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Can you please check your files to see if you can find any reference confirming the existence
of a "Andrew Jackson" from Mississippi who passed through Deerfield, Illinois on the
Underground
Railroad circa 1858-1860? We are trying to confirm a local story that says Deerfield
abolitionist Lyman Wilmot arranged for him to live with and work for the Lorenz Ott family one
winter until he could head north to Canada in the spring. That family received one letter saying
he had arrived safely, but that was the last they heard of him. Unfortunately, we do not know if
"Andrew Jackson" was his real name. There is a fugitive narrative by someone else with the
same name written earlier (1847) but that person was from Kentucky and the circumstances
do not seem to match our fugitive's, who was supposed to have been the son of a white
master and a black slave.
I tried to search the list of names on your web site, the one following the list of families, but
all I got was the message "not found" for the link to the "persons" - perhaps you can search
this a different way?
Also, if you have any other suggestions, we would appreciate it. Thank you.
Sincerely, C.H. Wargo, Reference Librarian
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Banister
Bell
B inford
Black
Brooks
Brown
Burfit
Burke
Burse
Burton
Calendar
Carter
Chase
Chavis
Collins
Cooper
Cosby
Craig
Cronan
Cromwell
Cronan
Crosby
Crosswhight
Drake
Doo
Doston
Drys
Dyke
Ellezy
Enos
Evans
Freeman
Garel
Givens
Gray
Griffin
Griffith
Groce
Gunn
Harden
Harding
Harris
Harrison
Hawkins
Hicks
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Johnson
Johnston
Jones
Kersey
Lawson
Lewis
Malone
Malott
Martin
Matthews
Middleton
Miller
Moore
Morris
Morton
Newby
Nuby
Owens
Park
Parker
Parsons
Patton
Peaker
Peker
Pierce
Poindexter
Prince
Redding
Rice
Richardson
Riddle
Robbins
Robinson
Ross
Sanders
Scott
Segee
Shadd
Short
Shreve
Simms
Smith
Steele
Thomas
Timbers
Toyer
Travis
Tyler
Vincent
Walker
Watts
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THIS MUSEUM, officially opened in 1967. was Raleigh Township’s Centennial Project as a memorial to the Elgin
Settlement, haven for the fugitives of the American system of slavery in the pre-Civil War years.
THE ELGIN SETTLEMENT, which was for many the last stop on the Underground Railroad, was founded in 1849. Under
the guidance and supervision of Rev. William King, litis historic Black settlement soon nourished, becoming a self sufficient
community of some 1200 to 2000 persons. Its first school, the Buxton Mission School, soon surpassed its neighbours in
academic achievements. The settlement built around an agricultural economy included many thriving businesses owned and
operated by the settlers, such a saw and grist mill, a potash and pearlash factors', a brick yard, hotel, blacksmith shop, and dry
goods store, among others. Part of the success of many of the early inhabitants was assisted by the fact that the employment
opportunities offered by the construction of the cross-Canada railway enabled them to purchase outright the land they had
settled. And their many achievements were enhanced by the emphasis they placed on quality education for themselves and
their children.
THE SECOND SCHOOL, set up in the northern end of the settlement now functions as part of the museum. The tlirce
churches built during the settlement’s early years still serve this community. The road and drainage systems built by the early
settlers still serve the widespread farming area.
FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR and during the period of reconstruction in the States, many of the settlers returned to their
homes in the south to help educate their recently emancipated friends and neighbours.
NOW KNOWN AS BUXTON, the Elgin Settlement is one of the few remaining Black Canadian settlements still in
existence since the pre-Civil War era. It is a community which has, to a large extent, preserved the co-operative way of life
with which it was begun.
THE OLD SCHOOL (1861) and cemetery (1S57) are on the grounds adjacent to the museum. Farm implements and tools of
the times, household good and furnishings, clothing, jewelry, personal belongings of some ofthe original settlers, and much
more, are all displayed to bring to life the era of the nourishing Elgin Settlement. A part of history gone but not forgotten.
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The Museum is maintained through grants from the Municipality of Chatham - Kent, and the Ontario Ministry of Culture
and Communication, admission fees, and donations.
Facilities include a large picnic shelter and barbecue, washrooms, a wheelchair access ramp to the museum and plenty of free
parking Of special note is the Research Area which contains resource materials pertaining to local history and genealogy.
North Buxton Today is inhabited, for the most part, by descendants of those original settlers who elected to remain in
Canada. Though no longer the nourishing community it once was, it still remains a vital and active Black Canadian village,
which continues to remember and preserve its role, and its roots in North American Black history and in the history of
Canada. In 1964 these descendants petitioned the Raleigh Township Council to allow them to use the grants provided for
Centennial projects by the Federal and Provincial Governments. Raleigh's share of the money that had to be raised was raised
entirely within the village of North Buxton, through the efforts of the villagers.
THE MUSEUM'S PRIME CONCERN, is the preservation of material and artifacts of Raleigh, with special emphasis on the
history and accomplishments of the original settlers in the Elgin Settlement and their descendants. Among oilier things, it
houses the bed, dresser, diary and copies of'papers belonging to Rev. William King as well as many other articles and papers
of historical significance in this community.
SINCE 1972, RESEARCH has been carried out on the families of Buxton. Most of the people of the Elgin Settlement have
been identified and indexed and considerable other information is now available in the museum, in forms of records and
family trees. Although the research has been done mainly on Elgin Settlement people, it was inevitable that it would extend
into other areas as well. If you are looking for your "roots", we may have a piece of the puzzle.
THE BUXTON HISTORIC SITE & MUSEUM now includes a well-stocked research library, a cultural room where the
works of several Black artists of local origins are on display, and where video presentations detailing the area can be viewed
by appointment.
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Reference Library
This list contains many but not all ofthe resources availablefor the visitor to the museum.
This list was compiled by a summer student n'orking at the museum in the summer of1996.
In addition to the materialsfound here are genealogical records ofmost Buxtonfamilies.
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The origi^31 pioneer house, probably a cabin, was built ca. 1840, with
additions and revisions over the years. It is, I believe, the oldest
occupied building in Lake County, an opinion confirmed by the Director of
Archives of Lake County Museum, Wauconda, Illinois. The only older
standing structure being a log cabin erected, three years earlier which has
been moved and is a part of a historical village in a Deerfield,park.
At a later date, but still early, a coach house was added to the property
and used for the Wilmots' wagons, carriages, and horses.
The structures still show early detail, especially hand-hewn beams and a
stone'foundation in the house cellar.
A unique feature of the coach house is a tower section which once contained
an inside water tank. And in the house, still to be seen after more than a
hundred years, are the initials scratched in a windowpane of Roswell
Wilmot, one of Lyman Wilmot's sons.
After the deaths of Lyman and Clarissa Wilmot in the 1890s (they are buried
m Deerfield Cemetery), the property passed into the hands of various
members of the family and others to the present day. Although changes have
been made m the.property - to be expected in 155 years - it still retains
integrity as a pioneer home. Much of Wilmot1s original acreage has been
sold off over the years, but the remaining property, the size of three
normal house lots, is very impressive and is unique in the community on a
street bearing the historic Wilmot name.
Lyman Wilmot was.a seventh generation descendant of immigrants from England
who came to America m 1637 and were among the earliest settlers of
Connecticut. He was born in Boone County, New York, in 1806.
In 1834 Lyman's brother Jesse Wilmot journeyed to what is now the Deerfield
another on the western edge of the present village.
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this day. My children attended this school at one time and my grandchildren
do now, where they are "celebrities" to their friends because they live in
"Mr. Wilmot's house."
The Wilmot family were ardent supporters of the North's cause during the
Civil War. They were dedicated abolitionists and their home became a stop
on the Underground Railroad where slaves were harbored on their way to
Canada. One escaped slave was sheltered by them throughout the war.
The Lyman Wilmot family was significant in the founding and early develop
ment of the community of Deerfield, and their still-standing historic
residence - evolved as it may be - is probably the oldest occupied building
in Lake County.
This record of the pioneer Lyman Wilmot family was presented to the
Deerfield Historical Society by Richard Hart of Riverwoods, Illinois, an
owner of the property in June, 1995
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house consisted of a kitchen and living room with a "ladder" stairway
to the space above them - the sleeping loft. One of the stories perpetuated
about the home is that it once was an underground station for runaway
slaves during the Civil War. Lyman Wilmot was known to have been an
abolitionist.
Several additions have been made through the years. In the 1920's
the sun porch shown below was added. This became the main entry to
the house.
The other structure on the property is the coach house, built to
house the coaches, or horse-drawn carriages, owned by the Wilmots. Three
garages are now on the ground level. The second floor was originally
a hay loft; it is now an apartment.
Attached to the coach house is a
shop, and an office that was formerly a greenhouse.
�SETTLING IN
The title of "disputed" first settler in Deerfield is held by
Jesse Wilmot. He came by flatboat up the north branch of the Chicago
River (that's the trickle under the bridge on Deerfield Road by the
Garden Apartments) and spent the winter of 1834 here alone, As he was
just scouting the area, he was not considered a settler.
Meehans and Lambs are listed as early settlers, but one historian
gives credit for first permanent residency to the Cadwells.
Jacob
Cadwe11 and his family came from Vermont and settled here in 1835.
As they settled around what is now the corner of Waukegan and Deerfield
Roads, the town became known as Cadwell Corners, That name, remained
until 1849-50 when there was a vote to rename the town. Many German
and Irish settlers had arrived by then. Irish people wanted another
Erin. John Millen (who was from Deerfield, Massachusetts) suggested
Deerfield as it seemed to fit the area with its abundance of wild deer.
When the vote was taken, Deerfield won by four votes.
Meanwhile Jesse Wilmot returned with his family and settled on land
that is now around Greenwood Avenue. He convinced his brother to
investigate the area, and Lyman did just that in 1837. He then returned
to New York for his family and finally settled in the fall of 1840 on
240 acres of wild land around what is now Wilmot School. Here Lyman
and Clarissa Wilmot raised six sons and three daughters.
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Please satisfy-my .curiosity: Is It true that the. house at 601 !
Wilmot, Deerfield, was,a station on the Underground Rah- f
. road, the pre-Civil War route by which slaves rumujig away
from the Sou.a v^ispirited to Canada?-^ Deerf{?ld . • ,
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small part, was a station. The'rest : of thO : house •^ 'V.'hlch
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the founders of- DeerfieldIppg since has been replacedhy. «•;.
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station: Stopping place, on.Freedom Road,
a new main section, with attached porch; , the garage arid its
attached greenhouse .also have been added;,.One value f of;
the onetime ‘‘station’Viriightbd'tjiat it'string a?: a lessoilte
Deerfleldians’not to be impatient when- they are‘'waitmg''at
the Milwaukee Road station for a commuter traih that Is 5
minutes late. In Wilmot’s day, ^riders” ori the'Underground .
Railrodd;Sometimes had to wait days or evert'1weeks in-his
house’ until’the moment.seemed;favorable to■' hide'-’therii^under a load of hay, in a' wagon, "and move to the next %
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home of the Wilmots, who settled here botween 1839-40." The orig
inal home served as an underground/station for run-away slaves. Ly;; man ;y/ilmpt was one-of the most successful farmers in Lake County.
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visits the original Wilmot home, on Wilmot Road, during a visit to
Deerfield last week. Welcoming him is present owner of the house,
Robert Young. Constructed in the late 1830’s it is one of the oldest
|: homes in Deerfield. Staff photo by Peggy Pollard.
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12 StSK^elery
3’. O'Plain Cemetery
f8. Louis Gastfield Home (7542;
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John Millen home (1839)
Philip Brand home (1844)
& 12. Cadwell homes
Cadwell School (1848)
Alfred Parsons home (1843)
Philip Vedder home (1844)
Job Galloway home (1840)
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19. Andrew Meier home
20. Fred Fritsch home (1842)
21. Jasper Ott
22. Jacob Ott
23. John Jacob Ott Sr.
24. Lorenz Ott
25. Jacob Luther
26. Martin Luther (1835)
27. Jennings’ homestead
28. Stewart family
29. Dose home .
30. Vincent's Grist Mill
31. Wilmot School (1847)
32. Jame Duffy (1844)
33. Patrick Carotan (A841)
34. Ludlow home
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35. Michael Meehan home (1835)
36. James O’Connor home
37. Dorsey home
38. Dawson home
39. Bartholamew Boylan
40. Michael Dawson
41. Michael Fagan
42. Dennis Lancaster
43. Michael Vore
44. McIntyres & Tullys
45. James Mooney
46. Philip Ott home (1836)
47. Roderbusch home
48. St. Mary's of the Woods Cemetery.
Here, in 1674, Father Marquette
erected a cross, preaching to the
Indians.
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TOWN or DXERFIEID.
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Hollister nnd Robert Bennett,- Constable*
John Bennett and R. P. Buck. This Town*
shi|) bos n school fund of $3,839 43. The only '
Post office in this Town is Flint Creek— J.
J. Bullock, Postmaster.
. '-n1® vuluation of property iu this Town for
was
thereon waSC/a kT""* °f
C°mpUted
iir peculiar location, has nevor, hithorto
iclod them the benefits of q pul)lic thorhfure through their midst; in consequence
vhicli, they have been kept somewhat in
back ground in u'business point of view,
ceping their lands at a low value, whilst
completion of this'Rail Road cannot fail
oubliug the'vahic ofihp.ir'rcill estite.
'he population of this Town, like that of
other Towns of the County, is made up
n various poVtions of the civilized world ;
as a community, the inhahitauts arc
■keel lor their temperate and indu'utrioui •
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t well as for their perseverance and
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TOWN OF DEERFIELD.
. 1-J“«r(ield is n fractional Township and lies
in the south-east corner of the County, nnd is
north by Shields, on the east
>y Bake Michigan, on the south by Cook
Cpunty, and on the west by Vernon.
J he.first settlement of this Town was comme. cod "i tho spring of 1836, by Jacob CadCaleb
'3 E°nS,l S,1?di*on °-. Philemon,
Uieh.Hirum,. and Edwin, who emigrated
from Norfolk, in the State of New York, in
the spring ofIS35. Among the balance oI
the early settlers of this Town, were Horace
inuTng the curly settlers of thisTown, v/cro
toll A.Whitfr,'JoshuaA.llarudon,JohnElls•t;
. II. Freeman, Amos Flint, I,. H.
e, ..ohert CtuUncc, Robert Bonnet, Jnred
nstock unci FrceU'iun Martin.
’hevfirst Town meeting in this Town was
1 ot the Ifouse ofNoble R. Haves. John
hillock Nvas chosen moderator, and Noblo
lays, clerk. The first set of Town ofti; wdVe ns follows : Supervisor, Philctus
erly ; Town clerk, Noble R. Hays ; AssesJacob McGilvra; Collector, Rob. Conmee;
:rseer of the Poor Francii Kelsey ; Coni*
sioners of Highways, James Jones, Lewis
3ute, Harvey Lambert ; Constables, ChesBehnett aqu Wallace Bennett; Justices of
Peace/ Innis Hollister and Robert Bcn*he present Town oftlcors are us follows :
ler-visor, Lewis II. 'Bute ; Town Clerk,
ri Sears; Assessor, Joshua lluindon’;
lector; John Juckson ; Overseer of 'thu
■r, "Robert 'Bennett ;• ComihisAftnc'rD 'of
hwHys, Ilaryey Lambert, Jumea Jones and
r "Wheeler; Justices of tho'Peace, Ittuis
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Dll3 lownship is mostly timbered .land
having no P-rairies, except a small skirt of he
Grand Prairie extending up a short distance
•into the south-rrost- portion of it.
There nro some two or three sWish
•streams passing through tins Town, flbwim.
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HISTORY OF LAKE COUNTY.
Bartlett, followed him west in 1836, locating
near Libcrtyvillc.
Richard and Ransom Steele came to the
county in 1S34, made claims and erected a house
about two and one-half miles south of Libcr
tyvillc. Returning cast for their families in the
early winter, they occupied the new home in
February, 1835. In this house, June 20, 1835,
Albert B. Steele was born. He was the son of
•Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steele, and was the first
white child born within the limits of what is
Sclllcrs Increase—River Claims Preferred—First
Census Taken—Partial List of Pioneers—
Trappers Who Departed When Permanent
Settlers Came—Stories of the Early Residents
—How They Came and Where They Located
—Wynkoop's Deer Park.
Richard and Ransom Steele, came to Lake
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claim in the same neighborhood in 183.1, as did
Andrew S. Wells.
Jacob Miller came out from Chicago in 1834
and built a sawmill near the mouth of Mill
Creek, not far from the town line now separating
Warren from Newport; went back to the city
for the winter, and returned to the mill early
in 1835. He also erected a flouring mill, the first
in the county, as far as can be ascertained.
William Green prospected on the east side
of the river, in Libcrtyvillc, in 1834, but did
not permanently locate there until 1837.
Jesse Wilmot built a home in Deerfield in
1834, and) “bached" it for a year. Lyman, his
brother, spent the summer with him, then re
turning cast, where he remained until 1840, after
which, until his death,_ he resided in this county.
Joseph Flint located a claim in Cuba town
ship, probably in 1834, which was occupied by
his bachelor son, Amos Flint, who died in 1837
or 1838. The log house, whioh was jointly oc
cupied by an aunt, Mrs. Grace Flint, and V. H.
Freeman and family, burned during their first
winter,' leaving them in a pitiable condition.
Timber was plenty, however, and but little time
elapsed before a temporary shelter replaced the
burned structure. Flint Creek, in Cuba, still
bears the name of the pioneer of .that township.
Joseph Flint is understood to have returned cast
immediacy after locating the claim. Thomas
Ballard, who came to Vernon in 1835, also lost
a house by fire, but before his family or furniture
had been moved in.
It is probably true that Captain Wright’s was
the only family to spend the entire winter of
1834-5 in Lake County, although it is claimed
by William E. Sundcrlin that his uncle, Pclcg
Sunderhn, and family spent that season in their
log home tin the York House neighborhood north
west of Waukegan.
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claims taken up were almost entirely along the
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Dcs Plaines River. The early settlers signed
agreements that when the land was surveyed and
sold they would deed to each other any that
might be within the lines staked out as "claims."
These agreements were usually carried out, al
though some litigation resulted,
The river
claims were quickly taken and those bordering
the lakes or small streams, especially when it
happened that there was a grove located near,
were usually the next ones to be secured. Those
living along the river suffered most with chills
and fever—those banes of pioneer life— and the .
prairie settlers found some compensation for
being compelled to at once dig wells because of
at least partial exemption from the ague. The
agreements to deed back and forth any land
embraced in a claim, regardless of section lines,
accounts for the irregular shape of many farms
in various parts of the county, and explains the
long, narrow subdivisions so common along the
Des Plaines.
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It is not easy at this late day to make a
complete and accurate list of all who came in
1835. to separate them from those who came
a year or two later, or to state just the locali
ties where they settled. A few remained but
a short time, although a majority made this
their permanent home. The following list prob
ably embraces most of those who came in 1835:
In Vernon there were James Chambers, Clark
Knights, Alonzo Cook, Moody Rowd, Henry
Walton. Jonathan Rice. William Easton. B. F.
Washburn. J. M. Washburn*, Mathias Mason.
Asahcl Talcott, Roswell Rose, Andrew S. Wells,
Henry Wells, William Whigam. John Gridlcy
and his sons. Elisha. George and John T. Gridley. William Easton and his sons. Robert and
John Easton. John A. Mills. Erastus Bailey,
Matthew Hoffman and Moses Putney.
In Libcrtyvillc there were Richard Steele.
Ransom Steele. Davis C. Steele. Henry B. Steele,
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during the Utah troubles and served in the Civil War until failing health caused - ■ J -<0$
him to be placed on the retired list by President Lincoln in 1863. For five years
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Alderman of that city. He was a member of the Aztec Club which was formed in 0
the City of Mexico by the officers of the army at the close of that war; also a
member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, and other so
cieties. He was the author of "Turnley’s Narrative from Diaries, it u
The Turnleys,” and several other books and many speeches, lectures and poems
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HENRY S. VAIL
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He was married, March 3, 1880, to Miss Jennie C. McCulloch, after making his
home in Highland. Park in 1878. He was one of the organizers of the Law and
Ureter'League.
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WARREN HENRY WILMOT was bom in Deerfield, Lake County, 111.,
October 6, 1855, the son of Lyman and Clarissa (Dwight) Wilmot. He received
is education in the district schools and Northwestern College at Naperville 111
He has been twice married: to Miss Minnie E. Vining in 18S0 and ten ’
later to Miss Eva P. Vant. He has served
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THE WILMOT FAMILY
some mention or Ri!'1 ?0,r,I<1 1,0 coinploto without
a. prominent part in** thi "1?fam ly wl,,ul‘ Played. such
yet or this lanraVimn ° affa,rs ,°r the community, and
Portrait and ninJA1”! «y *1° «je>«ber-remains here. The
"Lyman Wilmot Vho'fJlinf bum °f Lalt0 Couuty says:
dent and leading )
f fifty-one years has been a rcslNew York nadthe
r°» ,the to,wn °r Decrfiekl, claims
birth Is i , (hi Lb C,°i1l,s nativity. The place or his
the data s J«.y O22niOSf0?O,OfrVIme> *ro,om* County' and
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His lithe?::."0,0 WlAl,not* boLh Motives or Connecticut.
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3' 177°- and died In Colcs177R rt'iJ”. 0?loobcr 1J* isi°- HIs wire, born June 10,
and AnJCn in,1S53- They were the parents or five sons
and one daughter. The sons made tho remarkable record or having all lived to celebrate their golden, weddings,
brn.prt while„1?ne' the subject of this sketch, has cele- '
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llby wedding or the sixtieth anniversary of
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Stopben B- the eldest of the five brothers,
■uni diVrt m rU,aryi,
mrUTied Mlss
Clauson,
years- I niv* m- ' M' 1,S77,1 :l1 1,10 !l80 °r sovonty-nlno
1799 am
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1803' \vPfidoJCn July 14, iSO4; Amos, born March 3,
1 1 d. Bc,tSy Crawford, and died in 1S78, at the
ago °f seventy-six years; Asahcl was born March 24,
?n'!i0 ve Smith, and died in-St. Paul, Minn.,
" Millch' 18S?* at ,the aeo of eighty-four, having long
been a practicing physician; Lyman ia now cighty-fivo
i^nS °r,agc: : css' 1,10 youngest, was born September 13,
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' afw‘fe Blftabeth Luther, and Is now
Missouri’ th° ag° °C cighty"one years in Carroll County,
hair months old. Roswell 0., born July 12, 1847, wa
married November 20, 1S70. to Miss Miranda C. Adams
and resides in Hodgldss, Delta County,' Colo. Dwigh
JunoC,n ml AandUSr n’ 1849' marrled L,zzIe Scholes
S intn SS ’ and i os Ides In Evergreen Colo. Ho wa
E Cn PII7n rSC,;lallV° l° the Colorado Legislature
Sr ifiE mr ln ia,nuary 19’ 1852« was married Decern.
hiCqm?M,1pi7|C' t0 E?,\v n ICIttell» and their homo is nov
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Eb,??g0; W^ren Henry, born October 6, 185 5
Is now a resident ot Deerneld. The children 'ofder thai
pSeli!* Wer° b0rn ,n Ncw York aad those younger h
"Mr. Wilmot was engaged In farming In the town o
Greenwood, Steuben County. N. Y.. until 1837. when leav
‘ag b,s (am,,y» ho first came to Lake County on a pros
pcctlng tour, arriving at his destination on the 20th da\
°f fjay‘ JefQ* his younger brother, had preceded hin
this county in 1835, and had located In-what Is now
the town of Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot visited his brothei
and traveled over Northern Illinois Cor several monthand In November following returned to New York. h
the fall of 1840, ho emigrated from that state to Lain
hnUM.nr TUl !SJanV,y' com,ng ])y Loan» to Buffalo when
J.1® ansTei-red the teams to a steamboat and took pa*
Doornoi.1 (i!,lc«agr0,i Ari’lv,ng at that Port they drove t{
Dcoi field, their future homo. In February, 1S41 he pu r
wi,aiM,di°neJlUndreid aVd sIxLy acres of wild land, t<
which he afterwards added until he now has two hun
J red and forty acres., HIs farm is largely prairie am
for tlhft n^f°#i«eCtl0n 32, Where he has madQ his home
*®r J he past fifty-one years. It is considered one of tin
of thoam^ ° rarm3 Jn_ Dcorfleld. and tho owner is on.
t
m°st successful and leading agriculturists' oLal o County. In polItlc'araentimonUheils an earnest Re
publlcap. In early life he was an anti-slavery Whig ant
ins? Mo ™ accord with the original Abolitionists H(
lost his vote at the presidential election of 184 0 by rea
n°«! °, „1S removal t0
West that year. When the
Republican party was organized he was one of thos.
who took part in its formation In Northern Illinois H(
lias-never been a seeker Tor public ofilce and has server
only in minor local positions. lie was Moderator at the
lust town meeting held in Deerfield, and has served aAssessor for that town. During the draft he accepted
inwn'° / ?V?°iPl,.lar po?,tion of enrolling officer for hi*
IhrcateiietL * ° * 16 mad° enem,es and even had his life
"Lyman Wilmot. whoso name heads this record hav
ing lost his father when a child of four years, and his
mother being in poor circumstances, was obliged to
leave home at the early ago of ten and make his own
way in the world. He began as a farm hand. Ho was
obliged to work hard, enjoyed few comforts and no
luxuries. Ills educational advantages were limited to
a few months' attendance at tho district schools In tho
winter season. When ho arrived at tho ago of twentyfive he found that he had accumulated enough of this
world s goods to set up a home Tor himself and was marvied March 17, 1831. in his native town to Miss Clarissa
Dwight,
a daughter of Israel and Sarah (Porter)
_ . ,
m&w.-iaaasiwiiiii
K,.Us, “ “ »•
New
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot have been blessed with a large
family, numbering six sons and live daughters- Vlrlrii
the eldest was born June 9, 1834. in Greenwood/Steuben
County, N. Y., murticd Surah Esther Hunter and resides
in Humcslon, Iowa. He served in tho ;Unlon Army In
tho lato war as a mumbor oT the Fifty-fifth Illinois Reir!
rnent, ci,listing October 5.18C1. He was under Shcrmln
In his march to the sea. and was mustered out in Dccom
bor. 1SG4. Adelia. born November 1. 1835. died Novem
ber S. of the same year. Adelia, the second or that
name, was born December 20. 1S3G, and became the wife
of Philip Glitzier July 29. 1857. He is numbered among
the early settlers of Deerfield Township and Is now de
ceased. Ills widow resides In Denver. Colo. Levi Davis
born January 4. 1839, married Sarah A. Hodgkins and’
resides at Ilodgklss. Delta County, Colo. Ho was also a
soldier of the lute war. enlisting on the lGth of Julv
1SG1. In the Forty-seventh Illinois Infantry, was wounded
at the battle of Old Lake, La., being crippled for life
and was mustered out at Springfield, 111., ]„ October*
•.S G 4. Lyman II.. born in Deerfield, III., April ’5 ls4 l ’
^_.,s single and resides on the old homestead. Mary horn
.
hv»?vio’«Wn!m0ti andm!lls w,r® aro members of the Presbytej Ian Church. They celebrated • their ruby or sixl'
w®d(llng annivorsary in March of the present year
Doth aro well preserved and enjoy, as they deserve7 th*
high, regard of all who know them. They have reared
J
family of children, of whom nine are livln" and
.usc ul and r®epected members of society -•
The Wilmot school and Wilmot road were named fnr
Lyman Wilmot. who was a leader in and example to 1
—"”y*, HIs name should ever be honored In Deer'
field by letalnlng it on school and road. No such fanev
.SIS S^!lll°son-WnUe'-- »?•
y/J
j J)//tu# ot
tuX:
^
*«//1
/ *7
�> he vn 0n‘‘ ^ Yopk1S35' W01° G'° «r.t HUbr.
an ‘imiu,?°
I?liern<!,d' The Cadwell homestead,'' on ?
n
1
trail which Is now the Waukegan Road," Is
at present occupied by Miss Loretta Heman.
Jesse Wilmot, who married Elizabeth
came up
the north branch of the Chicago River inLuther,
1 S3*1 and spent
the winter alone
brother I vnn„' Whoro U\c vII,a6e »ow is. In 1837, his
wife pi
cnme and ^ 1840 Lyman brought his
in n C,a,,slsa Dwight, to the 240 acres of "wild land *
In the vicinity or the Wilmol school.
’
'
and the Vemi 1'1?racc Lamb's la'ld
to the south.
u c Person, r fa,'m' ”ow Georeo Truitt's home, and
comb's (n^w Hoed's?,sI„'deU'6 'n,U' CXtentlC(’ west t0 HoU
east to Lewis Gastficld's, south •
to the Lamb farms.
' ’
j.
f’ Ly,nai; W»mot, thc elder, was a practical nurse
y
ber ministrations were also those of a country
r Physician. All who remember her recall her "water
j cure treatments in the years from 1S4 0 to 1880. She
£ always wore a black lace cap, and used a large doc\°ls
for diagnosis. I-Icr tall, slender figure appear?ta home meant comfort to the stricken, and ease of
t0 y°rried Parent- Mrs- Lange, and Mrs. Lewis
v Todd, and Mrs. Wilmot were the women who assisted
vat the arrival of infants, when physicians, graduate
-V' *<iCS’ ^nd anaesthetics were not considered necessities.
Miss Josephine Woodman has had a maternity home
f m her home for over twenty years, and it is now
i;*«5KCnfCt* as, ^iC J°sePbinc Woodman Maternity Home
; ?.he bas a bed *or but one patient. . Mrs. Albert Hagi
Sfjrs* Tl^odore Taylor, and Mrs. Fred Bleimehl (who was
iAlrs CntchJey), and Mrs. Carolyn Becker, have been
rpractlcal nurses.
ss iw*?.f:^U-s,rvery0uct?v,tlesmlne- Th" ‘3
Mrs.. Wessljng's recollection of the early history of this
locality are vivid ones. She was sixteen when Abraham
• Lincoln was assassinated, and she saw his body lying in
state in the courthouse in Chicago. She and her brother.
Silas, were In the Wilmot school when Lyman Wilmot
brought the sad news of Lincoln's death. .
The second day of the Chicago Are Mrs. Wessling was
on her way to Chicago, with her father and mother, to visit
her husbands cousin, Henry Wessling, and to see her broth
ers, Silas and George Brand, who lived in the Martin
btangcr tavern, when they met a man whose horse was so
covered with foam as to make the color or the animal In
distinguishable. I-Ic had ridden as far as Niles to tell the
people that Chicago was burning.
Philip Ott and Alfred Parsons wero In land buying business. From the letters of the former to the latter/one from
Hoopole Grove dated July 8. 1853, says: '‘You have boi^U
°tf bl\t U 13 aU wet land, except G acres, but
[vr\l
n Good grass land, and will by and by sell
ncll. Mi. Gloss, whom wo mot on the road to Prophets
nUn lp«f«W*trdiil0 !®t# ,b°UKht thc Dailey place for $350, and
'..r bmicht Vnlnri 3 P(on Sender's »-oad In Deerfield.
<5200 fm- n,f°P
0fC Jci3*?e w,lmot’ very good land for .
?2°0 foj the Company, and Intend to buy SO acres more off
the I-Icnry Place which will corner with the 40 acres that
you entered, and I think will bo of good valued us
look very good. Corn is eight Tcct high."
• 1
In comparison of land values, in 1917 the Wilmot school
board paid ?G02 an acre for Wilmot land. To the south
nm-olC M1}101’
sold a 120-acre farm for $200 an
f", wna
-it WOO an acre tor the flrst ten
S a^s.^blfe
same WlfmSTanc]
R°°° n"
:E
many
of the
On his way to the dedication of the Calvanlstlc or Refoi med Lutheran Church on Dundee Road about 184S
he went through the Frey farm, and remembers a little
snow bird s nest full of eggs in tho snow. The congrega
tion and visitors at the dedication ceremony were
"packed.In like herrings." Samuel Ott was the first
Sunday School teacher in the Wilmot School, assisting
Lyman Wilmot who was superintendent.
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l0‘' Un aC1'03 °£ tho
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T!1^ GUTZLER FAMILY
October*?ia^Qn©Gutz,ier was born ,n Sundhausen, Alsace,
was born rno
h,s w,f0* Margaret Elizabeth Hetzcl,
Germans n?,Crsthclm’ A,sacc* April 1G. 1S0U. They were
fntl sky that Phi'iip°k'! Gu“# -U,0m
W#“U,y ,,0°"|C’
had riding horses and other
u^l.rIes ln his home country.
when5 ,'LrVV?S, an,only daughter of wealthy parents, and
broi.rhV\
famlly came t0 Deerfield, Mrs. Guttler
She S oil USCi°U ,,ncns 5l,Hl silks, and a short time before
these shriii?;? ,Dece,nbuJ’ 7* 1351. she directed that some of
Lcrs
1 Ul be saved for eaeli of her four surviving daugharrJval ,n Deerfield, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Gutzif,*
r1ronJ Je5jse Wilmot (brother of Lyman Wilmot)
of aUv^r'money aU< s,xly’acrc farm. paying for It two pecks
WnVl? mother of Philip Jacob Gutzlcr came with them.
iVsn \m.C, 3 not known t0 kcr descendants. She died about
Nnrih M
or elghtjr-eight. and was buried in tho first
ivoitli Northficld Cemetery.
Another member of the Gutzler household was old Grctel.
V. i huousekceper, who came to America with them. Grctel
cued about March. 18G0. She had some money "out," und
oy the will of Philip Gutzler (who died January 7. 185G)
as to be given a home with his.son, or have another found
.r her. A small house was built for Gretel across the
road, and after she died It became the property of Mr. Hess.
The will also provided that the eldest son (or one of the
two elder sons) should care for the younger Gutzlcr chil
dren, and pay to each one thousand dollars, when lie or she
became of age. Philip Gutzler, the eldest son, fulfilled these
requirements and acquired the homestead, eighty acres of
woodland, also sonic money invested.
Philip Jacob Gutzler, his wife, who was Margaret Eliza
beth Hetzcl, and their daughter, Salome (born in Gertshelm, July 9, 1837, and died In Deerfield in December, 1S50),
were burled in the old Evangelical Association Churchyard
In North Northficld. 111. About, fifty years later (about
’.905) under the supervision of Philip Jacob Gutzler’s daughter, Mrs. Lydia Himmel, the three caskets wero disinterred
intact and removed to the newer cemetery half a milcT'east
of the church.
Philip Gutzler was born In Gcrsthcim, April 2, 1830. and
camo to Deerfield with his parents In 1841. He attended
the Wilmot School, and lived the usual life of a boy on the
.farm. When he was nineteen the whole United States was
electrified by the rumor of astounding gold discoveries In
our newly acquired territory of California. It was almost
without inhabitants, and the field was open to all who could
get there. The wildest excitement and activity prevailed
throughout the country, and every city and village throbbed
with feverish Impulse to rush to the "diggings." The
boys on the farm "out west," as Illinois was then called,
did not escape-the contagion.
Tho maps then published showed all of the territory west
of the state of Missouri as a blank across which was printed
the words "Great American Desert." The difilculty of
reaching this unknown country restrained thousands from
the attempt, so that those only who possessed natural
courage or adventurous proclivities actually made the great
plunge.
In 1851, Philip Gutzler could no longer resist the golden
lure, and being then or age, felt that he was free to go,
and, in company with several other young men or the neigh
borhood (among whom were Jacob Ott and Ills nephew.
Jacob Ott. Philip Ott. Andrew Meier, George Arnold, Philip
Lehman and one of the Luther boys), started bn the Jour
ney. The "Argonauts” had several routes from which to
choose: A tedious sea journey around Cape Horn, a partly '
sea and partly land route across the Isthmus of Panama,
or Nicaragua, or Mexico, or following westward the buf
falo trails which were already outlined by the bleaching
bones of beasts and men who had succumbed to the hard
ships of the desert, or had been killed by tho Indians. Tho
• Dcorflcld party choso the routo across the Isthmus of Pan
ama.
i
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The ocean voyages, with the poor accommodations of tho
uotnrlnuiily lundoqunln vnminln. worn a much drnadod part
*»f llio JournXsy; but ail ho ulwayu wau n good a uullor, Philip
Gutzlcr was In better health and spirits than tho majority
or the paaoengoro when they came to anchor In tho Harbor
of Chagreo.
Travel ucroiiii the liilhimm wan by cniiouu, or buugon, up
tho Chagres River, following about tlio samo lino as the
Panama Canal, was dug- sixty years later. Part of the
distance tho men walked and over some of the way they
wero carried In chairs strapped on the backs of the natives.
These natives, who beforo the "Gold Rush" were exception
ally honest people, by two years' contact with American
radians, had been changed to thieves and murderers, and
the whole route across tho Isthmus was Infested with Amer. lean, English and Spanish highwaymen, who pounced upon
defenseless travellers at every opportunity. After crossing
the Isthmus there was another sea journey (which some
times took three months) beforo they passed through the
Golden Gate, and stepped ashore upon the "Promised Land.”
Philip Gutzler’s next five years were spent In the vicinity
of San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, and Santa Cruz.
For five years tho "rush" continued. Some of the dis
coveries were wonderful, but the greater number of people,
wrought to a pitch of nervous frenzy by the myriad reports
flying about, were too easily Influenced to leave a locality
of moderate wealth to plunge into the unknown beyond the
mountains.
After months of fruitless searching for the proclaimed
‘Inexhaustible focus of gold," they would return those who
had not succumbed to privation—poverty stricken and rag
ged, to find the claims they had left already occupied.by
fresh arrivals.
This sort of work was too uncertain to suit Philip Gutzler,
so after two years of Indifferent success at placer mining,
lie started-to grow wheat. Some of the time that he was In.
California flour was as high as one dollar a pound, and
many a man mined half a day to pay the price of a loaf
of bread.
Sugar cost a dollar a pound, and butter two dollars and
a half.
The producer’s profits were certain and though not large
compared to that of the most fortunate gold seeker’s, at any
rnto Inrgo onougli to prove tho wisdom of his choice.
Philip Gutzler prospered until ho had a severe attack of
typhoid fever. With .this, and its attendant ills, he was
sick for a year. A man nurse was employed when the
most ordinary labor cost ten dollars a day. Eggs >vere
ono dollar each, and milk seventy-five cents a quart. This
year’s sickness cost Philip Gutzler a small fortune, but,
even with such* great expense, the years spent in Californfa
pyi>—l profitable.
The first letter to reach him from his Illinois home told
of his mother’s death, and after being away five years, he
was called home by the death of Ills father. By that time
a railroad had been built so the Journey was not attended
with so many hardships.
?
On his return It was arranged that Philip should tako his
father’s farm, care for the younger children of the family,
and as his six brothers and sisters became of age, to pay
each one thousand dollars.
On July 29, 1857, Philip Gutzler married Adclla Wilmot
daughter of Lyman and Clarissa Dwight Wilmot. The re
mainder of his life was spent on the old homestead where
ho led tho active life of a successful farmer. Plls last six
years were marred by falling health, and on. June 30, 18S2,
he died at the age of fifty-two, respected as a man of the
highest honor. After his death the farm was sold to George
Stryker.
Michael was tlje second son or Philip Jacob Gutzler and
his wire, Margaret Elizabeth I-Ictzcl. Michael was born
June 15, 1833,, In Gcrsthcim. Alsace. He married Mary
I weed, November, 1855, In Waukegan, III. They made their
home In Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Mary Elizabeth (always called by her second name) was
Vjri1
1®; 184*; married John Stryker on March 27,
iSGO. 1 hey lived ln Northficld. then in Ravenswood, III
whero Mrs. Stryker died December 27. 1914. She was burled
In Grnccland Ccmotcry.
, *r.ayy’ b0Trn October 30. 1842, In Deerfield, III,, married
111 StorHngJI?|UCt ° CbIctlE:o' January 5, 1859. She died
Anna Lydia (always known as Lydia), who was born
S°“il0r,7n-,,,o*.<"-J,,llDoonrfioMl
Chl«eo.
EviuigoUca,
‘-ha
auperfect w !iv cs^lh rtii °t 1 Tosc whTch°K
�m
Clil«:n(r0 Novci!*’i** 1
rc?!;r
'vo,mi,,» a,,d “Nor her death In
managed ably to
^^rand
s,“u"
.„
wont to a place In ,„e
tl"** when the toucher "bourdo 1 uro iid'u„!i AT wwro fho
mio of Adel la's pupils asked ir Ji
o ,u?lU ono morning
house next week. 1 “Next week?*
c?mo to tIle,r
better do. Ma says she wants vo„ fflYe>i m£*m’ and *a
and tho flour aro all gone ’’ 1 7
1
0 befor0 tho ^
gTSM?
Sho attended ^ifso^ooli1 ^Iattl0)! b°™ “ay 24. S'
western Uni versify <?]?«?; afwr)vard &0'ne to the Northa»d Cook Counties’
?
1,1 various places ImLalco
Eanlzed the 0 A O Snfl,1Ci; frIand-’ E*nma Hall. or:
°‘ln llm hshd a l0ne’ °*<sten1e In Deerfldd!'' 1 “t,rar* eQ'
■
where she married Elmer'E "hllMc?
CoIoradoHattlo Gutzlcr Miller dfnd rLM . ’ November 14. 1888.
after she heeame°adIjWdCemb0r
1888' 'C33 lbaa a
tended schoSserit„GLaker^3 Vor» >avcU 23. 1802. Ho at■■led Anna L. Hodman or hI^ aild
c,llcaEo. Ho mareast 31, 1SS-1. They movedTn ?° “• I_ ,cnry Col"u>'- I"-. An-
wGo°rf Henry''^ut’m^ 'S ^ f3°Utb
dale Mich EanV°°HnA?ad0my and ^Ulsdale College, H'Us
USs! He mm rled MarJ"Si a aa“la™" ia Colorado In
Stryker) of Doorfinid n
oStijlcci (daughter of George
make hla
l1i8?°i. ?? returncd ^
G. 1920.
en,c,d ,n lsy3- and died hero January
tended locaKsc lio»|“ ! ml NmLl
", "
3‘ 1SG'k Ho at'
In l.artncrshl,,
h'
" ,."°Sor" Ulli/«‘sUy. llo was
when George rotui-nclto iim, * 2?0,'?c- l" CoIoiad°. and
et the ranches and’stock
L°Vl Look «
vlllc^Coforado, GOctobo;n28r‘lsS7NOD
thou'- y-
n
'n Lcad--
Franco. In tho Argonno Forest!
°n the batt,c,1<:Id3 •«*
citizens. ?lol*d*id'V?n h'ls tomn c0m>n>nilty’s most useful
March 31, 1927. Ho was
nadlum' Colorado,
llenver, „„ Ulu (Iay l.ororo hm'ii xt^thl'"? n"!, 9°mcloryversary.
M,xly-thhd birthday annl-
neafl'relg'ueen.qa,!fLru3nu!uair0V0'’1'le,r 27> 18CG' When
Northwestern University ho
u\°}£slng atudcnt In
January 2S. lSSd
llc is buwl^ d,pbLhci^ ^ Evanston.
Frances Willard, the noted tomnl..in Dcc.rn°ld Cemetery.
Sunday School tiacher
tcmpcrance advocate, was his
is a g^dua?eCofC
7' 1875- She
vcrslty: graduate of ScotL S^io^ 'n" ^ l> Pcnvcr Un«*
She was married on I<>br^
°C E,O0utIon.
SkInker of Denver. Colorado ^vh'ero 9<.h«t0 Gco,’e(' M«>->’ay
furnished the details of tills* most iniorno^ rf3,dc3lory, also some new material iov thl iS fJStI"er tamlly '"*•
Adella Wlhnot (who married^hnin rutlrtfv'i
Bi?ryyears of age when she came fro
v01 p was but four
wltli her parents In 1840. Her colon hi York ,to Dcc,’dcld
tho Bradley. Dwight Porte. PvS
ancestry Includes
and Bancroft fnml ies^ whiio M,/1„e7l-xNe'vbcrry. Willis,
berry library In Chicago a ul in
l" thc New!
genaloglcal records.
other libraries containing
In her old age many were the storied
i
...
her grandchildren of the singing
/
i
l?}a lo
ing bees" that were held in thp\rh«ni \ ‘l
110 sPc11’
‘‘apple parings,” and the "eon.1 hikings "h°US°*
, Qnd of the
In the neighborhood of the Wlhnot *’ ’ and tho quiltings
and Doarfleld Scliools.
nnd of one hostess who reached
111 o acme of clocaiico hv
providing little dishes ,U saucers/°
SCt l!,0,p cups ^hllj
they drank tea from their
S ch ool°h c fat ho i^Took °h c r *t If.lj her ty vl Uodte ° the WiImot
in tho Academy. This was such n Ion 1° pur.BU0 a courso
It was necessary for them to rcinal i Sn!'0,,F .J®l,Pncy that
in Half Day (a distance reached In
/ n,g U at an
In an automobllo today). After-sunnof. M,nu half nn hour,
about tho fireplace and talked, while Two nli®,”10*1 ^athorcd.
i n rni'iim*
.
Old WOHlAn pIioMa.i
corner. Hnn
One old ________
woman ...
told that
whr»n
'T°men chatted'.
- sno was
was na hn'"'
baby •
wns so small that she could Ho
10o Wns
father's hand and rest”lic!• “)»oad 'on1 h°l,,Ul^ falm of her.'
Tho other old c-ono. Intently i, to°ostod
Cor a
ishinent, Inquired. "And did you i|VQS-* r (l ,n eroat aston-.
ness came thc reply. "They .said I did n,w!‘ 1>e,rcct serious-
....... ....... .
-t^^ AS5:^ns„t■
M
jmsSHSiwH?s“-
pissn
Piiilll
SSdW, toeot!.lorramois m ne . They ‘stt uck" l' rich-0'
AUlerson'broth'Tld's 111031
IlllisSIsli
Aldersou were very religious More* ri,nI „m0t a?d John
century later when Lyman mido^ils last visit to"^^? 1.“
i'X*., 10y °nce.1,ad held- Then John Aldorson said? "iS
toi tune was not meant for us for if «#« i.n,i
’ That
never could have served my Lord and &«.«??■ .SCCUTrcd it I
satisfaction that they haS°noTwhlwd\heath!n0ghf0ra ^hV0*
S’ :SS'C Ss
avSF - “■ *■»=,ts,:;
He never
tease l.rm'about''l,olHga" old mamiT" Sl?le,\ 1Slla’ llked ‘®
loads and slow traveflnc U ^vnl r ' ,In tho days of bad
many of tho household suinlfM rS!,,,d ^J^enient to buy
Jew happened to stoo at nli wn ^,0»nl l,eddlei's. One day a
Ste.t£"vf‘“
looting sheath/ It was obvIo s M,^^ U,,der the ^
woiild bo useful for many things
* new ,nvent,on
nearly stranded by''im^'efforts tT'kn ,nl?"<led and was
^ t^o„m us: at “vr *50
Dcei-nold of tho "Safety first" Wen.^
•l'-.
Introduet,on ‘"to
�.d;Mon's Club with u membership of 17. Like the J. O. Tt.
Club ibis organ!-/.alion has for its purpose Christian
P% T sorvlco nml fellowship. Two inonihoru of the club uro
l OHO
The president of Iho
. oMcom la tbo Sunday School,
•allduh In a mmulior of the church council Tbo uidwrlng
*'or
:BMiJt *1 tho divine niwvlr.im In In charge of the Young Mon h
2- ui ?W.j Club. Two inciuliui'H iiorvu uu mauagum of U»o ill. 1’nul it
Honihl. The club was organized In Iho spring of 1!)G.
>' v.i tM Tbo present olllcors of Iho organization arc: l'Toyd Bock,
-9vjS
President; Alfred Schwab, Treasurer; Alfred Johnson,
set-'Mjft g®. Socrctary.
As
•■•lloth clubs meet every Sunday morning for religious
Instruction, and one evening a month, for business, soiemand fellowship.
Pod
ood
was |f ffc'THE. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION CHURCH
• iftffi& Tlio Evangelical Association Church in Amorica was
;ory, v,g£ &$$■<founded by Jacob Albright among the Pennsylvania Gcrd Inm gSS'mani In Novoinlier, 1803, in Lebanon, County, Pcnnsyltl\e '.S gS'Yftnla. "These people have a dialect, customs, and traits
nlon
SgSpH'ot.character peculiarly their own," according to tho hiseacli m pElorlon of The Annals of the Evangelical Association of
v'ii M.Norlh America and • History of. ti»o United Evangelical
tho I|f; Church, ltcv. A. Stapleton. The first; church and printheld
lug olllcc of tbo Evangelical Association was erected In
i guy l |llE 1816 In Now Uorlln. Union County. Pennsylvania. This
church Is really a Cerman Methodist Church, but Is an
$ &Tentirely Independent one. The original members wore
culled "Albrights."
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the Stnngcr Grove, the home of Martin Stangcr, father
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of George Stangcr of Deerfield. Iho other families who
s and 'ifc,
Jolnod the Stangers were the Luther, Jacob Ott, Jacob
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ed to % fctiXKichor, and Countryman families. The first minister
s say, *■# Kwas ilcv.. lloess, who came on horseback fromlonnsylLlon?
vanla to preach. Three churches in succession were
come
built-near the Nurlhllelcl Cometory. The first church
i con-;i??fe^.vna a crudo log one built In 18*17 on a hill west of the
nation ^ cemetery on tbo land of Mike Schoelle.
Iho second
memwuh on the Nicholas Miller farm, where the parsonage
in re- tMlftnow Blands, and was later sold lo John Forko, who
loro It down and moved it to his farm in Wheeling.
®$*“orly-flvo years ago the third one was built on the souLliber. :®®VC8l corncr of JoIlu Slreicher's land given for the pur^gwjl^Tho Philip Brand family walked from their farm a
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harcU-$ KjJroml helped hew Lhe logs for the first church.
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(%.iorYiccB wero held In the homo oT Philip Glitzier. MiuTl,iors who preached In the Gutzlcrhomo wero Devs.
^yfilooffort. Gocsslo, Laeglcr and Hlmmcl. The children
. 7. gffiof tlio German families attended Sunday School In tho
nations •’P*lS\Vllmot School, whero Lyman Wllmot was Supcrlnlcnd1800.r ' /®f«nt, and tho services were In English. Children caino
itor of t Sfoffrom long distances to attempt to speak English and
ircssed ••Miouru Tho Bible In tho language of their adopted
romote + a?i?counlry. Samuel Ott helped Lyman Wllmot as trams2h and
Iflutor' aml assistant superintendent. These Immigrants
2>Voro Lutherans in the mother country, hut as they so)
the or- vgjfclourncd in Warren, Pouu., for about two years, they
W. T. :J ^idoplcd this new sect which had conceived a more strict
r, Min- i j§3doctrlno of personal conduct, particularly on the lluuor
’• Anna v ■■l^nupslloii.
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izabeth \Tho' last Northllold Evangelical Association Church.
T^callod tho O’Plaiu Church, on the southwest corncr of
and at .y tg&DunUoo and Saunders Hoads, was built in 1880. The
c inter- T wfunilud Evangelical Church across tho road was built
propor-' ^®iuT8!)0.
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Noto from the Conrcrenco Book;
■fi&vlu 1842 salaries of ministers wcr.o fixed at ?Gu per
t; Mrs. .'i iSyVoo.r for an unmarried man. ?105 Tor married men, and
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ju 1843 the Illinois district had a Des Plaines circuit,
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iho. presiding elder was C. Kopp. In 184*1, Clirls•«ce and V SwtJau Llnlner was elder for Lilia district. On June 11.
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MO. John Jacob Escher was "newly received" in tho
• y comullies Conference. In 18*1(1 lwo oldors were ap• ra aro-;j Pointed'for tho Des Plaines distrief. C. Kopp and Samuel
ized in • [Sjjlckovcr. In 18*17, on the ».)es Plaines circuit. C. Anthe of- ;• ’^jronsloin and George Messu*- -{wurn appointed. In 1848,
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post station called Otsego, five miles out of town on the nearest route from Chicago to
Milwaukee.”
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The first post office in Deerfield Township was in the Median settlement, under
the name of Emmett, in 1846. The second was established on January 13, 1849, in St.Johns,
A’hich name was changed to Port Clinton on March 19, 1850. Both were forerunners of the
; first post office in Highland Park, on December 14, 1861. St. Johns was located on a
r' bluff on both sides of the first ravine to be crossed on entering Fort Sheridan reservaat the main south gate. It was named by John Peterman and John'Hettinger, of German
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Deerfield was a settlement of buildings at the crossing of Waukegan Road and Deerfield
Road, but in those days, the roads were muddy except where planks were laid for wagon
wheels, and there were farms on both sides of the rutty road west thru the Wilmot farm to
the Des Plaines River. Caleb Cadwell was appointed post master, and the first office was
in his home. He owned buildings on both sides of Waukegan Road. Assisted by his daughter,
Rosclla, Cadwell served until 1854. A list of the postmasters in Deerfield since Cadwell:
Appointed
August 19, 1886
Walter II. Mi lien
Lewis Beecher
February 14, 1854
December 8, 1890
Jacob C. Antes
Eliab Gifford
October 28, 1854
Mathias Horenberger October 29, 1894
Hobart J. Milien
June 8, 1859
December 9, 1898
James H. Fritsch
Madeson 0. Cadwell
August 27, 1861
Samuel P. Hutchison November 21, 1906
Lyman Wilmot
March 26, 1864
August 15, 1914
Arthur J. Ender
Nelson C. Hall
August 31, 1866
July 31, 1922
Mrs. Fred H. Meyer
Mrs. Jane McCartney May 29, 1867
June 8, 1926
Fred H. Meyer
Christian Antes
January 15, 1869
March 1, 1934
John J. Welch
Christian M. Willman November 14, 1958 and
presently Deerfield Postmaster
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§£■ Deerfield, including Lake Forest. It was established in 1887 in Lancasterville, in the
area later called Everett. This postal service was discontinued in 1909, however, when
^4 Rural Free Delivery started out of the Deerfield post office, when Samuel P. Hutchison
was postmaster in an office in his general store on Deerfield Road near Waukegan Road.
& RFD was authorized by Congress in 1904 but did not start in this region until five years
later. Using a horse drawn mail wagon, the carrier was William Carl "Billy” Ott, less
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Tho abolitionist sentiment existed in Deerfield
and Its adjacent areas. A “station" on the
Underground Railroad was operated by Lyman
Wilmot, and a runaway slave was received here
and given quarters for the v/lnter of 1058 at the
home of Lorenz OIL’ Abolitionists from Highland
Park would come to Deerfield to debate the Issuo
at the corner of Deerfield and Waukegan Roads.1
The runaway slave, Andrew Jackson, was 20
years old and came from a Mississippi plantation.
His father was the plantation owner, a white man,
and because of this, the slavo received greater
liberty than other slaves, providing /him with an
opportunity to escape. His flight from Mississippi
was an ordeal which included temporary capture
by his pursuers.*
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Jackson lived with the Ott family, and did
chores while there. He built a while picket fence
and gale, but asked that it be taken down when
tho slaves were freed-German thrift could not ac
cede to this request. In the spring, Jackson was
taken to Chicago from where ho sailed to Canada.
He corresponded with the Ott family from there.4
The abolitionist sentiment was not universally
embraced, however, and many men were unable
to acknowledge a personal involvement in the
abolition Issuc-parlicuiarly In the resulting war.*
Antiv/ar sentiment was so strong that a bounty
was required to induce enlistments. The bounty
was $40 per man at tho beginning of the war, but It
was 51 COO by the end.*
There were a few “copperhead” and "a lodge or
two ol Knights of the Golden Circle,"* which wore
southern sympalhiziers, but “never constituted an
effective fifth column."' A strong Union League
existed to counteract any disloyalty that may
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Doorflold Grand Army of tho Republic
Captain McCaul’s Shield Guards were ap
parently the first volunteers. Their formation was
announced on April 20, 1061, and Ihcy Joined an
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Irish regiment In Chicago.'* On April 29, 1061,
nlnoly volunteers from southern Lake County art
rived at Waukegan." On May 4,1061, the Union RIv
fie Guards were formed. On June 6, the County
Board of Supervisors appropriated 55,000 for
bounties to encourage enlistments."
During the summer of 1061, Companies C and F
of the 37lh Illinois Infantry were organized. Cap
tain Eugcno B. Payne and Captain Erwin B.
Messer were tho officers of these Companies.
During the winter of 1061-1062, half of Company I,
45th Illinois Infantry, and half of Company F of the
C5th Infantry were organized; Company G of the
51st Illinois Infantry was organized, and all went
to Camp Douglas.w it Is not certain whether Virgil
Wilmot, the son of Lyman Wllmot who operated
the underground railroad, served In the 45th" or
the 55lh" Illinois Infantry.
Thomas Mooney of Deerfield had the unique
service record of serving on both sides. He was In
ducted Into the Confederate Army while working
as an engineer on a Mississippi River steamboat,
but escaped after two years and Joined the Union
Army."
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Several Deerfield men died as a result of the
Civil War, cither from Illness, Injuries received In
battle or from the hardships of the prison camps.
Several more were crlpplod. Those who served In- .
elude the following:
1. Mario Word Flolcholt, Tho History of DoorNoId, Glonvlow
Pross, 1928, p. 107.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 49.
0. Ibid.
o! Richard Holsladlor, Tho American Ropubllc Vol. I: to 1865,
Prontlss Hall, 19G4, p. G14.
9. nolchclt, loc. ell.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 115.
10. Ibid., p. 50.
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son
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wife. Ruth, died on Seplember 10” Another son
died a year later. No cause of death Is suggested
in the materials available, but the prevalence of
epidemic diseases in late summer has been
documented.
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Wright’s daughter, Caroline, married William
Whlgham in 1036. It was the first marriage In Lake
Counly, and Hiram Kennlcott, first Justice of the
Peace, performed the ceremony at the •'Mill" on
the Dos Plaines River.”
The Wright farm spanned the Des Plaines River,
and port ol it is now the Rycrson Conservation
Area in Rivorwoods. Wright died December 30.
1073 at the age of 95. His farm was In the name of'
William Whlgham on the 191G Plat Map. Ho had
married Rachel Millard in 1045.”
The first soltler In Deerfield Township was
Michael Meehan. Ho arrived in a covered wagon
drawn by two oxen and settled on Section 10 on
Telegraph Road in 1035, between Half Day Road
and Wilmol Road.” Meehan was born In 1000 at
Meath, Ireland. He married Drldgel Monahan In
1032, and emigrated to the United Slates that
same year. Ho went first to Salina, New York, and
later to Michigan, but in tho aulumn of 1035 he
came finally to Deerfield. The Indians hod not loft
the area yet, and the township was still in its
natural state. Meehan plowed the first furrow in
the township.”
Ho was relatively well slocked with provisions
when he arrived in Deerfield, for he had several
barrels of flour and a barrel of beef and pork. He
also had the cash to purchase seed, oats and
potatoes in the following spring, and he bought
the first piglet and first pair of kittens as well. He
erected a log cabin on the 225 acres that pre
empted, and the land hod not yet been surveyed
(therefore it was still government land obtained
from the Indian Treaty). Ho loft the farm for a brief
attempt at gold mining in California in 1052 but
realized the futility and quickly returned. ”
Meehan continued to work his farm until 1076
when, at the age of 60. he retired, sold his farm to
James O’Connor, a neighbor and rclatlvo and
moved to Highland Park.”
The first settler In what Is now the Village of
Deerfield was Jacob Cadwcll (or perhaps Horace
103*" »• Cadwcl1 ond Laml) arrived |n Deerfield in
Jacob Cadwcll and his wife, Ruble Rich
Cadwcll, had five sons and' two daughters: .
Madison, Philemon. Caleb, Hiram, Edwin, Rubio
Roseth and Jcrusha Rosina.” They all settled on
what is now Waukegan Road near Deerfield Road
For a time this was called ’’Cadwell Corners” but
later it was changed to ’’Deerfield Corners ” The
approximate locations of their homos Is given In
the History ol Dccrliold. by Roichelt. but those
locations are no longer contemporary. The •
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Cadwell lands were pre-empted under one of the
pro-emptlonblllspassedafter1030(butboforolhe
Distribution Pre-emption act).”
Caleb Cadwell was appointed the first
postmaster In Deerfield In 1050.” The Cadwells
built tho first school — Cadwell School — and
Rosella was tho first teacher. The Cadv/ell School
was opened In 1840, but the Wilmol School - tho
first In the township — was opened In 1847.”
Horace Lamb came to Deerfield In 1835, tho
same year as the Cadwells. It Is not clear, actual*
ly. who was tho first to settle here. Tho Lamb property was located between what Is now
Waukegan road and tho east slough north from
the county lino Into what 13 presently tho country
club. These were later the Vetter and Parsons proparties.”
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The Wllmols, too, wero among the first settlers
Josso Wllrinot came up tho North Branch In 1034
and landed at what Is now Greenwood Avenue ”
Having stayed In Deerfield through tho winter, ho
returned In 1837 to tho east to bring his own fami*
ly and his brother, Lyman, and his family. Both
families settled west of the village along Wilmol
Road In the Deerfield Road area (none of which
existed at tho time, of course). Tho farm tho
Wilmols built was considered one of tho best and '
most productive In tho area.”
Lyman Wilmol had cloven children, six sons
and five daughters. Ho built the first school In tho
township; tho Wilmots were patrons of education.
They were also abolitionists, and operated a sta
tion on the "underground railroad” which aided
runaway slaves to escape Into Canada.” Mrs.
Clarissa Wilmol, Lyman's v/Ife, was a practical
nurse and midwife who administered to the Infirm
In the absence of the physician, and performed
some diagnostics with tho aid of a medical
manual.”
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22. nolclioll, op. ell., p. 0-9.
23. 1910 Plat Map of lako Counly.
24. Rolcholl, op. ell., p. 109.
25. Ibid.
26. Halsoy, op. ell., p. 422.
27. nolclioll. op. ell., p. 109.
2U. I lalnos. op. ell., p. 01.
29. Ibid.
30. nolclioll, op. cll„ p. 110.
31. Ibid., p. 19.
32. Ibid., p. 30.
33. Ibid., p. 10.
34. "It was a navlgablo river at Iho time," according to Mrs.
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35. Halsey, op. cl!., p. 425.
30. Rolcholl, op. clI., p. 107-108.
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ed frontiersman. His mother, a Virginian, had
been captured and raised by the Shawnee and
married an English officer at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Clark's uncle, John Klnzle, was a noted Chicago
pioneer, and his stepfather, Jonas Clybourn, was
also numbered among Chicago’s first settlers.
John Klnzie Clark was raised with the Indians.
He had acquired their ways and was called "In
dian" Clark by settlers, but the Indians named him
"Nannlmoa," the prairie wolf. He was a skilled
hunter and a man of great endurance. He was an
express rider between Fort Wayne, Chicago and
Milwaukee, and brought supplies to Deerfield by
pack saddle. For two years, 1031-33, ho oven serv
ed as the Chicago coroner.
Clark had an Indian wife and a number of
children In Wisconsin, but lator In life married a
whllo woman. Pormclla Scott of DcKalb, and settl
ed In Deerfield. This marriage produced two
daughters, Elizabeth and Haddassah, who marrled Hobart and Walter Millen respectively.
His attempts to farm In Northflcld met with
failure. Clark was a hunter, not a farmer, and his
friends, the Indians, came to hunt and camp with
him on his farm. After he served In the Civil War,
he bought a home In Deerfield In 10G5. Ho is
buried in the Deerfield Cemetery.
Clark was the true frontiersman, apparently not
very adaptable to the agrarian transition that took
place during his lifetime. Those frontier skills
were best suited for survival In the hostile pre
settlement environment which so devastated
those lirst settlors, but they proved to have little
value In post settlement Deerfield.5'
library to read this book and find out about the
past. Sho lists among tho first settlors—given . v
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Captain Wright
Jonathan Kcnnlcott
Jcsso Wllmot
Horace Lamb
Tho Cadwells
Martin Luther
Michael Meehan
Oil
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Muhlko
Lyman Wllmot
John Millen
Job Galloway
Carolan
Lancaster
Rockcnbock
James O'Connor
Fred Frltsch
Alfred Parsons
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In 1040 the township was called "Lo Clair.””
The Selection of a permanent name for tho
township — as distinguished from the vlllago
which was not Incorporated or named until
1903—occurred In 1849. A township meeting was
held at the home of Michael Meehan on Tc-legraph
Road. The Irish Immigrants suggested the name"Erin" for Ireland, but John Millen from Deerfield,
Massachusetts, suggested the namo "Deer
field"—noting, a3 the Indians had.observed, that
deer In abundance was a characteristic of tho
area. Tho voto was 17 lo 13 In favor of Doorflold.”
Trannportallon Sytlom
Tho early trillion* entered Lake County and
Oeerfietd via several lyr.tornn of Ingress, Tho
rivers and Lake Michigan were major elements of
the transportation system. (Tho waterways had
not been "Improved" yet by tho dredging and
channelization they later received.). Overland
transportation wa3 limited to Improved roads, and
tho railroad was not available until 1855 when
track was laid through Highland Park.
Transportation v/as Important to tho ooltlor, not
only as a means of Ingreoa but os a moans for
shipping farm products to market and for com
munication v/ith other places, primarily Chicago.
In addition, seed grain, livestock, implements,
food, clothes, medicines and supplies had to be
.brought into tho community.
Tho pioneer made the trip to Chicago, 26 mltos
Irorn Deerlield, v/ith regularity and sometimes on
loot.."One neighbor v/ould be selected to go to
Chicago to make purchases for the entire com
munity. Ox teams were used sometimes, and at
The First Families
Many settlers arrived in Oeerfietd during the
period from 1835 to 1845. In The History ol Deerticld Mrs. Reichelt has gone into the history ol a
number ol them and it is worth the trip to the
Vi. tUi'3., p. 107.
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The Ott Family came to Deerlield Irorn Y/arren,
Pennsylvania, but their birthplace v/as
Baidenhcirn, Alsace. The Oil’s were related to the
Wessling and Rockenbach families. These set
tlors of German descent who migrated from
Alsace lo Deerfield obtained their land from
speculators who v/ere profiteering in the v/ake of
pre-emption, but the land was good, a "Garden of
Eden," and its value v/as certain. They built
homes along v/hal is now Sanders Road, and their
roll includes: Casper Ott, Samuel Ott, John Jacob
Ott, and John Jacob Ott, Jr., Marlin Luther, Jacob
Luther, and families named Duffy, Dose, Ste/rar*.
and Jennings. They worked their farms and
became steadfast members ol the Deerfield com
munity. lr» 1930 the On family reunion at the Deer
field Centennial celebration v/as the largest.
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Lewis Gasltleld
(1834) Androw Meier
(1835) Sloward
(1835) Ludlow
(1836) Dawson
(1835) Dorsey
(1836) Boylan
(1836) Fagan
(1837) Yoro
(1837) Mclntyro
(1039) Tull/
(1840) Roderbusch
(1041) Doyle
(1041) McCraror
(1041) Hoyt
(1042) John Jacob Ott
(1042) Philip Brand
(1043) Philip Vetter
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Gerfield's doslVabllNv0 *U,<1 °l,lllcal,onal work, adds to
ecsii ability as a residence place.
DEERFIELE) athletic association
yers iaCthf,n«tl^thIcti,c ARSOciation» of which Jack
cn of tho Viii tl°n jUld •sl)0n30l'»
composed of young
‘H Players7
^ who aro chaml»°» baseball and footuong suburbaii"SM?i^S.
School I« second to uono
bool Is far qinJ'i E l»SC ,?<, »8, Tbo Deurfiel<l Grammar
uuerous V-niV ? 1 -L? w iaL il was lon years ago.. The
eiiAc^s [0?,“bB3 the vicinity, such as Briergate,
irnon RldVo
u' ^ 1 hfim, lOxmoor. Oiiwontsla,
JiscL
’ i'nMS ,Ij°f;;oh- r-alco Siioro, Bob O' Link.
iliev Nonhinoo? in?01/ 1,llIn1ois' Mlss,0» ^idgo,,.Sunset
n Coimtrv Pln°i ' ? uo f* Columbian, Hunters', and Big
'it congestion UlL,iyc beautiful open spaces lliat preTiicro aro. four churches,
ono Catholic, and* three
olostanl in Deortiold ami a public library.
ho shopping facilities aro good for a village. Two
goods stores, Schells' and Oloudorf's; three grocery
anfi-a'AV' Nb,w,‘,»- M««ry (!a.in“ld1,. 8,i
mil Jh, ,
l,Cl\cr ?h01’- °r Wm. SLeinluius: tho Kuv
•shoni
1,cic,*,i,J,(l h‘,;MiL.v parlor; tlireu bar2>«ioi)s. Matt Hoffman a. Chris Sifferl's ami Scavu/./.o'.i;
ec restaurants, Bcrtolini and Lcncioni's, the Bluebird,
i “la »*">****: two confectionery stores, the Brier
ect Shoppe and tho Bluebird; two drug si ores, T. J
^!C’o„anAd
aml I[ouL’s; Coleman’s Variety
ic. an A. and 1. store; fruit store; two tailors and
™Svf\ Ylln1C0,lt Silveri ami North Shore Cleaners: the
n/iCTu«n-a iC1;Vr' t1.W0 1.,lun,ljh,kr and heating establishn .s, william H, Us'Toil's and Milton kraut/.; two elecshops, William Seiler’s, and William Desmond’s; one
varo store, thill of .lack Not/.; one riminco ami tin
./ohn .1. McMahon's; two garages, Knaak'n and Bote
rcn<l s; four real cslato and liisurauce oMlccs. Charles
iscliull's, Frank Russo’s, Foxworlhy's, and Vnnt and
gs; one delicatessen and confectionery or FdwarU
tmolil: three nurseries, lvottrascli Bros., Franlcon
s. and F. D. Clavoy; two lumber and coal companies.
Deerfield Lumber Company. Tho Mercer Lumber Co
tlie Lake County Coal and Material Company- tho
0 oil station; tho Standard Oil Company plant; the
rAcid Interior Finish Company; Tho DcorlleliU Slate
k; Tho Deerfield Chevrolet Sales Company; Tlio BuCoiislrucllou Co»‘»mny (water mains and sowors);
Kapscliul Da'-lo Construction Company (roads and
ng); Tho Po-ry Konst Battery Shop: a number of
tors and decorators. Ross Sherman. MeCIarvio. WilKrcli, Builders, Kd. Sogert, John Huhn. It. 10. and
. Bettis, A. I. Johnson, Alex Taylor. Cashmoro. Tliilo
, Frank .labohs. C. B. Foxworthy. W. Altkcu; tivo
drillers. L/neoln Pettis, and Alvin Moyer; two hricks. the Illinois and tho National; Lliroo piano teachers,
ices Bledcrsladt. Mrs. C. C. Bettis, Bertha Weiss;'
•'s Music Shop, for radios and piano tuning;
ik's Music Store, for pianos, radios and victrolas;
Hotel Deerfield; Tlio Herman Frost Newspaper
icy and pool room; ono sowing machlno agency, that
. I-I. MuMko; two sowor contractors, Howard Stryker
Gcovatf Burnett: Arcliio Antes, sign painlor; • Ira
, edan’it contractor; Kurl Frost, concrete blocks;
x -l. He's Deerfield Filling Station; Ira Hole's Dcerl
raised 1 Company; Tho PaxlorcL (.'onstrnelion Com1 and lining contractors aro Ccorgo Botlls, Fred
o mon or Wolf. August Huolil; a shoo ropalrlag
ark con Tnnlnlon): a Deerfield bakery; a millioncage) tint (Call llDlt); two band leaders, H. 10.
known'rank Russo. Among the dairy companies
r in CXisorvIco In Deerfield arc tho Bowman Hoh-
rnim
following Horn:
^4
a uiig
ao, x j
t (, jiad tho
board will redistrict township
A ...
<■« «ot Now lVoalnct at Supervisor,. Moat
According to .Schedule—Action on
Waukegan Delayed
Ita.lroad traded ,l°ad a,,d tho
St. Paul
orVl!«tn^r217A,,,,U,a.t 1>art oC Wcat Doorfieid lyliig south
it SV A. na and west of tho railroad tracks?
«.r 11.0 Viit uay"iK.,,arl ot WosL Duol'"l!,d ly"'s ,lorl"
‘‘UNDERGROUND RAILROAD” ACTIVITIES
The first real Information of Andrew Jackson, the run.
away slave. Samuel Ott Imparts to tills generation In tho
winter of 1858 a mulatto, about 28 years of age. came to he
home of Lyman Wilmot, tlio Abolitionist, at night Yla the
IJiidergrbund Hallway,’* from Mississippi. Tho lake was
r »/0M. so the black man could not bo scut across to Canada
therefore ho had been taken to Deerfield. Mr 'Wilmot
brought tho slave to tho Lorenz Ott homo
0t
so that tho children could go to school. to do tho chores,
keeping a runaway slave was against llin law imt *i,A
Abolitionists felt Unit they wero In tho right by disobeying
an unjust law Andrew Jackson's father was u whlto man*
II i “mi'o1 tCt mm 1 H. fnthcr'u plantation where ho saw his
uliito sis lei s. the plantation owner was more lenient to
ns son than to his other slaves, and Andrew learned more
than hill companions, therefore Hie desire to be free so
uvarcjuiin the lad Unit it led him to attempt to escape, but
bloodhounds (rucked him, and ho was brought back. In
Ids second attempt at freedom he was successful, and lie
crossed the Ohio River, where lie was sent on his journey
north.
!
by tlio tliiirty farmer. WIioii spring came, and tlio roads
w' Alu,l'uw Ja°k«on prepared to leave. Lorenz
Ht made him a now suit, and gavo him money for boat
fare, and Lyman Wilmot
took him
to Chicngo, wlicro he
..
.
escaped
to...
Canada. After
.
roachlng tlio slaves’ liaycn. Ail•iIuMvrlto °or° hiS ,,crneracl.oraf wh0 fiad taught him to read
and wi ito, of his safe arrival, and that was tho last that
they over heard of him. Samuel Ott was fourteen years of
ago at the time, and he recalls much that the negro did
wnile here.
From another source it is learned that the slave, An' !i! «i!? <Si°rn'*! cacapo wna Ifianncd bccauso ho had been
My Id ml master round It necessary to sell me. None
sold
•C the siaves were given any education as our masters
thought that we would rebel or outwit thorn, But a friend
told mo that the sun rises In tho east and sets in the west
and that as ono goes further south It gets warmer, and
going norlli It gets colder, Willi tills information only. I
decided
to run away. I was soon captured for my inaster
, ,
had discovered my absenco soon artcr I left, and had sent
“r,,S ?rtcr„nur Whcn taking mo hack to tlio planta-
lion my captor (led my arms with a rope, which was
u.'miC,T l° iU,° JlfJrSL‘- and made mo walk In front of. him.
I d
1 W0S0^t•,(, 11,0 roi,° and talked along as If
I Nvcio 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 tlmo I hid during tho day. and often
“y
wore so close to my hiding place that I could
hear my master giving directions to them.
Several times I was without rood for a number of days.
Many
limes
f ale raw
ii
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taken from a field wlion I nassed
.0no lIn,° 1 r°II in a barrel when I was looking
foi food, and oven though I hurt my. hip sovoroly I maif
safely hidden, ale I hem. These
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1845 Lyman and Clarissa
Wilmot deeded one quarter acre of land
at the northwest corner (corner of
Wilmot and Deerfield Roads today)
of their farm for .a school,
first Wilmot School
The
(a township,
not a village school) opened in
1847 with Rosella Cadwell as the
firs.t teacher.
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purpose other than a school or if the
land remains vacant for three years.
The first schoolhouse was built by Lyman Wilmot of logs.
It is said that tHe school had to face south so that Mrs. Wilmot
could see the children enter the building.
Does the door that the fourth graders use today face
south?
A second schoolhouse was made of rough boards and had a
dirt floor.
The third building, built in 1858, burnt to the
ground before it could be used.
A fourth structure was built
immediately using the same foundation,
This building still
exists today
1 .as part of a house at 294 Kenmore Avenue.
(It was first moved to the corner of Pine Street and
Deerfield Road and later moved to Kenmore.)
In 1904,
the fifth building was completed,
frame, one-room structure.
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It, too, is still standing....
as part of the Schmitt house at 1660 Deerfield Road.
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�LYMAN WILMOT HOUSE
And Why It Will Not Be On The National Register
In the summer of 1994 my wife and I, together with our daughter and her husband, bought
die Lyman Wilmot House at 601 Wilmot Road in Deerfield.
From die beginning I was intrigued with the unique property because of its age and the
historic importance of the Wilmot family, who were very prominent in the early
development of Deerfield.
It was my hope to gain acceptance of the house and coach house on the National Register
of Historic Places. To that end I researched the history of the property and the Wilmot
family. Unfortunately, there was little about the house available except numerous
references to the fact that the original structure—still inside the present house somewheredated from 1840, making it, I believe, the oldest occupied building in Lake County. I
hoped some old photos of die buildings might become available, but none did.
I had much more success in developing information about the Wilmot family. Because of
my interest and experience in genealogy I was able to trace die Wilmot family back seven
generations to the year 1637 when the first Wilmot came to America from England.
I also located and corresponded with a number of Wilmots around the country, several
closely connected to die Deerfield family, who sent me interesting information and
encouraged my National Register quest.
But, alas, it is not to be! I was done in by siding—that and two extensions added to the
house at unknown times in the past. These revisions, it was judged, changed the character
of the structure too much to meet the National Register criteria (despite some early touches
to be seen—a field stone foundation, several hand-hewn beams in the cellar, and the initials
of one of Lyman Wilmot’s sons scratched in on an old window pane over a hundred years
ago). The later siding was the biggest problem. The National Register, it seems, takes a
dim view of modem siding.
One of die criteria taken into account in assessing a property’s qualifications for listing in
the National Register is the historic importance of the occupants. Lyman Wilmot and his
wife were significant in the early development of Deerfield. He was a community leader
and an office holder. They were ardent supporters of the Union and opened their home as
a station on the Underground Railway, harboring escaped slaves. In addition, they
donated the land at Wilmot Road and Deerfield Road for Deerfield’s first school, which
bears their name and where they both served, he as superintendent and she as a teacher.
It was my hope that the historic importance of the Wilmots would be enough to overcome
whatever problems the house presented, and I believe I would have been successful had
not previous owners of the property “modernized” so much.
But in 155 years what else could one reasonable expect?
I have given the Society a copy of the information I developed on the property.
Richard Hart
Riverwoods, Illinois
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Deerfield Public Library
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Deerfield Public Library
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Deerfield Public Library
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2002
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Photocopy of book by a resident of the Wilmot House with historical information about the house and the owner's attempt to get the house registered as a National Historic Place. Handwritten note indicates that this copy was received from the Lake County Discovery Museum on 5 Feb 2002.
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A. Stapleton
Abolition
Abolitionism
Abolitionists
Abraham Lincoln
Adelia H. Wilmot Gutzler
Adelia Wilmot
Adelia Wilmot Gutzler
Agriculturalists
Ague
Albert B. Steele
Albrights
Alderson Brothers
Alfred Parsons
Alonzo Cook
Alsace
Alvin W. Knaak
American Civil War
American Civil War Battle of Old Lake Louisiana
American Civil War Union Army Enrolling Officer
Amos Flint
Amos Wilmot
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Meier
Andrew Meler
Andrew S. Wells
Anesthetics
Anna L. Hoffman
Anna L. Hoffman Gutzler
Anna Lydia Gutzler
Anna Lydia Gutzler Himmel
Anthony Sullivan
Anti-Slavery
Anti-Slavery Activities
Antiwar Sentiment
Apple Parings
Argonne Forest France
Arthur J. Ender
Asahel Talcott
Asahel Wilmot
Auburn Hair
Aztec Club
b.F. Washburn
Baldenheirn Alsace Germany
Bancroft
Bartholomew Boylan
Bartlett
Benjamin Marks
Betsy Clauson
Betsy Clauson Wilmot
Betsy Crawford
Betsy Crawford Wilmot
Bible
Bicentennial History of Deerfield
Billy Ott
Boone County New York
Boylan
Bradley
Breastpin
Bridget Monahan Meehan
Broome County New York
Buffalo New York
Buffalo Trails
Business Woman
Butter
C. Augenstein
C. Kopp
Cadwell
Cadwell Corners
Cadwell School
Caleb Cadwell
California
California Gold Rush
Calvinist Church
Camp Douglas
Canada
Canoes
Cape Horn
Captain McCaul's Shield Guards
Captain Wright
Carolan
Caroline Wright Whigham
Carolyn Becker
Carriages
Carroll County Missouri
Casper Ott
Cattleman
Chagres River
Chargres Harbor
Charles Gutzler
Charles Levi Gutzler
Chicago Coroner
Chicago Courthouses
Chicago Illinois
Chicago River North Branch
Christian Antes
Christian Jaquet
Christian Lintner
Christian M. Willman
Clarissa Dwight
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Clarissa Wilmot
Clark Knights
Coach House
Colesville New York
Colorado
Colorado State Legislature
Confederate Army
Connecticut
Cook County Illinois
Copperheads
Corn Huskings
Country Physician
Countryman
Cow
Crown Hill Cemetery
Cuba Township Illinois
Dailey
Daniel Wright Jr.
Davis C. Steele
Dawson
Dedham Massachusetts
Deerfield Area Historical Society
Deerfield Argonauts
Deerfield Assessor
Deerfield Centennial Celebration
Deerfield Corners
Deerfield Filling Station
Deerfield Garden Apartments
Deerfield Historic Village
Deerfield Historical Cemetery
Deerfield Historical Map
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Massachusetts
Deerfield Our Athenian Club (OAC)
Deerfield Postmaster
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield School
Deerfield Town Hall Meetings
Deerfield Township
Deerfield Township Post Office
Deerfield Village Store
DeKalb Illinois
Delta County Colorado
Dennis Lancaster
Denver Colorado
Denver University
Denver University Preparatory Department
Deputy United States Marshall
Des Plaines River
Diphtheria
District Schools
Dorsey
Dose
Doyle
Duffy
Dwight
Dwight Porter Wilmot
E.J. Ginter
Edwin Cadwell
Edwin Kittell
Eggs
Eglon Washington
Electa Hoyt
Electa Hoyt Bennett
Eliab Gifford
Elijah M. Haines
Elisha Gridley
Elizabeth Clark Millen
Elizabeth Gutzler
Elizabeth Gutzler Stryker
Elizabeth Luther
Elizabeth Luther Wilmot
Ella Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell
Elmer E. Miller
Emma Hall
Emmett Post Office
England
Epidemic Diseases
Erastus Bailey
Erin
Erwin B. Messer
Eugene B. Payne
Eva P. Vant Wilmot
Evangelical Association Church
Evangelical Association Church Des Plaines Conference District
Evangelical Association Church of North America
Evangelical Association Churchyard
Evangelical Church
Evanston Illinois
Evergreen Colorado
Fagan
Farm Hand
Father Marquette
First Presbyterian Church
Flatboat
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Panama Canal
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John J* Welch
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Clara M* Merner
Fredericka Koebelin
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E*R* Seese
R. C. Vilas
Dr* J*P* 0* Connell
Standard Oil Co*
Royal Neighbors
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(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,
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desk is a high and rather crude stand)
SIHGING MASTER:
CHORUS;
(Sing "Mill May"
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(Gives musical directions, and
points at individuals who will sing the different
parts)
CHORUS*
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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
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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
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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)
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Who's there?
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children draw near, watching fearfully. Wilmot
enters, pulling in a black man, quickly and closing door.
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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?
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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
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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,
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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,
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forward)
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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*,
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(Smiling) He can 3ing, can he? Perhaps he can pay
for his keep that way. Let's hear you sing, Andrew,.
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The Return of the Civil War Soldiers
Time: A morning in early'summer, 1865
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Photocopy of pages from the Deerfield Cenntenial Pageant script that mentions Andrew Jackson, the runaway slave who supposedly stayed in Deerfield.
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1935
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Kottrasch Brothers
Koebelin, WIlliam
Becker, Eugene
Engstrom, George
Knaak, Theodore J.
Rommel, Mrs. J.
Ziesing, August
McGarvie Brothers
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STOPS
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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
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Millbum. Illinois
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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.
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1) Underground railroad — Illinois.
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H. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM.
Mitchell, William
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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)
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Long, Laura.
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Antiquarian Society, 1936.
Swift, Httdegarde Hoyt
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Harcourt. Brace, & ••
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the life of Harriet Tubman. Contains repr
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T. UP FROM SLAVERY. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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New York: MacMillan, 1898. (Rep
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York- Random House. 1958. A story about
^to'Tsvhoi^the“Tof rTttnni“E°°-ion-on theUnderground Railroad. Based on the
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Severance, Frank Hayward. OLD TRAILS ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER.
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Cleveland, OH:
Burrows Brothers, 1903.
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my story of the civil war and the underground railButler, Marvin Benjamin.
United Brethren Publishing Establishment. 1914. An account of
ROAD. Huntington. IN: The
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Cockrum, William Monroe.
The struggles of the new
Mississippi cotton country.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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friendship between two boys one a white teenage otphan bound out on a canalboat and the other a
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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member of the Chicago Board of
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Great Chicago Fire he rescued
many valuable docments. His oil
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Anna Hudlun built near Dearborn
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Lexington: University of Kentucky Ptess, 1961. The author questions and attempts to determine
the extent to which the Underground Railroad accounts are factual.
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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.
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Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made
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Browin. Frances Williams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
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Claris, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. After spend
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property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on
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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.
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(Reprint 1993) A brief biography in verse about Harriet Tubman and her dedicated efforts to lead
her fellow slaves to freedom.
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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.
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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.
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Strother, Horatio T. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
IN CONNECTICUT. Middletown. CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1962.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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family of Quakers operating a station on the Underground Railroad spirits slaves from Ashtabula
Ohio across Lake Erie to freedom.
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Harrison. Lowell Hayes. THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT IN KENTUCKY. Lexington. KY:
University Press of Kentucky, 1978.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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Wh°Se StrUg8,e t0 free
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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.
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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.
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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.
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slavery on the human spirit is presented in three love stories based on true events.
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McKissack. Patricia and Frederick McKissack. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: THE BLACK LION.
Chicago: Children’s Press, 1987. Frederick Douglass becomes a spokesperson in the antislavery
movement.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 „• „
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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"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"—
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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
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A Girl Called Boy
A Job for Jeremiah
A Lantern in the Window
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth
A Place Called Mother Hubbard Cupboard
A Quaker Pioneer: Laura Haviland Superintendent of the Underground Railroad
A School for Pompey Walker
A Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett
A Towpath to Freedom
A Woman Called Moses
A Woman's Life Work: Including Thirty Years' Service on the Underground Railroad and in the War
A Woman's Life Work: Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland
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Addy Learns a Lesson: A School Story
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Afro-Americans '76: Black Americans in the Founding of Our Nation
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Allan Pinkerton
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Ambrose Headen
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And Forever Free
And Why Not Every Man? An Account of Slavery the Underground Railroad and the Road to Freedom in New York's Southern Tier
Ann Donegan Johnson
Ann McGovern
Ann Warren Turner
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Anna Louis Curtis
Anne Benjamin
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Arms of a Stranger
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Harriet Tubman: Slavery and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Harriet Tubman: They Called Me Moses
Harriet Tubman's Famous Christmas Eve Raid
Harriette Robinet
Harry N. Abrams
Harvard University Press
Hayden Book Company
Heart of the Lakes Publishing
Helen C. Phelan
Helen Pierce Jacob
Henrietta Buckmaster
Henry O. Flipper
Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Hildreth Tyler Wristen
Hinsdale Illinois
Hippocrene Books
Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad
History of the Underground Railroad as It Was Conducted by the Anti-Slavery League
History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania
Holiday House
Homer Uri Johnson
Honey I Love
Horatio T. Strother
Houghton
Houghton Mifflin Company
Howard University
Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Hudson Ohio
Hudson Ohio and the Underground Railroad
Huntington Indiana
If You Please President Lincoln
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Illinois
Illinois Libraries
Illinois State Library
Indiana
Indianapolis Indiana
Interlake New York
Iris Gilmore
Isabella McMeekin
Israel Blodgett
J. Carlson
J. Messner
J.W. Cockrum
Jacob Lawrence
James A. McGowan
James C. Birney
James C. Winston Publishers
James F. Caccamo
James Forman
James Haskins
James Lincoln Collier
James M. McPherson
James O. Bond
James William
James WIlliams
Jane Kristof
Jane Polcovar
Jayhawker
Jean Fritz
Jeanne Williams
Jeannette Winter
Jennifer Armstrong
Jeri Ferris
Jermain Wesley Loguen
Joan A. Anderson
Joanna Halpert Kraus
Joanne WIlliamson
Joe Coe
John Anthony Scott
John Brown
John Brown's of Harper's Ferry
John Jones
John Parker
John Quincy Adams
John Rankin
John Scobell
John Wagner
Jonathan Katz
Joseph Henry Hudlan Senior
Joseph Hudlun
Josiah Henson
Journey Cake
Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Judith Bentley
Juliet E.K. Walker
Julius Lester
Julius Warren
Justice of the Peace
Kansas
Kate Connell
Kate McMullan
Kathie Billingslea Smith
Kathleen Bethel
Kathryn Browne Pfeifer
Kentucky
Knopf
Kumi and Chanti Tell the Story of Harriet Tubman
L.C. Paine Freerer
La Jolla California
Lake Erie
Lancaster Pennsylvania
Lanham Maryland
Larry and the Freedom Man
Larry Gara
Larry Weinberg
Last Chance for Freedom
Latin
Laura Long
Laura S. Haviland
Laura Smith Haviland
LaVerne C. Johnson
Lee Kinard
Leslie D. Guccione
Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement
Letters
Levi Coffin
Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lexington Kentucky
Liberty Party
Life and Adventures of James William A Fugitive Slave with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Lije Tulley
Lillie Patterson
Linda D. Meyer
Lippincott
Lippincott Grambo and Company
Livonia Michigan
Lloyd Augustus Hall
Lodestar Books
Logan Reyford
Lois Ruby
Lombard Illinois
London England
Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History
Long's College Book Company
Longman
Longmans
Looking for Orlando
Los Angeles California
Lothrop
Louise Riley
Lowell Hayes Harrison
Lucille Schulberg Warner
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Terry Prince
Lurey Khan
Macmillan
Mahwah New Jersey
Make Free: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Makin' Free: African Americans in the Northwest Territory
Mankato Minnesota
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans From Slavery to Freedom
Marcia M. Mathews
Marcie Miller Stadelhofen
Marcy Heidish
Margaret Gogg Clark
Margaret Hagler
Marguerite DeAngeli
Marian Talmudge
Marian W. Taylor
Marian Wells
Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Marjorie Hill Allee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglass
Marlene Targ-Brill
Martha and Elvira: A One Act Play
Martin Luther King Jr.
Marvin Benjamin Butler
Mary Collins Dunne
Mary Stolz
Matthew G. Grant
May McNeer
Mean to be Free: A Flight North on the Underground Railroad
Meet Addy: An American Girl
Megan McClard
Merritt Parmelee Allen
Messner
Miami Florida
Michael J. Rosen
Michael McCurdey
Michele Stepto
Middleton Wisconsin
Middletown Connecticut
Mildred Barger Herschler
Mildred E. Danforth
Millbrook Press
Milton Meltzer
Mimi Cooper Levy
Minneapolis Minnesota
Miriam Grace Monfredo
Mississippi
Missouri
Morrow Junior Books
Moylan Pennsylvania
Mr. Frank the Underground Mail Agent
My Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A College Hill Sourcebook of Black History
My Story of the Civil War and the Underground Railroad
Nancy Henderson
NASA Headquarters
Nashville Tennessee
Nat Brandt
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Geographic
National Park Service
National Parks and Conservation Association
National Parks and Conservation Association Magazine
Negro Universities Press
Nettie's Trip South
New Day Press
New Dreams for Old
New England
New Plays for Children
New Readers Press
New York City New York
New York Puffin Books
Newman
Newman Educational Publishing
Newspapers
Next Stop Freedom: The Story of a Slave Girl
North Carolina
North Star Conspiracy
North to Liberty: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Northwestern University
Nystrom
Oak Tree Publications
Oakland City Indiana
Office of the Journal
Official Records
Ohio
Old Tappan New Jersey
Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Olivet Baptist Church
One Day Levin ... He Be Free: William Still and the Underground Railroad
Orchard Books
Orwell Ohio
Ossie Davis
Overton Farm
Oxford University Press
Pamphlets
Pantheon
Pantheon Books
Parenting Press
Patricia Beatty
Patricia C. McKissack
Patricia McKissack
Patricia Polacco
Patsy Becvar
Paula Fox
Peg Leg Joe
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Vigilance Committees
Philip Sterling
Philo Carpenter
Philomel Books
Pink and Say
Pinkus Alee
Pleasant Company
Polly Carter
Pompey Walker
Profiles in Black and White: Stories of Men and Women Who Fought Against Slavery
Providence Rhode Island
Puffin Books
Putnam
Quacker
Quakers
Quercus
Quincy Illinois
Quinn Chapel AME Church
R and E Research Associates
R. Conrad Stein
Rae Rains
Raelene Phillips
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Ralph Ellison
Random House
Raymond Bial
Rebecca Wright
Reginald Larrie
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin
Rhoda W. Backmeister
Richard D. Sears
Richard DeBaptiste
Richard T. Greener
Richard Wright
Richmond Virginia
Ripley Ohio
Rita Dove
Roanoke Island North Carolina
Robert Alan Scott
Robert Clemens Smedley
Robert Smalls
Robert Wayne Walker
Rosa Parks
Rowayton Connecticut
Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Running for Our Lives
Ruth Fosdick Jones
S. Epstein
S.B. Shaw Publishers
S.R. Scottron
Salem New Hampshire
Sally Carrighar
Sally Marcey
San Diego California
Sandra Forrester
Sarah Bradford
Sarah West
Saratoga California
Satchel Paige
Say Curtis
Scarsdale New York
Scholastic
Scholastic Book Services
Scholastic Incorporated
Schuman
Scribner
Seattle Washington
Secaucus New Jersey
Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Seminole Native American
Shaaron Cosner
Sheldon Peck
Shirley Graham
Sickler
Silver Burdett Press
Silver Press
Simon and Schuster
Sister Vision
Sketches in the History of The Underground Railroad
Skid
Slavery
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth: God's Faithful Pilgrim
Something Upstairs
Song of Jubilee
Songs of the Underground Railroad
Sound the Jubilee
South Carolina
Speeches
St. Martin's Press
Steal Away
Steal Away Home
Stories of the Underground Railroad
Stranger in the Pines
Stranger in the Storm
Susan's Secret
Susanna and Tristram
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Syracuse University Press
T. Nelson
T.Y. Crowell Company
Take a Walk in Their Shoes
Tales from the Underground Railroad
Terry Bisson
The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky
The Black Man in the Land of Equality
The Chaneysville Incident
The Day of Small Things: Abolitionism in Midst Slavery Berea Kentucky
The Diary of Strawbridge Place
The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad
The Eyes and Ears of the Civil War
The Freedom Star
The Friends of the Hudson Library Incorporated
The Glass Dove
The Great Migration: An American Story
The History Channel
The House of Dies Drear
The Island Workshop Press Co-Op
The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
The Long Black Schooner; The Voyage of the Amistad
The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroads
The Mystery of Drear House: The Conclusion of the Dies Drear Chronicle
The Negro's Civil War: How Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War
The Rev. J.W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman
The Secret of Captives' Cave
The Silver Highway
The Slave Dancer
The Society
The Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad
The Story of the Underground Railroad
The Town that Started the Civil War
The Truth About the Man Behind the Book That Sparked the War Between the States
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
The Underground Railroad in Connecticut
The Underground Railroad in DuPage
The Underground Railroad in Illinois
The Underground Railroad in Massachusetts
The Underground Railroad: Connections to Freedom and Science
The United Brethren Publishing Establishment
The Value of Helping: The Story of Harriet Tubman
The Yellow Bone Ring
Thee Hannah
There Once Was a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass
Think Black: An Introduction to Black Political Power
This Railroad Disappears
This Strange New Feeling
Thomas Falls
Thomas J. Ladenburg
Thomas T. Crowell Company
To Be a Slave
Tom Person
Toni Morrison
Toronto Canada
Trail Through DuPage County
Train for Tiger Lily
Troll Associates
Trumpet Club
Twenty-First Century Books
Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of Ellen and William Craft Fugitive Slaves
Tyndale House Publishers
Underground Man
Underground Railroad
Union Army African American Regiments
Union Army First South Carolina Volunteers
Union Army Indiana Volunteers 44th Regiment
United States National Park Service
United States National Park Service Underground Railroad Special Resource Study
United States Supreme Court
University of Kentucky Press
University of North Carolina Press
University Press of America
University Press of Kentucky
Up from Slavery an Autobiography
Valiant Press
Value Communications
Vidi
Viking
Virginia
Virginia Hamilton
Vivian G. Harsh
Viviian G. Harsh
Vladivostok Russia
Voices in the Night
W. McKinstry and Son
W. Tweedie
W.E.B. DuBois
Walk Together: Five Plays on Human Rights
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman
Warrenville Illinois
Wesleyan University Press
West Point
Western Citizen
Westminster
Wheaton Illinois
When the Rattlesnake Sounds: A Play
Whimsie Press
Who Comes with Cannons
Who is Carrie
Wilbur Henry Siebert
Wilbur Siebert
William Craft
William H. Mitchell
William L. Andrews
William Monroe Cockrum
William S. McFeely
William Still
William Wells Brown
William X. Breyfogle
Williamsburg Household
Williamsburg Virginia
Willie McCay
Worcester Massachusetts
World War II
Young Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter
Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure
Zebina Eastman
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days of winter, I
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appreciate the
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golden light
that pours forth
from a friendly
window. Is
there anything more welcoming?
Recently, I was walking back to the
Library after an evening meeting.
Through the glowing panes, I saw
the Library full of people engaged in
a variety of ei\joyable activities.
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Record-breaking attendance,
climbing circulation figures,
increasing demands for our meeting
rooms and for tables throughout the
building—something is going on
here!! Even we have been a little
surprised at these dramatic increases.
No doubt the shaky economy is one
reason - the Library is a terrific
family-entertainment resource. We
hope the many positive changes and
improved access day and night, here
or from home or office, are
contributing factors as well.
In this issue you will discover many
new reasons to come to the Library
and information about our plans to
make it even more inviting. Be sure
to see the Board’s announcement of
our plans to update the Library.
Whatever your plans are for the next
few months, we hope that you’ll let
us extend a cheery hello to you this
winter.
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Library Board Engages Architectural Consultant
Last year the Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees decided to stay in downtown
Deerfield at our present location. Although it appears that our 37-year-old building is
structurally sound, we continue to hear from members of the community that it is time
for an update. More than just updating the worn and outdated interior, it is time to
rearrange our space to make better use of the building and reconfigure it to meet the
needs of our community. Included in this improvement plan is the possibility for a
small addition.
The Board has engaged the services of a Chicago-area architectural firm to review the
current building systems and structure in detail, evaluate the use of space and evolving
programming and service needs, and conduct community focus groups. The purpose of
this process is to generate ideas and build consensus about the vital services and space
needs of a dynamic community library. The architectural firm will use this information to
develop a set of proposals to enhance our current building on Waukegan Road. These
alternatives will be presented to the public for further discussion and analysis.
As we write this, the dates for these activities are being planned. We invite you to
watch for further announcements and we welcome your ideas and comments at any time.
— Ken Abosch, Deerfield Public Library Board President
—Mary Courtney; Deerfield Public Library Board Member
One Book, One Zip Code
The 2009 “One Book, One Zip Code” selection for adults and high
school students is Listening Is an Act ofLove: Celebration of
American Life from the StoryCorps Project edited by Dave Isay.
These stories, first recorded as part of the StoryCorps Project,
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include personal accounts of triumph, tragedy, and all the human
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places in between.
The heart of StoryCorps is the conversation between two people
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who are important to each other: a grandson asking his grandmother
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about her childhood, an immigrant telling his friend about coming to [
America, or a couple reminiscing on their 50th wedding anniversary.
By helping people to connect and to talk about the questions that
matter, the StoryCorps experience is powerful and sometimes even life-changing.
Last year, representatives from Bannockburn, Deerfield and Riverwoods planned and
presented our first “One Book” program. Last year’s book was Mountains Beyond
Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.
This spring, “One Book, One Zip Code” partners will once again provide readers with
opportunities to come together at locations throughout the community for discussions,
lectures, and interactive events related to the book.
Parents, look for a kid’s version of “One Book” coming this spring!
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Programs are free and open to the public. Please register in advance by calling 847-945-3311
Career Advice
Tuesdays, December 9, January 13,
and February 10. 9:30 a.m, -12 p.m
Career Counselor Roberta Glick of Jewish
Vocational Services offers free half-hour
consulting sessions for anyone ages 18 to 80.
Please register in advance.
The Best Christmas Decorations
in Chicagoland
Wednesday December
17, 7p.m
Maty Edsey logged over
15,000 miles compiling
the pictures and stories
for her aw-ard-winning
book. This presentation
spotlights Chicago’s
history of dazzling
downtown decorations. The evening will be a
delightful tour of Chicago and its suburbs,
documenting incredible decorating feats.
Co-sponsored by the Deerfield Fine Arts
Commission.
My Life in the Theatre
Tuesday January 6, 7p.m.
Toby Nicholson, a Chicago actor, director,
dancer, choreographer, and scene designer
for 45 years, discusses his career, the actors
and directors with w'hom he has worked and
the backstage stories the audience never
hears. He also reveals successful techniques
for auditioning (and, volunteers from the
audience may read a short scene!)
Those Were the Days
Radio Players
Sunday January 11,2 p.m.
Do you remember Inner Sanctum, The
Whistler, and The Shadow? Here’s your
chance to see how radio plays were actually
performed, sound effects and all. Bring the
entire family to er\joy the “golden days
of radio.”
Identity Theft & Consumer
Fraud Prevention
Tuesday January 13, 7p.m.
Eric Salcedo from the Attorney General’s
Office presents an overview of identity theft,
the fastest-growing crime in the country, and
consumer fraud prevention. Topics include
definitions of identity theft and financial
fraud, prevention measures, common
consumer scams, and what to do if you
suspect that you’re a victim of fraud.
Super Couponing
Thursday January 15, 7p.m.
Join Jill Cataldo to learn
how to maximize your
grocery savings and
purchase hundreds of dol
lars worth of groceries for
pennies! Learn couponing
secrets of the pros—which
stores will let you “stack” multiple coupons,
how to track discounts online, and best of all,
how to get the store to pay YOU to shop.
Teen Study Lounge
Saturday January 17-Thursday January22
High school students looking for a place to
study for exams can make themselves at
home in the Library’s Meeting Room all
hours that the Library is open during finals
week. The Library will provide large tables
for group study, snacks and beverages,
improved Wi-Fi access, and help using the
Library’s extensive collection of print and
online resources.
Rosemaiy Sazonoff Writing
Contest: Tell Me about the
Time When
Sunday February 1-Saturday Febmary 28
The Library’s 13th Annual Creative Writing
Contest celebrates family stories that are
handed down from generation to generation.
The contest honors the memory of Library
trustee, community activist, and journalist
Rosemaiy Sazonoff. High school students and
adults may submit short, unpublished pieces
of creative writing on the theme “Tell Me
about the Time When...” by February 28.
The Library will honor winners of the adult
writing contest at a reading and reception
sponsored by the Friends of the Deerfield
Public Library in March. Get entry forms and
more information in all departments and
online beginning Sunday, February 1.
AARP Tax Aid Program
Tuesdays and Fridays, February 3 April 14,1-4 p.m.
IRS-trained volunteers for the AARP will
provide help in completing simple tax
returns. You do not have to be an AARP
member or a senior citizen to receive
assistance. Please bring copies of last year’s
tax returns. No appointment needed.
Great Decisions
Tuesdays, February 3 - March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Tom Jester coordinates thoughtful discus
sions and stimulating analyses of some of the
great issues of our time. Purchase discussion
guidebooks at the Circulation desk for $18.
Book Group Branch
Saturday February 7,10:30 a.m -12p.m.
Come meet, eat, and talk about good books.
You can hear which books have been big hits
and w'hich have bombed with other local
book groups, learn which web sites librarians
use for finding discussion questions and
author interviews, and ei\joy a light brunch
while sharing tips for keeping a group on
track and everybody on the same page.
Meet Mrs. Lincoln
Wednesday February 11, 7p.m.
Maty Todd Lincoln comes to life as presented
by Valerie Gugala, who sets the historical
record straight as she takes the audience
through the life of a young woman born into
wealth, her marriage to a man of opposite
background, and their life in the White
House. Gugala spent 30 years researching the
Lincoln family and has performed as Mrs.
Lincoln throughout Illinois.
Nightclub in the Afternoon
Valentine’s Day Dance
Saturday February 14, 3 p.m.
Come listen to singer
Mary Ann Riehl and her
band play the jazz, swing,
and blues of yesterday
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while eqjoying candle-lit £ :
refreshments and per@><1
haps a dance or two! This H I
program has garnered
praise throughout
Chicagoland. Riehl’s CD Then and Now will
be offered as a door prize.
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The 2009 Oscars
Wednesday February 18, 7p.m.
Reid Schultz, movie critic, film maker, and
faculty member of Columbia College, discusses
the box office successes, mainstream movies,
and indie films of the year. His spirited
opinions create a lively audience-speaker
discussion of the best and worst of 2008-2009.
�Staff News
Welcome Emily Compton,
Head of Reference
If Emily looks familiar, it is because she
has been a librarian with us for just
over a year. After a multi-state search
for a new head of reference, we
realized that we had to look no further
to find exactly what we needed. Emily
has a strong commitment to excellent
reference services and nonfiction
readers’ advisory, as well as offering
virtual services via our website. She
appreciates the skills and experience
of her coworkers, and together they
form an impressive team.
Welcome Sheila Urwiler,
Head of Multimedia
Sheila joined our new Multimedia
department in late September. She has
extensive experience in customer
service and staff training, and she
recently made the career change to
librarianship. Currently a student
librarian with a passion for music and
movies, she will complete her MLS
degree in December. Sheila has many
ideas for the expansion of the media
collections and services, so let her
know your areas of interest!
Best Wishes to Juanita
Nicholson, Reference
Librarian
Juanita will retire in late November
after dedicating five years of superb
service to the Deerfield community.
Over the years you may have noticed
her displays, complete with Victor the
penguin, or you may have made a
delicious meal with a cookbook she
selected for the Libraiy. Juanita’s
passion for research and teaching is an
inspiration to library users and staff
alike. We will all miss her kind attitude,
engaging stories, and undying patience.
Thank you and best wishes, Juanita!
Friends
Change to Item Renewal
The Friends of the Library's fall book sale
raised thousands of dollars that will be used to
enhance Library services, programs, and
materials. In 2008 the Friends supported the
Youth Services department by sponsoring the
Summer Reading Kick-Off Program, spinning
prize wheel, new train table, toy chest, and a
Kamishibai stage and stories. Other donations
to the Library include Playaway audiobooks, a
portable LCD projector, and a large display
unit for the Multimedia department.
The Friends enthusiastically welcome new
members. For more information, please call
847-945-3311 ext. 37 or emailfriends@deerfieldlibraryorg. The Friends of the Library
Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,
January 28, and Wednesday,
March 25.
In response to the feedback that we have
received about the Library’s “Renew by Phone”
option, the Library has discontinued this
feature. You can continue to renew items
online when you visit the Library’s website,
www.deerfieldlibrary.org. Click on “Catalog &
Account” to go to the Library’s online catalog.
Click on “My Account” to renew items, see
what you have checked out, and where you are
on a waiting list. If you prefer the personal
touch, please call the Library’s main line,
847-945-3311, and a Circulation staff member
will be happy to renew your items. Or you can
always ask a staff member to renew items
when you’re visiting the Library in person.
Don’t forget, the Library recently changed
our renewal policy, allowing you to renew
items twice!
New Libraiy Catalog Coming
in Fall 2009
Acknowledgments
With over 75 teen chefs and fans, Iron Chef
Deerfield, the Library’s first high school
What if looking for a library book online were
cooking competition, was a treat for the eyes,
as rewarding as picking one up off the shelf?
A new online library catalog will make looking ears, and stomachs. Special thanks to our
celebrity judges Sara Burrows, food editor,
for books, getting recommendations, and
Pioneer Press; Kevin Quigley, owner, Kevin’s
keeping track of your materials even easier.
The Libraiy has selected Innovative Interfaces Place; and Perri Kramer, marketing special
ist, Whole Foods Market Deerfield. Whole
as its new automation system and will
Foods also donated specialty ingredients,
implement the improved catalog in 2009.
T-shirts for all contestants, and a private cooking
class with Chicago Chef Leslie Jacobson-Cohn
Toys for Tots
for the winners. Patty Turner Senior Center
The Library will be accepting donations for
and Whitehall of Deerfield lent cooking utensils
the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots
for all the chefs. And congratulations to
program at the Libraiy through Monday,
winning team “Jabby!”. Jaimi Johnson, Abby
December 15. Drop off new toys, unwrapped
Marder, and Nicole Friedman created a
and in their original packaging in the
savory turkey and havarti cheese sandwich,
collection box in the Library’s lobby. Other
palate-cleansing pita dish, and a crisp
Deerfield locations include Village Hall, the
marinated tofu salad.
Deerfield Police Department and Patty Tfirner
Sunset ^ jn Highjand Park provided
Senior Center. Learn more about Toys for Tots
^ frostings and decorating candies for the
at www.toysfortots.org.
Youth Services department’s October drop-in
Piptnrins Amprira
craft “Take a Bite out ofBooks” sPecial
riu,uimg mueimd,
thanks tQ Bakery Manager Brooke Edwards.
This fall the Library’s Youth Services departThanks to student volunteer Marc Noftsger
ment and Deerfield schools were awarded a
for all his hard work helping the Library get
Picturing America Grant from the National
dvj^ qq an(j game collections on the shelf
Endowment for the Humanities and the
an(j rea(jy for you
Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Thanks to the Lake Forest College stuThe grant makes 20 double-sided works of art
dents, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends for
by American artists and a resource guide
their efforts 0n behalf of the Library during
available to teachers and librarians. The art
the 2008 Gates Center Day of Service.
will be on display in the Library s Youth
Many thanks to our good friends at Barnes
Services department throughout the yeai. The
& Noble of Deerfield Square, who are nice
Library will lend supporting art kits containing en0ugh to allow Arthur, Little Critter, and
books, CDs, and DVDs to local classrooms
Curious George to visit the Library.
throughout the year.
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Book Discussions in the Library
Family Times
You can find copies of the discussion books at the Circulation desk
one month prior to discussion.
■ Thursday, December 11,10:30 a.m.
Book Talk Pot Luck!
Did you discover a title this year that has
you saying, “You’ve got to read this!”? The
Library invites you to come talk about some
of your favorite books and share your recipe
for a great read. Remember, variety is the
spice of life.
■ Thursday, January7 8,10:30 a.m.
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Safer
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution,
Isaac Amin is arrested and wrongly accused
of being a spy. Amin’s family must face a
new world of cruelty, chaos, and betrayal
while planning a dangerous escape.
■ Thursday, January 15, 7:30 p.m.
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has moved from
the city to a remote, riverside cabin in
Norway. His peaceful existence is interrupted
when he meets his only neighbor, whose
familiarity brings back memories of his youth
that have shaped the course of his life.
■ Tuesday, January 20,10:30 a.m.
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett
A loving yet harrowing tale of Patchett’s
friendship with Lucy Grealy, a talented but
troubled writer with a disfiguring illness
and a unique gift for living.
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
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State Hermitage Museum’s removal of its
priceless masterpieces for safekeeping,
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by J. R. Moehringer
In this highly praised memoir, an only child,
abandoned by his father, finds that hanging
out at the corner bar provides male company and a refuge from the 11 family members
at home.
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In this Booker Prize-winning novel, Balram
Halwai gets a break when he is hired as a
driver for Delhi’s wealthiest man. But
Balram becomes disillusioned by the city’s
materialism and violence, which leads to
his transformation from an honest,
hardworking man to a killer.
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Book Groups!
Library staff can lead discussions of Listening Is an Act of Love edited by Dave Isay for
your book groups in March and April. To discuss availability, please contact Karen
Kleckner (847) 945-3311 ext. 20 or kkleckner@deerfieldlibrary.org.
Yoga for Stress-Reduction:
Find Peace & Release
Sunday, February 22,2 p.m.
Allison Wilmes, a certified yoga instructor,
shows the audience simple yoga poses that
will help relieve tension, some of which
can be done anywhere and anytime. This
presentation includes a guided meditation
and breath awareness exercises to promote
relaxation.
Saturdays, December 6 - February 28,11 a.m.
All ages
Come to the Picture Book Room for a drop-in
storytime for the whole family.
REGISTERED STORYTIMES
Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
Local poets are encouraged to share their
work, inspirations, and creative processes.
The group is open to poets of all levels of
experience—from potential to published—
and actively seeks new members.
Sew us what you’ve got!
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Toddler Times
Thursdays, December 4, December 18,
January 8, January 22, February 5,
February 19,10:30 a.m.
Ages 18 months - 2 Vs years. Register in advance.
Toddlers and their caregivers are invited to a
special twice-monthly storytime designed just for
them in the Storytime Room.
Foreign Language Storytimes
Tuesday, December 16,11:30 a.m. - 12p.m.
(Spanish)
Tuesday, January 20,11:30 a.m. - 12p.m.
(Italian)
Tuesday, February 17,11:30 a.m. - 12p.m.
(Spanish)
Registrationfor all three sessions begins on
Monday, November 17.
Young children and their caregivers are invited
to this play-based full immersion program.
These storytimes are generously provided by
native-speaking staff from the Language Stars
of Deerfield.
After School Stories
Thursdays, January 8 - February 5, 4 p.m.
Grades K-2
Registration begins Monday, December 15.
This program is specifically designed for younger
elementary school children and features stories
and crafts.
Library Poets
Do you sew, knit, quilt, or embroider?
Would you like to join a group of likeminded “wool gatherers”? Contact
Lynette Stone, ext. 29, for more
information.
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: Annual Bookmark Contest
Monday, February 23 through Monday,
March 30 • Grades preschool - 8
Pick up your entry forms in the Youth
Services department. Bookmarks will be
on display for voting during the month of
April. The winning bookmark will be given
out during our Summer Reading Program.
Please, only one entry per person.
�DROP-IN EVENTS
Book Groups
Please register in advance. Books are available in
the Youth Services department.
Reading Warriors: Boys’ Book Group
Saturday, December 13, 2-3p.m. • Gmdes3-6
On the Wings ofHeroes by Richard Peck.
Musings: Girls’ Book Group
Saturday, January 10,2-3p.m. • Grades 4-6
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
Family Program: Music and
Movement with Steve Beno
Saturday, January 10,2 - 3 p.m.
Ages2-6 and their caregivers
Registration begins Monday, December 8.
The whole family will be rocking and rolling when
singer and guitarist Steve Beno performs his catchy
and clever tunes.
Dora & Diego Scavenger Hunt
Bonding With Books: Parent/Child Book Group
Saturday, January 24,2 -4 p.m.
Grades 2-3 and their parents or caregivers
Read to your child, and then have your child read to
you! Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale ofMystery by
Deborah and James Howe.
Tuesday, January 20, 3:30 p.m. and Wednesday,
January 21,10:30 a.m.
Ages 3-5 and their caregivers • Registration
begins Monday, December 15, for both sessions.
Vamonos! Go on a Dora the Explorer scavenger
hunt through the Youth Services department. This
adventure includes music, props, and participation.
Reading Warriors: Boys’ Book Group
Saturday, February 14, 2-3p.m. • Grades3-6
MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans.
Visit with a Chicago Wolves Player
Lunch & a Movie
All ages • Registration begins Monday, January 5,
for both dates.
Herbie Fully Loaded
Monday, January 19,12 -1:30 p.m.
Chicken Run
Monday, March 2,12 - 1:30p.m.
Bring a sack lunch. Beverages and dessert
will be provided.
K-9 Reading Buddies of the
North Shore
Monday, January 26, 6:30 - 8p.m.
Monday, February 23, 6:30 - 7:30p.m.
Grades 1-5 • Registration begins Monday,
December 8, for both sessions.
Read to four-legged friends in this safe,
non-judgmental program.
Gingerbread Decoration for Kids
with Gale Gand
Saturday, December* 6,2-3p.m.
Grades K-5 • Register in advance.
As part of Deerfield’s Winter Celebration, kids can
work with renowned pastry chef Gale Gand on the
fun and tasty art of gingerbread decoration.
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who ?et the bar high, “train,” and
reach their goal will get a prize.
In addition to providing reading
incentives, the Library will host
a Chicago Wolves player.
Drop-In Craft:
Candle Making
Wednesday, January 21, 6 p.m.
All ages and their caregivers
Registration begins Monday, December 15.
Celebrate the end of the Winter Reading Program
with a Chicago Wolves player! A brief presentation
will be followed by Q & A and autographs for kids.
Wednesday December 17,2- 5 p.m.
Children arid their caregivers
Roll a beeswax candle to keep or
give as a gift. This craft is safe and
fun for all ages.
Abraham Lincoln Birthday Party
Rosemary Sazonoff
Writing Contest:
Tell Me about the
Time When...
Saturday, January 31,2-3p.m. • Grades3-6
Registration begins Monday, January 5.
Ten score—that’s 200 years—ago on February 12,
was the birth of one of our nation’s greatest
Presidents! Kids are invited to celebrate President
Lincoln’s birthday with crafts, activities, music,
and snacks!
Doll Tea Party
Saturday, February 21,2-3p.m.• Grades2-5
Registration begins Monday, January 5.
Bring your favorite doll to a Doll Tea Party! Learn
about the old-fashioned customs of a formal tea
party. Children are invited to dress up or come
as they are.
Dr. Seuss Birthday Party
Saturday, March 7,2- 3p.m. • Grades K- 2
Registration begins Monday, February 9.
Celebrate Dr. Seuss's big day with stories, crafts
and games.
Introducing: Celebration Books!
Celebrate a birthday, outstanding achievement, or special event by donating a book to the Youth
Services department. Each month the department will display new titles from which to choose.
Pick your favorite for $15, and the Library will add the book to the collection with a nameplate in
honor of the special someone you are celebrating.
Sunday, February 1-Saturday,
February28 • Grades2-8
Does your family have stories that
you love to hear over and over
again? Do you have favorite stories
about when your parents were
children or something that
happened to you when you were
too little to remember? Enter this
year’s writing contest with a story,
poem, or essay on the theme ‘Tell
Me about the Time When..
First-place winners in each age
category will receive a cash prize.
Get entry forms and more informa
tion at the Youth Services desk
and online beginning Sunday,
February 1. To be eligible, please
turn in your submission by
Saturday, February 28.
�Income Tax Forms
Deerfield Public Library
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Ken Abosch, President
847-948-5390
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Ron Simon, Secretary
847-317-0116
simon.ronald@yahoo.com
Jeff Rivlin, Treasurer
847-374-0709
jeff.rivlin@comcast.net
Mary Courtney • 847-945-9460
maiycourtnejTnail@aol.com
Marla Bark Dembitz • 847-940-4049
marbar46@aol.com
Mike Goldberg • 847-945-0076
mikegoldberg@mac.com
Sunday Mueller • 847-940-7431
muellers@umich.edu
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by phoning 1-800-TAX-FORM. Illinois tax forms are
available through imw.tax.illinois.gov or by phoning
1-800-356-6302. Small-business owners and anyone
needing multiple copies of forms should place orders
directly with the federal or state government for home
or office delivery. The Library will have a limited supply of
the most-used tax forms beginning in January.
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Library Board Openings
Celebrate the season in
downtown Deerfield on
Friday, December 5, and
Saturday, December 6!
Come and enjoy holiday
events including sleigh and
pony rides, musical entertainment, and delicious
winter treats. Shake frosty
hands with a walking/talking
magic snowman at the
Library from 12 -2 p.m. on
Saturday, December 6. Kids
will want to stick around for
a 2 p.m. Gingerbread
Decoration workshop with
pastiy chef Gale Gand.
Announcements
The Library will be closed Wednesday, December 24, and Thursday, December 25.
Library Hours
Mon.-Thurs:
9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Friday:
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday:
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday:
1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
The Library will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, and remain closed all day Thursday,
January 1.
The Library will be closed on Monday, February 16.
The Library will open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14.
The Deerfield Public Library Board meets at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month.
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920 Waukegan Road
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
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Important Library Numbers
• Telephone: 847-945-3311
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• Library Home Page and Catalog:
www.deerfieldlibrary.org
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Deerfield Postal Patron
• E-mail:
DPL@deerfieldlibrary.org
To ask a reference question:
reference@deerfieldlibrary.org
• FAX: 847-945-3402
The Mission of Deerfield Public Library
To provide our community with open access to the world of information and ideas,
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Vol. 24, No. 3
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December 2008 - February 2009
Abby Marder
Abraham Lincoln
Academy Awards
Allison Wilmes
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Ann Patchett
Aravind Adiga
Balram Halwai
Bannockburn Illinois
Barnes and Noble Book Store
Booker Prize
Brooke Edwards
Bunnicula
Career Advice
Chefs
Chicago Illinois
Chicago Wolves Hockey Team
Chicagoland Area
Chicken Run
Christmas Decorations
Columbia College
Consumer Fraud Protection
Couponing
Dalia Sofer
Dave Isay
Deborah Howe
Debra Dean
Deerfield Fine Arts Commission
Deerfield High School
Deerfield High School Finals Week
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Police Department
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Public Library Adult Services Department
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees
Deerfield Public Library Book Discussions
Deerfield Public Library Bookmark Contest
Deerfield Public Library Browsing Newsletter
Deerfield Public Library Catalog
Deerfield Public Library Celebration Books
Deerfield Public Library Circulation
Deerfield Public Library Circulation Policies
Deerfield Public Library Email
Deerfield Public Library Meeting Rooms
Deerfield Public Library Mission Statement
Deerfield Public Library Multimedia Department
Deerfield Public Library Musings Book Group
Deerfield Public Library Online Public Catalog
Deerfield Public Library Poets
Deerfield Public Library Programming
Deerfield Public Library Reading Warriors Program
Deerfield Public Library Staff
Deerfield Public Library Storytimes
Deerfield Public Library Summer Reading Programs
Deerfield Public Library Teen Study Lounge
Deerfield Public Library Website
Deerfield Public Library Winter Reading Programs
Deerfield Public Library Youth Book Groups
Deerfield Public Library Youth Services Department
Deerfield Village Hall
Deerfield Winter Celebration
Doctor Seuss
Dora the Explorer
Douglas Evans
Emily Compton-Dzak
Eric Salcedo
Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program
Friends of the Deerfield Public Library
Friends of the Deerfield Public Library Book Sale
Gale Gand
Golden Age of Radio
Harriet the Spy
Herbie Fully Loaded
Highland Park Illinois
Identity Theft
Illinois
Illinois Attorney General
Illinois Tax Forms
Illinois Tax Forms Website
Income Tax Assistance
Income Tax Forms
Inner Sanctum
Innovative Interface Inc.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Website
Iran
Iranian Revolution
Iron Chef Deerfield
Isaac Amin
Italian
J.R. Moehringer
Jaimi Johnson
James Howe
Jeffrey Rivlin
Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) Career Planning Center
Jill Cataldo
Juanita Nicholson
Kamishibai
Karen Kleckner Keefe
Kenan Abosch
Kevin Quigley
Kevin's Place
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College Gates Center Day of Service
LCD Projector
Leningrad Russia
Leslie Jacobson-Cohn
Listening is an Act of Love
Louise Fitzhugh
Lucy Grealy
Lynette Stone
Marc Noftsger
Marla Bark Dembitz
Mary Ann Riehl
Mary Courtney
Mary Edsey
Mary Pergander
Mary Todd Lincoln
Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS)
Michael K. Goldberg
Mountains Beyond Mountains
MVP: Magellan Voyage Project
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities Picturing America Grant
Nicole Friedman
North Shore K-9 Reading Buddies
Norway
On the Wings of Heroes
One Book One Zip Code
Out Stealing Horses
Patty Turner Senior Center
Per Peterson
Perri Kramer
Pioneer Press
Pioneer Press Food Editor
Playaway Audiobooks
Reid Schultz
Richard Peck
Riverwoods Illinois
Roberta Glick
Ronald Simon
Rosemary Sazonoff
Rosemary Sazonoff Writing Contest
Sara Burrows
Searchable PDF
Sheila Urwiler
Spanish
State Hermitage Museum
Steve Beno
StoryCorps Project
Sunday G. Mueller
Sunset Foods
The Madonnas of Leningrad
The Septembers of Shiraz
The Shadow
The Tender Bar
The Whistler
The White Tiger
Thomas Jester
Those Were the Days Radio Players
Toby Nicholson
Toys for Tots
Tracy Kidder
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
United States Marine Corps Reserve
United States Marine Corps Toys for Tots
Valerie Gugala
White House
Whitehall of Deerfield
Whole Foods
WiFi
Yoga
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A Timeline of Library Long-Range Planning:
Kesponsiblity and Responsiveness to our Community
January, 2002
March, 2004
Board signs resolution to inves
tigate identification and acqui
sition of property in the north
west quadrant for library
expansion.
Board and Staff meet to identity
goals and core values.
March, 2002
Technology plan defines future
library systems and product
needs.
Summer, 2002
Library announces plans and
goals for long-range planning
process.
June, 2002
Executive Service Corps
conducts job and salary review
for all employees.
June, 2002
Board and Staff complete
Demographic Survey of
Deerfield.
November, 2002
Library’s value is recognized by
DBR Chamber of Commerce’s
Special Award for 75 years of
outstanding contributions to the
community.
March, 2003
Village Comprehensive Plan
unveiled for public comment.
Spring, 2003
Library Board Long-Range
Plan Chair Don Van Arsdale
outlines plan for 1,000 respondent survey, focus groups.
Administrative Librarian Jack Hicks and Architect Frank Gehry
talk about the future of the Dee}field Library at
Gehry's California headquarters.
Summer, 2003
Public Opinion Laboratory of
Northern Illinois performs
survey which indicates that
residents want
1. the Library to stay in present
quadrant;
2. convenience: drive-up
access, lower shelves, wider
aisles;
3. an enlarged and diversified
Youth Services Department;
and
4. increased access to technology
and the Internet.
Winter, 2004
Library Planning Consultant
Anders Dahlgren completes two
studies, which determine
1. we need a building 50%
larger than our current one
just to efficiently house
current holdings and
services. (Current library,
built in 1969, housed 61,500
items; same space now hous
es 180,000 items.);
2. future space needs will
require an 86,000-squarefoot building.
Fall, 2003
Public Opinion Laboratory
conducts 12 focus groups to
gauge and confirm resident
needs.
Winter, 2004
Library newsletter informs the
community of the planning
process and the Library’s
vision.
May, 2004
Structural analysis of current
building and feasibility study
determine that enlarging present
building is almost impossible,
very costly and would not solve
present space problems.
July, 2004
Administrative Librarian Jack
Hicks informs the board that
the Library’s present infrastruc
ture will soon require $2
million of repair.
August, 2004
Executive Service Corps coor
dinates all findings of the past
few years into a complete
report: The Library’s Strategic
Long Range Plan.
FUTURE PLANS:
Engage a major architect,
hire a library consultant to
work with the architect,
conduct a referendum. The
community will be included
and informed of all processes
to come.
�Adult Programs
Programs are free but reservations are requested.
Election Discussion Group
Tuesdays, September 7 and 21;
October 5 and 19, 7:15 p.m.
This group of area residents welcome you
to drop in (no reservations) and share your
current political views.
#1 Ladies Detective Agency.
A Dramatization
Tuesday, September
:—:—:——14, 7p.m.
THE NO.1
IAP1ES DETECTIVE
Book dramatist
ACENCT
Suzanne Hales
portrays the engag
ing Precious
Ramotswe with an
authentic accent,
costume, and
African flair. In the
highly acclaimed,
charming and humorous detective agency
novel by Alexander McCall Smith,
Precious is drawn to her profession to “help
people with the problems in their lives.”
Co-sponsor is the AAUW.
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Career Advice
Tuesday, September 21 and Tuesday,
November 9, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
You must sign up in advance for these half
hour individual one-on-one sessions with
Roberta Glick, JVS career counselor.
Computer Security in the
Internet Age:
Viruses, Hackers, E-mail Worms and
Trojan Horses
Tuesday, September 21,7 p.m.
Tim Corrigan of Corrigan Consulting, with
over 30 years in the tech industry, explains
in non-technical terms how to protect your
data files from unauthorized users and from
system failures. You will learn about e-mail
safety, power safety, power line dangers and
backup files.
Blurring the Lines Between
Food and Art with Gale Gand
Tuesday, September 28, 7p.m.
Internationally acclaimed executive pastry
chef and partner of Chicago’s Tru, Gale
Gand has won numerous national awards
for her culinary excellence. She’ll offer a
cooking demo and illustrate how food can
be a fine art through artistic plating tech
niques. Host of her own food network
show, Gand is the author of four top cook
books. Co-sponsored with the Deerfield
Fine Arts Commission.
The Trial and Execution of
Lincoln’s Assassins
Wednesday, October 6, 7 p.m.
Daniel Weinberg, co-author of Lincoln s
Assassins and owner of Chicago’s Abraham
Lincoln Book Shop, presents an illustrated
history of the arrest, trial and execution of
the conspirators of the Lincoln assassina
tion in 1865. He will examine how the
events were reported to the American
people; this is a history of the customs and
practices ofjournalism, publishing and
photography at the close of the Civil War.
Co-sponsor: Deerfield Area Historical
Society.
Journalist Rick Kogan
Tuesday, October 12, 7p.m.
Popular senior staff writer and columnist
for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine
and WGN radio personality, Kogan was
named Chicago’s Greatest Living Journalist
in 2002. He will talk about his two books:
Evetybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder
and the Price ofTruth and his book about
his life long friend America s Mom: The
Life, Lessons, and Legacy ofAnn Landers.
Highlights from Seussicall
Tuesday, October 26, 7 p.m.
In celebration of the 100th birthday of Dr.
Seuss, the cast from Seussical showcases
some scenes from Deerfield Family
Theater’s production of this magical,
musical world... for all ages. The complete
production plays in November at Caruso
Middle School. This October Library preview event is co-sponsored with the
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Across Russia on the
Orient Express
Tuesday, November 16,7 p.m.
Trans-Siberian Express...borscht and
cabbage...a three week train trip...World
traveler and travel book reviewer Esther
Perica will share her exciting experiences
on the Orient Express, traveling from
Beijing to Moscow across Siberia, stringing
together transportation and sightseeing
throughout China, Mongolia and Russia.
Travel tips and door prizes!
The Choraliers
Tuesday, November 30,7 p.m.
Directed by Alicia Akers, this popular
Deerfield High School show choir returns
by popular demand. The choir is made up
of outstanding singers and dancers who
will perform the music of the holiday
season. Refreshments! Co-sponsor is the
Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.
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Fall Fest
Cindy Schilling, Deerfield Youth Services
Librarian, will offer two sets of free storytelling at t.
Deerfield Area Fall Festival to be held at the histori
village, Kipling and Deerfield Roads, noon to 5 p.n
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Library Videos/DVDs
Librarian in the Lobby
The new Family Collection of DVDs
and videos with yellow dots/labels now
circulate for seven days! They are
shelved in the main floor video area.
Talk informally with library administrators in our popular program designed to
encourage communication between our administrators and our public: 1-4 p.m. the sec
ond Saturday of each month.
All adult videos and DVD feature films
have white labels and continue to circulate for 3 days. (Adult subject videos/
DVDs circulate for one week.)
You must be 18 to borrow a library
video/DVD unless parent signs permission form.
There is a S1 charge for videos/DVDs
marked “new”. Non-Deerfield cardhold
ers pay a small fee for older videos/
DVDs. A family may borrow six
videos/DVDs at a time.
Editor in the Lobby
Deerfield Review Editor Arnie
Grahl picked up on the “in the
lobby” idea and held Editor in the
Lobby several months ago. In photo
here Arnie, on left, greets Deerfield
Trustee Verne Swanson. Arnie hopes
to continue his Editor in the Lobby
this Fall.
Summer at the Library!
Jack Hicks, left, and John Kelsey prepare
thousands ofglasses of lemonade for Family
Day, July 4 in the Libraiy.
A plaque was installed in the memoty ofEnsign Milton C. Pickens whose plane
crashed 60 years ago on the site of what is now the Deerfield Libraiy. In photo,
a cub scout approaches David Wolff, Libraiy Board President, Captain David L.
Coles of Naval Seivice Training Command, and Tom Roth, Deerfield Historical
Society, who unveiled the plaque in a Memorial Day ceremony.
Author Lowell Komie autographed his new
novel and spoke to an overflow audience.
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Drop-In Events
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■ One-On-One Computer Training can be scheduled with a reference librarian if you
need help with, or just want to know more about, the Library’s online subscription
databases for finding articles and for directory information. You can access these
databases on workstations in the Library or, if you are a Deerfield cardholder, in your
home through our website (www.deerfieldlibrary.org).
You can also get training on using online catalogs—for Deerfield Library, any library
or many libraries simultaneously.
Finally, you can get training on searching the Internet (World Wide Web).
■ Please call ahead to see if we are able to take your donations. Our space and
staff time is limited and we can suggest alternative places for your books.
■ Donated books: Please do not put donated books in our outside book drops. Bring
them into the library. We do not have enough space in the book drops for returning
library materials and donated books.
■ Telecirc, the automated renewal telephone system, is up and working again.
Please call 847- 945-3782. You can also renew or reserve online at
www.deerfieldlibrary.org.
Thursday Book Discussions
in the Fiction Room
■ September 9,10:30 a.m.
Interpreter ofMaladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of
short stories sensitively explores universal
themes of love, loss and belonging.
■ September 23,7:30 p.m.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
An embassy in South America is stormed,
and during the siege that follows, opera diva
Roxane’s music is the diverse group of
hostages’ consolation, inspiration and bond.
■ October 14,10:30 a.m.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Deaf-mute John Singer becomes the confi
dant for the various misfits in a Georgia mill
town during the 1930s—each one yearning
for escape from small town life.
■ October 21,7:30 p.m.
Unless by Carol Shields
A writer’s comfortable life is fractured when
her daughter becomes a beggar on the streets
of Toronto, holding a cardboard sign on
which is written one word: Goodness.
■ November 11,10:30 a.m.
Atonement by Ian McEwan
On a sweltering summer day in 1935, a
hyper-imaginative teenager makes an accu
sation that will cast its bitter shadow over
the next sixty years of her life.
■ November 18,7:30 p.m.
The Time Travelers Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow
to hold onto each other and their marriage as
they struggle with the effects of Henry’s
involuntary slips through time.
Toddler Times
September 3 & 9; October 1 & 21;
November 5 & IS at 11 a.m. in the
Picture Book Room.
This special storytime is designed for
toddlers and their caregivers.
Do You Want Fries with That?
September is National Library Card
Sign-Up Month. Show your library card at
the Youth Services Desk and receive a
coupon for McDonald’s fries (limit one
coupon per person).
Reading Round-Up
September 7 to May 22
Join our school-year reading program for
readers in grades 1 to 8. Read books from
different categories and earn Borders gift
cards. Stop by the Youth Services Desk for
more details.
Vote for Your Favorite Author
Too young to vote for President? During the
month of October you can vote for your
favorite author — must be under 18 to vote!
Teens’ Top Ten List/
Teen Read Week
October 17-23
The American Library Association invites
teens between the ages of 12 and 18 to vote
online for their favorite Teens’ Top Ten
nominees during Teen Read Week, October
17 to 23. See our display in the Youth
Services Department. We’ll have a link on
our website. Voting is fun, free, and easy you don’t even have to give them your
name.
Thankful Turkeys!
During the month of November, write down
something you’re thankful for on a turkey
and we’ll hang it up in the Youth Services
Department.
�Youth Services
Special Performances
Space is limted, so register early. Limit 5
spaces perfamily. Children under 1
must be accompanied by a parent.
[istered Activities
Columbus Day Movie: Ice Age
Doc Morrissy’s Magic
Workshop for Kids and
Parents
Monday, October 11 at 12 p.m.
Recommendedfor school-age children
(children under 7 must be accompanied by
a parent).
Bring a bag lunch and watch the chilly
adventures of Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat.
This animated film is rated PG and is 81
minutes long. Registration begins Thursday,
September 9.
Monday, October 18, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. , •
Children age 5 to 9 and their parents.
Learn amazing magic tricks in this handson workshop for kids 5 to 9 and their
parents, from the man who brought us the
popular “Magic for Muggles” last year. All
participants must bring two dimes and a
newspaper, all other supplies (including
your very own magic wand) are provided.
Please note that the age requirement is
based on the instructors experience and
we ask that you not bring children
younger than five. Registration begins
Thursday, September 30.
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Family Fun Nights
Activated Storytellers
“Under Your Nose:
Exploring the Obvious”
All ages are welcome, but children must
bring an adult. Limit 5 spaces perfamily.
Pajama Storytime
Saturday, November 20 at 10 a.m.
All ages. Activated Storytellers are back
on tour, dramatizing stories full of
comedy, action and audience participation.
Registration begins Thursday, November 4.
Monday, October 4 at 7p.m.
Wear your PJs and listen to fantastic stories
while enjoying cookies and juice.
Registration begins Thursday, September 9.
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Dinner and a Movie:
Walt Disney’s Pocahontas
Monday, November 15 at
6.30 p.m
Bring a picnic dinner to
enjoy w n e watc ing a
movie; we 11 provide candy
and juice. This G-rated
animated feature IS 81
minutes long. Registration
begins Thursday, October 28.
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Tuesday, October 19 to Thursday,
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Registration starts Thursday,
September 2. Last day to register is
Monday, October 25.
We must have a minimum of 7 children;
sessions may be added or cancelled
depending on demand. Limit one
session per child.
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Stories n’ More
Tuesdays 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
For ages 3lh to 5.
Children must have been bom on or before
May 18,2001. Children attend this story
time without an adult; however, their adult
must remain in the building.
Family Stories
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Children 2lh. to 3lh
and their caregivers.
Children must have been bom on or before
May 18,2002 in order to be registered;
however, younger or older siblings are
welcome to attend as unregistered guests.
This may also be a good choice for 3Vz to
5 year olds who prefer attending storytime
with an adult.
After School Stories
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Thursdays, 4 p.m. For grades K to 2.
This program is designed for younger
grade-school children and features stories
and crafts.
Reading Night Kits
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Deerfield Public Library
Jack Hicks. Administrative Librarian
Library Board
David Wolff, President
Donald Van Arsdale, Secretary
Jeff Rivlin, Treasurer
Jeffrey Blumenthal
Sheryl Lamoureux
Sunday Mueller
Ron Simon
Library Hours
Mon.-Thurs:
9:00 am - 9:00 pm
Friday:
9:00 am - 6:00 pm ,
9:00 am - 5:00 pm [
Saturday:
Sunday:
1:00 pm- 5:00 pm
Editor: Sally Brickman
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Voter Registration
Flag Retirement Service
Deerfield Area League of Women Voters offers
voter registration at the Deerfield Library on the
following dates:
• Saturday, September 11, all day, 9 a.m.5 p.m. (This day is part of a statewide effort
“Honor September 11: Register to vote @
your library!”)
• Saturdays, September 18 and 25,10 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
0 Saturday, October 2,10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 5,4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
According to the United States fibs,
code, Title 36, Chapter 10,
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when your flag is in such
condition that it is “no longer
a fitting emblem for display,” "
it should be “destroyed in a dignified way.”
You must bring 2 forms of identification with
name and current address.
What to do with your tattered flag? If you do not
want to burn the flag yourself, Deerfield Boy
Scout Troop #150 can help. The troop, which
meets at Deerfield’s Zion Lutheran Church, has
special training in proper flag disposal. Bring
your old flag to the Deerfield Library Reference
Desk and we will forward it to the Boy Scouts.
Flu Shots
Your flag will then be destroyed in a respectful
manner, and you will have fulfilled your patriotic
duty.
Important Libraiy Numbers
• Telephone: 847-945-3311
0 Renew by phone
847-945-3782
• TTY: 847-945-3372
• Library Home Page and Catalog:
www.deerfieldlibrary.org
0 Email:
info@deerfieldlibrary.org
To ask a reference question:
reference@deerfieldlibrary.org
• FAX: 847-945-3402
0 Village of Deerfield website:
deerfield-il.org
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Tuesday, September 14 (date change)
Wednesdays, October 20, November 17
Library Closed
Labor Day, Monday, September 6
Thanksgiving, close at 5 p.m. Wednesday,
November 24, and all day Thursday,
November 25.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop
Alexander McCall Smith
Alicia Akers
America's Mom
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Civil War
American Library Association (ALA)
Anders Dahlgren
Ann Landers
Ann Patchett
Arnie Grahl
Atonement
Audrey Niffenegger
Beijing China
Bel Canto
Borders Book Store
Borscht
Boy Scout Troop #150
Boy Scouts of America
Cabbage
California
Career Advice
Carol Shields
Carson McCullers
Caruso Middle School
Chicago Illinois
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine
China
Cindy Schilling
Corrigan Consulting
Daniel Weinberg
David B. Wolff
David L. Coles
Deerfield Area Historical Society
Deerfield Area Historical Society Fall Fest
Deerfield Bannockburn Riverwoods Chamber of Commerce (DBR)
Deerfield Comprehensive Plan
Deerfield Demographics
Deerfield Family Days
Deerfield Family Theater
Deerfield Fine Arts Commission
Deerfield High School
Deerfield High School Choraliers
Deerfield Historic Village
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Public Library 2004 Election Issues Discussion Group
Deerfield Public Library Adult Services Department
Deerfield Public Library Audio Visual Circulation
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees Long Range Planning Committee
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees Trustee in the Lobby
Deerfield Public Library Book Discussions
Deerfield Public Library Browsing Newsletter
Deerfield Public Library Catalog
Deerfield Public Library Donations
Deerfield Public Library Editor in the Lobby
Deerfield Public Library Family Reading Kits
Deerfield Public Library Job Review
Deerfield Public Library Long Range Planning
Deerfield Public Library One-on-One Training Sessions
Deerfield Public Library Online Resources
Deerfield Public Library Programming
Deerfield Public Library Referendum
Deerfield Public Library Renovations
Deerfield Public Library Salary Survey
Deerfield Public Library Staff
Deerfield Public Library Storytimes
Deerfield Public Library Summer Reading Programs
Deerfield Public Library Technology Classes
Deerfield Public Library Technology Plan
Deerfield Public Library Telecirc
Deerfield Public Library Toddler Times
Deerfield Public Library Website
Deerfield Public Library Youth Services Department
Deerfield Review
Deerfield Village Board of Trustees
Deerfield Website
Disney
Doc Morrissy
Doctor Seuss
Donald Van Arsdale
Esther Perica
Everybody Pays
Executive Service Corps (ESC)
Flag Retirement
Flu Shots
Frank Gehry
Gale Gand
Georgia
Ian McEwan
Ice Age
Illinois Family Reading Night
Interactive Health Services
Internet
Interpreter of Maladies
Jack A. Hicks
Jeffrey C. Blumenthal
Jeffrey Rivlin
Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) Career Planning Center
Jhumpa Lahiri
John Kelsey
John Singers
July 4th Activities
League of Women Voters Deerfield - Lincolnshire
Lincoln's Assassins
Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
Lowell Komie
McDonalds
Medicare
Milton C. Pickens
Mongolia
Moscow Russia
National Children's Book Week
National Library Card Sign-Up Month
Old Country Buffet
Pocahontas
Precious Ramotswe
Public Opinion Laboratory
Public Opinion Laboratory of Northern Illinois
Pulitzer Prize
Rick Kogan
Roberta Glick
Ronald Simon
Roxane
Russia
Sally Brickman Seifert
Searchable PDF
Seussical the Musical
Sheryl Lamoureux
Siberia
South America
Sunday G. Mueller
Suzanne Hales
Teen Read Week
Teens' Top Ten List
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The Orient Express
The TIme Traveler's Wife
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Thomas Roth
Tim Corrigan
Trans-Siberian Express
Tru Restaurant
United States Naval Service Training Command
Unless
Vernon Swanson
Voter Registration
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Zion Lutheran Church
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WINTER, 1993-94
Across the
Librarian's Desk
eeing Presidents Bush and Carter
standing in the wings as Bill Clin
ton, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir
Arafat signed the historic Palestinian
Accords was so reaffirming of our great
American traditions—this is truly a won
derful country that stands for the highest
ideals. It was an inspiring moment we
should all cherish.
The excitement of the moment got me to
thinking about what was going through
Bill Clinton's head as he stood there and
watched this historic moment unfold. Not
to worry, I thought, I can read his memoirs
and know exactly. Or can I? First-hand
presidential intent
and insight is not
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books. Some of
them, like Reagan
actually have left us with an extensive
written history. But do they tell us any
thing, or do they just record the events,
whitewash their consciences, or knock old
adversaries? Lyndon Baines Johnson
wrote a number of unreflective books.
Today, Johnson is quite in vogue for
revisionist historians to defend or destroy.
What really went through Johnson's
thoughts as Viet Nam— his personal
Armageddon— played itself out
is unrecorded.
Harry Truman wrote prolifically, but not
really for public consumption. As fond of
his writings as I am—for his knowledge of
history, his acute observations, his intelli
gence and grasp of a situation—he puts an
oT Missourian spin on each episode he
describes, especially when it comes to peo
ple he didn't like. Smart man, though.
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DEERFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Vol. 9, No. 1
New Computer System on PIorizon
The library computer catalog consortium
(including Deerfield, Skokie, Morton Grove
and Waukegan), is in the final phase of selecting a new computer system. The new system
will offer increased access to materials, higher
speed, greater reliability and features only
dreamed of when our system was purchased
nine years ago.
Library Patrons Approve
Car system has served us well, but software
and hardware cannot be enhanced to take
advantage of technological advances,
A system will be selected by December, with
conversion and installation to be done in
summer of 1994. The finalist systems offer
ease of use, intuitive functions, and a high
degree of user friendliness.
Thanks for your patience
In a user satisfaction survey conducted
during the summer by Miriam Pollack, of
the North Suburban Library System, the
Deerfield Library received a 97% approval
rating. The range of comments on services
and staff was interesting and valuable.
The data will be used in our long range
planning this winter.
The library is in the final stages of renova
tion to meet requirements of the Ameri
cans with Disabilities Act. This will
include, but not be limited to TDD, self
opening front doors, handicapped
restrooms, handicapped accessible
elevator, lowered drinking fountains,
and outside ramps.
Your continued comments and suggestions
are welcomed; we have a suggestion box at
the front desk, and Librarian in the Lobby
Mondays 7-9 p.m December 6, January 10
and February 7. At that time you may meet
informally with one of our board members
and with Director Jack Hicks.
Due to renovation, we have lost the down
stairs meeting room for an indefinite
period. Since meeting room space is now
restricted, community organizations are
advised to plan meetings in other loca
tions. We also have had to temporarily
restrict lending of videos as storage space
was reduced by elevator construction.
News to note:
Please bring your library card with you to
check out books! If you do not have your
library card with you, it will cost a quarter
to check out books, effective January 1,
1994. With no library card, you also need
to have i.d. and have your name in our
computer system.
Library users who purchase a non resident
card: be aware! The State Legislature has
passed a Bill that restricts use of non
resident fee cards to the library where
they are purchased, beginning January 1.
Our former costly and unreliable boilers
have been replaced by a new computer
controlled heating system. We look for
ward to a toasty winter in the library.
It’s tax season again...
Yes: Free income tax advice will be
offered at the library Tuesdays and
Fridays, 1-4 p.m. February 1-April 15.
This program is sponsored by the IRS
and the AARP.
No: The Deerfield Library is no longer
able to provide income tax forms. We
are not federally funded and it has gone
beyond our ability to handle.
�Adult Programs
Book Discussions
Programs are free, but reservations are requested.
A Winston and Clementine
Tuesday, December 7,7:30 p.m.
On the 52nd anniversary of the date "that will live
in infamy" Pearl Harbor Day, Winston Churchill
comes to Deerfield "in person". Britain's great
statesman and his stalwart wife Clementine were
the most triumphant couple of the 20th century.
Author Richard Hough has written the book;
Virginia and Nick Carter bring it to life.
A Turkish Delights
Monday, December 13,7 p.m.fnote early start time)
Our holiday gift to you—a festive celebration
of Turkish culture sponsored by the Turkish
Cultural Alliance. Enjoy Turkish sounds, sights,
costumes and folk dance. Meet the friendly
people and sample their cuisine.
A Great Decisions
Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m. beginning January 25.
Informed minds want to participate in Deerfield's
popular nine week world affairs' discussion
group. Tom Jester leads the group. $11.50 briefing
book is available at the library in January.
Weekly topics are:
♦ Conflict in Former Yugoslavia ♦ South
Africa ♦ Ex-Soviet Bloc's Environmental
Crisis ♦ Trade with the Pacific Rim
♦ Defense ♦ Argentina, Brazil, Chile
♦ Islam and Politics ♦ New World Disorder
A Victorian Women and Their Affairs
Tuesday, January 11,7:30 p.m.
Did high neck collars and lace send a double
message? How would Victorian women fit in
today's society? Prudence Moylan, Professor of
History at Loyola University, Chicago, observes
that women of 200 years ago struggled with
issues similar to those of today.
Librarian’s Desk (Continued from v. v
Richard Nixon is probably our only president
to respect reading and writing—he has given
us astonishing insights at events he partici
pated in. But along with every one else at the
time of Watergate, I was struck by how little I
knew of Richard Nixon, the man. He seems
today a shrouded picture of Dorian Gray.
President Bush has written, but his wife's
dog book out sold him ten to one. Ronald
Reagan's wife has written, Gerald Ford has
written, Jimmy Carter has written. I don't
think any of these folks have enriched our
knowledge or written the definitive history
In the Library
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.
A12 top Tips for Stress Management
Tuesday, January 24,7:30 p.m.
Dr. Sally Witt, Psychologist in private
practice in Arlington Heights, will
include communication, relationships,
life style and a relaxation experience in
suggesting ways to beat the stress trap.
A Tantalizing Towns
Wednesday, February 2,7:30 p.m.
Monaco, Monte Carlo, Ports of Call in
the Caribbean, unique Indiana and
Kentucky towns—Lynn Abbie
traverses the globe to find "off the
beaten path" towns for us to treasure.
Abbie is a Chicago artist, photographer
and historian.
A Confessions of a Real Live
Newspaper Reporter
Wednesday, February 9,7:30 p.m.
Chicago Tribune columnist and
correspondent at large, Jon Margolis
talks about "how we get those stories
or how we don't"— he reveals the
inside info on the newspaper that
appears on our breakfast tables.
A Investing in Antiques:
What's Hot and What's Not
Wednesday, February 23,7:30 p.m.
Diane Joseph, Heritage Appraisal Ser
vice, brings 30 years experience to her
talk on trends in antiques including the
desirable and the sleepers. She'll cover
furniture to silver, paintings to porce
lains. You may bring one piece for her
verbal appraisal.
▼ December 9
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ami Patchett
A fresh novel of reconciliation with the
past. Set in a home for unwed mothers in
Kentucky, Cecelia, a girl with no history,
grows up among the nuns and a stream
of pregnant teen agers.
V January 13
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler
Selections from this collection of short
stories about Vietnamese expatriates
living in New Orleans. A Pulitzer
Prize Winner.
V February 10
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Considered one of the masterpieces of
American literature, this is an allegorical
story of the conflict of personal desire in
conflict with a community of laws.
Calling All
Local Authors!!!
The Deerfield Library plans to
celebrate our community's own
authors during National Library Week
April 17-23. We'll honor Deerfield
published authors with a spring
reception and include your works in
our collection. Please contact Martha
Sloan or Sally Seifert if you wish to
be included.
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of their own administration. Can we expect
Clinton to do better?
Also, clouding the issue is the ghost writer.
Were any presidents good writers? Read
Lincoln's speeches if you doubt his greatness.
If you think Roosevelt's writings were ghost
written, look at the handwritten corrections on
his "Day of Infamy" speech and you see great
writing. But if you want to read fantastic mem
oirs, read Ulysses Grant. He speaks from the
page like a hybrid of Lyndon Johnson and
James Herriot. Illinois' Grant is a wonderful
writer with charm, grace, wit, toughness and a
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grasp of everything that was going on around
him. However, criticisms of his Presidency say
the same things about him—in reverse. His
book was a best seller.
Will Bill Clinton write the definitve account of
what happened in Washington when Israel
and the PLO made peace? Probably not, but
that doesn't diminish the moment. That
account will be written sometime soon, and
you will find it here in your library.
Jack Alan Hicks, Administrative Librarian
�Young People’s Calendar
All Winter programs are
“Drop-in," except those with an *.
The * indicates registration necessary.
Youth Services
DECEMBER
After School Stories -4-4:30 p.m.
Tot Time -22 a.m.-noon
6-9 Last week of Fall Pre-School Stories*
11 Movies-20 cun. (young)
12 Movies-2 p.m. (repeat)
Open Pre-School Stories-20 a.m.
After School Stories- 4-4:30 p.m.
16 Open Pre-School Stories(repeat) 7 p.m.
17 Tot Time- 22 a.m.-noon
20 Tickets available for
"Beauty and the Beast"
29 Puppet Show "Beauty and the Beast"-20fl.m.*
30 Puppet Show- (repeat) 10 a.m. *
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Movies -10 a.m. (young)
Movies- 2 p.m. (repeat)
Open Pre-School Stories-20 a.m.
After School Stories- 4-4:30 p.m.
Open Pre-School Stories(repeat) 7 p.m.
Tot Time-20:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m.
Open Pre-School Stories-10 a.m.
Registration begins for
Valentine Needlecraft
Workshop-Stories & Puppets,
(older) 4-5 p.m*
Open Pre-School Stories
(repeat) 7 p.m.
Tot Time-10:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m.
Movies-10 a.m. (young)
Movies - (repeat) 2 p.m.
Tickets available for
"KidsStuff!" puppet show \ ^
FEBRUARY \
Workshop #2 -Stories & Puppets
(older)-4-5-p.w.*
Tot Time-10:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m.
"Valentine Needlecraft" (older)
10:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.*
Open Pre-School Stories- 20 a.m.
Open Pre-School Stories(repeat) 7 p.m.
Puppet Show-"Kidstuff!"
(young)- 10 a.m. *
Puppet Show (repeat) 2 p.m.*
Registration begins for
Pre-School Stones-Spring Sessions
After School Stories-4-4:30 p.m.
Tot-Time-20:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
At 20 a.m. February 12 and 2 p.m. February
13, "KidStuff!" will be presented for pre
schoolers, Tickets available January 31.
For both puppet shows, preference will
be given to Deerfield cardholders.
Check out the Fireplace!
Thanks to the Deerfield Fire Department,
Youth Services now has a section for
books about fire and fire prevention for
all ages. This project was initiated by the
firefighters who built a colorful shelf unit,
"The Fireplace" and stocked it with a
collection of over 30 books ranging from
serious manuals to fire engine books.
During Fire Prevention Week, firemen
read stories in the library to Deerfield
children. More programs and new books
will be added, the library appreciates
support and programs offered by the
local firemen and the Police Department's
"Officer Friendly".
Punch and Judy Players Return
Deerfield Library's own Puppet Theater
will present two shows this winter. At
10 a.m.December 29 and 30, older children
may attend "Beauty and the Beast".
Tickets available December 20.
Puppets and Stories Workshops
Older children (grades 4-8) who have an
interest in storytelling and theater are
invited to join the librarians for two work
shops on making stories 4-5 p.m. Wed
nesdays January 26 and February 2. Plan to
attend both sessions. If there is interest
we will use these workshops to develop
a small group of young storytellers and
puppeteers as library helpers. Space is
limited. Interested? Contact Sally Margolis
in Youth Services.
* Valentine Needlecraft Day^
Two classes will
be held for
older children
(grades 4-8) to
try a simple
Valentine
needlework project at 10:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.
February 5. Sign up beginning January 24
to make a Valentine gift.
Space is limited, and preference given to
Deerfield cardholders.
Tot Time Continues
Tot-Time, our drop in program for under
two years (with an adult!) will continue.
Please note: During January and February
we will experiment with a new starting
time—10:30 a.m.
See calendar for times of Tot Time and
Pre-School story hours.
�Adult Winter 1994 Calendar
DECEMBER
6 Librarian in the Lobby, 7-9 p.m.
7 Winston and Clementine, 7:30 p..m.
9 Book Discussion,
The Patron Saint of Liars, 10:30 a.m.
13 Turkish Delights, 7 p.m.
15 Library Board Meeting, 8 p.m.
24 Library Closes at 1 p.m.
25 Library Closed
26 Library Closed
JANUARY
I Library Closed
10 Librarian in the Lobby, 7-9 p.m.
II Victorian Women and Their Affairs, 7:30 p.m.
13 Book Discussion, A Good Scent
From a Strange Mountain, 10:30 a.m.
19 Library Board Meeting, 8 p.m.
24 12 Top Tips for Stress Management, 7:30 p.m.
25 Great Decisions Begins, 7:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY
Free income tax assistance begins, 1-4 p.m.
2 Tantalizing Towns, 7:30 p.m.
7 Librarian in the Lobby, 7-9 p.m.
9 Confessions of a Real Live
Newspaper Reporter, 7:30 p.m.
10 Book Discussion, The Scarlet Letter, 10:30 a.m.
16 Library Board Meeting, 8 p.m.
23 Investing in Antiques, 7:30 p.m.
College of Lake County Adult Great Books
meets alternate Thursday evenings at the
Deerfield Library beginning February 3. Fee,
$55. Contact CLC at 433-7884 for information.
December
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Out of Town
Telephone Directories
Do you have any recent out of town telephone^^
directories—from outside the 312/708 areas that
you would be willing to donate to the library?
Most of our present collection dates back to 1990
when we stopped receiving free directories. If you
would like to donate current directories, please
contact the Reference Department.
Cozy up with
NEW WINTER THRILLERS
JANUARY
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Blood Pressure Screening,
IstThurs. 6:15-8:15p.m.
Voter Registration,
Saturdays, 10-2, January 22; February 26
Telluride, by Susan Schofield •Pronto, by Elmore
Leonard •Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh
•Gone But Not Forgotten by Philip Margolin
•Seven Steps to Midnight by Richard Matheson
•Assumed Identity by David Morrell *A Simple
Plan by Scott Smith •Interest ofJustice by Nancy
Rosenberg *The Fire Theft by Mark Graham
Deerfield Public Library
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Phone: (708) 945-3311
Executive Librarian: Jack Hicks
Library Board
Sue Benn, President
David Wolff, Secretary
Tony Sabato, Treasurer
Jack Anderson
Diane Kraus
Rosemary Sazonoff
Yvonne Sharpe
LIBRARY HOURS
Mon.-Thurs.: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Fri.-Sat.:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday:
1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Editor: Sally Seifert
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A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
A Simple Plan
Abraham Lincoln
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Ann Patchett
Anthony G. Sabato
Argentina
Arlington Heights Illinois
Artist
Assumed Identity
Barbara Bush
Beauty and the Beast
Bill Clinton
Blood Pressure Screenings
Brazil
Caribbean
Chicago Illinois
Chicago Tribune
Chile
Clementine Churchill
College of Lake County
College of Lake County Great Books Discussion Group
David B. Wolff
David Morrell
Deerfield Fire Department
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Police Department
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Public Library Audio Visual Circulation
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees Trustee in the Lobby
Deerfield Public Library Book Discussions
Deerfield Public Library Browsing Newsletter
Deerfield Public Library Card
Deerfield Public Library Catalog
Deerfield Public Library Local Author Fair
Deerfield Public Library Meeting Rooms
Deerfield Public Library Non-Resident Library Card Policy
Deerfield Public Library Online Public Catalog
Deerfield Public Library Programming
Deerfield Public Library Renovations
Deerfield Public Library Survey
Deerfield Public Library Tot Time
Deerfield Public Library Youth Services Department
Diane Joseph
Diane Kraus
Dorian Gray
Elmore Leonard
Finnegan's Week
Fire Prevention Week
Foreign Policy Association
Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George H.W. Bush
Gerald R. Ford
Ghost Writer
Gone But Not Forgotten
Harry S. Truman
Heritage Appraisal Service
Historian
Illinois House Bill 0424 -- Non-Resident Cards and Fees
Income Tax Assistance
Income Tax Forms
Indiana
Interest of Justice
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Islam
Israel
Jack A. Hicks
James Herriot
Jimmy Carter
John A. Anderson
Jon Margolis
Joseph Wambaugh
Kentucky
Loyola University History Department
Loyola University of Chicago
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lynn Abbie
Mark Graham
Martha Sloan
Miriam Pollack
Missouri
Monaco
Monte Carlo
Morton Grove Public Library
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Rosenberg
Nathaniel Hawthorne
National Library Week
Needlework
Nick Carter
North Suburban Library System
Pacific Rim
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Palestinian Accords
Pearl Harbor Day
Pearl Harbor Oahu Hawaii
Philip Margolin
Photographer
Pronto
Prudence Moylan
Psychologist
Punch and Judy Players
Reporter
Richard Hough
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Matheson
Robert Olen Butler
Ronald Reagan
Rosemary Sazonoff
Sally Brickman Seifert
Sally Margolis
Sally Witt
Scott Smith
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Seven Steps to Midnight
Skokie Public Library
South Africa
Soviet Bloc
Stress Management
Susan L. Benn
Susan Schofield
TDD Telephone System
Telephone Directories
Telluride
The Fire Theft
The Patron Saint of Liars
The Scarlet Letter
Thomas Jester
Turkey
Turkish American Cultural Alliance
Ulysses S. Grant
Victorian Women
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Virginia Carter
Voter Registration
Washington D.C.
Watergate
Waukegan Public Library
Winston Churchill
Yasir Arafat
Yitzhak Rabin
Yugoslavia
Yvonne Sharpe
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FALL, 1993
DEERFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Across the
Librarian’s Desk
iving in suburban Lake County it
is easy to forget that Illinois has a
historical past as rich and varied
as any state in the USA. We all know about
Abraham Lincoln, but the story of Illinois
is an incredible tapestry of people and
events that cover far more than only one
man. For instance, how many people
know that George Rogers Clark marched a
Revolutionary War army straight across
Illinois to attack the fort at Vincennes,
Indiana, from the west? Or, that at its
peak, Cahokia Mounds was one of the
largest cities in the world?
£
My wife and I have
enjoyed traveling
** J?ttend the
around Illinois visit
Fall Festival
ing places such as
at the Village on
Kaskaskia, the
Sun., Sept. 12** Menard House, Fort
Du Chartes, Vandalia,
New Salem, Springfield, Cahokia Court House, Bishop Hill,
Nauvoo, Galena, Shawnee Town and the
Cahokia Mounds—a site of such interna
tional importance that it has UNESCO
protection. Luckily, you do not have to go
very far to experience our own history.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of
the Deerfield Area Historical Society and
Historic Village. The Society was here
when I moved to Deerfield 21 years ago
and I assumed it had been a Deerfield fix
ture for ever—and was somehow selfperpetuating. Jo Gourley says it best,
"Thousands of hours of dedication, devo
tion, and hard work later we have a
whole Historic Village."
What I have learned over time, of course,
is that the Historic Village is not self-per
petuating, and what a huge difference a
(Continued on p. 2)
Vol. 8, No. 4
Library Can Serve Special Needs
To comply with the new Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), the Deerfield
Library is in the process of installing a new
accessible elevator, accessible restrooms,
lowered telephone, lowered Circulation
Desk, lowered drinking fountains, assisted
door openers, ramps, signage, and new
door hardware.
The Library has also added a Visual-Tek
magnifying reader, a TDD telephone for
communications and will add a new ADA
catalog terminal. The Chicagoland Radio
Information Service has also provided
two radios which offer news from local
newspapers for patron use. If you or anyone
you know requires any accommodation
or if you have a question about ADA
compliance, please call the Administrative
Librarian at 945-3311.
The library maintains a large selection of
large print books, books on tape, and has
home delivery through our Books-To-Go
program. We also can be a contact for the
Library of Congress talking book program,
The Library staff is always interested in
your suggestions.
It Would Help Us If:
• You bring your library card when you want
to take out a book. In lieu of your card,
you must have a valid i.d.
• Should you lose a book and need to pay for
it, we must replace the book; do not
bring us your replacement.
0 If you have ordered an interlibrary loan
book, we will call when it arrives. Please be
\ sure to pick it up. Library statistics show that
the average cost for a completed interlibrary
loan transaction can be $30. This is a free
service to our patrons.
• If your community organization needs to
book a meeting room, one of your group
must have a Deerfield Library card.
Reservations may only be made 3 months
in advance.
Librarian in the Library
Jack Hicks, Library Director and a member
of the Board of Trustees will continue their
successful monthly "in person suggestion
box" on Tuesday, September 14 from 7 to 9
p.m. They will meet the public informally
in the front lobby to listen to ideas, con
cerns and plaudits from community resi
dents. Librarian in the Lobby will also
meet the public on Monday evenings,
October 11 and November 8.
Gail Ml
Head of Patron Services
Supervising the seven day operation of
Deerfield Library's Circulation Desk is
Gail Kroll who holds a Master's Degree in
Library Science from Rosary College and
worked for 6l/i years at Northbrook
Library's Circulation Desk. She also
managed three Crown Bookstores and the
Northwestern University Bookstore
(Student Center). Gail did undergraduate
work at Carleton College and University of
Grenoble, France.
Gail said, "Although I've only been at the
Deerfield Library a short time, I've enjoyed
meeting all of the friendly staff and patrons.
I am looking forward to my future here.
Don't hesitate to meet me in person!"
�Adult Programs
Programs are free; but reservations are requested.
A CHOOSING A HOTEL
A RUSSIA IN TURMOIL
Cocoon of comfort or traveler's trauma? Tuesday, October 12,7:30 p.m.
Monday, September 13,7:30 p.m.
Since the Soviet Union's break-up, a
No accidental tourist, June Michaelson,
modem revolution is changing life for
former Mobil Travel Guide editor, runs Hos
businesses and private citizens in Russia.
pitality Standards, a top hotel evaluation
Personal observations of these changes will
firm. Hotels pay her to spot lumpy beds
be presented by Detlef Koska, a Senior
and grumpy staff and to critique hotel ser
Principal with A.T. Kearney, Inc. an inter
vices. She'll tell what to expect from a
national management consulting firm.
hotel, suggest resources, and discuss the
A SOUPS AND SAUCES
hotel industry's future.
Tuesday, October 26,7 p.m.
Note Early Starting Time!
A UNDERSTANDING ADDICTIONS
Good cooking is only a matter of
Tuesday, September 21,7:30p.m.
confidence! Lou Buchenot has been
Jean P. Casey, Certified Addiction Coun
Coordinator of Hospitality Programs at
selor, will discuss attitudes and behaviors
Harper College, a caterer, and involved in
that precede the addictive process, effect
many food enterprises. He promises an
on family and society, and ways to under
entertaining, instructional session with
stand various kinds of addictions. Ms.
results to taste test.
Casey has worked at Parkside Lodge of
Mundelein and is now in private practice.
A GALAPAGOS-THE ENCHANTED ISLES
A RETIREMENT: STAY PUT OR MOVE?
Thursday, November 11,7:30p.m.
Tuesday, October 5,7:30 p.m.
Join us for an unforgettable adventure to
Dr. Bruce Douglas, President of the
one of the most significant biological
North Shore's AARP, will offer retirees
wonders on earth-isolated oceanic volca
suggestions about whether to stay or
noes which possess untamed beauty and
move, and he'll examine the range of
wildlife with Photographer/Naturalist
choices whether it be down the street,
Jim Nachel.
retirement housing, or a sunnier clime.
Librarian’s Desk (Continued from p. 1)
small group of dedicated people can make
It is truly a rich and valuable resource for all
in a town like ours. The great secret of the
of us—reaching back into history and touch
Deerfield Historical Society is that they are
ing our roots in a real and tangible way. Deer
self-supporting and receive no federal, state
field's Ott cabin is the oldest standing build
or local funds to support their preservation
ing in Lake County, dating from the same
and educational activities. It is amazing
period as New Salem.
what they have done for all of us.
I urge you to attend the Fall Festival at the
The Historical Society and the Village are
Village on Sunday, September 12th—it is a
features of Deerfield we all take for granted,
great family event—and to join DAHS. The
and they make our Village special. How
Historical Society is deserving of your atten
many communities have such a lovely cen
tion, monetary and sweat equity contribu
terpiece as we do with our Historic Village?
tions—they are also long overdue for corpo
Book Discussions
In the Library
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.
September 9: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
A story of the subtle effects of childhood: its
rituals, secrets, best friends and the desperate
need to belong.
October 14: The latecomers by Anita Brooker.
A story of two middle-aged German emigres in
England, their work, their marriages, their
daughters, their inner lives and friendship told
with thoughtful insight.
November 11: Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait
of One Middle-Class Family in Post War America
by Donald Katz. A powerful saga of the
Gordan family from the end of World War II
to the present.
Book
Reviews
At the Senior Center
Fridays, Mini brunch, 9:30 a.m.,
Review, 10 a.m. Reservations, 940-4010.
September 17- The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of
Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky reviewed by
Barbara O'Connor.
October 15- Days of Grace: A Memoir by Arthur
Ashe and Arnold Rampersad reviewed by
Virginia Carter.
November 19- Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan
Boyle reviewed by Barbara O'Connor.
rate sponsorship as they begin crucial renova
tion of their buildings. How about some of
Deerfield's Fortune 500 companies
pitching in?
The books I recommend for touring Illinois
are: Chicagoland & Beyond by Gerald and
Patricia Gutek; David Buissert's Historic Illi
nois from the Air; Illinois, Off the Beaten Path by
Rod Fensom and Julie Foreman, and the
Chicago classic by Ira Bach, Chicago on Foot.
Jack Alan Hicks, Administrative Librarian
Back To The Future? ►
1. Have entertainment videos? □ Yes □ No
During the coming year, we will be preparing Deer 2. Spend more money on books and reading materials or on technology?
field library goals and objectives for the next five
□ Books □ Technology
years. We would like input from our patrons on what 3
our collection specifically toward a popular materials library? □ Yes □ No
you want the library to be. We shall ©amine demo- 4. Eliminate meeting rooms? DYesDNo
Please let us know how you feel by responding to the 7. Extend and develop our outreach program? DYes DNo
following questions: Should we:
What library needs do you have that we do not fill?
Please respond either by mail to Jack Hicks or deposit in the box at the Circulation Desk.
�Young People’s
CALENDAR
All Fall programs are
"Drop-in," unless Indicated.
September
10
18
Weekend Movies-10 a.m.
19
Movies (repeat)- 2 p.m.
24
Tot Tune-11 a.m. -noon
27
Registration begins for
Pre-school Storytimes
Tot Time-11 a.m.-noon
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October
6
After School Movies-4 p.m.
11
Fall Pre-school Storytimes begin
(Registration required)
15
Tot Tune-11 a.m.-noon
1
23
Halloween Movie-10 a.m.
24
Movie (repeat)-2 p.m.
1 &
I Save
27
After-school Stories
(Ghost Story Special)-4 p.m.
29
Tot-Time-11 a.m.-noon
Clip
November
6
Mad Hatters-10:30 a.m.
10
After School Stories-4 p.m.
12
Tot Tune-11 a.m. -noon
20
Weekend Movie (repeat)-2 p.m.
21
Movie (repeat)-2 p.m.
22-26 No Pre-School Storytimes this week
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PRE-SCHOOL STORIES
October U-December 9,
(No storytimes November 22-26)
Registration begins Monday, September 27.
There will be separate story groups for
"Pre-3's", 3 year olds and 4 & 5 year olds.
School children, including Kindergarten
ers will not be eligible for these groups.
Preference will be given to Deerfield
cardholders. Children close to the age set
for the group and those without Deerfield
Library cards will be admitted from a
waiting list if space permits. Schedules
are available in the Youth Services
Department.
AFTER SCHOOL STORIES
Drop in October 6 and 27, November 10
There are loads of stories for older chil
dren. Come join the group for listeners
who are in Kindergarten-3rd grade. If
older children wish to join, there will be
appropriate stories. And remember —
at the end of October, we'll have our 2nd
annual ghost story special.
MAD HATTERS
Kids! Wear your favorite hat and join us for
another visit by the Mad Hatters. Drop in at
10:30 a.m. Saturday,
November 6. Just by
switching hats, this 'Vv
merry band (presented by the Junior >
League) will act out
your favorite sto
ries. Ages 3 -10 are
welcome. Bring ^
your parents too. fy
Children under 6 V
must be with an adult.
TOT TIME
Tot time will be held Fridays, 11-noon September
10 & 24, October 15 & 29 and November 12.
Tot time, the "anything goes" drop in hour
for kids under 2 and any adult they bring
with them resumes September 10. TTiis is a
casual hour with brief"structured" periods
of songs and stories.
SUPER S&TM6R&S
Thanks to 30 S*T*A*R Volunteers and
Book Circle Seniors, junior high students
who assisted in a multitude of ways to make
the summer in the Youth Services Depart
ment a busy, exciting place for all readers
and who were also of great assistance to the
library staff.
Magician Danny Orleans thrills Deerfield children
SUMMER IN REVIEW
We are proud of 887 "young detectives" who
enrolled in the Amazing Book Capers Young
People's Summer Reading Club.
One hundred and fifty adults read through the
summer for "Celebrate America's Diversity,"
the Adult Summer Reading Club, many enjoy
ing books they say they never would have
otherwise read. A reading list of their favorite
reading suggestions is available in the library.
Five students from the Center on Deafness
spent summer hours helping out in a
working/leaming environment in the library.
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SEPTEMBER
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Labor Day Library Closed
Book Discussion, Cat's Eye, 10:30 a.m.
Library open Sundays beginning today
Choosing a Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Librarian in the Lobby, 7-9 p.m.
Book Review, Sr. Ctr., The Last Tsar, 10 a.m.
Understanding Addictions, 7:30 p.m.
Library Board Meets, 8 p.m.
OCTOBER
5
11
12
14
15
20
26
Retirement: Stay Put or Move? 7:30 p.m.
Librarian in the Lobby, 7-9 p.m.
Russia in Turmoil, 7:30 p.m.
Book Discussion 10:30 a.m. Latecomers
Book Review, Sr. Ctr., Days of Grace, 10 a.m.
Library Board Meets, 8 p.m.
Soups and Sauces, 7 p.m.
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NOVEMBER
8 Librarian in the Lobby, 7-9 p.m.
11 Book Discussion, Home Fires, 10:30 a.m.
11 Galapagos-Enchanted Isles, 7:30 p.m.
17 Library Board Meets, 8 p.m.
19 Book Review, Sr. Ctr., Road to Wellville
24 Library Closes 5 p.m. Thanksgiving eve
25 Library Closed for Thanksgiving
College of Lake County Adult Great Books
meets alternate Thursday evenings at the
Deerfield Library beginning Sept. 9. Fee, $55.
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Voter Registration,
Saturdays, 10-2, Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27
New Legal Reference Books
Illinois Compiled Statutes. 1992.8 volumes
New codification of Illinois laws; includes volumes of
tables useful in converting citations from the older Illi-£|
nois Revised Statutes to the new compilation.
The School Code of Illinois, 1992
Full text of the Illinois School Code together with other
relevant laws such as the Open Meeting Act and Free
dom of Information Act.
Illinois Attorney's/Secretary's Handbook. 1993
Directory of courts, legal officials and related agencies
The National Directory of Law Enforcement
Administrators, Correctional Institutions,
and Related Agencies. 1992-93
The Americans with Disabilities Handbook. 1992
Illinois School Law Survey. 1992
A practical guide to school law; useful for answers to
specific questions and for references to court decisions.
Deerfield Public Library
Quarterly Newsletter
Phone: (708) 945-3311
Executive Librarian: Jack Hicks
Library Board
Sue Benn, President
David Wolff, Secretary
Tony Sabato, Treasurer
Jack Anderson
Diane Kraus
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Yvonne Sharpe
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Fri.-Sat.:
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Sunday:
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Editor Sally Seifert
Deerfield Public Library
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A.T. Kearney Incorporated
Abraham Lincoln
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
American Revolutionary War
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Anita Brooker
Anthony G. Sabato
Arnold Rampersad
Arthur Ashe
Barbara O'Connor
Bishop Hill
Bruce Douglas
Cahokia Court House
Cahokia Mounds
Carleton College
Cat's Eye
Caterer
Center on Deafness
Certified Addiction Counselor
Chicago on Foot
Chicagoland and Beyond
Chicagoland Radio Information Service
Crown Book Store
Danny Orleans
David B. Wolff
David Buissert
Days of Grace
Deerfield Area Historical Society
Deerfield Demographics
Deerfield Fall Festival
Deerfield Historic Village
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Junior League
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Public Library Adult Services Department
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Deerfield Public Library Book Discussions
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Deerfield Public Library Outreach
Deerfield Public Library Programming
Deerfield Public Library Renovations
Deerfield Public Library S*T*A*R Volunteers
Deerfield Public Library Services to People with Special Needs
Deerfield Public Library Storytimes
Deerfield Public Library Summer Reading Programs
Deerfield Public Library Tot Time
Deerfield Senior Citizen Center
Detlef Koska
Diane Kraus
Dominican University
Donald Katz
Edvard Radzinsky
England
Fort Du Chartes
Fortune 500 Companies
France
Gail Kroll
Galapagos Islands
Galena Illinois
George Rogers Clark
Gerald Gutek
Germany
Harper College
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Historic Illinois from the Air
Home Fires an Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Post War America
Hospitality Standards
Illinois
Illinois Attorney's/Secretary's Handbook
Illinois Compiled Statutes
Illinois Off the Beaten Path
Illinois School Law Survey
Ira Bach
Jack A. Hicks
Jean P. Casey
Jim Nachel
Jo Gourley
John A. Anderson
Julie Foreman
June Michaelson
Kaskaskia Illinois
Lake County Illinois
Lou Buchenot
Mad Hatters
Management Consulting Firm
Margaret Atwood
Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS)
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Mobil Travel Guide
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New Salem Illinois
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Northbrook Public Library
Northwestern University
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Road to Wellville
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Springfield Illinois
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T.Coraghessan Boyle
TDD Telephone System
The Americans with Disabilities Handbook
The Last Tsar
The Latecomers
The National Directory of Law Enforcement Administrators Correctional Institutions and Related Agencies
The School Code of Illinois
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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United States Library of Congress
United States Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
University of Grenoble
Vandalia Illinois
Vincennes Indiana
Virginia Carter
Visualtech Voyager XL Video Magnifier Machine
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Spring 1990
Vol. 5, No. 2
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Anyone who has ever been in my office
knows 1 am a Civil War buff; the walls are
covered with prints of battles, significant
events and personalities of that war. I come
by my hobby by inheritance: two of my
great-grandfathers served with the
Union—one in the Ohio 2d Heavy Artil
lery7, the other with the 9th Illinois. My in
terest has been rekindled lately because of
the excellent exhibit, “A House Divided,"
currently on display at the Chicago
Historical Society, and the release of the
film "Glory" about the 54th Massachusetts
Infantry. The latter has all been made more
appropriate because February was Black
History Month.
We have many book titles dealing with
the Civil War, fiction and non-fiction. The
classic combat novel of the Civil War The
Red Badge of Courage, sums up the pro
blem with most of the historical fiction of
that period. It was written by a non
participant after the fact. I am a firm
believer in historical fiction. Dicken's por
trait of 19th century London will always be
the authoritative one no matter how many
revisionist history books are written today.
From Here to Eternity by James Jones and
Norman Mailer’s Naked and the Dead
define World War II for us. It is different
with our Civil War; the best materials that
we have are the diaries, letters, battlefield
art, Mathew Brady photographs, the
museums and their memorabilia.
Gone for a Soldier, Echo of a Distant
Drum, and Battles and Leaders ofthe Civil
War are all good examples of first person
narratives. The Women and the Crisis,
Lee’s Lieutenants, and The Twentieth
Maine are typical of the fine post-war non
fiction that we have. As for historical
fiction, I would recommend Jubilee, Killer
Angels, Across Five Aprils, Unto this Hour,
and Gone With the Wind. I still enjoy Carl
Sandburg’s biographies of Lincoln and
Mary Chesnut’s diaries.
The Civil War has often been called a fire
bell in the night—an exciting time in
American history. What could be more ex
citing than the events in Eastern Europe and
the Soviet Union for the past six months?
The momentous changes we have seen hap
pen are incredible. I am sure people will
read about this thrilling era in history books
a hundred years from now. But until then
I’ll stick with my two-volume edition of The
Gettysburg Papers.
Jack Alan Hicks
Administrative Librarian
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The Deerfield Library joins the nation
in celebrating National Library Week,
April 22-28.
Using the national "Reach for a Star
theme, Deerfield focuses on YOU, our
patrons. It’s time for you to shine! We want
to know what books have made an impres
sion on your lives
those books which
have stretched you to Reach for a Star. Next
time you are in the the library fill out the
form describing the book that helped you
to shine. We will put each form on an in
dividual silver star to hang on the wall in
the fiction/quiet room.
All ages are invited to participate NOW.
During National Library Week, the Friends
will judge the most sincere, and special.
Prizes will be awarded. Benefits to all will
be sharing of favorite books with one
another.
There is no age limit on this book
celebration; Sign up for your personal star
in our library galaxy!
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Martha Sloan
Deerfield Welcomes
New Librarian
Deerfield resident Martha Sloan has been
appointed new Reader Services Librarian
at the Deerfield Public Library. Mrs. Sloan
was most recently a reference librarian at
Northbrook Public Library. The Deerfield
position was vacated by Peggy McCabe
who retired last summer.
Mrs. Sloan’s major duties will include
selecting and promoting fiction, literary
criticism, and music, and working on
community outreach and the Blind and
Physically Handicapped program. She will
also serve at the Reference Desk half time.
Mrs. Sloan holds a BA degree from
Smith College with majors in history and
English, an MA degree in history from
Yale University and a Masters in Library
Science from Rosary College. Besides
Northbrook, she worked at Mt. Prospect
Library Reference Department and was
Financial Services Librarian at the Bank
Administration Institute. In earlier years,
she was a Program Specialist for the U.S.
Government’s Department of Labor in
Washington, D.C.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Sloan
and her husband have lived in Palo Alto,
California and Highland Park prior to mov
ing to Deerfield three years ago. Mother of
four, she enjoys gardening and cooking.
She looks forward to working in her home
town and to the challenges of Deerfield
Library’s new directions.
Jack Hicks, Administrative Librarian,
said, “I am delighted that a librarian with
Martha’s qualifications and talent has
joined our staff. We will all enjoy Martha’s
charm, wit, and energy. She will be a key
asset and strength in expanding our services
to the Deerfield public”.
�Adult Programs
There is no chargefor libraryprograms,
but reservations are requested. Note that
times vary.
Stresses in Parenting: Finding Your Way
Thursday, Mar. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Susan Sack, ACSW, Child and Adult
Psychotherapist, and favorite at Deerfield,
presents this lecture/question & answer
program. Special emphasis is on identify
ing and managing ongoing struggles and
dilemmas, changes in family lifestyles and
“quality-time”, priorities and scheduling.
They Also Flew: Women in Aviation
Thursday, Mar. 8, 7:30p.m.
March is National Women's History
Month, an appropriate time to honor the
achievements and contributions of women
who dared the heavens in peace and in war.
Steve Neulander, college instructor and
Deerfield resident whose hobby is balloon
ing, examines the role that women have
played in the development of aviation.
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Best Sellers and Their Authors
Wednesday, Apr. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Can't decide what to read next? Virginia
Carter will discuss several popular authors,
their latest successes, and what the critics
say. She’ll present some narrations to whet
the appetite. A few of the books are “A
Place for Us”, “Blessings” and “The
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells
All”.
Cook to Win
Wednesday, Apr. 18, 7:15p.m.
Debbi Vanni, who belongs to the
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Hall of Fame,
has been a contender in the Pillsbury Bake
Off, and has won the National Beef
Cookoff, the National Chicken Cooking
Contest and Hunt’s Spaghetti Contest joins
us with samples, winning recipes and the
REAL stories behind the cooking contests.
California Odyssey
Wednesday, May 16, 7:30 p.m.
Join us as award winning nature
photographer Joan Busta presents a slide
program on the natural beauty of Califor
nia: a California some have not seen, and
a unique perspective of the familiar. From
the deserts of the southeast to the rugged
Sierras, from the ghost town of Bodie to the
natural wonders of Yosemite, enjoy this
potpourri of California special places.
LONG-TERM CARE
CHOICES
March 13 - “Nursing Homes; Not Your
Only Choice”
Health care professionals answer: What
is Long-Term Care? • Home Health Care
and How to Find It • What Different Liv
ing Arrangements are Available • How
Does One Choose and How Can We Deal
With the Emotions of Making a Change?
The Time Is Now To Consider......
Long-Term Care Choices
Thursdays, Mar. 13 and 20, 7:15 p.m.
Mar. 20 - “Long-Term Care: Getting
Help”
Reputable, skilled speakers offer exper
tise on how to find the services you need
when you need them • Who Pays?—
Changes in Medicare, Subsidized Services,
and Private Long-Term Care Insurance •
Legal Aspects of Long-Term Care: Living
Wills, Durable Power of Attorney for
Health and Guardianship.
Two evenings of understanding,
awareness, and action co-sponsored with
the Deerfield Senior Center and the North
Shore Senior Center.
Funded by Deerfield Area United Way,
Inc., each program will feature a Resource
Fair and opportunity to speak to
professionals.
AUCTION ACTION!
The Friends of the Deerfield Library will
hold their first major fund raising event on
Saturday evening, May 12 at the library.
The event, an art auction, is open to the
public.
Over 150 art reproductions that were
formerly part of the library’s rental collec
tion will be offered for sale. There is a
variety of attractively framed and matted
prints from the old masters to the moderns.
In excellent condition, there are many
shapes and sizes from which to choose.
Many are dear to the hearts of Deerfield
residents.
Viewing will begin at 7 p.m. with the
auction scheduled for 8 p.m. Dessert will
be served.
Friends treasurer, Janet Lamoureux,
chairs the planning committee. Those
wishing to join the Friends and/or assist
with this event should contact Janet at
945-0012. Proceeds from the evening will
go for a program to provide library service
to the homebound. The Friends also hope
to raise money for a special author lecture
series.
The Friends next open meeting will be
Wed., Feb. 28 at the library at 7:30 p.m.
Join Us!
Library Periodicals
The library subscribes to almost 400
periodicals including 13 newspapers. While
current issues are on display, older issues,
(kept about five years) must be requested.
Periodicals do not circulate. Each item is
reviewed annually for interest and
currency.
Here is a listing of the NEW subscriptions:
American Artist, Bestsellers ’89, CPI
Detailed Report, Games, Home, In Fisher
man, Inside Chicago, Lear’s, Library
Hotline, Metropolitan Home, New York
Times Book Review, PC Computing,
Public Libraries, Sales and Marketing
Management, Sport, Sports Illustrated for
Kids, and Studio Potter.
�Youth Services
Vacation Films
If you’re looking for some activities dur
ing spring break, join us for films (no
tickets required) on the following dates:
Monday, March 26, 2:00 pm and 7:00
pm for grades 1-6
Thursday, March 29, 3:00 pm and 7:00
pm for grades K-4.
Storyhours Continue
re-schoolers, ages 3-5, are invited to
attend storyhours from April 2 through
May 10. These storyhours feature stories,
songs, fingerplays and other activities ap
propriate to this age group. Registration
forms, available March 12, must be
brought to the Youth Services Department
by 5:00 p.m. March 24. Deerfield car
dholders will be given priority; class lists
will be posted Mar. 26.
Storyhours will be held:
Mon.—10:00 am, 1:30 pm, 7:00 pm
Tues. —10:00 am, 1:30 pm
Wed. —10:00 am, 1:30 pm
Thurs.—7:00 pm
Saturday Stories
While kindergarteners may be placed on
the waiting list for preschool storyhours,
they are invited along with first graders to
attend “Saturday Stories”. These sessions,
similar in format to preschool storyhours,
are longer and more complicated. Often
there will be a short craft project. Saturday
Stories will be held March 10, April 7 and
ay 19. There will be separate registration
r each program and registration will
begin one week prior to each program.
New oak benches grace thefront lobby and
ease waiting to be picked up at the library.
“Getting in the
Reading Moo-oo-d”
Linda Callaghan, Head of Youth Services,
displays one of the original illustrations
from “A Lion for Lewis” donated by
popular author Rosemary Wells. The art
can be seen in Linda*s Department.
Overheard At The
Reference Desk
We Answer Questions That
Raise Eyebrows
1. Which city in the world has the most
Italians?
2. What is the flourish at the end of a
signature called?
3. How tall was Hitler?
4. Did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
to get the atom bomb?
5. What is the effect of birth control
pills on amaryllis?
6. What are people in Deerfield called?
7. Do Australians celebrate Easter?
8. Who were the real people in Mother
Goose?
9. How can I start a franchise menopause
clinic?
10. Are hamsters colorblind?
11. Where can I get a no-cholesterol egg?
12. What is the medical use of tequila?
13. Who invented earmuffs?
14. Do you have statistics on restaurants
whose waiters use trays versus carry
ing dinners on their arms?
15. Do you have a simplified book on
organ transplanting in small animals?
16. Do you have a Russian language type
writer?
17.1 need some books on the Nassau space
agency.
18. What color cylinder do I need to ship
argon gas?
To get our readers in the mood for our
Summer Reading Club, the Youth Services
Department will be sponsoring a mini
reading club after spring vacation. It will
continue until the end of May for readers
in grades 1-5. Any who read 5 books dur
ing that period will receive a prize for
his/her efforts.
“Station DFLD”
Tune in to 920 on your Waukegan Road
dial for summer fun with “Station DFLD,”
our 1990 Summer Reading Club. Our pro
gram will run from June 18 - July 27. Stay
tuned for more information in our next
newsletter.
Jack Hicks, Administrative Librarian,
has been asked to serve on the Illinois State
Library Advisory Committee’s Subcom
mittee for Public Library Services. This
two year term includes the task of review
ing LSCA Title I letters of intent for 1991.
The Library and the League of Women
Voters are co-sponsoring voter registration
the last Saturday of each month (except
Feb. & Oct.) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
library upstairs meeting room. Two forms
• of i.d. are required. To vote you need a blue
card; those holding the older red cards must
re-register.
When coming to the library for IRS
forms, please bring change, as many forms
require copy reproduction.
Such a deal...instead of a once a year
book sale, Deerfield Library has ONE
ONGOING book sale all year long. Check
the cart closest to the fireplace for new/
used books at 50 cents and magazines at
10 cents.
The library meeting rooms are
available at no charge by community
groups and organizations; they may not be
used for commercial purposes or private
activities. Refreshments are permitted
upstairs only; there is a $10 cleanup fee.
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Spring 1990 Calendar
MARCH
1 Stresses in Parenting: Finding Your Way, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
8 They Also Flew: Women in Aviation, Mar. 8, 7:30 p.m.
10 Saturday Stories
13 Long-Term Care Choices: Nursing Homes—Not Your Only Choice, 7:15 p.m.
20 Long-Term Care: Getting Help, 7:15 p.m.
26 Vacation Films, 2 and 7 p.m.
29 Vacation Films, 3 and 7 p.m.
APRIL
2 Pre-School Storyhours Begin
4 Best Sellers and Their Authors, 7:30 p.m.
7 Saturday Stories
18 Cook To Win, 7:15 p.m.
DEERFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY
Quarterly Newsletter
Phone: (708) 945-3311
Executive Librarian: Jack Hicks
Library Board
Tom Parfitt, President
Rosemary Sazonoff, Secretary
Tony Sabato, Treasurer
Jack Anderson
Sue Benn
Wilbur Page
David Wolff
MAY
12 Friends’ Auction Action, 7 p.m.
16 California Odyssey, 7:30 p.m.
19 Saturday Stories
28 MEMORIAL DAY - LIBRARY CLOSED
Free income tax advice continues Tuesdays and Fridays, 1-4 p.m. through April 13.
Free blood pressure screening: First Thursday of each month, 6:15-8:15 p.m.
LIBRARY HOURS
Mon.-Thurs.:
9:00 am-9:00 pm
Fri., Sat.:
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sun.:
1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Closed Sun. beginning May 27
Editor: Sally Brickman
Contributor: Jean Reuther
Deerfield Public Library
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NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
APRIL 22-28,1990
American Library Association
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Vol. 5, No. 2
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Brickman, Sally
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Reuther, Jean
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March - May 1990
A Lion for Lewis
A Place for Us
Abraham Lincoln
Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW)
Across Five Aprils
Adolph Hitler
American Artist
American Civil War
Anthony G. Sabato
Australia
Bank Administration Institute
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Bestsellers '89
Blessings
Bodie California
California
Carl Sandburg
Chicago Historical Society
Cleveland Ohio
CPI Detailed Report
David B. Wolff
Debbi Vanni
Deerfield Area United Way Incorporated
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Public Library Blind and Physically Handicapped Program
Deerfield Public Library Browsing Newsletter
Deerfield Public Library Meeting Rooms
Deerfield Public Library Programming
Deerfield Public Library Saturday Stories
Deerfield Public Library Storytimes
Deerfield Public Library Summer Reading Programs
Deerfield Public Library Youth Services Department
Deerfield Senior Citizen Center
Dominican University
Echo of a Distant Drum
Friends of the Deerfield Public Library
Friends of the Deerfield Public Library Art Print Auction
From Here to Eternity
Games
Gone for a Soldier
Gone With the Wind
Highland Park Illinois
Home
Hunt's Spaghetti Contest
Illinois State Library
Illinois State Library Advisory Committee
Illinois State Library Advisory Committee Public Library Services Subcommittee
In Fisherman
Inside Chicago
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Jack A. Hicks
James Jones
Janet Lamoureux
Japan
Jean Reuther
Joan Busta
John A. Anderson
Jubilee
Killer Angels
League of Women Voters Deerfield
Lear's
Lee's Lieutenants
Library Hotline
Linda Ward-Callaghan
Long Term Care
LSCA Title I Letters of Intent
Martha Sloan
Mary Chesnut
Master's Degree in History
Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS)
Mathew Brady
Medicare
Metropolitan Home
Mother Goose
Mount Prospect Public Library
Mount Prospect Public Library Reference Department
Naked and the Dead
National Beef Cookoff
National Chicking Cooking Contest
National Library Week
National Women's History Month
New York Times Book Review
Norman Mailer
North Shore Senior Center
Northbrook Public Library
Nursing Homes
Palo Alto California
PC Computing
Pearl Harbor Oahu Hawaii
Peggy McCabe
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Hall of Fame
Pillsbury Bake Off
Psychotherapist
Public Libraries
Rosary College
Rosary College Library School
Rosemary Sazonoff
Rosemary Wells
Sales and Marketing Management
Sally Brickman Seifert
Searchable PDF
Sierra Mountains
Smith College
Sport
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Station DFLD
Stephen Neulander
Studio Potter
Susan L. Benn
Susan L. Sack
The Gettysburg Papers
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
The Red Badge of Courage
The Twentieth Maine
The Women and the Crisis
Thomas E. Parfitt
United States Department of Labor
Unto This Hour
Virginia Carter
Voter Registration
Washington D.C.
Wilbur Page
World War II
Yale University
Yosemite National Park