tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12721073302514081142024-03-18T14:27:57.850-05:00Lake County HistoryDiana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-88720535356529066492023-08-23T11:27:00.012-05:002023-09-22T12:22:02.806-05:00Meister Brau's Stallion Hitch<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirdSC5fZxXCaPwjCVf5VF2xOElb1ThcRH7P4iq6sTHLEoyluZ4YRJr-99qYyxZd8AbKTebEv6gcVFOCXIsQ4pUGCqMDO5lD1-4Cf5oF1l1MAhWbBz8pLeXbY5clI6HeyBnj8qIVQKa6a4EJc_N2bdxW6zFZPepNXpl25xMt-OYJALgXJwgQuIxCm-pKAE/s1150/lowenbrau%20brewery%20wagon_NY%20Worlds%20Fair%201964%20postcard_ebay.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1150" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirdSC5fZxXCaPwjCVf5VF2xOElb1ThcRH7P4iq6sTHLEoyluZ4YRJr-99qYyxZd8AbKTebEv6gcVFOCXIsQ4pUGCqMDO5lD1-4Cf5oF1l1MAhWbBz8pLeXbY5clI6HeyBnj8qIVQKa6a4EJc_N2bdxW6zFZPepNXpl25xMt-OYJALgXJwgQuIxCm-pKAE/s320/lowenbrau%20brewery%20wagon_NY%20Worlds%20Fair%201964%20postcard_ebay.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Postcard of the "Original Lowenbrau Brewery Wagon" pulled by Westphalian stallions</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> at the New York World's Fair 1964-1965. Rudi Kurzenberger is holding the team. </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1964, Lowenbrau Brewery of Munich, Germany brought its
Westphalian stallions to the New York World’s Fair as a feature for their Lowenbrau
Gardens. A few years later, these stallions would live on the Meister Brau, Inc.
farm near Grayslake, Illinois.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The team of Westphalian draft horses named Pauli, Michel,
Gustl, and Blasi (and backup horse Dammerl) were driven by Rudolf “Rudi” Kurzenberger (1931-1991),
a native of Munich, Germany. The horses only understood German and were the
first of their kind in the United States. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Westphalian stallions were prized by the
600-year-old Lowenbrau Brewery. The stallions pulled the brewery’s 5,000-pound
beer wagon through the World’s Fair venue, adding to the Bavarian charm of its beer
garden. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuvVc8w1Mm1B0YYx8Nnr0H3PD-9u8fUs3BuJFxcvyX0kYJ4c5ZhYmEAp631VxIPsyJq-W6G4pYyDBO6eUS5rhLPOyFw0mpTX_a8Cs0S-gSC-8FeJ85xG1WpmLYCndjdUFYbvN96OVKmDPQt0HYwayOG3R9sLr11P6srngWe0v506sPHkOZ5dYDjNTBUJI/s795/li-press-10-16-65-beer%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuvVc8w1Mm1B0YYx8Nnr0H3PD-9u8fUs3BuJFxcvyX0kYJ4c5ZhYmEAp631VxIPsyJq-W6G4pYyDBO6eUS5rhLPOyFw0mpTX_a8Cs0S-gSC-8FeJ85xG1WpmLYCndjdUFYbvN96OVKmDPQt0HYwayOG3R9sLr11P6srngWe0v506sPHkOZ5dYDjNTBUJI/w306-h320/li-press-10-16-65-beer%20(4).jpg" width="306" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Lowenbrau's Westphalian stallions with their new owner, Donald E. Gingery. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: Calibri;">Buffalo News </i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">October 16, 1965.</span></span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When the World’s Fair ended in 1965, the plan was for
the stallions to return to Germany, but they became some of the many fair attractions auctioned and sold. The stallions were purchased by Donald E.
Gingery, chairman of the board for Peter Hand Brewery of Chicago. Gingery said,
“I just had to have them.” Gingery was part of an investment group that purchased
the financially troubled brewery, and renamed it Meister Brau, Inc. after its’
top brand. </span></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lowenbrau's team driver, Rudi Kurzenberger, was hired to remain with the horses
and take over management of the hitch. As part of the purchase of the
stallions, Gingery was required to pledge to the German Trade Minister that the
horses would never be separated.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Meister Brau was the only company in the U.S. to own Westphalians and the only hitch to be comprised totally of stallions, which tend to be temperamental. The stallions were also of a rare color called chestnut or sorrel, and featured a white mane and tail. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg36O9vcr4u09gsUr2Cmx_VEe-UuvrcSAHDbLoN9g9ldaqipwC0NEcXk34nYNiyvfswMyqq0U4Htyhz_cbuUnQhRKZy0IQlv6EqjzYTDLq_-4eknEIMWYuQYhjhf4WWaFKUsJYqASf3yvNWEOMj5e49XHPbRRxeSU9p3F1Vlp-N5Kuddk2jqpyt-JJ7iJA/s664/Meister%20Brau%20Hitch_parade%20in%20Libertyville_2013.11.2%20watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="664" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg36O9vcr4u09gsUr2Cmx_VEe-UuvrcSAHDbLoN9g9ldaqipwC0NEcXk34nYNiyvfswMyqq0U4Htyhz_cbuUnQhRKZy0IQlv6EqjzYTDLq_-4eknEIMWYuQYhjhf4WWaFKUsJYqASf3yvNWEOMj5e49XHPbRRxeSU9p3F1Vlp-N5Kuddk2jqpyt-JJ7iJA/w320-h169/Meister%20Brau%20Hitch_parade%20in%20Libertyville_2013.11.2%20watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Meister Brau's Westphalian hitch in Libertyville, IL, circa 1967.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Driving the team are Rudi Kurzenberger and wife Kathi in traditional Bavarian costumes. <i>Dunn Museum, </i>2013.11.2.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With
Meister Brau's brewery located in Chicago, the Westphalian stallions were brought to
Illinois. They were initially stabled in Barrington (location unidentified),
and then at the Robert E. Jones farm in Farmer City, Illinois. By early 1967,
the stallions were moved to Winds Chant Farm, a Shetland pony farm near
Grayslake. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
45-acre farm was located east of U.S. Route 45 on the south side of Route 120. About
20-acres of the farm’s former site is now part of Almond Marsh Forest Preserve. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0r5EKshrdvy0qtx_EEJ1YdKpW25rfrstl_EkKDfD1CgOvAfIq2Q1YI9eqbTmADImRGmwVczyPpXho8TO3-frTWVUoAfv5QCFdrwjwqCvAS-evBwit3owQfeZxhr3r3ivw0-2QZDOlTdX9GUi4VRoZl-SzQj6crOTj7U-JrJO7pe6xWse18i60-LcawvQ/s855/street%20map_red%20star%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="855" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0r5EKshrdvy0qtx_EEJ1YdKpW25rfrstl_EkKDfD1CgOvAfIq2Q1YI9eqbTmADImRGmwVczyPpXho8TO3-frTWVUoAfv5QCFdrwjwqCvAS-evBwit3owQfeZxhr3r3ivw0-2QZDOlTdX9GUi4VRoZl-SzQj6crOTj7U-JrJO7pe6xWse18i60-LcawvQ/w200-h156/street%20map_red%20star%20crop.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Star denotes former location of Meister Brau's 45-acre farm near Grayslake, IL. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Lake County IL Maps Online (Basemap Streets).</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
farm was owned and operated by Meister Brau, Inc. The herd of Westphalians
increased from five to 14, as Meister Brau imported more stallions and two mares
from Germany. In May 1967, the first generation of “American” Westphalians were
born at the Lake County, Illinois farm, one filly and one colt, weighing 250
pounds each.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Meister Brau’s Lake County farm was open to the public for horse-drawn wagon rides, meet-and-greets with the famous horses, and tours of the farm. </span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDShExKuU-ILo-19WS1AS7dMMBuqscRfc6NIINXAX9htmJL_aUylUBhyixmBo3Uw1_3TywuIcmVAsxHtpF5Q3U2Oed2WNrftvWr3AEhhSjyp_-OmyPkQGqnAC0aTdjVQhEgT7McHumI8amUNI_C4w-9ayham25FSY8cWBJ-NindrtWwaUgpCGLM-udP4/s647/Kurzenberger%20walking%20horse_Horses%20Teams%20Stables%20Shows_NewsSunColl%20watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="647" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDShExKuU-ILo-19WS1AS7dMMBuqscRfc6NIINXAX9htmJL_aUylUBhyixmBo3Uw1_3TywuIcmVAsxHtpF5Q3U2Oed2WNrftvWr3AEhhSjyp_-OmyPkQGqnAC0aTdjVQhEgT7McHumI8amUNI_C4w-9ayham25FSY8cWBJ-NindrtWwaUgpCGLM-udP4/s320/Kurzenberger%20walking%20horse_Horses%20Teams%20Stables%20Shows_NewsSunColl%20watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Westphalian stallion being walked at Meister Brau's farm near Grayslake, June 1967.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Note the "Meister Brau" on the barrel. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dunn Museum, </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">News Sun </i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Collection.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggGaco0vSEw81gVL8cKgBjOoo8tCaNcwo2tC7mNIv7S-KVTrslJ8IRJpG-C4cRAtBaKFsgTuuiTQoVfMEMQ7bJyURRpanWVfCEOxPcvmnI-jZTcnsmWikEG-ENb3FclmNdc60yYmoWaS8uLDIIrGvynULyNZPEFPIIhx1j0h-bX0JDwQzg_YfZpRI1IO0/s5119/Grayslake%20Westphalians_Chicago_Tribune_23%20April%201967%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3917" data-original-width="5119" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggGaco0vSEw81gVL8cKgBjOoo8tCaNcwo2tC7mNIv7S-KVTrslJ8IRJpG-C4cRAtBaKFsgTuuiTQoVfMEMQ7bJyURRpanWVfCEOxPcvmnI-jZTcnsmWikEG-ENb3FclmNdc60yYmoWaS8uLDIIrGvynULyNZPEFPIIhx1j0h-bX0JDwQzg_YfZpRI1IO0/s320/Grayslake%20Westphalians_Chicago_Tribune_23%20April%201967%20(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Westphalian stallions stabled at Meister Brau's farm near Grayslake. <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>June 23, 1967.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kurzenberger and
his team took the stallion hitch—which increased in size from four to six
stallions—to advertised appearances at shopping malls, fairs and parades
throughout the Midwest. The hitch won awards, including Governor Kerner’s award
for excellence in performance at the Illinois State Fair (1966).</span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1j6cYAO8kbQkybV2X5vHXKtVuCDJQX2c-XhRrG-VOgOxmX3HB4OIpCrxWzj_EmHTdOa7kFzZty0zxLF13GXa14aHq4foKYDRsU5uYFNXTVAzm3B_1-a7Y2bWA4nDrMOmxhzzNf-ETIRHoFxfil-IiZfdCdjoQVSHBI3btxIQLEmz90j3CYSaH-hWi0VQ/s1476/Chicago_Tribune_4%20Oct%201970%20p439%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="1476" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1j6cYAO8kbQkybV2X5vHXKtVuCDJQX2c-XhRrG-VOgOxmX3HB4OIpCrxWzj_EmHTdOa7kFzZty0zxLF13GXa14aHq4foKYDRsU5uYFNXTVAzm3B_1-a7Y2bWA4nDrMOmxhzzNf-ETIRHoFxfil-IiZfdCdjoQVSHBI3btxIQLEmz90j3CYSaH-hWi0VQ/s320/Chicago_Tribune_4%20Oct%201970%20p439%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Meister Brau hitch at one of its many promotional appearances in the Chicago area.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><i>Chicago Tribune, </i>October 4, 1970.</span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The brewery wagon and horses were transported in
specially built vans. Part of the draw for spectators was to watch the process
of the horses being unloaded from the vans, wearing the beautiful harnesses
made in Germany for Meister Brau, and hitched to the brewery wagon.</span></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In
1971, Meister Brau leased its famous Westphalian team, wagon and gear to Midwest
Park Service, Inc., the operators of Pioneer Park (today’s Blackberry Farm) in
Aurora, Illinois. The horses remained stabled at the Lake County farm where
Kurzenberger and his team continued to care for them. On days prior to their
appearance, the stallions were washed and brushed. They were transported in
Meister Brau’s vans to Pioneer Park and became a highlight of visitors to the
living history park. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63Jh3-UVzhoeISi1L5d38HsbzLZuS5MOMCh_E968f9X35L35cmnKljptYjJwcqiOz9ADX1CT1Y_ZF74OCdRXM62fujOYcvzcljDiEPWqtpxn0KL4cq4zwXHPJPKzmmJYs6uqIkyo3q8DKf05vEl5Iy3zwqx5GINDTiqTjKEa-NowIJEehnGVEB-W8X00/s1787/Pioneer%20Park%20The_Daily_Chronicle_26%20Oct%201972%20p43%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="1787" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63Jh3-UVzhoeISi1L5d38HsbzLZuS5MOMCh_E968f9X35L35cmnKljptYjJwcqiOz9ADX1CT1Y_ZF74OCdRXM62fujOYcvzcljDiEPWqtpxn0KL4cq4zwXHPJPKzmmJYs6uqIkyo3q8DKf05vEl5Iy3zwqx5GINDTiqTjKEa-NowIJEehnGVEB-W8X00/s320/Pioneer%20Park%20The_Daily_Chronicle_26%20Oct%201972%20p43%20crop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Westphalian stallion hitch at Pioneer Park, Aurora, IL. <i>The Daily Chronicle, </i>October 26, 1972.</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In
1972, after over-extending itself in business ventures unrelated to brewing,
Meister Brau, Inc. went into bankruptcy. It sold the Meister Brau and Lite
brands to Miller Brewing Company, and their iconic Westphalian hitch to Pioneer Park. In 1978, a<span style="background: white; color: #202122;">fter a decade of financial woes, the
brewery closed.</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At
Pioneer Park, the Westphalians were given special care as there were less than
100 horses of the breed in existence. Only 14 registered stallions remained,
eight in Germany and six at Pioneer Park.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Initially,
Larry Mitchell, was the driver and trainer of the hitch at Pioneer Park. Brian
Morrissey (1940-2023) later took over as driver of the hitch. Morissey was a
co-owner and manager of Pioneer Park. The Westphalian stallion hitch made
appearances at the park and elsewhere through 1974. If anyone has information
about the stallions after 1974, please let me know.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hgve00tTFakEu7aGUtxp4hxTdj7ixgujvyn6-2xv0iaHb0_lIS3E1ydxdQY3OWfgj5iwrAsMjv7zpvhYRfKjep7n28V8uryaydp_mKAhVt8-NE7A9vNUIfEUOHaSDOzFORuRl0XY0PTE_2Z-9dgaqF7w0RUzAfxO5VivsT2UfIkMgPs-m75Kvq5p3aY/s532/Rudi%20Kurzenberger%201967_NewsSunColl%20Dunn%20Museum_watermark%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="532" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hgve00tTFakEu7aGUtxp4hxTdj7ixgujvyn6-2xv0iaHb0_lIS3E1ydxdQY3OWfgj5iwrAsMjv7zpvhYRfKjep7n28V8uryaydp_mKAhVt8-NE7A9vNUIfEUOHaSDOzFORuRl0XY0PTE_2Z-9dgaqF7w0RUzAfxO5VivsT2UfIkMgPs-m75Kvq5p3aY/w200-h188/Rudi%20Kurzenberger%201967_NewsSunColl%20Dunn%20Museum_watermark%20(2).jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Rudi Kurzenberger with the German-made harness at Meister Brau's farm near Grayslake, May 1967. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dunn Museum, </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">News Sun </i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Collection. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rudi
Kurzenberger and his wife Kathi worked for Meister Brau until about 1972. They remained
in Lake County and Rudi became a contractor and built homes. Kathi Kurzenberger
shared her Bavarian heritage through yodeling and playing the zither at
festivals and restaurants, including The Wunder-Bar Restaurant in Antioch.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzbgIFNX2d3nTy1yzzpNivvh5oJGvx7WcYfbkKrLregseymuuqUjb1KfaYqJj1u5UYGqMfPBwObXvBusmfbddW4nhFcAk_Dd57CuYVS-AzcTLaG_iRcD5a2FpV0hjoQ-Y8Gf32Kaq4NFsZpmBoayP2bztF-oa-ACWwqRyVZhgo44boRg2xzl9xqdGj2fY/s1245/Meister%20Brau%20Hitch%20in%20town%20Wkgn_13%20March%201968_News%20Sun%20watermark%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1245" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzbgIFNX2d3nTy1yzzpNivvh5oJGvx7WcYfbkKrLregseymuuqUjb1KfaYqJj1u5UYGqMfPBwObXvBusmfbddW4nhFcAk_Dd57CuYVS-AzcTLaG_iRcD5a2FpV0hjoQ-Y8Gf32Kaq4NFsZpmBoayP2bztF-oa-ACWwqRyVZhgo44boRg2xzl9xqdGj2fY/s320/Meister%20Brau%20Hitch%20in%20town%20Wkgn_13%20March%201968_News%20Sun%20watermark%20(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span>The famous Westphalian stallion hitch in Waukegan, IL, March 1968. Pictured are Phil Archdale (left) of Archdale's bar and restaurant and Rudi Kurzenberger demonstrating how a barrel was rolled in the "good old days." </span><span>Dunn Museum, </span><i>News Sun </i><span>Collection.</span></span></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For a brief shining moment, Lake County, Illinois was
home to the only “Westphalische Kaltblut” (Westphalian draft horses) in
America. From 1965 to the early 1970s, Meister Brau’s stallion hitch was seen
throughout the Midwest. Today, the appeal continues as
collectibles of Meister Brau's famous hitch remain popular with breweriana collectors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">- Diana Dretske, Curator ddretske@lcfpd.org</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Special thanks to museum volunteer, Al Westerman, for research assistance! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">Sources:</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, <i>News Sun</i> Collection<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">Lake County,
Illinois Maps Online https://maps.lakecountyil.gov/mapsonline/<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Pony Show
Slated as Eye Catcher,” <i>Belvidere Daily Republican</i>, August 7, 1958.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“See the
Lowenbrau Westfaelisches Kaltblut,” <i>The Record</i>, March 23, 1965.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Bring on Your
Beer Barrels,” <i>Illinois Press</i>, October 16, 1965.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Rare Stallions
Shown Here,” <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> November 28, 1965<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Grayslake
Corners Market on Rare Westphalians,” <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>April 23, 1967.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Special Treat:
The Westphalian Horses,” <i>Daily Herald, </i>August 6, 1967.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Plan Rural
Farm,” <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>July 21, 1968.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“In Illinois
State Fair Horse Show,” <i>Daily Sentinel, </i>August 11, 1969.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Stallions Appearing,”
<i>Daily Calumet, </i>May 7, 1970.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Famed
Stallions to be Displayed,” <i>Daily Herald, </i>July 8, 1970.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Meister Brau’s
Stallion Hitch Comes to Meadowdale,” <i>Cardunal Free Press, </i>Carpentersville,
IL, August 7, 1970.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Rare
Westphalisches Stallions to Make First Appearance Here,” <i>Daily Herald, </i>November
13, 1970.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Young at Heart
Group Visit a Gem Museum,” <i>Daily Sentinel, </i>July 1, 1971.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Meister Brau
Westphalian Hitch at Pioneer Park,” <i>Cardunal Free Press</i>, July 16, 1971.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Famous Horses
in Parade,” <i>Daily Chronical, </i>Dekalb, Illinois, October 26, 1972.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Meadowdale
Businessman Sponsor Meister Brau Hitch,” <i>Cardunal Free Press, </i>June 27,
1973.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Westphalian
Hitch a Parade Special,” <i>Arthur Graphic, </i>Clarion, Ilinois, August 23,
1973.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Parade at
Palestone Will Feature Westphalian Hitch,” <i>Journal Gazette, </i>August 25,
1973.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Midwest’s
Savory Autumn,” <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>September 22, 1974.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Nevermore the
Local Lagers,” Richard J. LaSusa, <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>April 24, 1977.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“The Last Call
for Chicago’s Last Brewery,” Jon Anderson, <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> February 27,
1979.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Action Line,” <i>Chicago
Tribune, </i>August 30, 1979.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">“Zither Player, Yodeler Thrilled Fans for Years,” <i>Chicago
Tribune, </i>November 27, 2003. </span></span></h3><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></p>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-81693194823458997472022-10-27T15:51:00.003-05:002022-10-28T20:24:59.916-05:00Dark Souvenirs of the Civil War<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg4WggtgzxjbWg7t8WFwgJQ6UX5Ym_PvjAPCSykR6A7qmNeMOnpyHOlzZLrB8E2jPTjU8t1Pqlo6jgwMZLlyrsKGigbxBbOYQpx8rxBScwk6-DR1HsmZEk1bKf4GPXCpiskBcWeRRJOZmSHjQTcrV16PqiHd1gZjdW0tzUn8dfWkMiu0pIR4Xk6GhS/s1005/19th%20IL_1912%20reunion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="1005" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg4WggtgzxjbWg7t8WFwgJQ6UX5Ym_PvjAPCSykR6A7qmNeMOnpyHOlzZLrB8E2jPTjU8t1Pqlo6jgwMZLlyrsKGigbxBbOYQpx8rxBScwk6-DR1HsmZEk1bKf4GPXCpiskBcWeRRJOZmSHjQTcrV16PqiHd1gZjdW0tzUn8dfWkMiu0pIR4Xk6GhS/w400-h216/19th%20IL_1912%20reunion.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Members of the 19th Illinois Regiment, from <i>The Nineteenth Illinois: a Memoir of a Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Famous in the Civil War, </i>James Henry,<i> </i>1912. At least eight Lake County men enlisted in this regiment.</span></div></span><p>A charged object or "dark souvenir" is an object collected to share as a witness to historic events such as a natural disaster or military battle. The term “charged object” is used by museums to denote artifacts “charged” or permeated with the energy of an event. These Victorian terms may sound odd to the modern ear, but still represent the sentiment of how people collected and preserved what affected them.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6XwAqE968vJjpjkMMocJEGpYl0xem1GdMOU2PbnaGBlHW-EDbE4vu-e72ALMs3IdiLSLjGFIqdmPf2tWboZFdygJKIVNcMutVET4yQ5ZB13X3uzrBKXZDQuid1ea3S3M0tufVPwy6HIAJRGb7aP86O8PZ7JXnSdt_zLB7R_VmECoeZ_0-lfxsbQK/s551/battle%20flags%20of%20the%2096th%20IL%201887%20enhanced.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="327" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6XwAqE968vJjpjkMMocJEGpYl0xem1GdMOU2PbnaGBlHW-EDbE4vu-e72ALMs3IdiLSLjGFIqdmPf2tWboZFdygJKIVNcMutVET4yQ5ZB13X3uzrBKXZDQuid1ea3S3M0tufVPwy6HIAJRGb7aP86O8PZ7JXnSdt_zLB7R_VmECoeZ_0-lfxsbQK/w238-h400/battle%20flags%20of%20the%2096th%20IL%201887%20enhanced.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The bullet-ridden battle flags of the 96th Illinois Infantry as photographed for the <i>History of the 96th Illinois Regiment</i>, 1887</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. The regiment consisted of four companies from Lake County and six companies from Jo Daviess County, IL. </span></span></div></span><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Battle flags, also known as the colors of a regiment, were one of the most common objects collected during the Civil War. By preserving and commemorating flags, charged with the energy of battle, the veterans of the regiment were able to honor the memory of their bravery and of their dead comrades. </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">The Dunn Museum has over two dozen charged objects in its permanent collections of which at least sixteen pertain to the American Civil War. In caring for these items, the museum takes into consideration age, condition, and provenance.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Provenance is particularly important, since without the object’s history we would not know its’ connection to an event or person. The Dunn Museum’s Civil War relics represent conflict, loss, suffering and death, and therefore need special consideration when exhibited. Collections staff take into account how to represent souvenirs of war to give proper context and respect for those involved.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN_EN6DHxL6KN_d2uuT87sG6EhIeP9CN2xKmuwjzz32rAAdR8VmFU7L6TNB9rDZ_nyHpSemUwoBQiriv0YYlkmw3pREP9iotpfP4ZGxL4fUcYY5WRLzhd32laD9bKAEsRAYD4_39NYJc_mXWLRWOmoLzFDxUiRitvpz4JHc22zG8lYZGIlm000JNOL/s937/Kelly%20Field%20log_BBDM%202006.0.6%20watermark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="875" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN_EN6DHxL6KN_d2uuT87sG6EhIeP9CN2xKmuwjzz32rAAdR8VmFU7L6TNB9rDZ_nyHpSemUwoBQiriv0YYlkmw3pREP9iotpfP4ZGxL4fUcYY5WRLzhd32laD9bKAEsRAYD4_39NYJc_mXWLRWOmoLzFDxUiRitvpz4JHc22zG8lYZGIlm000JNOL/s320/Kelly%20Field%20log_BBDM%202006.0.6%20watermark.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Tree stump from Kelly Farm (cannonball fragment not shown), Battle of Chickamauga, Sept 18-20, 1863. A paper note identifying the object is attached to the front right of the stump and was likely placed there after it was collected from the historic battle site. <i>Dunn Museum, 2006.0.6 (1958).</i></span></div></span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Battlefields are rife with the memory of loss and victory. One object in the Museum’s collections is a tree stump taken from the Kelly Farm on the site of the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia (September 18–20, 1863). The Battle of Chickamauga was especially significant to Lake County, since so many of its enlisted men fought there. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Smith of Millburn with the 96th Illinois, wrote to his sister Susie after surviving the battle: "When I get to thinking about it I will choke and tears of gratitude come into my eyes to think that one of us after feeling such a storm of lead and Iron should have escaped, but such is the chances of every battle." </span></div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">Chickamauga </span><span style="background: white; line-height: 18.4px;">was the most substantial Union defeat in the Western Theater of the war, and had the second highest number of casualties of the war. At Chickamauga, the </span></span>96th Illinois suffered the third highest percentage of losses at 54 percent killed, wounded, or missing. <span style="background-color: white;">The most casualties in a single battle of the war were sustained just two months earlier at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1–3, 1863.</span></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjEz0aL3x9h7k1kOyCopuQj2YsmCiMQnYYq3_deC4C1jn30GEGfujIAQb1GsOtdJ-Bv83aVCcHJLgXjPC_Uc0bb2Yhfid_GnhYT8lkAq7qBZCl-TJULyG_AKrRR2M3nTfNeLHNFKKI1yfIAPJTrCAS0fvZ4WZ6a8ydZvSMi42Q3zakR3G807JVsAf/s895/Kelly%20Field%20log%20with%20painted%20ID_BBDM%202006.0.6%20watermark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="895" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisjEz0aL3x9h7k1kOyCopuQj2YsmCiMQnYYq3_deC4C1jn30GEGfujIAQb1GsOtdJ-Bv83aVCcHJLgXjPC_Uc0bb2Yhfid_GnhYT8lkAq7qBZCl-TJULyG_AKrRR2M3nTfNeLHNFKKI1yfIAPJTrCAS0fvZ4WZ6a8ydZvSMi42Q3zakR3G807JVsAf/s320/Kelly%20Field%20log%20with%20painted%20ID_BBDM%202006.0.6%20watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">The Kelly Farm tree stump has an additional identification painted on top: "From Kelly Farm Chickamauga." Dunn Museum curators suspect this was done by Charles S. Bentley of La Grange, IL when the object was added to his Civil War relics museum in the early 1900s. <i>Dunn Museum 2006.0.6 (1958).</i> </span></div><br /><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many veterans returned to the battlefields where they had fought to collect souvenirs such as bullets and tree stumps imbedded with shot. These items became touchstones for remembering and commemorating the war and were believed to be “charged” with the energy of the event.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />According to historian Anna Denov Rusk, "soldiers collected items that told a specific story or part of their war experience."</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiwPiPuqJUyOJWrE5ow7ZNPbRY9cQs5aJMoGfgBi5ySkDUoKrFJH5TAAFBG8_vEgYZdLPw3XXVK_jiO1tR8XmoRurbDzEwC10OdltV4zHVYWppppJyQk8rtlis7zdoMzVSj1WhjLu5pSeVDyER5_co68NE66rR4VzQZSE3hfnvjTYWtwjnktwhTrx/s1059/Andersonville_Prison,_Georgia._South-east_view,_taken_from_the_stockade_Thirty_three_thousand_prisoners_in_bastile_-_-_Photographed_by_A.J._Riddle._LCCN2017650848%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="1059" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiwPiPuqJUyOJWrE5ow7ZNPbRY9cQs5aJMoGfgBi5ySkDUoKrFJH5TAAFBG8_vEgYZdLPw3XXVK_jiO1tR8XmoRurbDzEwC10OdltV4zHVYWppppJyQk8rtlis7zdoMzVSj1WhjLu5pSeVDyER5_co68NE66rR4VzQZSE3hfnvjTYWtwjnktwhTrx/w400-h243/Andersonville_Prison,_Georgia._South-east_view,_taken_from_the_stockade_Thirty_three_thousand_prisoners_in_bastile_-_-_Photographed_by_A.J._Riddle._LCCN2017650848%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><ul aria-labelledby="item-title" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. East view taken from the stockade as photographed by A.J. Riddle (1828-1897). <i>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C</i>. </span></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul aria-labelledby="item-title" style="background-color: white; color: #242424; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The deplorable conditions in prisons (both in the North and South) were a volatile subject during and after the war. William "Billy" Lewin of Russell, Illinois, served with the 96th Illinois and was a prisoner at Andersonville from May to September 1864. He recalled that he had “suffered even more than death [at] that prison, above all other prisons… [which has] no parallel in the world’s history.”</span></li><li style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></li><li style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Camp Sumter in Georgia, commonly known as Andersonville, was used to imprison Union soldiers from early 1864 to May 1865. Though the prisoner camp was only in operation for fourteen months, 45,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned there, and nearly 13,000 died.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8mXqttpIZ9UYHX3BRh6egS65FGsb0ZzO8M4VIDfoJ4GcbtVMgjQqkRuYlz3vCmO9ewFogY5yTSnByE-nBORM7OhRbhbzB6t9VsOlIT2hsqhUmuScG8Izc1KMZPN0YeuL_P9u-1o2Agpkj2OO8u00QmM4ucqJFYWTn3_dDqpy4T_sM4lPTe-xgtSu/s622/Andersonville%20stockade_BBDM%2070.586%20watermark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="622" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8mXqttpIZ9UYHX3BRh6egS65FGsb0ZzO8M4VIDfoJ4GcbtVMgjQqkRuYlz3vCmO9ewFogY5yTSnByE-nBORM7OhRbhbzB6t9VsOlIT2hsqhUmuScG8Izc1KMZPN0YeuL_P9u-1o2Agpkj2OO8u00QmM4ucqJFYWTn3_dDqpy4T_sM4lPTe-xgtSu/s320/Andersonville%20stockade_BBDM%2070.586%20watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Wood from the stockade at Andersonville prison, presented to Charles S. Bentley in 1913. </span><i style="color: black;">Dunn Museum 70.586 (1958).</i></span></li><li style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><br /></li><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #242424;">A section of a wooden post (shown above) was sawn from the Andersonville prison stockade as a souvenir by Corporal George W. Healey (1842-1913) of the 5th</span><span style="color: #242424;"> Iowa Cavalry, Company E. The cavalryman became a prisoner at Andersonville after he was captured at the Battle of Brown’s Mill in Georgia on July 31, 1864. Healy and Billy Lewin were imprisoned at Andersonville during the same period, but it is unknown if they ever met, since the prison held tens of the thousands of men. </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #242424;">Healy likely collected the dark souvenir as a veteran returning to the site. In 1913, he presented it to Charles S. Bentley (1839-1924), veteran of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry, Company D, who had a Civil War museum in his home in La Grange, Illinois. The object came into the Dunn Museum’s possession through Robert Vogel, who purchased it at the auction of Bentley’s collection in 1958. Vogel, who founded the county's first history museum, undoubtedly understood the object's significance and connection to those who had served from Lake County.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span><span style="color: #242424;">One of the most compelling charged objects in the Dunn Museum’s collections relates to the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. Just five days after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, President Lincoln was fatally shot at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865. </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUg3Ofbdi-o9u2HJfbderuMdhck78TraEo8WZhSPwM3HcZK7aUJQFcoTp9kWGCwmhy0ATwlQCgw8K7g2cbLT0UHcKbiwXwhwHTAoB9GptpC_V5kFBqmBR9Khj4B3vUPOOjJsYN8rek1cnrMSqOkVeOPDvgLaas_qUDzq2Eifm4h4pXQLv1qEX2XC2t/s595/Lincoln%20Catafalque%20remnants_BBDM%2070.29.2%20watermark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="446" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUg3Ofbdi-o9u2HJfbderuMdhck78TraEo8WZhSPwM3HcZK7aUJQFcoTp9kWGCwmhy0ATwlQCgw8K7g2cbLT0UHcKbiwXwhwHTAoB9GptpC_V5kFBqmBR9Khj4B3vUPOOjJsYN8rek1cnrMSqOkVeOPDvgLaas_qUDzq2Eifm4h4pXQLv1qEX2XC2t/s320/Lincoln%20Catafalque%20remnants_BBDM%2070.29.2%20watermark.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #242424; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Floral and textile remnants from President Lincoln's funeral catafalque, 1865. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Dunn Museum 70.29.2</i></div></span><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #242424;"><ul aria-labelledby="item-title" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Charles Partridge of Waukegan with the 96th Illinois remembered the soldiers’ reactions to the terrible news: “The day before had seemed to these brave veterans the gladdest in all their lives; and now an unspeakable grief had blotted out their happiness and a gloom that seemed well-nigh impenetrable was upon them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Citizens were desperate to make sense of the tragedy and millions stood along the <span style="font-family: inherit;">route of the president’s funeral train as it made its way to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. On May 1, the train <span style="font-family: inherit;">made a scheduled stop in Chicago. </span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqWXDLE3vsZ5SA6AJX8KQQAUrunn3gZzXh5q130eMyJ_3DzkXXtaq6H09mdkVPfvg0AkmROzObZgPDBJXYKzlnj5NvhnVEmyJPiGntxTpf7LRepUQTjVgcuXNX9pU9W0nKCOSxSTduIfWuk6FPhGzF1Rc3to2sqfxTI8UzU7_cSJpyGBEfCQvZj8z/s885/lincoln%20catafalque%20chicago%201%20May%201865_william%20waud_LOC%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="885" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqWXDLE3vsZ5SA6AJX8KQQAUrunn3gZzXh5q130eMyJ_3DzkXXtaq6H09mdkVPfvg0AkmROzObZgPDBJXYKzlnj5NvhnVEmyJPiGntxTpf7LRepUQTjVgcuXNX9pU9W0nKCOSxSTduIfWuk6FPhGzF1Rc3to2sqfxTI8UzU7_cSJpyGBEfCQvZj8z/w400-h285/lincoln%20catafalque%20chicago%201%20May%201865_william%20waud_LOC%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #242424; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“</span>President Lincoln's Funeral—The Catafalque at the City Hall, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chicago” as sketched by William Waud on May 1, 1865. Published in <i>Harper's Weekly</i> May 20, 1865. <i>Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress</i></span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></span></i></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #242424; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An estimated 125,000 mourners viewed the late president’s “mortal remains” at the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago. The framed ribbon and floral remnants are from the decorated platform, known as a catafalque, on which President Lincoln’s coffin rested. People eager to find solace in their grief and overwhelmed by the tragedy of the president's death solidified the moment by taking bits of the decorations from the platform. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #242424; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leonard Doolittle of Fremont Township, Lake County was convalescing at the U.S. Army Hospital in Chicago after being wounded at Chickamauga while serving with the 96th Illinois. Doolittle left the hospital on crutches to go "down to the city" for the viewing. He remarked in a letter that "I think that I never saw as many men women and children at one time in my life... as I saw today." Though the dark souvenir in the Dunn Museum's collection is not directly associated with Leonard Doolittle, the object's provenance suggests that the materials were collected at the viewing of the late president's remains in Chicago. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #242424; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to historian, Robert I. Girardi, while the Civil War was not fought in Illinois, “the state was actively and vitally a participant in every aspect of the conflict.” Illinoisans “sent more men per capita into the army than any other state.” These men collected souvenirs charged with the events they had seen and experienced. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #242424; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dark souvenirs can teach us about history and human nature. They are a window into the lives of those who experienced these events and spent their lives trying to come to terms with them. It is important for museums to collect such objects in order to preserve the memory of what "our boys" went through in the Civil War and to explore the war's continuing significance.</span></p></span></span></span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem; text-align: left;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div><i style="font-size: small;">- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i><span style="color: #242424; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: #242424; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sources: </span></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><ul aria-labelledby="item-title" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Bess Bower Dunn Museum, Libertyville, Illinois. www.lcfpd.org/museum</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., online collections. </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Ancestry.com. </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Letter of George Smith to Susie Smith, October 6, 1863, Bess Bower Dunn Museum (93.45.460). </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Letter of Leonard Doolittle to David Minto, May 1, 1865, Bess Bower Dunn Museum (93.45.407). </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"150 Year Old Items Go On Auction Block: Historical Collection to Be Sold Today," <i style="background-color: transparent;">Chicago Tribune, </i><span style="background-color: transparent;">February 2, 1958. </span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Girardi, Robert I. "Illinois and the Memory of the Civil War." <i>Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) </i>Vol. 104, No. 1/2, Civil War Sesquicentennial Issue (Spring-Summer, 2011), pp. 8-13.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Rusk, Anna Denov. "Collections the Confederacy: The Civil War Scrapbook of Henry M. Whitney." <i>Winterthur Portfolio</i>, Vol. 47. No. 4 (Winter 2013), pp. 267-296. </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Wilson, R.C. "Gen. Bentley Has Real Museum: La Grange Man Has Wonderful Collection of Photographs, Letters, Fire Arms and Articles of Historic Interest." <i>Uncited newspaper. </i> </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Dretske, Diana L. <i>The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. </i>Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2021.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Partridge, Charles A. <i>History of the Ninety-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. </i>Chicago: Historical Society of the Regiment, 1887. </span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><br /></li></ul></div></li></ul></span></span></div></ul></span></div></span></span></span></div>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-21385333487766583912022-07-28T16:49:00.005-05:002022-09-01T08:20:39.720-05:00Legend of the Lotus<p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5J0PJTRusltC0fEE48nWPkkQ-5sdGDOee32WlpXfQIvBgD-YcYjXRr3l55WF2YPqCX89t6QoHU2ZOrgoiJ_-cR5CrJY1QrwRiXjFACMtjNemVjQ0TFup3gtdjjxSPZZ1Da3oDkrAjnO2cMihNjtHTH3ToAoclPuD7aL2b2fwS301C1sM_4Y5jaWr/s792/ChainOLakes%209BH1328_Dunn%20Museum%20watermark.jpg" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="792" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5J0PJTRusltC0fEE48nWPkkQ-5sdGDOee32WlpXfQIvBgD-YcYjXRr3l55WF2YPqCX89t6QoHU2ZOrgoiJ_-cR5CrJY1QrwRiXjFACMtjNemVjQ0TFup3gtdjjxSPZZ1Da3oDkrAjnO2cMihNjtHTH3ToAoclPuD7aL2b2fwS301C1sM_4Y5jaWr/w400-h259/ChainOLakes%209BH1328_Dunn%20Museum%20watermark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Linen postcard of map of the Chain O'Lakes, 1949. <i>Dunn Museum, 2016.1.112/9BH1932.</i></span></div><div style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The resort era began in Lake County in the 1870s with people visiting Waukegan's mineral springs to better their health, and sportsmen finding the best hunting and fishing in the Chain O'Lakes.</span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Among “The
Chain’s” most popular lakes for tourists were Grass Lake and Fox Lake. Early
“resorts” catered to hunters and fishermen, and were run by entrepreneurial
farmers, who added rooms onto their farmhouses or allowed hunters to pitch
tents on their land. As demand grew, cottages were built and rented as were grand
hotels such as the Mineola on Fox Lake.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDJG6WB0-VrSbhwA6Wec0fZ52Y9usrB4il4z25egydjmmUoGXzXLNjSnhVwF1YqKOok5G5LhLxJte0YiePoyLM50rNPaEAlP_XO4T2gKa9DTsFUzuiuSV9AkJDz8G0qQHUDs_6p_DUUnB53oqMt8y4PQqWVAu6V428nFsm4802DiNc4jyE9DdxEnF/s786/Antioch%20Train_Dunn%20Museum%20M-86.1.62%20watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="786" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDJG6WB0-VrSbhwA6Wec0fZ52Y9usrB4il4z25egydjmmUoGXzXLNjSnhVwF1YqKOok5G5LhLxJte0YiePoyLM50rNPaEAlP_XO4T2gKa9DTsFUzuiuSV9AkJDz8G0qQHUDs_6p_DUUnB53oqMt8y4PQqWVAu6V428nFsm4802DiNc4jyE9DdxEnF/w400-h184/Antioch%20Train_Dunn%20Museum%20M-86.1.62%20watermark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Train with vacationers at Antioch Depot, circa 1910. <i>Dunn Museum, M-86.1.62</i></div></span><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The growing
popularity of the lakes region combined with the arrival of the Wisconsin and
Central Railroad passenger service in Antioch in 1886 created a resort boom. Many of the vacationers
were from Chicago and were eager to escape the pollution and bustle of the city
for the seemingly boundless natural areas of Lake County. </span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9JuMIl-vY8N8sNEGE3yaxz7sZU4wRmBhUwaeLTs5fmPucJlrGN9enRHlMdlbif47DWJlCStDu-Q5GiPa1T6kIMQ_FVzl1TYja6MESenX2G3nHYf3ev7pwqZdw71DjY6gM_HF5GBTiKS6kb81UBvKmTCwXVVZ5guA7M8UfejWbCD1cAAeKvvjJl7a/s814/Lotus%20Grass%20Lake%202001.3.23%20watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="814" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9JuMIl-vY8N8sNEGE3yaxz7sZU4wRmBhUwaeLTs5fmPucJlrGN9enRHlMdlbif47DWJlCStDu-Q5GiPa1T6kIMQ_FVzl1TYja6MESenX2G3nHYf3ev7pwqZdw71DjY6gM_HF5GBTiKS6kb81UBvKmTCwXVVZ5guA7M8UfejWbCD1cAAeKvvjJl7a/s320/Lotus%20Grass%20Lake%202001.3.23%20watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Colorized postcard of lotus in bloom on Grass Lake, circa 1910. <i>Dunn Museum 2001.1.23</i></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the
biggest lures to the lakes were the vast lotus beds with large pale yellow
blossoms that bloom in late July and early August. (Note: White water lily flowers are often mistaken for the lotus, but
have much smaller white blossoms). The lotus beds were especially plentiful on
Grass Lake and caused a tourism sensation from the 1880s to 1940s.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHXw9sZKEpwOJWD1n4UjC9ja947kwUxx0Os1mYKhfwcQHWA2-Fy19D2cPgKnX69nNkgP-u-av07WGJAyNmQ4KI09cR7mbu_ZQoqFIPde7tKFWqw10Co_RAtjer7-CtPfeXtVmkthatBFc4ZzBNXghXryAX9Yl5dVJDN1jk6aMG7YXO0JDYHpoO8Kz9/s735/Lotus%203%20Aug%201911%20Woodstock%20Sentinel%20IL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="735" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHXw9sZKEpwOJWD1n4UjC9ja947kwUxx0Os1mYKhfwcQHWA2-Fy19D2cPgKnX69nNkgP-u-av07WGJAyNmQ4KI09cR7mbu_ZQoqFIPde7tKFWqw10Co_RAtjer7-CtPfeXtVmkthatBFc4ZzBNXghXryAX9Yl5dVJDN1jk6aMG7YXO0JDYHpoO8Kz9/w200-h139/Lotus%203%20Aug%201911%20Woodstock%20Sentinel%20IL.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">News clipping from the <i>Woodstock Sentinel</i>, August 3, 1911.</span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a marketing
gimmick, resorts and newspapers fabricated a legend to promote the lotus as
originating in Egypt. Depending on who you spoke to the flower had either found
its way to Lake County by a bird or an early settler who had brought it back
from Egypt. The legend further claimed that the flower only grew in Lake County
and Egypt. </span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_397UOaY8nw1qaF1o3OTPnjvhEl5o767cErA-8VPP-I03fiJjQk7JgyV3XlaH1V0qActbX7KucFYR_K24hIy6xI-1pODh5OgYXX6joEtB08lD40wHiW9h4xNw7ldAYXGDcDxQpcGMeaQlLRm1_DYjJOpt6WaUMubu1X5nYDkMw9sqnz43CSzwCzV/s3275/Sacred%20Lotus%2015%20Aug%201909%20Chic%20Trib%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="3275" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_397UOaY8nw1qaF1o3OTPnjvhEl5o767cErA-8VPP-I03fiJjQk7JgyV3XlaH1V0qActbX7KucFYR_K24hIy6xI-1pODh5OgYXX6joEtB08lD40wHiW9h4xNw7ldAYXGDcDxQpcGMeaQlLRm1_DYjJOpt6WaUMubu1X5nYDkMw9sqnz43CSzwCzV/w400-h89/Sacred%20Lotus%2015%20Aug%201909%20Chic%20Trib%20(3).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cartoon in <i>Chicago Sunday Tribune </i>August 15, 1909 with article on "Sacred Lotus Flower of Egypt" found in the Calumet River south of Chicago.</span> </div></span><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Visitors were so
enamored with the beautiful lotus that they never questioned the
legend. After all, it added to the excitement. So, why spoil the
fun? </span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">In July 1911, the <i>Waukegan Daily Sun </i>set out to shake-up the myth of the lotus by stating: "Cherished Tradition that Flowers are Egyptian Appears Unfounded." The paper quoted Dr. Jesse M. Greenman, Assistant Botany Curator at the Field Museum, as saying the lotus are native to the U.S. and "interesting but not a great rarity." </p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The American
lotus (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nelumbo lutea</i>) native habitat includes waterways throughout the eastern United States. It is thought
that the plant originated in the east-central U.S. and its seeds and tubers
were used as food by prehistoric peoples, who carried it with them as they
traveled. The lakes region was the traditional home of <span style="background: white; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">tribal nations for thousands of years,
where they had villages and were sustained by </span>wild rice, fish, water
fowl, beaver and aquatic plants from the lakes.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJwjrXn7z5TZvimePbXgQnad9wJjiWWLLwQJmmNfSbmaJGWlTBLvkGHCLt3aBB0johaojuNCC5r3fPAyrB9t1sxTiUJdiwi6NnhLXp_1ZFx9PTex7h__Mo5BS4Ey5SUk-5ZFfpmp8fsrhWXEDX6jqx34HEU3ZJ9p455kf0dqMxdH8S1yaBz6XaJoA/s678/Bess%20at%20Grass%20Lake%20Lotus%20Beds%201910_watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="677" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJwjrXn7z5TZvimePbXgQnad9wJjiWWLLwQJmmNfSbmaJGWlTBLvkGHCLt3aBB0johaojuNCC5r3fPAyrB9t1sxTiUJdiwi6NnhLXp_1ZFx9PTex7h__Mo5BS4Ey5SUk-5ZFfpmp8fsrhWXEDX6jqx34HEU3ZJ9p455kf0dqMxdH8S1yaBz6XaJoA/w320-h320/Bess%20at%20Grass%20Lake%20Lotus%20Beds%201910_watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bess Bower Dunn visiting the lotus beds of Grass Lake, circa 1909. <i>Dunn Museum</i></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Among the multitudes
of visitors enchanted by the lotus beds was Bess Bower Dunn (1877-1959), the
Dunn Museum's namesake. Bess is often associated with the preservation of
Lake County's historical record, but she was also an avid naturalist. She
traveled extensively throughout the county with her box camera and spent many
pleasant days taking photographs of the lotus.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXsIzXT_wXmvPE43Rdlc6pQw1fl2ScGWvhbVhn-RmNSADye3NcDJEx3oP4qy9_EIxdL2hekJIT-Cg2mf0iFYulDMl0J3rFzju_1q5IwYvcPVyqwc7sFjfWoqDd95gxBbQoz3QsPMF1USUCbMBbrzo85vdAVIErYUCLEPGQrLcx9pz-ozsJrrwtPAJ/s971/Bess%20Bower_Giffords%20Resort%20Channel%20Lake_courtesy%20Lakes%20Region%20Historical%20Society%20RED%20STAR%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="971" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXsIzXT_wXmvPE43Rdlc6pQw1fl2ScGWvhbVhn-RmNSADye3NcDJEx3oP4qy9_EIxdL2hekJIT-Cg2mf0iFYulDMl0J3rFzju_1q5IwYvcPVyqwc7sFjfWoqDd95gxBbQoz3QsPMF1USUCbMBbrzo85vdAVIErYUCLEPGQrLcx9pz-ozsJrrwtPAJ/w320-h194/Bess%20Bower_Giffords%20Resort%20Channel%20Lake_courtesy%20Lakes%20Region%20Historical%20Society%20RED%20STAR%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Bess Bower Dunn visited the lakes region often. This ledger entry for Gifford's Resort on Channel Lake for July 4, 1901 is from the collections of the Lakes Region Historical Society in Antioch. It shows Bess Bower with a group from Waukegan, including her best friend Isabel Spoor. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Lakes Region Historical Society </i><span style="text-align: left;"><i>antiochhistory.org</i></span></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The pressure of so
many visitors to these natural areas ultimately led to the decline of the
lotus. People loved the lotus nearly to obliteration from the lakes.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The demand for
access to the beds by boats led to dams being built on the Chain. The first dam, the McHenry Dam officially known as the Stratton Lock Dam was constructed of wood in 1907 and replaced by steel by 1915. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The lakes are naturally shallow and this raised water levels, which made it
easier to navigate the lakes, but damaged the lotus’ habitat. Motorboats</span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and boat racing</span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">tore
up lotus roots and made the lakes so muddy that sunlight could not penetrate
through the water.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On August 3, 1911, <i>The McHenry Plaindealer</i> ran a story about an "excursion to the lotus beds" on the passenger boat "Alice." The article written by the boat's Captain William Koeppe stated: "The Alice is the only propeller boat that runs right into the beds so that passengers may pick the flowers without leaving their seats."</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_qQYDL0vIhZFpYqBxbSP9hTVkjTnHPcDgyzeDE9bvqfz86avPMd9KNqf-M8fTa1Kr2k8g4fpEwR3hmmZmUqo-gIflw6bc0_CIRZ1n3m6OMyCDt1fTY3TBwDVVK5sm162QdHF79OzjkoiudKVnKiohBM6TwzAqTn7o0mZsbaEfZlQ8vXJ_g05uan32/s823/Lotus%20Fox%20Lake%20Blarney%20Island_m861206%20watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="823" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_qQYDL0vIhZFpYqBxbSP9hTVkjTnHPcDgyzeDE9bvqfz86avPMd9KNqf-M8fTa1Kr2k8g4fpEwR3hmmZmUqo-gIflw6bc0_CIRZ1n3m6OMyCDt1fTY3TBwDVVK5sm162QdHF79OzjkoiudKVnKiohBM6TwzAqTn7o0mZsbaEfZlQ8vXJ_g05uan32/w400-h253/Lotus%20Fox%20Lake%20Blarney%20Island_m861206%20watermark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Postcard of motorboats cruising along a channel that was dug through lotus beds on Fox Lake. Blarney Island is shown in the distance, circa 1938. <i>Dunn Museum M-86.1.206.</i></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">By the late 1910s, residents began to see the damage that was being done. They tried to mitigate the impact by preventing lotus from being picked by the boatloads, and worked to stop refuse from being dumped into the lakes.</p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">A leader in this preservation effort was Colonel John P. Vidvard of Grass Lake. <span style="font-family: inherit;">On August 19, 1917, Col. Vidvard and other respected citizens made a plea to "protect the valuable and most beautiful lotus beds in the world located at Grass Lake." In spite of their attempts to raise awareness, by the 1950s, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the lotus beds were devastated
and without them the tours stopped. <span><i>For more, read p</i></span></span><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">ost </span><a href="https://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/03/vidvard-point-grass-lake.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Col. John Vidvard</a></i></span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the last several decades, thanks to
continued conservation efforts the lotus have made a
comeback, although limited. Lake water levels remain artificially high, but boat
traffic restrictions and cleaner water have allowed the lotus beds to grow along shorelines.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Boat tours are popular
once again, taking visitors out on the lakes to view historic buildings, hear stories
of the resort era, and to learn about the natural beauty of the lakes. Though
its’ domain has shrunk the pale yellow blossoms of the American lotus remain a
popular attraction.</span></p><p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></span></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sources: <br /><span>Bess Bower Dunn Collection, Dunn Museum, Libertyville, IL<br /></span><span>Chain O'Lakes Reference Files, Dunn Museum, Libertyville, IL <br /></span><span>Lakes Region Historical Society, Antioch, IL https://antiochhistory.org/ <br /></span><i>A History of Fox Lake, Illinois, 1917-1957, </i>Fox Lake Golden Jubilee Commission. <br />"Even the Sacred Lotus Flower of Egypt Has Taken a Fancy to the Calumet," <i>Chicago Sunday Tribune, </i>August 15, 1909.<br />"Square Mile of Lotus Blossoms at Grass Lake," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun</i>, July 25, 1911. <br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Excursion to Lotus Beds," <i>Woodstock Sentinel</i>, Woodstock IL, August 3, 1911.<br /></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Surrounded by Lotus Beds, Plea Made to Save Them," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun, </i>August 20, 1917.<br /></span>Wikipedia.org. "Stratton Lock and Dam." Accessed July 28, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Lock_and_Dam <br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flora of North America. eFlora.org. </span></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p></p>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-83230618575865919432021-12-17T15:43:00.009-06:002022-07-28T20:27:13.901-05:00Mary Louise Spoor Brand - Children's Book Illustrator<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO67eKnfgq_1HA9muDa-Nsz3Cgp7scOH16MJf0NH_TAUFxevXBcA1HK3iDyRXmLfiKZJqMWm4FDuhTByl5SifAyeKG8w7yU3cI0-0c7HhDW2KIcUu-VXPVHmx0HOaUacLweEZUf7y931jWv8WvOGH8Eyybr9-XB5m_qD3-snGCYqPJJYMl8EYPgf1u=s1500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="1500" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO67eKnfgq_1HA9muDa-Nsz3Cgp7scOH16MJf0NH_TAUFxevXBcA1HK3iDyRXmLfiKZJqMWm4FDuhTByl5SifAyeKG8w7yU3cI0-0c7HhDW2KIcUu-VXPVHmx0HOaUacLweEZUf7y931jWv8WvOGH8Eyybr9-XB5m_qD3-snGCYqPJJYMl8EYPgf1u=w400-h274" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Spoor Brand's illustration for <i>Bobby and Betty With the Workers</i> by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, published by Rand McNally & Company, 1923.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Golden Age of American illustration (1880 - 1914) gave women unprecedented opportunities to be employed as illustrators. The momentum it created would benefit Mary Louise Spoor Brand of Waukegan, who became a children's book illustrator in the first decades of the 20th century. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1MZaB5y7KBciV9rrEorrif_4aCHkbLHr4jdXGbkSF7olNdfB5nOT5ZHpr6T0S9Vo0w13irnl2nrmLMZ8vve6NdtEhhgmjlADKNXg4nANP-ECP9s9kfXCowygV7tDxeOqI746kwF2-HvZ_Ytj7VrySMugLrJOQdS8-irTiyqiCkULvpQ5vhFfdg5Bi=s335" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="245" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1MZaB5y7KBciV9rrEorrif_4aCHkbLHr4jdXGbkSF7olNdfB5nOT5ZHpr6T0S9Vo0w13irnl2nrmLMZ8vve6NdtEhhgmjlADKNXg4nANP-ECP9s9kfXCowygV7tDxeOqI746kwF2-HvZ_Ytj7VrySMugLrJOQdS8-irTiyqiCkULvpQ5vhFfdg5Bi=w146-h200" width="146" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Mary Louise Spoor Brand (1887-1985). Ancestry.com <i>volks1wag</i> family tree.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Known as "Mollie" to her friends and family, Spoor was born on March 15, 1887 to Catherine Stressinger (1853-1947) and Marvin Spoor (1839-1927). Her father was an engineer for the North Western Railway, and except for an absence while serving with the 89th Illinois in the Civil War, Marvin Spoor ran a train between Waukegan and Chicago from the late 1850s until his retirement in 1902. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Growing up in Waukegan, Mollie was surrounded by creative individuals, including her family's neighbor, Edward Amet, who was an early motion picture pioneer and inventor. <i>See my post on <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/09/edward-amets-films-1896-1898.html" target="_blank">Edward Amet</a></i>. Mollie's brother, George K. Spoor, partnered with Amet in the motion picture business. About 1895, George featured his eight-year old sister, Mollie, in a short film of her playing with ducks.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuA5ufwamwspRi9L6JuZHioPjNou_KlhZOOOrkHpPDSCx0ZvGu1vMtthG4z7NzhDAm-41EIwC27T_cMtjblGio7xnSZ97wtzZ8Zs07tOUhHLk09LVNwtDxdEnIYoFCHwAeCpvRZsJVcd0a-iDP3uSBD6KYbmqnvcfV-ss2vsTuWAKu4g780nW-ixV6=s502" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="502" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuA5ufwamwspRi9L6JuZHioPjNou_KlhZOOOrkHpPDSCx0ZvGu1vMtthG4z7NzhDAm-41EIwC27T_cMtjblGio7xnSZ97wtzZ8Zs07tOUhHLk09LVNwtDxdEnIYoFCHwAeCpvRZsJVcd0a-iDP3uSBD6KYbmqnvcfV-ss2vsTuWAKu4g780nW-ixV6=w200-h199" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Mollie Spoor on her high school graduation day, June 1905, at the courthouse in Waukegan. <i>Dunn Museum Collections</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In June 1905, Mollie graduated from Waukegan High School with "high honors" and was chosen class valedictorian for scholarship. Mollie was class treasurer and secretary of the school's drama club. The club's play that spring, "Hamlet," was held at the Schwartz Theater in Waukegan. Mollie Spoor starred as Ophelia alongside her high school sweetheart, Enoch J. Brand, who had the leading role as Hamlet. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyRrtKbwLxlhwWwY7QKVY2zHI00tkGaQyTV_YlhpPsLSQOfb3vanyrk4-3aPxpBp2PuCUMb8UthZplzTYsMALOnpJYqkQhJx8nX-3k4AB4XT1V8NdtY07sOV9DAtDndqMflzx-urOWkSakoQIdpjpMO0WIfBLgQNzuGSZV1gKbfpsqLKRd5ZFNhqVn=s2413" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="2413" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyRrtKbwLxlhwWwY7QKVY2zHI00tkGaQyTV_YlhpPsLSQOfb3vanyrk4-3aPxpBp2PuCUMb8UthZplzTYsMALOnpJYqkQhJx8nX-3k4AB4XT1V8NdtY07sOV9DAtDndqMflzx-urOWkSakoQIdpjpMO0WIfBLgQNzuGSZV1gKbfpsqLKRd5ZFNhqVn=w475-h205" width="475" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Waukegan High School's Class of 1905. Mollie Spoor and Enoch Brand are noted with yellow stars. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yearbook photo courtesy of Waukegan Historical Society. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdYrjMzgkYnrFchHN_jPUiKgrBiTDaVwJafoHpYCAGwFGBwDvZP7dOqHrltOj6BfxKeTjDvHECk2zIbvON-wzlfic5Z20RMRFsaG8DJznyrAeLELd9BNBhyZb_FQnVZaC884XDIHujRyCg9kkVD1pA4lkmGFGx5ww_NuHkfIr3ngQq_AJELamu0uU2=s719" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="719" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdYrjMzgkYnrFchHN_jPUiKgrBiTDaVwJafoHpYCAGwFGBwDvZP7dOqHrltOj6BfxKeTjDvHECk2zIbvON-wzlfic5Z20RMRFsaG8DJznyrAeLELd9BNBhyZb_FQnVZaC884XDIHujRyCg9kkVD1pA4lkmGFGx5ww_NuHkfIr3ngQq_AJELamu0uU2=w320-h243" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Schwartz Theater in Waukegan where Mollie Spoor and her high school classmates presented "Hamlet" in 1905. <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span>Photo 1950s. </span><i><span>Dunn Museum Collections.</span> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <i>Waukegan Daily Sun </i>noted that "Miss Spoor has a peculiar ability in executing pretty water colors and drawings, but she has not made any decision as to what she will do in later life." </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Within a year, Spoor found a path to her future career and enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There she excelled in illustration and portraits. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_bGX6jJEZ7L2ZTxQr5_LjPQm7nmYTljAq_pE9mS_qUpKr-D5j1x64d2mOpgMQiqTFnIq_mz4yqCmJc9RalNTZW8Yx7CKgYlPAokiDmicjzPJ3pWt7HDFzZCdUby20-7FZUZo6tUD1lkRpP7O4Hk3hrlGUJgKW9EI1CiJoMx6HDTJ_HjXhrjbKeL0v=s879" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="879" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_bGX6jJEZ7L2ZTxQr5_LjPQm7nmYTljAq_pE9mS_qUpKr-D5j1x64d2mOpgMQiqTFnIq_mz4yqCmJc9RalNTZW8Yx7CKgYlPAokiDmicjzPJ3pWt7HDFzZCdUby20-7FZUZo6tUD1lkRpP7O4Hk3hrlGUJgKW9EI1CiJoMx6HDTJ_HjXhrjbKeL0v=w320-h266" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Mary L. Spoor's illustration featured in "The Art Institute of Chicago Circular of Instruction" for 1909-1910.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1907, Mollie's brother, George Spoor and actor/director "Broncho Billy" Anderson, founded a motion picture studio in Chicago. The studio's name</span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Essanay</span><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">was a play on the founders' initials "S and A." <i>See my post on <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2009/01/essanay-studios.html" target="_blank">Essanay Studios</a>. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCRuEt6suR_JhOOSf-So2SNzzn0JkqhfMWdkeVX40BfkLK-xY49hXsCb-62V5MkzixfM0GB9hKhgG0RZ2Rt5Q6Bjp1n-9BNnD1F7dZ6fIffGxrXn_-qw3XlWXoNp585woZUNb6CHzjp0UgW0X2Qm1GOcCoiJFPN27ZK4UzjhscyaPEPjZIbzKFM-x-=s912" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="749" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCRuEt6suR_JhOOSf-So2SNzzn0JkqhfMWdkeVX40BfkLK-xY49hXsCb-62V5MkzixfM0GB9hKhgG0RZ2Rt5Q6Bjp1n-9BNnD1F7dZ6fIffGxrXn_-qw3XlWXoNp585woZUNb6CHzjp0UgW0X2Qm1GOcCoiJFPN27ZK4UzjhscyaPEPjZIbzKFM-x-=w262-h320" width="262" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mollie Spoor's inlaid wood design for Essanay Studio's logo. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">In 1961, she donated the piece to the Lake County History Museum </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">(forerunner of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum).</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"> 61.33.1 Dunn Museum Collections.</i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George asked his artistic sister to design the studio's logo. The distinctive choice of a Native American in headdress was likely George's idea, but the design was all Mollie's. Her framed piece was made of inlaid wood and hung in her brother's studio office at 1333 W. Argyle Street in Chicago. </span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In June 1910, Spoor graduated from the School of the Art Institute with honors. The <i>Waukegan Daily Sun </i>noted that "In every respect she is the ablest artist this city ever claimed... and has won honor after honor at the Chicago Institute." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCLF8lvimHvJpsspFsCaTWSW_YJEnhkm_CJMvSW3403quwtPtJ0_5aBpetzAt8ecuZXwWCT7FlJBs_ay1ar1-VfVVqoRub4LZs2ZSWb6sr4KlS_1HQpWPBEvrsQdWm26JOMX-1bHgPF1hAWkl1Re0sVPooQluFnaQV_zGbDGPyieQSX7QkFczXVcup=s1596" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1596" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCLF8lvimHvJpsspFsCaTWSW_YJEnhkm_CJMvSW3403quwtPtJ0_5aBpetzAt8ecuZXwWCT7FlJBs_ay1ar1-VfVVqoRub4LZs2ZSWb6sr4KlS_1HQpWPBEvrsQdWm26JOMX-1bHgPF1hAWkl1Re0sVPooQluFnaQV_zGbDGPyieQSX7QkFczXVcup=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Waukegan Daily Sun </i>piece <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: normal;">celebrating Spoor's accomplishments at the Art Institute, June 18, 1910. </span>Newspapers.com</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">After graduation, she participated in a month-long Art Institute sketching class that went to the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Oregon, Illinois. The colony was founded in 1898 by American sculptor Lorado Taft (1861-1936) and consisted of Chicago artists, many of whom were members of the Chicago Art Institute. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinj6IFRBG3QqZ1Jnwjdrx2hbGAvX4_Oq7TImmrHmWYLeKzjk5Mo4JXC4hIVWp-AQHg0C2eQhEPnFIAC9xgQV-_Z2SxRXoyx8BNDYcIk3SmUYl4yM9KnJRmCciAaGSPuJ35p5E91wuvxIGylUv_VbIH3YkjZmT4bqZKw4X-VCtQ77IDej-C06UoSslD=s390" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="390" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinj6IFRBG3QqZ1Jnwjdrx2hbGAvX4_Oq7TImmrHmWYLeKzjk5Mo4JXC4hIVWp-AQHg0C2eQhEPnFIAC9xgQV-_Z2SxRXoyx8BNDYcIk3SmUYl4yM9KnJRmCciAaGSPuJ35p5E91wuvxIGylUv_VbIH3YkjZmT4bqZKw4X-VCtQ77IDej-C06UoSslD=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">"Bye Bye Bunting" illustration by Mary Louise Spoor, 1917. <i>Seesaw.typepad.com.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mollie made her home in Chicago and her art career took off. Her skill and professionalism was in great demand in the Midwest's publishing hub, where she found work with Rand McNally, Lyons & Carnahan, and Congdon Publishers. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjmf26Wj0XKHPEPkPu_iL5NlFVAIrV7xIyffLK1VOPC5fDG36fEouuYpqMx27sDgkJxd96G3CEGPSspgPlsYEHrRmK5SiwUc_3mZYP5CtakcxZ-IC_wZQZk3713OpIav0lyS04bzMOI6Rxyqx7ofg0HLZasNddT5j5OQ5xqRlS1cqXPmlWTGmo8eKn=s1126" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="1126" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjmf26Wj0XKHPEPkPu_iL5NlFVAIrV7xIyffLK1VOPC5fDG36fEouuYpqMx27sDgkJxd96G3CEGPSspgPlsYEHrRmK5SiwUc_3mZYP5CtakcxZ-IC_wZQZk3713OpIav0lyS04bzMOI6Rxyqx7ofg0HLZasNddT5j5OQ5xqRlS1cqXPmlWTGmo8eKn=w640-h261" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Jack and Jill </i>chromolithograph by Mary Louise Spoor, 1917.<i> treadwaygallery.com</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Decades of technical advances in printing and the falling price of paper fueled the "ten-cent magazine revolution," spurring a demand for magazines such as the <i>Ladies' Home Journal</i>, and also children's books. In the late 19th century, books designed solely for children were brought on by the Industrial Revolution and a growing middle class with an awareness of the importance of preserving children's innocence and the benefits of play and amusement. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At the turn of the 20th century, a burgeoning demand for artists continued, and particularly for women artists as illustrators of literature targeted to women and children. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the midst of this exciting time for illustrators, Mollie Spoor partnered with fellow School of the Art Institute student, Gertrude S. Spaller (1891-1970). The women became friends and colleagues, and worked together for ten years, even sharing an art studio in the tower of the Auditorium Building in Chicago. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNC5eTJmK7Jg7GBpNO_3DcfKDpSxulwjOQ0sFAiDOxoXehva6LuU_UgTYpIeedA3Yepb5axu_Hv03bqQ-hAqZMc4GnGaowfrkSm57DHnoSLPpxDkH2i1mQ7qChF35agoQ4iNND5s9VXWOfAeYbTSNVxmUdkX92ftQjg80neggguF42eDMopiy8Q_XU=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1618" data-original-width="2048" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNC5eTJmK7Jg7GBpNO_3DcfKDpSxulwjOQ0sFAiDOxoXehva6LuU_UgTYpIeedA3Yepb5axu_Hv03bqQ-hAqZMc4GnGaowfrkSm57DHnoSLPpxDkH2i1mQ7qChF35agoQ4iNND5s9VXWOfAeYbTSNVxmUdkX92ftQjg80neggguF42eDMopiy8Q_XU=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Chicago Auditorium Building from Michigan Avenue. Spoor and Spaller's shared studio was located in the tower. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Photo by JW Taylor. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. </i></span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Spaller and Spoor illustrated children's readers titled, <i>The Easy Road to Reading Primer</i>, for Lyons and Carnahan of Chicago/New York.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig71omAKyQKuknZ3J-cJCs1EortlX7OcpFGcPC0NH9lfOOXiK--s5MOlOYmhglzPAbMLaq7DtrHf8dIOe6g-t9YjHzOzngWqwVVGkp5p4mSlTxCellfibz23KGGsLzEUmgo1qyNMmzpmWNW_8PSZdTAyVNvjPl9qMNz7xD0z9d1Jc24FCS6Tgy1QZJ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="470" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig71omAKyQKuknZ3J-cJCs1EortlX7OcpFGcPC0NH9lfOOXiK--s5MOlOYmhglzPAbMLaq7DtrHf8dIOe6g-t9YjHzOzngWqwVVGkp5p4mSlTxCellfibz23KGGsLzEUmgo1qyNMmzpmWNW_8PSZdTAyVNvjPl9qMNz7xD0z9d1Jc24FCS6Tgy1QZJ=w147-h200" width="147" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>The Easy Road to Reading, First Reader</i>. This series was illustrated by Mary Louise Spoor and Gertrude S. Spaller. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Published by Lyons and Carnahan, 1919-1925. <i>Seesaw.typepad.com</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTqANNMac9lchRqs5Ae37lNNDhOhJJGDJZjsInmNzst1z-3-ZjALAy8EPdG6b_HDRpaugXSqGJTsE4NkJeidDOrJKulQmnkBwfCG_v8trGk3i2N_VPo5TI5j_0o_IMyBrJLd-QLngam4S7OH7riYqwrwo5nFV2Iw-8ir9TqIMSSp7espON3KRg4_jo=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="640" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTqANNMac9lchRqs5Ae37lNNDhOhJJGDJZjsInmNzst1z-3-ZjALAy8EPdG6b_HDRpaugXSqGJTsE4NkJeidDOrJKulQmnkBwfCG_v8trGk3i2N_VPo5TI5j_0o_IMyBrJLd-QLngam4S7OH7riYqwrwo5nFV2Iw-8ir9TqIMSSp7espON3KRg4_jo=w400-h295" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Illustrations by Mary Louise Spoor for <i>The Easy Road to Reading</i> series published by Lyons and Carnahan. <i>Seesaw.typepad.com.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mollie Spoor also illustrated the stories of Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (1863-1944) for Rand McNally's <i>Bobby and Betty</i> children's books. Dopp was a notable American educator. The <i>Bobby and Betty </i>series featured the fictional children at play, at work, and in the country. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghZZcnmJd8b5uJh-2E2Scs0s7LRvv8kdck4c0iZfNu6YuXkW30rPgQshqiAEU9GYdKFQIv5SAzFg56DVCWrgL9i-m4m18DT3UnPaYlhFuDRtmsqqVztewhcv4R0aue1iV02WFrLz1TfLgfTnkqPczJmDZ_m09xguGre0y7xyWVdUt2VhMnGP9Yf-MQ=s950" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="635" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghZZcnmJd8b5uJh-2E2Scs0s7LRvv8kdck4c0iZfNu6YuXkW30rPgQshqiAEU9GYdKFQIv5SAzFg56DVCWrgL9i-m4m18DT3UnPaYlhFuDRtmsqqVztewhcv4R0aue1iV02WFrLz1TfLgfTnkqPczJmDZ_m09xguGre0y7xyWVdUt2VhMnGP9Yf-MQ=w268-h400" width="268" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Mary Spoor Brand's illustration of "The Milkman and His Horse" written by Katharine E. Dopp for <i>Bobby and Betty With the Workers, </i>1923.</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During her career as an illustrator Spoor appeared under the name Mary Louise Spoor and after her marriage to Enoch J. Brand in August 1915, she was sometimes credited as Mary Spoor Brand. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In many ways, Mollie was ahead of her time as a career woman. Many talented women illustrators gave up their art careers when they married, a societal norm at the time. According to her wedding notice in the <i>Waukegan Daily Sun</i>, Mollie's art "services were in great demand" in Chicago, so much so that she postponed her wedding until she finished a project for Rand McNally. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-mPSEp6tK58XV2Ysc_KihTNoibNWRINSRILBLfi1-GlSgQyj8trV46gOHgNXnpLH3giGavcxqL15DBAa_2E-LPoP79sLadJN1Ts9W6eOSg0lJuiamhOwR7g017OwtRlP8HcT94CdChiR7NtqNkoxRW9rQK-Ylz11plSA0mOmlHObw_rQA0KNh7-of=s641" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="641" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-mPSEp6tK58XV2Ysc_KihTNoibNWRINSRILBLfi1-GlSgQyj8trV46gOHgNXnpLH3giGavcxqL15DBAa_2E-LPoP79sLadJN1Ts9W6eOSg0lJuiamhOwR7g017OwtRlP8HcT94CdChiR7NtqNkoxRW9rQK-Ylz11plSA0mOmlHObw_rQA0KNh7-of=w200-h181" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Ten years after their high school graduation, Mollie Spoor and Enoch Brand wed in Waukegan. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Waukegan Daily News, </i>August 11, 1915. <i>Newspapers.com</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mollie and Enoch moved to Minnesota and then to Massachusetts for Brand's insurance work. Mollie temporarily set aside her career until her four sons were in school, and then returned to illustrating. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 1922, the family came back to Illinois. They settled in Winnetka where Spoor became an officer in the North Shore Art League (est. 1924), and continued to express herself through her love of art until her death in 1985.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mollie Spoor's illustrations charmed a multitude of children and parents in the early decades of the 20th century. Her skill as an artist contributed to children's illustrated books being respected as an art form. Today her work has received renewed interest as vintage children's readers have become collector's items. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggDoo3B6wp8DsHpLUZa-mzZTsa9U3hicaKeI56y7tkOST9UiMax-j4fnYCul32SFsN2AM4qhIsVTKwVafCngIuMKtA8WSP01IN380htLT-9u4VK7joqye32Kgy17mW4wlJAB6CgxYivpdb_WUgq5nK62zA5zAjlERi55f9HMSENN2Gpen78GbV3_JW=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="900" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggDoo3B6wp8DsHpLUZa-mzZTsa9U3hicaKeI56y7tkOST9UiMax-j4fnYCul32SFsN2AM4qhIsVTKwVafCngIuMKtA8WSP01IN380htLT-9u4VK7joqye32Kgy17mW4wlJAB6CgxYivpdb_WUgq5nK62zA5zAjlERi55f9HMSENN2Gpen78GbV3_JW=w400-h270" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Mary Spoor Brand illustration from <i>Bobby and Betty with the Workers</i> by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp for Rand McNally, 1923.</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sources: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Elect Club Officers," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun, </i>March 22, 1905. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Earn High Honors," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun, </i>June 22, 1905.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Miss Molly Spoor Wins High Art Study Honors," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun</i>, June 18, 1910.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Mary L. Spoor Becomes Bride of Enoch Brand Here," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun</i>, August 11, 1915. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Marvin Spoor Is Dead After Ailing For Over 25 Years," <i>Waukegan Daily Sun, </i>1927. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Enoch J. Brand," <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>October 5, 1948. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Child Film Star' Mary Brand, 98," <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>October 31, 1985. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- "The Art Institute of Chicago Circular of Instruction of Drawing, Painting, Modeling, Decorative Designing, Normal Instruction, Illustration and Architecture with a Catalogue for Students 1909 - 1910." Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1909. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Smith Scanlan, Patricia. "'God-gifted girls'": The Rise of Women Illustrators in Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia." <i>Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. </i>http://w.ncgsjournal.com/issue112/scanlan.html </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Goodman, Helen. "Women Illustrators of the Golden Age of American Illustration." <i>Women's Art Journal, </i>Spring-Summer, 1987, Vol. 8, No. 1. Accessed December 1, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358335.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Kosik, Corryn. "Children's Book Illustrators in the Gold Age of Illustration." <i>IllustrationHistory.org. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>- </i>Kesaris, Paul L. <i>American Primers: Guide to the Microfiche Collection. </i>Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1990. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>- Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth. </span><i>Bobby and Betty With the Workers</i><span>. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1923. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>- Cowan, Liza, ed. "Artist: Mary Louise Spoor." <i>SeeSaw: A Blog by Liza Cowan.</i> February 7, 2012. </span></span><span style="text-align: center;">https://seesaw.typepad.com/blog/artists-mary-louise-spoor/</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Special thanks for research assistance to Ann Darrow, Librarian, Waukegan Historical Society www.waukeganhistorical.org; and Corinne Court, Senior Cataloging and Metadata Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</span> </i></div></div><br />Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-58997294711467218392021-06-17T13:21:00.014-05:002022-08-05T10:42:04.082-05:00From Cavalry to Tanks: George S. Patton Jr.<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivaTCHYEgcJgDcBo3wihUwROIe5BcFha3CjluI6B_wQ1OTnCYOaGYdVkTEtH7H6ELA8dPJdPk_LwaDq3XpdIra4-rSESb7ePLTz6OrztXzHu7aHi8jIP5KhuChb_wxSLuH6dB1jeKoRo/s659/cavalry+on+bluffs_bbdm+92.24.2658+watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="659" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivaTCHYEgcJgDcBo3wihUwROIe5BcFha3CjluI6B_wQ1OTnCYOaGYdVkTEtH7H6ELA8dPJdPk_LwaDq3XpdIra4-rSESb7ePLTz6OrztXzHu7aHi8jIP5KhuChb_wxSLuH6dB1jeKoRo/w400-h299/cavalry+on+bluffs_bbdm+92.24.2658+watermark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Cavalry descending a bluff to the beach at Fort Sheridan with photographers documenting their training. Circa 1925. <i>Fort Sheridan Collection, Bess Bower Dunn Museum 92.24.2658</i></span></div><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The most famous cavalry officer to be stationed at Fort Sheridan was George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945). Though the cavalryman-turned-tanker had a relatively brief stay at the Fort from 1909 to 1911, he made an indelible impression on all who encountered him. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The U.S. Army post at Fort Sheridan (est. 1887) became known as a cavalry post with the arrival of the 7th Cavalry in 1892. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Fort's unique terrain was a welcome challenge for cavalry training. Cavalrymen tested their own and their horses' skills by descending the bluffs to the sandy beach, and traversing acres of uneven ground. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After graduating from West Point in June 1909, a 24-year-old George S. Patton Jr. took a commission as a 2</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">lieutenant with the 15</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cavalry and was stationed at Fort Sheridan near Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyGZAe0lYXqQRwc7VYciNtg98fnI66YXZRiISn4mTwy4YUGpFMuNBI4VZUOELdEnJJN59tBe_FsXNvI9-0nBSnIuO_cqk_wfYzweKx4GJL_EpolXl-ZJPc72XLqjYXMnaQT_-0CwWvKpM/s753/George+C+Patton+92.24.1966+watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="753" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyGZAe0lYXqQRwc7VYciNtg98fnI66YXZRiISn4mTwy4YUGpFMuNBI4VZUOELdEnJJN59tBe_FsXNvI9-0nBSnIuO_cqk_wfYzweKx4GJL_EpolXl-ZJPc72XLqjYXMnaQT_-0CwWvKpM/w400-h274/George+C+Patton+92.24.1966+watermark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">15th Cavalry officer, George S. Patton Jr., at Fort Sheridan, circa 1910. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Fort Sheridan Collection, Bess Bower Dunn Museum 92.24.1966.</i></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggX89L34c2ffnpCW4k19Ku3EITEnMBn5aZ8BWQ0nob5fpUvMQhkUGJonHsVQMHKdO_zc3E5s2ywUka2Cq-2XGg-7S_msupUL_sBOONumgxHJ1rG1VSO0VWuZ3gRPtT57T2aWhclFLElZE/s1738/George+S+Patton+Jr++Sept+1909+Fort+Sheridan+returned+from+leave_ancestry_officers+present+and+absent.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggX89L34c2ffnpCW4k19Ku3EITEnMBn5aZ8BWQ0nob5fpUvMQhkUGJonHsVQMHKdO_zc3E5s2ywUka2Cq-2XGg-7S_msupUL_sBOONumgxHJ1rG1VSO0VWuZ3gRPtT57T2aWhclFLElZE/s320/George+S+Patton+Jr++Sept+1909+Fort+Sheridan+returned+from+leave_ancestry_officers+present+and+absent.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Partial lists of "officers present and absent" at Fort Sheridan, September 1909. George S. Patton Jr. (#52) is noted as having returned from leave on September 12. Ancestry.com. </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit;">Returns From U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916. Original data from National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 94.</em></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On May 26, 1910, Patton married his childhood friend and sweetheart, Beatrice Banning Ayer of Boston, Massachusetts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt6MAE5K4EBOjCJ5KjO9RXVhUyS-oD3bq8yuJfahZxF7um2-BLkgYSGSIxBJNave_f_xxTivN2vselCQfhukuVB7BCJbedo8Aa1KO-D3y3_bQ-lxeYN8fh7U-6inh-fvuXaQPk2nKors4/s1937/George+C+Patton+Jr+and+Beatrice+Ayer+wedding+photo_online.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1937" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt6MAE5K4EBOjCJ5KjO9RXVhUyS-oD3bq8yuJfahZxF7um2-BLkgYSGSIxBJNave_f_xxTivN2vselCQfhukuVB7BCJbedo8Aa1KO-D3y3_bQ-lxeYN8fh7U-6inh-fvuXaQPk2nKors4/w253-h320/George+C+Patton+Jr+and+Beatrice+Ayer+wedding+photo_online.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lt. George S. Patton Jr. and Beatrice Banning Ayer on their wedding day, May 26, 1910. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">WikiTree.com</i></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2PBzCj7u07qy4kMvM0_rb9FnpFGWwunznugEmm7Uv44ds2VH9h4yPFCQt-V-layU7jEdgZ0QTIUEfjLGO_x0awrXDgsC9GCBqF68FD4J-jJ8rOI1XM9i15mlCrVwd4nPVhLZSluKgayE/s1548/Patton+wedding+headline_boston+globe+27+May+1910.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="1548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2PBzCj7u07qy4kMvM0_rb9FnpFGWwunznugEmm7Uv44ds2VH9h4yPFCQt-V-layU7jEdgZ0QTIUEfjLGO_x0awrXDgsC9GCBqF68FD4J-jJ8rOI1XM9i15mlCrVwd4nPVhLZSluKgayE/s320/Patton+wedding+headline_boston+globe+27+May+1910.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Wedding details as published by the <i>Boston Globe </i>on May 27, 1910. <i>Newspapers.com</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSzf5C00I-sJTGMnGOsECZrZQDteIgAVKMApKac7NZRqF0d-oab4N1iPQRgKHHcirQBH8cZYrHxd-P1Hzp4jDf6sx24DO7lHBgCbT0pV78w3cPOFzMJwucBnOkszvZz_LC4KVIRfD-kM/s739/Patton+and+Ayer+honeymoon+and+return+to+Fort+Sheridan_Boston+Globe+27+May+1910.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="739" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSzf5C00I-sJTGMnGOsECZrZQDteIgAVKMApKac7NZRqF0d-oab4N1iPQRgKHHcirQBH8cZYrHxd-P1Hzp4jDf6sx24DO7lHBgCbT0pV78w3cPOFzMJwucBnOkszvZz_LC4KVIRfD-kM/s320/Patton+and+Ayer+honeymoon+and+return+to+Fort+Sheridan_Boston+Globe+27+May+1910.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a month-long honeymoon, the newlyweds made their home at Fort Sheridan. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Boston Globe, May 27, 1910. Newspapers.com.</i></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">As a married officer, Patton was assigned to new quarters in Building 92 on Leonard Wood Avenue East. On March 19, 1911, the couple welcomed their first child, Beatrice Ayer Patton, who was born at Fort Sheridan. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LCyJ0erNoQQ4WL1U4GGvCQDA_-d9OhQ_8qotrBsFu5hqMwnLwkl1bNUFHNuWbvxwwJZPGG2Tq1Onquz6qwbbCDcmSnHNnsnjH9UyKvVR_E09BOIARsAzV9H8cOWVkhM3Qq2TgRj7MR0/s583/Building+92+where+George+S+Patton+lived_95.32.68+watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="583" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LCyJ0erNoQQ4WL1U4GGvCQDA_-d9OhQ_8qotrBsFu5hqMwnLwkl1bNUFHNuWbvxwwJZPGG2Tq1Onquz6qwbbCDcmSnHNnsnjH9UyKvVR_E09BOIARsAzV9H8cOWVkhM3Qq2TgRj7MR0/s320/Building+92+where+George+S+Patton+lived_95.32.68+watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Building 92 on Leonard Wood Avenue East (north of Martin's Lane) where Cavalry officer, George S. Patton Jr., his wife Beatrice and baby daughter Beatrice lived on the north side of this duplex. <i>Fort Sheridan Collection, Bess Bower Dunn Museum, 95.32.68.</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A story relayed by the Ray Family of Diamond Lake (near Mundelein) is that Patton would come for Harriet Rouse Ray's famous chicken dinners on Sundays at the Ray's Lakeside Cottage. Patton arrived on horseback and in uniform, of course.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">According to biographer, Ladislas Farago, Patton and his wife were known at the Fort as the "Duke and Duchess." Patton was independently wealthy, and the couple enjoyed dressing up for dinner, driving expensive automobiles, and were both equestrians. <i>Chicago Tribune, October 25, 1964. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBaIfMI5Qsv0pnzwA-knO2CO5eYC8kIJ0njhyphenhyphenwhlVJPF0LNIDvIUuq6mJuTfQz6gLPvqRS378OamFK3cT-IETjhggVBFjRLS03dYivzVjD2kCvBQwIBZWuEBzG3jDWwAX_kH7FFieoMM/s881/Patton+hammock_Fort+Sheridan+92.24.2020_watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="671" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFBaIfMI5Qsv0pnzwA-knO2CO5eYC8kIJ0njhyphenhyphenwhlVJPF0LNIDvIUuq6mJuTfQz6gLPvqRS378OamFK3cT-IETjhggVBFjRLS03dYivzVjD2kCvBQwIBZWuEBzG3jDWwAX_kH7FFieoMM/s320/Patton+hammock_Fort+Sheridan+92.24.2020_watermark.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lt. George S. Patton Jr. on the porch of his Army residence at Fort Sheridan (Building 92), circa 1910. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Fort Sheridan Collection, Bess Bower Dunn Museum, 92.24.2020.</i></div></span><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At Fort Sheridan, Patton impressed his superiors and was known as a hard-driving leader. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In late 1911, he was transferred to Fort Myer, Virginia, where he would come to know many of the Army's senior leaders. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMkEr4TNTd-MFINTT8pXFCehjNjB4yqaRb6CJyXQhZ9w9Hhyqv1bAUQ2fQ00tXNl6BKni2cuwPEr_VznbhYGXaVymtGXTEk2Cg6b9jOdRscBjevPhjfyD-5iOQaBgC5uLwlz4xIMyxm4/s1038/Patton+on+right_1912+Olympics+Sweden_fencing_patton_and_mas_latrie_Wikipedia+public+domain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1038" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMkEr4TNTd-MFINTT8pXFCehjNjB4yqaRb6CJyXQhZ9w9Hhyqv1bAUQ2fQ00tXNl6BKni2cuwPEr_VznbhYGXaVymtGXTEk2Cg6b9jOdRscBjevPhjfyD-5iOQaBgC5uLwlz4xIMyxm4/s320/Patton+on+right_1912+Olympics+Sweden_fencing_patton_and_mas_latrie_Wikipedia+public+domain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Patton (right) fencing in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden. He finished fifth overall in the modern pentathlon. <i>Swedish Press photo, public domain. Wikipedia.</i></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1917, Patton joined General John J. Pershing's staff for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in World War I. While in France training American infantry troops, Patton became interested in tanks. His new military path quickly developed as he advocated for the development of a tank corps. When the 1st Tank Brigade was created, Patton was placed in charge. Along
with British tankers, he and his men achieved victory at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cambrai</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
during the world's first major tank battle in Nov-Dec, 1917.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During World War II, Patton was the Army's leading strategist in tank warfare. He commanded the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Western Task Force in the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942, the Seventh Army during the invasion of </span><st1:state style="font-family: inherit;" w:st="on">Sicily</st1:state><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in July 1943, and was given command of the Third Army in </span><st1:place style="font-family: inherit;" w:st="on">France</st1:place><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in 1944. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An imaginative, shrewd, and often undiplomatic military commander, Patton is remembered as one of the most brilliant and successful generals in <st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place> history. </span>While his military genius in tank warfare was put to the test on Europe's battlefields, Fort Sheridan will always be Patton-the-cavalryman's first Army post.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><br /></i></div>
Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-18489211664271119652021-03-30T16:15:00.028-05:002022-07-28T20:30:27.643-05:00The Dairy Queen: Grace Garrett Durand<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-92SfFev3j5TgznxTWdPmkelp27UBgGu0B9pTf7AetXtqKh8unGVMEoI5WA-yLhSzmEl656oHbwarJZRsl63EPqX8iYwyYGRyt03UTiPwDncMnKNHLoxBdNUPea0DzN5sCPSYK2R0hyphenhyphenY/s640/crabtree+farm+lake+bluff_grace+durand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="640" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-92SfFev3j5TgznxTWdPmkelp27UBgGu0B9pTf7AetXtqKh8unGVMEoI5WA-yLhSzmEl656oHbwarJZRsl63EPqX8iYwyYGRyt03UTiPwDncMnKNHLoxBdNUPea0DzN5sCPSYK2R0hyphenhyphenY/w400-h284/crabtree+farm+lake+bluff_grace+durand.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace Garrett Durand with her cows. Crab Tree Farm, circa 1910. <i>lflb.passitdown.com</i></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace
Garrett Durand (1867-1948), founder of Crab Tree Farm in Lake Bluff, Illinois, was one of
the most forward thinking dairy farmers of her day. Through her philanthropic
nature and society connections she advanced children’s health and the production
of clean milk.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Durand
was born in Burlington, Iowa to Martha Rorer and William Garrett. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace’s
ties to the Chicago area likely began with her brother’s marriage to Miss
Ada Sawyer in 1884. Ada was the daughter of one Chicago's “pioneer druggists,” Dr.
Sidney Sawyer. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />In
February 1888, Ada Sawyer Garrett and her mother, Elizabeth Sawyer, gave Grace an
“elegant reception" at their home. This may have been Grace’s formal introduction to
Chicago society. In the following years, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chicago’s </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Inter Ocean </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">newspaper would note Dr. and Mrs. Sawyers’ travels with Miss Grace Garrett as their guest. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju7JuJ3HproRJN8mEJz8c7BGcqi0KStRZD7GScd_qCVVYmNohdJdFJpQRymg_WODgGZ6JX6mheQJQHd2SK0kfoCkmFOSITsxvc_M2rnmEFzxt_VKYferplsY6xNSb12YhHVDO24DAd4Yk/s803/Reception+in+honor+of+Grace+Garrett_Sawyer_Feb+1888.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="803" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju7JuJ3HproRJN8mEJz8c7BGcqi0KStRZD7GScd_qCVVYmNohdJdFJpQRymg_WODgGZ6JX6mheQJQHd2SK0kfoCkmFOSITsxvc_M2rnmEFzxt_VKYferplsY6xNSb12YhHVDO24DAd4Yk/s320/Reception+in+honor+of+Grace+Garrett_Sawyer_Feb+1888.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Society page notice of the reception in honor of Grace Garrett. <i>The Inter Ocean</i>, Chicago, February 5, 1888.</div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace had quickly become the darling of social
circles for her “sweet winning face and vivacious manner.” The Sawyers took her
to New York where they stayed at the Windsor Hotel, and wintered together at the
famed luxury resort, the Hotel Alcazar—today’s Lightner Museum—in St.
Augustine, Florida.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />On
news of her mother’s declining health, Grace returned home to Iowa to care for her. Martha Garrett died in February 1893.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />In
April 1894, Grace married wealthy sugar broker, Scott Sloan Durand of Lake Forest. Their
wedding was held in Burlington, Iowa “in the presence of a
brilliant assemblage of invited guests.” </span>Grace’s maid of honor was the famous watercolor artist and illustrator, Maud Humphrey (1868-1940) of New York. Today, Maud is better known as the mother of Hollywood legend, Humphrey Bogart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhozASiRyB46BhFuc0Lfxo98lq_w2B8mpOVdcUZnP25q7CJqzfC89NSW14guL_3lQCI_vrA5Grv4ROWBWVHNDzGzuCpcX2HjaD0oc1QfnWnb3B8TnIbIJygoV-8g8kJIDnR7RwQ4AeO2R8/s1239/Two+Fond+Hearts+Unit+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1239" data-original-width="671" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhozASiRyB46BhFuc0Lfxo98lq_w2B8mpOVdcUZnP25q7CJqzfC89NSW14guL_3lQCI_vrA5Grv4ROWBWVHNDzGzuCpcX2HjaD0oc1QfnWnb3B8TnIbIJygoV-8g8kJIDnR7RwQ4AeO2R8/s320/Two+Fond+Hearts+Unit+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sketch of Grace Garrett for an article titled, "Two Fond Hearts United," on the occasion of her marriage to Scott Durand. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Inter Ocean, </i>Chicago, April 6, 1894.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Inter Ocean </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">reported that the bride wore a “Queen Louise gown of
white satin… and a white veil trimmed in duchesse lace.” At this point in her
life, Grace was considered a “lady of fashion.” Within a few years, newspapers
would spend less time talking about her clothes and more about her leadership qualities.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The newlyweds returned to Lake Forest and in 1896 built a new home on 20
acres at the northeast corner of Sheridan Road and Crabtree Lane. When Lake Forest held its first election for the Board of Education in May 1897, Durand was motivated to run. This was also the first time Lake Forest women could vote.
Grace Durand and Miss Mary Neimeyer were elected to the board. <br /><br />At
the turn of the century, Durand shifted her focus to dairy farming as she became aware of infant mortality rates in Chicago linked to contaminated milk. Impure milk was a problem that had been combatted with varying success for centuries, but with the rapid growth of cities the problem was exacerbated. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inspired by her mother’s example of helping
others, Grace saw a desperate need to provide clean milk to children.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />In
1904, Durand established Crab Tree dairy farm on her Lake Forest property. However,
her <span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">neighbors
were not enamored of having a dairy herd in the neighborhood. Some complained
of the “odor and flies” and that the herd’s “bawling” kept</span> them awake at
night. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMOv69kzvyuerzYAorbc05R-QIoS322S_TeNBXDRy4EcsZlPG9tEb_MjCe1P72Mdc34THEBxMzz3rI9VkEAio1v2E-gxvhjuGkziHKcTzGIgLAA2KKhGUwkaDwqiCIDykDNAhybsQAjWE/s517/Grace+Durand_Washington+Herald_28+Nov+1915_crop+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="289" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMOv69kzvyuerzYAorbc05R-QIoS322S_TeNBXDRy4EcsZlPG9tEb_MjCe1P72Mdc34THEBxMzz3rI9VkEAio1v2E-gxvhjuGkziHKcTzGIgLAA2KKhGUwkaDwqiCIDykDNAhybsQAjWE/s320/Grace+Durand_Washington+Herald_28+Nov+1915_crop+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Artist's fanciful illustration of Grace Durand astride one of her dairy cows. <i>Washington Herald</i>, November 28. 1915.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1906, the Durands’ purchased 256-acres, formerly owned by Judge Henry
W. Blodgett, on Sheridan Road north of Lake Bluff. Grace marched her cows up the
road to the new farm. Her dairy operation was celebrated in newspapers across the nation. <i>The</i> <i>New
Castle Herald </i>noted that Durand sold: “the purest of milk… at a profit
in air tight silver jugs.” Grace even enrolled in a farmer’s ten-day course at
the Wisconsin University College of Agriculture in Madison, WI.<br /> <br />An article in <i>Pearson’s Magazine </i>explained how Grace’s visit to Chicago's “tenement district revealed… most of the infant mortality was due to the want of
nourishment, which meant good milk, and that good milk was a rare commodity,
difficult to procure, even at exorbitant prices.” Durand used the profits from selling
milk and thick cream to Chicago’s most select hotels, restaurants and tea rooms to support needy children.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>In 1910, several buildings on her farm were lost to fire. Durand "tearfully" sold her herd, because she could not get barns built before winter. The Durands commissioned Chicago architect, Solon S. Beman (1853 - 1914) to design her new ideal model dairy farm. It was the only farm complex Beman designed.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhliU5TboHJAITxC4TRtsR1qI2jHvJCIabQ-Oh9EjOnBXAEYYyz3QRkcU8SG9V1yS2ExWxyOkNby4iNCimr9RinuJqJRjLqvW_-fCOeSQckrIt7adD-4Y3ayYJkARav2H8jU2V9A2LqN5A/s801/Crab+Tree+Farm++ca+1911_private+colleciton+AW_crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="801" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhliU5TboHJAITxC4TRtsR1qI2jHvJCIabQ-Oh9EjOnBXAEYYyz3QRkcU8SG9V1yS2ExWxyOkNby4iNCimr9RinuJqJRjLqvW_-fCOeSQckrIt7adD-4Y3ayYJkARav2H8jU2V9A2LqN5A/w400-h209/Crab+Tree+Farm++ca+1911_private+colleciton+AW_crop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Crab Tree Farm buildings designed by Solon S. Beman and Durand's new herd of cows, circa 1911. <i>Private collection</i>. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><span>Durand was known to pamper her cows and referred to them as her "pets." She enlisted the unusual method of playing opera music while the cows were milked. Grace claimed the music made the cows happy and consequently their milk tasted better and was more nutritious.</span><span> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>With her success in raising standards in dairying, Durand began to be called the “dairy queen.” </span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLQ0DzlB-l2_9YeDgczd7_d22zzPRpPymgXnE3DZtpXiYCev-2CTM4taN-4Oaig0nsIU8gl7daYfceNvAH9ttYZuKQewvk7QwT0CQATylzU8JU_lJTVFU5q9ML7mvP1zn79STO-Due6k0/s743/Dairy+Queen+to+speak.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="743" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLQ0DzlB-l2_9YeDgczd7_d22zzPRpPymgXnE3DZtpXiYCev-2CTM4taN-4Oaig0nsIU8gl7daYfceNvAH9ttYZuKQewvk7QwT0CQATylzU8JU_lJTVFU5q9ML7mvP1zn79STO-Due6k0/w200-h181/Dairy+Queen+to+speak.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dairy farmers were </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">eager to learn the "dairy queen's" methods at the Farmer's Institute</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in Edwardsville, IL. Mantoon <i>Journal Gazette, </i>February 17, 1910.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She became a popular lecturer at farmers’ institutes across the Midwest, sharing her experiences in dairy work, and belief in hygienic and
systematic methods to enhance dairy products. Her “charming manner and
decisiveness impressed” all who heard her. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately, Durand had setbacks in her dairy operations. In fall 1915, her herd was confirmed to have Foot and Mouth Disease, a highly infectious viral disease of hooved animals. Crab Tree Farm was one of many in the region suffering from the disease. Durand fought the diagnosis through litigation, but lost her legal battle in the Illinois Supreme Court. Consequently, the herd was destroyed. Of course, the tenacious Durand began again. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">dairy farming, Durand supported the prevention and treatment of Tuberculosis.
She was one of the incorporators of the Lake County Tuberculosis Institute (Waukegan) in
October 1908, along with Dr. Elva A. Wright (1868-1950) of Lake Forest. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;">In July 1932, the Durand family made news when their adopted son Jack Durand received a letter threatening to kidnap his 2-year old daughter unless he handed over $50,000 (nearly $1 million today).</div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0oF3xb7T4RKrRk3pRme5yJpwkQjukm7Z1l2Ywg5JFX3a2wWcT3wyex04bO3Sh5MuCr5iH9texlxBNflWUJZ-6Dkvwfl1NokW_d1hCKzizdnyqZhEiD7IMxZGchZRXedHWLPDqRPXAAmc/s900/Durand_kidnap_foiled_The_Times_Streator_IL_12_July_1932+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="798" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0oF3xb7T4RKrRk3pRme5yJpwkQjukm7Z1l2Ywg5JFX3a2wWcT3wyex04bO3Sh5MuCr5iH9texlxBNflWUJZ-6Dkvwfl1NokW_d1hCKzizdnyqZhEiD7IMxZGchZRXedHWLPDqRPXAAmc/w178-h200/Durand_kidnap_foiled_The_Times_Streator_IL_12_July_1932+%25282%2529.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Grace Durand outwitted criminals in a plot to kidnap her grandchild. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Times</i>, Streator, Illinois. July 12, 1932.</span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;">The police were notified of the threat and waiting at Jack Durand's home. However, the would-be kidnappers went mistakenly to Grace Durand's home at Crab Tree Farm and asked for him. A "quick thinking" Grace told them that Jack would be home soon and they should have a seat on the porch to wait. Meanwhile, she phoned the police. Perhaps it was her persuasive personality, but oddly enough the thugs waited as suggested and were rounded up when the police arrived. </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Grace was also a Temperance advocate and member of the Lake Bluff chapter of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union. It
was more than a little embarrassing when her husband Scott Durand was indicted for selling 30 million pounds of sugar (from 1929 to 1932) to persons who used it to manufacture liquor.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9vVjqaW98slE9NOFxBsGzUVlMmzrOwTl6wz7e26OXv1eBxPUAniiQIdleh6UAePa-slRNUrs4rqbKbUxxGSGrgVhy3Snm6Jxj1flEZeZCFsbvkL4uXp3dBKTR7zjW_GVpYevLqtDAFY/s363/grace+durand_harper%2527s+weekly+9+may+1914.tif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="353" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9vVjqaW98slE9NOFxBsGzUVlMmzrOwTl6wz7e26OXv1eBxPUAniiQIdleh6UAePa-slRNUrs4rqbKbUxxGSGrgVhy3Snm6Jxj1flEZeZCFsbvkL4uXp3dBKTR7zjW_GVpYevLqtDAFY/s320/grace+durand_harper%2527s+weekly+9+may+1914.tif" /></a></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Grace Durand as featured in <i>Harper's Weekly, </i>May 9, 1914.</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dairy operations ceased when Grace Durand died on February 26, 1948. During her lifetime s</span>he was recognized as one of the “most powerful leaders in the milk crusade.” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following Durand's death, William McCormick Blair (1884-1982) and his wife, Helen Bowen Blair (1890-1972), purchased Crab Tree Farm. The Blairs association with Durand had begun in 1926, with the purchase of 11-acres of the farm overlooking Lake Michigan. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since
1985, Durand’s Crab Tree Farm has been owned by the John H. Bryan family. The property is still a working farm, and the original historic buildings have been renovated and now display collections of
American and English Arts and Crafts furniture and decorative arts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Special thanks to Laurie Stein, Curator at the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, for additional research and enthusiasm for this topic. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together; tab-stops: .05pt .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></span></i></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sources:</span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Ancestry.com</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Findagrave.com</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Crab Tree Farm, crabtreefarmcollections.org</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, lflbhistory.org</span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Olmstead, Alan L. and Paul W. Rhode. <i>Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts Over Animal Disease Control. </i>Harvard University Press, 2015.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“Garrett,
Timothy M.” Chicago City Directory, 1882.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>“Past
Pleasures.” </span><i>The Inter Ocean, </i><span>Chicago,
Illinois, February 5, 1888.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>“Durand—Garrett.”
</span><i>The Daily Leader</i><span>, Davenport, Iowa,
April 1, 1894.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>“Two Fond Hearts United.</span></span>” <i>The Inter Ocean, </i>Chicago, Illinois. April 6, 1894.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i><span>American Druggist and Pharmaceutical
Record, Vol. 25. </span></i><span>1894.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>“Lake
Forest Dames Vote: Five Run for Office and Two Win at the Ballot.” </span><i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i><span>, May 9, 1897.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>“Mrs. Scott Durand a Student.</span></span>” <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, Chicago, Illinois. February 5, 1908. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Dairy Queen Is To Speak.” <i style="text-align: center;">Journal Gazette, </i><span style="text-align: center;">Mantoon, Illinois. </span><span style="text-align: center;">February 17, 1910.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>Saint Maur, Kate V. “<span style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Scott Durand - Milk Woman.</span></span></span>” <i>Pearson's Magazine, </i>July 1910.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>“<span style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Durand Tearfully Orders Dairy Pets Sold.</span></span></span>” <i>The Inter Ocean,</i> Chicago, Illinois. November 8, 1910.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mrs. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Durand</span><span style="background-color: white;">: A Twentieth Century Product.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Harper's Weekly, </i>May 9, 1914.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“The Gentile Woman Farmer and Her Fight to Save Her $30,000 Herd.” <i>Washington Herald, </i>Washington, D.C. November 28, 1915.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span>“3 Suspects in Kidnaping Plot.</span></span>”<i style="text-align: center;"> The Times</i><span style="text-align: center;">, Streator, Illinois. July 12, 1932.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>“Arrests
Nip Durand Baby $50,000 Kidnapping Plot.” </span><i>Chicago
Daily Tribune, </i><span>July 13, 1932.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">“Wealthy Broker, Mate of Rum Foe, Indicted by U.S." <i>The Decatur Daily Review, </i>Decatur, Illinois, February 17, 1933.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://follow.it/lakecountyhistory?action=followPub" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="275" height="20" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvm1Js1-8vNVUNIgvW5ClXs3oIMtxwlsToRi9DpmYPeRJJVRrU9rFN__NXWHnWdTGjqbW5zSZTGt10QNDsnGjHM58Um0lWYiMivHV1ffkyyzK1k30cSyaILgkt3K96kqvp9a2S1Vw2hKQ/w110-h20/14.png" width="110" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-10186487438234174242021-02-24T13:54:00.020-06:002022-08-29T12:57:02.861-05:00Private Henry McIntosh, 102nd U.S. Colored Troops<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEJnm6e5bmtw8S0QxPISFxcezdl_cDABR79hfO_sDmp_4bSHzVkoBZHLarEmOHfPDlmWRiVN0DdMgnd9iYmtawGm4bwHfNdwUuNKxH3OjIGHx8OrIrZufrDxWFXMcE_I4_e8CkSor4qE/s958/1st+Michigan+102d+USCT+battle+flag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="958" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEJnm6e5bmtw8S0QxPISFxcezdl_cDABR79hfO_sDmp_4bSHzVkoBZHLarEmOHfPDlmWRiVN0DdMgnd9iYmtawGm4bwHfNdwUuNKxH3OjIGHx8OrIrZufrDxWFXMcE_I4_e8CkSor4qE/w400-h290/1st+Michigan+102d+USCT+battle+flag.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Battle flag of the 102nd U.S. Colored Troops (1st Michigan), presented to the regiment by the Colored Ladies Aid Society on January 5, 1864. Henry McIntosh served in Company G. <i>Image source: capitol.michigan.gov</i>. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry McIntosh
(1843-1915) of Lake Forest, Illinois, served with the 102nd U.S. Colored Troops (1st Michigan) from February 1864 to October 1865. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>McIntosh was born enslaved on a plantation in
Kentucky. </span>When war erupted on April 12, 1861, he was made a horse wrangler for the Confederate army, but wanted no part
in the South’s fight to save the institution of slavery. After several
months, McIntosh saw a chance for freedom and crossed the Ohio River into a bordering
free state.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wTUcQFrMiuTFiEnoIB16wz-MlBcgKXWUYcGpvLLwNblryOE3ls77hPi6JAMbIB7HrLWcmxVjl8J7LAZHE5POkX_MuBGXNLJ_NCyed-caqOiXuZzXq3vijuaB3ol3sUO9aVULGM3Ubc0/s646/gateway+to+freedom+memorial+detroit+mi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="468" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wTUcQFrMiuTFiEnoIB16wz-MlBcgKXWUYcGpvLLwNblryOE3ls77hPi6JAMbIB7HrLWcmxVjl8J7LAZHE5POkX_MuBGXNLJ_NCyed-caqOiXuZzXq3vijuaB3ol3sUO9aVULGM3Ubc0/s320/gateway+to+freedom+memorial+detroit+mi.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-align: start;">Gateway to Freedom: International Memorial to the Underground Railroad</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;"> by Ed Dwight, Sculptor. Dedicated in Detroit, Michigan on October 20, 2001.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to his family, McIntosh made his way via the secret network of abolitionists and safe houses known
as the Underground Railroad. Many freedom seekers who headed north
continued onto Canada, but McIntosh stopped in Detroit, Michigan where there was
an established African American community.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On January 1, 1863, President
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect, freeing all enslaved people in the
Confederacy. The intention was to cripple </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">the Confederacy’s use of this labor source to support their armies and home front; something that Henry McIntosh had experienced firsthand.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I<span>n
July 1863, U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, authorized the State of
Michigan to “raise one Regiment of colored Infantry.” The order stated that these
men would not receive a bounty for enlisting, but would be paid “ten dollars
per month.” They would also be “commanded by white officers.”</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="line-height: 115%;">Between August 1863 and February 1864, a total of 895 men from
across Michigan signed the rolls for the new regiment. The unit received its commission into the
service of the United States as the First Michigan Colored Infantry
on February 17, 1864. Its' designation changed to the 102nd U.S.
Colored Troops/Infantry (USCI) on May 23. Henry McIntosh served as a private in Company G.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">McIntosh was particularly proud that the 102nd USCI were part of the forces supporting Maj. Gen. William T.
Sherman’s March to the Sea (November 15 - December 21, 1864), a campaign that led
to the eventual surrender of the Confederacy. The 102nd served on picket duty, built fortifications, destroyed rail lines, and engaged the enemy.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the war's end in Spring 1865, the process of Reconstruction began to
redress the inequities of slavery and help the South become part of the Union
again. Federal troops, including Henry McIntosh with the 102nd USCI, were sent to Charleston, South
Carolina to keep order. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><o:p></o:p><span>The
presence of African American soldiers caused provisional governors of
Southern states to complain that “the
black troops are a great nuisance & do much mischief among the Freed
men.” The uniformed and armed African American troops made for a powerful
image, undoubtedly generating pride in Freedmen and fear in Secessionists. </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pressure from the governors prompted the War Department to
muster-out the Black troops and send them home, essentially removing their
presence from Southern states. The 102nd mustered-out September
30, 1865. They arrived in Detroit, Michigan on October 17 and received
their final pay and discharge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Shortly thereafter, Henry </span><span>McIntosh made his way to Lake
County, Illinois, seeking new opportunities, and settling in Lake Forest. One attraction to the area was the number of African Americans living there. This is likely where he met Sarah Martin, whom he married in 1869. According to the 1870 Census, there were eight African American households, totaling 30 people, in Shields Township/Lake Forest. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPJxsiCXcvW5sJG1ECwLS7sKc3fLw4BPCpQ0KBCgLVCoxHSYQhg71efSaRNTh6wiwAKFhLOatjEr3QEIFddOTVBy_8KIqC9JKrr-mJghS5nwOsiKuscoBVLQ3wDdkHNrIMT_vEDR4XXc/s1215/Henry+McIntosh_1870+Census_crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="1215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPJxsiCXcvW5sJG1ECwLS7sKc3fLw4BPCpQ0KBCgLVCoxHSYQhg71efSaRNTh6wiwAKFhLOatjEr3QEIFddOTVBy_8KIqC9JKrr-mJghS5nwOsiKuscoBVLQ3wDdkHNrIMT_vEDR4XXc/s320/Henry+McIntosh_1870+Census_crop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">View of 1870 U.S. Census data for Henry McIntosh, misspelled "Mackintosh" and his wife Sarah. <i>Ancestry.com.</i></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry McIntosh was an active community member, and became one of the organizers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Organized in 1866, the church was constructed
in 1870 at the present corner of Maplewood and Washington Road. McIntosh had a lifelong association with the church. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWD4IkWivASG4joG_ik0vCqBr30nktpf4Yh6hnDTwy77Dh0C3RfOVJMidGJnXRsh3w8-AxuhSQ6FwQwEs8ROnzw4-nLWrmujZDiLxmQ_d-T8gMEl_b90KuXP_PgEOy_77eTiPEWTx4fjg/s418/Henry+McIntosh_Lake+Forester+1+August+1903.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="418" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWD4IkWivASG4joG_ik0vCqBr30nktpf4Yh6hnDTwy77Dh0C3RfOVJMidGJnXRsh3w8-AxuhSQ6FwQwEs8ROnzw4-nLWrmujZDiLxmQ_d-T8gMEl_b90KuXP_PgEOy_77eTiPEWTx4fjg/w200-h163/Henry+McIntosh_Lake+Forester+1+August+1903.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notice from the <i>The Lake Forester</i> August 1, 1903, showing Henry McIntosh as superintendent at the Bethel A.M.E. Church. McIntosh is credited as one of the organizers of this church. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">McIntosh worked as a laborer, and later as a coachman and
gardener on a private estate. Sarah and Henry had no children. Sadly, on May 30,
1884, Sarah died.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Over one year later, on July 14, 1885, Henry married Fannie Davis Freleigh (1867-1960). </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fannie was born in Missouri in 1867 to
Sarah and Charles Davis. Her father was a plasterer by trade, and in the late
1870s he moved the family to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As the oldest of eight
children, Fannie helped the family by working outside the home as a house
servant for the Earle Moses family. Moses was a buyer
and seller of wood in Oshkosh’s lumber industry.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Between 1880-1885, Fannie came to Lake Forest and was employed in the household of Rev. Daniel S. Gregory (1832-1915), the
president of Lake Forest University. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry and Fannie lived on Washington Road and had nine children: William W., Etta (Mrs. Andrew Smith), Clarence, Peter,
Euphemia (Mrs. Henry Walker), Arnett, Lillian, Lutie E. (Mrs. William Slaughter), and Wayman H. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZOI3-kuBpRG9-yQyft2sVC1mzK4PE287l0RBZepQcs72isjvssPel6_i3Hc1ALwRxuriMqDo_0h_M4DeaQ5YBn9MYubCmoJ59IqkBadN0Y1SGBNVL_6vZd4tqSWEVACg0PxDsrVJ_l4/s651/1899+CW+Veterans_64.39.2_McIntosh_watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="437" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZOI3-kuBpRG9-yQyft2sVC1mzK4PE287l0RBZepQcs72isjvssPel6_i3Hc1ALwRxuriMqDo_0h_M4DeaQ5YBn9MYubCmoJ59IqkBadN0Y1SGBNVL_6vZd4tqSWEVACg0PxDsrVJ_l4/w269-h400/1899+CW+Veterans_64.39.2_McIntosh_watermark.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Photo detail of Henry McIntosh in 1899. Bess Bower Dunn Museum, 64.39.2. </i></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The above photograph from the Dunn Museum's collections was taken on August 29, 1899, at the dedication of the Lake County Civil War monument in Waukegan. This cropped image shows an African American Civil War veteran. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is this man Henry McIntosh? </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Post update 8/19/21 </i>- When I researched this post months ago, I strongly suspected, but could not be 100% certain that the veteran's identity was Henry McIntosh. Today, I received an email from his great-great granddaughter, Bonnie McIntosh, to let me know that her great aunt, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: inherit;">Maxine McIntosh (Henry's granddaughter), confirmed that he is Henry. I am so grateful for this information and to make a connection with his descendants.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Thank you! </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5OhVUKwwHlV9DYF0ctPII6Slt-Dy90iO7a_DFUWC8a_kO0N-8LibaBV6mGRkGYFbrBmf0CulH-dJWlLNPd-daoMWJe0-yB6Ca_IJvOjRceH1nCd2v4aGgay_BvOXa0LFpTDFyEmSGUFo/s526/1899+CW+Veterans_Dunn+Museum+64.39.2_watermark2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="526" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5OhVUKwwHlV9DYF0ctPII6Slt-Dy90iO7a_DFUWC8a_kO0N-8LibaBV6mGRkGYFbrBmf0CulH-dJWlLNPd-daoMWJe0-yB6Ca_IJvOjRceH1nCd2v4aGgay_BvOXa0LFpTDFyEmSGUFo/w400-h297/1899+CW+Veterans_Dunn+Museum+64.39.2_watermark2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another view of the photograph of veterans at the dedication of the Civil War monument in Waukegan. Henry McIntosh is right of the drummer and marked by a red star. <i>Dunn Museum 64.39.2.</i></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>There is no list of names for the men in this photograph, making it difficult to ascertain their identities. Of the African American men who lived in Lake County and are known to have served in the Civil War, McIntosh <span>was the only one active in veterans' associations. </span></span></span>George W. Bell (1816-1910) was an African American Civil War veteran with Company B, 40th U.S. Colored Infantry. After the war, he lived in Waukegan, but was noted for refusing to have any photographs taken and his name does not appear in veterans' records. Newport Township Historical Society has identified another African American veteran, Samuel Killerbrue (c1833 - c1897), who served in Co. K, 1st Tennessee Colored Troops. Killerbrue lived near Wadsworth from about 1866 to mid-1880s with his wife and children. </div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>McIntosh was a member of the Lake County Soldiers and Sailors Association. He was noted in the Association's records (below) as attending the August 1913 reunion in Waukegan. From this record, we know that he participated in veterans' reunions</span>. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTYazLhUTdyApjpUk5xxQeS3YYEStkei9PSt2dOZ5AqgV162sFiD2auvLVTB-lNwMkygmX1HMdgqzEMhnVLSfLrhgrzGNmnv_yD5iPyqr-41oj31iUSTrDIJxgmTNyhoPiW5ScYTVVHkc/s1512/Henry+McIntosh_1913+reunion_Dunn+Museum+74.19.16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTYazLhUTdyApjpUk5xxQeS3YYEStkei9PSt2dOZ5AqgV162sFiD2auvLVTB-lNwMkygmX1HMdgqzEMhnVLSfLrhgrzGNmnv_yD5iPyqr-41oj31iUSTrDIJxgmTNyhoPiW5ScYTVVHkc/s320/Henry+McIntosh_1913+reunion_Dunn+Museum+74.19.16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ledger entry noting Civil War veterans, including Henry McIntosh (bottom), who attended the Lake County Soldiers and Sailors Association reunion in August 1913. McIntosh was 70-years old. <i>Dunn Museum 74.19.16.</i></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry McIntosh's service during the Civil War inevitably inspired his children and grandchildren to serve their country: </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Son, Clarence Nathaniel McIntosh (1889-1963) served as Sergeant Major with the 351st Field Artillery during World War I; </span>son, Wayman Hillis McIntosh (1900-1982), an athletic trainer at Lake Forest College, volunteered as air raid warden during World War II; <span>g</span><span>randson, Henry Nathaniel McIntosh (1923-1980) served as lieutenant in the U.S. Navy
during the Korean War; and g</span><span>randson Clarence Pearson McIntosh (1925-1999) served as a lieutenant
in the U.S. Navy. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1haJ53BDShkkYEoSmfTt0RZ7P8Adi7wK_LX88O5SIMmw3P6Czvp4oMU_9Vg8Ssfvd51ftqy40FmjeQM-AmaA4Ayo7IqjC9Kx40YsjEnxJnd4YWHs-aRFhG5VncXg3dGqCn43xgaoMmk/s320/Henry+McIntosh+gravemarker+Lake+Forest+Cemetery_findagrave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin1haJ53BDShkkYEoSmfTt0RZ7P8Adi7wK_LX88O5SIMmw3P6Czvp4oMU_9Vg8Ssfvd51ftqy40FmjeQM-AmaA4Ayo7IqjC9Kx40YsjEnxJnd4YWHs-aRFhG5VncXg3dGqCn43xgaoMmk/s0/Henry+McIntosh+gravemarker+Lake+Forest+Cemetery_findagrave.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Henry McIntosh's grave marker at Lake Forest Cemetery. <i>Findagrave.com.</i></span></div><p></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry McIntosh died on August 3, 1915, leaving a legacy of service to his community and the nation. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></span></div></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Special thanks to Laurie Stein, Curator, History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, for research assistance. lstein@lflbhistory.org </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><b>S</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ources:</span></b> </span></div><h4 style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Ancestry.com (1870, 1880, 1900-1940 U.S. Census; World War I/II registration cards, Lake Forest city directories). <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">FindAGrave.com.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Bess Bower Dunn Museum. Lake County Soldiers and Sailors Association Collection, and G.A.R. Photo Collection. https://www.lcfpd.org/museum/collections/. <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff www.lflbhistory.org. <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Detroit Historical Society www.detroithistorical.org. <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Michigan in the War web.archive.org. <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://web.archive.org/web/20030724204008/http://www.michiganinthewar.org/infantry/1colora.htm<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Lake Forester Deserts Confederacy, Marches With Sherman's Army to Sea." Uncited, July 27, 1961. <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"African American History in Lake Forest: A Walking Tour," Lake Forest College, 1997. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"DAVIS." <i>The Oshkosh Northwestern, </i>Oshkosh, Wisconsin. July 2, 1931. Roy Davis obituary, brother of Fannie McIntosh. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Revival of Democracy." <i>Clarion-Ledger, </i>Jackson, Mississippi, June 14, 1942. Lists air raid wardens in Chicago's Division 8, including Wayman McIntosh of Lake Forest, Illinois. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Robertson, Jno. <i>Michigan in the War. </i>Lansing: W.S. George and Company, State Printers
and Binders, 1882. Michigan's Adjutant General's Department reports. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://archive.org/details/michiganinwar00mich/page/n7/mode/2up. Accessed February 12, 2021.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Dobak, William A. <i>Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867. </i>Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History United States Army, 2011.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>Arpee, Edward. </span><i><span>Lake Fo</span>rest Illinois: History and Reminiscences 1861-1961. </i>Lake Forest, Illinois: Rotary Club of Lake Forest, 1963.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Halsey, John J. <i>A History of Lake County, Illinois. </i>Illinois: Roy S. Bates, 1912. <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Lake
County (IL) Genealogical Society. “Lake County, Illinois Marriages 1881 to 1901,” Volume III.
Libertyville, Illinois.</span></span></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>
Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-55482386354073664292020-11-10T21:01:00.020-06:002023-12-01T14:27:47.922-06:00Women's Army Corps at Fort Sheridan<p bis_size="{"x":8,"y":8,"w":684,"h":17,"abs_x":144,"abs_y":230}"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMz2geOmjIq7E79bvufnrwj1NVP06Ngyz9kXVWB0qhJvWiGizD8bDRs33mJM01m6IpUe5LwRno1r-Tee9NdRhVVlJBq2SQWkEeHgGVrZONjr5lol0-VN6uLZd_s205NIVao5rJkqTWIWvwcccifO8KeyXLv_GW5IvDf5GMMbYp6liWWntFLk0J7YaN/s767/WAC%2092.24.1112%20watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="767" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMz2geOmjIq7E79bvufnrwj1NVP06Ngyz9kXVWB0qhJvWiGizD8bDRs33mJM01m6IpUe5LwRno1r-Tee9NdRhVVlJBq2SQWkEeHgGVrZONjr5lol0-VN6uLZd_s205NIVao5rJkqTWIWvwcccifO8KeyXLv_GW5IvDf5GMMbYp6liWWntFLk0J7YaN/s320/WAC%2092.24.1112%20watermark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><span style="line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Women's Army Corps member
at Fort Sheridan, circa 1943. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Fort Sheridan Collection, Dunn Museum
92.24.1112</i></span></div></span><p></p><p bis_size="{"x":8,"y":8,"w":684,"h":17,"abs_x":144,"abs_y":230}"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In September 1939,
Americans were in the tenth year of the Great Depression when war broke out in
Europe with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. As the warfront expanded throughout
Europe and Asia, the U.S. needed to increase the strength of its’ military to
prepare for the possibility of war. These preparations included discussions on
the prospect of a women’s corps.<br />
<br />
Along with men, women wanted to do their part to fight the threat of fascism
and many lobbied for a role in the U.S. military mobilization. At the forefront
was U.S. representative Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) of Massachusetts, who
introduced a bill in Congress in early 1941 to establish an auxiliary corps to
fill non-combatant positions in the army.<br />
<br />
The bill stalled until the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 propelled
the United States’ into war. Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall,
foresaw a manpower shortage and understood the necessity of women in uniform to
the nation’s defense. Not only were women needed in factories, but also in the
military. <br />
<br />
With the support of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and General Marshall, on May
15, 1942, Rogers’s bill (H.R. 4906) passed into law creating the Women’s Army
Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). As an auxiliary unit, the women were limited to
serving <i>with</i> the Army rather than <i>in</i> the
Army.<br />
<br />
The purpose of the WAAC was to make “available to the national defense the
knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g3HLBLVlkXCEZk21aN35RV5PMkXNWhdGfuJ78vmzmR2551zNCOVXf9eAchhq0NoZ92geI-6RTbh1BFK2YaoAGCHEzmIngYCVk0uDUWGA6NIZd3iapRUHuQgbjY2SyozhNH1Qa6z5pB8/s958/Mildred+Osby+enlisting+12+July+1942_Chic+Trib_enhanced.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="958" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0g3HLBLVlkXCEZk21aN35RV5PMkXNWhdGfuJ78vmzmR2551zNCOVXf9eAchhq0NoZ92geI-6RTbh1BFK2YaoAGCHEzmIngYCVk0uDUWGA6NIZd3iapRUHuQgbjY2SyozhNH1Qa6z5pB8/s320/Mildred+Osby+enlisting+12+July+1942_Chic+Trib_enhanced.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Women
taking the oath as officer candidates in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at
army headquarters, Chicago. Four of the women pictured were African American,
including Mildred L. Osby (top left), who would command an African American
Women's Army Corps unit at Fort Sheridan. <i>Chicago Tribune, July 12,
1942.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The first WAAC training
center was at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. On July 20, 1942, one hundred and
twenty-five enlisted women, and four hundred and forty officer candidates
arrived for training.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span><span>Of the four hundred and forty women selected for officer candidate training
only 40 places were allotted for African American women, reportedly based on
“the percentage of the population.” Mildred L. Osby (1913-1953) of Chicago was
one of the African American women selected for officer training. Her fellow
candidate, Charity Adams Earley, described them as “the ambitious, the
patriotic, the adventurous.”</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.6pt;"><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziq4Rl_PyDktNBN0GOUVfIJZPIhuQXENAoICR0to7GiyTuSEhHtGr4UrPMlyt2l5895fNi-3Ov8fnWxuMfQsoWU8rg9zH5yUlc6G-hK__51lidq-Jcunwqw8R6zS_vMxXsIB-9hEQUCU/s1024/service-pnp-fsa-8d09000-8d09800-8d09837v.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhziq4Rl_PyDktNBN0GOUVfIJZPIhuQXENAoICR0to7GiyTuSEhHtGr4UrPMlyt2l5895fNi-3Ov8fnWxuMfQsoWU8rg9zH5yUlc6G-hK__51lidq-Jcunwqw8R6zS_vMxXsIB-9hEQUCU/s320/service-pnp-fsa-8d09000-8d09800-8d09837v.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lt.
Mildred L. Osby recruiting women for the WAACs in Washington D.C., November 1942. <i>Library
of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The U.S. Army post at Fort
Sheridan received its first 150 auxiliaries on December 30, 1942. The WAAC
detachment arrived from Fort Des Moines by train at the Fort Sheridan depot.
Commanded by Captain Edith M. Davis, the women were the first company of WAACs
assigned to the Army Service Forces’ Sixth Service Command (Illinois,
Wisconsin, Michigan) headquartered in Chicago</span>.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBo5tIfclgDK2YhzooYPfiqmqBZBXZ9nVLedRHYFM89kocUWRI0jfMPRC96QJOdX8LB0Y8Nla9ndno7jZUpEznPYH_bKo_GX2ypYkJBL0FhyzgAWteLb90CzkqehhkGQ4K8P3A8-ADlao/s832/Fort+Sheridan+953223+resized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="832" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBo5tIfclgDK2YhzooYPfiqmqBZBXZ9nVLedRHYFM89kocUWRI0jfMPRC96QJOdX8LB0Y8Nla9ndno7jZUpEznPYH_bKo_GX2ypYkJBL0FhyzgAWteLb90CzkqehhkGQ4K8P3A8-ADlao/w400-h184/Fort+Sheridan+953223+resized.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">First
WAAC detachment arriving at Fort Sheridan on December 30, 1942. Mary Jane
(Lett) Lucas aka "Jane" is right of center holding large
duffel. <i>Chicago Sun Staff Photo / Fort Sheridan Collection, Dunn Museum
95.32.23.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Among the first
detachment of WAACs at Fort Sheridan was Mary Jane (Lett) Lucas (1921-2014),
who recalled that the women auxiliaries were given a warm reception. She noted
that the army “didn’t know what to do with us,” and was given a job as an usher
at the post’s theater. The army quickly figured out how best to utilize the
extra "manpower." Duties for the women’s corps included: clerks,
stenographers, commissary, photo analysts, surgical assistants, lab assistants,
mechanics, and chauffeurs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.6pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On July 3, 1943, the auxiliaries were officially given “active duty status”
with the passing of the bill to create the Women’s Army Corps. All auxiliaries
(WAACs) were offered the choice of an honorable discharge and return to
civilian life or joining the U.S. Army as a member of the Women’s Army Corps
(WAC). Seventy-five percent of the women enlisted.<br />
<br />
This new designation was important as it gave women full military rank and
benefits for service injuries and allowed them to serve overseas. It also gave
them protection as soldiers and if captured were eligible for rights given to
prisoners of war.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.6pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2n4WLtZwv-cR3hoW3kk7LGELOQLrneIp8GBBF4N1UqIFFOybeZHMPNu6w9W4vXVnOD2CgmqR7HXbu6X9kPw-FcaWy5cTGFfPNko9Zq2ZvHN8WkpLHA3Zm8KePYGllnKwjpkyWcCUouP0/s800/Laboratory+2012.20.39+resized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2n4WLtZwv-cR3hoW3kk7LGELOQLrneIp8GBBF4N1UqIFFOybeZHMPNu6w9W4vXVnOD2CgmqR7HXbu6X9kPw-FcaWy5cTGFfPNko9Zq2ZvHN8WkpLHA3Zm8KePYGllnKwjpkyWcCUouP0/s320/Laboratory+2012.20.39+resized.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>WAC
Mary Jane (Lett) Lucas, bottom right, with Sixth Service Command Laboratory soldiers and WACs, circa </span><span>1944. Lucas met her
husband, Colonel Charles J. Lucas (1923-2011), at Fort Sheridan’s
Non-Commissioned Officers’ club. They married in 1947 and settled in
Grayslake. <i>Mary Jane Lucas Collection, Dunn Museum, 2012.20.39.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lucas was assigned to
the Army’s Sixth Service Command Medical Laboratory at Fort Sheridan, driving
officers from the lab, and checking in thousands of samples. This laboratory
received more than 66,000 food and water samples from 1941 to 1945. The
laboratory’s principal activity was the chemical and bacteriological
examination of foods, including large quantities of canned evaporated milk,
dried powdered milk, and cheese procured for the Armed Forces. At the lab,
Lucas also worked with German prisoners of war, but was not allowed to speak to
them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In
November 1943, an <span style="background: white;">African American WAC unit
was posted to Fort Sheridan under the command of 1st Lt. Mildred L. Osby
(promoted to Captain in January 1944). At the time of her enlistment in July
1942, Osby was married, living in Chicago, and employed at the social security
board. She had graduated from Officer Candidate Training at Fort Des Moines,
served as a WAAC recruiter in Washington, D.C., posted to Fort Custer,
Michigan, and WAC Company B commander at Fort Sheridan. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7zuggpC5yAauTNxBU66asrSawZ3hyphenhyphenWKZU_8jTqltBEeZR4299ZilNUPXsR7cvTFhm50htXdbnV_KySbXG_SnWZvd2vokLUUv4ZuFmxEest5fwU8-4LHZne9wu9k2-K3oDj81r6v2zDw/s1524/Capt+Mildred+Osby_find+a+grave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="690" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7zuggpC5yAauTNxBU66asrSawZ3hyphenhyphenWKZU_8jTqltBEeZR4299ZilNUPXsR7cvTFhm50htXdbnV_KySbXG_SnWZvd2vokLUUv4ZuFmxEest5fwU8-4LHZne9wu9k2-K3oDj81r6v2zDw/s320/Capt+Mildred+Osby_find+a+grave.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 9.6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Capt. Mildred L. Osby, date unknown.
Photo from <i>FindAGrave.com, Arlington National Cemetery.</i></span><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
seventy-five African American WACs under the command of Capt. Mildred Osby were
assigned to duties in the Recruit Reception Center. Soldiers on furlough also
passed through the Fort where their service records were checked and
instructions given for the length of furlough time they had at home.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white;">Soldiers
and WACs worked in the Rotation Section, which had a "graveyard
shift" to accommodate the great numbers of soldiers passing through and to
"speed overseas veterans through." (</span><i>The
Tower, </i>August 11, 1944).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDBpvq1OWYpx7Mcfdng2WlV028ElZMd6z5NJH5IzoX7ITulIVMWaERVGgn0YPOMr5Mrnis0B2XU4GNQD-ZEc99Zx7eDYIiDMZ6bhSx-FUYpM9zadpHUNZKKnDw_KVvL3jrp042XmH7r0/s569/The+Tower+11+Aug+1944_Signal+Corps+Photo_resized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="569" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDBpvq1OWYpx7Mcfdng2WlV028ElZMd6z5NJH5IzoX7ITulIVMWaERVGgn0YPOMr5Mrnis0B2XU4GNQD-ZEc99Zx7eDYIiDMZ6bhSx-FUYpM9zadpHUNZKKnDw_KVvL3jrp042XmH7r0/s320/The+Tower+11+Aug+1944_Signal+Corps+Photo_resized.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">WACs Pvt. Ruth Mays (right) showing records to
Pvt. Florence Brown while working in Fort Sheridan's Rotational Section. <i bis_size="{"x":123,"y":3505,"w":432,"h":14,"abs_x":259,"abs_y":3727}">Mary Jane Lucas Collection,
Dunn Museum, 2012.20. The Tower, August 11, 1944.</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyV9_kXRNOwKyanEYjXaMQb7PaihmvIwpMbMlCOeQ5aq9LoAqYRsCwS9hsAaBiK6iWEe5buBN3gfysoKlJmvWGJpc86ptZMJLdeNbyuADb4UK6d7ppEr0OnIiRVP-cjLQlrncWBxCmpA/s827/The+Tower+29+Dec+1944_Mary+Jane+Lett_enhanced+resized+STAR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="827" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyV9_kXRNOwKyanEYjXaMQb7PaihmvIwpMbMlCOeQ5aq9LoAqYRsCwS9hsAaBiK6iWEe5buBN3gfysoKlJmvWGJpc86ptZMJLdeNbyuADb4UK6d7ppEr0OnIiRVP-cjLQlrncWBxCmpA/w400-h216/The+Tower+29+Dec+1944_Mary+Jane+Lett_enhanced+resized+STAR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span>Twenty-six of
the original company of WACs at Fort Sheridan on their two-year roll of honor, December 1944. Mary Jane (Lett) Lucas (top row, red star). Thirty of
their WAC comrades had been transferred overseas where they were serving
in New Guinea, Egypt, England and France. </span><i><span>The Tower, December 29,
1944.</span> </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RsgeYi_1ThrbKEJmDZRdUmxZgdrXQg9-6brkjrRBdti7dY14KSEI6obz7uuNPf4oPqIcStxFIm4HGoFU5sW4OGtLXh21wJEor6HIiE_LiXupSdYwaXFBwjn38mp1lFw8TOsnuhQc2A4/s746/WACs+2nd+anniversary_Chic+Trib+15+May+1944.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="hoverZoomLink" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="644" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RsgeYi_1ThrbKEJmDZRdUmxZgdrXQg9-6brkjrRBdti7dY14KSEI6obz7uuNPf4oPqIcStxFIm4HGoFU5sW4OGtLXh21wJEor6HIiE_LiXupSdYwaXFBwjn38mp1lFw8TOsnuhQc2A4/s320/WACs+2nd+anniversary_Chic+Trib+15+May+1944.jpg" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Details of the celebration at Fort Sheridan
marking the 2nd anniversary of the creation of the Women's Army Corps. <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, May 15, 1944.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During World War II,
nearly 150,000 American women served as soldiers in the Women’s Army Corps.
In 1948, for their superb service during the war, President Truman signed
the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act allowing a permanent place for women
to serve within the military in regular, peacetime forces. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The
Women's Army Corps disbanded in 1978 and all members were fully integrated into
the U.S. Army.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Dunn Museum is celebrating those who served with a new temporary exhibition <i>Breaking Barriers: Women in the Military </i>through June 13, 2021. To experience this past exhibition, you may view it as a <a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2366060fa5164936abb2d1d60ed90c24" target="_blank"><b>virtual exhibit</b></a> online. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>- Diana Dretske ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sources: <br /></span></b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bess Bower Dunn Museum (Fort
Sheridan Collection 92.24/95.23; Mary Jane Lucas Collection 2012.20)<br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"War Training - First
Contingent of WAACs Arrives at Fort Sheridan," <i>Chicago Daily
Tribune</i>, December 31, 1942.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Twenty-five WAACs Win
Promotion to Second Officer," <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>January 3,
1943.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"American Women at War - Lt.
Mildred L. Osby," <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>November 28,
1943. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span>"American Women at War - Capt.
Mildred L. Osby," </span><i>Chicago Tribune, </i><span>January 30, 1944.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"WACs at Fort Sheridan to
Observe Anniversary," <i>Chicago Tribune, </i>May 15, 1944.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"'Graveyard Shift' Hastens
Rotation Men Home," <i>The Tower, </i>August
11, 1944. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"WACs Celebrate Second
Anniversary Here," <i>The Tower</i>, December 29, 1944. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"On the Record with Mary Jane
Lucas," <i>Lake County Journal</i>, May 27, 2010. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earley, Charity Adams. <i>One
Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WACs. </i>Texas A&M
University Press, 1995. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Treadwell, Mattie E. <i>United
States Army in World War II, Special Studies: Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps. </i>Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States
Army, 1991. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ancestry.com<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span>FindAGrave.com. "Mildred
Lavinia Osby," Arlington National Cemetery. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Twenty-One Illinois Women Who Are in the Army Now," </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Chicago Tribune, </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">June 12, 1942.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>George C. Marshall Foundation Blog: </span></span><a href="https://www.marshallfoundation.org/blog/marshall-75th-anniversary-wacs/" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.marshallfoundation.org/blog/marshall-75th-anniversary-wacs/<br /></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span>The Women’s Army Corps: A
Commemoration of World War II Service, Judith A. Bellafaire<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span><a href="https://history.army.mil/brochures/WAC/WAC.HTM"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">https://history.army.mil/brochures/WAC/WAC.HTM</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span><span><span style="color: blue;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-55130305059044521062020-09-03T10:04:00.003-05:002020-09-03T10:15:59.575-05:00Flowers for Hull House<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Guest
post by Steve Ferrigan, Collections Digitizer for the Dunn Museum</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When the Dunn Museum
staff were told to shelter in place back in March and work remotely,
one of the first things collections staff did was to take<span style="color: red;"> </span>digital photos of diaries in the Minto
Family Collection in order to transcribe them from home. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It turns out you can learn a lot more than just about your own family by
being cooped up at <span style="font-family: inherit;">home for months. Sometimes you can learn
about farm life in the early 1910s.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The diary I was
tasked with transcribing was Susie Minto’s from 1912. Every once in a
while, very rarely, something happens in a Minto Diary. Between the days
listing who is working where and on what; between the small trips to nearby
towns for supplies or new equipment; around the brief recounting of church
services attended and occasional church events; the greater w<span>orld and its
events and characters reaches through and touches the lives of the Minto
family. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 1912, the family living at the Minto homestead included Susie and David J. Minto, daughter Una Jean, and son David Harold and his wife Mildred and their two daughters. </span><i>(See Diana Dretske's <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/03/historic-minto-home-1857-2016.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Minto post</span></a> for a history of the family).</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpABa8E4Lrxu-DtQ-12OfWRhT8b16RiEKiaITSepiJssG950MmMcWTycfypjf_gRnwGMBNMBGBkRnuQt1IZy16AtkpGBZZsiVXxNiisd_59dyzxkigYO5qkL8z4CBCFmCCjsIDZnoUK0/s633/Susie+Minto+and+Una+Minto_c1898_93.45.89_watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="413" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpABa8E4Lrxu-DtQ-12OfWRhT8b16RiEKiaITSepiJssG950MmMcWTycfypjf_gRnwGMBNMBGBkRnuQt1IZy16AtkpGBZZsiVXxNiisd_59dyzxkigYO5qkL8z4CBCFmCCjsIDZnoUK0/w211-h324/Susie+Minto+and+Una+Minto_c1898_93.45.89_watermark.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susie Smith Minto and daughter Una Jean Minto photographed about 1898. Minto Family Collection, Dunn Museum, 93.45.89.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One such diary entry
occurred on Monday, August 12, 1912: "Una rec’d her mail today a letter
from Jane Addams of the ‘Hull House.’”</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Throughout her diary,
Susie Minto (1839-1914) of Antioch/Loon Lake, then in her early 70's, makes mention of
her daughter Una Jean (1876-1963) gathering
flowers from the family’s garden to send to Hull House. They sort and
tie bunches late into the night and box them up to be sent with the milkman on
the earliest Wisconsin Central line train to Chicago.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVkZo5403pOQ9m6u-6DBMiHHual0Zt9vvhDiOSVJtDdO4MXwZ-y2zYuxaHfCu4q1LYo8bpuzhUxMAgYwgkVKQbrB4_PEQXWPyB6MO9IC6YAHYjfaoZhEub36HVqZHY3ueSeoRRlchP7Ls/s640/The_Hull_House%252C_Chicago_%2528front%2529+ca+1915.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="640" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVkZo5403pOQ9m6u-6DBMiHHual0Zt9vvhDiOSVJtDdO4MXwZ-y2zYuxaHfCu4q1LYo8bpuzhUxMAgYwgkVKQbrB4_PEQXWPyB6MO9IC6YAHYjfaoZhEub36HVqZHY3ueSeoRRlchP7Ls/w328-h211/The_Hull_House%252C_Chicago_%2528front%2529+ca+1915.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By 1911, Hull House had grown to a 13-building complex in Chicago. In 1912, Hull House added a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club in Waukegan (today's Bowen Park). V.O. Hammon postcard. </span></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a pioneer
in the settlement movement of the late 1800s. Hull-House, opened in 1889 by
Addams and Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) soon emerged as a vital tool for
immigrants, children, and the poor of Chicago. They provided childcare, an <span style="font-family: inherit;">art
gallery, a library, and classes in English, citizenship, job finding, art,
music, and theater.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNb7Vypj85d_BW3v5lhnpnsHAQxtnEpJ09J7d4VZPD1LmByf2SbXuogs67FTEh8Usa1vpwniE5d5OP8GYB5YDQ87XncmD5bIXos4EFVQzvUrqXsjmQyJINdg7_hRxaTRivtWxTETZzpMI/s1423/Jane+Addams+ca+Oct+30+1912_LOC+crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1423" data-original-width="938" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNb7Vypj85d_BW3v5lhnpnsHAQxtnEpJ09J7d4VZPD1LmByf2SbXuogs67FTEh8Usa1vpwniE5d5OP8GYB5YDQ87XncmD5bIXos4EFVQzvUrqXsjmQyJINdg7_hRxaTRivtWxTETZzpMI/w216-h328/Jane+Addams+ca+Oct+30+1912_LOC+crop.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jane Addams photographed at her writing desk about October 30, 1912. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. </span></span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Susie’s diary entry
continues: “[Jane Addams] kindly thanked Una for sending the lovely flowers
& said ‘the size of bunches did not really matter although the small
bunches such as came yesterday seemed to give particular pleasure to the small
children in the Mary Crane Nursery which is housed in one of the Hull House
Buildings. The flowers were in splendid condition with much appreciation of
your kindly thought of us & the courteous letter, I am sincerely yours.’
The above is a partial copy of letter rec’d by Una [and signed] Jane Addams Aug
12, 1912."</span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMG86Lus-XL5CXkkqDgX7ZtYvqbC4xEsXZkXeyMn7YloQZzIxFkG-vNRrj4YDHRgxC-7VW_-CB8hfcWsdUCRsBKmaOl6tHk0nU66PpTr0XDNPp2DhHZs3gh5euecldH0YUgq0CxJFj5g/s951/93.45.289+Minto+Diary_watermark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="951" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMG86Lus-XL5CXkkqDgX7ZtYvqbC4xEsXZkXeyMn7YloQZzIxFkG-vNRrj4YDHRgxC-7VW_-CB8hfcWsdUCRsBKmaOl6tHk0nU66PpTr0XDNPp2DhHZs3gh5euecldH0YUgq0CxJFj5g/w410-h230/93.45.289+Minto+Diary_watermark.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Susie Minto's diary entry for August 12, 1912. Minto Family Collection, Dunn Museum 93.45.289.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After
seeing this routine<span style="color: red;"> </span>mentioned numerous times, and after seeing the
thank you letter Susie describes, I decided to do a little
investigating to find out what the flowers were used for.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I quickly
found some <i>Chicago Tribune</i> articles covering the Hull
House and mentioning flowers for the children. From the <i>Chicago
Tribune</i> on November 1, 1891:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“In the
dining-room is the ‘advanced’ class, absorbed in the mysteries of cutting and
putting together in a logical fashion muslin underclothes. On the sideboard is
a great shining tin dish-pan filled to the brim with marigolds, and geraniums,
and sweet old-fashioned mignonette—an explanation, perhaps, of the presence of
some of these light-hearted, carefree little daughters of Italy, to whom a
whole afternoon of serious application to anything but play must be irksome to
a degree. But all the children love flowers—none more than these.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0a0a0a; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6b8a9CXWOitRIy0NV7DZONhOCXs4XfMUp42TRW8zfswk341ZnLmOAG_mKi2kNXCDCA_clvI2aBS4Ui1oCgjfij61HxM9qu14bf_Nl0zVNLyZK7qEZRbrEp6RYKMm6eK9Txi8Es2Bvvd4/s559/Jane+Addams+handing+out+flowers+Hull+House_Tribue+1+Nov+1891.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="478" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6b8a9CXWOitRIy0NV7DZONhOCXs4XfMUp42TRW8zfswk341ZnLmOAG_mKi2kNXCDCA_clvI2aBS4Ui1oCgjfij61HxM9qu14bf_Nl0zVNLyZK7qEZRbrEp6RYKMm6eK9Txi8Es2Bvvd4/w306-h358/Jane+Addams+handing+out+flowers+Hull+House_Tribue+1+Nov+1891.bmp" width="306" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Illustration of Jane Addams distributing flowers at Hull House. <i>Chicago Tribune </i>November 1, 1891.</span> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The
small bouquets in this illustration are similar to the ones Una and Susie Minto had
worked so tirelessly to gather and send.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGWFlYiPFTmOuyspYBWXalAh3J_Dp0yor7hXChJLy1sSj-XwKycZy1vWTWgUFWrVDvPPeb6_kbreim77m1TtlVx1Yogt1bP-NTBu9JAsGNofIJOmWMUCfT4k3ThN8U6C3FzExiwlw8iI/s791/Susie+Minto+picking+sweet+peas_93.45.77.7+watermark+sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="557" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGWFlYiPFTmOuyspYBWXalAh3J_Dp0yor7hXChJLy1sSj-XwKycZy1vWTWgUFWrVDvPPeb6_kbreim77m1TtlVx1Yogt1bP-NTBu9JAsGNofIJOmWMUCfT4k3ThN8U6C3FzExiwlw8iI/w289-h410/Susie+Minto+picking+sweet+peas_93.45.77.7+watermark+sm.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Susie Minto in her flower garden. Minto Family Collection, Dunn Museum 93.45.77.7</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;">The </span><i style="color: #0a0a0a;">Tribune </i><span style="color: #0a0a0a;">article
continued: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“And
after the sewing is all folded neatly away, the awkward thimble and troublesome
needle safely hidden in the depths of the sewing-bag for another seven days;
when all the hats and coats have been given to their rightful owners, then that
dish-pan is moved out into the hall and every child receives from Miss Addams’
hands a bunch of flowers for her very own. It is worth traveling a long
distance just to see this distribution, the joy in it is so evident. With a
funny compromise between a bow and a curtsey, a 'thank you, teacher,' and a
face wreathed in smiles, each child receives the bit of bloom and
fragrance."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After
reading <span style="color: #0a0a0a;">Susie Minto’s diary
and </span>day after day of chore
lists and weather <span style="color: #0a0a0a;">reports, </span>discovering this small glimpse of the larger
world as seen through the Minto lens was a beacon of sunlight on an otherwise <span style="color: #0a0a0a;">gray</span><span style="color: red;"> </span>page. It
made me start reading closer and looking for even more details connecting these
early 20<sup>th</sup> century rural farmers to larger world events.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Reading
old script can be difficult, but by transcribing these diaries the Dunn Museum
can make them more accessible to researchers and the general public to enjoy
and to make their own discoveries about the past. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">~ ~ ~ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Bess Bower Dunn Museum's Minto Family Collection is available online through the host site <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/lakecoun001/search/searchterm/Frontline%20to%20Homefront%3A%20Minto%20Family%20Civil%20War%20Correspondence/page/1" target="_blank">Illinois Digital Archives</a>.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p></div>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-75885269108798809982020-06-01T16:43:00.013-05:002023-08-24T10:36:07.455-05:00Sinking into the Grave: the 19th Century's Tuberculosis Epidemic<div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":8,"w":653,"h":3227,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":145}" class="MsoNormal">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A French illustration of a young consumptive from </span><i>Le Journal Illustré</i>, No.
34, October 2-9, 1864. <i>Library of Congress.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the 19th century, waves of epidemics such as cholera, smallpox, and the measles came and went, but tuberculosis</span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">—</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">then known as consumption</span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">—</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">remained ever-present. </span><br />
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":8,"w":367,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":145}" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The infectious disease </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">had plagued human kind for thousands of years. In the 1800s, tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions killing "one out of every seven people in the United States and Europe." (Centers for Disease Control) </span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The disease was thought to be hereditary, unavoidable, and possibly caused by "bad air." </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The slow process with which people suffered and died was often characterized as "sinking into the grave." </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Its' true cause, a </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":199,"w":179,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":336}" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":199,"w":179,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":336}" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">contagious bacterium</span></span><span bis_size="{"x":195,"y":200,"w":14,"h":18,"abs_x":664,"abs_y":337}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><i bis_size="{"x":209,"y":198,"w":200,"h":19,"abs_x":678,"abs_y":335}" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i><span bis_size="{"x":409,"y":200,"w":14,"h":18,"abs_x":878,"abs_y":337}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><span bis_size="{"x":409,"y":200,"w":14,"h":18,"abs_x":878,"abs_y":337}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">was </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":199,"w":636,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":336}" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">not discovered until 1882. Advancements in treatment followed with diagnostic skin tests, chest radiographs (x-rays), and in 1921, a vaccine for use in humans. </span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">One of the earliest known deaths from consumption in Lake County was English immigrant Ann Daggitt, the 13-year old daughter of Moraine Township settler, Robert Daggitt. Ann died of "quick consumption" in February 1845. Her father, a carpenter by trade, made his daughter's coffin and buried her on the family's homestead in today's Highland Park. Ann was the first burial in what became the Daggitt/Grace Cemetery.</span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":179,"w":653,"h":96,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":316}"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":179,"w":653,"h":96,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":316}"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">That same year<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Elizabeth Boyd McKay of Waukegan died of consumption. Elizabeth was </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":351,"w":639,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":488}" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">the wife of Scottish immigrant James McKay (1808-1887). In 1841, the couple and their 1-year old son moved from Chicago to Waukegan (then known as Little </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":370,"w":653,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":507}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Fort). The family gained in prestige as James became influential in the city's growth by building hotels and taverns, and his election to public office. (see my post on <a bis_size="{"x":408,"y":408,"w":99,"h":18,"abs_x":877,"abs_y":545}" href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/james-mckay-sheriff-and-mayor-of.html" target="_blank">James McKay</a>). </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":427,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":564}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br bis_size="{"x":16,"y":427,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":564}" /></span>
<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":446,"w":641,"h":75,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":583}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">When Elizabeth became ill she returned to Chicago, perhaps to be near family. She took residence at the Sauganash Hotel where the town's finest accommodations were available. It is unknown how long she suffered from consumption, but generally it was a slow death taking many months. </span></div>
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<a bis_size="{"x":182,"y":610,"w":320,"h":19,"abs_x":651,"abs_y":747}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPH-npyekD46q4G3QBQ4P7f9BEzm8H2ZD6A6z_-mhIRxPB5vi9ylmwJ329nY9QNksHLC188aTEal6yirZ9FEPhRZRh8XK3DMu1YcAwZ_7IqaP9eoVYRC7fZhzYO-dpjrZNKGKtugXF-I4/s1600/Elizabeth+Boyd+McKay_Little+Fort+Porcupine_6+Aug+1845+crop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img bis_size="{"x":182,"y":528,"w":320,"h":97,"abs_x":651,"abs_y":665}" border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="761" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPH-npyekD46q4G3QBQ4P7f9BEzm8H2ZD6A6z_-mhIRxPB5vi9ylmwJ329nY9QNksHLC188aTEal6yirZ9FEPhRZRh8XK3DMu1YcAwZ_7IqaP9eoVYRC7fZhzYO-dpjrZNKGKtugXF-I4/s400/Elizabeth+Boyd+McKay_Little+Fort+Porcupine_6+Aug+1845+crop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<tr bis_size="{"x":22,"y":625,"w":641,"h":36,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":762}"><td bis_size="{"x":22,"y":625,"w":641,"h":36,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":762}" class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div bis_size="{"x":22,"y":629,"w":641,"h":32,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":766}">
<span bis_size="{"x":32,"y":629,"w":624,"h":32,"abs_x":501,"abs_y":766}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Elizabeth Boyd McKay's death notice published in the <i bis_size="{"x":348,"y":629,"w":125,"h":16,"abs_x":817,"abs_y":766}">Little Fort Porcupine, </i>August 6, 1845. </span></div><div bis_size="{"x":22,"y":629,"w":641,"h":32,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":766}"><span bis_size="{"x":32,"y":629,"w":624,"h":32,"abs_x":501,"abs_y":766}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Newspaper Collection, Bess Bower D</i><i bis_size="{"x":312,"y":629,"w":344,"h":32,"abs_x":781,"abs_y":766}">unn Museum</i>.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":675,"w":653,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":812}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the spring of 1850, young married couple Olive and William H. Gipson died in Waukegan from the dreaded disease. Both were born in Maine and had recently settled in Waukegan where William worked as a merchant. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":732,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":869}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br bis_size="{"x":16,"y":732,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":869}" /></span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":751,"w":653,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":888}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The 1850 mortality census lists William as having been ill with consumption for 150 days before his death. For a time, he may have continued to work at his business, unwittingly infecting customers and neighbors just by speaking to them and releasing droplets of </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":789,"w":634,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":926}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">the TB bacteria into the air. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":846,"w":653,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":983}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">While caring for her husband, Olive contracted the disease. She died 30 days from the start of her symptoms. William died a month later at age 35.</span></div>
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<a bis_size="{"x":22,"y":933,"w":640,"h":19,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1070}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_A6RLEpmbBoBHw5aG-CMZvvCO46Lzp-YtIQTEvjeOFoEh_KAId8jVI-SZQXfryp_VcIpbPHl_ICOVMBUZXU6-ZRO8-9z2QFJiOXgIRf_7n3QdOvlJQhgM6t1zi-cPtUiKAhdU49lIvE/s1600/1850+mortality+schedule_Gipson_crop.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img bis_size="{"x":22,"y":910,"w":640,"h":38,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1047}" border="0" data-original-height="95" data-original-width="1513" height="38" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_A6RLEpmbBoBHw5aG-CMZvvCO46Lzp-YtIQTEvjeOFoEh_KAId8jVI-SZQXfryp_VcIpbPHl_ICOVMBUZXU6-ZRO8-9z2QFJiOXgIRf_7n3QdOvlJQhgM6t1zi-cPtUiKAhdU49lIvE/s640/1850+mortality+schedule_Gipson_crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<tr bis_size="{"x":22,"y":948,"w":641,"h":52,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1085}"><td bis_size="{"x":22,"y":948,"w":641,"h":52,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1085}" class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div bis_size="{"x":22,"y":952,"w":641,"h":48,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1089}">
<span bis_size="{"x":27,"y":952,"w":634,"h":48,"abs_x":496,"abs_y":1089}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The U.S. Federal Census of 1850 included a "mortality schedule" with a list of individuals who had died within the previous year. The 1850 mortality schedule for Waukegan included Olive and William H. Gipson (shown here). <i bis_size="{"x":344,"y":984,"w":79,"h":16,"abs_x":813,"abs_y":1121}">Ancestry.com</i></span></div>
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<div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1014,"w":653,"h":76,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1151}"><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1014,"w":650,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1151}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1014,"w":653,"h":76,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1151}">
<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1014,"w":650,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1151}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The classic appearance of a consumptive included flushed cheeks, pale skin and red lips (due to a constant low grade fever), shiny eyes, a chronic cough, and spitting up of blood. Victims also suffered from chills, fatigue, and loss of appetite. </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1052,"w":607,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1189}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The person wasted away and was virtually "consumed" by the disease. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Without a cure, people tried a variety of remedies including fresh air, vinegar massages, cod liver oil, and inhaling hemlock or turpentine. (Centers for Disease Control). Others found a way to make money off those who suffered by selling tonics that falsely claimed a "cure" for ailments including consumption. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">An advertisement for one of the many tonic "cures" for consumption, circa 1890. <br /><i>Advertisement Collection (2013.0.97), Bess Bower Dunn Museum.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1573,"w":281,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1710}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1573,"w":281,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1710}" face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">From a letter by Edwin P. Messer </span></span><span bis_size="{"x":297,"y":1574,"w":83,"h":17,"abs_x":766,"abs_y":1711}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(1838-1915) </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1573,"w":647,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1710}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">of Libertyville dated April 19, 1860, we learn of the death of a young friend. Messer wrote to William Minto of Loon Lake (Antioch Twp.)</span><span bis_size="{"x":447,"y":1592,"w":14,"h":18,"abs_x":916,"abs_y":1729}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">: "</span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1592,"w":642,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1729}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I suppose you have heard of the death of Mary Abbott she died about the middle of March."</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1630,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1767}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1630,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1767}" /></span>
<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1649,"w":647,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1786}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Though Messer did not mention the cause of death, through genealogical research I found that Mary had died of consumption after being ill for three months. She was 18 years old.</span></div>
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<a bis_size="{"x":22,"y":1719,"w":640,"h":19,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1856}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59uQqvsIUBEhBP2XNqakS9_Xx7cN5l6uho4YO_IcVfR3F1RqsVlM5egmy-EawtQN4LAIUgNvHNWd41xzBc3iJ80EDqjYaJriXjKumLr6pSHBY7whG-l30axvITEx_9QRAaCxiUNYwOK0/s1600/1860+mortality+schedule+Lake+County_Mary+Abbott.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img bis_size="{"x":22,"y":1712,"w":640,"h":22,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1849}" border="0" data-original-height="53" data-original-width="1513" height="22" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59uQqvsIUBEhBP2XNqakS9_Xx7cN5l6uho4YO_IcVfR3F1RqsVlM5egmy-EawtQN4LAIUgNvHNWd41xzBc3iJ80EDqjYaJriXjKumLr6pSHBY7whG-l30axvITEx_9QRAaCxiUNYwOK0/s640/1860+mortality+schedule+Lake+County_Mary+Abbott.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<tr bis_size="{"x":22,"y":1734,"w":640,"h":20,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1871}"><td bis_size="{"x":22,"y":1734,"w":640,"h":20,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1871}" class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div bis_size="{"x":22,"y":1738,"w":640,"h":16,"abs_x":491,"abs_y":1875}">
<span bis_size="{"x":44,"y":1738,"w":597,"h":16,"abs_x":513,"abs_y":1875}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">1860 mortality schedule listing "Maria E. Abbott" dying of consumption in March 1860 in Waukegan. <i bis_size="{"x":558,"y":1738,"w":83,"h":16,"abs_x":1027,"abs_y":1875}">Ancestry.com </i></span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1768,"w":174,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1905}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Mary E. Abbott was born on the family farm near Millburn in September 1841 </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1768,"w":630,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1905}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">to William Abbott and Elizabeth F. Barry Abbott. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1806,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1943}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1806,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1943}" /></span>
<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1825,"w":286,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1962}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Messer's letter indicates that he and </span><span bis_size="{"x":302,"y":1825,"w":188,"h":18,"abs_x":771,"abs_y":1962}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">William Minto (1837-1919) </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1825,"w":633,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1962}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">were acquainted with Mary. Since Messer did not live near Minto and Abbott in the Millburn/Loon Lake area, I wondered how the three became acquainted. </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1825,"w":633,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1962}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">From correspondence in the museum's Minto Family Collection I knew that Minto and Messer had attended the Waukegan Academy together. </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1825,"w":633,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":1962}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I suspected that Mary Abbott might also be connected to them through </span><span bis_size="{"x":443,"y":1863,"w":176,"h":18,"abs_x":912,"abs_y":2000}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">the Academy. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Waukegan Academy on Genesee Street. Printed in the <i>Waukegan Daily Gazette</i>, March 22, 1915. <br />The Academy operated from 1846 to 1869.</span></td></tr>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">As the first institution of higher learning in Lake County and with abolitionist-leanings, the Waukegan Academy attracted male and female students from throughout Lake County and also Wisconsin, New York and Australia. </span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2015,"w":616,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2152}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(see my post on the </span><a bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2053,"w":623,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2190}" href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2011/12/waukegan-academy-1846-1869.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Waukegan Academy</a><span bis_size="{"x":82,"y":2072,"w":13,"h":18,"abs_x":551,"abs_y":2209}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">). </span></div>
<div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1996,"w":653,"h":95,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2133}">
<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1996,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2133}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1996,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2133}" /></span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2015,"w":616,"h":56,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2152}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">A review of Academy catalogues confirmed that Mary Abbott attended in 1857 along with Edwin P. Messer and his twin brother Erwin B.</span><br />
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<span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":595,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Young adults, such as Mary Abbott, were particularly susceptible to consumption, although a</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">nyone could contract the disease</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">. In the following decades, another group would suffer from the disease at high rates</span><span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">—</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Union veterans of the Civil War.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">William Monaghan (1841-1871) of Wauconda mustered-in with Company B, 96th Illinois Infantry on September 5, 1862. He was the son of Irish immigrants, Eliza and James Monaghan, who came to Lake County in 1837 and settled on property within today's Singing Hills Forest Preserve. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">By the late 1800s, the best cure for TB was thought to be fresh air and good nutrition. T</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">he growing realization that TB was likely an infectious disease led to isolating patients in hospitals and sanitoriums. With </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">improvements in socioeconomic conditions, nutrition and living standards, public health initiatives, and the use of sanitoriums, a path to controlling the disease was on the horizon. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Lake Breeze Sanitorium was established for TB sufferers in 1909 on a 16-acre parcel <br />east of Green Bay Road on Grand Avenue in Waukegan. <br /><i>Tuberculosis Collection 77.20, Bess Bower Dunn Museum.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For centuries, the origin of tuberculosis was not understood and contracting it was thought to be unavoidable. With the advent of germ theory and the discovery of the bacterium that causes TB, people began to understand how to control the spread of the disease through isolation, and eventually prevent it through antibiotics. </span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tuberculosis remains a public health concern in part to a rise in drug resistance. The disease has re-emerged as a pandemic killing 1.5 million people worldwide each year. However, in the U.S. the number of new cases continues to fall steadily. For more information visit the Centers for Disease </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Control </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/tb/" style="text-align: start;">https://www.cdc.gov/tb/</a>.<i> </i></span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Telling the stories of Lake Countians who died from tuberculosis or worked to treat those with the disease is possible because official records and archival materials have been preserved and made available for research. </span></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Today, we are experiencing a struggle that is similar to the one our 19th century counterparts endured. To understand this moment in time, museums around the world</span>—<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">including the Bess Bower Dunn Museum</span>—<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">are collecting stories and photos related to the COVID-19 pandemic. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Historians and researchers 10, 20 or even 50 years from now will benefit and find perspective from the stories we archive.</span></span><br /></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2149,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2286}"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div></div></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2821,"w":653,"h":38,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2958}">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2859,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2996}"><br bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2859,"w":0,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2996}" /></span><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2878,"w":515,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":3015}"><i>Ancestry.com </i>- 1850 and 1860 U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, Lake County, Illinois. </span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2878,"w":515,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":3015}">Centers for Disease Control </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/tb/">https://www.cdc.gov/tb/</a><span bis_size="{"x":16,"y":2878,"w":515,"h":37,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":3015}"> and </span><span bis_size="{"x":268,"y":2897,"w":308,"h":18,"abs_x":737,"abs_y":3034}"><a bis_size="{"x":268,"y":2897,"w":308,"h":18,"abs_x":737,"abs_y":3034}" href="https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/history.htm">https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/history.htm</a>.</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Manoli-Skocay, Constance. "A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord." <i>ConcordLibrary.org. </i>Accessed May 22, 2020.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/essays-on-concord-history/a-gentle-death-tuberculosis-in-19th-century-concord">https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/essays-on-concord-history/a-gentle-death-tuberculosis-in-19th-century-concord</a>.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Died." <i>Little Fort Porcupine and Democratic Banner</i>, Little Fort, Lake County, Illinois, August 6, 1845. Newspaper Collection. Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Jordan,
Brian Matthew. <i>Marching Home: Union
Veterans and Their Unending Civil War.</i> New York: Liveright Publishing
Corporation, 2014.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Partridge,
Charles A. <i>History of the Ninety-Sixth
Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. </i>Chicago: Historical Society of the Regiment, 1887.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Murray, John F. "A Century of Tuberculosis." Accessed May 28, 2020. <i>ATSJournals.org</i>. </span></span></div>
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Irish immigrants, William Logue and Bridget Collins Logue, brought their young family to Lake County, Illinois in 1844.<br />
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The Logue home was one of the longest inhabited log structures in Lake County, and came to represent a romantic ideal of the county's settlement and the American frontier.<br />
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Researching these settlers was difficult due to the scarcity of information left behind. But the search was all the more satisfying when bits of their lives were found in government records, the occasional written history, and photographs.<br />
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After immigrating from Ireland, William and Bridget Logue lived in the borough of Manhattan in today's New York City. This was a tough environment for poor immigrants, and the prospect of owning land on the newly opened frontier brought hope for independence and a fresh start. </div>
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While still in New York, William acquired 96 acres in today's Zion, Illinois.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Land patent for Logue's purchase in August 1844 while living in New York County, NY. <i>General Land Office Records glorecords.blm.gov</i>.</span></div>
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Logue purchased 80-acres directly from the Federal government at $1.25 per acre costing him $100 ($3,449 today). Sixteen additional acres were purchased from Jeremiah Eaton at $25.75 per acre costing $412 ($14,210 today). The cost for the 16-acres seems unreasonably high. Or was it?<br />
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Historically, a high sale price indicates that the property had been improved. At this early date of settlement that would mean a structure had been built, likely a cabin. William Logue would have purchased the property knowing of the improvement and willing to pay more to have a shelter for his family when they arrived from New York.<br />
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Further research indicates that a log house was built by Clark G. Corser, who had purchased the land in March 1844 and sold it at a slight profit to Eaton a few months later. This was Corser's first land purchase in Lake County, and as such he built a small cabin to live in. Eaton, who came to the area in the late 1830s, had built his family homestead elsewhere, and therefore would not have built the structure on this parcel.<br />
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In the fall of 1844, William, Bridget, their six-year old daughter Margaret (Maggie), and William's brother Edward arrived in Lake County. This was a world away from Manhattan's population of nearly 500,000. In Lake County's Benton Township where the Logues' settled, there were only a few hundred inhabitants. The entire county had a population of 8,236 in 1845.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Logue property in Benton Township shown on 1861 map of County, Illinois. Note two residences delineated as squares above "Logue." William's brother, Edward, is shown as the property owner.</span></div>
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The 1861 Lake County map shows two residences on the property (above). The square on the left is a house built by William Logue, and the square on the right may be the log house built by Clark G. Corser that the family initially lived in. Perhaps these two buildings were brought together to form the double-wide house seen in historic photographs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The unusual construction of the Logue house has created much speculation on when and how it was built. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Some historical data suggests Clark G. Corser built one half in March 1844 and William Logue the other half in autumn 1844. The two structures could have been used as separate residences until brought together (possibly after 1861) to form the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">double-wide log house. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The house was located </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">southwest of Salem Boulevard and Galilee Avenue in today's Zion. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo circa 1900. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Dickertown School History, Dunn Museum 2003.0.9.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">An approximate location of the Logue log house (outlined in red) west of the McClory Bike Path along Galilee Avenue. </span></div>
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T. Arthur Simpson (1869-1954), county superintendent of schools and a neighbor of the Logues, recalled that the double-wide log house was located "west of the North Shore's Skokie line tracks." In 1963, the North Shore Line closed and became a trail which was later named the Robert McClory Bike Path. Based on Simpson's account and historic maps, the double-wide log house was situated west of the bike path and southwest of the intersection of Salem Boulevard and Galilee Avenue. (above)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Detail of the house where the two halves meet. The protruding logs at the corners define the shape of each section of the building, adding to my suspicion that the house was originally two separate residences. Photo circa 1900. <i>Dunn Museum 94.34.639. </i></span></div>
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Circumstances interfered in the family's prosperity. Less than five years into life on the frontier, William Logue died (prior to March 1849). This left Bridget with two daughters: 11-year old Maggie and one-year old Mary Ann. (Four other children died in infancy). Edward took up the bulk of the farm labor until his death on October 1, 1860. </div>
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By 1870, William's widowed sister, Rose Ann Kane, came to live with Bridget and her daughters.<br />
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The 1870 U.S. Agricultural Census provides a glimpse into the women's lives. Bridget, then fifty-years old, was listed as "Keeping House" for her family. Maggie, Mary Ann, and Rose were listed "At Home," which according to the Census Office could include domestic errands or family chores, but was not considered an occupation. The Logue women relied on their farm for income.<br />
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From the census we know that the farm consisted of: 40 acres of improved land (60 acres unimproved), 6 dairy cows, 6 cattle, 4 hogs, and 10 sheep. The farm produced 36 bushels of spring wheat, 200 bushels of Indian corn, 20 bushels of oats, 30 bushels of buckwheat, 40 pounds of wool, 50 bushels of Irish potatoes, and 12 tons of hay.<br />
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Not listed in the farm's inventory were horses or oxen. These animals were valuable to a farm's operation, but also expensive. An average workhorse cost $150 ($3,072 today), plus harness and feed. In 1870, the farm's total value of income from livestock and crops was $620 ($12,242 today).<br />
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To manage the farm without a hired man, Bridget may have rented a portion to a neighboring farmer. The women also churned milk from their dairy cows into 600 pounds of butter. In 1870, butter cost on average 15 cents per pound.<br />
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On February 26, 1876, matriarch Bridget Collins Logue died. She was buried in the newly established St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Waukegan.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gravemarker for Bridget Collins Logue (1820-1876) at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Waukegan. <i>FindAGrave.com.</i></span></div>
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Bridget left the farm of 100 acres, 8 cattle, 23 sheep, and household furniture to her daughters. Before the estate could be settled, Mary Ann died in May 1883. She was also buried at St. Mary's Cemetery.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Probate record for Bridget Logue Estate filed with County Court by Margaret Logue in May 1876. <i>Ancestry.com</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The former Logue property outlined in red on a 2018 aerial. For reference: Lewis Avenue (left), Salem Boulevard (top), 27th Street (bottom), and Shiloh Park Elementary (bottom far right). </span></div>
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The diagonal property line followed the old New York House Inn and Southport Road, which had been laid out in March 1840. The road ran northeast from the Inn near the intersection of York House and Green Bay Roads and onward to Sheridan Road in today's Winthrop Harbor. Most of this road was vacated by 1860.</div>
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About 1900, a photo of Margaret "Maggie" Logue was taken outside the family's log house. She is seated in a doorway wearing a gingham apron and holding a potted flower.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Maggie Logue taken by John M. Latto (1873-1915), brother-in-law to T. Arthur Simpson. <i>Dunn Museum 94.34.639.</i></span></div>
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By this time, cousin Thomas Healey had joined Maggie Logue and Rose Kane on the farm. Healey took over the bulk of the farm labor.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Logue log house with Maggie Logue seated in doorway. Both sections of the house were likely built at the time of settlement in 1844. Photo by John M. Latto, circa 1900. <i>Dunn Museum 94.34.639.</i></span></div>
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Maggie Logue lived here from 1844 to 1903, making this the longest continuously inhabited log house in Lake County.<br />
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This homestead was built at the time of settlement and the only upgrade appears to have been enlarging the house by bringing two structures together. Generally, families upgraded these houses by covering them with stucco or clapboard siding. The log houses were hidden from view until torn down decades later to reveal (to everyone's surprise) the house's true origin.<br />
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The fact that the Logues' did not put siding over the hand-hewn logs made it a charming curiosity to locals. Knowing the hardships the family faced, it may also indicate they lacked the means to make cosmetic improvements to the structure.<br />
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In April 1903, Maggie Logue sold the family farm (consisting of 83 acres), to John Alexander Dowie, the founder of the City of Zion. She was paid $9,550 ($280,724 today).<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Logue house being razed, and the large oak tree already gone. Date unknown (post-1903). The fence was built after the property was sold to Dowie and was the type used to pasture horses. <i>Dunn Museum 94.34.640</i></span></div>
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Maggie retired to Waukegan where she lived until her death on May 19, 1920.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Margaret "Maggie" Logue's signature on receipt in probate record, 1899. <i>Ancestry.com</i></span> </div>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ancestry.com </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, School Histories Collection</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">FindAGrave.com</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lake County (IL) Recorder of Deeds</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lake County Maps Online <a href="https://maps.lakecountyil.gov/mapsonline/">https://maps.lakecountyil.gov/mapsonline/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">U.S. Census, "Logue," 1850 to 1920. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bomberger, Bruce D, "Preservation Briefs: 26 - The Preservation and Repair of Historic Log Buildings," National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. (Sept 1991) Accessed March 16, 2020. <a href="https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/26-log-buildings.htm">https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/26-log-buildings.htm</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Census Office Department of the Interior. <i>Ninth Census, United States, 1870. Instructions to Assistant Marshals. Act of May 23, 1850.</i> Washington: Government Printing Office, 1870. Accessed March 16, 2020. <a href="https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1870instructions-2.pdf">https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1870instructions-2.pdf</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Halsey, John J. <i>History of Lake County, Illinois. </i>(Roy S. Bates, Publisher). 1912.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">National Park Service. "1870 Catalogue of Goods." Accessed March 16, 2020. <a href="https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/1870CatalogueofGoods.pdf">https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/1870CatalogueofGoods.pdf</a></span></li>
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<div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":8,"w":653,"h":36,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":165}">Reverend William B. Dodge (1783-1869) of the Millburn Congregational Church was an outspoken abolitionist and leader in Lake County's anti-slavery movement. </div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':79,'y':374,'w':525,'h':15,'abs_x':548,'abs_y':526}" style="font-size: x-small;">Image from: <i bis_size="{'x':147,'y':374,'w':457,'h':15,'abs_x':616,'abs_y':526}">The First Hundred Years: the Story of the Millburn Congregational Church 1840-1940. </i></span></div>
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Dodge was 61-years old when he came to Millburn in 1844. His roots in New England, where he worked in education and the anti-slavery movement, set the stage for his leadership role in Lake County. </div>
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Dodge was born in Rowley, Massachusetts in 1783, the son of Revolutionary War veteran, Phineas Dodge, and Lucy Nelson Dodge. In early 1807, Dodge married Sarah Dole (1781-1870) and the couple moved to Salem, Massachusetts. </div>
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In Salem, Dodge opened the city's first Sunday School, and was an educator in the public schools for over thirty years. In 1827, he was appointed chaplain of the city almshouse, a position he retained for 17 years.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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In 1834, the city established an elementary and high school for African American students. Although Salem's schools were integrated, the free African American community still faced adversity. William B. Dodge was hired as the school's principal due to his reputation as a teacher and anti-slavery activist.</div>
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One of Dodge's pupils was Robert Morris (1823-1882), who became one of the first African American lawyers in the United States. As an attorney, Morris worked on cases regarding African American education and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. </div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':206,'y':926,'w':271,'h':15,'abs_x':675,'abs_y':1089}" style="font-size: x-small;"><i bis_size="{'x':205,'y':1512,'w':273,'h':15,'abs_x':674,'abs_y':1675}">Robert Morris (1823-1882), lawyer and abolitionist. (John J. Burns Library's Blog)</i></span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':206,'y':926,'w':271,'h':15,'abs_x':675,'abs_y':1089}" style="font-size: x-small;">Dodge was invited by his former students to return to Salem for a visit (around 1861), and Robert Morris was one of his hosts. </span><span bis_size="{'x':206,'y':926,'w':271,'h':15,'abs_x':675,'abs_y':1089}" style="font-size: x-small;">Morris </span><span bis_size="{'x':71,'y':1567,'w':281,'h':14,'abs_x':348,'abs_y':1730}" style="font-size: x-small;">recalled that Dodge was responsible for his education </span><span bis_size="{'x':353,'y':1567,'w':299,'h':14,'abs_x':630,'abs_y':1730}" style="font-size: x-small;">and had ensured he was "treated justly, and even kindly." </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1600,'w':648,'h':36,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':1763}" style="font-family: inherit;">The entire Dodge family was active in the anti-slavery movement, and abolitionists on the Underground Railroad. The family used their home on North Street to harbor individuals escaping from slavery. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1656,'w':639,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':1819}" style="font-family: inherit;">In 1834, Dodge's wife, Sarah Dole Dodge, and daughters, Lydia Little Dodge (1811-1848) and Lucia Nelson Dodge (1815-1845), became founding members of the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1656,'w':639,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':1819}" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sarah Dole Dodge (1781-1870), wife of William B. Dodge. Photo circa 1860.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1656,'w':639,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':1819}" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i bis_size="{'x':240,'y':1992,'w':204,'h':15,'abs_x':709,'abs_y':2144}">Robert Miller Collection, Ancestry.com</i></span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":1992,"w":653,"h":16,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":2149}"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah Dole was the daughter of Revolutionary War veteran Capt. Samuel Dole of Bullard's Regiment of Militia.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1729,'w':649,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':1892}" style="font-family: inherit;">The society's constitution stated: "That slavery should be immediately abolished; that people of color, enslaved or free, have a right to a home in the country without fear of intimidation, and that the society should be ready to acknowledge people of color as friends and equals." </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':20,'y':1250,'w':646,'h':31,'abs_x':489,'abs_y':1413}" style="font-size: x-small;">Ledger entry from the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society regarding a meeting held at the William and Sarah Dodge home on January 10, 1838. <i bis_size="{'x':147,'y':1266,'w':415,'h':15,'abs_x':616,'abs_y':1429}">Original ledger in collections of Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum</i>. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2048,'w':595,'h':36,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2211}" style="font-family: inherit;">By 1842, Dodge retired from teaching and became the "antislavery agent" in the churches of Massachusetts.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1334,'w':0,'h':17,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':1497}" style="font-family: inherit;"><br bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1334,'w':0,'h':17,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':1497}" /></span><span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1352,'w':653,'h':53,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':1515}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Around this time, some of the Dodge children headed west to settle on the frontier, including daughter Hannah Little Dodge (1819-1884) to Millburn, Lake County, Illinois, and son Samuel D. Dodge (1809-1875) to Peoria, Illinois. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':1352,'w':653,'h':53,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':1515}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">In the spring of 1844, William and Sarah Dodge set out "to settle among [their] children" and </span><span bis_size="{'x':401,'y':1388,'w':243,'h':17,'abs_x':870,'abs_y':1551}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">arrived in Millburn on May 14. </span><span bis_size="{'x':401,'y':1388,'w':243,'h':17,'abs_x':870,'abs_y':1551}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">They purchased 120-acres </span><span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2195,'w':617,'h':36,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2329}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">on the southwest corner of today's Route 45 and Sand Lake Road in Avon Township. </span></div>
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<a bis_size="{'x':142,'y':2557,'w':400,'h':17,'abs_x':419,'abs_y':2691}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdAf5AAdUFYEGvxk4FupQ1Egua0QdxIP2nyQlvjbnic2nhZn0KNE62NpawAZGGSNnPrNECTxWb2Q0RH2sTxrX_QZ9I_j68UdLnuJYJKtDz8HrAcCnkMhxLQ5AHrKVYEk1uQJ7vXeJwvM/s1600/1861+map+with+highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img bis_size="{'x':142,'y':2250,'w':400,'h':321,'abs_x':419,'abs_y':2384}" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="796" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdAf5AAdUFYEGvxk4FupQ1Egua0QdxIP2nyQlvjbnic2nhZn0KNE62NpawAZGGSNnPrNECTxWb2Q0RH2sTxrX_QZ9I_j68UdLnuJYJKtDz8HrAcCnkMhxLQ5AHrKVYEk1uQJ7vXeJwvM/s400/1861+map+with+highlights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':18,'y':2571,'w':499,'h':14,'abs_x':295,'abs_y':2705}" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Millburn Congregational Church circled in red (top center). William B. Dodge farm denoted by </span><span bis_size="{'x':166,'y':2571,'w':503,'h':29,'abs_x':443,'abs_y':2705}" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">red star (bottom center), and Dodge Schoolhouse across from the Dodge farm, circled in red. <i bis_size="{'x':360,'y':2577,'w':188,'h':15,'abs_x':829,'abs_y':2740}">Map of Lake County, Illinois, 1861. </i></span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2620,'w':645,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2754}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">While William and Sarah undoubtedly wished to be near their children, uprooting themselves to begin anew on the "frontier" was a remarkable undertaking. More than likely Dodge understood the opportunity this provided him to continue his work in the anti-slavery movement.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2620,'w':645,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2754}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2665,'w':0,'h':17,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':2828}" /></span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2683,'w':645,'h':53,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':2846}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Within a few months of his arrival, Dodge was asked by the congregational community to become their pastor. His official installation was held at the dedication of the church's new meeting house on June 1, 1847. (From 1840 - 1847 the congregation met in a log structure). </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2755,'w':646,'h':35,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':2918}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Reverend Dodge became known throughout the county as "Father Dodge." He spoke at meetings and celebrations across Lake County and "entered heartily into all reforms as they claimed his attention and support." </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2620,'w':645,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2754}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">By the mid-1840s, northeastern Illinois was the strongest area of anti-slavery sentiment in the state. This was in part due to the large concentration of settlers from New England (such as the Dodge Family), who brought anti-slavery sentiments with them. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2620,'w':645,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2754}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Dodge aligned himself with people of like mind, and soon distinguished himself as a leader. </span><span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':3221,'w':649,'h':53,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':3373}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">In 1846, he co-founded the Lake County Liberty Association which denounced the notorious Illinois Black Laws (1819-1865) that restricted the civil liberties of African Americans.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':2620,'w':645,'h':54,'abs_x':293,'abs_y':2754}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Dodge continued to take a great interest in education and in 1854 supported a tax levy to build a new schoolhouse. Neighbors met at his home and voted to approve the school, which </span><span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':3079,'w':629,'h':35,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':3242}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">was named Dodge School. The schoolhouse was built by William Bonner (see previous post on </span><a bis_size="{'x':513,'y':2731,'w':47,'h':17,'abs_x':790,'abs_y':2865}" href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/09/bonner-heritage-farm-lindenhurst.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Bonner</a><span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':3097,'w':652,'h':35,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':3260}" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">) and located across the road from Dodge's homestead. The first teacher was Dodge's son, James M. Dodge </span><span bis_size="{'x':16,'y':3347,'w':645,'h':35,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':3499}" style="color: #333333;">(1812-1887).</span></div>
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The community of Millburn, though small, was very much engaged in national affairs. Of particular interest was the growing divide between North and South over the issue of slavery. The news of radical abolitionist John Brown's impending execution after his failed raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, October 16-19, 1859, brought the Millburn congregation together for a special meeting. </div>
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On December 2, 1859, the congregation passed a resolution that read in part: "That we will do good to those who have escaped from bondage as we have opportunity by supplying their present wants and aiding them in their flight." </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Reverend "Father" Dodge, December 2, 1859.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Original in the archives of the Millburn Congregational Church.</span></i></div>
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This resolution was in direct opposition to the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required that all "escaped slaves" be returned to the South and that citizens of free states cooperate or be fined and jailed. Involvement in the Underground Railroad was dangerous and illegal, and therefore very secretive, making the open defiance of Reverend Dodge and his congregation quite extraordinary. </div>
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In 1862, due to deteriorating health, Reverend Dodge resigned his position. </div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':17,'y':3428,'w':651,'h':63,'abs_x':486,'abs_y':3563}" style="font-size: x-small;">From letter of Anna White to David Minto, November 1862: "I believe we are to have a new minister at Millburn before a great while. Mr. Dodge is to be released from the church next Tuesday. There seems to quite a difference of opinion in regard to which they shall have presbyterian or a congregational minister but I presume it will come out all right." </span></div>
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Though Dodge gave up his duties as pastor, the door to his home was always open. William and Sarah Dodge welcomed their neighbors with a cup of tea and comforting words. </div>
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During the Civil War, Dodge's support of his neighbors remained unwavering. A number of young men from Millburn enlisted, including two of Dodge's grandsons: Samuel W. Dodge (1838-1909) and George C. Dodge (1842-1904), who served with the 96th Illinois Infantry. On the home front residents worked tirelessly for the war effort by making quilts and bandages, and writing letters to the "Soldier Boys." </div>
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Following the war, the congregation's membership had grown and a new church was needed. When the church was dedicated in January 1867, "Father Dodge" had the honor of addressing the congregation in the old church. With his aged Bible in hand, Dodge walked alongside the new pastor, Reverend Bross, followed by a procession of the membership to the new church. </div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':17,'y':3728,'w':652,'h':31,'abs_x':486,'abs_y':3891}" style="font-size: x-small;">Reverend Dodge led a procession from the old church to the new Millburn Congregational Church (shown above), </span></div>
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Reverend "Father" Dodge died on April 1, 1869, leaving a legacy of good works and selflessness. He was steadfast in his anti-slavery activism and concern for the oppressed, and was "greatly revered for his knowledge and for his great goodness of heart." </div>
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Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-26027731049575939082019-02-07T15:32:00.002-06:002021-02-02T14:10:03.990-06:00Lake County's Dr. King<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dr. Eugene P. King, M.D. (1893-1961), or "Ole Rex" as he was affectionately known, dedicated himself to the communities of Waukegan, North Chicago and Zion through his medical practice, and sponsorship of community gardens and the Rexes and Rexettes athletic teams.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Eugene P. King with a patient at St. Therese Hospital in Waukegan, circa 1950.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>From the archives of the Convent of the Holy Spirit, Northfield, Illinois.</i></span></div>
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King was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1893 and raised by his grandmother, Winnie C. Koons (1833 - 1916). At a young age he was adopted by the King family for whom he took his surname.<br />
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King attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and taught vocational classes at the Lincoln Institute in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky.<br />
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In early 1917, after the United States officially entered World War I, Eugene P. King was accepted for officers' training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. As part of an elite group of African American men, he went through technical and physical training and graduated as a lieutenant. The success of King and his comrades laid the groundwork for change, ultimately leading to President Harry Truman's executive order of July 1948 abolishing racial discrimination and segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Detail of "5th Provisional Company officers reserve training Camp Ft. Des Moines, Ia." <i>Library of Congress. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Eugene P. King graduated from this military camp in 1917.</span></span></div>
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King served with the American expeditionary forces (AEF) in France under General John J. Pershing (1860-1948). He worked in army intelligence, led units of African Senegalese (French troops), and was wounded while fighting on the Western Front.<br />
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Following the war's end in November 1918, it took months for the millions of American soldiers to return home due to arranging ship transport and concerns about the 1918 influenza pandemic that ultimately infected one-third of the world's population and killed an estimated 50 million people. Sadly, while King was still in France his adopted father, W. Nolan King (1865-1919), died of double pneumonia from "Spanish Influenza."<br />
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After his honorable discharge in September 1919, King traveled the globe on a tramp steamer. On his return to the United States he attended Rush Medical College in Chicago.<br />
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King graduated at the top of his class in 1924, completing the five-year course in three years. Because of his outstanding record, Dr. Frank Billings (1854-1932) personally presented King's certificate of graduation. Dr. Billings had served as Dean of Rush Medical College and president of the American Medical Association. By 1928, King opened a medical practice in Waukegan and wed Vyvien Porres.<br />
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His affinity for sports and commitment to community betterment led him to begin a tradition of sports excellence by sponsoring youth teams. All were welcome to play on Dr. King's Rex Athletic teams, and in particular young adults who were barred from playing at local schools because of their race or background.<br />
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<b>Y Rex Athletic Club motto:</b></div>
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<b>To make better men and women out of boys and girls</b></div>
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<b>through clean wholesome athletic sports.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">'Y' Rexettes basketball team, 1951.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">First (bottom) row: Jean Anderson, Inez Davis, Dr. King "Rex Himself." Francis Thomas, Vivian White</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Second row: Genevieve Pearson, Subrette Dupuy, Ardell Pearson, Barbara White, Ann Payne, Christine Springer, Marion Maxwell, Mrs. Florence W</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Third row: Della Steele, Bertha Robinson, Barbara Belcher, Geraldine Evans, Lillie Vaughan.</span></div>
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Dr. King purchased distinctive orange and black uniforms for his teams, and wore a jacket emblazoned with "Rex Himself." His teams played throughout the Chicago area and won 50 championships.<br />
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His own athletic ability brought him awards and even national recognition. In 1929, he was given a <i>Daily News</i> trophy for "Most Popular" area basketball player, in part for his impressive "one-handed set shots." In 1954, <i>Sports Illustrated </i>noted him as one of the "oldest active" athletes in the nation. He was 61.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Rexes had a "reputation of being one of the speediest teams of the north shore." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">December 22, 1939, <i>Daily Herald.</i></span></div>
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King's philanthropic efforts were not limited to the African American community, but anyone in need, including children of Armenian and Italian immigrants. He worked through Barwell Goodfellowship Settlement in Waukegan (founded in 1915 to help the poor and sick), and was known to provide free medical service, clothing and college funds to those in need.<br />
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In addition to sponsoring athletic teams and serving as physical education program director at the S. Genesee Street YMCA, King developed community gardens to teach youth about cultivation and hard work. King planted 10,000 tulip bulbs in his personal flower garden at his home on S. Genesee Street, making for spectacular spring blossoms for everyone to enjoy.<br />
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In 1971, the Waukegan Park District created the Dr. Eugene P. King Park to honor King's legacy as a "constructive force" in the community.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The 2.7 acre Eugene P. King Park on South Avenue includes a softball diamond, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">playground, and flower bed/green house--all tributes to Dr. King's legacy. <i>Waukegan Park District.</i></span></div>
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As an anonymous admirer said, Dr. Eugene P. King's "life was one of dedication to humanity, to his community, to his people, and to his profession. Everything he did -- he did for others."<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sources:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c;">"Wheeling Aces Downed 78-58 by Waukegan Rexes," December 22, 1939, </span><i style="color: #181a1c;">Daily Herald.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit;"><i>"</i>Doctor's Spare Time Labor Pays in Beauty," May 1, 1957, <i>Waukegan News Sun.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Dr. King... Symbol of Brotherhood," Jack Hagler, February 22, 1961, <i>Waukegan News Sun</i>.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Lighting the Way for Many: Barwell Goodfellowship Settlement," Bernice Just, June 26, 1965, <i>Waukegan News Sun.</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Tribute in name," July 15, 1971, <i>Waukegan News Sun.</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Dr. E.P. King candidate for Waukegan Hall of Fame," Vincent Bulter, August 10, 1976, <i>Waukegan News Sun.</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"Lake County had its own Dr. King," Diana Dretske, August 20, 2000, <i>Daily Herald.</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"King for a day... every day," Jim Berklan, unknown date, <i>Waukegan News Sun.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c;">"W. Nolan King," Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965, </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181a1c;">Ancestry.com. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c;">"Eugene P. King," Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917–1918, </em><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c;">Ancestry.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c;">"Black Officers at Fort Des Moines in World War I," Iowa Pathways blog www.iptv.org. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #181a1c; font-family: inherit;">"Frank Billings, 1854-1932," Chicago Area Medical Archivists.blogspot.com. </span></span><br />
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One of the greatest threats in that "wilderness" were wolves and coyotes, who preyed on their livestock.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Hunting Prairie Wolves in an Early Day." Published by Wm. LeBaron & Co., Chicago, 1877.</span></div>
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The first county bounties (cash payments) for wolves' scalps were issued in 1838. By 1874, the Lake County board offered "twenty dollars for the scalp of a wolf slain." ($440 in today's currency). The bounties were to encourage the extermination of wolves, coyotes and even crows<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span>which were all felt to impact a farmer's livelihood.<br />
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Predators were hunted year round, but mainly in the winter months when they were easy to spot on the snowy landscape, and their pelts were thicker and more valuable. Hunters presented scalps for the bounty and retained the pelts to use or sell.<br />
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In 1854, farmer John Herrick (1806 - 1890) of Half Day (now Lincolnshire), announced he was offering a bounty of $8 for each "old" wolf and $1 for each "young one." Much of Herrick's farm was within the heavily forested Des Plaines River valley, which at the time was "much infested with wolves" that had committed "many depredations."<br />
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By the 1860s, sheep farming had increased to the point that Lake County was ranked third in the State of Illinois in number of sheep. In 1865, the county boasted 82,382 sheep. The more sheep, the more enticement for predators.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nelson Landon's farm, Benton Township, 1885.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Illustrated Atlas of Lake County, Illinois. </i>H.R. Page & Co., Chicago.</span></div>
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In Benton Township, to curb the wolves being "very destructive among the sheep," a "great wolf drive" was held on March 14, 1868. Hunts typically involved hundreds of men, in this instance 350, walking in a line "with guns." The day-long hunt ended at the sprawling sheep farm of Nelson Landon (1807-1884). In all, only three wolves were killed, but a "large number" broke through the lines and escaped.<br />
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While most hunts were undertaken by men, women settlers also did their part to protect family and livestock. Maria Randolph Sibley (1821-1901), who had come to Lake County from Massachusetts with her husband and young children in the 1850s, tracked a wolf that was getting their cattle. The incident may have occurred while her husband was enlisted in the 64th Illinois during the Civil War. Sibley went into the family's grain field with her gun, and a wolf came "bounding over the shocks" of cut grain-stalks, frightening her so much that she was unable to shoot. The wolf saw her, "turned and trotted away."<br />
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The last known large-scale wolf hunt took place on January 27, 1930.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Lewis A. Mills "wolf" hunt with plane hired from Palwaukee Airport, January 27, 1930.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Gordon Ray Collection, Dunn Museum (95.28.42)</i></span></div>
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Modern times called for modern measures, and sheep farmer, Lewis A. Mills (1894-1986), hired a plane from Palwaukee Municipal Airport (today's Chicago Executive Airport) in Wheeling to search for wolves from the air. For two years wolves had "ravaged sheep and poultry flocks of the county without check." Mills's flocks and that of business magnate, Samuel Insull (1859-1938), whose estate (today's Cuneo Museum) was adjacent to Mills had been "among those suffering heaviest from the wolves."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Hunters and bystanders posing with the kill. Left to right: Bill Poulton, Leroy Kane, Donald Poulton, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Bob Rouse, Gordon Ray, Lewis Mills, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Clayton Tiffany (police chief of Mundelein), and Gordon K. Ray. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Chicago Tribune</i>,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> February 4, 1930.</span></div>
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Assisting in the hunt from the ground were Gordon Ray (1893-1987) and Bob Rouse (1892-1963). Rouse shot and killed one of the wolves. When the plane landed to pick up the wolf, it overturned in the snow making it necessary to get another plane from Palwaukee. In the second round, the plane "chased" a wolf to a fence line, and Gordon Ray and Lee Kane shot it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The hunters described their prey as "wolves," but in actuality were coyotes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">January 27, 1930. <i>Gordon Ray Collection, Dunn Museum (95.28.44)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">According to Gordon Ray, whose wife Marie Schanck Ray is seen at right, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">the hunt "caused considerable excitement, even making the Chicago papers." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Gordon Ray Collection, Dunn Museum (95.28.45)</i></span></div>
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Though these farmers identified their prey as "wolves" they were actually coyotes. This is one example of how accounts can be misleading. In researching historic wolf hunts unless details were given such as "large," "big," or "gray," it's unclear whether the animal was a wolf or coyote. To add to the historical confusion, pioneers commonly used the term "prairie wolf" for coyote.<br />
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While wolf sightings have been rare in Lake County for a century, coyotes have successfully adapted to development and changes in their environment.<br />
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The Lake County Forest Preserves encourages everyone to learn more about coyotes and the important role they play in the ecosystem. <a href="https://www.lcfpd.org/faqs/#247" target="_blank">Check out frequently asked questions about coyotes</a>. Homeowner groups and other Lake County organizations can book a free informational presentation about coyotes by contacting Allison Frederick at afrederick@LCFPD.org.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sources:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois</i>, Elijah M. Haines, 1877.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>History of Lake County, Illinois</i>, John A. Halsey, 1912.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Wolves in Chicago Now," E. Hough, January 27, 1901, <i>Chicago Tribune. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Farmers of Two Counties Unite to Kill Wolves," January 2, 1928, <i>Chicago Tribune. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Farmer in Plane Trails Wolves; Two Are Killed," February 4, 1930, <i>Chicago Tribune. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"</i>Gordon Ray recalls the wolf hunt back in '28 on the Lewis Mills farm," Kathy Rosemann, February 2, 1984, <i>Mundelein Review. </i>[Ray, who was nearly 90 years old when he gave this interview, mistakenly noted the hunt taking place in 1928.]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Gordon Ray His Life and Times (1893-1987): An Autobiography</i>, edited by Gordon K. Ray.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Dickertown School and Benton Township History, </i>1918. School History Collection, Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County. </span><br />
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<i><br /></i>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-85874898651787368742018-07-13T09:42:00.000-05:002018-07-13T15:00:47.930-05:00Rags, Hero Dog of the First DivisionOn July 14, 1918, a homeless terrier on the streets of Paris, France was rescued by two American soldiers of the First Infantry Division. Named Rags, the dog became a war hero and mascot, and spent two years living at Fort Sheridan.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">First Division Rags at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1930. <i>Courtesy of Grant Hayter-Menzies.</i></span></div>
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Late on that Bastille Day evening<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span>one hundred years ago<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span>soldiers Jimmy Donovan and George Hickman bumped into a stray dog on their way out of a cafe. The men gave the little dog a scrap of food and pat on the head, and the smart little terrier took a chance and followed Donovan down the street and into history.<br />
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Moments later, Donovan was picked up by Military Police for staying out past curfew. On the spot, he scooped up the dog and named him "Rags," claiming he had been sent to find the division's mascot. Rags charmed the MPs and was allowed to return to camp with Donovan.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Rags loved soldiers and was trained by Donovan to salute them on parade. <i>Courtesy of Grant Hayter-Menzies.</i></span></div>
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Just four days later, the French terrier<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span>now officially the First Division's mascot<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span>was on his way to the war front with his new companion. Animals were key in the war effort for transportation, to convey messages and to track the enemy. Donovan taught Rags to salute soldiers on parade and utilized him for carrying messages. On his own, Rags learned how to find damaged communications wire that Donovan, as a member of the Signal Corps, repaired.<br />
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At the Battle of Soissons, July 18 - 22, 1918, Rags and Donovan along with 42 infantrymen were surrounded by Germans. Donovan attached a message to Rags's collar and sent him off to military command, which resulted in an artillery barrage and reinforcements who rescued them. News that Rags had saved the day spread through the division.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At Soissons, France, Rags began to make a name for himself as a "war dog." Soissons in ruins </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">by William L. King, 1919. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Library of Congress.</span></i></div>
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Rags and Donovan participated in the final American campaign of the war, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began on September 26, 1918. This was the largest American-run offensive and the bloodiest operation of World War I for the American Expeditionary Force.<br />
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On October 2, Rags carried a message across the battlefield<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span></span>amid falling bombs and poison gas. The swift delivery resulted in an artillery bombardment leading to the capture of the Very-Epinonville Road, and saved the lives of American soldiers.<br />
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Days later, on October 9, Rags and Donovan were caught in heavy enemy shellfire. Rags was injured on his right front paw, right ear and right eye from shell splinters and he suffered effects of gassing. Donovan was also seriously wounded and the two were taken to a field hospital together. Rags's health improved quickly, though he lost sight in his right eye. While Donovan convalesced, Rags was allowed to stay under his cot and was occasionally placed next to Donovan on the cot.<br />
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Donovan suffered from a severe case of mustard gas poisoning, which damaged his lungs. The best care for him would be at the U.S. Army post at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where the hospital staff specialized in the treatment of gas and shell-shocked patients.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fort Sheridan's tower overlooking parade grounds covered in temporary wards for Hospital No. 28, circa 1919. <i>BBDM</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> 95.32.1</i></span></div>
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During the journey from France to Fort Sheridan, Donovan and Rags were separated due to military procedures, but many compassionate individuals ensured the two would be reunited, including Col. Halstead Dorey. Colonel Dorey had recognized Rags as the "little hero of the Argonne campaign," and smuggled Rags onto the hospital ship in one of his bags. Animals were not allowed for fear of contagion, and were euthanized if found.<br />
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Jimmy Donovan and Rags arrived at Fort Sheridan in late 1918. Donovan settled into one of the wards at Hospital No. 28, later re-designated Lovell General Hospital. Rags was allowed into the hospital once medical staff realized he was no ordinary dog, but a war hero. Rags visited Donovan daily, which did wonders for both their morale.<br />
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(For more on poison gas treatment at Fort Sheridan see my <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/search?q=Chemical" target="_blank">Chemical Warfare post</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Postcard view of a ward at the Fort Sheridan hospital, similar to the one where Rags visited Donovan. <i>BBDM 92.24.236</i></span></div>
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When Rags was not at Donovan's side he was exploring the fort. He soon sniffed out the best mess halls where cooks would feed him. He also found lodging at the post's fire station.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fort Sheridan's fire station where Rags lived, shown here circa 1919. </span><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">BBDM 92.24.361</span></i><br />
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Despite the care of the hospital's highly skilled staff, Donovan died, leaving Rags without his closest companion.<br />
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Donovan had been concerned about who would look after Rags. Thankfully, Rags had become a celebrity at the fort. His brave deeds had followed him from the battlefront and many took pride in having such a unique war hero in their midst.<br />
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Rags had spent so much time charming new acquaintances that he had become the "post dog." He also became attached to Major Raymond W. Hardenbergh, his wife Helen, and their daughters, Helen and Susan. Rags moved into the Major's bungalow at Fort Sheridan, which became his first true home.<br />
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The family quickly learned that Rags loved sweets, playing with the major's daughters and wandering the fort, but hated loud noises. Apparently, he was shell-shocked like so many of the veterans at the fort's hospital.<br />
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When Major Hardenbergh received orders for his new post, his wife and daughters gained the support of the fort community for bringing Rags with them. After all, they had given Rags his first home and, "It wasn't fair to make him homeless again."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Rags sledding with Susan Hardenbergh at Governors Island, New York, circa 1926. <i>Courtesy of Grant Hayter-Menzies.</i></span></div>
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First Division Rags lived out his remaining years as a member of the Hardenbergh family. His war scars and fame followed him wherever he went.<br />
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Though Rags was one of millions of dogs, horses and other animals utilized during World War I as "military mascots," Rags had endeared himself to a generation of soldiers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Rags's gravemarker at Aspin Hill Memorial Park, Maryland, placed by Lt. Col. Raymond Hardebergh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Epitaph: "Rags War Hero 1st Division Mascot WW I, 1916 - 1936." </span><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Courtesy of Grant Hayter-Menzies</span></i><i style="font-size: small;">.</i></div>
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Rags saved the lives of innumerable American soldiers, and was a companion to Jimmy Donovan and the men of the First Division. Because of his bravery and the respect soldiers had for him, Rags was smuggled to the United States where he would live for eighteen years to the delight of the Hardenbergh family and thousands of men and women stationed at Fort Sheridan and army posts throughout the U.S.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Rags at Governors Island, circa 1929. <i>Courtesy of Grant Hayter-Menzies.</i></span></div>
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For the full story of this remarkable war hero, read <i><a href="http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac/9781612347219/">From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division</a>, </i>by Grant Hayter-Menzies.<br />
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<br />Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-38424892185314422952018-06-06T14:48:00.003-05:002024-01-25T14:20:17.374-06:00Captain Minskey's Patent Log<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the mid-1800s, Great Lakes shipping was key to the economic boom of the newly settled Midwest. Port cities big and small, such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Waukegan and Kenosha thrived from abundant commerce and growing populations. Farmers shipped produce to market via the lakes, and settlers and businesses benefited from shipments of lumber and goods.<br />
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A ship's patent log in the Dunn Museum's collections embodies Lake County's connection to Great Lakes shipping. Patent logs are mechanical logs that measure a vessel's speed/distance through water. The log belonged to Captain Hanson Minskey, and became my starting point for researching four generations of Minskey family sailors and ship captains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ship's patent log used by Captain Hanson Minskey on the Great Lakes, circa 1855. <i>Dunn Museum70.80.1</i></span></div>
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In 1835, brothers, Hanson, Robert and John Minskey headed west from Baltimore, Maryland on horseback to Lake County, Illinois. They were part of the westward migration into the Midwest, following the opening of the Erie Canal and treaties with Native American tribes. (see my post on the <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/10/treaty-of-chicago-september-26-1833.html" target="_blank">Treaty of Chicago</a>).<br />
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The brothers were the sons of Samuel Minskey (1778 - 1819) and Ann Merriken (1776 - 1828). Samuel Minskey (or Dominski) was a cabinetmaker in partnership with Edward Priestly (1778 - 1837). From 1801 to 1807, Minskey and Priestley produced bookcases, secretaries, card tables and dining tables.<br />
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The Minskey brothers grew up in Baltimore near shipyards and amid a vibrant trade culture, and understood the economic potential of the Great Lakes. Hanson Minskey (1809 - 1881), who had been in the U.S. Navy, wanted to pursue a career as a ship's captain.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Captain Hanson Minskey (1809 - 1881). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image from Firestone ad, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>News Sun </i><span>June 26, 1935.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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By summer 1835, the Minskey brothers had settled in Benton Township, Lake County, Illinois along Sheridan Road. Three years later, Hanson <span style="font-size: 12pt;">married Charlotte E. Porter (1822 - 1881), the daughter of Jeremiah and Atossa Porter of New </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">York. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hanson and Charlotte purchased 90 acres o</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">n the northwest corner of today's Sheridan Road and Route 173 in Zion. Though Hanson's occupation was as a sailor, the family had additional income from farming the land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Beginning in the early 1840s, Hanson Minskey became a ship builder in Waukegan, and a ship's captain. While Hanson pursued a career on the lakes, brother Robert settled down to farming, and brother John returned to Baltimore. The family's history notes Robert also being a sailor, but no supporting information could be found. Robert's son, George J. Minskey (1846 - 1930) was a sailor and ship's captain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">View of Little Fort (Waukegan), showing piers, schooners and sidewheel steamer, 1848. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1848, Minskey became the captain of the newly built two-masted schooner, the <i>James McKay. </i>The ship's home port was Waukegan, where there was a considerable business in ship building. The ship was named in honor of one of its owners, Scottish-immigrant James McKay, who was a businessman and county sheriff. (see my post on <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/james-mckay-sheriff-and-mayor-of.html" target="_blank">James McKay</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Two-masted schooner representative of ships Minskey captained on the Great Lakes. </span><br />
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Hanson Minskey was captain of the schooners: <i>James McKay </i>(1848)<i>, Liverpool </i>(1855), <i>Two Charlies </i>(circa 1866)<i>, Two Sisters, Gazelle </i>(1870),<i> and Eclipse </i>(1875).<i> </i>These were the ships and dates found with an association to Minskey.<br />
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Early in his career, Minskey introduced his sons to sailing. Jeremiah "Jed" (1843 - 1925) and Samuel (1855 - 1932) both began sailing with their father at a young age and became ship's captains.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Captain Samuel N. Minskey (1855 - 1932)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image from Firestone ad, </span><i>News Sun </i>June 26, 1935. </span></div>
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In 1867, at twelve-years old, Samuel began sailing the Great Lakes. Initially, he accompanied his father on voyages to Manitowoc and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, transporting goods.<br />
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Samuel Minskey was captain of the schooners: <i>Gazelle </i>(1879), <i>Delos DeWolf </i>(1892), and <i>Magnetic </i>(1905). These were the ships and dates found with an association to Samuel Minskey.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Captain Samuel N. Minskey sailed the schooner <i>Delos DeWolf </i>in 1892. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This rare sailor's folk art of the <i>Delos DeWolf </i>(found online) was used for the cover of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"The American Cruisers Own Book." Kahn Fine Antiques and Works of Art website.</span></div>
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In 1892, Samuel's ship brought the first load of paving bricks to upgrade Genesee Street in Waukegan from a dirt road to a paved road.<br />
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In 1902, while captaining a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, Samuel's wife Emma and their eight-year old son Lauren joined him. The family nearly lost their lives when the ship went down, presumably due to an accident. They were saved by a "hair's breath," but the ship and its' contents were lost. After this experience, it is not surprising that son Lauren, did not follow his father or grandfather into a life of sailing.<br />
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Jeremiah "Jed" Minskey was captain of the schooners: <i>Two Charlies </i>(1868), and <i>Barbarian </i>(1885); and the steamers: <i>C.W. Elphicke, R.R. Hayes </i>(1893), <i>City of Genoa </i>(1898), <i>R.L. Ireland </i>(1905-1909). These were the ships and dates found with an association to Jed Minskey.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Captain Jed Minskey transitioned from sailing schooners to steamers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Shown here is the steamer <i>R.L. Ireland </i>(right, covered in ice) which transported coal on Lake Superior. </span></div>
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Sailing on the Great Lakes in the 19th century was dangerous work. Each captain and his crew had to know the location of every island, barrier, and lighthouse. When storms approached they had very little time to find safe harbor before being bombarded by powerful winds and the quick succession of waves.<br />
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Navigating a schooner took years of experience to master. The epitaph of "master mariner" on Samuel Minskey's gravemarker was a testament to his accomplishment.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Captain Samuel N. Minksey's gravemarker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Timber Ridge Cemetery, Catoosa, Oklahoma. <i>FindAGrave.com</i></span></div>
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Life on the open waters<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span>away from home for months at a time<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span>with cold, wind, rain and ice battering the ship and its crew, took its toll on sailors.<br />
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After four decades on the lakes, Captain Hanson Minskey's health had deteriorated. He retired in 1878, and he and his wife sold their farm and moved to Waukegan. In an effort to regain his health, in 1880, Hanson removed to Wharton County, Texas. Texas had become known for health resorts that attracted "lungers," people with weak lungs or tuberculosis.<br />
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The following spring, Hanson sent for his wife and sister to join him in Texas. Charlotte was suffering from "paralysis of the brain," a 19th century term often used for cerebral palsy.<br />
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Sadly, the new climate was not enough to restore their health. Charlotte died on September 19, 1881, followed by a grief-stricken Hanson on September 21. Two days later, Hanson's sister Harriet died. Their remains were brought back to Waukegan for burial at Oakwood Cemetery.<br />
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Four generations of Minskeys were found to have sailed the Great Lakes from the 1840s to 1930s: Hanson Minskey, sons Jed and Samuel, nephew George, and great grandson Jeremiah J. Minskey.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ad from <i>News Sun </i>June 26, 1935. Three generations of "transportation history."</span></div>
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Captain Minskey's patent log was donated to the Dunn Museum by Samuel's son Lauren, who survived the sinking of his father's ship in 1902. The patent log is on exhibit in the Museum's "An American Frontier" gallery.<br />
<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">- Diana Dretske, Curator ddretske@lcfpd.org</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sources:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Partridge, Charles A. <i>History of Lake County, Illinois.</i> Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers, 1902.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lodesky, James D. <i>Polish Pioneers in Illinois 1818 - 1850. </i>Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris Corporation, 2010.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Westerman, Al. <i>An Early History of Benton Township, Lake County, Illinois. </i>2010.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Kirtley, Alexandra Alevizatos, "A New Suspect: Baltimore Cabinetmaker Edward Priestley." Chipstone.org, http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/405/American-Furniture-2000/A-New-Suspect:-Baltimore-Cabinetmaker--Edward-Priestley</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-align: center;">Maritime History of the Great Lakes </span><i style="text-align: center;">maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Burns, Chester R., "Health and Medicine," Texas State Historical Association. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/smhzc</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">U.S. Census records, Ancestry.com </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Donor Files. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Map of Lake County, Illinois 1861. Published by L. Gast Bro. & Co.</span></div>
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<span>Lithographers Leopold Gast and Brother of St. Louis, Missouri were hired to publish the Lake County map. </span><span>By 1861, the American map making industry was in full swing. The lithographic process was more cost effective than copperplate engraving, allowing lithographic map publishers to make good maps at a low cost, even in small publishing runs. </span></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Detail from map of Lake County, Illinois 1861.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>As an historical record, the map is a snapshot of Lake County’s agricultural heritage, and settlement and immigration patterns prior to the start of the Civil War (1861 - 1865). In 1860, Lake County's population was 18,257. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Detail of the 1861 Lake County map before conservation. <i>BBDM 2016.0.24</i></span></div>
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The paper map had significant cracks, flaking, and the shellac coating had aged to a dark color. Its conservation treatment included, but was not limited to soaking the map in milk alkaline solution to relax flat, de-acidification, removal of shellac varnish, and mounting map pieces onto Okawara paper and then onto Irish linen.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full view of 1861 Lake County map after conservation. <i>BBDM 2016.0.24</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The map contains information on landowners and farms, locations of churches, dwelling houses, schools, businesses, roads and natural features. It also includes census data, a view of the public square in Waukegan, and business districts for Waukegan, Antioch, Half Day, Wauconda, Long Grove, Lake Zurich, Deerfield, Forksville (Volo), O’Plain Bridge (Gurnee), Diamond Lake and Barrington. </span><span><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Similar to county atlases that included artist's renderings of farms, and county histories with biographical sketches of prominent citizens, the 1861 wall map promoted the county's civic pride and was a useful source for finding ownership of parcels of land. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span><span>Today, the 1861 Lake County map is considered an invaluable genealogical and historical record. </span><br />
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<span>To view the map online (and other county maps) visit Lake County, Illinois Maps Online https://maps.lakecountyil.gov/mapsonline/.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><i>Special thanks to the Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution for funding the conservation of the Dunn Museum's 1861 Map of Lake County. </i><br />
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Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-21499306134442224352017-06-15T11:41:00.003-05:002023-06-13T15:00:13.366-05:00George Shatswell, 15th Illinois Infantry<div bis_size="{'x':16,'y':8,'w':653,'h':54,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':143}">
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Caught up in patriotic fervor to preserve the Union, George P. Shatswell enlisted with the 15th Illinois Infantry in May 1861. When Shatswell left Waukegan, he was a strong young farmer, but on his return he could barely do a day's work.</div>
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George Shatswell was born in Avon Township, Lake County, Illinois on March 23, 1842. His parents, Richard Shatswell and Margaret Sluman, had migrated from Massachusetts in 1840, and were among Avon Township's earliest settlers. In 1846, the family re-settled in Waukegan Township.</div>
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In the summer of 1859, a seventeen-year old George Shatswell went to work on Allen Spaulding's 140-acre farm. The farm was located on the east side of Greenbay Road just south of Blanchard Road in Waukegan, Illinois.</div>
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The relationship Shatswell and Spaulding forged would create a lifelong bond.</div>
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Allen Spaulding and his wife, Hannah Hinkston, were among the first settlers to Waukegan Township. They came from Oneida County, New York in 1839. (Hannah's sister<span bis_size="{'x':528,'y':783,'w':13,'h':18,'abs_x':997,'abs_y':918}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span><a bis_size="{'x':16,'y':783,'w':632,'h':35,'abs_x':485,'abs_y':918}" href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/08/one-room-school-teacher-fanny-hinkston.html" target="_blank">Fanny Hinkston Bacon</a><span bis_size="{'x':56,'y':801,'w':13,'h':18,'abs_x':525,'abs_y':936}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">—</span>was featured in a previous post). Allen and Hannah had three daughters living at home: Sarah Jane (born 1839), Mary (born 1842) and Julia Ann (born 1845).</div>
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In 1860, Shatswell again worked for Spaulding during the summer. He probably would have spent a third summer working there if not for the world-changing events of the spring of 1861. News of the fall of Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War ignited a fierce patriotism in George. He became one of the first young men in Lake County to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops</div>
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George enlisted with the 15th Illinois Infantry, and mustered in at Freeport, Illinois on May 29, 1861.</div>
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Heading to war with dreams of crushing the Rebellion were soon dashed when Shatswell contracted typhoid pneumonia in October 1861.</div>
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Shatswell was sent to the Sister of Charity's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. After two months, he was ordered to Benton Barracks, a Union Army military encampment. There, Shatswell "became so disgusted with treatment and quarters" that he rejoined his regiment without having fully recovered.</div>
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George fought at the Battle of Shiloh April 6 - 7, 1862, until his "strength failed." Captain John S. Pratt ordered him to the hospital boat, and gave him his presentation sword for safekeeping.</div>
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Instead of reporting to the hospital, Shatswell traded Pratt's sword to an Iowa soldier for a gun and accoutrements. Shatswell then "hunted up" his company, and "did all I could to thin the rebel ranks till the end of the battle."</div>
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After the battle, Shatswell's health declined and he was sent to hospital. Like so many soldiers who contracted camp disease and other ailments, Shatswell's health issues would cast a long shadow on the remainder of his life. (Disease caused more deaths in the Civil War than battles).</div>
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In June 1862, Shatswell was given 20 days furlough to go home to recover. When he arrived back in Lake County, his father and siblings did not recognize him because he had lost so much weight. </div>
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In Waukegan, a doctor recommended extending his leave, but George insisted on returning to his regiment. The following year, he fought in the Siege of Vicksburg, May 18 - July 4, 1863.</div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':150,'y':2338,'w':384,'h':15,'abs_x':619,'abs_y':2473}" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">George P. Shatswell in his 15th Illinois uniform, circa 1864. <i bis_size="{'x':465,'y':2338,'w':69,'h':15,'abs_x':934,'abs_y':2473}">Ancestry.com, Phillip George Ehemann.</i></span></div>
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In January 1864, George was joined in the 15th Illinois by his father Richard and brother William. The men remained with the regiment until they were captured at Ackworth, Georgia on October 4, 1864. They were sent to Andersonville Prison.</div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':98,'y':2700,'w':487,'h':15,'abs_x':567,'abs_y':2835}" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">and comrade George W. Noble while prisoners at Andersonville (Fort Sumter). <i bis_size="{'x':513,'y':2700,'w':72,'h':15,'abs_x':982,'abs_y':2835}">Ancestry.com, Phillip George Ehemann.</i></span></div>
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In George's words, they "starved for six months and fifteen days." Fortunately, the Shatswell men survived and were paroled at war's end.</div>
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Ever industrious, before George mustered out on May 30, 1865, he secured a position at the grocery store of J.H. Porter in Waukegan. He worked there until June 1866 when he left for Washington, D.C. to "settle with the Gov't" where E.B. French, Auditor of the U.S. Treasury, "made mine a special claim."</div>
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Shatswell then made his way to California where the dry, warm climate did his health good. He settled in Yuba County, California (north of Sacramento) and worked as a shipping clerk for Walker Moore and Company.</div>
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In May 1867, he received a letter from Allen Spaulding, reviving the connection they had formed years before.</div>
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To George's delight, Spaulding asked him to return to Waukegan to "take charge of his farm." And offered to "give [George] his daughter to help manage" the farm.</div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':96,'y':3378,'w':419,'h':15,'abs_x':565,'abs_y':3513}" style="font-size: x-small;">Portrait in charcoal of Julia Ann Spaulding Shatswell (1845 - 1893), circa 1867. </span></div>
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The daughter in question was Julia Ann, known as "Ann," who had been sixteen the last summer George worked on the Spaulding farm. Apparently, Ann was amenable to this arrangement or it is doubtful her father would have suggested it.</div>
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George later recalled: "I accepted the invitation (who wouldn't)."</div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':76,'y':3627,'w':531,'h':15,'abs_x':545,'abs_y':3762}" style="font-size: x-small;">George Shatswell's description of events, in his own hand, leading to his return to Waukegan in 1867. </span></div>
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With the death of his son in the war, Allen Spaulding faced a dilemma. He was 60-years old, and had no son to take over the family farm. Clearly, his impression and rapport with George Shatswell led him to the decision to create a stronger bond by having George marry his daughter Ann and take over the farm operations.</div>
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George Shatswell arrived home on June 10, 1867, and he and Ann were married on June 18.</div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":3783,"w":653,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":3918}"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5smoR_BDEDkHPJpwFNAQbRBXVA3P2mqEa08DGtZj87JwbQ7z04oM3rgL0EIB2L9aaHKs80mFNQwffjNXU_Q7JWuwgMewOvaVxF_I8GFb2jMQyLe2eQEVdZMzo21gO1MevhxXTYzCjKIHggzylYY6OFCGwhFLsoiFZHuMeZyFClFFn4R3qSquh9CG/s762/Spalding%20Shatswell%20marriage_WkgnWklyGaz_22June1867p3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="762" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5smoR_BDEDkHPJpwFNAQbRBXVA3P2mqEa08DGtZj87JwbQ7z04oM3rgL0EIB2L9aaHKs80mFNQwffjNXU_Q7JWuwgMewOvaVxF_I8GFb2jMQyLe2eQEVdZMzo21gO1MevhxXTYzCjKIHggzylYY6OFCGwhFLsoiFZHuMeZyFClFFn4R3qSquh9CG/s320/Spalding%20Shatswell%20marriage_WkgnWklyGaz_22June1867p3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The marriage announcement for George and Julia Ann. <i>Waukegan Weekly Gazette</i>, July 22, 1867. </span></div><div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":3783,"w":653,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":3918}"><br /></div>
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George and Ann's first child was born in July 1869. The joy of the birth of their son Fredrick was overshadowed by George's continued ailments. In the fall of 1869, Dr. Bullock advised George to "go west and get away from the Lake region."</div>
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George headed to Grand Island, Nebraska and settled on a Homestead Act claim. It is assumed that he brought Ann and their baby boy with him.</div>
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<span bis_size="{'x':60,'y':4294,'w':564,'h':15,'abs_x':529,'abs_y':4429}" style="font-size: x-small;">Homestead certificate of eligibility for veteran George Shatswell, Grand Island, Nebraska, 1874. <i bis_size="{'x':565,'y':4294,'w':55,'h':15,'abs_x':1034,'abs_y':4429}">Fold3.com</i> </span></div>
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George's health improved enough for him to labor on his farm in the summer months. He could "not endure outdoor work in winter" and found a position teaching school. By the summer of 1873, he had given up on his farm and rented it. In the spring of 1876, he went back to work on his farm, telling Ann: "I would stick to it till she planted my bones on the hill."</div>
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George and Ann continued their lives on the Nebraska farm until Ann's mother, Hannah Hinkston Spaulding, died in fall 1878. With Allen Spaulding alone on the Waukegan farm, George and Ann were called back to Illinois to "superintend" the farm.</div>
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The couple and their young family lived with Allen Spaulding on the farm. In 1879, Allen Spaulding married his wife's older sister, Onor Hinkston.</div>
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Shatswell was only able to work on the Waukegan farm in the summer "about half the time" and "in the winter keeping pretty close to the house."</div>
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In 1884, he applied for a veteran's disability pension from the U.S. Government, stating that: "I did not apply for a pension before... because I did not wish to embarrass the Government until it was abundantly able to pay me what I consider I am justly entitled to. The time has now arrived."</div>
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George's forthright statement made under oath before the county clerk in Waukegan was sent to the Pension Office in Washington, D.C.. In his summation George wrote: "If you think I am not entitled to a pension after this statement of what I endured to save this grand Nation from ruin and destruction, please give me a situation in your department and I will be satisfied."</div>
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Indeed, he did become a "pension claim agent," advocating for veterans, and a Justice of the Peace. He was also active in the Grand Army of the Republic, Waukegan Post No. 374, including serving as its commander.</div>
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George and Ann had three children: Frederick (b. 1869), Nellie (b.1875), and Hattie (b.1877).</div>
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Ann passed away on February 17, 1893. On October 6, 1904, George died suddenly while in Burnett, Wisconsin.</div></div>
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<li bis_size="{'x':56,'y':4992,'w':613,'h':36,'abs_x':525,'abs_y':5127}"><span bis_size="{"x":56,"y":4990,"w":601,"h":33,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":5125}" style="font-size: x-small;">George Shatswell's Civil War veteran's pension statement of December 8, 1884, provided most of the detail for this post. (Copy of handwritten statement Dunn Museum files). </span></li>
<li bis_size="{'x':56,'y':5028,'w':613,'h':18,'abs_x':525,'abs_y':5163}"><span bis_size="{"x":56,"y":5026,"w":357,"h":15,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":5161}" style="font-size: x-small;">"Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois," Elijah M. Haines, 1877. </span></li>
<li bis_size="{'x':56,'y':5046,'w':613,'h':18,'abs_x':525,'abs_y':5181}"><span bis_size="{"x":56,"y":5044,"w":475,"h":15,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":5179}" style="font-size: x-small;">"A History of Waukegan Township Lake County Illinois 1835-1850," Al Westerman, 2013.</span></li><li bis_size="{'x':56,'y':5046,'w':613,'h':18,'abs_x':525,'abs_y':5181}"><span bis_size="{"x":56,"y":5044,"w":475,"h":15,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":5179}" style="font-size: x-small;">"Married." <i>Waukegan Weekly Gazette, </i>July 22, 1867.</span></li>
<li bis_size="{'x':56,'y':5064,'w':613,'h':18,'abs_x':525,'abs_y':5199}"><span bis_size="{"x":56,"y":5062,"w":243,"h":15,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":5197}" style="font-size: x-small;">Ancestry.com (census records, city directories)</span></li>
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Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-70078059708545785712017-02-20T15:27:00.006-06:002023-08-29T13:27:57.627-05:00The Bain WagonFor museums, an object's story is essential to preserving and telling a community's history. And sometimes an object has more than one story to tell.<br />
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Take for instance, "The Bain" wagon donated to the Bess Bower Dunn Museum in 2011. The wagon's story encompasses that of an immigrant farmer, local dairy industry, and Libertyville and Kenosha businesses.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Simon Roppelt's "The Bain" wagon, 1910. (2011.18.1)</span></div>
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Simon Roppelt (1876 - 1931) was born in Bavaria, Germany to Christian and Margaret Roppelt. In 1893, at the age of 16, Roppelt set sail for a new life in America on the <i>SS Darmstadt</i>. Shortly after his arrival, he settled in Lake County, Illinois.<br />
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On October 5, 1900, Roppelt became a naturalized U.S. citizen at the county courthouse in Waukegan. John Hertzing and John Bauer (husband of Margaret Herzing) were his witnesses. Both witnesses were also German immigrants and probably related to Roppelt.<br />
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On February 17, 1906, Simon Ropplet married Elizabelth "Lizzie" Herzing (1878 - 1946). The couple settled on acreage in Sections 11 and 12 of Fremont Township to farm the land and raise a family.<br />
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In 1910, Roppelt decided to make the important purchase of a new farm wagon. For many American farmers, the choice was clear: "The Bain" produced by the Bain Wagon Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Bain Wagon advertisement, 1916.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The Bain Wagon Company was one of the most recognized and respected wagon makers in the United States. It began in the late 1830s as Mitchell & Quarles. Edward Bain and George Yule worked for the company. In 1852, Bain took over the Kenosha factory and established the Bain Wagon Company, and promoted Yule to superintendent. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">George Yule</span><span style="text-align: justify;">, had worked his way up from wagon maker in 1842 to president and owner of the Bain Wagon Company in 1911. </span>Yule had emigrated from Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Somers, Wisconsin with his father and siblings in 1840. A number of family members settled in Millburn, Lake County, Illinois, including George's brother James Yule.<br />
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For Simon Roppelt, the closest Bain dealer was the Schanck Hardware Co. on Milwaukee Avenue in Libertyville.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Schanck Bros. store is at the far right in this circa 1907</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">photo postcard view of Milwaukee Avenue in Libertyville. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Schanck building </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">can still be seen today on the northeast corner of Cook and Milwaukee. (M-86.1.649)</span></div>
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Mundelein native, George Schanck (1837-1915), established his hardware store in 1870. The original building burned in Libertyville's fire of 1895. Schanck rebuilt in brick on the same site.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"The Bain" wagon purchased by Simon Roppelt has</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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Like all Bain wagons, Roppelt's came with the company's name stenciled on the side.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Bain Wagon Company painted its logo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">on the side of "The Bain" wagons.</span></div>
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Simon Roppelt used "The Bain" wagon to haul milk cans to the Soo Line Railroad "milk stop" at Harris Road in Grayslake (today's Prairie Crossing depot) for shipment to Chicago. Milk production was a big industry in Lake County and supplied a growing need for milk in Chicago. Daily "milk trains" took dairy farmers' filled milk cans to Chicago in the morning and returned the emptied cans in the evening. Each farmer had a number that was painted onto the milk can for identification.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Simon Roppelt with his team of horses and John Deere sickle mower, circa 1910.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The mower was also donated to the museum (2011.18.11).</span></div>
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Roppelt's "The Bain" wagon was used from 1910 to 1928. The wagon was never repainted and retains its original color and advertising.<br />
<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- Diana Dretske, Curator ddretske@lcfpd.org</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Sources:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Simon Roppelt, 1893, New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Ancestry.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Simon Roppelt, 1900, U.S. Naturalization, Ancestry.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Prairie Farmer's Directory of Lake County," 1917. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Portrait and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens in Racine and Kenosha Counties," 1892 (Chicago: Lake City Publishing Co.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://mitchellcarcollection.com/vehicles/wagons/" target="_blank">Lewis Miller's Mitchell Collection</a> blog</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"<a href="http://wheelsthatwonthewest.blogspot.com/2017/01/george-yule-bain-wagon-company.html" target="_blank">George Yule and the Bain Wagon Company</a>" by David Sneed </span><br />
<br />Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-60609780116806580522016-12-29T16:04:00.000-06:002020-02-21T08:47:40.989-06:00James T. Bacon (1830 - 1895) In the early winter of 1834, citizens of the village Hannibal, New York were stirring about the prospect of moving west.<br />
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James Bacon, who was just a toddler, did not understand the great fuss of the "western enthusiasts" who included his uncle Hudson Bacon.<br />
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By February 1835, a small group of men, including Hudson Bacon, and led by John Bullen, Jr., formed an investment company<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">—</span>the Western Emigration Company. The goal was to establish a "colony" in which its members would aid one another and "mutually share profits and losses in the enterprise."<br />
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This was the start of James Bacon's noteworthy and tragic life.<br />
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The settlers sent a small group ahead to explore sites. In June 1835, a claim was made on the north side of Pike Creek in today's Kenosha, Wisconsin.<br />
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About fifteen families from Hannibal and Troy, New York arrived in the new settlement via the Erie Canal and Great Lakes. Among the settlers was five-year old James Bacon and his father, Peter Bacon, mother Clarinda Trowbridge Bacon, and sister Jane.<br />
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The Bacon family were one of the first settlers in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They witnessed the great surge of emigration to Kenosha and Lake Counties in the 1830s and 1840s. Ships arrived daily with passengers both American and foreign born. Like the vast majority of settlers, the Bacon family took up farming. <br />
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In late 1850, twenty-year old James Bacon purchased property in Lake County, Illinois, striking out on his own as a farmer.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Isaac Winter and Samuel Miller at the site of their 1830s mill pond,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Newport Township Section 33.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This mill site was down the road from James Bacon's homestead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Browe School History, Bess Bower Dunn Museum)</i></span></div>
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Soon after settling in Lake County, James became acquainted with Frances "Fanny" Hinkston, the sister of prominent Lake County citizen, Lorenzo Hinkston. (read <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/08/one-room-school-teacher-fanny-hinkston.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> on Fanny Hinkston).<br />
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James and Fanny wed on May 10, 1855.<br />
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In April 1856, James purchased 80 acres from Tryphena Bingham north of Yorkhouse Road and west of Delany Road in Newport Township (part of today's Waukegan Savanna Forest Preserve). Newlyweds, James and Fanny, settled there. In October, James purchased 19 acres in Warren Township from DeWitt Spaulding.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1861 map showing James T. Bacon's property (highlighted left of center) where he and Fanny lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Allen Spalding's property (below right) is where Fanny Hinkston lived with her sister's family </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">before marrying Bacon. York House School where Fanny taught is also highlighted.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(1861 Lake County plat map)</i></span></div>
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The first tragedy in James's life occurred on April 15, 1858, when Fanny died. She was only twenty-seven. Her ornate tombstone at Union Cemetery is a living witness to James's grief. After his wife's untimely death, James continued to farm the Newport Township property, but also spent time with his family in Kenosha.<br />
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By the fall of 1863, James had re-married. He and his new wife, Maria C., made their home in the same house he had shared with Fanny.<br />
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The Civil War was raging, but James did not enlist until January 14, 1864. Nathaniel Vose of Newport Township recruited him into Company I of the 17th Illinois Cavalry.<br />
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While he was away at war, James's mother died, and his health began to decline. On May 31, 1865, he mustered out of military service due to illness.<br />
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There was one bright spot the summer he returned home<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">—</span>his wife gave birth to a baby boy, Elliott Parker Bacon, born July 8.<br />
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James's happiness again was interrupted when his wife Maria died on January 16, 1872. She was buried at the Spaulding Corner Cemetery (today's Union Cemetery), on Grand Avenue in Waukegan.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Grave marker for Maria C. Bacon (1833-1872), second wife of James T. Bacon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Union Cemetery, Waukegan, Illinois. <i>FindAGrave.com</i></span></div>
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Following Maria's death, James made his way to Indiana where his father was living. There he met the widow, Mary Pugh Freligh (1839 - 1917).<br />
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James married Mary in 1875, and the couple returned to Lake County with James's son Elliott, and Mary's children, Hattie and Charles. The family settled in Wadsworth, and a son, Joseph Blaine Bacon, was born on August 28, 1877.<br />
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Five years later, James and Maria sold their property and moved the family to Thayer County, Nebraska. James continued in farming, but appeared to suffer greatly from "paralysis contracted" since his military service.<br />
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The last ten years of James's life were difficult as he struggled with poor health.<br />
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In 1886, James was considered an "invalid" (probably due to the paralysis) and admitted to the Western Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth, Kansas.<br />
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Soldiers' homes were established to care for the great number of Civil War veterans, who had returned from the war missing an arm or leg, or suffering from wounds that would not heal, or post traumatic stress disorder (which was entirely misunderstood). These homes were a great relief to families who could no longer care for their veteran.<br />
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In 1888, James was transferred to the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (now the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center). It is unclear how long James remained at this facility.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Historic buildings of the former Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where James T. Bacon lived. <i>(Photo by James Rosenthal from the nps.gov website)</i></span></div>
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James Bacon's deteriorating health became public knowledge when on May 31, 1895, the Lake County Clerk issued a "command" to the County Sheriff George H. Brown to "summon James T. Bacon if he shall be found in your County," to appear before the court.<br />
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Mary Bacon filed an application for the appointment of a conservator for the care and management of her husband's real and personal property.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Notice regarding James T. Bacon published in the <i>Waukegan Gazette</i>, June 1, 1895.</span> </div>
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James Bacon appeared in court in Waukegan on June 15, 1895. His attorney made the following statement: "James T. Bacon... is of sound mind and fully able, fit and competent to properly manage and control his properties."<br />
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The court determined that Bacon was a "distracted person." This terminology was commonly used to describe mental illness. Charles A. Partridge was appointed as Bacon's principal conservator. Partridge was also a Civil War veteran, having served with the 96th Illinois.<br />
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James returned to the soldier's home in Milwaukee where he died on December 22, 1895. The cause of death was meningoencephalitis, a condition caused by a virus, bacteria or parasite.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Entry for James T. Bacon in U.S. Burial Register Military Posts and National Cemeteries. Ancestry.com</span></div>
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James Bacon was buried at the Spaulding Corner Cemetery with his first two wives, Fanny and Maria.<br />
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Mary J. Bacon died in Waukegan in 1917 and was buried in Indiana.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">James T. Bacon's gravemarker at Union Cemetery, Waukegan, Illinois with recognition</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">of his service in the 17th Illinois Cavalry. <i>FindAGrave.com</i></span></div>
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<i>Special thanks to Ann Darrow, Waukegan Historical Society, for her Bacon Family genealogy, and Al Westerman for land purchase research. </i><br />
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<b>Sources:</b></div>
Lake County Recorder of Deeds, Waukegan, Illinois.<br />
<i>Newport Township Browe School History</i>, 1918. Lake County Discovery Museum.<br />
<i>Waukegan Township York House School History, </i>1918. Lake County Discovery Museum.<br />
<i>1861 Lake County plat map</i>, L. Gast Bro. & Co. Lith., St. Louis, Missouri.<br />
<i>The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin</i>, Western Historical Company, 1879.<br />
<i>Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War</i>, Brian Matthew Jordan, 2015.<br />
Lake County Court Probate records, James T. Bacon, 1895. Ancestry.com<br />
"James T. Bacon" U.S. <span style="text-align: center;">Burial Register Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862 - 1960, Ancestry.com </span><br />
Veterans Affairs National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/veterans_affairs/Northwestern_Branch.html<br />
"Union Cemetery" FindAGrave.com<br />
<br />Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-22631764765167307152016-08-11T11:29:00.002-05:002023-01-13T14:34:06.215-06:00One-Room School Teacher, Fanny Hinkston<div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":-992,"w":653,"h":18,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":-836}">
A picture is worth a thousand words.</div>
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In the case of Frances "Fanny" Hinkston, her photo was my starting point for uncovering a forgotten life.<br />
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<span bis_size="{"x":267,"y":-520,"w":149,"h":11,"abs_x":736,"abs_y":-364}" style="font-size: xx-small;">Fanny Hinkston Bacon (1831 - 1858)</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":165,"y":-509,"w":182,"h":11,"abs_x":634,"abs_y":-353}" style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo circa 1855. Yorkhouse School History, </span><span bis_size="{"x":348,"y":-509,"w":171,"h":11,"abs_x":817,"abs_y":-353}" style="font-size: xx-small;">Collections of Bess Bower Dunn Museum.</span></div>
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It was difficult to research Fanny due in part to her short life, and that women's lives tended not to include activities that made it into the public record, since they were not allowed to vote or hold office. If not for this photo<span bis_size="{"x":186,"y":-451,"w":13,"h":18,"abs_x":655,"abs_y":-295}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span>so carefully placed by students in the York House School history (written in 1918) and preserved in the museum's collections<span bis_size="{"x":343,"y":-433,"w":13,"h":18,"abs_x":812,"abs_y":-277}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span>we may never have known of Fanny's existence.</div>
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Fanny Hinkston was born in New York in 1831. The date of her arrival in Lake County is unknown, but her relatives were here as early as 1836. One of the county's most distinguished settlers<span bis_size="{"x":598,"y":-379,"w":13,"h":18,"abs_x":1067,"abs_y":-223}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16.8667px;">—</span>Lorenzo Hinkston (1819-1905)<span bis_size="{"x":158,"y":-361,"w":13,"h":18,"abs_x":627,"abs_y":-205}" face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16.8667px;">—</span>was most likely Fanny's brother. Lorenzo settled in Waukegan Township in 1836 in the company of Leonard Spaulding.</div>
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According to the York House School history, Miss Fanny was its teacher in 1849. This would have been during the spring/summer school term. It was generally believed that female teachers could not handle large farm boys, so they taught during the spring/summer term when boys were needed most on the farm and did not attend school.</div>
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The one-room York House schoolhouse was located in Waukegan Township on the southeast corner of today's Greenbay Road and Yorkhouse Road (near Bairstow Avenue).</div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":183,"y":114,"w":317,"h":15,"abs_x":652,"abs_y":270}" style="font-size: x-small;">York House School as it looked in 1855. (BBDM Collection)</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":64,"y":130,"w":288,"h":15,"abs_x":533,"abs_y":286}" style="font-size: x-small;">The plain rectangular building with no embellishments </span><span bis_size="{"x":352,"y":130,"w":23,"h":15,"abs_x":821,"abs_y":286}" style="font-size: x-small;">was </span><span bis_size="{"x":376,"y":130,"w":38,"h":15,"abs_x":845,"abs_y":286}" style="font-size: x-small;">typical </span><span bis_size="{"x":414,"y":130,"w":205,"h":15,"abs_x":883,"abs_y":286}" style="font-size: x-small;">of Midwestern one-room schoolhouses.</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":93,"y":146,"w":498,"h":15,"abs_x":562,"abs_y":302}" style="font-size: x-small;">The school was first built in the early 1840s as a log cabin. This frame structure may have been </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":200,"y":162,"w":27,"h":15,"abs_x":669,"abs_y":318}" style="font-size: x-small;">built </span><span bis_size="{"x":228,"y":162,"w":61,"h":15,"abs_x":697,"abs_y":318}" style="font-size: x-small;">by the time </span><span bis_size="{"x":289,"y":162,"w":194,"h":15,"abs_x":758,"abs_y":318}" style="font-size: x-small;">Fanny Hinkston taught there in 1849.</span></div>
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In October 1850, Fanny was residing a couple of miles south of the schoolhouse with Hannah Hinkston Spaulding (Spalding) and her children. Hannah was the wife of Allen Spaulding and sister of Lorenzo Hinkston. Although no online family histories connect Frances "Fanny" Hinkston to Hannah and Lorenzo, it is believed they were siblings.</div>
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Among Fanny's pupils were Hannah's daughter, Mary (1842 - 1910), and their neighbor (and relative) Emily Hinkston (1844-1931), daughter of Eber Hinkston, Jr.</div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":168,"y":642,"w":347,"h":15,"abs_x":637,"abs_y":798}" style="font-size: x-small;">Emily Hinkston Moulton started attending the York House School </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":161,"y":658,"w":195,"h":15,"abs_x":630,"abs_y":814}" style="font-size: x-small;">when she was five years old in 1849. </span><span bis_size="{"x":356,"y":658,"w":167,"h":15,"abs_x":825,"abs_y":814}" style="font-size: x-small;">She is pictured here about 1865.</span></div>
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Fanny's other pupils included: Thomas, Jerry and Oliver Brown; John, Charles and Elisa Miller; Minerva Buell, Mary Emmons, Augusta Phillips, Lily Putnam, and Mary White.</div>
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According to historian, Wayne E. Fuller, in the one-room schools, it was said that "no school, no matter how well equipped, was better than its teacher." The teacher was a one-person show, setting a good moral example for the students, in addition to teaching Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, and taking on janitorial and administrative duties.</div>
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During her time as a teacher, Fanny met farmer James Bacon. The Bacon family had moved from New York to Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin (just over the stateline).</div>
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On May 10, 1855, Fanny Hinkston married James T. Bacon, the son of Peter and Clarinda Bacon.</div>
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Three years later, in April 1858, Fanny died. There is no record of the cause of death, but she may have died in childbirth. Fanny's obituary stated that she was the sister of "L. Hinkston." This is more than likely Lorenzo Hinkston.</div>
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At just twenty-seven years old, Fanny's hopes and dreams for a life with James had come to an end. Her family's grief is reflected in the symbolism on her tombstone: a weeping willow tree for their sadness, and a tree stump for her life cut short.</div>
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The story of <a bis_size="{"x":98,"y":1438,"w":100,"h":17,"abs_x":567,"abs_y":1594}" href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/james-t-bacon-1830-1895.html" target="_blank">James T. Bacon</a>'s life after the loss of Fanny will be discussed in a future post.</div>
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Sources:</span></div>
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<li bis_size="{"x":56,"y":1544,"w":613,"h":18,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":1700}"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i bis_size="{"x":56,"y":1544,"w":308,"h":17,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":1700}">Waukegan Township York House School History</i>, 1918. Bess Bower Dunn Museum. </span></li>
<li bis_size="{"x":56,"y":1562,"w":613,"h":36,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":1718}"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i bis_size="{"x":56,"y":1562,"w":394,"h":17,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":1718}">One-Room Schools of the Middle West: an Illustrated History</i> by Wayne E. Fuller. University Press of Kansas, 1994.</span></li>
<li bis_size="{"x":56,"y":1598,"w":613,"h":18,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":1754}"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1850 U.S. Census. Ancestry.com </span></li>
<li bis_size="{"x":56,"y":1616,"w":613,"h":18,"abs_x":525,"abs_y":1772}"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Illinois, Marriage Index. Ancestry.com </span></li>
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Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-57113977648020333662016-05-27T15:12:00.002-05:002021-04-13T10:20:51.354-05:00Mother Rudd's Temperance TavernThe historic Mother Rudd House stands on the corner of Old Grand Avenue and Kilbourne Road in Gurnee. The building is a testament to Lake County's settlement period and the county's role in the national Temperance Movement.<br />
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Wealthy Buell Harvey Rudd (1793 - 1880), endearingly known as "Mother Rudd," was Lake County's first woman innkeeper, a temperance supporter, and one of the county's best known citizens. She founded the O'Plain House (today's Mother Rudd House), as a temperance tavern in 1843.<br />
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Temperance taverns developed in the 19th century out of the Temperance Movement, which initially railed against hard liquor, but soon advocated abstinence from all alcohol.<br />
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This social movement was mostly made up of women, who saw the ills of menfolk drinking whiskey, rum and hard cider at all hours of the day. Drinking hard liquor was culturally accepted and widespread, but by the late 1830s, temperance taverns were established as an alternative to public bars where alcohol was served.<br />
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The Temperance Movement, which had its start in New England in the early 1800s, was transplanted to the Midwest by settlers. Among those newly settled Lake Countians were Wealthy and Jonathan Harvey.<br />
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Wealthy and Jonathan had married in 1813 in the prosperous whaling port of New London, Connecticut. They lived in Litchfield, Herkimer County, New York, and later in Summit County, Ohio before coming to O'Plain (now Gurnee) with their 10 surviving children, aged 6 to 29.<br />
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It is generally believed that Jonathan and Wealthy Harvey arrived in O'Plain around 1842, following Wealthy's brothers, Horatio and Abel Buell.<br />
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The settlement of O'Plain was appealing due to its location at the intersection of the Milwaukee Road, and the Fox Lake and Little Fort Road (now Grand Avenue). Innkeepers, grocers, and blacksmiths converged at this point to provide services to travelers and the influx of settlers.<br />
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In 1843, the Harveys purchased 77 acres from Isaiah Marsh at today's Kilbourne Road and Old Grand Avenue. (Kilbourne Road had originally been part of the Milwaukee Road). Along with having acreage to farm, the property included a settlement house built by the New York Land Company, which provided temporary housing to settlers.<br />
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Shortly after their arrival, Wealthy and Jonathan set about building a new home for their family with accommodations for travelers, across the road from the settlement house. It is probable that part of the original settlement house was used in the new structure.<br />
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When planning the new frame structure, a carpenter offered to build it for free if the couple paid for the doors at a rate of $1 for the first door, $2 for the second door, $4 for the third door, and so on. Initially, the Harveys thought this was a good deal until a friend calculated that the last door (there would be 22) would cost them $2,097,152!<br />
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O'Plain was not a dry community, and Wealthy took a stand against her alcohol-serving tavern neighbors, by opening her temperance tavern<span face=""calibri" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span>the O'Plain House. A nearby public bar with one of the worst reputations was Barney Hick's "California Exchange." Hick's place was so raucous that the one-room school situated across the street had to be re-located because "people resented having their children forced to see the drunken men who frequented the tavern."<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Woman's Holy War" an allegorical political cartoon representing the Temperance Movement.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Saint Joan of Arc-styled leader is part of a group of "holy women" destroying barrels of alcohol. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Published by Currier & Ives, New York, 1874. Library of Congress online)</span></span></div>
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Sadly, on January 22, 1845, Jonathan Harvey passed away. He was 55 years old. </div>
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On November 14, 1846, Wealthy married Erastus Rudd. Rudd farmed the land while Wealthy ran the Temperance tavern, which became known as "Mother Rudd's."<br />
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From the start, Mother Rudd's O'Plain Tavern was a place for the community to come together, and was used as a Town Hall for local elections and meetings. At Christmas, Wealthy offered customers elaborate dinners that included oysters and pastries, and entertainment such as sleighing parties.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">and Grand Avenue, showing Mother Rudd House at right. Circa 1910.<br />Courtesy of Warren Township Historical Society.</span></td></tr>
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During the Civil War, the Rudd's were strong Union supporters. Local legend states that the Rudd's barn, and possibly the tavern's basement, were used to hide enslaved people seeking freedom via the Underground Railroad. <div><br /></div><div>In 1862, Erastus Rudd was appointed the town's postmaster. This made their home not only an inn, but also the post office.<br />
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In June 1870, Erastus Rudd died of dropsy (edema). After her second husband's death, Wealthy dressed in black for the rest of her life, and later added a white lace cap on her head. <br />
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Now in her late seventies, Wealthy discontinued operating her home as a tavern. She lived there until her own death on August 8, 1880.<br />
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Wealthy's daughter, Nancy Harvey Mutaw, re-opened the house as an inn, continuing her mother's legacy. According to the Warren Township Historical Society, Nancy operated the inn until about 1894. She died in 1915.<br />
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After Nancy's death, the property was sold to the McCann family, who for a time, had a candy store on the front porch.<br />
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After a series of owners, in 1984, the Village of Gurnee purchased the historic building and three acres. An agreement was made to partner with the Warren Township Historical Society in the restoration and operation of the house. For over 30 years, the Society has exhibited its historical collections and given tours and programs at the Mother Rudd House, while the Village continues to maintain the building and grounds.<br />
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For more information on touring the Mother Rudd House contact the Warren Township Historical Society info@motherrudd.org.<br />
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Sources:<br />
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<i>A History of Lake County, Illinois, </i>John J. Halsey,<i> </i>1912.<br />
<i>A History of Warren Township, </i>Edward S. Lawson,<i> </i>1974.<br />
Warren Township Historical Society, Gurnee, Illinois.<br />
<br /></div>Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-38372125088855808962016-03-08T09:33:00.002-06:002020-06-25T09:39:33.742-05:00Historic Minto Home, 1857 - 2016<div bis_size="{"x":16,"y":8,"w":653,"h":80,"abs_x":485,"abs_y":151}">
Nearly everyday I drive past the Minto homestead on Deep Lake Road in Antioch Township. I have spent years researching and acquainting myself with this historic family of Scottish immigrants through the letters, diaries and objects preserved by the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County (formerly Lake County Discovery Museum).</div>
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The Minto family were some of the earliest Scottish settlers to Lake County, Illinois.</div>
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In the spring of 1840, David Minto, Jane Johnstone Minto, their sons William, John and Robert, and Jane's sister Margaret Johnstone, left Scotland for the United States. They sailed out of Liverpool, England on the ship <i bis_size="{"x":44,"y":495,"w":64,"h":19,"abs_x":513,"abs_y":638}">Fairfield, </i>arriving in New York on May 16th<i bis_size="{"x":316,"y":495,"w":8,"h":19,"abs_x":785,"abs_y":638}">. </i></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":101,"y":711,"w":482,"h":15,"abs_x":570,"abs_y":854}" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">(Ancestry.com <i bis_size="{"x":182,"y":711,"w":301,"h":15,"abs_x":651,"abs_y":854}">New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, "David Minto," </i>[database on-line])</span></div>
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The family lived for three years in a Quaker settlement in Canandaigua, New York, where son, David J. Minto was born in 1841. That same year, cousin George White of Annan, Scotland joined them, and in September married Margaret.</div>
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In the spring of 1843, the Mintos headed west. (George and Margaret would remain in New York an additional year). The Mintos traveled via the Great Lakes, landing at Southport (now Kenosha), and continuing to Lake County, Illinois by ox cart. There, David Minto purchased land east of Loon Lake along today's Deep Lake Road in Antioch Township.</div>
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The land was heavily forested, affording David plenty of timber to build a log house and barn. These structures were built on the west side of Deep Lake Road, north of Grass Lake Road. David and Jane's daughter, Jannet, was born in this log house in 1844.</div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":141,"y":1259,"w":403,"h":15,"abs_x":610,"abs_y":1402}" style="font-size: x-small;">Jane Johnstone Minto with her children, Robert, William, Jannet and David, </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":268,"y":1275,"w":148,"h":15,"abs_x":737,"abs_y":1418}" style="font-size: x-small;">circa 1855 (BBDM 93.45.75).</span></div>
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On March 31, 1844, cousin Andrew White (also living near Loon Lake) wrote to his brother George White (still in New York), and mentioned "David Minto has been rather poorly, but is better again."</div>
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David's health did not improve, and just six years after settling in Lake County, David Minto died on March 17, 1849, aged 45. He left a widow and five children (the oldest being twelve).</div>
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With her sister and cousins living nearby, Jane was supported in this tragic loss.</div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":124,"y":1681,"w":437,"h":15,"abs_x":593,"abs_y":1824}" style="font-size: x-small;">Deed for 40 acres purchased by Jane Minto, September 1, 1849. (BBDM 93.45.113).</span></div>
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By 1857, Jane Minto built her family a new home a short distance from the original log house, which they then used as a granary.</div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":101,"y":2097,"w":482,"h":15,"abs_x":570,"abs_y":2240}" style="font-size: x-small;">Floor plan of the Minto home showing the original house outlined in red and its additions. </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":225,"y":2113,"w":235,"h":15,"abs_x":694,"abs_y":2256}" style="font-size: x-small;">By Katherine V. Minto, 1964. (BBDM 93.45). </span></div>
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In 1869, Jane's son, Civil War veteran David J. Minto, married Susannah Dale Smith from neighboring Millburn. The newlyweds settled into the home with Jane. </div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":181,"y":2424,"w":322,"h":15,"abs_x":650,"abs_y":2567}" style="font-size: x-small;">David Minto and Susie Smith were married on May 20, 1869, </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":156,"y":2440,"w":156,"h":15,"abs_x":625,"abs_y":2583}" style="font-size: x-small;">and lived in the Minto home. </span><span bis_size="{"x":312,"y":2440,"w":216,"h":15,"abs_x":781,"abs_y":2583}" style="font-size: x-small;">(BBDM 93.45.52 and Private Collection). </span></div>
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The first addition was made for the newlyweds by taking part of another home from the neighborhood and adding it to the north side of the house (Dining room, Bedroom, Kitchen and Back Room as shown on floor plan).</div>
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In 1905, when David and Susie's son, David Harold Minto (known as Harold) married Mildred Holloway, a bedroom was added on the south side of the house.</div>
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Eventually, Harold and Mildred lived in the north half of the house, while David and Susie, their daughter Una Jean, and Hannah Smith (Susie's sister) lived in the south portion of the home.</div>
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David J. and son were partners in the family farm. They raised sheep, purebred Shorthorn cattle and Clydesdale horses. </div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":94,"y":2998,"w":496,"h":15,"abs_x":563,"abs_y":3141}" style="font-size: x-small;">Susie Smith Minto's garden at the southeast corner of the house, circa 1905. (BBDM 93.45.77)</span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":158,"y":3255,"w":368,"h":15,"abs_x":627,"abs_y":3398}" style="font-size: x-small;">Minto family pictured at their home in 1898. Seated: Susie and David, </span></div>
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<span bis_size="{"x":181,"y":3271,"w":322,"h":15,"abs_x":650,"abs_y":3414}" style="font-size: x-small;">standing Harold and Una Jean and kittens. (BBDM 93.45.91).</span></div>
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Susie Minto died in 1914 and David in 1915. In 1920, Una Jean left to become a missionary in Angola, West Africa. </div>
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David Harold and his daughter Ruth were the last Mintos to live in the home. Harold died in 1963, and the old home was vacated, and property sold. </div>
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Sadly, in the early morning hours of Friday, March 4, 2016, the Minto home (undergoing renovations, but unoccupied) was destroyed by fire. I was heartbroken when I drove past that morning to find the ashes of the Mintos' home. </div>
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The Minto family lived on the property for 120 years from 1843 to 1963. It was remarkable that the 1857 home remained intact for so many years after the family's departure. </div>
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Thankfully, the stories of this Scottish-American family will continue to be told, because of the foresight of David and Susie's granddaughters, Ruth Minto, Katherine Vida Minto, and Lura Jean Minto Johaningsmeier, who donated the family's personal belongings to the Lake County Discovery Museum (now known as Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County).</div>
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Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-11072762913316952522015-12-23T11:52:00.001-06:002019-10-08T09:24:06.483-05:00Benton Township FamiliesWhen Samuel S. Cole and Grace B. Baird married on May 27, 1859, they united two families, who were early immigrants to Lake County, Illinois and Benton Township.<br />
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James Cole and Nancy Swetnum Cole left Ireland to emigrate with their children to America in 1837. They landed at Quebec, Canada and proceeded to Rochester, New York where they remained for two months before moving to Chicago.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Cole's son, Samuel S. Cole,</i><br />
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Among the items the Coles brought with them to America was a wooden couch. It is remarkable the family brought such a large piece of furniture across the Atlantic from Ireland. Perhaps the couch was considered useful for their journey since it included a storage compartment. The couch remained in the family's possession until it was donated to the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County in 1963.<br />
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<i>brought from Ireland by the Cole Family in 1837. </i><br />
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About 1840, James Cole sold his land in Chicago and moved the family to Lake County, Illinois, settling in Shields Township along Greenbay Road.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>a bear trap used by the Coles while living in Shields Township, circa 1840. </i></span><br />
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In April 1856, Samuel Cole and his father sold their combined farms (201 acres) to the Lake Forest Association. This organization was created by Chicago Presbyterians to establish a Presbyterian college, which today is known as Lake Forest College.<br />
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The Coles took their profits from the sale and moved to Benton Township. Samuel purchased land on the west side of Sheridan Road at the intersection of today's Shiloh Boulevard in Zion.<br />
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In Benton Township, the Coles became acquainted with the Baird family, who had settled there several years previously.<br />
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John Baird and Jean Wilson Baird immigrated from Glasgow, Scotland to the United States with their three children, traveling on the <i>Commodore,</i> and arriving at New York on July 3, 1849.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Passenger list for the<i> Commodore</i> showing the Baird family.<br />
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From New York, the Bairds most likely traveled via the Erie Canal before taking a ship around the Great Lakes to Southport (now Kenosha) Wisconsin, and settling in Lake County, Illinois. Like many Scottish immigrants before him, John Baird had worked in the textile industry, but chose to take up the plow in America.<br />
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The Baird farm was near today's Galilee Avenue and 33rd Street in Zion.<br />
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<i>Photographed circa 1880, BBDM 62.62.4.1</i></td></tr>
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Shortly after settling in Benton Township, John Baird sent a letter to his brother-in-law Thomas Wilson, who was living in New York City. Baird was trying to encourage Wilson to settle in Lake County.<br />
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In a letter dated November 19, 1849, Baird regales about the quality of farm land and the loveliness of Benton Township: "I am very well pleased with this district of country it is so hilly... the water is good & plenty... to dig down for it if you dig in low ground you will get it in a few feet & if you dig in higher ground you have to go farther down but then the water is colder & purer." (Original letter in the collections of the Chicago History Museum). Thomas Wilson did re-settle his family in Benton Township not long thereafter.<br />
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With the Cole and Baird properties relatively close to one another, Samuel Cole and Grace Braid found opportunities to meet through farming activities and Methodist meetings. Within three years of the Coles arriving in the neighborhood, Samuel and Grace were married.<br />
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Samuel and Grace had six children: Mary Jane Ferguson (Robert Ferguson), James S. Cole who died in infancy, Samuel N. Cole, Grace N. Ferry (Hiram W. Ferry), Eva E. Carman (Owen Carman), and John J. Cole who died at the age of 26.<br />
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The Cole farm consisted of 220 acres, a beautiful brick house on Sheridan Road and out buildings. According to Cole's biographical sketch: "All of the surroundings plainly indicate the thrift of the owner, who is regarded as one of the enterprising, public-spirited and representative men of the community."<br />
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Samuel died in July 1895, and left portions of his property to each of his children. Grace died in 1915. Both Samuel and Grace are buried at Lake Mound Cemetery in Zion.<br />
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Samuel and Grace's granddaughter, Elsie Ferguson Bairstow, donated the photographs and objects featured in this post (and other items) to the Dunn Museum in the early 1960s to ensure that her family's immigrant history would be preserved and shared with future generations.<br />
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Diana Dretskehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10869264189532595690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272107330251408114.post-50437190625938167662015-09-17T12:52:00.002-05:002023-05-09T10:32:11.365-05:00Captain Blodgett's RosterAsiel Z. Blodgett (1832-1916) of Waukegan understood the importance of being a good leader.<br />
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During the Civil War, he served as the main recruiter and Captain of Company D, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He prided himself on knowing each of the men in his command.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Asiel Z. Blodgett, print from a glass negative taken in Waukegan, circa 1875.<i> Dunn Museum 2011.0.86</i></span></div>
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While at Wartrace, Tennessee in the summer of 1863, he was given a challenge. An officer from another company asked, "Captain Blodgett, I am curious to know whether or not you have memorized your roster."<br />
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Blodgett replied, "I am of the opinion that I have memorized it."<br />
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The officer bet Blodgett that he could not "call it correctly."<br />
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That day, Captain Blodgett was sitting in front of his tent, using the drummer boy's drum as a writing surface to make out his reports. He had set the drum on top of a camp stool, and with the challenge made, brushed aside his reports.<br />
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He wrote directly on the drum head from left to right, carefully listing every man's name from memory. All 98 men of Company D, plus the eight men who had died in the company's first year of service. Blodgett won the bet.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At the request of Lake County Historian, Bess Bower Dunn, Blodgett's son sent a copy of the "drum head roster."</span></div>
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Shortly after making the roster, the 96th Illinois fought in the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18 - 20, 1863. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the Civil War, and had the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg two months earlier.<br />
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The 96th's Company D lost five men (killed) and 18 wounded. Among the injured was Blodgett, who was wounded twice on September 20. Early in the engagement he was shot in the shoulder and though the wound hurt him greatly, he remained with the command.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Hill Two from the Vittetoe Road. Chickamauga after the battle.<i> Signal Corps U. S. Army</i></span></div>
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According to the Regimental history, on Sunday afternoon, September 20th, Blodgett was "thrown to the ground by the fall of a heavy tree-top which, striking his head and back, rendered him unconscious." This happened in the midst of the battle, leaving Blodgett temporarily within Rebel lines. "When the Union lines advanced in a second charge" the men removed the tree and "he was released from his perilous position."<br />
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The drum was lost in the confusion of battle.<br />
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Blodgett recovered only partially from his injuries and reluctantly had to resign his position in August 1864. Years later, he received an official package from the U.S. War Department. Opening it, he found the drum head on which he had written the names of his men.<br />
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In 1939, Bess Bower Dunn, contacted one of Blodgett's sons about the story. John H. Blodgett replied with a copy of the "drum head roster" and the full account.<br />
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Blodgett's son wrote: "It occurred to me that possibly some of the relatives of the men who were with Dad are still around and if so might be interested in looking it over. If Frank Justice [sic] cares to say anything about it in his paper I would like to have you send me a copy."<br />
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Indeed, Frank Just, the editor of the <i>Waukegan Daily Sun,</i> was very interested and ran a long article on Blodgett and the 96th Illinois.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Excerpt of article written by Athlyn Deshais on Blodgett and the 96th Illinois.<i> Waukegan Daily Sun, 1939.</i></span></div>
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Athlyn Deshais wrote in her article: "They are gone now, those gallant soldiers who marched and fought beneath the banner on which was inscribed the magic figures, 96.... The day of the eye-witness reminiscences belongs to the past."<br />
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For more, read by post on the life of <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2011/04/captain-asiel-z-blodgett-96th-illinois.html" target="_blank">Asiel Z. Blodgett</a> and post on the <a href="http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/battle-of-chickamauga-september-18-20.html" target="_blank">96th Illinois at the Battle of Chickamauga</a>.<br />
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Sources:<br />
"History of the 96th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry," Charles A. Partridge, editor, 1887.<br />
Letters of John H. Blodgett to Bess Bower Dunn, 1939. Bess Dunn Collection, Dunn Museum.<br />
"Capt. Blodgett Honored by His Brave Soldiers," by Athlyn Deshais, <i>Waukegan Daily Sun, </i>1939.</span><br />
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