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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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Anderson
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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Printout of email from the Deerfield Public Library to the Buxton National Historic Site with an information request for Andrew Jackson; printouts from website for the Buxton National Historic Site with highlighting and handwritten notes related to Andrew Jackson.
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Adventures of an African Slaver
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Alex Haley
Alfred E. Cain
All Around the Square: Feliciana and East and West Feliciana Parishes
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Eyewitness: The Negro in American History
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Markham Illinois
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Martin A. Delany
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Mary Shadd Cary
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Men of Colour: An Historical Account of the Black Settlement on Wilberforce Street and in Oro Township
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Murder Clues from the Black Museum
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Negro Americans in the Civil War
Negro Digest
Negro Heritage Reader for Young People
Negroes in Ontario From Early Times to 1870
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Newby
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Niagara Tourist Council
Niagara's Freedom Trail: A Guide to African-Canadian History on the Niagara Peninsula
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Nobody's Family is Going to Change
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North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States 1790-1860
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Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
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Ohio
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On Black History: Nova Scotia - A Pictoral
One Man's Journey: Roy Prince Edward Perry 1905-1972
Ontario Black History Society
Ontario Black History Society Annual Report
Ontario Genealogical Society
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Owen Burey
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Pathfinders of Liberty and Truth
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Peaker
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Pierce
Pitman Publishing Corporation
Planted by the Waters: A Genealogy of the Jones-Carter Family
Poindexter
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Prince
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Richardson
Riddle
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Robert Brandon
Robert Choquette
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Robert Ewell Greene
Robert M. Farnsworth
Roberta Hughes Wright
Robin Breon
Robinson
Roger Riendeau
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Ruby Zagoren
Russell H. Davis
S.G. Howe
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Samella Lewis
Samuel L. Clemens
Sanders
Sara Bonnett Stein
Saskatoon Canada
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Scott McGehee
Seek the Truth; A Story of Chatham's Black Community
Segee
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Shirley Graham
Short
Shreve
Simcoe County Ontario Canada
Simms
Simon and Schuster
Smith
Sod House Memories: A Treasury of Soddy Stories
Sojourners
South Africa
South Africa: Implications for US Policy - A Congressional Conference
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Southern Africa
Sovenier Program: 65th Anniversary of Union United Church
St. Catharines Ontario Canada
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Steele
Stephen Vincent Benet
Stewart Tabori and Chang
Sumner Press
Survivors
Susan Watson
Syracuse New York
Syracuse University Press
Talk a Walk in Their Shoes
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African American Storytelling
Talking About Difference: Encounters in Culture Language and Identity
Thames Arts Centre
That Lonesome Road
That New Baby: An Open Family Book for Parents and Children Together
The AfriCanadian Church: A Stabilizer
The American Negro: A History in Biography and Pictures
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Banks Legacy: The Chronicles of a Free Negro Family
The Beginnings of Black Nationalism
The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Birthplace of Our Conference: Souvenier Edition
The Black Battalion 1916-1920 Canada's Best Kept Military Secret
The Black Canadians: Their History and Contributions
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The Black Oklahomans: A History
The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic
The Blacks of Niagara Falls 1850-1989
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The Clash of Colour: A Study in the Problem of Race
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The Danbury Press
The Dipper Stick: A History of Drainage in Kent County Ontario
The Everton Publishers
The Frank Slide Story
The Freedman's Story
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The History of the Negro in Medicine
The International Year of the Child
The John Day Company
The Leary-Evans: Ohio's Free People of Colour
The Life of Josiah Henson Formerly a Slave
The Longman Group Limited
The Magic of Black Poetry
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The Model Negro Colony in Kent County
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The Negro in Music and Art
The Negro Since Emancipation
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Lyman Wilmot House
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An account of the resource
This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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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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English
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Jackson Information Request
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Printout of email from the Buxton National Historic Site about an information request for Andrew Jackson. Includes highlighting.
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Shannon
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Buxton National Historic Site
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03/18/2002
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English
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Andrew Jackson
Buxton National Historic Site
Canada
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Public Library
Microsoft Outlook
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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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�The Wilmot homestead is located at 601 Wilmot Road. The original
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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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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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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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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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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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,
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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,
IIvh?A m n*
' 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
”
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‘“
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�.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
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The president of Iho
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•allduh In a mmulior of the church council Tbo uidwrlng
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: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,
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President; Alfred Schwab, Treasurer; Alfred Johnson,
set-'Mjft g®. Socrctary.
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Instruction, and one evening a month, for business, soiemand fellowship.
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• 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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stify- % f-vis■ 'lyTlio first Evangelical Church in Illinois was organized
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
serv-'i^
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.
urch in 7:
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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additional for each child under fourteen years of
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• i iSibo Conference Treasury that was also divided."
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ju 1843 the Illinois district had a Des Plaines circuit,
Club, a -i
iho. presiding elder was C. Kopp. In 184*1, Clirls•«ce and V SwtJau Llnlner was elder for Lilia district. On June 11.
, some
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
have disgraced the County.*
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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
n Daniel, Jr. died on September 7, 1034, and his
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
here with the dale they arrived—the following: .' 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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(1834) James Duffy "
Lewis Gasltleld
(1834) Androw Meier
(1835) Sloward
(1835) Ludlow
(1836) Dawson
(1835) Dorsey
(1836) Boylan
(1836) Fagan
(1837) Yoro
(1837) Mclntyro
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(1840) Roderbusch
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(1041) McCraror
(1041) Hoyt
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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,
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'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
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l,Cl\cr ?h01’- °r Wm. SLeinluius: tho Kuv
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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,
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ect Shoppe and tho Bluebird; two drug si ores, T. J
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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:
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board will redistrict township
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<■« «ot Now lVoalnct at Supervisor,. Moat
According to .Schedule—Action on
Waukegan Delayed
Ita.lroad traded ,l°ad a,,d tho
St. Paul
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‘‘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
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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.
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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
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to...
Canada. After
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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.
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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.
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.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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at the northwest corner (corner of
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of their farm for .a school,
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(a township,
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1847 with Rosella Cadwell as the
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land remains vacant for three years.
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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,
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exists today
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(It was first moved to the corner of Pine Street and
Deerfield Road and later moved to Kenmore.)
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frame, one-room structure.
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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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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
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right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,'*—and-tSa?
instead of blushing to acknowledge himself a friend of imme
diate emancipation, every one will, in the spiritof the eminent
Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, with honorable pride re
cord their testimony in favor of it before the nation. This
done, and the light and glory of this nation will surpass any
nation under heaven.
As Andrew is a young pupil, so far as knowledge of letter*
is concerned, those who know this fact will, of course under
stand that, after obtaining the facts, which compose the history,
writer has employed his phraseology to express fiber®.- T-
NARRATIVE, kt.
CHAPTER I.
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«onni h® "?man.and her ch''dren freedom on the
ground of he alleged insanity of her master at the time of hie
gimng her the deed. And not having the means of contesting
fac Jfn rUp°n^fl ^temonts of my brothers and friends for the
neariv wXrd»ndmr th® 1° {reedom- % grand mother was
? ^hltJ and.1 th,nk I possess “enough of the Anglo
Saxon blood to give me a deep and thorough abhorrence8of
oppression.
At any .rate, I am so much in love with freedomsmce coming into possession of it, that for all tl.e weald,
Slaveholding States I would not exchange my
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Oulhc deiuh01' Wall, I passed into the hand's of* James
Met addon, a larmcr, an administrator of the estate of Wall,
and soon after was “hired out” io Stephen Claypoolc. This
mai> had a demand against McFadden of $1100, and claimed
me as his property, by virtue of that demand. After keeping
me four years, at the business of turnpiking, I was swapped
off, with a Mr. Kerns, for another slave, “ Tom,” and set at
work digging stumps—or as I term it, “stump-piking.” In
a few months the parties reversed the bargain, and mvself and
Aom reverted to our former owners: and in a little time I was
sold or made over like a kind of “ heir-loom,” to John Claypoolc, and then to Perry Claypoole. The latter individual was
a tobacco grower, and farmer. Unlike a large proportion of
Slaveholders, this individual superintended his own plantation
andiabored with his own hands. He had a girl named Cjarila, whom he required to work in the field with me, compelling
us like cattle to draw the cultivating plow through the furrow.
I could have borne it, myself, but it was hard xoork to pull
the plow with a poor female yoke-fellow, for although my mas
ter seemed to regard a female slave little better than a beast
nature taught me to consider the impropriety of her treatment!
and I could not endure it.
Whatever men may think of us, we are not destitute of the
feelings of men.
In July, Claypooie told us, we must cultivate five hotheads
of Tobacco for our summer’s work. Added to this, was the
ordcFfor us to “get married,” according to Slavery—or, in
other words, to enrich his plantation by a family of youn<r
slaves. The alternative of this was, to be sold to a slave trader'
who was then lu the vicinity making up a gang.for. a more
southern raarkot. “ This information” I did not like,—more
especially, as I had often been promised my freedom in a few
years if I would work faithfully ; and I resolved,, whenever an
opportunity should offer, and I could see my way clear to at
tempt a shorter and mure certain route to freedom than to
await the fulfilment of a Slaveholder's promise j for in rela
tion to the emancipation of a slave, their promises are always
forgotten before they get cold. And, if I could have any
confidence in such promises, it would have inspired me with
energy to almost any amount of labor, for I neyer desired any
thing more ardently, nor was willing to makd so groat a sac
rifice for any thing else as my liberty.” And I here bog leave
OF ANDREW JACKSON.
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to say, that although I have often heard northern people state
that the slaves did “ not want their freedom,” yet I never saw
one who would not endure twice what I passed through, and
more, if they could but be sure of liberty at the last. It is the
theme of almost every meeting among them, and one of the
most happy events whenever one escapes. And it is a very
rare thing that one slave ever becomes informer against his
brother who intends to take the long walk. When one is ready
thefrapowerSe Wb° r6main wil1 often helP him in every way in
CHAPTER II.
“After firmly resolving to runaway from my master,”
the next thing was to learn where to go, and how to get
away. I heard a great many things about the Northern
States and some things not at all favorable to my welfare,
d,V»Ttjlf I,1Sr°U d SUCCee,f 1D maki"g my escape. I was told
that the “free niggers” were often half starved, and not
respected any more, if as much, as they were in the Slaw'
States, But I made up my mind that if I could learn the
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opportunity occurred forme to
obtain the information I needed from a gentleman who had
been north, and described the route through Kentucky,
Ohio, Illinois, &c. Then the thing was to get started__
to get away from the neighborhood without detection. I
resolved to make the attempt,
rWh0Stalur^y n%ht> early in August, I gathered my
cloihes together, and after selecting the beat, which were
not very good, I started off in the direction of a piece of
woods, and there tore up those I desired least, and threw
them down, besmeared with blood which I obtained to eive
1 •??1JhC4a-PPearJanC® ofThaving been torn from me by a
wild bfeast, in order that I might prevent any one from purbuing me until I could escape beyond their reach.
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thought I would go there on ray way, too, and get a certificatc of ray freedom, under pretence of trying to obtain my
liberty by process of law. The Clerk replied to my re
quest only by cursing me, and told me to go back and be
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�THE BICENTENNIAL PLUS THREE
a History of Deerfield
by Paul Pitt
Edited: Norma Gavin
Sponsored by the
Deerfield Bicentennial Commission
Chairwoman
Norma Gavin
Coordinators
William H. Hoyerman
Col. Franklin A. Werner (Ret.)
Treasurer
Howard A. Patterson
Publicity
Carol Scarpone
Fine Arts
Doryce L. Maher
Festival U.S.A.
Susan Redondo
Heritage 76
Robert R. McClarren
Horizons 76
Don Wrobleski
Family Day Parade
John Zobus
1979
DEAR FRIENDS:
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL ENJOY THE BICENTENNIAL HISTORY
PLUS THREE. CERTAINLY IT HAS BEEN A LABOR OF LOVE
TO WHICH MANY HAVE CONTRIBUTED OVER THE PAST THREE
YEARS.
SOME OF THE DELAY IN PUBLISHING THE HISTORY HAS BEEN
DUE TO THE WEALTH OF MATERIAL WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN
INCLUDED IN THE BOOK. IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO
DECIDE WHAT SHOULD BE RECORDED WITHOUT CREATING A
DAY-BY-DAY REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF DEERFIELD.
I AM MOST GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED TO MAKE
EVEN THOUGH IT IS A LITTLE
THIS BOOK A REALITY
LATER THAN WE HAD ORIGINALLY PLANNED!
SINCERELY,
BERNARD
MAYOR
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�During that first year in Lake County, his young
son Daniel, Jr. died on September 7,1834, and his
wife, Ruth, died on September 10.20 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.
A prairie fire destroyed Wright’s winter hay sup
ply and the Indians helped him to survive the first
winter.21
Wright’s daughter, Caroline, married William
Whigham in 1836. It was the first marriage in Lake
County, and Hiram Kennicott, first Justice of the
Peace, performed the ceremony at the “Mill” on
the Des Plaines River.22
The Wright farm spanned the Des Plaines River,
and part of it is now the Ryerson Conservation
Area in Riverwoods. Wright died December 30,
1873 at the age of 95. His farm was in the name of
William Whigham on the 1916 Plat Map. He had
married Rachel Millard in 1845.23
The first settler in Deerfield Township was
Michael Meehan. He arrived in a covered wagon
drawn by two oxen and settled on Section 18 on
Telegraph Road in 1835, between Half Day Road
and Wilmot Road.24 Meehan was born in 1808 at
Meath, Ireland. He married Bridget Monahan in
1832, and emigrated to the United States that
same year. He went first to Salina, New York, and
later to Michigan, but in the autumn of 1835 he
came finally to Deerfield. The Indians had not left
the area yet, and the township was still in its
natural state. Meehan plowed the first furrow in
the township.25
He was relatively well stocked 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 had not yet been surveyed
(therefore it was still government land obtained
from the Indian Treaty). He left the farm for a brief
attempt at gold mining in California in 1852, but
realized the futility and quickly returned. 26
Meehan continued to work his farm until 1876,
when, at the age of 68, he retired, sold his farm to
James O’Connor, a neighbor and relative, and
moved to Highland Park.27
The first settler in what is now the Village of
Deerfield was Jacob Cadwell (or perhaps Horace
Lamb). Cadwell and Lamb arrived in Deerfield in
1835.28
Jacob Cadwell and his wife, Rubie Rich
Cadwell, had five sons and two daughters:
Madison, Philemon, Caleb, Hiram, Edwin, Rubie
Rosella and Jerusha Rosina.29 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
locations of their homes is given in
a DDroximate
H History of Deerfield, by Reichelt, but those
the
locations are no longer contemporary. The
7
Cadwell lands were pre-empted under one of the
pre-emption bills passed after 1830 (but before the
Distribution Pre-emption act).30
Caleb Cadwell was appointed the first
postmaster in Deerfield in 1850.31 The Cadwells
built the first school — Cadwell School — and
Rosella was the first teacher. The Cadwell School
was opened in 1848, but the Wilmot School — the
first in the township — was opened in 1847.32
Horace Lamb came to Deerfield in 1835, the
same year as the Cadwells. It is not clear, actual
ly, who was the first to settle here. The Lamb pro
perty was located between what is now
Waukegan road and the east slough north from
the county line into what is presently the country
club. These were later the Vetter and Parsons pro
perties.33
The Wilmots, too, were among the first settlers.
Jesse Wilmot came up the North Branch in 1834
and landed at what is now Greenwood Avenue.34
Having stayed in Deerfield through the winter, he
returned in 1837 to the east to bring his own fami
ly and his brother, Lyman, and his family. Both
families settled west of the village along Wilmot
Road in the Deerfield Road area (none of which
existed at the time, of course). The farm the
Wilmots built was considered one of the best and
most productive in the area.35
Lyman Wilmot had eleven children, six sons
and five daughters. He built the first school in the
township; the 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.36 Mrs.
Clarissa Wilmot, Lyman’s wife, was a practical
nurse and midwife who administered to the infirm
in the absence of the physician, and performed
some diagnostics with the aid of a medical
manual.37
Indian Clark
John Kinzie Clark was among the first whites in
20.Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Reichelt, op. cit., p. 8-9.
23. 1916 Plat Map of Lake County.
24. Reichelt, op. cit., p. 109.
25. Ibid.
26. Halsey, op. cit., p. 422.
27. Reichelt, op. cit., p. 109.
28. Haines, op. cit., p. 81.
29. Ibid.
30. Reichelt, op. cit., p. 110.
31. Ibid., p. 19.
32. Ibid., p. 38.
33. Ibid., p. 10.
34. "It was a navigable river at the time,” according to Mrs.
Ruth Pettis.
35. Halsey, op. cit., p. 425.
36. Reichelt, op. cit., p. 107-108.
37. Ibid., p. 78-79.
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Freedom
Abolition
The 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 winter of 1858 at the
home of Lorenz Ott.1 Abolitionists from Highland
Park would come to Deerfield to debate the issue
at the corner of Deerfield and Waukegan Roads.2
The runaway slave, Andrew Jackson, was 28
years old and came from a Mississippi plantation.
His father was the plantation owner, a white man,
and because of this, the slave 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.3
Jackson lived with the Ott family, and did
chores while there. He built a white picket fence
and gate, but asked that it be taken down when
the slaves were freed-German thrift could not ac
cede to this request. In the spring, Jackson was
taken to Chicago from where he 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 issue-particularly in the resulting war.5
Antiwar sentiment was so strong that a bounty
was required to induce enlistments. The bounty
was $40 per man at the beginning of the war, but it
was $1600 by the end.6
There were a few “copperhead” and “a lodge or
two of Knights of the Golden Circle,”7 which were
southern sympathizers, but “never constituted an
effective fifth column.”8 A strong Union League
existed to counteract any disloyalty that may
have disgraced the County.9
CIVIL WAR
Deerfield Grand Army of the Republic
Captain McCaul’s Shield Guards were ap
parently the first volunteers. Their formation was
13
announced on April 20, 1861, and they joined an
Irish regiment in Chicago.10 On April 29, 1861,
ninety volunteers from southern Lake County ar
rived at Waukegan.11 On May 4,1861, the Union Ri
fle Guards were formed. On June 6, the County
Board of Supervisors appropriated $5,000 for
bounties to encourage enlistments.12
During the summer of 1861, Companies C and F
of the 37th Illinois Infantry were organized. Cap
tain Eugene B. Payne and Captain Erwin B.
Messer were the officers of these Companies.
During the winter of 1861-1862, half of Company I,
45th Illinois Infantry, and half of Company F of the
65th Infantry were organized; Company G of the
51st Illinois Infantry was organized, and all went
to Camp Douglas.13 It is not certain whether Virgil
Wilmot, the son of Lyman Wilmot who operated
the underground railroad, served in the 45th14 or
the 55th15 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.18
Several Deerfield men died as a result of the
Civil War, either from illness, injuries received in
battle or from the hardships of the prison camps.
Several more were crippled. Those who served in
clude the following:
1. Marie Ward Reichelt, The History of Deerfield, Glenview
Press, 1928, p. 107.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 49.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 50.
8. Richard Hofstadter, The American Republic Vol. I: to 1865,
Prentiss Hall, 1964, p. 614.
9. Reichelt, loc. cit.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 115.
16. Ibid., p. 50.
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�LEGEND
1. Deerfield Cemetery
2. North Northfield Cemetery
3. O’Plain Cemetery
4. St. Patrick’s Cemetery
5. Jacob Cadwell’s house (1835)
6. First Village Store
7. Frederick Muhlke Home (1837)
8. Louis Gastfield Home (1842)
9. John MiHen home (1839)
10. Philip Brand home (1844)
11. & 12. Cadwell homes
13. Cadwell School (1848)
14. Alfred Parsons home (1843)
15. Philip Vedder home (1844)
16. Job Galloway home (1840)
17. Jesse Wilmot (1835)
18. Lyman Wilmot (1837)
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 Carolan (1841)
34. Ludlow home
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 Yore
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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Hoyerman, William H.
Werner, Franklin A.
Patterson, Howard A.
Scarpone, Carol
Maher, Doryce L.
Redondo, Susan
McClarren, Robert R.
Wrobleski, Donald
Zobus, John
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Abolitionism
Alfred Parsons
American Civil War
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Meier
Bartholamew Boylan
Bernard Forrest
Bridget Monahan Meehan
Cadwell Family
Cadwell School
Cadwell's Corners
Caleb Cadwell
California
California Gold Rush
Camp Douglas
Canada
Captain McCaul's Shield Guards
Carol Scarpone
Caroline Wright Whigham
Chicago Illinois
Chicago River North Branch
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Confederate Army
Daniel Wright
Daniel Wright Jr.
Dawso
Deerfield Bicentennial Commission
Deerfield Historical Cemetery
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Postmaster
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Township
Deerfield Union League
Deerfield Village Stores
Dennis Lancaster
Des Plaines River
Donald F. Wrobleski
Dorsey
Doryce L. Maher
Dose
Edwin Cadwell
Erwin B. Messer
Eugene B. Payne
Franklin A. Werner
Fred Fritsch
Frederick Muhlke
Grand Army of the Republic
Greenwood Avenue
Highland Park Illinois
Hiram Cadwell
Historical Map of the Town Now Called Deerfield Illinois
History of Deerfield
Horace Lamb
Howard A. Patterson
Illinois Copperheads
Jacob Cadwell
Jacob Luther
Jacob Ott
Jacques Marquette
Jame Duffy
James Mooney
James O'Connor
Jasper Ott
Jennings
Jerusha Rosina Cadwell
Jesse Wilmot
Job Galloway
John Jacob Ott Sr.
John Kinzie Clark
John Millen
John Zobus
Justice of the Peace
Knights of the Golden Circle
Lake County Board of Supervisors
Lake County Illinois
Lake County Justice of the Peace
Log Cabin
Lorenz Ott
Louis Gastfield
Ludlow
Lyman Wilmot
Madison Cadwell
Marie Ward Reichelt
Martin Luther
McIntyres and Tullys
Meath Ireland
Michael Dawson
Michael Fagan
Michael Meehan
Michael Yore
Michigan
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Native American Treaties
Native Americans
Norma Gavin
North Northfield Cemetery
O'Plain Cemetery
Patricia Stilphen Hill
Patrick Carolan
Paul Pitt
Philemon Cadwell
Philip Brand
Philip Ott
Philip Vedder
Prairie Fires
Rachel Millard
Riverwoods Illinois
Robert R. McClarren
Roderbusch
Rubie Rich Cadwell
Rubie Roselia Cadwell
Ruth Wright
Ryerson Conservation Area
Salina New York
St. Mary's of the Woods Cemetery
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Stewart
Susan Redondo
The Bicentennial Plus Three: A History of Deerfield
Thomas Mooney
Underground Railroad
Union Army
Union Army 37th Illinois Infantry Company C
Union Army 37th Illinois Infantry Company F
Union Army 45th Illinois Infantry Company I
Union Army 51st Illinois Infantry Company G
Union Army 65th Illinois Infantry Company F
Union Army Fifty-Fifth Illinois Regiment
Union Rifle Guards
United States
Vincent's Grist Mill
Virgil Wilmot
Waukegan Illinois
William H. Hoyerman
William Whigham
Wilmot School
Wiram Kennicott
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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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There was no railroad as yet, and one traveled to Chicago
on foot, by wagon, or walked to Port Clinton to take the
Chicago and Northwestern train. From.the building of the
village, attention turned to the affairs of the nation*
Many were the arguments and the discussions around the
red hot stove at the general store - which was the scene
of old time oratory. Farmers and local politicians
scanned the newspapers, and read aloud the speeches of
Lincoln and Douglas* The burning questions of slavery,
state rights, and the preservation of the Union held the
attention of all*
Secretly, some of the citizens of our community en
gaged in helping fugitive slaves to reach places of secur
ity in the free states and in Canada, The explanation of
the lack of information which is available concerning the
so-called Underground Railroad is to be found.in the.se
crecy in which it was enshrouded. The participants in
underground operations were quiet people, and their special
work was to harbor fugitives and help them toward freedom.
The runaways were hidden in churches, barns, and garrets,
provided with rest add refreshments, and usually after a day
or more conveyed in the night to the house of . the next
friend, 'One of the abolitionists who is credited with as
sisting in the escape of fugitives was Lyman Wilmot,
whose name has figured so much in the upbuilding of the
community - and in the annals of our town we have the
story of one slave - Andrew Jackson - who sought refuge
in the homes of Wilmot and Lorenz Ott, his neighbor, and
remained there for some time, until he could safely be
conveyed northward.
(It is after dark, in the kitchen of the Ott home,
Lorenz Ott is reading a newspaper besides the kerosene
lamp. The mother, and daughter Sarah, age 16, are
sewing, and Samuel, age 14, and Eli, 12, are playing
A signal is heard out-of-doors - a.
checkers .
" shrill tremolo like that of an owl, This is followed
hy three distinct, hut subdued knocks, Mother and
father raise heads, listen intently, hut no one moves)
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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.
WILMOT:
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"A friend with friends."
He has just arrived, after a long hard trip, I fear my
house is being watched, and under cover of darkness I
brought him across the field, I think he needs rest and foo^.
Poor fellow, he was chattering with cold when he arrived.
Will you take care of him?
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Lorenz Ott:
Yes, you know you can depend on me, Wilmot,
(Wilmot leaves, and the negro is welcomed in a
sincere hut subdued manner. The mother hurries to
set food before him, assisted by the daughter. Boys
and father gather around the colored man, asking ques
tions)
OTT;
SLAVE:
What is your name?
Andrew Jackson, massa..
OTT:
Where have you come from?
SLAVE:
I come from Mississip*, massa?
SAMUEL:
Jiminy, that's a long way1.
SLAVE:
It take weeks and weeks, massa, and I was scairt de
bloodhoun's dey get me again.
SAMUEL:
SLAVE:
LORENZ OTT:
SLAVE:
Again?
Hoy/ long did it take?
Did they ever send the bloodhouses after you?
Yaas s'r, one time when I run away, de dawgs dey track
me, but dis time a man he tell me de sun rise in
de eas* and set in de wes' and if I go nawth, it get
colder, and if I go south it get wamer, and dat all I
know, and he ah I am1.
How did you escape?
(Dramatically)
My massa, he a kin* man, but he sol me
down de ribbah, so I tuk off in de night, I dim out of
de window in de dawk* I 'scaped cross de ribbah, and Lor*
a massa, it take a powahful long time to come nawth, it s
shuah do. I hid in de confields in de day, and I eat
de co'n ffom de stalks, and I trabbel at night , Dey tell
me bout de undergroun railroad in place dey call ^ontiac,
den I stay all night at a doctah's house deah, I trab
bel on to a preachah's house in a town dey done call
Ottawa, and from deah to Massa Ca'pentah's house in the
big city. Mass Gapentah, he good man, and done brought me
to Massa Wilmot's house. Somebody want to stop us, but
Massa. Ca'pentah he bring down de hosswhup on do-ese
bosses backs, and lickety-cut, we pass 'em right up*
(Laughs heartily, and boys laugh-with him)
(Boys gather round him with books and slates, Sarah
sews, listening to their talk) Mr. and Mrs, Ott
converse in the foreground, about place to hide
Jackson, and best manner in which he can be passed on
to the next "station" on his
north)
MRS. OTT:
OTT:
Would it be safe for him to go on in a day or two?
I don't see how it will be possible • You heard what
Wilmot said* I am afraid we shall have to keep him
here for a while, until those strangers that have been
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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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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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Koebelin, WIlliam
Becker, Eugene
Engstrom, George
Knaak, Theodore J.
Rommel, Mrs. J.
Ziesing, August
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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
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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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f-the lire chief or chief of police and that all firemen be
eputized as police officers in time of fire.
The increasing demand for suburban property near
ihicago, especially along the north shore are factors in
ringing about added interest to the “North Shore West”
vrea. The completion of the new Union Station was ex
acted to bring better train service on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railway.
i The proximity of Deerfield to Highland Park and Lake
"orest, and to Ravinia with its grand opera in the sum
mer, is greatly in favor of the development of a high
!rade community. For the women the easy access to
he Highland Park Woman’s Club, with its excellent culural programs, to the North Shore Chapter Daughters of
he American Revolution (for those who are eligible)
f.jth its fine patriotic and educational work, adds to
Deerfield's desirability as a residence place.
DEERFIELD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
I The Deerfield Athletic Association, of which Jack
\lyers is the patron and sponsor, is composed of young
hen of the Village who are champion baseball and footl>aThelaDeerfield-Shields High School is second to none
Imong suburban high schools. The Deerfield Grammar
School is far superior to what it was ten years ago.. The
(umerous golf clubs in the vicinity, such as Briergate,
Slen Acres, Skokie, Ridge, Old Elm, Exmoor, Onwentsia,
Jrernon Ridge, Breakers Beach, Lake Shore, Bob 0 Link
Sunset Ridge. ICnollwood, Illinois, Mission Ridge, Sunset
valley Northmoor, Illinois, Columbian, Hunters , and Big
pen Country Club, leave beautiful open spaces that pre
en t congestion.
There are four churches, one Catholic, and three
’rotestant in Deerfield and a public library
The shopping facilities are good for a village. Two
fry goods stores, Schells’ and Olendorl’s; three grocery
tores and markets, R. A. Nelson's, Henry Gastfield a, Sol
Shapiro’s; a butcher shop, of Wm. Steinhaus, the Kay
beauty shop, and the Deerfield beauty parlor; three bar
ber shops, Matt Hoffman’s, Chris Siffert’s and Sc.avuzzo
[hree restaurants, Bertolini and Lencioni s, the Blu®‘-)1F£l>
knd the Barbecue; two confectionery stores the Brier
sweet Shoppe and the Bluebird; two drug stores, T. J.
Knaak’s and Laegler and Hout’s; Coleman s Variety
Store; an A. and P. store; fruit store; two tailors and
ileaners, Vincent Silveri and North Shore Cleaneis, the
Deerfield Bakery; two plumbing and heating establishnents William H. Barrett’s and Milton Frantz; two elec;ric shops, William Seiler’s, and William Desmond s; one
lardware store, that of Jack Notz; one furnace and tin
hop. John J. McMahon’s; two garages,
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Uuhrend’s; four real estate and insurance offices, Chailes
Kanschull’s Frank Russo’s, Foxworthy’s, and Vant and
KS’s; one delicatessen and confectionery of Edward
31eimehl; three nurseries, Kottrasch Bros., Franken
3ros and F D. Clavey; two lumber and coal companies,
the Deerfield Lumber Company, The Mercer Dumber Co
and the Lake County Coal and Material Company, the
^aco oil station' the Standard Oil Company plant, the
Deerfield Interior Finish Company; ^he Deerfield State
Bank; The Deerfield Chevrolet Sales Company, The Bujert Construction Company (water mains and seweis),
The Kapschul Davis Construction Company (roads and
paving) The Perry Keast Battery Shop; a number of
painters and decorators, Ross ShermanMcGarvie, Wil
liam Kreh, Builders, Ed. Segert John Huhn, R. E and
C G Pettis A J. Johnson, Alex Taylor, Cashmore, Thilo
Toll’ PrflVik Jacobs C B Foxworthy, W. Aitken; two
well’drillers Lincoln Pettis, and Alvin Meyer; two brick
yardsthe Iliinois and the National; three piano teachers
Prances Blederstadt. Mrs. C. G. Pettis, Bertha Wei s,
Pehr’s Music Shop, for radios and piano tuning,
Knaak’s Music Store, for pianos, radios and victrolas,
The Hotel Deerfield; The Herman Frost Newspaper
Agency and pool room; one sewing machine agency, that
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Alvin Knaak's Deerfield FilUng Station; TreHole’s Deer!
Selig Chester Wolf, August Huehl; a shoe l epainng
store (AzadTanielen); a Deerfield bakery; a mimeo»roniiino ni,.nt /pau 115R); two band leaders, H. E.
Bolie and Frank Russo. Among the dairy companies
which have service in Deerfield are the Bowman, Hoh-
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felder, Clover Leaf, Santi. WHT, the radio broadcasting
station, is in Deerfield.
The Lake County Register of June IS, 1927, had the
following item:
BOARD WILL REDISTRICT TOWNSHIP
West Deerfield to Get New Precinct at Supervisors Meet
According to Schedule—Action on
Waukegan Delayed
Action was to be taken Thursday afternoon at the
board of supervisors’ meeting redistricting the Town of
West Deerfield, one new polling place to be added.
The resolution expected to be passed provides for
dividing the Town of West Deerfield as follows:
District 1—All that part of West Deerfield lying south
of the Half Day Road and the Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad tracks.
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District 2—All that part of West Deerfield lying south
of the Half Day Road and west of the railroad tracks.
District 3—All that part of West Deerfield lying north
of the Half Day Road.
“UNDEKGROUND RAILROAD” ACTIVITIES
The first real information of Andrew Jackson, the run
away slave, Samuel Ott imparts to this generation. In the
winter of 1S5S a mulatto, about 28 years of age, came to the
home of Lyman Wilmot, the Abolitionist, at night, via the
“Underground Railway,” from Mississippi. The lake was
frozen, so the blackman could not be sent across to Canada,
therefore be had been taken to Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot
brought the slave to the Lorenz Ott home to do the chores,
so that the children could go to school.
Keeping a runaway slave was against the law, but the
Abolitionists felt that they were in the right by disobeying
an unjust law. Andrew Jackson’s father was a white man,
and he worked on his father’s plantation where he saw his
white sisters. The plantation owner was more lenient to
his son than to his other slaves, and Andrew learned more
than his companions, therefore the desire to be free so
overcame the lad that it led him to attempt to escape, but
bloodhounds tracked him, and he was brought back. In
his second attempt at freedom he was successful, and he
crossed the Ohio River, where he was sent on his journey
n°The man was a good worker, kept the horses clean (he
had been a yardman on the plantation) and “made a nice
gate of stout wood” which he said would last till the slaves
were freed. When that occurred he requested Mr. Ott to
destroy the gate, which sentimental resquest was not heeded
by the thrifty farmer. When spring came, and the roads
were muddy, Andrew Jackson prepared to leave. Lorenz
Ott made him a new suit, and gave him money for boat
fare, and Lyman Wilmot took him to Chicago, where he
escaped to Canada. After reaching the slaves’ haven, An
drew wrote to his benefactors who had taught him to read
and write, of his safe arrival, and that was the last that
they ever heard of him. Samuel Ott was fourteen yeais of
age at the time, and he recalls much that the negro did
while here.
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drew Jackson’s escape was planned because he had been
sold. "My kind master found it necessary to sell me. None
of the slaves were given any education as our masters
thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a friend
told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
and that as one goes further south it gets warmer, and
going north it gets colder, With this information only, I
decided to run away. I' was soon captured for my master
had discovered my absence soon after I left, and had sent
bloodhounds after me. When taking me back to the planta
tion my captor tied my arms with a rope, which was
fastened to the horse, and made me walk in front of him,
while he rode. I loosened the rope and walked along as it
I were not trying to escape. Soon I noticed that my master
was sleeping', so I dropped the rope, and jumped into the
woods. Most of the time I hid during the day, and often
my pursuers were so close to my hiding place that I could
hear my master giving directions to them.
"Several times I was without food for a number of days.
Many times I ate raw corn taken from a field when I passed
through it. One time I fell in a barrel when I was looking
for food, and even though I hurt my hip severely, I man
aged to limp back into the woods. One day I came to a
hut and asked a girl, who was alone, for some bread, which
I could see was freshly baked. The child refused to give
it to me so I grabbed a few loaves and ran, and when
safely hidden, ate them. These are but a few of my hard*
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A group of Abolitionists lived in Highland Park, and
would often come to Deerfield if they knew that the farm
ers were bringing their crops to town. Often many hot
debates took place on what is now known as Antes’ Corner.
A great many negroes passed'through Deerfield, but no
body remembers a direct route which they used when they
traveled through this part of the country, according to the
little history of Deerfield prepared by the pupils in the
grammar school in 1918, under the direction of Clifford
Huffmaster, the World War invalid principal.
PIONEER LIFE
C. A. Partridge in his History of Lake County says:
True history records the trials and the triumphs, the
failures and the successes of the men who make history.
The impulsive power which shapes the course of com
munities may be found in the molding influences which
form its citizens. The list of those to whose lot it falls
to play a conspicuous part in the great drama of life is
comparatively short; yet communities are made up of in
dividuals and the aggregate of achievements, no less than
the sum total of human happiness, is made up of the
deeds of those men and women whose primary aim
through life is faithfully to perform the duty that comes
nearest to hand. Individual influence upon human affairs
will be considered potent or significant according to the
standpoint from which it is viewed.”
In the record of each man and family may be traced
some feature which influenced or has been stamped upon
the community life, and these sketches show the strug
gles, the labor, and the successes, or the failures, that
engrossed their lives.
“A few yet remain, whose years have passed the al
lotted three score years and ten, who love to recount
among the cherished memories of their lives their remi
niscences of early days in Lake County.”
Clergymen, physicians, educators, home makers, farm
ers, lawyers, leave their influence upon the community
development in a way that it is difficult to estimate.
Their faith, energy, courage, self-sacrifice and devotion
attest the results which they have achieved in Deerfield
township.
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Judge V. V. Barnes, a former Deerfield man, attorney
and counsellor at law in Zion City, said:
“Few things are as interesting as the annals of
states and communities and the time will come when
whatever may be written or preserved will be considered
as all too meager. From such events and records the
historian weaves his most edifying and absorbing tale.
Already Lake County has furnished many events of in
tense and peculiar interest and men and women have
been permitted to lapse into silence whose knowledge
and words should have been preserved for those to come.
In fact, Lake County has been and is still rich in the
possession of characters and events of untold value and
in so far as possible we should take heed to preserve so
rich a heritage. It strikes me it would be well to con
sider this subject deliberately with a view to preserve
for others the things so closely associated with the lives
and welfare of the people.”
Martin C. Decker, a former Deerfield teacher who
wrote the history of Fremont Township for Dr. Halsey’s
history, said: “The history of a community is to a large
extent embodied in the lives of its great men. There are
a few history making changes that are due to natural
causes, most of them being if not entirely at least greatly
influenced by human agency.”
Of the pioneer mother little is known except tradition,
but that she bore and reared children under incredible
conditions and hardships, that she was a- homemaker
and housekeeper with no labor saving devices, and few
conveniences, and that every step in garment making and
food production was her job, is well known. Large fami
lies were common before the days of Margaret Sanger’s
doctrine, and the ingenuity of the mother kept them
clothed and fed in spite of drouth, flood, army worm, and
hail that destroyed their crops. Cornmeal mush was the
daily diet. Milk was used for making cottage cheese
but the cream was reserved for butter making, and this
product so rich in vitamins, (not known before this gen
eration) was sold to buy sugar. One neighbor was
selected to go to Chicago to make purchases for the
entire community. Ox teams were used sometimes, and
at others the packsaddle of a horse was utilized. It is
told that the first James Duffy walked to Chicago to buy
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HISTORY OF DEERFIELD
wheat cakes with sorghum were a luxury, and quaii
prairie chickens, and partridges were had so often that
they were not the luxury that they are to this generation
A cheese similar to Limburger was made by the Germans
by forming cottage cheese into little balls, placing them
in a crock and allowing them to ripen. The fluid that
formed around the balls was poured off frequently ami
the cheese washed with fresh milk. Fish, principally
suckers ll/z feet long were in all of the streams. Water
for household purposes was dipped out of the ponds on
the land with buckets. Flies and mosquitoes tormented
the people and spread disease, malaria, ague, and ty
phoid. Screens or netting on windows were unknown
Wells dug were six feet deep.
Candles made by the women from mutton tallow and
cotton picking dipped, and also made in molds, were the
lights used. Later a two wick lamp, without a chimney
in which raccoou and lard, or camphene oil was burned
made a two candle power light. These lamps were on
metal standards with glass bowls. The third era was
the kerosene lamp of tin, painted green, with a polished
tin movable reflector, which hung on the door frames.
Glass hanging lamps with glass prisms or gaily painted
decorations were later parlor luxuries. “Student lamps”
of metal with a tall slender chimney on each side, with
two bowls of oil and circular wicks were a great im
provement for the sight. A Chicago directory oi’ IS GO
advertises lard oil, lunar oil, kerosene binnacle oil, Mayville coal oil, alcohol, camphene, and burning fluid.
Clothes were made for the men by the women of the
family after they had been cut by the tailor, Lawrence
Ott. In this vicinity the cloth was not woven for the
men’s suits but was bought in Chicago, and sewed by
hand with a very heavy black thread. The women did
the sewing after the children were in bed. The spinning
wheels which the German and Alsatian settlers brought
from Germany and Alsace were used to make the yarn
for stockings, mittens, and large scarfs which took the
place of overcoats. Mr. George Rockenbach has one that
his mother knitted.
After the log house era frame houses were erected.
These were very simple structures, built on the ground
without cellars under them, but with board instead of
dirt floors. A few had vegetable cellars. The first frame
house at the west end of the township that was at all
pretentious was the one built by Christian Schwingel.
now owned by Mr. Kellogg, of the Kellogg Switchboard
Company, known as the Grove Farm, and occupied by
E. L. Vinyard. It had a pantry, a cistern, and a pump
on the porch, which was the height of luxury. Good
houses began to be built in 1850, and many are still
in use.
Courtship in the early days of our township was con
ducted under difficulties. In a one room log cabin that
contained the beds of the parents and seven or more
children, the stove and other household furniture, there
was little privacy, so courting days were short. The
young people usually took walks in the woods. The
amusements were few. Sliding on the ice in winter, at
tending spelling, writing and singing schools, and among
the young men engaging in feats to show strength such
as lifting barrels of flour, and wrestling were among
their pastimes. Fist fights sometimes decorated their
drab, dull lives, as when the boys of the east and of the
west prairies met in swimming in the Desplaines River
seventy years ago, and forty years ago when the Everett
gang met the Deerfield one.
One pioneer said, “When I was young we folk held
our dancing parties in any house that had three rooms,
and if there was but one room we moved the stove and
bed out of doors, brought our fiddler and had our dance.
When it was over we moved the stove and bed back in
place and returned home in one sleigh loaded with plenty
of straw.”
DEERFIELD FAMILIES
Genealogy is an interesting study, for when one con
siders how rapidly one’s ancestors multiply (as well as
one’s descendents) two parents, four grandparents, eight
great-grandparents, and so on, until one finds that at the
time of the discovery of America, about fourteen genera
tions back, the average American now living has 1G.384
ancestors in a single ancestral generation. A good geneology describes the historical roots of the family tree, it
gives names, dates, places and family connections, ac
cording to the Eugenical News of April, 1923.
The descendonts of William Ward of Sudbury, king-
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married November 20, 1870, to Miss Miranda C Adams
Pnw£eshes A Hoclgkiss' Delta County, Colo. Dwight
T,?nie<i bi°oS Aug,llst 16, 1S'49- married Lizzie Sclioles
Ho i9t 1881, and resides in Evergreen Colo. He was
Fl?Pn PH,areSreSeiitatlVe t0 the Colorado Legislature
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in South Chicago. Warren Henry, born October 6 IS55
is now a resident of Deerfield. The children older than
Deerfield "'6''e b°''n ,n New York and those younger in
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THE WILMOT FAMILY
No history of Deerfield could be complete without
soml mention of the Wilmot family which played sue
a°prominent part in the affairs of the
yet of this large family no member remains ^eie. The
Portrait^rid^BiograpALcaJ^lhiun„oJ^akeCouty ay
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Hannah (Bunn^f WUmo, both natives o£ Co,^cUenl.
“Mr. Wilmot was engaged in farming in the town of
inrhirfamnvell,benrC?lmty' N' Y- »»«! «S7. whenieav'
Uig liis family, lie first came to Lake County on a nrn<?
ofMa? t0^rr!V,ng at WS ctestination on the 2011®day
of May. Jesse, Ins younger brother, had preceded him
to Lins county in 1S35, and had located in whit is now
the town of Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot visited 1 is brotheT
an traveled over Northern Illinois for several nmUths
ami m November following returned to New York
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the fall o 1840. lie emigrated from that state to Lake
^ tl1 1ils,.famiIy' coming by team to Buffalo where
lli1?nSf%r?d tie teams t0 a steamboat and took pas9,UCagi)\ ArrivinS at that port they drove to
Deerfield, their future home. In February 1S41 lie nnr
chafed one hundred and sixty acres of wild land to •
which he afterwards added until he now has two hun
dred and forty acres. His farm is largely prairie and
}l.S1,iUa ed f0?4»?ect1011 32, where he has made his home
mia? ® Past fifty-°ne years. It is considered one of the
most valuable farms in Deerfield, and the owner is one
o. the most successful and leading agriculturists of
Lake County. In political sentiment he fs an earnest RepubhcEui. In early life he was an anti-slavery Whig and
inof i”1 fu J accord with the original Abolitionists.^ He
ion1 l!8v!te at the, l)residential election of 1840 by reason of lug removal to the West that year. When the
ShAUfb 1ian pai!ty.was organized he was one of those
who took part in its formation in Northern Illinois He
has never been a seeker for public office and his served
firof In minor i?cal Positions. He was Moderator at the
first town meeting held in Deerfield, and has served as
Assessor for that town. During the draft he accepted
£wnVehy l^T\lar P°sition of enrolling officer for liis
threatene(LhlCh ^ made enemies and even had his life
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are well preserved and enjoy, as they deserve7 the
high regard of all who know them. They have reared
aIai*f family of children, of whom nine are living and
rll,eS fUSelUl fnd Jesp.ected members of society.’’
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s°hool and Wilmot road were named for
Lyman Wilmot who was a leader in and exampl? to the
fleldn}unity* . ^ls ?ame should ever be honored in Deerfield by retaining it on school and road. No such fancy
S^mngless name as Sunset Lane should replace Wilmot
foad. Lyman Wilmot, born July 22, 1806, died Nov 12
181?' ,1^‘n 4lte-’i Ci'nriS.So Dwight Wilmot, born June if*
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Uie observance of the centennial under present than
under normal conditions. We must have knowledge of
the thrilling story of service, of high and lol'ty accom
plishment of the pioneer citizens of Illinois. They chal
lenge us to measure up to the responsibilities of our
forefathers. The torch guiding all liberty loving people
today is Abraham Lincoln. Of all the men the world
has produced he is the exemplification of democracy.
But the luster of his. life should not dim that of other
great lives, such as George Rogers Clark, U. S. Grant,
Nathaniel Pope and Shadrack Bond. An opportunity
will be given to revive the spirit of Illinois so that it
will be felt all over the state, working with war activities.
“Not without thy wondrous story, Illinois,
Can be writ the nation’s glory.”
The Lake County Register Correspondent reported:
The entire intellectual portion of the community Hocked
to the school Thursday evening to hear a big man talk
on a big subject at the P. T. A. meeting. Wallace Rice,
composer of several ballads and a number of pageants
for the Illinois centennial celebration, as well as designer
of the centennial banner, gave an interesting talk on
the wonderful history of the State of Illinois, which
challenges that of any of the other states in the Union.
A group of pupils of the upper grades, under the direc
tion of Miss Lela Glyncli, sang patriotic songs. The girls
of the penny lunch committee reported a profit of over
$9, which sum will be used to buy a service flag for
the school. Mrs. Supple appointed the committee.
Such stories as the following were written by the
pupils and combined in a book that contains photographs
of log cabins and schools and is in the Deerfield school.
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Deerfield was so named after the numerous deer that
roamed in this locality, which was the highest place
between the Des Plaines river and Lake Michigan.
The early roads were located in about the same places
as they are now, with the exception of one which for
merly extended from Mr. Reay’s residence to Mr. Lidgerwood’s residence. These roads were very narrow and
crooked.
The bridges were built in an entirely different manner
than they are at present, the foundation being made
by laying saplings over a pile of brush. They were
commonly called “corduroy bridges” because of their
striking resemblance to that kind of material. The peo
ple traveled by land, in what were called “prairie
schooners” or by water in large “flat boats.” The nouses
were crudely built, many of them being log cabins, but
they served their purpose very well.
As early as 183 C almost all of the Indians had gone
to reservations, although a few of them still remained.
Some would travel in this vicinity often begging, and
others from northern Wisconsin would come to receive
payments on the land they had sold to the white settlers.
Many relics such as arrow heads and hatchets have been
found by some of our local citizens.
Our school district No. 109 was organized in IS60.
The first school was situated opposite Mr. Bert Easton’s
farm* it was very Crudely built of rough boards. The
first town school was built on Anderson’s corner. Con
veniences such as we have new were then unknown.
The furniture and other articles of these small schools
was very poor. The building that stood on the corner
was moved in 1903 to its present site; this school burned
down and a new one was erected in 1913.
In 1S60 a runaway slave, called “Andrew Jackson.”
came through Deerfield, where he stayed with Mr. Lorenz
nH. who lived where Mr. Orman Rockenbach now lives.
Tat'er he lived with Mr. Lyman Wilmot until the Civil
War was over. He had many hardships to endure while
hP was with cruel masters, but later he was taught to
rpad and write, and in return he showed the white
- npnnle how to tie com with a stalk of corn and many
other methods of farming. This is one incident of the
onii slavery activities.
n,ir service flag contains forty-five stars representing
J: nf our best young men who are willing to fight
' S°me
are proud of the fact that Deerfor our rountry We
many to this service. Not only are
fie!d k*;’ given billing to fight, but those who must stay
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Written for Deerfield school in 1918 at Illinois Centennlal celebration Material was secured from Lillian’s
grandfather,
merchant.
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Deerfield
TELEPHONE SERVICE
The first telephone call that went out of Deerfield was
made by Dr. T. L. Knaak from his drug store on Deer
field Road to his son, Theodore J. Knaak, who was in
Weinberger’s Drug Store on Chicago Avenue and Wells
Street in 189S. This
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was the first public or private telephone in the village.
Ten subscribers were necessary for the installation of
service.
The Chicago Telephone Company brought its lines into
Deerfield in January, 1903. The first office was in
Knaak’s old drug store on Deerfield Road. In 1911 it
was moved upstairs. Different members of that family
assisted in the service. Among others who were em
ployed were Ralph Peterson, Anna Petersen, Ella and
Ralph I-Iorenberger, Cora Cooksey, Nina Knigge, Ray
mond Goodman, Gertrude Gastfield, Martha Hagi, Peter
Perry Florence Goodman, Amelia Petersen, Helen
Schinleber.
In 1913 the exchange was moved to the Antes building
at the' corner of Deerfield and Waukegan Roads, and a
Mr. Smith had the exchange.
Raymond Goodman served as a night operator.
In 1914, Mrs. Frances Garrity took charge of the Deerfield exchange, and when one board was all that was
necessary for the needs of the village, with one operator,
a service second to no other was maintained.
So faithful was she in the discharge of her duties, and
so remarkable was her memory of calls made, that if an
attempt had been made by a subscirber to get a desired
party, and was unsuccessful, because of the absence of
the one called, that when the caller indicated her return
home by telephoning someone, Mrs. Garriety would say,
"Mrs. —-------- has been trying to get you,” and thus
complete the call hours afterwards.
The winter of 1917, when the snow was so deep that
not a wheel turned on the roads for three days, and it
was necessary to close the school because of the difficulty
to get children from the outskirts of the district to
school, the president of the school board called up each
family that had a telephone, on three successive evenings,
to announce that no school could be held because two
or the teachers had been unable to return from Wau• conda, and Mrs. Garrity on her own initiative, called
each family that had children in school, without waiting
for numbers to be requested, as each call was com
pleted, thus each family was notified without delay.
Many other such instances could be related of her
quick wit and keen sympathy in times of disasters and
accidents, when help was needed, in securing aid of
different kinds. Mrs. Garrity is still giving the same
amount of time to the service and has had as her main
assistants on the board her mother, Mrs. Anna Curley
Flood, and her daughter, Miss Marjorie Garrity. No
eight-hour day was observed by Mrs. Garrity. Her duties
frequently kept her at the board for twelve hours.
In 192 4 a second board was put in operation and a
regular assistant was hired.
In 19 27 a fourth switch board was installed in order
to take care of the increasing population. There are
now 4 80 subscribers.
Federal Tax Off Telephone Calls Removed After MidNight-, July 2, 1924, and An Increased Use
of Wires Expected.
“After midnight on Wednesday, July 2nd, and toll
on long distance telephone messages are free from the
federal tax, which has been in effect since April 1, 1919,”
states Commercial Manager Judd this morning, in an
announcement issued July 1.
“This tax of 5 cents on each message of from 15 to
50 cents, and 10 cents on each message of over 50 cents,
added materially to the cost of telephoning, especially
on toll messages over moderate distances,” said Manager
Judd, “and its removal will permit more liberal use of
the service without adding to the cost.”
Mr. Judd stated that the telephone company, anticipat
ing an increased use of the toll service, particularly
to nearby points, has provided additional equipment and
personnel to meet the demand.
Direct Telephone Wire to Deerfield—Express Method
Installed and Is Great- Convenience—How
To Call.
To quicken the telephone service between Highland
Park and Deerfield the telephone company recently in-
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Abolitionism
Adelia H. Wilmot Gutzler
Adelia Wilmot
Agriculturalist
American Civil War
American Civil War Battle of Old Lake Louisiana
American Civil War Sherman's March to the Sea
American Civil War Union Army Enrolling Officer
American Legion Deerfield Post 738
Amos Wilmot
Anderson's Corner
Andrew Jackson
Antes' Corner
Anti-Slavery Activities
Asahel Wilmot
Bert Easton
Betsy Clauson Wilmot
Betsy Crawford Wilmot
Broome County New York
Buffalo New York
Canada
Carroll County Missouri
Chicago Illinois
Christian Antes
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Clifford Huffmaster
Colesville New York
Colorado State House of Representatives
Colorado State Legislature
Connecticut
Dedham Massachusetts
Deerfield Assessor
Deerfield Grammar School
Deerfield Grammar School Principal
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield School District #109
Deerfield Town Hall Meetings
Deerfield Township
Deerfield Underground Railroad Activities
Deerfield World War I Service Flag
Delta County Colorado
Denver Colorado
Des Plaines River
Dwight Porter Wilmot
Edwin Kittell
Elizabeth Luther Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell
Evergreen Colorado
Farm Hand
First Presbyterian Church
Glenview Press
Greenwood New York
Hannah Bunnel Wilmot
Harriet Wilmot
Highland Park Illinois
Hiram R. Bennett
History of Deerfield
Hodgkiss Colorado
Humeston Iowa
Illinois Centennial Celebration
Illinois Republican Party
Israel Dwight
Jesse Wilmot
John Dwight
Lake County Illinois
Lake Michigan
Levi Davis Wilmot
Lillian Antes
Lizzie Scholes Wilmot
Loly Wilmot
Lorenz Ott
Lyman H. Wilmot
Lyman Wilmot
Marie Ward Reichelt
Mary Wilmot Bennett
Miranda C. Adams Wilmot
Mississippi
Native American Reservations
Native Americans
New York
Northern Illinois
Ohio River
Old Lake Louisiana
Olive Smith Wilmot
Orman Rockenbach
Philip Gutzler
Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County
Prospecting Tour
Republican Party
Roswell O. Wilmot
Ruth Reichelt Pettie
Samuel Ott
Sarah A. Hodgkins Wilmot
Sarah Esther Hunter Wilmot
Sarah Porter Dwight
South Chicago Illinois
Springfield Illinois
St. Paul Minnesota
Steamboat
Stephen B. Wilmot
Steuben County New York
Union Army
Union Army Fifty-Fifth Illinois Regiment
Union Army Forty-Seventh Illinois Infantry
Virgil Wilmot
Walter Kittell
Warren Henry Wilmot
Whig Party
William T. Sherman
Wilmot Farm
Wilmot Road
Wilmot School
Windsor New York
Wisconsin
World War I
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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.
From another source it is learned that die slave, Andrew Jackson's
escape was planned because he had been sold. "My kind master found it
necessary to sell me. None of the slaves were given any education as our
masters thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a friend told
me tliat the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and that as one goes
further south it gets warmer, and going north it gets colder. With this
information only, l decided to run away. I was soon captured for my
master had discovered my absence soon after 1 left, and had sent blood
hounds after me. When taking me back to the plantation my captor tied
my arms with a rope, which was fastened to the horse, and made me
walk in front of him, while he rode. I loosened the rope and walked
along as if I were not trying to escape. Soon 1 noticed that mv master was
sleeping, so J dropped the rope, and jumped into the woods. Most of the
time I hid during the day, and often pursuers were so close to my hiding
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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.)
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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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the manner of New England Puritan preachers of old, something the
more moderate Lake Forest founders—concerned at the prospect of dis
ruptive social upheaval—tended to avoid. Indeed, the Lake Foresters'
moderate position on slavery against it in Cite western territories where
they wanted to expand Chicago business interests, but willing to wait for
it to die out in the south may have contributed to their seeking such an
enclosed, maze-like street plan with entry to the town confined for all
practical purposes to the streets around the depot. Several dues suggest
that African-Americans and perhaps fugitive slaves were on hand here in
the late 1850s and early 1860s—before Emancipation. Covertly too.
Sylvester Lind and the Lake Forest founders took risks—Danforth reports
Lind himself traveled down the lakes with Underground Railroad "pas
sengers” to cue them when, literally, the "the coast was clear" -and
worked hard, short of John Brown- like revolutionary acts, to gain free
dom for African-Americans and to work toward the election of Lincoln
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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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through the rest of the nineteenth century.
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LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STOPS
T?>w «?re among the t.ake County sites bciieveil
to have played a role in the Underground
Railroad.
Distances Between Underground Railroad Stops
Ivanhoe Congressional Church
Rt. 176, West of Routes 60/83
Ivanhoe, Illinois
Ivanhoe Congregational Church to Bonner Farm
12.3 miles
Bonner Farm to Millbum Congregational Church
2.0 miles
Millbum Congregational Church to James Cory House
James Cory House to Mother Rudd Horae
Millbum Congregational Church
Grass lake Road & Route 4S
Millbum. Illinois
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What is the Underground Railroad?
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Before 1863, the Underground Railroad was a system of cooperation among African American slaves, free Blacks, abolitionists,
sympaUietic Whites, and Native Americans to help slaves escape Uieir bonds and claim the promise of freedom. According to a
recent study by the National Park Service, "...Uiis informal system arose as a loosely constructed network of escape routes Uiat
originated in the South, intertwined throughout the North, but also extended into western territories, Mexico, and the Caribbean."
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Did people use quilts to help slaves escape?
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amount of skepticism in the scholarly community. It may be Uiat as additional new data accrues (Uirough research such as your
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memories. Another good source is the church records from Uie denomination where your ancestors worshiped — often
abolitionists were fervent churchgoers. We also cncougage you to contact other researchers doing work in your part of the state.
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How can I verify that a house is an Underground Railroad site?
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process involves the use of written sources with strong or circumstantial evidence. The research process also requires carefiil
analysis of local oral traditions. The National Park Service is currently compiling an inventory of every structure associated with
Uie Underground Railroad. Once you have established at least two different kinds of evidence, you should contact the Park
Service by calling Uie head of Uic Network to Freedom program, Diane Miller, at 402.221.3749.
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•■the fire chief or chief of police and that all firemen be
jputized as police officers in time of fire.
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'The increasing demand for suburban property .near
hicago, especially along the north shore are factors in
■inging about added interest to the "North Shore West"
rea. The completion of the new Union Station was ex
acted to bring better train service on theXJhicago, Milaukee and St. Paul Railway.
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The proximity of Deerfield to Highland Park and Lake
orest, and to Ravinia with its gran'd opera in the sumer is greatly in favor of the development of a high
•ade community. For the wtimen the easy access to
Highland Park Woman’e^Club, with its excellent culiral programs, to the North Shore Chapter Daughters of
,e American Revolution (for those who are eligible)
ith its fine patriots and educational work, adds to
eerfield's desirability as a residence place.
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DEERFIELD ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
The Deerfield Athletic Association, of which Jack
!yers 'is the patron and sponsor, is composed of young
en of ^the Village who are champion baseball anty footall players
none
The Deerfield-Shields High School is second
nong suburban high schools. The Deerfield Gfammar
;hool is far superior to what it was ten years ago.. The
imerous\golf clubs in the vicinity, such as JBriergate,
leu Acres, Skokie, Ridge, Old Elm, Exmoor, Onwentsia,
ernon Ridge, Breakers Beach, Lake Shore, Bob O’ Link,
inset Ridge, Knollwood, Illinois, Mission Ridge, Sunset
alley, Norlhmoor, Illinois, Columbian, Hunters’, and Big
sn Country Club, leave beautiful open spaces that premt congestion.
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There are\ four churches, one Catholic, and three
rotestant in\ Deerfield and a public library.
The shopping facilities are good for a village. Two
:y goods stores, Schells’ and Olendorf’fi; three grocery
ores and markets, R. A. Nelson’s, Henry Gastfield’s, Sol
lapiro’s; a butcher shop, of Wrn. St/inhaus; the Kay
jauty shop, anti the Deerfield beauty/parlor; three barjr shops, Matt Hoffman’s, Chris Siffeyt’s and Sc.avuzzoM;
iree restaurants\ Bertolini and Lencioni’s, the Bluebird,
id the Barbecue; two confectionery stores, the Brier
weet Shoppe anal the Bluebird; two drug stores, T. J.
.naak’s and Laegter and Hout’s;/ Coleman’s Variety
;ore; an A. and R store; fruit Store; two tailors and
eaners, Vincent Silveri and North Shore Cleaners; the
eerfield Bakery; tv^o plumbing/and heating establishents, William H. BaVrott’s and ilton Frantz; two elec•ic shops, William Seiler’s, and/William Desmond’s; one
irdware store, that of Jack Nbtz; one furnace and tin
iop, John J. M^MahonTs; two garages, Knaak’s and Pete
ihrend’s; four real estate and insurance offices, Charles
apschull’s, Frank Russo's, Foxworthy’s, and Vant and
ilig’s- one delicatessen \and confectionery of Edward
leimehl; three nurseries,/ICottrasch Bros., Franken
ros and F D. Clavey; tw«/ lumber and coal companies,
le Deerfield Lumber Com ny, The Mercer Lumber Co.
id the Lake County Coa ind Material Company;
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aco oil station; the StafidaVd Oil Company plant; the
eerfield Interior Finish/ComWny; The Deerfield State
auk- The Deerfield Chevrolet Sales Company; The Busrt Construction Comphny (vfeter mains and sewers);
he Kapschul Davis CdnstructiW Company (roads and
iving); The Perry Keast Battery Shop; a number of
winters and decorators, Ross Sherman, McGarvie, Wilani Kreh, Builders,/Ed. Segert, John Huhn, R E and
G Pettis A J. Johnson, Alex Taylor, Cashmore, Thilo
oil Frank Jacobs/ C. B. FoxwoAhy W. Ai ken; two
ell drillers, Linco/n Pettis, and Al*n Meyer; two bnckirds the Illinois and the National; Hiree piano teachers,
ranees Biederstadt, Mrs. C. G. PeTtis. Bertha Weiss;
ehr? Music Shop, for radios a\d piano tuning;
naak’s Music Itore,''for pianos, radSs and victrolas;
naaK s music p
The Herman Frost Newspaper
he Hotel Deerfield-;
agency, that
gency and po/l room; one sewing machine
Stryker
f A. H. Muhljfe; two sewer% .oward
painter;' Ira
ad George Burnet ^ Arc
Fr0st, concrete blocks;
ole, cement contractor,....
station; iT\ Hole’s Deerlvin KnaaS’s Dee
Pastoret Construction Com
eld Paving 9ompra07tractors are George Pettis, Fred
any.
Teaming coiitrac^^ Huehl; a shoe repairing
elig, Chester Wolf,
Deerfield bakery; a mimeo■ore (Azjld Tamelen) aR“eetw0 band leaders, H. E.
raphing /plant (Call l 0J*£moIlg the dairy companies
hich have se.^ce in Deerfield are the Bowman, Hoh-
felder, Clover Leaf, Santi. WHT, the radio broadcasting
station, is in Deerfield.
The Lake County Register of June 18, 1927, liad the
following item:
BOARD WILL REDISTRICT TOWNSHIP
West Deerfield to Get New Precinct at Supervisors Meet
According to Schedule—Action on
Waukegan Delayed
Action was to be taken Thursday afternoon at the
board of supervisors’ meeting redistricting the Town of
West Deerfield, one new polling place to be added.
The resolution expected to be passed provides for
dividing the Town of West Deerfield as follows:
District 1—All that part of West Deerfield lying south
of the Half Day Road and the Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad tracks.
District 2—All that part of West Deerfield lying south
of the Half Day Road and west of the railroad tracks.
District 3—All that part of West Deerfield lying north
of the Half Day Road.
“UNDERGROUND RAILROAD” ACTIVITIES
The first real information of Andrew Jackson, the run
away slave, Samuel Ott imparts to this generation. In the
winter of 1858 a mulatto, about 28 years of age, came to the
home of Lvman Wilmot. the Abolitionist, at night, via the
“Underground Railway,” from Mississippi. The lake was
frozen, so the blackman could not be sent across to Canada,
therefore he had been taken to Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot
brought the slave to the Lorenz Ott home to do the chores,
so that the children could go to school.
Keeping a runaway slave was against the law, but the
Abolitionists felt that they were in the right by disobeying
an unjust law. Andrew Jackson's father was a white man, ■
and he worked oh his father’s plantation where he saw his
white sisters. The plantation owner was more lenient to
his son than to his other slaves, and Andrew learned more
than his companions, therefore the desire to be free so
overcame the lad that it led him to attempt to escape, but
bloodhounds tracked him, and he was brought back. In
his second attempt at freedom he was successful, and. he
crossed the Ohio River, where he was sent on his journey
north.
The man was a good worker, kept the horses clean (he
had been a yardman on the plantation) and “made a nice
gate of stout wood” which he said would last till the slaves
were freed. When that occurred he requested Mr. Ott to
destroy the gate, which sentimental resque3t was not heeded
by the thrifty farmer. When spring came, and the roads
were muddy, Andrew Jackson prepared to leave. Lorenz
Ott made him a new suit, and gave him money for boat
fare, and Lyman Wilmot took him to Chicago, where he
escaped to Caimdal After reaching the slaves’ haven, An
drew wrote"to ills benefactors who had taught him to read
and write, ofliis safe arrival, and that was the last that
they ever heard of him. Samuel Ott was fourteen years of
age at the time, and he recalls much that the negro did
r\ while here.
\ From another source it is learned that the slave, An* drew Jackson’s escape was planned because he had been
sold. “My kind master found it necessary to sell me. None
of the slaves were given any education as our masters
thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a. friend
told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
and that as one goes further south it gets warmer, and
going north it gets colder. With this information only, I
decided to run away. I was soon captured for my master
had discovered my absence soon after I left, and had sent
bloodhounds after me. When taking me back to the planta' tion my captor tied my arms with a rope, which was
fastened to the horse, and made me walk in front of him,
while he rode.. I loosened the rope and walked along as if
I were not trying to escape. Soon I noticed that my master
was sleeping, so I dropped the rope, and jumped into the
woods. Most of the time I hid during the day, and often
my pursuers were, so close to my hiding place that I could
hear my master giving directions to them.
“Several times I was without food for a number of days.
Many times I ate raw corn taken from a field when I passed
through it. One. time I fell in a barrel when I was looking
for food, and even though I hurt my hip severely, I man
aged to limp back into the woods. One day I came to a
hut and asked a girl, who was alone, for some bread, which
I could see was freshly baked. The child refused to give
it to me so I grabbed a few loaves and ran, and when
safely hidden, ate them. These are but a few of my hard-
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ships, but I am glad to be with friends now.”
A group of Abolitionists lived in Highland Park, and
would often come to Deerfield if they knew that the farm
ers were bringing their crops to town. Often many hotdebates took place on what is now known as Antes’ Corner.
A great many negroes passed through Deerfield, but no
body remembers a direct route which they used when they
traveled through this part of the country, according to the
little history of Deerfield prepared by the pupils in the
grammar school in 1918, under the direction of Clifford
Huffmaster, the World War invalid principal.
PIONEER LIFE
C. A;. Partridge in his History of ,Lake County says:
"True history records the trials and the triumphs, the
failures and the successes of the men who make history.
The impulsive power which shapes/ the course of com
munities ipay be .found in the molding influences which
• form its citizens. The list of those to whose lot it falls
to play a conspicuous part in the great drama of life is
comparatively short; yet communities are made up of in
dividuals and the aggregate of achievements, no less than
the sum total of human happiness, is made up of the
deeds of those men and wom^n whose primary aim
through life is faithfully to perform the duty that comes
nearest to hand. Individual influence upon human affairs
will be considered potent or significant according to the
standpoint from which it is viewed.”
In the record of each man and family may be traced
some feature which influenced/or has been stamped upon
the community life, and these sketches show the strug
gles, the labor, and the successes, or the failures, that
engrossed their lives.
“A few yet remain whosi years have passed the al
lotted three score\ years and ten, who love to recount
among the cherished memories of their lives their remi
niscences of early days in I/ake County."
Clergymen, physicians, educators, home makers, farm
ers, lawyers, leave their influence upon the community
development in a way that fit is difficult to estimate.
Their faith, energy,\courage, self-sacrifice and devotion
attest the results which they have achieved in Deerfield
township.
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Judge V. V. Barnes, y former Deerfield man, attorney
and counsellor at law in Zion City, said:
“Few things are as\/interesting as the annals of
states and communities yand the time will come when
whatever may be writtenAor preserved will be considered
as all too meager. From such events and records the
historian weaves his mpst edifying and absorbing tale.
Already Lake County has uurnished many events of in
tense and peculiar interest and men and women have
been permitted to lap^e into silence whose knowledge
and words should have /beenWeserved for those to come.
In fact, Lake County /has been and is still rich in the
possession of characters and 'events of untold value and
in so far as possible vfe should take heed to preserve so
rich a heritage. It strikes me it would be well to con
sider this subject deliberately With a view to preserve
for others the things/so closely Xassociated with the lives
and welfare of the people."
\
Martin C. Decked, a former \Deerfield teacher who
wrote the history of/Fremont Township for Dr. Halsey’s
history, said: "The/history of a community is to a large
extent embodied in the lives of its great men. There are
a few history making changes that are due to natural
causes, most of them being if not entirely at least greatly
influenced by human agency."
\
Of the pioneer mother little is known except tradition,
but that she bore /and reared children under incredible
conditions and hardships, that she was a1,homemaker
and housekeeper /with no labor saving devices, and few
conveniences, anti/ that every step in garment making and
food production was her job, is well known. Large fami
lies were common before the days of Margaret Sanger’s
doctrine, and tile ingenuity of the mother kept them
clothed and fed in spite of drouth, flood, army worm, and
hail that destroyed their crops. CornmeaI\mush was the
daily diet, Mijk was used for making cottage cheese,
but the cream as reserved for butter making, and this
product so rich in vitamins, (not known before this gen
eration) was 4°Id to buy sugar. One neighbor was
selected to go to Chicago to make purchases for the
entire community. Ox teams were used sometimes, and
at others the packsaddle of a horse was utilized. It is
told that the first James Duffy walked to Chicago to buy
a bag of flour and carried it home on his back. Buck-
HISTORY OF DEERFIELD W
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wheat cakes with sorghum were a luxury, and ,quail
rairie chickens, and partridges were had so often thaf
they were not the luxury that they are to this generation
A cheese similar to Limburger was made by the /German*
by forming cottage cheese into little balls, placing them
in\a crock and allowing them to ripen. The7fluid tha!
formed around the balls was poured off frequently anti
thexcheese washed with fresh milk. Fisly; principally
suckers 1% feet long were in all of the streams. Water
for household purposes was dipped out of/the ponds on
the land with buckets. Flies and mosquitoes tormented
the people and spread disease, malaria/ ague, and tvphoid.\ Screens or netting on windows/were unknown'
Wells aug were six feet deep.
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Cand\es made by the women from jnutton tallow and
cotton v^cking dipped, and also made/in molds, were the
lights used. Later a two wick lamp,/without a chimney
in which raccoon and lard, or campjiene oil was burned
made a two candle power light. These lamps were on
metal standards with glass bowls/ The third era was
the kerosene lamp of tin, painted /green, with a polished
tin movable, reflector, which hung on the door frames
Glass hanging lamps with glass Ajrisms or gaily painted
decorations were later parlor luxuries. "Student lamps”
of metal with a tall slender chimney on each side, with
two bowls of\oil and circular/wicks were a great iniprovement for\the sight. A Chicago directory of is CO
advertises lard\oil, lunar oil, kerosene binnacle oil, Mayville coal oil, alcohol, camplidne, and burning fluid.
Clothes were 'made for the men by the women of the
family after they had been but by the tailor, Lawrence
Ott. In this vicinity the cloth was not woven for the
men’s suits but was bought in Chicago, and sewed by
hand with a very\heavy black thread. The women did
the sewing after the children were in bed. The spinning
wheels which the German/and Alsatian settlers brought
from Germany and\Alsac,4
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, were used to make the yarn
for stockings, mittehs, afid large scarfs which took the
place of overcoats. Mr. George Rockenbach has one that
his mother knitted. \
Alter the log hous^/era frame houses were erected.
These were very simple structures, built on the ground
without cellars under/\hem, but with board instead of
dirt floors. A few ha
getable cellars. The first frame
house at the west end of the township that was at all
pretentious was the/one\ built by Christian Schwingel,
now owned by Mr. Kellogg, of the Kellogg Switchboard
Company, known as the Grove Farm, and occupied by
E. L. Vinyard. It/had a p'antry, a cistern, and a pump
on the porch, which was the height of luxury. Good
houses began to be built in 1850, and many are still
in use.
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Courtship in me early days\of our township was conducted under difficulties. In a\one room log cabin that
contained the beds of the parents and seven or more
children, the syove and other household furniture, there
was little privacy, so courting \days were short. The
young people/ usually took walks in the woods. The
amusements were few. Sliding oA the ice in winter, attending spelling, writing and singing schools, and among
the young men engaging in feats td show strength such
as lifting parrels of flour, and wrestling were among
their pastimes. Fist fights sometimes decorated their
drab, dull/lives, as when the boys of flhe east and of the
west prairies met in swimming in tha Desplaines River
seventy years ago, and forty years ago when the Everett
gang met the Deerfield one.
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One pioneer said, “When I was young we folk held
our dadcing parties in any house that had three rooms,
and if/there was but one room we moved \he stove and
bed out of doors, brought our fiddler and had our dance.
When it was over we moved the stove and bWl back in
place and returned home in one sleigh loaded with plenty
of straw.”
DEERFIELD FAMILIES/3en eulogy is an interesting study, for when one conskiers how^r
4^pidly one’s ancestors jjvultiply (as well as
one’s descendent-s-i two parents, four grandparents, eight
great-grandparentsgand-^o onf until one finds that at the
time of the discovery o^cfire-r-ica, about fourteen generac, me
tions back,
the av^p
average American^nQw
now living has 16.384
ancestors in a^a-rtfgle
gle ancestral genera
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A good geneology describes the 1historical rootsi of the. raijmy
ily tree, it
gives names, dates, places and family connecTlmi^, nccording to the Eugenical News of April, 1923.
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the observance of the centennial under present than
grandfather, Christian Antes, an early Deerfield
under normal conditions. We must have knowledge xJf
merchant.
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theslhrilling story of service, of high and lofty accom
TELEPHONE
SERVICE
plishment of the pioneer citizens of Illinois. ThejychalThe first telephone call that went out of Deerfield as
lenge Nis to measure up to the responsibilities >of our
made by Dr. T. L. Knaak from his drug store on Deerforefathers. The torch guiding all liberty loving people
fiMd Road to his son, Theodore J. Knaak, who w^s in
today is Abraham Lincoln. Of all the men /lie world
Weinberger's Drug Store on Chicago Avenue and
ells
has produced he is the exemplification of/democracy.
Street in 1898. This was the first public or privatzfe tele
But the luster of his. life should not dim jfcnat of other
phone in the village.
great lives, sue! as George Rogers Clark; U. S. Grant,
Nathaniel Pope ind Shadrack Bond. An opportunity
Teh subscribers were necessary for the installation of
service.
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will be given to rfcvive the spirit of llinois so that it
will be felt all over tlve state, working. ith war activities.
TheOiicago Telephone Company brought its lines into
Deerfield
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. in January,
- - 1903. The first offic was in
“Not without tl\wondrous/Uory, Illinois,
Knaak s\ old drug store on Deerfield Road. I 1911 it
Can be writ the\nation\s glory.”
wa& moved
. upstairs. Different members of that family
The Lake County Regmter/Correspondent reported:
assisted in the service. Among others who were em
The entire intellectual porti<Wof the community docked
ployed we^e Ralph Peterson, Anna Peterse/i, Ella and
to the school Thursday eveniivs to hear a big man talk
Ralph Horenberger, Cora Cooksey, Nina i/nigge, Ray
on a big subject 'at the P./T. ANmeeting. Wallace Rice,
mond Goodman, Gertrude Gastfield, Marthaf Hagi, Peter
composer of several ballaas and \ number of pageants
Jerry F^ence Goodman, Amelia Petersen, Helen
for the Illinois centennial celebratioV as well as designer
Schmleber. \
of the centennial banfter, gave an interesting talk on
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the wonderful history of the State ol Illinois, which
In 1913 the'exchange
was moved to the Antes building
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challenges that of/any of the other statekin the Union.
at the' corner df Deerfield and Waukegaii Roads, and a
Mr. Smith had 'the exchange.
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A group of pupils of the upper grades, under the direc
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tion of Miss Leki Glynch, sang patriotic songs. The girls
Raymond Goodman served as a night/operator.
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of the penny/lunch committee reported a proXt of over
In 1914, Mrs. Prances Garrity took cl/arge of the Deer
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$9, which sum will be used to buy a service\flag for
field exchange, and when one board
the school/ Mrs. Supple appointed the committed*.
necessary for the deeds of the village, Xvith one operator
Such stories as the following were written by\the
a service second to\ no other was maintained.
pupils a/d combined in a book that contains photographs
So faithful was slle in the discharge of her duties, and
of log/cabins and schools and is in the Deerfield school.
so remarkable was her memory of cZlls made, that if an
attempt had been made by a subsetrber to get a desired
DEERFIELD
party, and was unsuccessful, because of the absence of
Deerfield
was
so
named
after
the
numerous
deer
that
Mh: roamed in this locality, which was the highest place
the one called, that when the caller indicated her return
home by telephoning sdmeone, M/s. Garriety would say,
between the Des Plaines river and Lake Michigan.
Mrs-, 7~:— has been\ trying /to get you,” and thus
The early roads were located in about the same places
complete the call hours afterwa/ds.
as they are now, with the exception of one which for- .
The winter of 1917, when tl snow was so deep that
merly extended from Mr. Reay’s residence to Mr. Lidgernot a wheel turned on th roads for three days, and it
wood’s residence. These roads were very narrow and
was necessary to close the school because of the difficulty
crooked.
to get children from the outskirts of the district to
The bridges were built in an entirely different manner
school, the president of the School board called up each
than they are at present, the foundation being made
family that had a telephone,
three successive evenings,
by laying saplings over a pile of. brush. They were
to announce that no school' cbuld be held because two
commonly called “corduroy bridges” because of their
of the teachers had- been /Unable to return from Waustriking resemblance to that kind of material. The peo
conda, and Mrs. Garrity Jon her own initiative, called
ple traveled by land, in what were called “prairie
each family that had children in'school, without waiting
schooners” or by water in large “flat boats.” The nouses
for numbers to be requested, a each call was com
were crudely built, many of them being log cabins, but
pleted, thus each family Was notified without delay.
they served their purpose very well.
Many other such instances could be related of her
As early as IS36 almost all of the Indians had gone
quick wit and keen sympathy in times of disasters and
to reservations, although a few of them still remained.
accidents, when help Was needed, ih securing aid of
Some would travel in this vicinity often begging, and
different kinds. Mrs./Garrity is still\giving the same
others from northern Wisconsin would come to receive
amount of time to the service and has'had as her main
payments on the land they had sold to the white settlers.
assistants on the board her mother. Mrk Anna Curley
Many relics such as arrow heads and hatchets have been
Flood, and her daughter, Miss Marjorid\ Garrity. No
found by some of our local citizens.
eight-hour day was observed by Mrs. Garrity. Her duties
Our school district No. 109 was organized in 1860.
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frequently kept her/at the board for twel\e hours.
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The first school was situated opposite Mr. Bert Easton’s
In 1924 a second/board was put in-operation and a
farm: it was very crudely built of rough boards. The
regular assistant wars hired.
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first town school was built on Anderson’s corner. Con
In 1927 a fourth/switch board was installed, in order
veniences such as we have new were then unknown.
to take care of tl/e increasing population,
ere are
The furniture and other articles of these small schools
now 4 80 subscribers.
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was very poor. The building that stood on the corner
was moved in 1903 to its present site; this school burned
Federal Tax Off /Telephone Calls Removed Afte\ Middown and a new one was erected in 1913.
Night, JuW 2, 1924, and An Increased IIse\
In 1860 a runaway slave, called “Andrew Jackson.” \
/ of Wires Expected.
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came through Deerfield, where he stayed with Mr. Lorenz \
“After midnight on Wednesday, July 2nd, and Coll
Ott. who lived where Mr. Orman Rockenbach now lives. <
on long distance telephone messages are free from the
T.nler he lived with Mr. Lvman Wilmot until the Civil
federal tax, wh/ch has been in effect since April 1, 1919,k
War was over. He had many hardships to endure while
states Commercial Manager Judd this morning, in an
lie was with cruel masters, but later he was taught to
announcement issued July 1.
read and write, and in return' he showed the white
"This taxJot 5 cents on each message of from 15 to
'-people how to tie corn with a stalk of corn and many j
50 cents, ana 10 cents on each message of over 50 cents,
v-. . . other methods of farming. This is one incident of the J
added materially to the cost of telephoning, especially
vr- \ anti-slavery activities.
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on toll messages over moderate distances,” said Manager
r- -'V QUr service flag contains forty-five stars representing
Judd, “and its removal will permit more liberal use of
V ■ • some of our best young men who are willing to fight
the service without adding to the cost.”
for our country. We are proud of the fact that DeerMr. Jiydd stated that the telephone company, anticipat
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field has given so many to this service. Not only are
ing an /increased use of the toll service, particularly
our young men willing to fight, but those who must stay
to nearby points, has provided additional equipment and
at home are doing their part. So Deerfield has grown
personnel to meet the demand.
r*:-- from a few buildings to a large village which is helpDirect/ Telephone Wire to Deerfield—Express Method
^ '• ing Uncle Sam in-the “World. Conflict;”
/ Installed and Is Great Convenience—How
LILLIAN
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Writterr -for Deerfield school in 1918 at Illinois CenTo quicken the telephone service between Highland
. p/Ty: tennial celebration. Material was secured from Lillian’s
Park and Deerfield the telephone company recently inV
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Lyman Wilmot House
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2002
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Fax Cover Sheet (Original)
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Fax Cover Sheet from Cindy Wargo in the Reference Departement of the Deerfield Public Library to the Research and Access Department of the Chicago Historical Society asking for sources to be checked for information about Lyman Wilmot.
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Abolitionism
American Civil War
Anderson's Corner
Andrew Jackson
Antes' Corner
Anti-Slavery Activities
Bayliss
Bert Easton
Black Slave Narratives
Canada
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Historical Society Research and Access Department
Chicago Illinois
Christian Antes
Cindy Wargo
Clifford Huffmaster
Corduroy Bridges
Deerfield Grammar School
Deerfield Grammar School Principal
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield School District #109
Deerfield World War I Service Flag
Des Plaines River
Dorsey
Feldstein
Flat Boats
Highland Park Illinois
History of Deerfield
Illinois Centennial Celebration
John Ott
John Ott Family History
Kentucky
Lake County Illinois
Lake Michigan
Lillian Antes
Local History
Log Cabins
Lorenz Ott
Lyman Wilmot
Marie Ward Reichelt
Mississippi
Mr. Lidgerwood
Mr. Reay
Native American Reservations
Native Americans
Ohio River
Once a Slave
Orman Rockenbach
Past and Present Lake County
Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County
Prairie Schooners
Samuel Ott
Still's Underground Rail Road Records
Syracuse New York
The Underground Railroad in Illinois
The Underground Railroad: Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin
This Land of Lakes and Rivers
Underground Railroad
William Still
Wisconsin
World War I