of treasurer of the school board some twelve to

PETER W. BANDOW. of the firm of Wcyland & Bandow, grocers, was born in the town of Menomonee. Waukesha Co,, Wit., in March, 1S55. He came 10 Chicago in the fall of 1873. and engaged as a clerk with C. H. Niemann &Co., until, June 2, 1S75, the present firm succeeded them. They occupy two stores, 50170 feet in area, employ four clerks and run two delivery wagons. Mr. Bandow was commissioned notary public by Governor McCullom. in May. 1878. which office he now holds, and was also elected and commissioned by the same Governor as Justice of the Peace in April, 1879, which office he resigned shortly after. He was married on January 9. 1S79, to MUs Acquilla Barndt, of West Granville, Milwaukee Co., Wis. They have two children, Mabel I- and Maud A. Novjmbcr tg. 1SS3, he petitioned for the establishment of a new post-office at his place of business; which was granted, and he was appointed Postmaster thereof on January II, 1S84, ami commissioned by Ihe Hon. W. CJ. Grcsham. Postmaster-General, and as a compliment to him from the Hon. George E. Adams, member of Congress of the Third Congressional District, the office was named llandow.

This village lies in the eastern part of the township. The original plat comprised the east half of the southeast quarter and the north half of the northwest quarter of Section 12. Shackfoid's subdivision comprises the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 12, and Jackson's subdivision comprises the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 11. It is one mile>cst of Sumnicrdale, a station on the Milwaukee Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railroad, six and six-tenth miles from Chicago. It is partly located on the southwest ends of the elevated land extending south from Milwaukee, and known as Milwaukee Ridge. On this ritlge is found excellent well water bv digging to a depth of from twelve to twenty feet. In early days the hill immediately north of and adjoining Bowmanville received the name of Roc's hill, from Hiram Roe, who lived very near the present location of J. A. Budlong's residence, and kept whisky for the accommodation of the settlers on their way to and from Chicago. From this form of the words "Roe's hill," the present Ro^ehill was derived. The name Bowmanville was derived from a Mr. Bowman who having in 1850 purchased a considerable tract of laud, sold it out in smaller tracts, of from two to ten acres, and left the country. It was afterward discovered that his title was not good, and those who had purchased of him, were obliged to pay for the land a second time. The first store in this' place was built by Christian Brady, in 1868, who came from Kentucky in 1865, built a saloon in Bowmanville in 1867, and added the store m 1S68. The store building is twenty-two by thirty-two feet in size, the saloon part forty-two bv fifty-two. The store was rented to"AI." Jackson, who in a short time sold his stock of merchandise to John Berg. In 1872 Mr. Berg sold out to Haptiste Putnam and started a store of his own, the second store in the place. In 1874 Mr. Krudy took the store into his own hands and has since conducted the business. The first house built in the town, was a small frame one, by John Fountain, in 1854. The first saloon started was by Leonard Mehr {01856. Mr. Mehr died in i860. Another saloon was started by Thomas Freestone in his hotel, but the saloon was abandoned in 1857. A brewery was started bv Freestone and John Rohrlwch. When Mr. Yollmer came to Bowmanville he bought it, and in 1 ^73 built a brick building for ice and a frame one for malt, the whole costing $8,000. At the present time there are eight Saloons in the place. The original survey and platting of the town was quite fa-ilty. On the 14th of August, 1876, the village engineer of Jefferson reported that he had resurveved the subdivision of Bowmanville and set stakes at the centers of streets in that subdivision, and that many fences and houses were standing on the streets.

Budlong's Fickle Factory was started in 1S69. It is owned by Lyman A. and I. A. Hudlong. It is a two story frame building with wagon shedsattached and sheds for salting; the pickles. It has been enlarged from time to time as the increase of the business required. The entire cost for steam boiler and pumps has been about $5,500. and for tubs ami sailing v. its about §10.500. A general assortment of pickles is made, including cucumbers, beets, onions, cauliilowers. tomatoes, etc. The Capacity of the factory is thirty thousand barrels, Bowmanville now contains about five hundred inhabitants.

Bowmakville Biographical Skktlhf.S.

BOWMAKVILLE BIOGRAPHICAL SKKTLHF.S. J. X BACK. harness-makcr. Bowmanville. was horn in Belgium. September 28. 1S46. lie learned hi* trade in Belgium, and worked ;it il there and in France up to his coming to the United State* in 1*70. t<» Chicago, where he worked as journeyman. In I S7'* he came to It. twmunvillc, lelTrrxm Township, and »|irnrd his

ANTON CONRAD was born in lladen. Oermany. June IJ, 1825. lie came in l8s|6 to New York l ily, where he resided for two year*: then went to Louisville, Kv.. and for ten years worked in ihe foundry of I'. F. Avery. In 1S57 he came to Chicago, and lor eight years kept a saloon and biurding-hoiiM'. In ISo4 he came to bowmanville, Jefferson township, ami for seven years was connected with Mr. Yollmer in brewing. To him he sold (MM his interest, and from I '71 to 18S1 car. ieil on a saloon, which, having sold out to George Staff, he turned his attention to gardening. Mr Conrad was married to Caroline Trout, of Canton. Ohio. August 11. is,s. | hev have six children - Theresa (now Mrs. II. Uerghaur). John. Ophelia (now Mrs. Fred. Gildcrman), Edward. Annie (now Mrs. Charles Naglc) and Frank.

STEPHEN M. DART, deceased, was born in Kntfield. Conn., in tScuf. Most of his early life wis spent in Hartford. Conn., as a dealer in line horses, after which Ik- went to St. I.o-iis ami kept what was known as the Abbey House, near that city, for twelve years. In 1S7S he came to Jefferson Township, ami look charge of hotel known as Bowmanville Road House, of which he was proprietor up to his death. May 13, 1883. lie was largely engaged in raising and selling stock. He always took an active pari ami assistnl pecuniarily the Congregational Church of Itowmanville. ||e was mairied to Mrs. Sheldon IS. Carpenter in 1851. She has one son. George C.

WILLIAM GOELZ. M. I)., was born in YVurlcmbcrg. Oermany, November |9, 1819. He look a course of medicine in the University of Tubingen. Wurtemberg, graduating in 184J. after which he practiced seven vears in Wurtemberg In iSjo he came to Chicago, where he has since practiced his profession. Since 1873 he has resided in Itowmanville. Jefferson t ownship. He was mar. ncd to MUs Josephine Kgger, of Wurtemberg. [anuarv 11). 1*47. They have three children - William. August and "Dorothea.

United States in 1*47, to Chicago, where they resided up to 1S00. then moving to Itowmanville. Jefferson Township, and engaging in gardening up to the death of the father. March, 187;. His mother is still living. The subject of this sketch was engaged in teaching in public schools of Chicago for ten years, after which he .was employed as book-kct'|H-r for C. L. Nierioff. hanker, for one year. He then taught in schools at Napcrville, I >u Cage Co.. III., for two year*, returned to Chicago and was bo»k-kcc|ier for Kasebcrg & Strasser's planing mill lor seven years, then for K. G. Smith, brewer, up to 1871. then for Jacob l.a'ucr. iv victor of planing mill, for eighteen months; afterwards in real . e bnsinessand also book-keeper (or August Etten, sash, door ...d blind manufacturer. He came to Itowmanville, Jefferson Township, in IS75, and engaged in gardening up to 1871), when he started his present saloon. Ilcis now Justice of the I'eace and has been Yillage Clerk of llowmanville two terms, and is now Town I lerk, and has been I. >r six years. His first wife was Miss Margaret liepper, of Prussia, who died leaving no children. His present wife was Miss Anna M Kicsgen, of Prussia. They have three children - Keltic, John X. and P.arlura.

PEHER S. PETERSON", nurseryman, was born In Sweden June 15. 1830. He came to the United Slates in 1S52, and at once engaged in the nursery business in Rochester, X. V. In 1650 he came to Chicago, ami for nine years acted as agent foe the Rochester nurseries In 1865 lie settled in Jefferson, and opened his present nursery; he is also largely engaged in stock raising, lie has been trustee of Jefferson Township for live years. Mr. Peterson was married to Miss Mary A. Gage, of Boston, Mass.. in October, I865. They have one child - William A.

PlIII.IP SCHITT, proprietor of meat market, was |n»m in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, October 28, 1S40, He with his parents, l.udwig and Margaret, came to the United Stales in 1848. and first settled in Chicago, where they remained up to isjij, then moving 10 Itowmanville, |cflcrson Township, where they now reside, gardening. The subject of this sketch learned the trade of a carpenti r in Chicago, and worked at his trade there until he came to llowmanville, where he also worked at il for eight years. In 1 87S he started his present meat market. He married Miss Bertha s. Smith, of Seahouse, Germany, August 2, ISbS. They have seven children - Charlotte L. Philip C, Henry C, Margaret J., Ilertha V... Dorothea and Man K.

GEORGE STAPF. Itowmanville, P. O. H.ivelock. was horn in Saxony, Germany. December 8. 1840. He came to the United States in 1873, to Chicago, where he first worked in a tannery. I le afterward opened a «!.»!n corner of Wcllsand Michigan streets, which he continued up to 1881, then moving to Itowmanville, Jefferson Township, Cook Countv, He married Mis* Emily Oltenburg, of Milwaukee. \Yis.. August 8, 1S75. They have three children - llcnrv. Ilattic and George.

October 3. 1823. He came to the United States on November 5. 1851. to Louisville. Kentucky, where for seven years he worked in a brewerv. In I i-sS came to Bowmanville, Jefferson Township, and started his present brewery. He was marries) to Miss Elixaln-th Thuring, of Sw itzerland, Slay 27, 1855. She died in 1872. leaving four children - Henry, Louisa. Emelia and Caroline. Hi*prcM*nt wife was a widow, Mrs. Catharine ><chmicdcl. of Bullalo. New York, with two children. Henry and Elizabeth. They were married August 12, 1873.

G A I.Fc Wood

This small hamlet is located on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.eight and seven-tenths miles from Chicago. The plat of the town includes three hundred and twenty acres, and is the original farm owned by Abram dale. It comprises the southeast quarter of Section 31, and the southwest quarter of Section 32. Township 40 north. Range 1.? east, of the third principal meridian. The station house was erected in 1872, but il was only a tlag station until January, 1883, when suburban trains commenced making regular stops. In September Charles (1. Whitcomb was appointed station Bgent, and remains in this position. The population of the place is about twenty-five, exclusive of the employes of the Western Brick & Tile Manufacturing Company, a short sketch of which is here introduced.

The Western lirick^ Tilt Manufacturing Company. This company was organized October 1, 1883, and established its works at Galewood in the latter part of the same month. The officers of the company are the following: President, Homer Pennocfc; vice-president, D. K. Tripp; secretary, A. W. Penny - present secretary, Dc Witt C C"le; treasurer, K. Koch; superintendent and general manager, William 1.. Gregg. The authorized capital of the company is $500,000. The object of this company is to manufacture pressed brick, using the machinery for the purpose invented and patented by William L. Gregg. The clay at Galewood is of a superior quality for the manufacture of brick. Experiments by Mr. Gregg with this clay led to the discovery that the brick made of this was not only of excellent quality, but burns a fine red color, equal in all respects except color to the Philadelphia and Baltimore brick. This discovery led Mr. Gregg to change his original design of establishing the works at Pennock, and to establish them at Galewood. The works are very extensive, and the whole system is under cover so that the work of manufacture can be carried on throughout th year. The works are the most extensive of the kind 111 the United States. The machines used in this establishment arc Gregg's triple-pressure brick machines, with which any amount of pressure can be obtained up to three hundred tons. The machinery in position is capable of making fifty million brick per year, and it is the design to double the capacity during the ensuing Season. Ornamental and front brick of various kinds are made as well as ordinary stock brick. The bed of clay from which these bricks arc made is ninety feet thick, and is mined like coal. The works are lighted by the Edison electric light, fifty lamps being lighted for the first time November 11, 1883, The works are heated by steam. The tests these bricks have been submitted to arc considered eminently satisfactory as to their resistance to pressure. Q. A. Gilmore, Lieutenant- Colonel of Engineers, after making the tests, reported to Mr. Gregg under date of August 14, 1879, that the bricks possess remarkable density, hardness and compressive strength. Three official tests were made by Lieutenant-Colonel Brevet Major-Generali Gilmore: In the first test three bricks were placed in a pile, one upon another, without mortar, and the pile was then subjected to a pressure of one hundred thousand pounds without cracking or disturbance of any kind. The other tests were equally satisfactory. The greatest resistance shown was in the case of some two inch cubes cut from the bricks and crushed separately, the pressure required being equal to ten thousand pounds to the square inch.

Lies at the intersection of the Chicago, Milwaukee it St. Paul Railway and the Chicago & North- Western, eight miles from the Court-house at Chicago. The original plat embraced the northwest quarter of Section 15. The southwest quarter of Section t5, except the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of this section, embraced Lombard's Addition to Montrose. This part excepted belongs to Irving Park as Baxter's addition to that hamlet Lombard's addition also included the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 16. Lewis's addition lies in the north part of the southeast quarter of Section 16.

Eighty acres of the land, now embraced in plat of Montrose, was purchased somewhat over twenty years ago by Dr. Gibbs from a Mr. Kippe. for $800. After owning it nineteen years Mr. Gibbs sold it to J. F. F.berhart. Three years later John Soucrby purchased it and.

1'he high school building is located at Montrose, and is of easy access by railroad from four different directions. The, history of the Church at Montrose may be found under the head Religious History of the township. Montrose is for the most part a very pretty suburb, having a large proportion of very pretty residences and a population of about four hundred. Shade trees, evergreen and deciduous, add to the beauty of the town. The post-office at Montrose is named Mayfair, and was established in April, 1883, with W. N. Stevens for first Postmaster.

This suburb is situated on the southeast quarter of Section 34, Township 40, Range 13. It is bounded on the north by Armitage Avenue, on the cast by Crawford Avenue, on the south by North Avenue, and on the west by Columbia Avenue. The streets running exst and west areCourtland.Bloomington und Waubansia avenues and those running north and south are Douglas, Lincoln, Franklin, Center, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania avenues. The depot of the Chicago & North- Western Railroad stands at the corner of Bloomington ami Center avenues. The first house built here was by ].athman in the spring of 1882, and two others were erected almost immediately afterward by Frank Breit and Martin Keller. In the summer of 1882 ten or twelve houses were erected by E. S. Dreyer & Co., and about the same time two were erected by James F. Keeney. At the present time there are about thirty houses in all in the village and about one hundred and fifty people. There is a store on North Avenue, but no post-office, mail being obtained at Cragin or at Pacific Junction. At Pacific Junction there is a school-house and railroad station as well as post-office. At Garfield, E. S. Dryer & Co. erected, in i88j, a large building which was designed as a iocomotive manufactory, but it has not been used, as yet, for that purpose; a portion of the building has been' occupied for the past months by the Laminated Wood Company.

This new village is bounded as follows: North by Divcrsy Street; cast by Ballot! Avenue; south by Fuh lerton Avenue; west by Crawford Avenue. In this part of the village the lots arc numbered from two to thirty inclusive. To the southwest is a smaller subdivision, in which the lots arc numbered from forty to forty-nine inclusive. This subdivision is bounded by Fullerton Avenue on the north; by Pennsylvania Avenue on the east; by Humboldt Avenue on the south, and by Columbia Avenue on the west. This village is owned by Homer Pennock, who has recently purchased about twelve hundred acres of land in the immediate vicinity, upon which is located the buildings of the Miltimorc Elastic Steel Car Wheel Company, where the celebrated elastic steel car wheels invented by John Miltimore are made.

Caldwell'S Reserve History Of Jeffkrson

It is watered by the North Mranrh of the Chicago River, and lies in both Jefferson and Niles townships. When the lands surrounding this reserve were purchased from the Indians, it was reserved for Hilly Caldwell, whose history may be found in the first volume of our History of Chicago. There are other reservations in different parts of the county, which are referred to in their proper connection.

A. T. JACKSON was tmrn in Fort l*carhorn. Chicago. August 30, 1S41. lit* early life was spent with his mother, his father having died in 184a: at the breaking out ol the late Civil War. he enlisted in Company F. Sth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry and served until the close of the war: he then returned to C hicago and looked after his real estate interest* then- up to 1S71; in 1S7.S, he came to letTerson Township, Cook County, and opened his present grain house, which has grown to be a large business; he married Miss Julia M. Palchin. of Buffalo, N. V. They have two children - Harry K. and Albert.

at what was then known as " The Butternuts," June 12. 1S00. His early life was spent upon a farm, tip to the age of ten, when upon the death of his father he went to Chautauqua County, N. Y-, and worked upon a (arm. In IM5 he went to Buffalo. N. \ .. ami shortly afterwards was emploved on the public work&of the Buffalo harbor. At the recommendation to Washington of hisemployer, Isaac Smith, he was appointed to build the public works and to lay out the harbor of Chicago. He landed in Chicago from a schooner in May, 1*13, which sailed from Buffalo harlnir. He built the bridges and dredged the r.ver, and also built the docks in Chicago, upon which he was engaged up to 1841. From that time up to the day of his death, which occurred of cholera. June 15, 1S41), he was overseer of all government property at Chicago. He was one of the first A|. dermen under the hrst Mayor of Chicago, William B. Ogden. He and his wife were of the first twelve persons that organized the first Baptist Church in Chicago. He married MUs Luiinda Davis, of Saratoga County, N.Y., Novemlx-r 21, 1S22, in Hanover. Chautauqua Co., N, V.. who was born June 22. 1800. and died January 14, |S«8, in Jefferson Township. Cook CoOnty, leaving six children - Samuel F.., I.ydia A. (now Mrs. (J. F. Gear!, Ann Lliia (now Mrs. William Jacques), Abram V". K., James A. and Albert V.

A. V. JACKSON was born in Chicago July 7, 1K34. his early life was spent with his parents. In 1851 he started in life for himself, and for five yearn worked for F. II. Benson in the lightning rod business; then in 1S5S, he went to Crystal Uike, engaged in farming up to iS'hi, at Bowmanville, Cook County; he was engaged in gardening up to 1S62. when, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he enlisjed in the marine artillery for thrc# years, Returning to Bowmanville, he was again engaged in market gardening up to 1SS0. when he started his present green house in Jefferson Township, He married Miss Mary M Hardy, of New York State, in tlenesee, Waukesha Co., Wis,. November to, 1*04; they have two children - Archie V. and Clara.

WILLIAM JACOCFS, Kavcnswood, was born in Schoharie County. New York Slate: in the spring of 1838 he came to Chicago, where for several years he was employed by FUmer Tyler anil William Lock. When about sixteen years of age he entered the United Males Navy, serving two years on the ship "Columbus." with seventy-four guns. Returning to Chicago, he was employed on the harlKjr works for two years. In IS4CJ he went to Minnesota, and returned to Chicago in 1851. In I K(n>, settled at Bowmanville, Cook Co., 111., and is now engaged in the green-house business. He married Miss Ann Jackson, of Chicago.

The town of Cicero lies immediately west of Chicago. It is bounded on the north by Jefferson, on the east by Chicago, on the south by Lake' and Lyons and on the west by Proviso. North Avenue lies on its northern boundary and Egan Avenue on its southern. Originally the township was six miles square, but in 1869 a strip two miles in width off its eastern side- was added to the city of Chicago, since which time the township lias been six miles in extent from north to south and four miles from east to west. At its eastern limit it has an elevation of twenty-six feet, while at its western limit it has an elevation of fifty-two feet. It has also a fall of twenty-six feet from north t« > smith - from the north line of the township to the Ogdcn ditch on the south. Thus it has excellent facilities for drainage. The soil is prairie loam with clay subsoil, and is exceedingly fertile, luxuriantly sustaining all kinds of crops and trees adapted to the latitude. There is probably no land adjoining Chicago offering superior facilities for improvements, Broad avenues six miles in length, extending from north to south, have been laid out on each half-section line, while the principal streets extending westward in the city of Chicago are laid out to the western limits of the town, thus subdividing the township in regular squares,

Cicero has a municipal form of government, with its offices located at the village of Austin, one set of officers governing ali the suburban villages within its limits, as well as the general affairs of the town. The town of Cicero was first organized June 23. 1S57. when an election was held pursuant to notice from the County Clerk. The number of VOtCS polled at this first election was fourteen, and the names of those voting were George .Scoville, H. II. Palmer, James \V. Scovillc, Reuben W'haples, John Heaver, W illiam H. Scoville, Joel G. Phillips, |[. F. Livingstone, Joseph Kett lest rings, Peter Crawford, H. P. Flower, Ives Scovillc. H. C Hurd and Gilbert Crawford. The following board of officers was elected: Supervisor, W illiam II. Scoville; Assessor, James A. Scoville; Collector. Reuben Whaples; Clerk, H. P. Mower; Commissioners of Highways, George Scovillc, Peter Crawford and Joseph Kettlestrings; Justices of the Peace. George Scovillc and Peter Crawford; Constables, John Heaver and Gilbert Crawford; Overseer of the Poor. Joseph Kettlestrings. The following is a list of the officers under the township organization, with the year of their election:

Commissioners of Highways, - Peter Crawford, Joseph Kettlestrings ami George Scoville, 1858; Henry Schureman, Thomas Cosgrovc ami II. P. Crawford, '859? John Havlin, William Lunn and J. H. Franze, i860; James W. Scoville, Michael Mcbermott and George Hofmann, 1861: A. R. Kellogg, 1862; George Hofmaun. 1863; James W. Scoville. 1864; John Mcl'afferv. 1865; Joseph Kettlestrings. 1866; Jacob Miell. 1867.

By a legislative act of February 28, 1867, Cicero was created a special corporation, and the corporate powers vested in a board of five trustees of which the Supervisor, Assessor and Collector then in office were three. Supervisor, George K. Tinune; Assessor. James Giberson; Collector, John M. Rice, John McCaffcry and John Crawford were elected Trustees to complete the board, and John J. Malonev was elected Clerk. Of this board George K. 'Timmc was Supervisor from April, 1867, to November. 1K67. and by re-election to November, 1868, anil John McCaft'ery to November, 1869. The Assessors were James Gilierson to November, 1S67; John M. Kit e to November. 1868, anil H. P. Crawford to November, 1869; ami the Collectors were John M. Rice to November, 1S67; H. P.Crawford to November, 186S, and John M. Rice to November, 1869. 'The other Trustees were John MeCaffery and John Crawford to November, 1S67; James Campbell and N. M. Bassett to November, 1868; and George K. Timnie and J. L. Campbell to November, 1869. 'The Clerks were John [. Malonev to November, iS67;-Charles H. Weeks, and }ohn J. Malonev*, to November, 1868, and George A. Philbrick to November, 1869.

'The charter of 1S67 was superseded by the present charter, which was approved March 25, 1869, and went into immediate effect. At the same session the Legislature provided for extending the limits of Chicago to the westward, so as to take into the city two miles off the east side of Cicero, except that part south of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. 'The officers elected in November, 1868, continued under the new charter until November, 1869, except that on April 24, 1869, N. M. Bassett was appointed Trustee in place of J. L Campbell, who had ceased to be a resilient of the town, and that on July 3, 1869, H. W. Austin \vas appointed in place of George K. Timmc. Under the present charter the following officers have been elected:

Year

Internal Im[»,ntmtnts. - The town of Cicero, like most of the territory in the vicinity of Chicago, was originally flat and wet. The soil could be made dry only by ditching, The first assessment for the purpose of ditching was made in 1868, and was $50,000 in amount. The ditches, provided for by this assessment were made on the section lines. The second assessment provided for those on the half-section lines. Iti all. there have been made fifty miles of ditches, at a cost of $100,000. They arc twelve feet wide at the top, four feel deep, anil two and a half feet wide at the bottom, and as the soil is a stiff clay they are very permanent, except where they run through ridges of sand. They have been of immense value to real estate, increasing its value many fold. The effect has been the same as if the whole township had been elevated as many fect above the previous water level, the ditches having caused the water to settle below that level. In 1869 the highest price paid for land in Section 22 was two hundred dollars per acre. In a short time after the ditches were dug, three thousand dollars per acre was refused for some of the same land. A great ileal of money has also been expended on the improvement of the highways. Ogden Avenue, which runs from Lyons through the township, a distance of four and a half miles, was graded and graveled at a cost of about $S.ooo |>er mile. Riverside Park Way was macadamized and graveled in 1850. It has a road-bed of almost fifty feet in width, two ditches on each side and side roads, and is altogether one of the finest roads in Illinois. It has a length of four miles in Cicero. Twelfth Street was graded and graveled to a distance of two and a half miles, Madison Street was graded, graveled and macadamized through the township, four miles, and Lake Street was put in excellent condition to Ridgeland. Between Ridgeland and Oak Park, a distance of about half a mile, James W. Scoville improved Lake Street at his own expense. Central Avenue was graveled to a distance of three miles, and Hyman Avenue, or Forty-eighth Street, the same distance. Ridgeland Avenue has a box sewer from Ridgeland to Mud Lake, constructed at a cost of about $40,000. Center Avenue has a covered sewer one mile long, one-half of it concrete, the other half box. The road work cost about $S,ooo per mile, except Riverside Park Way, which cost about $125,000. Of open ditches there arc about fifty miles, costing about $150,000.

There are four artesian wells in the township; one at Brighton, sunk to supply the cotton mill; one on Section si, bored by Mr. Hyman; one on Section 17. by Colonel Kneiseley, and one at Ridgeland, by James W. Scoville.

Thr 'Sthool Fund - The school section of the town (Section 16) was offered for sale in 1857, all except about one hundred and sixty acres lying south of the line of the projected St. Charles Air Line Railroad. The north three-fourths of the section that were offered were nearly all sold, and realized $28,000. This portion had lieen divided up into lots of from one and a half to two acres. Numbers of those who purchased lots at the sale of 1857 failed to pay for them, and those lots not paid for reverted to the Trustees. In 1S69, 1870 and 1871 a re-sale of the forfeited lots was held. A portion of the proceeds of these re-salcs was devoted to graveling the streets bounding the section, and to ditching it. The net proceeds of these sales, added to the school fund already on hand, increased it to $86.- 543.10. and the amount devoted to improvements by special assessments was a little over $20,000. Sixtynine two-acre lots of the north three-fourths of the section remain unsold, and also the south portion, consisting of one hundred and sixty-one acres. The estimated value of the real estate, notes and mortgages held by the school trustees now amounts to $228,543.10. The total income from the school fund for the year ending July 1, 1882, was $9,815.06, and the total receipts of the district school fund from all sources for the same year were $87,262.16. The total expenses for the same time were $64,852.86. There are a number of fine district school-houses in the town. Thai at Clyde cost «5»" 000; that at Crawford, a magnificent brick building, was built for $15,000, a comparatively small sum when the value of the building is taken into account ; that at Ridgeland §10,000; that at Oak Park §30,000. anil that at Central Park, in District No. 3, §40.000. The present value of the district school property in the town is §189,000, of the district school libraries §1,200, and of the school apparatus $2,025. The present school trustees are (>. I). Alien, of t >ak Park, N. M. Bassett, of Austin, and John Dolese of Brighton Park. The present township and school treasurer is George A. Philbrick, of Austin. The principal of the schools at Brighton Park is Anthony I.enon , his first assistant Miss Anna M. Wilson, and the primary teachers arc Miss Esther Shottenfels and Mary E. Sullivan. At Crawford, John Crawford is principal and Miss Hetta H. Norris assistant, and at Civile P. A. Downey is principal and Miss Laura T rumble assistant. In 1869 when the east two miles of the town of Cicero were taken into the city of Chicago, there were eight school districts within its limits. Districts No. 5 and 6, lay within the territory absorbed by the city, and since then there have been but six districts, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 respectively.. For the year ending June 30, 1882, the total number of males under twenty-one years of age was one thousand six hundred and fifty seven ; of females, one thousand six hundred and seventy; of males between six and twenty-one years of age, one thousand and twenty-one, of females.'one thousand one hundred and two.

Austin

Austin is situated on the Galena Division of the Chicago iV North-Western Railroad, six and seven-tenths miles from Chicago. It is a prosperous, growing village, with a population of three thousand. Its many advantages anil improvements must cause it to become one of the most attractive suburbs of Chicago. It is two and one-fourth miles from Central Park, and two miles west of the limits of the city. It is on the extension of Lake Street, where the "Six-Mile House " known to early Chicago was located. It has an elevation of thirty-six feet above Chicago, and has a gradual fall or descent from its northern boundary on Chicago Avenue to Madison Street, which descent extends to Ogden ditch. These grades, with a fine clay subsoil, make its natural facilities for draining the best in the county. Central Avenue laid out on a section line through the center of the village has a large sewer with twenty-six feet fall. A permanent supply of good water is found at a depth of fifteen feet through the clay which protects from surface water and sewerage. This vein of water has received considerable notoriety from the fact of its pressure or head, which forces it up some feet when it is reached in digging wells. Fast of the ridge, which extends along its entire eastern boundary and a part of its southern boundary, and which is elevated nine feet above the surrounding prairie, the water rises to the surface and in some instances the wells are (lowing ones. The soil is a rich prairie loam and makes excellent gardens and lawns, and without fertilizing, luxuriantly supports shrubbery and trees.

The village was founded by Henry W. Austin in 1866. Owing to his liberal donations to the United States Clock Manufacturing Company, that business enterprise was located here, and this in connection with his successful efforts in other directions, and in connection with the railroad company, it was decided to name the village in his honor. He has made and added to the village six subdivisions, embracing two hundred and eighty acres. In his first subdivision, which was recorded May ii, 1866, he was joined by C. C. Merrick. Besides the eighty acres added by Mr. Merrick, C, E. Crafts added thirty-six and one-fourth acres; Henry Waller added forty-three and three-fourths acres, and the estate of John Frink has since added seventy-two and a half acres. The village includes a te litory "one mile square, bounded on the north by Chicago Avenue, on the east by Robinson Avenue, on the south by Madison Street, and on the west by Austin Avenue.

Craft's addition was made in 1871, Bridges's addition was made in 1872, as also were Waller's, and Wilson & St. Clair's. The Adank farm was bought by Crafts i\; Snow, divided into lots and sold to various parties. This division lies north of Chicago Avenue and west of Central Avenue. During this same year ( hven & Mathew's subdivision was made, as also was Stephen's. Oglesbay's subdivision was made under the management of E. A. Cummings in 1883. All of those who have made additions to subdivisions of Austin have been quite liberal in the way of improvements, having planted trees on most or all of the streets, but none except Mr. Austin have followed the plan of planting trees in the middle of the street.

In common with all the villages in the township of Cicero, Austin is governed by one set of officers, whose offices are located in the Cicero Town Hall at Austin, which stands in a beautiful park of five acres, donated for the purpose anil improved by Mr. Austin. The two hundred and eighty acres of land embraced in Austin's subdivisions were entered for Henry L DeRoven from the Government June 26, 1835, and sold to Mr. Austin November i.t, 1865. The title is thus clear and indisputable The subdivisions are on a liberal plan, most of the streets being wide with double driveways and parks in the center which are planted with evergreens and nut-bearing trees, while the street rows are planted with elm trees, making twenty-seven miles of street rows besides a park extending through the center of the village on both sides of the railroad, and planted with trees. Special mention of this planting was made in the New York Independent by the Hon. B. G. Northrop, Commissioner of Forestry in Connecticut, during his visit in the West, early in 1883, who stated that the railroad planting exceeded anything he had seen in the West.

The clock manufacturing company referred to above did not succeed, and the village was built up by active business men and residents of Chicago. Seth P. Warner was the first to erect a fine and costly residence, and has been followed by W. C. Heaeox, George A. Philbrick, T. Sherwood. T. A. Snow, L. R. Erskine, Hon C. E. Crafts, Charles Hitchcock, George M. Doris, F«d L. Phillips, E. A. Osgood, A. Lindsay. E, 1. Whitehead, Lewis Husted, W. W. McFarland, Charles Yandercook, M. B. Crafts. J. J. McCarthy, Captain W. M. Meredith, Thomas Carroll, George E. Plumb and many others, whose homes are models of architectural beauty, in which elegance is combined with comfort and convenience. During the past two years the village has improved very fast, about two hundred residences having been built during that time. The citizens of Austin are proud of the non-existence of saloons within the limits of their village, anil a drunken man is seldom seen in the streets. A portion of the credit for this condition of affairs is due to Edward Church, now residing in Waterbury. Conn.

The public school, one of the best of the county, is in charm- of Professor Warren Wilfcie. The school has in connection with it a high school department, has two buildings and thirteen teachers and is attended by an average of sixtv pupils.