Wheeling Township (part 5 of 5)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheltenham Beach

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

South Chicago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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