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

ADAM BROWN, farmer. P. O. bloom, was bom m l.utlford County. N. C. UuCh IS, 1804. His parents removed to Preble Coiintv. Ohio, when he was » child, and there he was raised on a "farm. In 1833 he eame to Cook County, and settled on a farm in Section 33. Bloom lowmdt.p, when- he now resides and owns .bout 434 mm of fine agricul turml land*, composed of prairie and timb,-r. W ben. in l*H, be eame to c!,ok Count v. wolves, deer and all kinds of game abounded in profusion, and the Indian was not unknown. II U nearest 'neighbor on the south was a Mr. Osltorn. six miles awav ami lb-re were but three others wit Ion twenty-live mile* distance. Mr. Brown is a Vniversahst m belief. In 1830 he married Miss I'I.eba Myers, who was lx.rii March -3. 1810, in Tennessee. They have nine children - * hnatmher, Lavina, KIiz.tt.eth, (leorge, William, Sarah A.. Mary J., I helm

A '.TOR N MeklluOWHBY, retire.! farmer. Bloom Station, was born in County Tyrone, it. the Province of I Ister. Ireland. October II. mil. His father's name was also John McKldownev. The familv emigrated from their native land in 1832 for" Chicago, but the cholera was then raging in the lalter citv, and as there was a family of fifteen of them, ineluding'his wifes mothers people, they all settled at Compton. Quebec, where the subject of this sketch worked on a farm three years. In May, 1*35. he came to Chicago, having walkeil 130 miles through Vermont and some distaiiee through Indiana, and after manv vicissitude* reached his destination. \ftcr working for two mouths at whatever he could find to do, he went to Bloom Township (then Thorn Creek Precinct), and made a land claim on Sections is and 2u. r.iwnshij. 3». 4<M1 acres of fine agricultural land, which he deeded, in 1882. to his three sons, lie now lives in a hou.se and lot of his own. Ill 1830 he married Miss Ann Walln.-e. who was born. June 4, 1814, in the same place in Ireland. They were the first couple married in the township. The two families immigrated to America at the same time. In 1886 he erected a log house on his land and moved into it. Mr. McKldownev remembers catling grass with a suvthc where the court-house now stands Chicago, and lit the lime would not have given $i>0 for the place. He assisted in organizing Bloom Township and Village has served one term as Supervisor of the township, and as Justice of Ihc Peace twenty years; has also served as Koad Commissioner, town and school treasurer, etc. lie. assisted to organize and build the Presbyterian church in Bloom and has been elder in the same since lis organization.

,, J842 The familv consists of eight children - Dorothy, born March 28, 1838, 'died January 28 18711; Mary Ann, born November 17. miO, now married to Samuel McDowell an a, orncv a. Bealrice, Neb.; William John, bora June 30,

"it Marl ha Kliw. Mav 19, 1N«: James Henry, Mar 5w Margaret Jane. June 13. 1850, Bebeccat.ctoM.rri. 18S1 now married to Hon. William CampMl, of Blue Island; Andrew Wallace, born February. « 1854.

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WALTER F. HAWT1N, of Clarendon Hills. Du Page County, was horn in r84f. in lUuibuiy. Oxfon shire. England and was brought by his parents to Chicago, in 18.)o. InlKMne beln to learn the profession of wood-engraver, and afterward worked for a leading house in thai line, as a recognized expert fVo.m l.S67 to 1870 Sickness and a season of recuperation Lu'rvened.andin 1877 he joined bis present Partner, J. W Drum, under the style of Urant ft Ilawtin. lhe hrm coin ori s the two youngest men, in their l.ne. ... Chicago, and by h - r energy and attention to the interests « their customers the have been remarkably suc.-essful in building up a hu«- nS sctvmd to none in the city. In 1872 Mr. Uawt.n married Leila, a daughter of Dr. Wells K. Marsh, o h.cago, and thc r childpu, have K en born ami named ^ fol lows: JMU Walter in 1873. Irene Marsh ... m:« j and 1 Uymond Mar is in 1883 They have resided, sniee m7,, in L.nrendon Hill*, a suburb of Chicago, on the Chicago. Burl.ngton ;V QuiMf R*Uroad, where thev own a pleasant home .ml handsome grounds.

N\TH\XIKl. SAWYKU, residence bake 1-orest, Lake County, was born April 29. 1824. in Albany N. Y., son of Na hat iel and Ophelia (Bachelor) Sawyer. His father was a miller" a, u I native of Vermont. In 1840 voung Sawyer came

Sawyer, where he remained as clerk until 18.V.. when he bought he busing inc-mection with a cousin, forming the firm of Sawver Paige \ Co. The business was wound up ... lHfiO, whei. Mr r S.wvrr removed to Madison. Wis., to take the position of superintendent of public properly, under his lire, her in-law! GoVeruor Hanle'v. In 1864 he returned to Chicago lo take the ]«-.sitio.i of paymaster of the ( hicago i North- Western Unilwiy. Since ItVs he ban been *b«*fr*\ 1 real estate, largely as manager of the Sawyer and 1 ulterfli-ld estates. After the (ire he took up his residence ln Lake 1- orest, where he was elected Alderman in 1H7!I. and again in 188-5. Mr. Sawyer was married October 11. 1848. to Klizii lerrine. of Kenosha, Wis. They are the parents of one ch.ld. -Mart Kli/abeth; and all three are members of the I re»b)teriati Church. Mr. Sawver U a Republican in politics.

oMtrrr-n rnos i.akb view iiistokv. WALT Kit CHADBAXD was born in Surrey, Kngland. September 83. 1851. lie received his eduoaUon at Uejgate, Kitglaml, ami th-n went into the employ of >. H. Miller, watchmaker, at Reigate, a* a clerk and continued as such up to mTIt when lie went to Toronto. Canada In 188*1 lie came to Hvde Park and lbe same year came to Ij.ke \ lew I ownship.' where he has since held the position of Assistant Superintendent of Rose Hill Cemeti-ry.

oMiTrED fkom uvnr. pahk iiistokv. CHARLES .MILLER, foreman of the bnilcr-shops of the Nickcl Plate Railroad Company at Stonv Island, he took charge of this department -lane 22, 1882. He was born in Muskingum County. Ohio, February 12, 1845. and lived in his nativeeounl y until nineteen yearsof age. He worked a yea r for the Columbus Machine Company, after which he went tol .hillieothe where he was employed by the Marietta A Cincinnati Railroad as a boiler maker fifteen years. He then took charge of the locomotive Mlcr-»ho|is at Portsmouth for aUait a year when he resigned to accept a similar position for the Nickel Plate Railroad June 22. 1882. He is a inemU-r of Tecumseli I/alge, No. 80, 1.0.0. F., of Chillicotte. Ohio. In 1808 he married Miss L. J. Ijeiitz. of the latter city. They have two sons, now deceased, William and Alfred, and a daughter. Minnie living.