3 10 35 https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/55a0e7e64c0ccb075e3df492680f08e8.pdf 5f60f72e2d95190a4d2945f9a6a211d1 PDF Text Text 1 J - Ii . the !*■ t FOLLOWING IS a LISO? OF THE NAdES OF CONTRIBUTORS TO A FUND TO DEFRAY THE E'XPENSES OF THE DEERFIELD CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, ® ORATING JEERFIELD ■ 'ii \ v \ ’ :•* 1935 1835 r . "rhich the Honorable .lage of Deerfield, iyer and Mrs Chester .s L. Derby, Frenis DEERFIELD ■ w ■ '•?! I! 4 ms were received; dren and Families i ! •i r CENTENNIAL i: Station if:I sen m *1 ^June 28ih— 2tyih — ■i ■ ! ii leaatic & Pacific Tea Co*) ott Jacob Ott John J* Welch August Si effort Clara M* Merner Fredericka Koebelin RevoWmoFoWeir E*R* Seese R. C. Vilas Dr* J*P* 0* Connell Standard Oil Co* Royal Neighbors A total of $600*76 was collected* EARLY DAYS OF DEERFIELD 1 ill •I 'i I, ME 111 '“li i! Ii 1m '• i 5 U sS ) Garage* I;) i Eottrasch Brothers Willism Koebelin Eugene Becker George Engstrom Theo. j. KnaaJc Mrs J. Rorrrael August Ziesing McGarvie Brothers 1 i �:!•?] —SS-- • t| schoolhouse or the church where the singing school was held . -fj ■K (Singing master standing behind desk, with tuning fork in his hand. Young men and women on benches*, holding books or manuscripts. Girls simper and giggle, The desk is a high and rather crude stand) SIHGING MASTER: CHORUS; (Sing "Mill May" SINGING MASTER; i I ! Are we ready? Very well, let us sing Ho, 10"Mill May," (Gives musical directions, and points at individuals who will sing the different parts) CHORUS* ) Very good, "Lorelei" Very good indeed. How let us try the (Sing;the "Lorelei") SINGING MASTER; Mary; Mary, I would like to hear you sing "Robin Adair," (Sings "Robin Adair" as a solo.) SINGING MASTER: Quartette: (Sing "Seeing Hellie Home SINGING MASTER: CHORUS: You young men in the back seat1* "Seeing He Hie Home How about trying ) It is getting late • We will close by singing that good old song of our fathers "Ein Feste Burg." "iSing "A Mighty Fortress is Our God.") SINGING MASTER: You have all shown much improvement, I wish to commend you for your application and industry. The human voice is one of the greatest of C-od1 s gifts to mankind, and should be cultivated* We will meet again two weeks from tonight, Be sure to bring your music * (Singing master bows, and exits R, Boys and girls pair off, giggling and chatting as they exit R) (CURTAIN) SCENE IX The Underground Railroad Time: An autumn night in 1858 Place: Kitchen of the Lorenz Ott home, west of Deerfield, Harrator; Schoolhouses built, church organizations begun, and the physical and social needs of the families cared for, the early citizens of Deerfield.were free to turn their thoughts to the building of thS 'village , General stores were established at the Corners, first Cole's, then Hoyt's •U {' >! mm rnU' II 111 ' I �and Tupper's grist Kne cht * s wagon and ■blacksmith shop, _ „ J . mill* There was no railroad as yet, and one traveled to Chicago on foot, by wagon, or walked to Port Clinton to take the Chicago and Northwestern train. From.the building of the village, attention turned to the affairs of the nation* Many were the arguments and the discussions around the red hot stove at the general store - which was the scene of old time oratory. Farmers and local politicians scanned the newspapers, and read aloud the speeches of Lincoln and Douglas* The burning questions of slavery, state rights, and the preservation of the Union held the attention of all* Secretly, some of the citizens of our community en­ gaged in helping fugitive slaves to reach places of secur­ ity in the free states and in Canada, The explanation of the lack of information which is available concerning the so-called Underground Railroad is to be found.in the.se­ crecy in which it was enshrouded. The participants in underground operations were quiet people, and their special work was to harbor fugitives and help them toward freedom. The runaways were hidden in churches, barns, and garrets, provided with rest add refreshments, and usually after a day or more conveyed in the night to the house of . the next friend, 'One of the abolitionists who is credited with as­ sisting in the escape of fugitives was Lyman Wilmot, whose name has figured so much in the upbuilding of the community - and in the annals of our town we have the story of one slave - Andrew Jackson - who sought refuge in the homes of Wilmot and Lorenz Ott, his neighbor, and remained there for some time, until he could safely be conveyed northward. (It is after dark, in the kitchen of the Ott home, Lorenz Ott is reading a newspaper besides the kerosene lamp. The mother, and daughter Sarah, age 16, are sewing, and Samuel, age 14, and Eli, 12, are playing A signal is heard out-of-doors - a. checkers . " shrill tremolo like that of an owl, This is followed hy three distinct, hut subdued knocks, Mother and father raise heads, listen intently, hut no one moves) ■. I LORENZ OTT: Who's there? WILMOT (Off stage) l (Ott opens door L, while Mrs, Ott pulls shades, and children draw near, watching fearfully. Wilmot enters, pulling in a black man, quickly and closing door. WILMOT: ' £ "A friend with friends." He has just arrived, after a long hard trip, I fear my house is being watched, and under cover of darkness I brought him across the field, I think he needs rest and foo^. Poor fellow, he was chattering with cold when he arrived. Will you take care of him? �3 Lorenz Ott: Yes, you know you can depend on me, Wilmot, (Wilmot leaves, and the negro is welcomed in a sincere hut subdued manner. The mother hurries to set food before him, assisted by the daughter. Boys and father gather around the colored man, asking ques­ tions) OTT; SLAVE: What is your name? Andrew Jackson, massa.. OTT: Where have you come from? SLAVE: I come from Mississip*, massa? SAMUEL: Jiminy, that's a long way1. SLAVE: It take weeks and weeks, massa, and I was scairt de bloodhoun's dey get me again. SAMUEL: SLAVE: LORENZ OTT: SLAVE: Again? Hoy/ long did it take? Did they ever send the bloodhouses after you? Yaas s'r, one time when I run away, de dawgs dey track me, but dis time a man he tell me de sun rise in de eas* and set in de wes' and if I go nawth, it get colder, and if I go south it get wamer, and dat all I know, and he ah I am1. How did you escape? (Dramatically) My massa, he a kin* man, but he sol me down de ribbah, so I tuk off in de night, I dim out of de window in de dawk* I 'scaped cross de ribbah, and Lor* a massa, it take a powahful long time to come nawth, it s shuah do. I hid in de confields in de day, and I eat de co'n ffom de stalks, and I trabbel at night , Dey tell me bout de undergroun railroad in place dey call ^ontiac, den I stay all night at a doctah's house deah, I trab­ bel on to a preachah's house in a town dey done call Ottawa, and from deah to Massa Ca'pentah's house in the big city. Mass Gapentah, he good man, and done brought me to Massa Wilmot's house. Somebody want to stop us, but Massa. Ca'pentah he bring down de hosswhup on do-ese bosses backs, and lickety-cut, we pass 'em right up* (Laughs heartily, and boys laugh-with him) (Boys gather round him with books and slates, Sarah sews, listening to their talk) Mr. and Mrs, Ott converse in the foreground, about place to hide Jackson, and best manner in which he can be passed on to the next "station" on his north) MRS. OTT: OTT: Would it be safe for him to go on in a day or two? I don't see how it will be possible • You heard what Wilmot said* I am afraid we shall have to keep him here for a while, until those strangers that have been �'--J m -4- BUS w S. hanging about town have left. MRS. OTT: Do you think they are really "nigger catchers?11 OTT: I am not sure , Their actions seem suspicious, They were in Hoyt's store this morning, sitting around the stove with the other men, and asked many questions. They pretend to he here on business, but no one knows what their business is. MRS, OTT: Isn't there some way that he can be passed on safely? OTT: I could hide him under a wagon load of sacks of bran, as 7/ilmot did the last one, but I think that is not necessary. Once in the woods along the river, they can never get him, unless they have bloodhounds, and that they do not have , Y/hen he is fed and rested, I will take him through the woods to the river, on some dark night when the moon is under, and direct him to the next 11 station," He can follow the river for miles, and easily reach there before morning, MRS. OTT: ELI: mi m _•. S! i • i He needs better clothes in place of those rags, Acli, how can people live like that? Maybe, Lorenz, if you have not too much to do you can make him a new suit before he goes. He can sleep in the attic, and perhaps help a little with the work until then, Hoy/, I must go and see if little Clara has been awakened by all this noise, and get a bed ready for him, (Mrs , Ott exits R,, and Mr, Ott comes forward) (Running to doesht even If he stays knoY/s A and can sing , father) Father, Andrew can't read - he know his letters, and he wants to learn. here long enough, can't'I teach him? He B and C already. And, father, he says he SARAH: Oh, father, I wish we could hear him singt I do so love to hear darky singing. Please ask him, father*, OTT: (Smiling) He can 3ing, can he? Perhaps he can pay for his keep that way. Let's hear you sing, Andrew,. m '!! £ m2 » m hi :! 1 V US! y n" m iW m Ip Im ' :i •I (Grinning) I shuah can, massa,- all de aitdeew jagksoe: plantation dey come to heah me sing. But I don' have my banjo wid me heah, (Rises and sings "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," a : l W0 CURTAIN i- SCENE X The Return of the Civil War Soldiers Time: A morning in early'summer, 1865 PLACE: Deerfield corners. i m ! V; ii} ' li i SI ! !i � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deerfield Centennial Pageant Description An account of the resource Photocopy of pages from the Deerfield Cenntenial Pageant script that mentions Andrew Jackson, the runaway slave who supposedly stayed in Deerfield. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Centennial Commission Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1935 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kottrasch Brothers Koebelin, WIlliam Becker, Eugene Engstrom, George Knaak, Theodore J. Rommel, Mrs. J. Ziesing, August McGarvie Brothers Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.016 Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson Anti-Slavery Activities August Sieffert August Ziesing Canada Chicago and Northwestern Train Chicago Illinois Clara M. Merner Clara Ott Cole's General Store Deerfield Centennial Deerfield Centennial Pageant Deerfield Centennial Pageant Scene IX: The Underground Railroad Deerfield Illinois E.R. Seese Eli Ott Eugene Becker Fredericka Koebelin Fugitive Slave Acts George Engstrom Hoyt's General Store J.P. O'Connell Jacob Ott John J. Welch Knecht's Wagon and Blacksmith Shop Kottrasch Brothers Lorenz Ott Lyman Wilmot McGarvie Brothers Mississippi Mrs. J. Rommel Offensive Language Port Clinton Preservation of the Union R.C. Vilas Racist Language Royal Neighbors Samuel Ott Sarah Ott Slavery Standard Oil Company States Rights Stephen Douglas Swing Low Sweet Chariot Theodore J. Knaak Tupper's Grist Mill Underground Railroad William F. Weir WIlliam Kobelin https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/8742b4f8ac41aebb6f2aa3d04a22c4a0.pdf 487d097bae474e8ff4f9c730470e9390 PDF Text Text 'i-tf HISTORY OF DEERFIELD ILLINOIS i by if; i Marie Ward Reichelt 1 DEERFIELD POST, 738 AMERICAN LEGION v.«t for I o' m' ■U ' : N '-T i m si 1 % y GLENVIEW PRESS AUGUST 1928 �HISTORY'OF DEERFIELD f-the lire chief or chief of police and that all firemen be eputized as police officers in time of fire. The increasing demand for suburban property near ihicago, especially along the north shore are factors in ringing about added interest to the “North Shore West” vrea. The completion of the new Union Station was ex­ acted to bring better train service on the Chicago, Mil­ waukee and St. Paul Railway. i The proximity of Deerfield to Highland Park and Lake "orest, and to Ravinia with its grand opera in the sum­ mer, is greatly in favor of the development of a high !rade community. For the women the easy access to he Highland Park Woman’s Club, with its excellent culural programs, to the North Shore Chapter Daughters of he American Revolution (for those who are eligible) f.jth its fine patriotic and educational work, adds to Deerfield's desirability as a residence place. DEERFIELD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION I The Deerfield Athletic Association, of which Jack \lyers is the patron and sponsor, is composed of young hen of the Village who are champion baseball and footl>aThelaDeerfield-Shields High School is second to none Imong suburban high schools. The Deerfield Grammar School is far superior to what it was ten years ago.. The (umerous golf clubs in the vicinity, such as Briergate, Slen Acres, Skokie, Ridge, Old Elm, Exmoor, Onwentsia, Jrernon Ridge, Breakers Beach, Lake Shore, Bob 0 Link Sunset Ridge. ICnollwood, Illinois, Mission Ridge, Sunset valley Northmoor, Illinois, Columbian, Hunters , and Big pen Country Club, leave beautiful open spaces that pre­ en t congestion. There are four churches, one Catholic, and three ’rotestant in Deerfield and a public library The shopping facilities are good for a village. Two fry goods stores, Schells’ and Olendorl’s; three grocery tores and markets, R. A. Nelson's, Henry Gastfield a, Sol Shapiro’s; a butcher shop, of Wm. Steinhaus, the Kay beauty shop, and the Deerfield beauty parlor; three bar­ ber shops, Matt Hoffman’s, Chris Siffert’s and Sc.avuzzo [hree restaurants, Bertolini and Lencioni s, the Blu®‘-)1F£l> knd the Barbecue; two confectionery stores the Brier sweet Shoppe and the Bluebird; two drug stores, T. J. Knaak’s and Laegler and Hout’s; Coleman s Variety Store; an A. and P. store; fruit store; two tailors and ileaners, Vincent Silveri and North Shore Cleaneis, the Deerfield Bakery; two plumbing and heating establishnents William H. Barrett’s and Milton Frantz; two elec;ric shops, William Seiler’s, and William Desmond s; one lardware store, that of Jack Notz; one furnace and tin hop. John J. McMahon’s; two garages, ® Uuhrend’s; four real estate and insurance offices, Chailes Kanschull’s Frank Russo’s, Foxworthy’s, and Vant and KS’s; one delicatessen and confectionery of Edward 31eimehl; three nurseries, Kottrasch Bros., Franken 3ros and F D. Clavey; two lumber and coal companies, the Deerfield Lumber Company, The Mercer Dumber Co and the Lake County Coal and Material Company, the ^aco oil station' the Standard Oil Company plant, the Deerfield Interior Finish Company; ^he Deerfield State Bank; The Deerfield Chevrolet Sales Company, The Bujert Construction Company (water mains and seweis), The Kapschul Davis Construction Company (roads and paving) The Perry Keast Battery Shop; a number of painters and decorators, Ross ShermanMcGarvie, Wil­ liam Kreh, Builders, Ed. Segert John Huhn, R. E and C G Pettis A J. Johnson, Alex Taylor, Cashmore, Thilo Toll’ PrflVik Jacobs C B Foxworthy, W. Aitken; two well’drillers Lincoln Pettis, and Alvin Meyer; two brick­ yardsthe Iliinois and the National; three piano teachers Prances Blederstadt. Mrs. C. G. Pettis, Bertha Wei s, Pehr’s Music Shop, for radios and piano tuning, Knaak’s Music Store, for pianos, radios and victrolas, The Hotel Deerfield; The Herman Frost Newspaper Agency and pool room; one sewing machine agency, that l Alvin Knaak's Deerfield FilUng Station; TreHole’s Deer! Selig Chester Wolf, August Huehl; a shoe l epainng store (AzadTanielen); a Deerfield bakery; a mimeo»roniiino ni,.nt /pau 115R); two band leaders, H. E. Bolie and Frank Russo. Among the dairy companies which have service in Deerfield are the Bowman, Hoh- Page One hundred seven felder, Clover Leaf, Santi. WHT, the radio broadcasting station, is in Deerfield. The Lake County Register of June IS, 1927, had the following item: BOARD WILL REDISTRICT TOWNSHIP West Deerfield to Get New Precinct at Supervisors Meet According to Schedule—Action on Waukegan Delayed Action was to be taken Thursday afternoon at the board of supervisors’ meeting redistricting the Town of West Deerfield, one new polling place to be added. The resolution expected to be passed provides for dividing the Town of West Deerfield as follows: District 1—All that part of West Deerfield lying south of the Half Day Road and the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad tracks. . District 2—All that part of West Deerfield lying south of the Half Day Road and west of the railroad tracks. District 3—All that part of West Deerfield lying north of the Half Day Road. “UNDEKGROUND RAILROAD” ACTIVITIES The first real information of Andrew Jackson, the run­ away slave, Samuel Ott imparts to this generation. In the winter of 1S5S a mulatto, about 28 years of age, came to the home of Lyman Wilmot, the Abolitionist, at night, via the “Underground Railway,” from Mississippi. The lake was frozen, so the blackman could not be sent across to Canada, therefore be had been taken to Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot brought the slave to the Lorenz Ott home to do the chores, so that the children could go to school. Keeping a runaway slave was against the law, but the Abolitionists felt that they were in the right by disobeying an unjust law. Andrew Jackson’s father was a white man, and he worked on his father’s plantation where he saw his white sisters. The plantation owner was more lenient to his son than to his other slaves, and Andrew learned more than his companions, therefore the desire to be free so overcame the lad that it led him to attempt to escape, but bloodhounds tracked him, and he was brought back. In his second attempt at freedom he was successful, and he crossed the Ohio River, where he was sent on his journey n°The man was a good worker, kept the horses clean (he had been a yardman on the plantation) and “made a nice gate of stout wood” which he said would last till the slaves were freed. When that occurred he requested Mr. Ott to destroy the gate, which sentimental resquest was not heeded by the thrifty farmer. When spring came, and the roads were muddy, Andrew Jackson prepared to leave. Lorenz Ott made him a new suit, and gave him money for boat fare, and Lyman Wilmot took him to Chicago, where he escaped to Canada. After reaching the slaves’ haven, An­ drew wrote to his benefactors who had taught him to read and write, of his safe arrival, and that was the last that they ever heard of him. Samuel Ott was fourteen yeais of age at the time, and he recalls much that the negro did while here. _ ., , . From another source it is learned that the slave, An­ drew Jackson’s escape was planned because he had been sold. "My kind master found it necessary to sell me. None of the slaves were given any education as our masters thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a friend told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and that as one goes further south it gets warmer, and going north it gets colder, With this information only, I decided to run away. I' was soon captured for my master had discovered my absence soon after I left, and had sent bloodhounds after me. When taking me back to the planta­ tion my captor tied my arms with a rope, which was fastened to the horse, and made me walk in front of him, while he rode. I loosened the rope and walked along as it I were not trying to escape. Soon I noticed that my master was sleeping', so I dropped the rope, and jumped into the woods. Most of the time I hid during the day, and often my pursuers were so close to my hiding place that I could hear my master giving directions to them. "Several times I was without food for a number of days. Many times I ate raw corn taken from a field when I passed through it. One time I fell in a barrel when I was looking for food, and even though I hurt my hip severely, I man­ aged to limp back into the woods. One day I came to a hut and asked a girl, who was alone, for some bread, which I could see was freshly baked. The child refused to give it to me so I grabbed a few loaves and ran, and when safely hidden, ate them. These are but a few of my hard* ■••j ■4 . ’ j. ;; �Page One hundred eight ships, but I am glad to be with friends now.” A group of Abolitionists lived in Highland Park, and would often come to Deerfield if they knew that the farm­ ers were bringing their crops to town. Often many hot debates took place on what is now known as Antes’ Corner. A great many negroes passed'through Deerfield, but no­ body remembers a direct route which they used when they traveled through this part of the country, according to the little history of Deerfield prepared by the pupils in the grammar school in 1918, under the direction of Clifford Huffmaster, the World War invalid principal. PIONEER LIFE C. A. Partridge in his History of Lake County says: True history records the trials and the triumphs, the failures and the successes of the men who make history. The impulsive power which shapes the course of com­ munities may be found in the molding influences which form its citizens. The list of those to whose lot it falls to play a conspicuous part in the great drama of life is comparatively short; yet communities are made up of in­ dividuals and the aggregate of achievements, no less than the sum total of human happiness, is made up of the deeds of those men and women whose primary aim through life is faithfully to perform the duty that comes nearest to hand. Individual influence upon human affairs will be considered potent or significant according to the standpoint from which it is viewed.” In the record of each man and family may be traced some feature which influenced or has been stamped upon the community life, and these sketches show the strug­ gles, the labor, and the successes, or the failures, that engrossed their lives. “A few yet remain, whose years have passed the al­ lotted three score years and ten, who love to recount among the cherished memories of their lives their remi­ niscences of early days in Lake County.” Clergymen, physicians, educators, home makers, farm­ ers, lawyers, leave their influence upon the community development in a way that it is difficult to estimate. Their faith, energy, courage, self-sacrifice and devotion attest the results which they have achieved in Deerfield township. N Judge V. V. Barnes, a former Deerfield man, attorney and counsellor at law in Zion City, said: “Few things are as interesting as the annals of states and communities and the time will come when whatever may be written or preserved will be considered as all too meager. From such events and records the historian weaves his most edifying and absorbing tale. Already Lake County has furnished many events of in­ tense and peculiar interest and men and women have been permitted to lapse into silence whose knowledge and words should have been preserved for those to come. In fact, Lake County has been and is still rich in the possession of characters and events of untold value and in so far as possible we should take heed to preserve so rich a heritage. It strikes me it would be well to con­ sider this subject deliberately with a view to preserve for others the things so closely associated with the lives and welfare of the people.” Martin C. Decker, a former Deerfield teacher who wrote the history of Fremont Township for Dr. Halsey’s history, said: “The history of a community is to a large extent embodied in the lives of its great men. There are a few history making changes that are due to natural causes, most of them being if not entirely at least greatly influenced by human agency.” Of the pioneer mother little is known except tradition, but that she bore and reared children under incredible conditions and hardships, that she was a- homemaker and housekeeper with no labor saving devices, and few conveniences, and that every step in garment making and food production was her job, is well known. Large fami­ lies were common before the days of Margaret Sanger’s doctrine, and the ingenuity of the mother kept them clothed and fed in spite of drouth, flood, army worm, and hail that destroyed their crops. Cornmeal mush was the daily diet. Milk was used for making cottage cheese but the cream was reserved for butter making, and this product so rich in vitamins, (not known before this gen­ eration) was sold to buy sugar. One neighbor was selected to go to Chicago to make purchases for the entire community. Ox teams were used sometimes, and at others the packsaddle of a horse was utilized. It is told that the first James Duffy walked to Chicago to buy a bog of flour and carried it home on Uis back. Buck11 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD wheat cakes with sorghum were a luxury, and quaii prairie chickens, and partridges were had so often that they were not the luxury that they are to this generation A cheese similar to Limburger was made by the Germans by forming cottage cheese into little balls, placing them in a crock and allowing them to ripen. The fluid that formed around the balls was poured off frequently ami the cheese washed with fresh milk. Fish, principally suckers ll/z feet long were in all of the streams. Water for household purposes was dipped out of the ponds on the land with buckets. Flies and mosquitoes tormented the people and spread disease, malaria, ague, and ty­ phoid. Screens or netting on windows were unknown Wells dug were six feet deep. Candles made by the women from mutton tallow and cotton picking dipped, and also made in molds, were the lights used. Later a two wick lamp, without a chimney in which raccoou and lard, or camphene oil was burned made a two candle power light. These lamps were on metal standards with glass bowls. The third era was the kerosene lamp of tin, painted green, with a polished tin movable reflector, which hung on the door frames. Glass hanging lamps with glass prisms or gaily painted decorations were later parlor luxuries. “Student lamps” of metal with a tall slender chimney on each side, with two bowls of oil and circular wicks were a great im­ provement for the sight. A Chicago directory oi’ IS GO advertises lard oil, lunar oil, kerosene binnacle oil, Mayville coal oil, alcohol, camphene, and burning fluid. Clothes were made for the men by the women of the family after they had been cut by the tailor, Lawrence Ott. In this vicinity the cloth was not woven for the men’s suits but was bought in Chicago, and sewed by hand with a very heavy black thread. The women did the sewing after the children were in bed. The spinning wheels which the German and Alsatian settlers brought from Germany and Alsace were used to make the yarn for stockings, mittens, and large scarfs which took the place of overcoats. Mr. George Rockenbach has one that his mother knitted. After the log house era frame houses were erected. These were very simple structures, built on the ground without cellars under them, but with board instead of dirt floors. A few had vegetable cellars. The first frame house at the west end of the township that was at all pretentious was the one built by Christian Schwingel. now owned by Mr. Kellogg, of the Kellogg Switchboard Company, known as the Grove Farm, and occupied by E. L. Vinyard. It had a pantry, a cistern, and a pump on the porch, which was the height of luxury. Good houses began to be built in 1850, and many are still in use. Courtship in the early days of our township was con­ ducted under difficulties. In a one room log cabin that contained the beds of the parents and seven or more children, the stove and other household furniture, there was little privacy, so courting days were short. The young people usually took walks in the woods. The amusements were few. Sliding on the ice in winter, at­ tending spelling, writing and singing schools, and among the young men engaging in feats to show strength such as lifting barrels of flour, and wrestling were among their pastimes. Fist fights sometimes decorated their drab, dull lives, as when the boys of the east and of the west prairies met in swimming in the Desplaines River seventy years ago, and forty years ago when the Everett gang met the Deerfield one. One pioneer said, “When I was young we folk held our dancing parties in any house that had three rooms, and if there was but one room we moved the stove and bed out of doors, brought our fiddler and had our dance. When it was over we moved the stove and bed back in place and returned home in one sleigh loaded with plenty of straw.” DEERFIELD FAMILIES Genealogy is an interesting study, for when one con­ siders how rapidly one’s ancestors multiply (as well as one’s descendents) two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on, until one finds that at the time of the discovery of America, about fourteen genera­ tions back, the average American now living has 1G.384 ancestors in a single ancestral generation. A good geneology describes the historical roots of the family tree, it gives names, dates, places and family connections, ac­ cording to the Eugenical News of April, 1923. The descendonts of William Ward of Sudbury, king- 1 . ■: : || ■: 1 31 . : ?! 141 I i �•*• HISTORY OF DEERFIELD HISTORY OF DEERFIELD .nne css, iter* lol, oyt, liar last ago age ork, iths, war, Her i to the dislife, ning car! the ions, wasr the :d to itury 2d an minBert lbert i the l-Ioyt cliarii for anges e. •pi ing .laced •.re of tliers. work, orials .ining ! time thday d the )f the junior merly :• east .r Oak candy graves d died nd six o died seven muary lonths. 1870, nd the he age vife of age of ;he age mother hty-one ioyt is in New in the .lildings le most a high ront of :om the toys are P /'V, IIS V Millen, Brand, Wilmot, Easton and Gutzler houseswre among others made for this old fashioned occiipation of looking through a double glass on a handle, whi<sh U, object stand out from the flat surface of the picture m true perspective. One of the most amusing pictures " as uuu OC the Hoyt family at a picnic The men all won1 £ silk liats and looked very much dressed up to be sitting on the ground around an outdoor feast spread on the grass. _ , The George Vetter store that was burned ivas also among the photographs. ]i?!?nJun?i 2S,ii1S45’ and dlecl when thirteen and onealf months old. Roswell 0., born July 12, 1S47 was married November 20, 1870, to Miss Miranda C Adams Pnw£eshes A Hoclgkiss' Delta County, Colo. Dwight T,?nie<i bi°oS Aug,llst 16, 1S'49- married Lizzie Sclioles Ho i9t 1881, and resides in Evergreen Colo. He was Fl?Pn PH,areSreSeiitatlVe t0 the Colorado Legislature E1>za. born January 19, 1852, was married Decem?eiQ 1 to Edwin Kittell, and their home is now in South Chicago. Warren Henry, born October 6 IS55 is now a resident of Deerfield. The children older than Deerfield "'6''e b°''n ,n New York and those younger in . THE WILMOT FAMILY No history of Deerfield could be complete without soml mention of the Wilmot family which played sue a°prominent part in the affairs of the yet of this large family no member remains ^eie. The Portrait^rid^BiograpALcaJ^lhiun„oJ^akeCouty ay mmssss Hannah (Bunn^f WUmo, both natives o£ Co,^cUenl. “Mr. Wilmot was engaged in farming in the town of inrhirfamnvell,benrC?lmty' N' Y- »»«! «S7. whenieav' Uig liis family, lie first came to Lake County on a nrn<? ofMa? t0^rr!V,ng at WS ctestination on the 2011®day of May. Jesse, Ins younger brother, had preceded him to Lins county in 1S35, and had located in whit is now the town of Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot visited 1 is brotheT an traveled over Northern Illinois for several nmUths ami m November following returned to New York In the fall o 1840. lie emigrated from that state to Lake ^ tl1 1ils,.famiIy' coming by team to Buffalo where lli1?nSf%r?d tie teams t0 a steamboat and took pas9,UCagi)\ ArrivinS at that port they drove to Deerfield, their future home. In February 1S41 lie nnr chafed one hundred and sixty acres of wild land to • which he afterwards added until he now has two hun dred and forty acres. His farm is largely prairie and }l.S1,iUa ed f0?4»?ect1011 32, where he has made his home mia? ® Past fifty-°ne years. It is considered one of the most valuable farms in Deerfield, and the owner is one o. the most successful and leading agriculturists of Lake County. In political sentiment he fs an earnest RepubhcEui. In early life he was an anti-slavery Whig and inof i”1 fu J accord with the original Abolitionists.^ He ion1 l!8v!te at the, l)residential election of 1840 by reason of lug removal to the West that year. When the ShAUfb 1ian pai!ty.was organized he was one of those who took part in its formation in Northern Illinois He has never been a seeker for public office and his served firof In minor i?cal Positions. He was Moderator at the first town meeting held in Deerfield, and has served as Assessor for that town. During the draft he accepted £wnVehy l^T\lar P°sition of enrolling officer for liis threatene(LhlCh ^ made enemies and even had his life i} I dings, while one, ^tieth anniversary of brated his ruby wedding oldest of the five brothers, his marriage. Stephen B., ed Miss Betsy Clauson, was born February 20,1798, married mis ^ s^euty.nine and died March 14, 1■ » horn November 23, years; Loly, the on y dang liter was bo:ra»o 179 9 and died July 14, ISO4, Amos, WoS: -dded Betsy effort and tod.^187 8. at the .lv age of seventy-six years A 1 St. Paul, Minn., having lollg 1S04, married Olive Snutn, ana in March, 1SSS, at the age is noW eighty-five been a practicing piys ’ tywas born September 13, years of age; Jess, the yoange jT’ th Lutlier, and is now living at°the a°ge of eighty-one years in Carroll County, l Mi"Lyman Wilmot, whose nMM^heads thta record, having lost his father “wS obliged to mother being in P°or and make his own leave home at the early W ^ & farm hand He was way in the world. He g comforts and no obliged to work bard, enjoy limited to luxuries. His in the a ^w months’ aUendance arrived at the age of twentywinter season. yh hhad accumulated enough of this five he found that i « himself and was marworld’s goods to ^t1U? i^s native town to Miss Clarissa ried March 17, 1831, m his naue^ (PoPter) Dwight, a daughter f dsor groome County, N. Y Dwight. ?he was born in W desCendant of John Dwight ot "Dedham,1 Mass!, 'tlfe founder of the prominent New England family of na»te. wUh a ,ar?, ■■ ’ ;■ ' 1 “Mr. Wilmot and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. They celebrated their ruby, or sixfl. ., ... De h, wedding anniversary in March of the present year are well preserved and enjoy, as they deserve7 the high regard of all who know them. They have reared aIai*f family of children, of whom nine are living and rll,eS fUSelUl fnd Jesp.ected members of society.’’ t s°hool and Wilmot road were named for Lyman Wilmot who was a leader in and exampl? to the fleldn}unity* . ^ls ?ame should ever be honored in Deerfield by retaining it on school and road. No such fancy S^mngless name as Sunset Lane should replace Wilmot foad. Lyman Wilmot, born July 22, 1806, died Nov 12 181?' ,1^‘n 4lte-’i Ci'nriS.So Dwight Wilmot, born June if* n6? A?t?‘ 10' 1S99- They “d heir daughter field Cemetery!11'6 S°n' Walt6‘'' are huried iu th« W mmmmm i Siffipssisi THE TUPPER FAMILY il^«JSisaSSi ! I ( at the I i C c i �’ History ! of deerfield Page Eighty-three i i Uie observance of the centennial under present than under normal conditions. We must have knowledge of the thrilling story of service, of high and lol'ty accom­ plishment of the pioneer citizens of Illinois. They chal­ lenge us to measure up to the responsibilities of our forefathers. The torch guiding all liberty loving people today is Abraham Lincoln. Of all the men the world has produced he is the exemplification of democracy. But the luster of his. life should not dim that of other great lives, such as George Rogers Clark, U. S. Grant, Nathaniel Pope and Shadrack Bond. An opportunity will be given to revive the spirit of Illinois so that it will be felt all over the state, working with war activities. “Not without thy wondrous story, Illinois, Can be writ the nation’s glory.” The Lake County Register Correspondent reported: The entire intellectual portion of the community Hocked to the school Thursday evening to hear a big man talk on a big subject at the P. T. A. meeting. Wallace Rice, composer of several ballads and a number of pageants for the Illinois centennial celebration, as well as designer of the centennial banner, gave an interesting talk on the wonderful history of the State of Illinois, which challenges that of any of the other states in the Union. A group of pupils of the upper grades, under the direc­ tion of Miss Lela Glyncli, sang patriotic songs. The girls of the penny lunch committee reported a profit of over $9, which sum will be used to buy a service flag for the school. Mrs. Supple appointed the committee. Such stories as the following were written by the pupils and combined in a book that contains photographs of log cabins and schools and is in the Deerfield school. 1•' i r ; ; 5 ; j } ■ : \ ! DEERFIELD Deerfield was so named after the numerous deer that roamed in this locality, which was the highest place between the Des Plaines river and Lake Michigan. The early roads were located in about the same places as they are now, with the exception of one which for­ merly extended from Mr. Reay’s residence to Mr. Lidgerwood’s residence. These roads were very narrow and crooked. The bridges were built in an entirely different manner than they are at present, the foundation being made by laying saplings over a pile of brush. They were commonly called “corduroy bridges” because of their striking resemblance to that kind of material. The peo­ ple traveled by land, in what were called “prairie schooners” or by water in large “flat boats.” The nouses were crudely built, many of them being log cabins, but they served their purpose very well. As early as 183 C almost all of the Indians had gone to reservations, although a few of them still remained. Some would travel in this vicinity often begging, and others from northern Wisconsin would come to receive payments on the land they had sold to the white settlers. Many relics such as arrow heads and hatchets have been found by some of our local citizens. Our school district No. 109 was organized in IS60. The first school was situated opposite Mr. Bert Easton’s farm* it was very Crudely built of rough boards. The first town school was built on Anderson’s corner. Con­ veniences such as we have new were then unknown. The furniture and other articles of these small schools was very poor. The building that stood on the corner was moved in 1903 to its present site; this school burned down and a new one was erected in 1913. In 1S60 a runaway slave, called “Andrew Jackson.” came through Deerfield, where he stayed with Mr. Lorenz nH. who lived where Mr. Orman Rockenbach now lives. Tat'er he lived with Mr. Lyman Wilmot until the Civil War was over. He had many hardships to endure while hP was with cruel masters, but later he was taught to rpad and write, and in return he showed the white - npnnle how to tie com with a stalk of corn and many other methods of farming. This is one incident of the onii slavery activities. n,ir service flag contains forty-five stars representing J: nf our best young men who are willing to fight ' S°me are proud of the fact that Deerfor our rountry We many to this service. Not only are fie!d k*;’ given billing to fight, but those who must stay I ii \ \ . . v i l i fromTTt Jf cam in- the “World Conflict;” inS Uncle Sam LILLIAN ANTES. §p' • Written for Deerfield school in 1918 at Illinois Centennlal celebration Material was secured from Lillian’s grandfather, merchant. Christian Antes, an early Deerfield TELEPHONE SERVICE The first telephone call that went out of Deerfield was made by Dr. T. L. Knaak from his drug store on Deer­ field Road to his son, Theodore J. Knaak, who was in Weinberger’s Drug Store on Chicago Avenue and Wells Street in 189S. This r_ was the first public or private telephone in the village. Ten subscribers were necessary for the installation of service. The Chicago Telephone Company brought its lines into Deerfield in January, 1903. The first office was in Knaak’s old drug store on Deerfield Road. In 1911 it was moved upstairs. Different members of that family assisted in the service. Among others who were em­ ployed were Ralph Peterson, Anna Petersen, Ella and Ralph I-Iorenberger, Cora Cooksey, Nina Knigge, Ray­ mond Goodman, Gertrude Gastfield, Martha Hagi, Peter Perry Florence Goodman, Amelia Petersen, Helen Schinleber. In 1913 the exchange was moved to the Antes building at the' corner of Deerfield and Waukegan Roads, and a Mr. Smith had the exchange. Raymond Goodman served as a night operator. In 1914, Mrs. Frances Garrity took charge of the Deerfield exchange, and when one board was all that was necessary for the needs of the village, with one operator, a service second to no other was maintained. So faithful was she in the discharge of her duties, and so remarkable was her memory of calls made, that if an attempt had been made by a subscirber to get a desired party, and was unsuccessful, because of the absence of the one called, that when the caller indicated her return home by telephoning someone, Mrs. Garriety would say, "Mrs. —-------- has been trying to get you,” and thus complete the call hours afterwards. The winter of 1917, when the snow was so deep that not a wheel turned on the roads for three days, and it was necessary to close the school because of the difficulty to get children from the outskirts of the district to school, the president of the school board called up each family that had a telephone, on three successive evenings, to announce that no school could be held because two or the teachers had been unable to return from Wau• conda, and Mrs. Garrity on her own initiative, called each family that had children in school, without waiting for numbers to be requested, as each call was com­ pleted, thus each family was notified without delay. Many other such instances could be related of her quick wit and keen sympathy in times of disasters and accidents, when help was needed, in securing aid of different kinds. Mrs. Garrity is still giving the same amount of time to the service and has had as her main assistants on the board her mother, Mrs. Anna Curley Flood, and her daughter, Miss Marjorie Garrity. No eight-hour day was observed by Mrs. Garrity. Her duties frequently kept her at the board for twelve hours. In 192 4 a second board was put in operation and a regular assistant was hired. In 19 27 a fourth switch board was installed in order to take care of the increasing population. There are now 4 80 subscribers. Federal Tax Off Telephone Calls Removed After MidNight-, July 2, 1924, and An Increased Use of Wires Expected. “After midnight on Wednesday, July 2nd, and toll on long distance telephone messages are free from the federal tax, which has been in effect since April 1, 1919,” states Commercial Manager Judd this morning, in an announcement issued July 1. “This tax of 5 cents on each message of from 15 to 50 cents, and 10 cents on each message of over 50 cents, added materially to the cost of telephoning, especially on toll messages over moderate distances,” said Manager Judd, “and its removal will permit more liberal use of the service without adding to the cost.” Mr. Judd stated that the telephone company, anticipat­ ing an increased use of the toll service, particularly to nearby points, has provided additional equipment and personnel to meet the demand. Direct Telephone Wire to Deerfield—Express Method Installed and Is Great- Convenience—How To Call. To quicken the telephone service between Highland Park and Deerfield the telephone company recently in- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. 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Title A name given to the resource History of Deerfield Illinois Description An account of the resource Photocopy of pages from The History of Deerfield by Marie Ward Reichelt pertaining to the Wilmot family. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Reichelt, Marie Ward Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Glenview Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/1928 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.015 Abolitionism Adelia H. Wilmot Gutzler Adelia Wilmot Agriculturalist American Civil War American Civil War Battle of Old Lake Louisiana American Civil War Sherman's March to the Sea American Civil War Union Army Enrolling Officer American Legion Deerfield Post 738 Amos Wilmot Anderson's Corner Andrew Jackson Antes' Corner Anti-Slavery Activities Asahel Wilmot Bert Easton Betsy Clauson Wilmot Betsy Crawford Wilmot Broome County New York Buffalo New York Canada Carroll County Missouri Chicago Illinois Christian Antes Clarissa Dwight Wilmot Clifford Huffmaster Colesville New York Colorado State House of Representatives Colorado State Legislature Connecticut Dedham Massachusetts Deerfield Assessor Deerfield Grammar School Deerfield Grammar School Principal Deerfield Illinois Deerfield School District #109 Deerfield Town Hall Meetings Deerfield Township Deerfield Underground Railroad Activities Deerfield World War I Service Flag Delta County Colorado Denver Colorado Des Plaines River Dwight Porter Wilmot Edwin Kittell Elizabeth Luther Wilmot Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell Evergreen Colorado Farm Hand First Presbyterian Church Glenview Press Greenwood New York Hannah Bunnel Wilmot Harriet Wilmot Highland Park Illinois Hiram R. Bennett History of Deerfield Hodgkiss Colorado Humeston Iowa Illinois Centennial Celebration Illinois Republican Party Israel Dwight Jesse Wilmot John Dwight Lake County Illinois Lake Michigan Levi Davis Wilmot Lillian Antes Lizzie Scholes Wilmot Loly Wilmot Lorenz Ott Lyman H. Wilmot Lyman Wilmot Marie Ward Reichelt Mary Wilmot Bennett Miranda C. Adams Wilmot Mississippi Native American Reservations Native Americans New York Northern Illinois Ohio River Old Lake Louisiana Olive Smith Wilmot Orman Rockenbach Philip Gutzler Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County Prospecting Tour Republican Party Roswell O. Wilmot Ruth Reichelt Pettie Samuel Ott Sarah A. Hodgkins Wilmot Sarah Esther Hunter Wilmot Sarah Porter Dwight South Chicago Illinois Springfield Illinois St. Paul Minnesota Steamboat Stephen B. Wilmot Steuben County New York Union Army Union Army Fifty-Fifth Illinois Regiment Union Army Forty-Seventh Illinois Infantry Virgil Wilmot Walter Kittell Warren Henry Wilmot Whig Party William T. Sherman Wilmot Farm Wilmot Road Wilmot School Windsor New York Wisconsin World War I https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/fd8797587c9cfaf7379cc87a1590babd.pdf 4ac0612861aa7a8dd52c855d0ac5c899 PDF Text Text hUp://nsls-iol2.auto-graphics.com/wp2000/Fulldsp.asp?myses=67... Deerfield Public Library / Full Display Impact Mgrt b N LINE V;-gQ P.&CTM. wmauto-graphics.com Full Display — North Suburban Library Database <All Headings> "freed men's inquiry" - Title 2 of 2 C • STS! $ WWW Use Labeled Form«_-J;; . j First ji] ill Last Bottom Format: Book System Nbr.: ocml5241426 Author: Howe, S. G. (Samuel Grid lev). 1801-1876. The re lit geos from slavers' ill Canada West [microform 1: report to the Froodmeu's Inquiry Commission / by S.G. Title: Howe. Publisher: Date: Description: Notes: Notes: Subject: Subject: Co-Author: Wright & Potter, 1864. iv, 110 p.; 24 cm. lithe original in the Library of Congress. Copii Microfiche. Louisville, Ky.: Lost Cause Press, 1971. 4 microfiches : negative : 11x15 cm. “Slavery -Trilled States. Afro-Americans -Ontario. United States. American Freedman's Inquiry Commission. Holdings ALL UBS: Trinity Intel-national University: E450.H85 1971a Trinity International University: Microfiche E450.H85 1971a Top'll First Jll ll] Last Auto-Graphics, Inc. Pomona, California. © 1995 - 2002 All rights reserved. lofl 4/17/02 11:23 AM �hltp://nsls-iol2.auto-graphics.com/\vp2000/Fulldsp.asp?myses=67... Deerfield Public Library / Full Display Impact Z -r; c 0 N 1.1N F v/eb PACTra .aulQ-graphscs.com Full Display — North Suburban Library Database <AHHeadings> "firedmen's inquiry" - Title 1 of 2 ; \ v \ ' 1 VAV'.V Use Labeled Form«„Jj, . . ‘ . / ; 'Mi . First jgl ill Last Bottom [z_ Format: System Nbr.: Book ocni00006087 69018540 //r833 LCCN: Howe. S. G. (Samuel Grid lev). 1801-1876. Author: Uniform Title: Refugees from slavery in Canada West Report to Hie Freedmen's Inuuirv Commission. 1S64 : Die refugees from slaver.1 in Canada West / S.G. Howe. Title: Publisher: Date: Description: Scries Title: Notes: Notes: Subject: Subject: Co-Author: Amo Press, 1969. iv, 110 p.; 25 an. American Negro, his history and literature Reprint of the 1864 ed. published under title: The refugees from slavery in Canada West. Includes bibliographical references. Fugitive slaves —United States. Blacks -Ontario. United Slates. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. Holdings ALL UBS: Trinity International University: E450.H85 1969 Others Kendall College: 301.45196 H856 4EB33Ei51^ Top z| First iSjjil Last Auto-Graphics, Inc. Pomona, California. © 1995 - 2002 All rights reserved. lofl 4/17/02 11:23 AM � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. 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Title A name given to the resource The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West Description An account of the resource Printout of webpage information for the book The Refugees from Slavery in Canada West by S.G. Howe through the LIAISON: Libraries in Association catalog. 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S fMf- % 5<I* 0 J • is' 0' fl/y � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deerfield Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Deerfield Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notes Description An account of the resource Handwritten notes documenting newspaper articles to look into. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Public Library Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.013 Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune Cindy Wargo Deerfield Public Library Handwritten Notes Lyman J. Wilmot Obituary https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/b45ed7911af2b7a51caa61bae887fc6e.pdf f1b3316d98ad27da3d3200d57ab72a22 PDF Text Text Source, tut'UJU) DEERFIELD “Underground Railroad" Activities Fugitive Slaves Identified *43 3 > jri vO o tei z VJ 3 ■\J 3 M 3 <o vj 3 > X> ■o 30 >- OH CO t-l o 3 <c c~> JO JO rx: O 2 ■"V The first real information of Andrew Jackson, the runaway slave, Samuel Ott. imparts to this generation. In the winter of 1858 a mulatto, about 28 years of age, came to the home of Lyman Wiimot, the Abolitionist, at night, via the "Underground Railway," from Mississippi. The lake was frozen, so the black man could not be sent across to Canada, therefore he had been taken to Deerfield. Mr. Wiimot brought the stave to the Lorenz Ott home to do the chores, so that the children could go to school. Andrew Jackson's father was a white man, and he worked on his father’s plantation where he saw liis white sisters. The plantation owner was more lenient to his son than to his other slaves, arid Andrew learned more than his companions, therefore the desire to be free so overcame the bd that it led him to attempt to escape but bloodhounds tracked him, and he was brought back. In his second attempt at freedom he was successful, and he crossed the Ohio River, where he was sent on fits journey north. The man was a good worker, kept the horses clean (he had been a yardman on the plantation) and "made a nice gate of stout wood" which he said would last till the slaves were freed. When that occurred he requested Mr. Ott to destroy the gate, which sentimental request was not heeded by the thrifty fanner. After reaching the slaves' haven, Andrew wrote to his benefactors who had taught him to read and write, of his safe arrival, and that was the last that they ever heard of him. Samuel Ott was fourteen years of age at that time, and he recalls much that the Negro did while here. From another source it is learned that die slave, Andrew Jackson's escape was planned because he had been sold. "My kind master found it necessary to sell me. None of the slaves were given any education as our masters thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a friend told me tliat the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and that as one goes further south it gets warmer, and going north it gets colder. With this information only, l decided to run away. I was soon captured for my master had discovered my absence soon after 1 left, and had sent blood­ hounds after me. When taking me back to the plantation my captor tied my arms with a rope, which was fastened to the horse, and made me walk in front of him, while he rode. I loosened the rope and walked along as if I were not trying to escape. Soon 1 noticed that mv master was sleeping, so J dropped the rope, and jumped into the woods. Most of the time I hid during the day, and often pursuers were so close to my hiding place tiiat I could hear my master giving directions to them. U - YIul tLruCc r cun^i fads'f-j-J!; d/Jx/ws y £6U%SU~J0&V+* LAJlSCenS/n (c.,3.000) "Several times I was without food for a number of days. Many times I ate raw com taken from a field when I passed through it. One time I fell in a barrel when I was looking for food, and even thought I hurt my hip severely, I managed to limp back into the woods. One day 1 came to a hut and asked a girl, who was alone, for some bread, which I could see was freshly baked. The child refused to give it to me so 1 grabbed a few loaves and ran, and when safely hidden, ate them. These are but a few of my hardships, but I am glad to be with friends now. "A group of Abolitionists lived in Highland Park, and would often come to Deerfield if they knew that the farmers were bringing their crops to town. Often many hot debates took place on what is now known as Autes' comer. Slaves were also seen in Deerfield, but it is not known in which direction they went. (Source: Marie Ward Reichelt for Deerfield Post 738, American Legion H33. 081 Glermew Press, August 1928, p. 107-8.) DEERFIELD In 1860 a runaway slave, called "Andrew Jackson," came through Deerfield, where he stayed with Mr. Lorenz Ott, who lived where Mr. Orman Rockenhach now lives. Later he lived with Mr. Lyman Wiimot until the Civil War was over. He had many hardships to endure while he was with cruel masters, but later he was taught to read and write, and in return he showed the white people how to tie com with a stalk of corn and many other methods of farming. This is one incident of the anti­ slavery activities. (Source: Marie Ward Reichelt for Deerfield Post 738. American I.egion #33, 081 Glenview Press, August 1928, p. 83.) Andrew Jackson This is a depiction of the fugitive sla\e. Lorenz Ott (1803-1863) Dvara ccurtesy oj The (jto Cnumy Musourn. VVa-jCooOu, fllmoc 3f �o o The VVilmot homestead is located at 60J Wilmot Road. Hie original house consisted of n kitchen and living room with a "ladder" stairway to the space above them—the sleeping loft. One of the stories perpetu­ ated about the home is that it once was an underground station for runaway slaves during the Civil War. Lyman VVilmot was known to have been an abolitionist. vO N- Caspar Ott Cabin O cm Caspar Ott was the brotiier ofJasper Ott, who hid Andrew Jackson in a cabin iike this one. o C\J O CM O ro CM O LAKE FOREST o o CO o N-sjoo >- or. CD O Ci> <C o JO Garrison and McKim especially faced the problem of slavery head-on in the manner of New England Puritan preachers of old, something the more moderate Lake Forest founders—concerned at the prospect of dis­ ruptive social upheaval—tended to avoid. Indeed, the Lake Foresters' moderate position on slavery against it in Cite western territories where they wanted to expand Chicago business interests, but willing to wait for it to die out in the south may have contributed to their seeking such an enclosed, maze-like street plan with entry to the town confined for all practical purposes to the streets around the depot. Several dues suggest that African-Americans and perhaps fugitive slaves were on hand here in the late 1850s and early 1860s—before Emancipation. Covertly too. Sylvester Lind and the Lake Forest founders took risks—Danforth reports Lind himself traveled down the lakes with Underground Railroad "pas­ sengers” to cue them when, literally, the "the coast was clear" -and worked hard, short of John Brown- like revolutionary acts, to gain free­ dom for African-Americans and to work toward the election of Lincoln in 1660. JO or O tit SYLVESTER LIND, THE NORTON'S GRANDFATHER, AND THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT John J Halsey's 1912 History of 1-ake County, Illinois provides a biogra­ phical sketch of Sylvester Lind, a censor figure in the founding of lake forest. Lind was bom in Scotland in 1808, arriving in Chicago in 1837 tc work as a carpenter, in 1842 he entered the lumber business and in 1S4S organized the Lind & Dunlap firm with mills at Cedar River, Michigan on the western shore directly west of Door County's Washington Island. Arpee reports that he was also in the banking and insurance businesses making and losing at least three fortunes as the economic health of earl) Chicago came and went. Before the railroad wen! through, his banking business in Milwaukee and Chicago led him up and down the old Greer Bay Trail by Lake Forest. An article on "The Under-Ground Railway" in the May 1890 Stentor the College newspaper (pp. 165-88), highlighted Lind's importance tr the anti-slavery movement of the days when Lake Forest was founded The article was written by an enterprising member of the class of 1891 William E. Danforth, who also conducted interviews with explorers George Konnan and Sir Henry Stanley who visited the town and a bed­ side February 1890 interview with the legendary ex-slave and local driver Samuel Dent, who died in June of 1890, and is buried in the Lake Forest Cemetery'. Lind was an active "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and a leader in the Chicago movement, with his Chicago river lumber yard there a staging point for smuggling fugitive slaves down the lakes. The Fugitive Slave Act was harsh, and a captain risked losing his ship iJ caught. Danforth s article, though, details how Ltnd and others would arrange for the captain to look the other way for "deniabilitv" while ex­ slaves scrambled on board and stowed away. They then jumped off at the Island-refueling stop at Death's Door between the Door County mainland and the Washington Island to wait for another ship heading for Detroit. This ship, in turn, would drift dose enough to the Ontario shore in the narrow St. Clair River to permit the African-Americans to leap to freedom. Lind's concern for the plight of the African-Americans, some of whom probably were present in I ake Forest before the Civil War, was shared by others in town and carried over into the close, warm ties between the races fhoco rcorresv ct through the rest of the nineteenth century. tjfcC Foryi* It s interesting that the next owners of Historical Socuiy the property after Mrs. (Eliza O.) find, who lived & �http://nsls-iol2.auto-grapliics.com/wp2000/Fulldsp.asp7niyses 9291 &cr 4 Deerfield Public Library / Full Display > V CLICK HERE 0©] impact -0 5ssa1 ON LIME j^ISON . "ism i P.oC’fl un-'V Library! ffi >T« Full Display - North Suburban Library Database <All Headings> "underground railroad illinois" -- Title 4 of 12 Use Card Format E . l\il Bottom Iz. 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Pomona, California. © 1995 - 2001 All rights reserved. 1 of 1 1/22/02 7:22 PM �LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STOPS T?>w «?re among the t.ake County sites bciieveil to have played a role in the Underground Railroad. Distances Between Underground Railroad Stops Ivanhoe Congressional Church Rt. 176, West of Routes 60/83 Ivanhoe, Illinois Ivanhoe Congregational Church to Bonner Farm 12.3 miles Bonner Farm to Millbum Congregational Church 2.0 miles Millbum Congregational Church to James Cory House James Cory House to Mother Rudd Horae Millbum Congregational Church Grass lake Road & Route 4S Millbum. Illinois (Historical landmarks-churcK store and houses) IS.6 miles S.3 miles Millbum Church o iifnbmn Road Bonner Farm Mother Rudd Home 4690 Old Grand Avenue Gurnee. Illinois (Comer of Old Grand Avenue and Kilboume) m Sand ljnk* Rood QnmdArttmt Mother Rudd Cory House St. *s H’asfrinrron Sr. Bonner Farm 1842 Homestead Lake County Forest Preserve Country' Place & Sand Lake Road Millbum, Illinois © ML 120 I i St S3 James Cory Home 321 N. Uticri Street Waukegan. Illinois (Historical landmark) ML 1/6 Ivanhoe Church r � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. 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Title A name given to the resource Deerfield "Underground Railroad" Activities; The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin Description An account of the resource Photocopy of section of the book The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin by James Dorsey related to escaped slaves who may have passed through the Deerfield area. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dorsey, James Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southwestern Wisconsin North Chicago Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Sons of Thunder Ministry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.011 Abolitionism Abraham Lincoln African Americans American Civil War American Legion American Legion Deerfield Post 738 Andrew Jackson Anti-Slavery Activities Autes' Corner Auto-Graphics Incorporated Bonner Farm Canada Carpenter Caspar Ott Caspar Ott Cabin Cedar River Michigan Chicago Illinois Chicago River Chicago River Lumber Yard Death's Door Deerfield American Legion Deerfield Illinois Deerfield Public Library Deerfield Underground Railroad Activities Detroit Michigan Door County Wisconsin Eliza O. Lind Fox River Grove Public Library Fugitive Slave Acts Fugitive Slaves Gail Borden Public Library George Konnan Glenview Press Green Bay Trail Gurnee Illinois Henry Stanley Highland Park Illinois History of Lake County Illinois Ivanhoe Congressional Church Ivanhoe Illinois James Cory James Dorsey Jasper Ott John Brown John J. Halsey Lake County Discovery Museum Lake County Forest Preserve Lake County Illinois Lake Forest Cemtery Lake Forest College Lake Forest College Stentor Lake Forest Illinois Lake Forest Lake Bluff Historical Society Lind and Dunlap Firm Lorenz Ott Lumber Business Lyman Wilmot Marie Ward Reichelt Millburn Congregational Church Millburn Illinois Milwaukee Wisconsin Mississippi Mother Rudd Home North Chicago Public Library North Suburban Library System Database Ohio River Ontario Canada Orman Rockenbach Pomona California Samuel Dent Samuel Ott Scotland Sons of Thunder Ministry St. Clair River Stentor Sylvester Lind The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin The Underground Railway Underground Railroad Washington Island Wisconsin Wauconda Illinois Waukegan Illinois Waukegan Public Library William E. Danforth https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/4ca7d676fed3376f7acd90a1340301c3.pdf c621b39d7e42a3b070b90fb5a9bae109 PDF Text Text �Q]o'rt°[^'uj ■for an cl/.U$ oiq \ % ji I (o2 r**fc- MoJs r || AA.i|||4il, fFf p «b*fe4M> «>* ** ~~ Si • ■*■ — Ms home. Be was bom April 8, %i$6 s® staflp and had been a rest4ml la the ©asamaaity for 4peam w hroBterT TbnyT Ch^go. Services were held la the Segaato chapel to Bighwood, Aug. 14 and tads! was te • Memorial Ps&K SkoMe. Lyman J. Wihnot /? Lyman J. Wllmoi, It, Wanke"^n, Tti&s Aiif-11 to Waukegan. He bom to Deesfleld, 1G» 1$@$ and belonged to one at Deer­ field's earliest families. Tbs • pres«^>0mot School was Mined te Mr. Wilmot's giwmMaiber, who gave th® jpropertf item Ms ffcna, the present P. G. Bastings farm, to the school to 184?. 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'x -X 6. - «oas» Lyman, Jr., and Marshall of Kathesri&e p* *k^£? «* Robert. of Gonme; Mrs. .m three deters, Mm Bdaa Beszaett. Bo^dee Jung, \ PawiU, Ca3£, Mm Maude Ktbker end Mites Clam Keye*. both Jacksonville, Fla., nine children and ^Servkwjw* held Am#. 14 inf Park. Waukegan and burial was in Mil bum Cemetery, Mflbura. mJSSS£ - «—SS 2*1^ ImsimL n 20/20 * d 130 * °N t7l7: 31 30,170 qsj Row Mort A______ ii : 13i � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deerfield Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Deerfield Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman J. Wilmot Obituary Description An account of the resource Photocopy of obituary for the grandson of the original Lyman Wilmot from the Highland Park News. Handwritten notes. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Highland Park News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Highland Park News Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Highland Park News Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08/16/1962 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.010 AF and AM Clara Wilmot Keyes Deerfield Illinois Edna Wilmot Bennett Elks F.G. Hastings First Presbyterian Church Gurnee Illinois Highland Park News Jacksonville Florida Lake County Circuit Court Lake County Circuit Court Clerk Lyman J. Wilmot Lyman J. Wilmot Jr. Lyman Wilmot Marshall Wilmot Masonic Lodge Masonic Lodge No. 78 Maude Wilmot Kebker Milburn Cemetery Milburn Illinois Moose Club Mrs. Charles Meador Navy League Obituary Paonia Colorado Robert Wilmot Rotary Clubs International Swedish Glee Club Waukegan Illinois Waukegan North Chicago Chambero f Commerce Waukegan Park Board of Trustees Waukegan Public Library Board of Directors Wilmot School https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/07f5a68183a9250119d6d191e1b591cf.pdf 89aeba17cb05e2b148835621344b683d PDF Text Text ! |;fS f M M?i‘I't1' i;;> m Lii rT;4£!viHi ifr-1 •: • >' t'-i is;i U tl«p -../’I.1: •■- U: ' •* • ,<?') : i-l Get* on board for more :■ piUSDEM* , •i'l.r-VHiii OUND RMLRO ad in Illinois - Climate _ Rivers and canals _ Population growth - Flora and Fauna of 11U £. -.Religion ~ http://www.ugrr.org/ugrr/learn/jp-bib.html - Treaties ~ www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/randl.htmI, and ~ Politics - Northwest Territory ~ http://www.ugrr.org/books/biblio.htm The bibliography, which was printed in Illinois Libraries, can be accessed online. Go to http://www.sos.state.il.us/ and click on Illinois State Library’s web page, (p • iincoln-Douglas Del ~ For more information on the multi-state UGRR operations, consult .th.eivTationa.l£axk^e-rvice Underground Railroad Special Resource Study and the first web site listed above. - Fur trade -Early modes oftran / ~ Visit http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth and http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm. ^ for slave narratives. See Bom in Bondage by Marie Jenkins Schwartz (Harvard University Press) to learn about the lives of enslaved children. ~ Refer to these periodicals: National Georgraphic. July 1984; the Sunday Magazine of the Chicago Tribune, Summer 2000; and the magazine of the National Parks and Conservation Association, July/August 1998. ^ _ Indians of Illinois So much has been written on this topic in the meantime, the reader should also refer to Books in Print. Illinois Libraries, (Vol. 80, No. 4) and other library and on-line resources such as: ~ http://mvw.cr.nps.gov/ugrr UA (4 ■ adventux* ■ Underground Railroad books are too numerous to list completely. The annotated bibliogra­ phy in this chapter begins with the very earliest books on the subject. It was developed by Dr. Gary Smith, Associate Professor of English, DePaul University; Donyell Gray, Research Assistant; Kathleen Bethel, African American Studies Librarian, Northwestern UniversityAgnes Miller, African American Images Bookstore; and Glennetle Tilley Turner, author of the Underground Railroad in Illinois. o J { 1 - Illinois Constitute: - Inn, taverns, andh - - Early trails - Education i ~ View the following videos: - Salt and lead rn^n • “The Underground Railroad: Connections to Freedom and Science” video produced by Classroom for the Future in cooperation with NASA Headquarters (http://core.nasa.gov); -Mills • “The Underground Railroad in Illinois” and “Trail Through DuPage County” (JMDoggett@aol.com); keyword “Underground Railroad”; - Historic court ca - Occupations • “The Underground Railroad” produced by and available from The History Channel ~ play games such as “Escape” (www.UGRR-Illinois.com). ~ Sing along with audiotapes of “Songs of the Underground Railroad.” ~ Take historical tours such as those conducted by Black Coutours, (773) 233-8907 in order to vicariously experience what it was like to travel the Underground Railroad to freedom. 244 • �**■ r The underground Railroad in Illinois -. BY Glennette Tilley Turner Introduction By Dr. Juliet E.K. Walker NORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY J twfc- Newman Educational Publishing Glen Ellyn, • Sfv V Illinois :!B T4 K >:CC .................... •; ■TI-.in'-?! ✓ . . .y T; ■ *4 ti V n Pp:- i '• " T : U!* i: ■ V ""'" uiSifr*awT;: i 1 i w J i VM.ir.V, :ivViiDie-;) np uST: : M&MB! ,y, . Mil , liiife i»ii ! '••.DC i-a: •• v • •• it,. ' iWii8^ : *• • p I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. 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Title A name given to the resource Get' On Board for More Adventure; The Underground Railroad in Illinois Description An account of the resource Photocopy of bibliography from the book The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilly Turner with information about other resources on the Underground Railroad. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Turner, Glennette Tilley Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilly Turner Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Newman Educational Publishing Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.009 African American Images Bookstore Agnes Miller Bibliography Black Coutours Born in Bondage Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine Classroom for the Future DePaul University DePaul Unizersity English Department Donyell Gray Escape Gary Smith Glen Ellyn Illinois Glennette Tilley Turner Harvard University Press Illinois Libraries Illinois Libraries Books in Print Illinois Secretary of State Illinois State Library Juliet E.K. Walker Kathleen Bethel Marie Jenkins Schwartz National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Geographic National Parks and Conservation Association National Parks and Conservation Association Magazine Newman Educational Publishing North Chicago Public Library Northwestern University Songs of the Underground Railroad The History Channel The Underground Railroad in Illinois The Underground Railroad: Connections to Freedom and Science Trail Through DuPage County Underground Railroad United States National Park Service United States National Park Service Underground Railroad Special Resource Study https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/7b288253e321a101d64d0c3d7e849db2.pdf e0f6e7f33a7c1f2b54473b8d84923621 PDF Text Text !L v r--0 ‘** i<y ^JhAh/Cy 'yof/'/*3i,-Jso^ ~^~rr^U fit A- /TKlOd&^CwS t<fc(it^'ss>L ■ U)/ldsCfal44ns '■■ '/ (,20/667-7027 �3)uuul ttile's (WsU 2?l- 377? /l/tfozvJL to f/IMtt^ /ylO^ •W'/u s \S * ' ~ ^ .-SiQUrtJ /?/<f — 7} S\ JZfiCuh'ud' V ^c ^(02* r y^r /W" ii? Jl&sts J ^ </ ^ubmiT Ufic /W*e P t*/r■U'.T <*>n j �http://www.undcrgroundraiIroad.org/content.asp?id-726&responsc-y National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - ASK US qc' involved even Is continue She jouflfiteij A National ' Underqfcufld Railroad Freedom Center • timeline ASK US * people We regret Unit we cannot answer all the questions we receive each day. We have Uierefore developed Uiis list of frequently asked questions to assist you in your search. At Uic bottom of Uic page you will also find a list of our Web site Advisory Commitce members who may also be able to assist you: a locations « ask us What is the Underground Railroad? * library Before 1863, the Underground Railroad was a system of cooperation among African American slaves, free Blacks, abolitionists, sympaUietic Whites, and Native Americans to help slaves escape Uieir bonds and claim the promise of freedom. According to a recent study by the National Park Service, "...Uiis informal system arose as a loosely constructed network of escape routes Uiat originated in the South, intertwined throughout the North, but also extended into western territories, Mexico, and the Caribbean." * your papers How many people escaped on the Underground Railroad? « history links It is estimated that as many as 100,000 ofUie 4 million enslaved escaped Uirough the Underground Railroad. * local stories Did people use quilts to help slaves escape? * family stories This topic has really taken off since the 1999 publication of Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story ofQuilts and the Underground Railroad, written by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard (Doublcday, NY, NY). The bibliography in Uiat book is a good starting place for your research We should also warn you, however, that the book has been greeted with a certain amount of skepticism in the scholarly community. It may be Uiat as additional new data accrues (Uirough research such as your own), that skeptiesm will subside. * artifacts IIow do I find out if my family was involved in the Underground Railroad? The first Uiing you should do is start asking everyone who knows Uic story to tell it to you again in Uieir own words and to tell you where Uiey heard it. Write it down or record it on tape. The object here is to define the community of living informants and to map out their sources. Ix>ok for the similarities in Uic stories and examine the inconsistencies. If you know the names of Uie operators of the station, Uiat is wonderful because you can then start a search in Uie newspapers to corroborate your family's memories. Another good source is the church records from Uie denomination where your ancestors worshiped — often abolitionists were fervent churchgoers. We also cncougage you to contact other researchers doing work in your part of the state. If you ever get to Washington, DC, do not be shy about visiting Uie National Archives. How can I verify that a house is an Underground Railroad site? The National Park Service has developed a verification process for reconstructing the stories of the Underground Railroad. The process involves the use of written sources with strong or circumstantial evidence. The research process also requires carefiil analysis of local oral traditions. The National Park Service is currently compiling an inventory of every structure associated with Uie Underground Railroad. Once you have established at least two different kinds of evidence, you should contact the Park Service by calling Uie head of Uic Network to Freedom program, Diane Miller, at 402.221.3749. * Web site Advisory Committee If you have a history question: 1 .mo Jack-son. PhD Assistant Professor, Department of History Northern Kentucky University If you have a literature question: KriMme Yoke. PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and Language Northern Kentucky University If you have a question on legal history: Aaron Butin. JD Corporate attorney and volunteer *The Web site Advisory committee is a group ofvolunteer educators who support the activities ofthe Freedom Center. The responses provided by these volunteers have not been authenticated by the Freedom Center. Please spend some time doing your own research to verify how the information provided willfit your present needs. Ue.vnmnl to this P;igc > View The responses of Others > 1 of 2 2/6/02 2:38 PM � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deerfield Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Deerfield Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ask Us Page Description An account of the resource Printout of webpage about how to verify if homes were part of the Underground Railroad network along with handwritten notes from Deerfield Public Library staff. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Underground Railroad Freedom Center Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Underground Railroad Freedom Center Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Deerfield Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/06/2002 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.008 Aaron Buda African Americans Andrew Jackson Caribbean Chicago Illinois Chicago Networking Researching Meeting Christian Denominations Cindy Wargo Deerfield Public Library Diane Miller Doubleday Eric Jackson Glennette Tilley Turner Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad Illinois Jacqueline Tobin Judith Hortin Judy Scheehle Kristine Yohe Mexico Milton Wisconsin National Underground Railroad Freedom Center National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Website National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Website Ask Us Page Native Americans New York City New York Northern Kentucky University Northern Kentucky University History Department Northern Kentucky University Literature and Language Department Peggy Montes Raymond Dobard Underground Railroad Underground Railroad in Illinois United States National Archives United States National Park Service United States National Park Service Midwest Regional Office United States National Park Service Network to Freedom Program Washington D.C. Wheaton Illinois Wisconsin https://archives.deerfieldlibrary.org/files/original/3158f9c03914a70f6b611d777a3d3d9a.pdf 576c28f8391258cc38d62652f4bdf5a2 PDF Text Text 27 FEB 2002 Call Number AUTHOR TITLE EDITION PUBLISHER DESCRIPT BIBLIOG SUBJECTS ISBN DVNIX # Deerfield Public Library Circulation Adult Nonfiction 973.7115 TUR 03:58pm UU Port 594 Status : Check Shelf Turner, Glennette Tilley. The underground railroad in Illinois / by Glennette Tilley Turner ; introduction by Juliet E.K. Ualker. 1st ed. Glen Ellyn, IL : Neuman Educational Publishing, 2001. xix, 285 p. ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-266) and index. 1) Underground railroad — Illinois. 2) Slavery — United States. 3) Fugitive slaves — Illinois — History. 0938990055 Cpbk.) 693797 �V J4 ; ► >r I f/ : '•h n V i - \ r t i IP 1 £* X • • 1 .Jujfij 'r' -lil/ifi Hi :.li__ ! j * Ti'iTii riiMM ; ■ imM I i i 1 •. i't Li. * :• ; ................ . - - t v ; Cl I ■ . fit, sr iUIii liLFM. J BiSS The Underground R, Gp ON BOARD FOR MORE ADVENTURE In addition I bookstores,; ~ Climate c£“SSs^s=s==s ~ Rivers and Underground Railroad in Illinois. So much has been written on this topic in the meantime, the reader should also refer to Backs in Print, Illinois Libraries, (Vol. 80, No. 4) and other library and on-lme resources such as. ~ Indians of ~ Population - Flora and I - http://www.cr.nps.gov/ugrr ~ Religion ~ http://www.ugrr.org/ugrr/learn/jp-bib.html - Treaties - www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/randl.html, and - Politics - Northwest' State Library’s web page. - For more information on the multi-state UGRR operations, consult the National Park Service Underground Railroad Special Resource Studi and the first web site listed above. ~ Visit http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth and http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htrm for slave narratives. See Born in Bondage by Marie Jenkins Schwartz (Harvard University i i ~ Lincoln-Doi ;: . ; : ~ Fur trade ~ Early modes r Press) to learn about the lives of enslaved children. ~ Refer to these periodicals: National Geographic. July 1984; the Sunday Magazine of the Chicago Tribune, Summer 2000; and the magazine of the National Parks and Conservation Association, July/August 1998. ! ; i ~ Illinois Con; !u ~ Inn, taverns. - ~ Early trails v ~ View the following videos: . “The Underground Railroad: Connections to Freedom and Science” video produced by Classroom for the Future in cooperation with NASA Headquarter (http://core.nasa.gov); . “The Underground Railroad in Illinois” and “Trail Through DuPage County” (JMDoggett@aol.com); keyword “Underground Railroad ; . “The Underground Railroad” produced by and available from The History Channel ~ Education -Salt and lead V - Mills I / !• ~ Play games such as “Escape” (www.UGRR-Illinois.com). - Occupations - Historic cour II Sing along with audiotapes of “Songs of the Underground Railroad.” ■ . f I < . -.V 244 *« : �IT Bv i vn Get on board for more adventure m aa* ■—ispif sMismt0X m fasglw, * Bibliography Ir 1850 Vidi. MR. FRANK, m .r SfSJ?TmS|sSsSS°‘ SS£-™“ a. THE UNDERGROUND MAIL-AGENT Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1853. •i.- 1860 H. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. Mitchell, William London: W. Tweedie 1860. (Reprint 1970) Bl i f:;j *W gsffisxr^- i pJllBlU In addition to his work for John Jones, the Undergrou nd Railroad and repeal of the Black Codes, he was active in the Negro convention movement for many R after the Civil War. He worked with inventors S.R. Scottron and Lems Sand. Laura S. A WOMAN'S LIFE WORK: LABORS AND EXPERIENCES OF LAURA S. HAV1LAND. Salem, NH: 1881. (Reprint 1984) II, ; 5 Vr £ssas^ts:sssMS=5ff ■ Collection, Chicago Public Library : ROMANCE AND REALITY OF THE UNDERGROWI^^IERO^^^weulo^H:^H. U.Johnson. 1896. (Reprint in 1970) a; |i: HANNAH COURAGEOUS. New York: Long, Laura. Longman, 1939. . wih.ir THE underground RAILROAD TN SSS'SS Antiquarian Society, 1936. Swift, Httdegarde Hoyt DOM: A STORY OF _T CM ^ fictionaUz(.d account of Harcourt. Brace, & •• rnntainS reproductions of the life of Harriet Tubman. Contains repr the dialect of the period. T. UP FROM SLAVERY. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY • ™-SS,S— Siebert, Wilbur Henry. New York: MacMillan, 1898. (Rep map of routes. ’ York- Random House. 1958. A story about ^to'Tsvhoi^the“Tof rTttnni“E°°-ion-on theUnderground Railroad. Based on the ; - W adventures of the author's grandparents. Severance, Frank Hayward. OLD TRAILS ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER. ^ ^ story 0f Corrie. a Cleveland, OH: Burrows Brothers, 1903. l?; northern army. 1910 1, my story of the civil war and the underground railButler, Marvin Benjamin. United Brethren Publishing Establishment. 1914. An account of ROAD. Huntington. IN: The service in the 44th regiment Indiana volunteers. .. Cockrum, William Monroe. The struggles of the new Mississippi cotton country. 247 HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AS IT WAS CON- 246 t . . ;T . . Garden City, NY: Washington, Booker Doubleday, 1933. i.V •- * The Underground Railroad in Illinois il •i ? . . : : .. • ; : : -- r.- : . ■ I •* .. .,• • ■< ; • . I • • w r\' : j • '.'ll;. ... -w* V;:f'. - ■_ •1 _ ir isHI? -mmm \. ✓ �F' m •• i hr r B ! U; t. ; . Get on board for more adventure esses a to Connecticut Howard, Elizabeth. NORTH WINDS BLOW FREE. New York: W. Morrow. 1949. Philo Carpenter operated Under­ ground Railroad stations in his home and in the First Baptist Congregational Church. His home in Chicago was the UGRR station where Israel Blodgett of Downers Grove and John Coe of Hinsdale took passengers. Carpenter's brother was married to the sister of Julius Warren, founder of Warrenville. Meadowcroft, Enid La Monte. BY SECRET RAILWAY. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co 1948 n™ oslave boy Bed 1860 to the home of David Morgan in Chicago He is betrayed by a boarder who ^H the'u^e^d'RloaDdaVid’ ^ ^ ^ “d ^ » >* ^ Canada ^ “ way of McMeekin. Isabella. JOURNEY CAKE. New YorkMessner. 1942. In 1794 Juba, a free woman of color takes six motherless white children into Kentucky where their father has gone to settle. Sterling, Dorothy. CAPTAIN OF THE PLANTER: THE STORY OF ROBERT SMALLS. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. Biography of Robert Smalls, who was bom a slave, and during the Civil War piloted a captured Confederate boat past the guns of Fort Sumter and delivered it to the Union forces. Later he became a leader of his people and was sent to Congress. He suffered humiliation during Reconstruction because he refused to compromise his principles. S Nolen. Eleanor Weakley. A JOB FOR JEREMIAH. London: New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. A lit­ tle slave boy tries many jobs while selecting his future trade. FREEDOM TRAIN: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1954. A biography of Harriet Tubman as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Wriston, Hildreth Tyler. SUSAN’S SECRET. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1957. !• H: ifc Yates, Elizabeth. AMOS FORTUNE, FREE MAN. New York Puffin Books, 1950. (Reprints 1963, 1989) A biography of Amos Fortune, an eighteenth-century African prince. After being captured by slave traders, he was brought to Massachusetts where he remained a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at sixty years old. L.C. Paine Freerer was a prominent lawyer who settled in Chicago in 1836 and died in Wheaton in 1878. He made Underground Railroad passengers and touring black antislavery speakers wel­ come in his home. He encountered per­ sonal danger when he served armed court officials with legal warrants. On one occasion he and a party on horse­ back chased a party of slave catchers nearly across the state of Illinois in an attempt to free an enslaved man, but without success. 1940 ; •: Allen, Merritt Parmelee. BATTLE LANTERNS. New York: Longmans, 1949. About a series of adventures which befall a young man during the Revolutionary War. (Reprint 1967) Buckmaster, Henrietta. LET MY PEOPLE GO: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND THE GROWTH OF THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT. New York: Harper. 1941. ns. :?1 i * H)nnfh. laJwoiSSSJJSl^^^Jg* mt. Riley, Louise. TRAIN FOR TIGER LILY. New York: Viking, 1954. Tiger Lily is a magical place where a chain of fantastic events is set off by the arrival of a train on which there are four children two animals, and a magician train porter. Steinman, Beatrice. THIS RAILROAD DISAPPEARS. New York: F. Watts, 1958. Thirteen -year-old Seth convinces his parents and neighborhood abolitionists that he can be trusted as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. J JH| • .V Petry. Ann Lane. HARRIET TUBMAN: CONDUCTOR ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Crowell. 1955. Biography emphasizing the character and personality of Harriet Tubman, whose unshakable faith led her to guide hundreds of slaves to freedom by the Underground Railroad. Siebert, Wilbur Henry. THE MYSTERIES OF OHIO’S UNDERGROUND RAILROADS. Columbus: Long's College Book Co. 1951. I The Underground Railroad in Illinois Curtis, Anna Louis. STORIES OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: The Island Workshop Press Co-op, 1941. 1950 Bontemps. Arna. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: SLAVE FIGHTERS, FREEMAN. New York: Knopf, 1959. A biography of the runaway slave who devoted his life to the abolition of slavery and the fight for Black rights. Breyfogle, William x. MAKE FREE: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1958. Buckmaster, Henrietta. FLIGHT TO FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Crowell, 1958. A history of the founding and opera­ tion of the Underground Railroad with background mate­ rial on slavery, the growth of the abolition movement in spite of opposition in the North. The leaders of both races and the role of the African American after the Civil War includes many accounts of the experiences of escap- 248 249 sk :;-i : : ■i'­ ...« si ll . i “j -I . v: i-t h I s: MBPJ5P.,,,. hif• ’ • i Hi •i t Jp 8f:n . j ;*:■ « ? f *'• J I V »• * ‘: * '•■V ■• ■ i • fLikina: •rUlaM'- : £ .jlipii! r , •: �m. i t !!i Fnstein S HARRIET TUBMAN: GUIDE TO FREEDOM. Champaign. IL: Garrard Publishing Co., 1968. Born a slave but determined to be free, Harriet Tubman ran away from slavery and returned ma ny times to free her enslaved people. Fisher, Aileen Lucia. A LANTERN IN THE WINDOW. New York: T. Nelson. 1957. Twelve-year-old Peter goes to live with his Quaker uncle whose farm on the bank of the Ohio River gives him a view of the steamboats he loves and a role in the Underground Railroad. h. ! |i ii ; : I CANALBOAT TO FREEDOM. New York: Dial Press, 1966. This book describes a Falls, Thomas. friendship between two boys one a white teenage otphan bound out on a canalboat and the other a Bhck deckhand. The deckhand protects the otphan front the cruelty of the captatn. and the boy tn turn joins the deckhand in his Underground Railroad activities. ■ - 4>I CM fU , .1; i I ■ :i •! . f* :• - ■si' Hagler, Margaret. LARRY AND THE FREEDOM MAN. New York: Lothrop. 1959. A twelve-year-old white boy and his uncle, The Freedom Man. help Daniel a slave boy and his family obtain their freedom when they meet on a jour­ ney to Kansas. I960 Bacmeister. Rhoda. W. VOICES EN THE NIGHT. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs, 1965. New England and an Underground Railroad station are the background for this story. When Jeanie’s widowed mother is forced to break up her family because she cannot take care of them, Jeanie is sent to live with the Aldens, who secretly operate a station. Bradford. Sarah. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel. 1961. A story of Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made nineteen journeys deep into the South to escort over 300 slaves to freedom. The book deals mostly with the excit­ ing details of her pilgrimages, but also stresses her fervent religious motivation. * The Underground Railroad in Illinois Douglass, Frederick. LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Ed by Barbara Rirchie. New York- Crowell, 1966. An adaptation of the last revision (1892) by the author of a book first pub-' '■" > lished in 1842. It is a story of Douglass’ escape from slavery and his rise to prominence. ' ing slaves. Douglass, Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Old Tappan, NJ: Scribner, 1953. A tale of three boys - one white one black and one a Seminole Indian - who find their separate freedoms. I1 ; t! Get on board for more adventure * Joseph Henry Hudlun, Sr. was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for forty years. During the Great Chicago Fire he rescued many valuable docments. His oil portrait hangs in the Board's Hall of Celebrities. The home he and Anna Hudlun built near Dearborn Station was one of the first built in Chicago by black owners. They operated an Underground Railroad station there. Courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection, Wrighf a Quaker, and carried messages back and forth, wrapped in foil in a decayed tooth. Ssasbsssssasjsasasaa been strengthened. THE LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Lexington: University of Kentucky Ptess, 1961. The author questions and attempts to determine the extent to which the Underground Railroad accounts are factual. Gara, Larry Chicago Public Library Browin, Frances WUliams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961. Carrighar, Sally. THE GLASS DOVE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. Clark, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & WagnaUs, 1969. After spend­ ing four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on Underground Railroad. Danforth. Mildred E. A QUAKER PIONEER: LAURA HAV1LAND, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Exposition Press, 1961. Children, 1967. asssssasrsfflarssw to the North. Reconstruction of the 1870’s and the desegregation of the 1950 s to the rio s 251 250 �'V^ P; S; I • IS Ts ' i m h: 11 I ■ m- ii :&m\ ; .; vTT j ? ' 3‘i- KJUpwi 1 • i 0 IlS!S;iH gjfl <» •■*'* *1 1 ' ! ■ u ii i Get on board for more adventure The Underground Railroad in Illinois ! ing slaves. Douglass, Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Old Tappan, NJ: Scribner, 1953. A tale of three boys - one white one black and one a Seminole Indian - who find their separate freedoms. il,1 8 i B Fisher, Aileen Lucia. A LANTERN IN THE WINDOW. New York: T. Nelson, 1957. Twelve-year-old Peter goes to live with his Quaker uncle whose farm on the bank of the Ohio River gives him a view of the steamboats he loves and a role in the Underground Railroad. v ! 5 Hagler, Margaret. LARRY AND THE FREEDOM MAN. New York: Lothrop, 1959. A twelve-year-old white boy and his uncle, The Freedom Man, help Daniel a slave boy and his family obtain their freedom when they meet on a jour­ ney to Kansas. ■ I960 Ii 4 Bacmeister, Rhoda. W. VOICES EN THE NIGHT. Indianapolis. IN: Bobbs, 1965. New England and an Underground Railroad station are the background for this story. When Jeanie’s widowed mother is forced to break up her family because she cannot take care of them, Jeanie is sent to live with the Aldens, who secretly operate a sta­ tion. ; I1, Bradford, Sarah. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1961. A story of Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made nineteen journeys deep into the South to escort over 300 slaves to freedom. The book deals mostly with the excit­ ing details of her pilgrimages, but also stresses her fervent religious motivation. i * ra­ 8n m lilt pil IP mm Ills shed in 1842. It .s a story of Douglass escape from slavery and his rise to prominence. Epstein, S. HARRIET TUBMAN: GUIDE TO FREEDOM. Champaign IL- Garrard P r Falls, Thomas. CANALBOAT TO FREEDOM. New York: Dial Press, 1966. This book describes a friendship between two boys one a Black deckhand. mm Rhrk h from FWrfn silver Joseph Henry Hudlun, Sr. was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for forty years. During the Great Chicago Fire he rescued many valuable docments. His oil portrait hangs in the Board's Hall of Celebrities. The home he and Anna Hudlun built near Dearborn Station was one of the first built in Chicago by black owners. They operated an Underground Railroad station there. Courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection, Chicago Public Library h k a EYES AND ears OF THE CIVIL WAR. New York: Criterion Books 1963 TS,ha r S’,a T"™ Bsl*ned and rePorted t0 northern generals or copied maps H hS' “ SU4Ch,aS McCleIlan refijsed t0 brieve in their intelligence; but P d‘S.C0Vrered l.he freed slave* J°hn ScobeH. who became ostensibly an entertainer but actu- Gara. Larry THE LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Browin. Frances Williams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961. •: Carrighar, Sally. THE GLASS DOVE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1962. Claris, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. After spend­ ing four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on Underground Railroad. j; " !: i! ' i ftomAriT ^EAL^WAY H0ME- Indianapolis: Bobbs-MerriU. 1969. Two slave boys run away to the North H CW>]m* plantatl0n in an attemPt to reach their freed father five hundred miles Udenburg, Thomas J. and William S. McFeely. THE BLACK MAN IN THE LAND OF EQUALITY. ew or . ayden Book Co., 1969. Traces the history of the black man in America through the Reconstruction of the 1870’s and the desegregation of the 1950’s to the riots of the 1960’s. Danforth, Mildred E. A QUAKER PIONEER: LAURA HAVILAND. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Exposition Press, 1961. 250 i llJll ‘' 251 I �m i/it ! y hin• i IT. : S ifr-cVi H m te •5. j 1 V:4' ■ - ' ;5 i Jii Get on board for more adventure The Underground Railroad in Illinois * Lawrence, Jacob. HARRIET AND THE PROMISED LAND. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. (Reprint 1993) A brief biography in verse about Harriet Tubman and her dedicated efforts to lead her fellow slaves to freedom. \(?i black Quaker member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, secretary of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committees active abolitionist, and son of two sla ves. worked as an agent on the Underground Railroad. He interviewed “passengers" in order to gain information that would enable family members to locate loved ones in Canada. This book is a compilation of those inter­ views he recorded in narrative form, as weU as letters and newspaper clippings about slavery and the run­ aways. Lester. Julius, ed. TO BE A SLAVE. New York: Dial Press. 1968. A compilation selected from vari­ ous sources and arranged chronologically of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about the experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Loguen, Jermain Wesley. THE REV. J. W. LOGUEN. AS A SLAVE AND AS A FREEMAN; A NAR­ RATIVE OF REAL LIFE. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. (Reprint 1859) McGovern, Ann. RUNAWAY SLAVE: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Four Winds Press (Scholastic), 1965. A simply told biography of Harriet Tubman which gives a vivid account of her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. WANTED—DEAD OR ALIVE: THE TRUE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Four Winds Press, 1965. A biography of the slave who escaped to freedom, then returned and led three hundred other slaves to the North by way of the Underground Railroad. McPherson. James M. THE NEGRO’S CIVIL WAR: HOW NEGROES FELT AND ACTED DURING THE WAR FOR THE UNION. New York: Pantheon, 1965. The author presents documentary evi­ dence from Black and abolitionist newspapers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and official records to show that Blacks actively participated and many became leaders in the emancipation of the slaves from 1860 to 1865. Patterson, Lillie. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Champaign. IL: Garrard Publishing Co., 1965. The reader follows Frederick through his increasing hatred of slavery and his escape. His home in New York became one of the Underground Railroad stations for fleeing slaves. Sterling. Dorothy. FOREVER FREE: THE STORY OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1963. Describes the events leading up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed over four million slaves in the United States. ' i Anna Elizabeth Lewis Hudlun was known as the “Fire Angel" because of the hospitality she extended to fire vic­ tims during the Chicago fires. In 1871 she and Joseph Hudlun opened their five room home to five families—some black and some white. Their home was a mecca of social and civic activity. It was an Underground Railroad station before and during the Civil War. Courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection, Chicago Public Library Williams, James. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES WILLIAMS. A FUGITIVE SLAVE. WITH A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Saratoga, CA: R. & E Research Associates, 1969. Williamson. Joanne. AND FOREVER FREE New York: Knopf, 1966. The social and political scene in New York City during the years leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation is shown through the story of an eighteenyear-old German immigrant who befriends a runaway slave. £“h,S‘Tf,°Siah HC"S°"th‘ ** I and gave courage and inspiration to two co-workers. * d hotel laundress i . *■ I' ••'7 &■ L™ShLh ow^U„c.e Tom, who helped many slaves escape to freedom and founded a settlement for Blacks in Canada. :■ Still. William. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Amo Press, 1968. William Still. Strother, Horatio T. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN CONNECTICUT. Middletown. CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. 1970 BEHmD^BOOKTHATSPARKEOm^^S^ThS.T^ ; Sterling, Philip and Logan Rayford. FOUR TOOK FREEDOM: THE LIVES OF HARRIET TUBMAN. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. ROBERT SMALLS. AND BLANCHE K. BRUCE. Garden City. NY: Doubleday, 1967. Biographical portraits of four famous African Americans who escaped the slav­ ery into which they had been born to further the fight for freedom and equality. Sterne, Emma Gelders. THE LONG BLACK SCHOONER: THE VOYAGE OF THE AMISTAD. Chicago: Follett Pub Co.. 1968. A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent Amistad Case argued by John Quincy Adams before the United States Supreme Court. I ■ i S=SS=S5=SS- 4 m i �7V" j 'S 11 I : 1 UiK' , x. . :■ i_____* a______ _1... 1 Get on board for more adventure * ■—I__i : The Underground Railroad in Illinois < Captives Cave which is linked to his ancestors. Forman, James. SONG OF JUBILEE. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. This expose of slavery reveals the ambivalent feelings among slaves in one household, particularly after freedom is granted. grew up win her fteedon, and fish, for her rights«*• rson. MLROATNewYoTETDu'uon 197^L^^STffLATTHEUNDERGROUND escaped slave. help his peonkZolJ,hist*w, h .WaB“ StiU *>" **" Underground Railroad. 8 lh PhlladelPh,a s Anti-slavery Society and the Fox. Paula. THE SLAVE DANCER New York: Dell. 1973. A stark view of slavery as seen through the eyes of a young white boy who is shanghaied on a slaver and forced to make music for its human cargo. Freedman, Florence B. TWO TICKETS TO FREEDOM: THE TRUE STORY OF ELLEN AND WILLIAM CRAFT, FUGITIVE SLAVES. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971. Contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, journals, and the published story of William Craft help reconstruct this interesting account. Lester, Julius. 1972. Shr s.one^l'SS^avel0^ FR°M BUCK H“ New York: Dial Press. Grant, Matthew G. HARRIET TUBMAN, BLACK LIBERATOR. Mankato. MN: Creative Education. 1974 A biography of the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who worked to free her people before, during, and after the Civil War. 1975. i Gray. Genevieve. THE YELLOW BONE RING. New York: Lothrop, 1971. The pride and responsi­ bility of freedom are explored in this dramatic story of a young ex-slave in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first Black Union Army regiment. : ; ! ;• i Jacob, Helen Pierce. THE DIARY OF STRAWBRIDGE PLACE. New York: Atheneum, 1978. A family of Quakers operating a station on the Underground Railroad spirits slaves from Ashtabula Ohio across Lake Erie to freedom. ' Harrison. Lowell Hayes. THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT IN KENTUCKY. Lexington. KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1978. 254 , ill fefi m May, Charles Paul. STRANGER rN THE STORM New Yorkf bliTa:h rUnaW3y S,3Ve heIPs hvo li«le girls survive in blizzard, and they in turn help him hide from his pursuers GARRETT. Moylan, PA: Whimsie Press, 1977, ’ Henderson, Nancy. WALK TOGETHER: FIVE PLAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. New York: Messner. 1972. One of the plays is the story of slaves risking their lives for freedom in the Underground Railroad. Johnson. Ann Donegan. THE VALUE OF HELPING: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. La Jolla, CA: Value Communications, 1979. Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding slaves to flee the South in assisting the Union army during the Civil War and in establishing homes for the old and needy after the war. Warn m Z»J Greenfield, Eloise. HONEY, I LOVE. New York: Thomas T. Crowell Co. 1978. A picture book col­ lection of poems about various subjects including a poem about Harriet Tubman and her escape from slavery. Heidish, Marcy. A WOMAN CALLED MOSES. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1976. Harriet Tubman looks back over her life and tells her own story. The reader sees her as a sevenyear-old enslaved African her heartaches and griefs on through her escape by way of the Underground Railroad. l : l, 1 Jii man. He did manual labor at Grand River Institute, in Ohio, in exchange for the opportunity to study Greek and Latin. He settled in Chicago in 1837. He taught hvo years then went to work in a law office so that he could study law. He was a prac­ ticing lawyer until he was elect­ ed Justice of the Peace. He was one of the founders of the antislavery society in 1859 and helped establish the Western Citizen which was edited by Zebina Eastman. 52^ and throuSh a Redman, learns the healing power of S' li Traces the history of Blacks in America from their arrival as c^lHghts SeVentCenth Century t° the present-day struggle for Meltzer. Milton. Bradb., 19?. ISSSSSho worked actively in the Underground Railroad. Barbara Claassen. RUNAWAY TO FREEDOM- A STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Two young slave girls escape from a plan- 255 i ) Im �if. TT~ ?»: :l I 'hi■ ! f WM OhClp;;.:.,:lr i: iw ;!,! ?- f '{\V\ !.: >• m ; iWIpSii i; •V •••■:; • lift r* -i*. -tf ' • •n !» .- - i >t :> f 4 > M V-: • HI?:- tTiH} t 4: 8 : • ■ : ■ ■ ,i i '* •.{ if! ■; PPP?''!-} ’ : 'iff': . ; V i ______ _■ 1 ;$ * •; I ••• h 1 UT M 1, Mi if tiil '■ $4 Get on board for more adventure The Underground Railroad in Illinois I # THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR. New York: Collier Books, 1984. A black family moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger. S^RY^ THE MYSTERY OF DREAR HOUSE: THE CONCLUSION OF THE DIES DREAR CHRONICLE New York: Greenwillow Books, 1987. A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home. WITH CON- Facts on File Publications. 1988. Describes the liLf theVhnl^ American slaves resulted in the raid on Harpers Ferry. / u MAPS' New York: Wh°Se StrUg8,e t0 free KENTUm^ Hurmence, Belinda. A GIRL CALLED BOY. New York: Clarion, 1982. Mysteriously transported in tune to the 1850 s, a young girl learns to respect the courage of her slave forebears. Johnson, Georgia. A TOWPATH TO FREEDOM. East Lansing: G. A Johnson Publishing, 1989. om Klingel, Cynthia Fitterer. HARRIET TUBMAN. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1987. A biog­ raphy of the runaway slave who risked her life to help other slaves escape to freed om. WBXfe Lame. Reginald. MAKIN’ FREE: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. Detroit: B. Ethridge Books, 1981. A book which traces the early arrival and exploits of a number of lesser known African Americans who explored the Northwest regions of the United States and Upper Canada. mm II Lester, Julius. THIS STRANGE NEW FEELING. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 1985. The impact of slavery on the human spirit is presented in three love stories based on true events. ;1 McKissack. Patricia and Frederick McKissack. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: THE BLACK LION. Chicago: Children’s Press, 1987. Frederick Douglass becomes a spokesperson in the antislavery movement. 7 Meyer. Linda D. HARRIET TUBMAN: THEY CALLED ME MOSES. Seattle: Parenting Press, 1988. Biography of the Black woman who lived as a slave, free woman, conductor of the Underground Railroad and benefactor to the needy. Rev. Richard DeBaptiste is associ­ ated with Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago. He and many members of his church worked with members of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church in antislavery activities. He also took the personal risk of loaning his freedom papers to Underground Railroad passen­ gers. After his years as pastor of Miller, Douglas T. FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. New York: Facts on File, 1988. Traces the life of the black abolitionist, from his early years in slavery to his later success as a persuasive editor orator and writer. Phelan, Helen C. AND WHY NOT EVERY MAN? AN ACCOUNT OF SLAVERY, THE UNDER­ GROUND RAILROAD, AND THE ROAD TO FREEDOM IN NEW YORK'S SOUTHERN TIER. Interlake. NY: Heart of the Lakes Pub, 1987. Polcovar, Jane. HARRIET TUBMAN. Danbury. CT: Childrens Press Choice, 1988. ■ Sabin. Francene. HARRIET TUBMAN. Mahwah.NJ: Troll Associates, 1985. A biography of the Stein, RAILROAD^' THErSJORYOF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1981. Discusses the network of groups and individuals throughout Ohio and the New England states who aided slaves escaping from their captivity during the nineteenth century. Turner Ann Warren. NETTIE'S TRIP SOUTH. New YorkJheu^Iv rr87' f year'°'dn°rthern8irlcounters the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction. Books) Presents biographical sketches of fourteen notable ParkTan^Sat^erp^'11^1^ ^art*n Luther King, Jr., Rosa IS?*™. Satchel PaiSe* accompanied by brief skits in hich readers can act out imagined scenes from their lives. Walker, Juliet. E K FREE FRANK: A BLACK PIONEER ON Lexington: leadership P to Second'BaptTsf TOEWRONruTv^6' DANIEL WEBSTER JACKSON AND Church in Elgin. Courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection. Chicago Public Library WRONGWAY RAILWAY. San Diego: Oak Tree Publicatmns.1982- A teenage boy decides to leave his foster "orn^ m Missouri rather than become involved in Judge Hatcher s scheme to break up the Underground Railroad ! �,//»«*• /’v A\ i'-T T i1 1 . i 3 : i ix i ik Ml . x I iv?{? i Mm'm I Get on board for more adventure The Undergr 0UND Railroad in Illinois over 300 slave David and Sarah West and their five children loaded their household goods into a wagon and left Erie County, New York, in the faU of1843. After 23 days of travel, resting on Sundays, they arrived in Sycamore. Their house became the stopping place for visiting Congregational ministers and it was an Underground Railroad station. In 1840 David West voted (only Caucasian men had the franchise) for the Liberty Party’s presidential candidate, James G. Bimey. f s escape through the Underground Railroad. I : out that is operating in the territory. ! Wells, Marian. THE SILVER HIGHWAY. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1989. 1990 Adler, David A. A PICTURE BOOK OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Holiday House, 1994. Biography of the Black woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. ! Adler, David A. A PICTURE BOOK OF SOJOURNER TRUTH. New York: Holiday House. 1994. An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African Americans. H^rBx9TocMNEGurD E TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Braithwaite, Di ana. Martha and Elvira.- A ONE ACT PLAY. Toronto: SisterVisio n. 1993. Brandt, Nat. THE TOWN that started the civil WAR. Press, 1990. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Allen. Danice. ARMS OF A STRANGER. New York: Avon Books, 1995. | Armstrong. Jennifer. STEAL AWAY. New York: Orchard Books, 1992. In 1855 two thirteen yearold girls one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two young girls. : ; ' Beatty, Patricia. JAYHAWKER. New York: Beech Tree, 1995. In the early years of the Civil War. teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy. AScX"™L™Ti, ** <**»*■*,, 1992 A „• „ ™E ™°ERGROUND RA,LROAD. Hudson. OH: The Unknown Author. WHO COMES WITH CANNONS? New York: Morrow Junior Books. 1992. In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North CvU W St3tl0n °f thC Under8round Railroad when her world is changed by the beginning of the Narrative of Becvar. Patsy. A PLACE CALLED MOTHER HUBBARD CUPBOARD. Chicago: Nystrom, 1991. This book is used to introduce the concepts of slavery and the Underground Railroad. Benjamin, Anne. YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN: FREEDOM FIGHTER. Mahwah.NJ: Troll Associates, 1992. A simple biography of the Black woman who was never caught as she helped 260 : v 261 �* plr# vi rw l-m • l];} "•7. | ,iv iB:i< H u ■L... m ifliilipPi Bn i mnr,.. -f? • i • j*' - . • l- sin*• • 4imiiitwittU •SalUt i: ■ 4 ‘ i ■ : j! Mft - ’ ■: ’ ifllliiWI :■ ■ . ; : :: *. - ': i'Jri'l? 0 ' ‘ 'vi . . . * •• \ I Si!’# :'V, . W/ i.i ■■■•■ ■ rP :p 2 inn ; ’ ■ S; 5 ^ ■ *r Get on board for more adventure > ; The Underground Railroad in Illinois Cosner, Shaaron. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Franklin Watts. 1991. Describes the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom. Craft. William. RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM, OR THE ESCAPE OF WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT FROM SLAVERY. Salem. NH: Ayer Co.. 1991. ■ Hoobler, Dorothy. NEXT STOP. FREEDOM: THE STORY OF A SLAVE GIRL. Englewood Cliffs help'ofHarriefTu bman'199L Emily’" ^ ^ Wh°,0ngS t0 read' eSCaPes from slaverX the Crews. Donald. BIGMAMA’S. New York : GreenwiUow Books, 1991. Visiting Bigmama’s house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its sur­ roundings just the same as the year before. Hopkinson. Deborah. SWEET CLARA AND THE FREEDOM QUILT. New York: Knopf. 1993 A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North. Douglas. Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Miami: Valiant Press, 1994. In the 1840s, as Florida prepares to become a state, an Indian boy, black slave, and white settler become friends and explore their differences and common bonds. Johnson. La Verne C. KUMI AND CHANTI TELL THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. Chicago: Empak Enterprises. 1992. Two African children following their mission of exploring AfricanAmerican history record the story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery and led over 300 of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Douglass. Frederick. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: THE BOYHOOD OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN HIS OWN WORDS. Ed and illus. by Michael McCurdy New York: Knopf, 1994. A revised and shortened edition of THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. AN AMERI­ CAN SLAVE. This version of Douglass’ autobiography presents the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman. Kinard, Lee. HARRIET TUBMAN’S FAMOUS CHRISTMAS EVE RAID. Nashville: James C Winston Publishers, 1995. Lawrence. Jacob. THE GREAT MIGRATION: AN AMERICAN STORY. New York: HarperCollins. 1993. A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's fami­ ly. left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North. Elisha, Dan. HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1993. A biography of the African American woman who escaped from slavery, led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, aided Northern troops during the Civil War. and worked for women’s suffrage. Levine. Ellen. IF YOU TRAVELED ON THE UNDER­ GROUND RAILROAD. New York: Scholastic, 1993. Describes the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom. Forrester, Sandra. SOUND THE JUBILEE. New York: Lodestar Books, 1995. A slave and her fami­ ly find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina during the Civil War. Gaines. Edith M. FREEDOM LIGHT. Cleveland: New Day Press, 1991. The story of the antislav­ ery heroes of Ripley. Ohio, based on eyewitness accounts of two of their leaders John Rankin and John Parker. 1 Marcey, Sally. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Wheaton, IL: T^ndale House Publishers. 1991. A plotyour-own story about the Underground Railroad Follow the Ringers as they find a hidden tunnel under the old church in town and discover it may have been used to hide slaves The reader’s choices will determine which of fifteen endings will happen. Guccione. Leslie D. COME MORNING. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1995. Twelve-year-old Freedom the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850s, takes his father’s work in the Underground Railroad when his father disappears. Hamilton, Virginia. MANY THOUSAND GONE: AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. New York: Knopf, 1993 Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways. ----- THE PEOPLE COULD FLY: AMERICAN BLACK FOLKTALES. New York: Knopf, 1993. Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural and desire for freedom born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope. Haskins, James. GET ON BOARD: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: 1 Scholastic 1993. Discusses the Underground RaUroad. the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom. The portrait ofthe John Wagner family of Aurora was painted by artist Sheldon Peck. It was unusual in that Peck usually painted portraits ofindividuals. His mak­ ing an exception to this practice may have had something to do with the fact that the Wagners operated an Underground Railroad station in Aurora and Peck oper­ ated one in Lombard. Courtesy of the Aurora Historical Society McCay, Willie. YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE PLANTATION TREASURE. NY: Random House, 1990. McClard, Megan. HARRIET TUBMAN: SLAVERY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990. A biography of the courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to become a heroic figure in the Underground Railroad. McKissack, Patricia C. CHRISTMAS IN THE BIG 262 263 «- �lli Tii-'r' • I :; :• i I Get on board for more adventure The Underground Railroad HOUSE, CHRISTMAS IN THE QUARTERS. New York: Scholastic, 1994. Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War. SOJOURNER TRUTH: AIN’TIA WOMAN? New York: Scholastic, 1992. A biography of the for­ mer slave who became well-known as a abolitionist and advocate of women’s rights. in Illinois Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order lo reunite with her younger brother. beginning a new free life when he small island off the coast of Haiti. McMullan, Kate. THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN: CONDUCTOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Dell, 1991. P f 8 fourteen-year-old Moses thinks he is P of other former slaves headed for a ^ ^ *' SCh00‘ by repeatedly «Uing Monfredo, Miriam Grace. NORTH STAR CONSPIRACY. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. Monjo, F. N. THE DRINKING GOURD: A STORY OF TIDE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy dis­ covers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad. him into slavery, after which he always escaped. family in Kansas in thTute^SOs o^erltK fstafton^n theTd paraUeI s,ori«. a Q“aker Pfeifer, Kathryn Browne. HENRY 0. FLIPPER. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1993. Examines the life of the first African American graduate of West Point, including his dishonorable discharge from the Army which was reversed nearly 100 years later. S.adeihofen,Marcie Miller. ERIE FREEDOM SIDE. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press. 1990, Phillips, Raelene. FREEDOM’S TREMENDOUS COST. Elkhart, IN: Bethel Pub Co. 1993. The Stivers family tradition continues Hannah and her children struggle for freedom, this time for southern slaves escaping to the North with the help of abolitionists and the Underground Railroad. collection ofwritingslfy^hluthlfrs a^WE b'duBo^ T^'m' ^ Millbrook Press. «95. A Polacco, Patricia. PINK AND SAY. New York: Philomel Books. 1994. Say Curtis describes his meet­ ing with Pinkus Alee, a black soldier, during the Civil War. and their capture by Southern troops. Wright, and Ralph Ellison, exploring the a,nnecfto„, of IT T™’ *“* Dove’ Richard rC VCl* water’and sonS that link past and present African American cultures. Stolz, Mary. CEZANNE PINTO: A MEMOIR. Pmto recalls his youth as a slave on Virginiaplamaton and'his^^0 new^etfe NoTth™' Porter, Connie Rose. MEET ADDY: AN AMERI­ CAN GIRL. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993. Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War. rorYo™hGreoaECHNew“rt °L™yN ^'fbm mf 199T^eRICAN “T™** AND ART Afti'an A-ka" experience as’ seen Ihro^^tTd ADDY LEARNS A LESSON: A SCHOOL STORY. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993. After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. The author confers with Fulton County his­ torian Curtis Strode who wrote a newspaper series based on the UGRR activiies of his great grandfather, Francis Overton and fel­ low abolitionists. The Overton Farm was on the route between Quincy and Galesburg. Rappaport, Doreen. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: FIVE JOURNEYS TO FREEDOM. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Five accounts of slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. Ringgold. Faith. AUNT HARRIET’S UNDER­ GROUND RAILROAD IN TIDE SKY. New York: Crown, 1992. With Harriet Tbbman as her guide, * bUck or Targ-Ilriik Marlene. ALLEN JAY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILRO Caroirhoda Books, J995. Recounts how Allen Jay, a °'AD. Minneapolis: 1840s, helped a fleeing slave i Railroad. Taylor, Marian W. HARRIET TUBMAN. Danbury. CT: Grolier, 1990. I: :• 1 Washington, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY Ed. by William L. Andrews. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 4 �I ! v f* >*. }> fK- : : rt. m: ’vVi.JlH? .: •. -1 ft • M 5 IB vlLiija :■ f 1 ; i ■; mm -kfllfeli «iifi .. T i]v;ir. :. i;; U MjBfeM <:U •!-H rir-’i : i • .S f ■ : V :• •. ;• Get on board for more adventure Weinberg, Larry. GHOST HOTEL. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1994. Mysteriously drawn to an Indiana museum, a twelve-year-old paralyzed girl encounters ghosts who return her to a former life, where she attempts to save the son of a freed slave traveling by Underground Railroad in Kentucky. Winter, Jeanette. FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD. New York: Dragonfly Books. 1992. By fol­ lowing the directions in a song, “The Drinking Gourd," taught to them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Wright, Courtni Crump. JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: A STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAIL­ ROAD. New York: Holiday House, 1994. Joshua and his family, runaway slaves from a tobacco plantation in Kentucky, follow the Underground Railroad to freedom. ! “Forever Free" by Edmonia Lewis Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingam Research Center, Howard University "During all my slave life I never lost sight of freedom. It was always on my heart; it came to me like a solemn thought, and often circumstances much stimulated the desire to be free and raised great expectation of it"— Ambrose Headen, born 1822, enslaved in North Carolina and Alabama. +. . * w �T! ! -, t• » . » .> !■ upiHUl . •: .'■v . ••;-v. >;?F-]H • •;.vi; • •; : ■* ; ' ..>?..'. u\W>- VA* ;• '•' twati . > i y 11Ipii fell IP life-■!. i: ■l- . it •:Vi fMjp II• •. Nteiu *■ ■ :* 3» r \ •; i *..v. , .»-i • : N-: i ■ , ; ■' i il: \ rt • i t i • » ■ v^' vll I -: i ‘ 1 # ^' IS km\ 1 mm* \i::: ; llfeK ; ■ ?>Vf: l IHi ; ! ••/ .t> ■: • I: ; ,i • :: ■; I SVS f ■ ", >. ■ \ > ! -•■ ;■ V ! • { ! '• x {: f'SJ » . • \> ? ;• ' }.*: i • : Hi: Ur i • ■, . : ‘ ■ 1 • ']?<;. Jhl-Mjihr. ._. I f The Underground Railroad in Illinois Get on board for more adventure Reverend Abraham Hall Rev. Hall was not only a leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the grandfather of Lloyd Augustus Hall, the holder of many patents. Lloyd Hall specialized in perfecting methods of preserving foods. His work was essential to te development of dehy­ drated Army rations during World War II. Courtesy of Vivian G. Harsh Collection, Chicago Public Library Allan Pinkerton solved his first crime quite by chance. While he was a cooper, or barrel maker, in Dundee, he went to gather reeds with which to bind the barrels. He rowed his boat to an island in the Fox River where the reeds grew. There, he discovered the hiding place of counterfeiters whom the local sheriff had been unable to locate. Pinkerton instantly gained a reputation as a detective. Braille Books for Children, 1983. The biography of a slave whose flight to freedom was the first step in her becoming a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. tation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad. Bledsoe. Lucy Jane. HARRIET TUBMAN. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Quercus. 1989. Talmudge, Marian and Iris Gilmore. BARNEY FORD: BLACK BARON. New York: Dodd. 1973. An indomitable man who escaped from slavery and became a wealthy leader in the political, social, and business life of Denver, Colorado. Blockson, Charles L. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Berkley, 1989. A comprehen­ sive study of the Underground Railroad arranged by the geographic regions in which it operated Based on many primary sources. T\imer, Glennette. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN DuPAGE. Wheaton, IL: Newman, 1978. Warner, Lucille Schulberg. FROM SLAVE TO ABOLITIONIST: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN. New York: Dial Press, 1976. The memoirs of a fugitive slave a man important in the abolitionist movements in England and America. (Adaptation) Bradley. David. THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT. New York: Harper & Row. 1981. Carlson, J. HARRIET TUBMAN: CALL TO FREEDOM. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989. Traces Harriet Tubman’s life, experience, and efforts to aid slaves in escaping to the North, as well as her assistance to the Union cause during the Civil War. White. Anne Terry. NORTH TO LIBERTY: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub Co., 1972. Describes the operation, stations, and famous conductors on the Underground Railroad, a network that helped many slaves escape from bondage. Collier, Christopher and James Lincoln Collier. WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN. New York: Delacorte Press, 1983. Historical novel that portrays the plight of Black people during the American Revolution. Williams, Jeanne. FREEDOM TRAIL. New York: Putnam, 1973. Jared continues his stand against slavery in pre-Civil War Kansas even though his father is killed by proslavers. Collier, James Lincoln. WHO IS CARRIE? New York: Dell Pub Co., 1987. A young Black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity. Winslow. Eugene. AFRO-AMERICANS 76: BLACK AMERICANS IN THE FOUNDING OF OUR NATION. Chicago: Afro-Am Pub Co., 1975. Provides biographical sketches of Afro-Americans who contributed to the exploration, Revolution, and growth of the United States. Ferris, Jeri. GO FREE OR DIE: A STORY ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN. Minneapolis: First Avenue Editions, 1988. A biography of the Black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad. 1980 Anderson, Joan A. WILLIAMSBURG HOUSEHOLD. New York: Clarion Books, 1988. Focuses on events in the household of d white family and its black slaves in Colonial Williamsburg in the eigh­ teenth century. Haley, Alex. A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS. New York: Doubleday, 1988. This adven­ ture, set in 1855, tells the story of a young white Southerner who helps in the Underground Railroad and in an enslaved African’s Christmas Eve escape attempt. Avi. SOMETHING UPSTAIRS. New York: Avon Books, 1988. When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new home is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his mur­ der by slave traders. Hamilton, Virginia. ANTHONY BURNS: THE DEFEAT AND TRIUMPH OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE. New York: A A Knopf, 1988. A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrest­ ed at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts. Bains. Rae. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM (Braille) Livonia, MI: Seedlings : I i � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. 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Title A name given to the resource The Underground Railroad in Illinois Description An account of the resource Photocopy of pages from the book The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner related to other resources that talked about the Underground Railroad. 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The completion of the new Union Station was ex­ acted to bring better train service on theXJhicago, Milaukee and St. Paul Railway. / The proximity of Deerfield to Highland Park and Lake orest, and to Ravinia with its gran'd opera in the sumer is greatly in favor of the development of a high •ade community. For the wtimen the easy access to Highland Park Woman’e^Club, with its excellent culiral programs, to the North Shore Chapter Daughters of ,e American Revolution (for those who are eligible) ith its fine patriots and educational work, adds to eerfield's desirability as a residence place. y DEERFIELD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The Deerfield Athletic Association, of which Jack !yers 'is the patron and sponsor, is composed of young en of ^the Village who are champion baseball anty footall players none The Deerfield-Shields High School is second nong suburban high schools. The Deerfield Gfammar ;hool is far superior to what it was ten years ago.. The imerous\golf clubs in the vicinity, such as JBriergate, leu Acres, Skokie, Ridge, Old Elm, Exmoor, Onwentsia, ernon Ridge, Breakers Beach, Lake Shore, Bob O’ Link, inset Ridge, Knollwood, Illinois, Mission Ridge, Sunset alley, Norlhmoor, Illinois, Columbian, Hunters’, and Big sn Country Club, leave beautiful open spaces that premt congestion. / There are\ four churches, one Catholic, and three rotestant in\ Deerfield and a public library. The shopping facilities are good for a village. Two :y goods stores, Schells’ and Olendorf’fi; three grocery ores and markets, R. A. Nelson’s, Henry Gastfield’s, Sol lapiro’s; a butcher shop, of Wrn. St/inhaus; the Kay jauty shop, anti the Deerfield beauty/parlor; three barjr shops, Matt Hoffman’s, Chris Siffeyt’s and Sc.avuzzoM; iree restaurants\ Bertolini and Lencioni’s, the Bluebird, id the Barbecue; two confectionery stores, the Brier weet Shoppe anal the Bluebird; two drug stores, T. J. .naak’s and Laegter and Hout’s;/ Coleman’s Variety ;ore; an A. and R store; fruit Store; two tailors and eaners, Vincent Silveri and North Shore Cleaners; the eerfield Bakery; tv^o plumbing/and heating establishents, William H. BaVrott’s and ilton Frantz; two elec•ic shops, William Seiler’s, and/William Desmond’s; one irdware store, that of Jack Nbtz; one furnace and tin iop, John J. M^MahonTs; two garages, Knaak’s and Pete ihrend’s; four real estate and insurance offices, Charles apschull’s, Frank Russo's, Foxworthy’s, and Vant and ilig’s- one delicatessen \and confectionery of Edward leimehl; three nurseries,/ICottrasch Bros., Franken ros and F D. Clavey; tw«/ lumber and coal companies, le Deerfield Lumber Com ny, The Mercer Lumber Co. id the Lake County Coa ind Material Company; . the .. aco oil station; the StafidaVd Oil Company plant; the eerfield Interior Finish/ComWny; The Deerfield State auk- The Deerfield Chevrolet Sales Company; The Busrt Construction Comphny (vfeter mains and sewers); he Kapschul Davis CdnstructiW Company (roads and iving); The Perry Keast Battery Shop; a number of winters and decorators, Ross Sherman, McGarvie, Wilani Kreh, Builders,/Ed. Segert, John Huhn, R E and G Pettis A J. Johnson, Alex Taylor, Cashmore, Thilo oil Frank Jacobs/ C. B. FoxwoAhy W. Ai ken; two ell drillers, Linco/n Pettis, and Al*n Meyer; two bnckirds the Illinois and the National; Hiree piano teachers, ranees Biederstadt, Mrs. C. G. PeTtis. Bertha Weiss; ehr? Music Shop, for radios a\d piano tuning; naak’s Music Itore,''for pianos, radSs and victrolas; naaK s music p The Herman Frost Newspaper he Hotel Deerfield-; agency, that gency and po/l room; one sewing machine Stryker f A. H. Muhljfe; two sewer% .oward painter;' Ira ad George Burnet ^ Arc Fr0st, concrete blocks; ole, cement contractor,.... station; iT\ Hole’s Deerlvin KnaaS’s Dee Pastoret Construction Com­ eld Paving 9ompra07tractors are George Pettis, Fred any. Teaming coiitrac^^ Huehl; a shoe repairing elig, Chester Wolf, Deerfield bakery; a mimeo■ore (Azjld Tamelen) aR“eetw0 band leaders, H. E. raphing /plant (Call l 0J*£moIlg the dairy companies hich have se.^ce in Deerfield are the Bowman, Hoh- felder, Clover Leaf, Santi. WHT, the radio broadcasting station, is in Deerfield. The Lake County Register of June 18, 1927, liad the following item: BOARD WILL REDISTRICT TOWNSHIP West Deerfield to Get New Precinct at Supervisors Meet According to Schedule—Action on Waukegan Delayed Action was to be taken Thursday afternoon at the board of supervisors’ meeting redistricting the Town of West Deerfield, one new polling place to be added. The resolution expected to be passed provides for dividing the Town of West Deerfield as follows: District 1—All that part of West Deerfield lying south of the Half Day Road and the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad tracks. District 2—All that part of West Deerfield lying south of the Half Day Road and west of the railroad tracks. District 3—All that part of West Deerfield lying north of the Half Day Road. “UNDERGROUND RAILROAD” ACTIVITIES The first real information of Andrew Jackson, the run­ away slave, Samuel Ott imparts to this generation. In the winter of 1858 a mulatto, about 28 years of age, came to the home of Lvman Wilmot. the Abolitionist, at night, via the “Underground Railway,” from Mississippi. The lake was frozen, so the blackman could not be sent across to Canada, therefore he had been taken to Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot brought the slave to the Lorenz Ott home to do the chores, so that the children could go to school. Keeping a runaway slave was against the law, but the Abolitionists felt that they were in the right by disobeying an unjust law. Andrew Jackson's father was a white man, ■ and he worked oh his father’s plantation where he saw his white sisters. The plantation owner was more lenient to his son than to his other slaves, and Andrew learned more than his companions, therefore the desire to be free so overcame the lad that it led him to attempt to escape, but bloodhounds tracked him, and he was brought back. In his second attempt at freedom he was successful, and. he crossed the Ohio River, where he was sent on his journey north. The man was a good worker, kept the horses clean (he had been a yardman on the plantation) and “made a nice gate of stout wood” which he said would last till the slaves were freed. When that occurred he requested Mr. Ott to destroy the gate, which sentimental resque3t was not heeded by the thrifty farmer. When spring came, and the roads were muddy, Andrew Jackson prepared to leave. Lorenz Ott made him a new suit, and gave him money for boat fare, and Lyman Wilmot took him to Chicago, where he escaped to Caimdal After reaching the slaves’ haven, An­ drew wrote"to ills benefactors who had taught him to read and write, ofliis safe arrival, and that was the last that they ever heard of him. Samuel Ott was fourteen years of age at the time, and he recalls much that the negro did r\ while here. \ From another source it is learned that the slave, An* drew Jackson’s escape was planned because he had been sold. “My kind master found it necessary to sell me. None of the slaves were given any education as our masters thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a. friend told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and that as one goes further south it gets warmer, and going north it gets colder. With this information only, I decided to run away. I was soon captured for my master had discovered my absence soon after I left, and had sent bloodhounds after me. When taking me back to the planta' tion my captor tied my arms with a rope, which was fastened to the horse, and made me walk in front of him, while he rode.. I loosened the rope and walked along as if I were not trying to escape. Soon I noticed that my master was sleeping, so I dropped the rope, and jumped into the woods. Most of the time I hid during the day, and often my pursuers were, so close to my hiding place that I could hear my master giving directions to them. “Several times I was without food for a number of days. Many times I ate raw corn taken from a field when I passed through it. One. time I fell in a barrel when I was looking for food, and even though I hurt my hip severely, I man­ aged to limp back into the woods. One day I came to a hut and asked a girl, who was alone, for some bread, which I could see was freshly baked. The child refused to give it to me so I grabbed a few loaves and ran, and when safely hidden, ate them. These are but a few of my hard- J !■; : 'I ' & t. �** r r Page One hundred eight ships, but I am glad to be with friends now.” A group of Abolitionists lived in Highland Park, and would often come to Deerfield if they knew that the farm­ ers were bringing their crops to town. Often many hotdebates took place on what is now known as Antes’ Corner. A great many negroes passed through Deerfield, but no­ body remembers a direct route which they used when they traveled through this part of the country, according to the little history of Deerfield prepared by the pupils in the grammar school in 1918, under the direction of Clifford Huffmaster, the World War invalid principal. PIONEER LIFE C. A;. Partridge in his History of ,Lake County says: "True history records the trials and the triumphs, the failures and the successes of the men who make history. The impulsive power which shapes/ the course of com­ munities ipay be .found in the molding influences which • form its citizens. The list of those to whose lot it falls to play a conspicuous part in the great drama of life is comparatively short; yet communities are made up of in­ dividuals and the aggregate of achievements, no less than the sum total of human happiness, is made up of the deeds of those men and wom^n whose primary aim through life is faithfully to perform the duty that comes nearest to hand. Individual influence upon human affairs will be considered potent or significant according to the standpoint from which it is viewed.” In the record of each man and family may be traced some feature which influenced/or has been stamped upon the community life, and these sketches show the strug­ gles, the labor, and the successes, or the failures, that engrossed their lives. “A few yet remain whosi years have passed the al­ lotted three score\ years and ten, who love to recount among the cherished memories of their lives their remi­ niscences of early days in I/ake County." Clergymen, physicians, educators, home makers, farm­ ers, lawyers, leave their influence upon the community development in a way that fit is difficult to estimate. Their faith, energy,\courage, self-sacrifice and devotion attest the results which they have achieved in Deerfield township. \ / •\ Judge V. V. Barnes, y former Deerfield man, attorney and counsellor at law in Zion City, said: “Few things are as\/interesting as the annals of states and communities yand the time will come when whatever may be writtenAor preserved will be considered as all too meager. From such events and records the historian weaves his mpst edifying and absorbing tale. Already Lake County has uurnished many events of in­ tense and peculiar interest and men and women have been permitted to lap^e into silence whose knowledge and words should have /beenWeserved for those to come. In fact, Lake County /has been and is still rich in the possession of characters and 'events of untold value and in so far as possible vfe should take heed to preserve so rich a heritage. It strikes me it would be well to con­ sider this subject deliberately With a view to preserve for others the things/so closely Xassociated with the lives and welfare of the people." \ Martin C. Decked, a former \Deerfield teacher who wrote the history of/Fremont Township for Dr. Halsey’s history, said: "The/history of a community is to a large extent embodied in the lives of its great men. There are a few history making changes that are due to natural causes, most of them being if not entirely at least greatly influenced by human agency." \ Of the pioneer mother little is known except tradition, but that she bore /and reared children under incredible conditions and hardships, that she was a1,homemaker and housekeeper /with no labor saving devices, and few conveniences, anti/ that every step in garment making and food production was her job, is well known. Large fami­ lies were common before the days of Margaret Sanger’s doctrine, and tile ingenuity of the mother kept them clothed and fed in spite of drouth, flood, army worm, and hail that destroyed their crops. CornmeaI\mush was the daily diet, Mijk was used for making cottage cheese, but the cream as reserved for butter making, and this product so rich in vitamins, (not known before this gen­ eration) was 4°Id to buy sugar. One neighbor was selected to go to Chicago to make purchases for the entire community. Ox teams were used sometimes, and at others the packsaddle of a horse was utilized. It is told that the first James Duffy walked to Chicago to buy a bag of flour and carried it home on his back. Buck- HISTORY OF DEERFIELD W t! wheat cakes with sorghum were a luxury, and ,quail rairie chickens, and partridges were had so often thaf they were not the luxury that they are to this generation A cheese similar to Limburger was made by the /German* by forming cottage cheese into little balls, placing them in\a crock and allowing them to ripen. The7fluid tha! formed around the balls was poured off frequently anti thexcheese washed with fresh milk. Fisly; principally suckers 1% feet long were in all of the streams. Water for household purposes was dipped out of/the ponds on the land with buckets. Flies and mosquitoes tormented the people and spread disease, malaria/ ague, and tvphoid.\ Screens or netting on windows/were unknown' Wells aug were six feet deep. / Cand\es made by the women from jnutton tallow and cotton v^cking dipped, and also made/in molds, were the lights used. Later a two wick lamp,/without a chimney in which raccoon and lard, or campjiene oil was burned made a two candle power light. These lamps were on metal standards with glass bowls/ The third era was the kerosene lamp of tin, painted /green, with a polished tin movable, reflector, which hung on the door frames Glass hanging lamps with glass Ajrisms or gaily painted decorations were later parlor luxuries. "Student lamps” of metal with a tall slender chimney on each side, with two bowls of\oil and circular/wicks were a great iniprovement for\the sight. A Chicago directory of is CO advertises lard\oil, lunar oil, kerosene binnacle oil, Mayville coal oil, alcohol, camplidne, and burning fluid. Clothes were 'made for the men by the women of the family after they had been but by the tailor, Lawrence Ott. In this vicinity the cloth was not woven for the men’s suits but was bought in Chicago, and sewed by hand with a very\heavy black thread. The women did the sewing after the children were in bed. The spinning wheels which the German/and Alsatian settlers brought from Germany and\Alsac,4 , , were used to make the yarn for stockings, mittehs, afid large scarfs which took the place of overcoats. Mr. George Rockenbach has one that his mother knitted. \ Alter the log hous^/era frame houses were erected. These were very simple structures, built on the ground without cellars under/\hem, but with board instead of dirt floors. A few ha getable cellars. The first frame house at the west end of the township that was at all pretentious was the/one\ built by Christian Schwingel, now owned by Mr. Kellogg, of the Kellogg Switchboard Company, known as the Grove Farm, and occupied by E. L. Vinyard. It/had a p'antry, a cistern, and a pump on the porch, which was the height of luxury. Good houses began to be built in 1850, and many are still in use. / \ Courtship in me early days\of our township was conducted under difficulties. In a\one room log cabin that contained the beds of the parents and seven or more children, the syove and other household furniture, there was little privacy, so courting \days were short. The young people/ usually took walks in the woods. The amusements were few. Sliding oA the ice in winter, attending spelling, writing and singing schools, and among the young men engaging in feats td show strength such as lifting parrels of flour, and wrestling were among their pastimes. Fist fights sometimes decorated their drab, dull/lives, as when the boys of flhe east and of the west prairies met in swimming in tha Desplaines River seventy years ago, and forty years ago when the Everett gang met the Deerfield one. \ One pioneer said, “When I was young we folk held our dadcing parties in any house that had three rooms, and if/there was but one room we moved \he stove and bed out of doors, brought our fiddler and had our dance. When it was over we moved the stove and bWl back in place and returned home in one sleigh loaded with plenty of straw.” DEERFIELD FAMILIES/3en eulogy is an interesting study, for when one conskiers how^r 4^pidly one’s ancestors jjvultiply (as well as one’s descendent-s-i two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparentsgand-^o onf until one finds that at the time of the discovery o^cfire-r-ica, about fourteen generac, me tions back, the av^p average American^nQw now living has 16.384 ancestors in a^a-rtfgle gle ancestral genera aratToinA A good geneology describes the 1historical rootsi of the. raijmy ily tree, it gives names, dates, places and family connecTlmi^, nccording to the Eugenical News of April, 1923. \ The clescendents of William Ward ol) Sudbury, Hng- I ' >.-) ■i I • S § Hi ? 1 f • £ & vs $ '■* § 0 & 1 l ■ H* % s V r< : Sf fM W ^ M ■'-"‘l5 m I Of. |#l S wii- ■ p: ^hgj || M ||| I i g M ra­ II i V. Ill �* W~yc&Ce\t - Hisfcr the observance of the centennial under present than grandfather, Christian Antes, an early Deerfield under normal conditions. We must have knowledge xJf merchant. — theslhrilling story of service, of high and lofty accom­ TELEPHONE SERVICE plishment of the pioneer citizens of Illinois. ThejychalThe first telephone call that went out of Deerfield as lenge Nis to measure up to the responsibilities >of our made by Dr. T. L. Knaak from his drug store on Deerforefathers. The torch guiding all liberty loving people fiMd Road to his son, Theodore J. Knaak, who w^s in today is Abraham Lincoln. Of all the men /lie world Weinberger's Drug Store on Chicago Avenue and ells has produced he is the exemplification of/democracy. Street in 1898. This was the first public or privatzfe tele­ But the luster of his. life should not dim jfcnat of other phone in the village. great lives, sue! as George Rogers Clark; U. S. Grant, Nathaniel Pope ind Shadrack Bond. An opportunity Teh subscribers were necessary for the installation of service. / will be given to rfcvive the spirit of llinois so that it will be felt all over tlve state, working. ith war activities. TheOiicago Telephone Company brought its lines into Deerfield rjr . in January, - - 1903. The first offic was in “Not without tl\wondrous/Uory, Illinois, Knaak s\ old drug store on Deerfield Road. I 1911 it Can be writ the\nation\s glory.” wa& moved . upstairs. Different members of that family The Lake County Regmter/Correspondent reported: assisted in the service. Among others who were em­ The entire intellectual porti<Wof the community docked ployed we^e Ralph Peterson, Anna Peterse/i, Ella and to the school Thursday eveniivs to hear a big man talk Ralph Horenberger, Cora Cooksey, Nina i/nigge, Ray­ on a big subject 'at the P./T. ANmeeting. Wallace Rice, mond Goodman, Gertrude Gastfield, Marthaf Hagi, Peter composer of several ballaas and \ number of pageants Jerry F^ence Goodman, Amelia Petersen, Helen for the Illinois centennial celebratioV as well as designer Schmleber. \ of the centennial banfter, gave an interesting talk on n\ the wonderful history of the State ol Illinois, which In 1913 the'exchange was moved to the Antes building ; challenges that of/any of the other statekin the Union. at the' corner df Deerfield and Waukegaii Roads, and a Mr. Smith had 'the exchange. / A group of pupils of the upper grades, under the direc­ i tion of Miss Leki Glynch, sang patriotic songs. The girls Raymond Goodman served as a night/operator. ) of the penny/lunch committee reported a proXt of over In 1914, Mrs. Prances Garrity took cl/arge of the Deer­ J.* $9, which sum will be used to buy a service\flag for field exchange, and when one board the school/ Mrs. Supple appointed the committed*. necessary for the deeds of the village, Xvith one operator Such stories as the following were written by\the a service second to\ no other was maintained. pupils a/d combined in a book that contains photographs So faithful was slle in the discharge of her duties, and of log/cabins and schools and is in the Deerfield school. so remarkable was her memory of cZlls made, that if an attempt had been made by a subsetrber to get a desired DEERFIELD party, and was unsuccessful, because of the absence of Deerfield was so named after the numerous deer that Mh: roamed in this locality, which was the highest place the one called, that when the caller indicated her return home by telephoning sdmeone, M/s. Garriety would say, between the Des Plaines river and Lake Michigan. Mrs-, 7~:— has been\ trying /to get you,” and thus The early roads were located in about the same places complete the call hours afterwa/ds. as they are now, with the exception of one which for- . The winter of 1917, when tl snow was so deep that merly extended from Mr. Reay’s residence to Mr. Lidgernot a wheel turned on th roads for three days, and it wood’s residence. These roads were very narrow and was necessary to close the school because of the difficulty crooked. to get children from the outskirts of the district to The bridges were built in an entirely different manner school, the president of the School board called up each than they are at present, the foundation being made family that had a telephone, three successive evenings, by laying saplings over a pile of. brush. They were to announce that no school' cbuld be held because two commonly called “corduroy bridges” because of their of the teachers had- been /Unable to return from Waustriking resemblance to that kind of material. The peo­ conda, and Mrs. Garrity Jon her own initiative, called ple traveled by land, in what were called “prairie each family that had children in'school, without waiting schooners” or by water in large “flat boats.” The nouses for numbers to be requested, a each call was com­ were crudely built, many of them being log cabins, but pleted, thus each family Was notified without delay. they served their purpose very well. Many other such instances could be related of her As early as IS36 almost all of the Indians had gone quick wit and keen sympathy in times of disasters and to reservations, although a few of them still remained. accidents, when help Was needed, ih securing aid of Some would travel in this vicinity often begging, and different kinds. Mrs./Garrity is still\giving the same others from northern Wisconsin would come to receive amount of time to the service and has'had as her main payments on the land they had sold to the white settlers. assistants on the board her mother. Mrk Anna Curley Many relics such as arrow heads and hatchets have been Flood, and her daughter, Miss Marjorid\ Garrity. No found by some of our local citizens. eight-hour day was observed by Mrs. Garrity. Her duties Our school district No. 109 was organized in 1860. r frequently kept her/at the board for twel\e hours. ■: i The first school was situated opposite Mr. Bert Easton’s In 1924 a second/board was put in-operation and a farm: it was very crudely built of rough boards. The regular assistant wars hired. \ first town school was built on Anderson’s corner. Con­ In 1927 a fourth/switch board was installed, in order veniences such as we have new were then unknown. to take care of tl/e increasing population, ere are The furniture and other articles of these small schools now 4 80 subscribers. •V was very poor. The building that stood on the corner was moved in 1903 to its present site; this school burned Federal Tax Off /Telephone Calls Removed Afte\ Middown and a new one was erected in 1913. Night, JuW 2, 1924, and An Increased IIse\ In 1860 a runaway slave, called “Andrew Jackson.” \ / of Wires Expected. \ came through Deerfield, where he stayed with Mr. Lorenz \ “After midnight on Wednesday, July 2nd, and Coll Ott. who lived where Mr. Orman Rockenbach now lives. < on long distance telephone messages are free from the T.nler he lived with Mr. Lvman Wilmot until the Civil federal tax, wh/ch has been in effect since April 1, 1919,k War was over. He had many hardships to endure while states Commercial Manager Judd this morning, in an lie was with cruel masters, but later he was taught to announcement issued July 1. read and write, and in return' he showed the white "This taxJot 5 cents on each message of from 15 to '-people how to tie corn with a stalk of corn and many j 50 cents, ana 10 cents on each message of over 50 cents, v-. . . other methods of farming. This is one incident of the J added materially to the cost of telephoning, especially vr- \ anti-slavery activities. / on toll messages over moderate distances,” said Manager r- -'V QUr service flag contains forty-five stars representing Judd, “and its removal will permit more liberal use of V ■ • some of our best young men who are willing to fight the service without adding to the cost.” for our country. We are proud of the fact that DeerMr. Jiydd stated that the telephone company, anticipat­ ;• . field has given so many to this service. Not only are ing an /increased use of the toll service, particularly our young men willing to fight, but those who must stay to nearby points, has provided additional equipment and at home are doing their part. So Deerfield has grown personnel to meet the demand. r*:-- from a few buildings to a large village which is helpDirect/ Telephone Wire to Deerfield—Express Method ^ '• ing Uncle Sam in-the “World. Conflict;” / Installed and Is Great Convenience—How LILLIAN ANTES. /* ' To Call. Writterr -for Deerfield school in 1918 at Illinois CenTo quicken the telephone service between Highland . p/Ty: tennial celebration. Material was secured from Lillian’s Park and Deerfield the telephone company recently inV I m 1 m11 m \ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lyman Wilmot House Description An account of the resource This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deerfield Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Deerfield Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fax Cover Sheet (Original) Description An account of the resource Fax Cover Sheet from Cindy Wargo in the Reference Departement of the Deerfield Public Library to the Research and Access Department of the Chicago Historical Society asking for sources to be checked for information about Lyman Wilmot. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wargo, Cindy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Deerfield Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Deerfield Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/24/2002 Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DPL.0013.006 Abolitionism American Civil War Anderson's Corner Andrew Jackson Antes' Corner Anti-Slavery Activities Bayliss Bert Easton Black Slave Narratives Canada Chicago Historical Society Chicago Historical Society Research and Access Department Chicago Illinois Christian Antes Cindy Wargo Clifford Huffmaster Corduroy Bridges Deerfield Grammar School Deerfield Grammar School Principal Deerfield Illinois Deerfield Public Library Deerfield School District #109 Deerfield World War I Service Flag Des Plaines River Dorsey Feldstein Flat Boats Highland Park Illinois History of Deerfield Illinois Centennial Celebration John Ott John Ott Family History Kentucky Lake County Illinois Lake Michigan Lillian Antes Local History Log Cabins Lorenz Ott Lyman Wilmot Marie Ward Reichelt Mississippi Mr. Lidgerwood Mr. Reay Native American Reservations Native Americans Ohio River Once a Slave Orman Rockenbach Past and Present Lake County Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County Prairie Schooners Samuel Ott Still's Underground Rail Road Records Syracuse New York The Underground Railroad in Illinois The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin This Land of Lakes and Rivers Underground Railroad William Still Wisconsin World War I