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LYMAN WILMOT HOUSE
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�LYMAN WILMOT I-JOUSE
601 WilmoL Road
Deerfield, Illinois
The origi^31 pioneer house, probably a cabin, was built ca. 1840, with
additions and revisions over the years. It is, I believe, the oldest
occupied building in Lake County, an opinion confirmed by the Director of
Archives of Lake County Museum, Wauconda, Illinois. The only older
standing structure being a log cabin erected, three years earlier which has
been moved and is a part of a historical village in a Deerfield,park.
At a later date, but still early, a coach house was added to the property
and used for the Wilmots' wagons, carriages, and horses.
The structures still show early detail, especially hand-hewn beams and a
stone'foundation in the house cellar.
A unique feature of the coach house is a tower section which once contained
an inside water tank. And in the house, still to be seen after more than a
hundred years, are the initials scratched in a windowpane of Roswell
Wilmot, one of Lyman Wilmot's sons.
After the deaths of Lyman and Clarissa Wilmot in the 1890s (they are buried
m Deerfield Cemetery), the property passed into the hands of various
members of the family and others to the present day. Although changes have
been made m the.property - to be expected in 155 years - it still retains
integrity as a pioneer home. Much of Wilmot1s original acreage has been
sold off over the years, but the remaining property, the size of three
normal house lots, is very impressive and is unique in the community on a
street bearing the historic Wilmot name.
Lyman Wilmot was.a seventh generation descendant of immigrants from England
who came to America m 1637 and were among the earliest settlers of
Connecticut. He was born in Boone County, New York, in 1806.
In 1834 Lyman's brother Jesse Wilmot journeyed to what is now the Deerfield
another on the western edge of the present village.
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�-2its superintendent and his wife taught. The school bears their name to
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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Please satisfy-my .curiosity: Is It true that the. house at 601 !
Wilmot, Deerfield, was,a station on the Underground Rah- f
. road, the pre-Civil War route by which slaves rumujig away
from the Sou.a v^ispirited to Canada?-^ Deerf{?ld . • ,
Partly .true — partly; because only part of, the hpuse,Va I • jj
small part, was a station. The'rest : of thO : house •^ 'V.'hlch
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the founders of- DeerfieldIppg since has been replacedhy. «•;.
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station: Stopping place, on.Freedom Road,
a new main section, with attached porch; , the garage arid its
attached greenhouse .also have been added;,.One value f of;
the onetime ‘‘station’Viriightbd'tjiat it'string a?: a lessoilte
Deerfleldians’not to be impatient when- they are‘'waitmg''at
the Milwaukee Road station for a commuter traih that Is 5
minutes late. In Wilmot’s day, ^riders” ori the'Underground .
Railrodd;Sometimes had to wait days or evert'1weeks in-his
house’ until’the moment.seemed;favorable to■' hide'-’therii^under a load of hay, in a' wagon, "and move to the next %
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home of the Wilmots, who settled here botween 1839-40." The orig
inal home served as an underground/station for run-away slaves. Ly;; man ;y/ilmpt was one-of the most successful farmers in Lake County.
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visits the original Wilmot home, on Wilmot Road, during a visit to
Deerfield last week. Welcoming him is present owner of the house,
Robert Young. Constructed in the late 1830’s it is one of the oldest
|: homes in Deerfield. Staff photo by Peggy Pollard.
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LEGEND
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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County in 1835. Moses Putney also made a
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claim in the same neighborhood in 183.1, as did
Andrew S. Wells.
Jacob Miller came out from Chicago in 1834
and built a sawmill near the mouth of Mill
Creek, not far from the town line now separating
Warren from Newport; went back to the city
for the winter, and returned to the mill early
in 1835. He also erected a flouring mill, the first
in the county, as far as can be ascertained.
William Green prospected on the east side
of the river, in Libcrtyvillc, in 1834, but did
not permanently locate there until 1837.
Jesse Wilmot built a home in Deerfield in
1834, and) “bached" it for a year. Lyman, his
brother, spent the summer with him, then re
turning cast, where he remained until 1840, after
which, until his death,_ he resided in this county.
Joseph Flint located a claim in Cuba town
ship, probably in 1834, which was occupied by
his bachelor son, Amos Flint, who died in 1837
or 1838. The log house, whioh was jointly oc
cupied by an aunt, Mrs. Grace Flint, and V. H.
Freeman and family, burned during their first
winter,' leaving them in a pitiable condition.
Timber was plenty, however, and but little time
elapsed before a temporary shelter replaced the
burned structure. Flint Creek, in Cuba, still
bears the name of the pioneer of .that township.
Joseph Flint is understood to have returned cast
immediacy after locating the claim. Thomas
Ballard, who came to Vernon in 1835, also lost
a house by fire, but before his family or furniture
had been moved in.
It is probably true that Captain Wright’s was
the only family to spend the entire winter of
1834-5 in Lake County, although it is claimed
by William E. Sundcrlin that his uncle, Pclcg
Sunderhn, and family spent that season in their
log home tin the York House neighborhood north
west of Waukegan.
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claims taken up were almost entirely along the
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Dcs Plaines River. The early settlers signed
agreements that when the land was surveyed and
sold they would deed to each other any that
might be within the lines staked out as "claims."
These agreements were usually carried out, al
though some litigation resulted,
The river
claims were quickly taken and those bordering
the lakes or small streams, especially when it
happened that there was a grove located near,
were usually the next ones to be secured. Those
living along the river suffered most with chills
and fever—those banes of pioneer life— and the .
prairie settlers found some compensation for
being compelled to at once dig wells because of
at least partial exemption from the ague. The
agreements to deed back and forth any land
embraced in a claim, regardless of section lines,
accounts for the irregular shape of many farms
in various parts of the county, and explains the
long, narrow subdivisions so common along the
Des Plaines.
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It is not easy at this late day to make a
complete and accurate list of all who came in
1835. to separate them from those who came
a year or two later, or to state just the locali
ties where they settled. A few remained but
a short time, although a majority made this
their permanent home. The following list prob
ably embraces most of those who came in 1835:
In Vernon there were James Chambers, Clark
Knights, Alonzo Cook, Moody Rowd, Henry
Walton. Jonathan Rice. William Easton. B. F.
Washburn. J. M. Washburn*, Mathias Mason.
Asahcl Talcott, Roswell Rose, Andrew S. Wells,
Henry Wells, William Whigam. John Gridlcy
and his sons. Elisha. George and John T. Gridley. William Easton and his sons. Robert and
John Easton. John A. Mills. Erastus Bailey,
Matthew Hoffman and Moses Putney.
In Libcrtyvillc there were Richard Steele.
Ransom Steele. Davis C. Steele. Henry B. Steele,
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him to be placed on the retired list by President Lincoln in 1863. For five years
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the City of Mexico by the officers of the army at the close of that war; also a
member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, and other so
cieties. He was the author of "Turnley’s Narrative from Diaries, it u
The Turnleys,” and several other books and many speeches, lectures and poems
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HENRY S. VAIL
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He was married, March 3, 1880, to Miss Jennie C. McCulloch, after making his
home in Highland. Park in 1878. He was one of the organizers of the Law and
Ureter'League.
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WARREN HENRY WILMOT was bom in Deerfield, Lake County, 111.,
October 6, 1855, the son of Lyman and Clarissa (Dwight) Wilmot. He received
is education in the district schools and Northwestern College at Naperville 111
He has been twice married: to Miss Minnie E. Vining in 18S0 and ten ’
later to Miss Eva P. Vant. He has served
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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:
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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- '
h s ml1
llby wedding or the sixtieth anniversary of
vaV m. P
Stopben B- the eldest of the five brothers,
■uni diVrt m rU,aryi,
mrUTied Mlss
Clauson,
years- I niv* m- ' M' 1,S77,1 :l1 1,10 !l80 °r sovonty-nlno
1799 am
?" y dil”elUc''- wns l,0''“ November 2.7.
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.
■7ft /,/ ty D-fc,-yu f,/' ,*)// /
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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'
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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
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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
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woiild bo useful for many things
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nearly stranded by''im^'efforts tT'kn ,nl?"<led and was
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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.
®$*“orly-flvo years ago the third one was built on the souLliber. :®®VC8l corncr of JoIlu Slreicher's land given for the pur^gwjl^Tho Philip Brand family walked from their farm a
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„ DLL iBsSfinllo north of Deerfield to the North field corncr to nlMr.
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harcU-$ KjJroml helped hew Lhe logs for the first church.
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Sfe . Whon more settlers came to West Deerfield township.
(%.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
extraction, who laid out the town, and incorporated it under their Christian names.
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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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During lhal Mrs! year in Lake Counly, his young
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.
Rulh Potlla.
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
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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
(1039) Tull/
(1840) Roderbusch
(1041) Doyle
(1041) McCraror
(1041) Hoyt
(1042) John Jacob Ott
(1042) Philip Brand
(1043) Philip Vetter
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ecsii ability as a residence place.
DEERFIELE) athletic association
yers iaCthf,n«tl^thIcti,c ARSOciation» of which Jack
cn of tho Viii tl°n jUld •sl)0n30l'»
composed of young
‘H Players7
^ who aro chaml»°» baseball and footuong suburbaii"SM?i^S.
School I« second to uono
bool Is far qinJ'i E l»SC ,?<, »8, Tbo Deurfiel<l Grammar
uuerous V-niV ? 1 -L? w iaL il was lon years ago.. The
eiiAc^s [0?,“bB3 the vicinity, such as Briergate,
irnon RldVo
u' ^ 1 hfim, lOxmoor. Oiiwontsla,
JiscL
’ i'nMS ,Ij°f;;oh- r-alco Siioro, Bob O' Link.
iliev Nonhinoo? in?01/ 1,llIn1ois' Mlss,0» ^idgo,,.Sunset
n Coimtrv Pln°i ' ? uo f* Columbian, Hunters', and Big
'it congestion UlL,iyc beautiful open spaces lliat preTiicro aro. four churches,
ono Catholic, and* three
olostanl in Deortiold ami a public library.
ho shopping facilities aro good for a village. Two
goods stores, Schells' and Oloudorf's; three grocery
anfi-a'AV' Nb,w,‘,»- M««ry (!a.in“ld1,. 8,i
mil Jh, ,
l,Cl\cr ?h01’- °r Wm. SLeinluius: tho Kuv
•shoni
1,cic,*,i,J,(l h‘,;MiL.v parlor; tlireu bar2>«ioi)s. Matt Hoffman a. Chris Sifferl's ami Scavu/./.o'.i;
ec restaurants, Bcrtolini and Lcncioni's, the Bluebird,
i “la »*">****: two confectionery stores, the Brier
ect Shoppe and tho Bluebird; two drug si ores, T. J
^!C’o„anAd
aml I[ouL’s; Coleman’s Variety
ic. an A. and 1. store; fruit store; two tailors and
™Svf\ Ylln1C0,lt Silveri ami North Shore Cleaners: the
n/iCTu«n-a iC1;Vr' t1.W0 1.,lun,ljh,kr and heating establishn .s, william H, Us'Toil's and Milton kraut/.; two elecshops, William Seiler’s, and William Desmond’s; one
varo store, thill of .lack Not/.; one riminco ami tin
./ohn .1. McMahon's; two garages, Knaak'n and Bote
rcn<l s; four real cslato and liisurauce oMlccs. Charles
iscliull's, Frank Russo’s, Foxworlhy's, and Vnnt and
gs; one delicatessen and confectionery or FdwarU
tmolil: three nurseries, lvottrascli Bros., Franlcon
s. and F. D. Clavoy; two lumber and coal companies.
Deerfield Lumber Company. Tho Mercer Lumber Co
tlie Lake County Coal and Material Company- tho
0 oil station; tho Standard Oil Company plant; the
rAcid Interior Finish Company; Tho DcorlleliU Slate
k; Tho Deerfield Chevrolet Sales Company; Tlio BuCoiislrucllou Co»‘»mny (water mains and sowors);
Kapscliul Da'-lo Construction Company (roads and
ng); Tho Po-ry Konst Battery Shop: a number of
tors and decorators. Ross Sherman. MeCIarvio. WilKrcli, Builders, Kd. Sogert, John Huhn. It. 10. and
. Bettis, A. I. Johnson, Alex Taylor. Cashmoro. Tliilo
, Frank .labohs. C. B. Foxworthy. W. Altkcu; tivo
drillers. L/neoln Pettis, and Alvin Moyer; two hricks. the Illinois and tho National; Lliroo piano teachers,
ices Bledcrsladt. Mrs. C. C. Bettis, Bertha Weiss;'
•'s Music Shop, for radios and piano tuning;
ik's Music Store, for pianos, radios and victrolas;
Hotel Deerfield; Tlio Herman Frost Newspaper
icy and pool room; ono sowing machlno agency, that
. I-I. MuMko; two sowor contractors, Howard Stryker
Gcovatf Burnett: Arcliio Antes, sign painlor; • Ira
, edan’it contractor; Kurl Frost, concrete blocks;
x -l. He's Deerfield Filling Station; Ira Hole's Dcerl
raised 1 Company; Tho PaxlorcL (.'onstrnelion Com1 and lining contractors aro Ccorgo Botlls, Fred
o mon or Wolf. August Huolil; a shoo ropalrlag
ark con Tnnlnlon): a Deerfield bakery; a millioncage) tint (Call llDlt); two band leaders, H. 10.
known'rank Russo. Among the dairy companies
r in CXisorvIco In Deerfield arc tho Bowman Hoh-
rnim
following Horn:
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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
orVl!«tn^r217A,,,,U,a.t 1>art oC Wcat Doorfieid lyliig south
it SV A. na and west of tho railroad tracks?
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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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escaped
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
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1845 Lyman and Clarissa
Wilmot deeded one quarter acre of land
at the northwest corner (corner of
Wilmot and Deerfield Roads today)
of their farm for .a school,
first Wilmot School
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(a township,
not a village school) opened in
1847 with Rosella Cadwell as the
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land remains vacant for three years.
The first schoolhouse was built by Lyman Wilmot of logs.
It is said that tHe school had to face south so that Mrs. Wilmot
could see the children enter the building.
Does the door that the fourth graders use today face
south?
A second schoolhouse was made of rough boards and had a
dirt floor.
The third building, built in 1858, burnt to the
ground before it could be used.
A fourth structure was built
immediately using the same foundation,
This building still
exists today
1 .as part of a house at 294 Kenmore Avenue.
(It was first moved to the corner of Pine Street and
Deerfield Road and later moved to Kenmore.)
In 1904,
the fifth building was completed,
frame, one-room structure.
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as part of the Schmitt house at 1660 Deerfield Road.
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�LYMAN WILMOT HOUSE
And Why It Will Not Be On The National Register
In the summer of 1994 my wife and I, together with our daughter and her husband, bought
die Lyman Wilmot House at 601 Wilmot Road in Deerfield.
From die beginning I was intrigued with the unique property because of its age and the
historic importance of the Wilmot family, who were very prominent in the early
development of Deerfield.
It was my hope to gain acceptance of the house and coach house on the National Register
of Historic Places. To that end I researched the history of the property and the Wilmot
family. Unfortunately, there was little about the house available except numerous
references to the fact that the original structure—still inside the present house somewheredated from 1840, making it, I believe, the oldest occupied building in Lake County. I
hoped some old photos of die buildings might become available, but none did.
I had much more success in developing information about the Wilmot family. Because of
my interest and experience in genealogy I was able to trace die Wilmot family back seven
generations to the year 1637 when the first Wilmot came to America from England.
I also located and corresponded with a number of Wilmots around the country, several
closely connected to die Deerfield family, who sent me interesting information and
encouraged my National Register quest.
But, alas, it is not to be! I was done in by siding—that and two extensions added to the
house at unknown times in the past. These revisions, it was judged, changed the character
of the structure too much to meet the National Register criteria (despite some early touches
to be seen—a field stone foundation, several hand-hewn beams in the cellar, and the initials
of one of Lyman Wilmot’s sons scratched in on an old window pane over a hundred years
ago). The later siding was the biggest problem. The National Register, it seems, takes a
dim view of modem siding.
One of die criteria taken into account in assessing a property’s qualifications for listing in
the National Register is the historic importance of the occupants. Lyman Wilmot and his
wife were significant in the early development of Deerfield. He was a community leader
and an office holder. They were ardent supporters of the Union and opened their home as
a station on the Underground Railway, harboring escaped slaves. In addition, they
donated the land at Wilmot Road and Deerfield Road for Deerfield’s first school, which
bears their name and where they both served, he as superintendent and she as a teacher.
It was my hope that the historic importance of the Wilmots would be enough to overcome
whatever problems the house presented, and I believe I would have been successful had
not previous owners of the property “modernized” so much.
But in 155 years what else could one reasonable expect?
I have given the Society a copy of the information I developed on the property.
Richard Hart
Riverwoods, Illinois
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Deerfield Public Library
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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
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Carroll County Missouri
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Chagres River
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Charles Levi Gutzler
Chicago Coroner
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Chicago Illinois
Chicago River North Branch
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Christian Jaquet
Christian Lintner
Christian M. Willman
Clarissa Dwight
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Clarissa Wilmot
Clark Knights
Coach House
Colesville New York
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Colorado State Legislature
Confederate Army
Connecticut
Cook County Illinois
Copperheads
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Country Physician
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Cow
Crown Hill Cemetery
Cuba Township Illinois
Dailey
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Davis C. Steele
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Dedham Massachusetts
Deerfield Area Historical Society
Deerfield Argonauts
Deerfield Assessor
Deerfield Centennial Celebration
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Deerfield Historical Map
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Massachusetts
Deerfield Our Athenian Club (OAC)
Deerfield Postmaster
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield School
Deerfield Town Hall Meetings
Deerfield Township
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Deerfield Village Store
DeKalb Illinois
Delta County Colorado
Dennis Lancaster
Denver Colorado
Denver University
Denver University Preparatory Department
Deputy United States Marshall
Des Plaines River
Diphtheria
District Schools
Dorsey
Dose
Doyle
Duffy
Dwight
Dwight Porter Wilmot
E.J. Ginter
Edwin Cadwell
Edwin Kittell
Eggs
Eglon Washington
Electa Hoyt
Electa Hoyt Bennett
Eliab Gifford
Elijah M. Haines
Elisha Gridley
Elizabeth Clark Millen
Elizabeth Gutzler
Elizabeth Gutzler Stryker
Elizabeth Luther
Elizabeth Luther Wilmot
Ella Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell
Elmer E. Miller
Emma Hall
Emmett Post Office
England
Epidemic Diseases
Erastus Bailey
Erin
Erwin B. Messer
Eugene B. Payne
Eva P. Vant Wilmot
Evangelical Association Church
Evangelical Association Church Des Plaines Conference District
Evangelical Association Church of North America
Evangelical Association Churchyard
Evangelical Church
Evanston Illinois
Evergreen Colorado
Fagan
Farm Hand
Father Marquette
First Presbyterian Church
Flatboat
Fleet as a Deer: History of the Deerfield Post Office
Flint Creek
Flour
Flour Prices
Flouring Mill
Fort Sheridan Army Station
Fort Wayne Indiana
France
Frances Willard
Francis McGovern
Frank Herbert Gutzler
Fred Fritsch
Fred H. Meyer
Frederick Muhlke
Frey Farm
Frontiersman
Genealogical Records
Geneva Illinois
George Arnold
George Brand
George Escher
George Gridley
George Henry Gutzler
George Messner
George Murray Skinker
George Stanger
George Stryker
George Truitt
German
German Methodist Church
Gerstheim Alsace Germany
Gersthelm Germany
Glenview Press
Gold
Golden Gate
Golden Wedding Anniversaries
Grace Flint
Graceland Cemetery
Graduate Nurses
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Prairie
Grandchildren
Great Chicago Fire
Greenhouse
Greenwood New York
Gretel Gutzler
Haddassah Clark Millen
Hand-Hewn Beams
Handwritten Notes
Hannah Bunnel Wilmot
Hannah Wilmot
Harriet Emma Gutzler
Harriet Emma Gutzler Miller
Harriet Wilmot
Hastings Subdivision
Hattie Gutzler
Hattie Gutzler Miller
Hay Loft
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Henry B. Steele
Henry County Illinois
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Henry Place
Henry S. Vail
Henry Walton
Henry Wells
Henry Wessling
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Highland Park Illinois
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Hillsdale College
Hillsdale Michigan
Hiram Cadwell
Hiram Kennicott
Hiram R. Bennett
Historical and Statistical Sketches of Lake County
Historical Encylopedia of Illinois and History of Lake County
History of Deerfield
History of Lake County
History of the United Evangelical Church
Hobart J. Millen
Hobart Millen
Hodgkiss Colorado
Holcomb
Hood
Hoopole Grove Illinois
Hooppole Illinois
Horace Lamb
horses
Hoyt
Humeston Iowa
Hunter
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Illinois Republican Party
Iowa
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Israel Dwight
J. Wesley Speelman
J.M. Washburn
Jacob Albright
Jacob C. Antes
Jacob Cadwell
Jacob Himmel
Jacob J. Escher
Jacob Luther
Jacob Miller
Jacob Ott
Jacques Marquette
James Chambers
James Duffy
James H. Fritsch
James Hamilton
James Mooney
James O'Connor
Jane McCartney
Janesville Wisconsin
Jasper Ott
Jennie C. McCulloch
Jennie C. McCulloch Vail
Jennings
Jerusha Rosina Cadwell
Jess Wilmot
Jesse Wilmot
Job Galloway
John A. Mills
John Alderson
John Cochran
John Dwight
John Easton
John Forke
John Gridley
John Halsey
John Hettinger
John J. Welch
John Jacob Escher
John Jacob Ott
John Jacob Ott Jr.
John Jacob Ott Sr.
John King
John Kinzie
John Kinzie Clark
John Matthews
John Millen
John Peterman
John Streicher
John Stryker
John T. Gridley
Joliet Illinois
Jonas Clybourn
Jonathan Kennicott
Jonathan Rice
Joseph Flint
Josephine Woodman
Josephine Woodman Maternity Home
Justice of the Peace
Knights of the Golden Circle
Lake County Board of Supervisors
Lake County Discovery Museum
Lake County Historical Archives
Lake County Illinois
Lake County Museum
Lake County Museum Archives
Lake County Transportation Systems
Lake Forest Illinois
Lake Michigan
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Lambs' Farm
Lancaster
Lancasterville Illinois
Land Buying Business
Land Surveys
Law and Order League
Le Clair Township Illinois
Leadville Colorado
Lebanon County Pennsylvania
Levi Davis Wilmot
Lewis Beecher
Lewis Gastfield
Libertyville Illinois
Life Insurance Business
Linens
Literary Society
Little Alice Mine
Little Jonny Mine
Lizzie Scholes
Lizzie Scholes Wilmot
Log Cabin
Loly Wilmot
Lorenz Ott
Loretta Heman
Louis Gastfield
Loyal Legion
Ludlow
Luther
Lutheran Church
Lydia Gutzler
Lydia Gutzler Himmel
Lyman H. Wilmot
Lyman Willis Gutzler
Lyman Wilmot
Madeson O. Cadwell
Madison Cadwell
Madison O. Cadwell
Magnus Tait
Margaret Elizabeth Hetzel
Margaret Elizabeth Hetzel Gutzler
Marie Ward Reichelt
Martin Luther
Martin Stanger
Mary Elizabeth Gutzler
Mary Elizabeth Gutzler Stryker
Mary Gutzler
Mary Gutzler Jaquet
Mary Louise Stryker
Mary Louise Stryker Gutzler
Mary Tweed
Mary Tweed Gutzler
Mary Wilmot
Mary Wilmot Bennett
Masonic Order A O Fay Lodge No. 676
Maternity Home
Mathias Horenberger
Mathias Mason
Matthew Hoffman
McCrarer
McIntyre
McIntyres and Tullys
Meath Ireland
Meehan
Meehan Settlement
Mexican American War
Mexico
Mexico City Mexico
Michael Dawson
Michael Fagan
Michael Gutzler
Michael Meehan
Michael Mehan
Michael Yore
Michigan
Midwife
Mike Schoelle
Milk
Mill Creek
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Minnie E. Vining Wilmot
Miranda C. Adams
Miranda C. Adams Wilmot
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Missouri
Moderator
Monterey California
Moody Rowd
Mooney
Moses Putney
Mount Vernon Iowa
Mr. Alderson
Mr. Brand
Mr. Gross
Mr. Hess
Mrs. Albert Hagi
Mrs. C.L. Rockenback
Mrs. Critchley
Mrs. Fred Bleimehl
Mrs. Fred H. Meyer
Mrs. Fute
Mrs. Gutzler
Mrs. Lange
Mrs. Lewis Todd
Mrs. Lyman Wilmot
Mrs. P.J. Gutzler
Mrs. Richard Steele
Mrs. Stryker
Mrs. Theodore Taylor
Mrs. Wessling
Mrs. Wilmot
Muhlke
Myrtle Estelle Gutzler
Myrtle Estelle Gutzler Skinker
Nanimoa
Naperville Illinois
National Register of Historic Places
Native Americans
Nelson C. Hall
New Berlin Pennsylvania
New York
Newberry
Newberry Library
Newport Illinois
Newspaper Clippings
Newton Bateman
Nicaragua
Nicholas Miller
Niles Illinois
Nora May Fuller
Nora May Fuller Gutzler
Norfolk New York
North Northfield Cemetery
Northern Illinois
Northern Illinois Republican Party
Northfield Cemetery
Northfield Evangelical Association Church
Northfield Illinois
Northwestern College
Northwestern University
O'Plain Cemetery
O'Plain Church
Ocean Voyages
Offensive Language
Office
Ohio River
Olive Smith
Olive Smith Wilmot
Orman Rockenbach
Otsego Post Office
Ott
Our Athenian Club (OAC)
P. Gutzler
P.J. Gutzler
Panama
Panama Canal
Parmelia Scott Clark
Parsons' Farm
Patrick Carolan
Peggy Pollard
Peleg Sunderlin
Pennsylvania
Pere Marquette
Peter Luther
Philemon Cadwell
Philip Brand
Philip Gutzler
Philip J. Gutzler
Philip Jacob Gutzler
Philip Lehman
Philip Ott
Philip Vedder
Philip Vetter
Physician
Physicians
Pioneers
Placer Mining
Pony Express Rider
Port Clinton Illinois
Porter
Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County
Pottawatomie Native American Tribe
Practical Nurse
Prairie
Prairie Fire
Prairie Settlers
Prairie Wolf
Prairies
Prentiss Hall
Prophets Town Illinois
Protestantism
Public Office
Pyncheon
Rachel Millard
Rachel Millard Wright
Racist Language
Radium Colorado
Railroad
Ranches
Ransom Steele
Ravenswood Chicago Illinois
Raymond A. Nelson
Raymond Gutzler
Reformed Lutheran Church
Republican Party
Rev. Goessle
Rev. Himmel
Rev. Hoeffert
Rev. Hoess
Rev. Laegler
Richard Hart
Richard Hofstadler
Richard Steele
Ripon College
River Claims
Rivers
Riverwoods Illinois
Robert Bennett
Robert Dygert
Robert Easton
Robert Young
Rockenbach
Rockenback
Roderbusch
Rosella Cadwell
Roswell O. Wilmot
Roswell Rose
Rubie Rich Cadwell
Rubie Rosella Cadwell
Ruby Wedding Anniversaries
Rural Free Delivery
Ruth Pettis
Ruth Wright
Ryerson Conservation Area
S.L.
Sacramento California
Salina New York
Salome Gutzler
Samuel Dickover
Samuel Ott
Samuel P. Hutchison
San Francisco California
Santa Cruz California
Sarah A. Gutzler
Sarah A. Gutzler Speelman
Sarah A. Hodgkins
Sarah A. Hodgkins Wilmot
Sarah Esther Hunter
Sarah Esther Hunter Wilmot
Sarah Porter Dwight
Sarah Rapp
Sarah Rapp Gutzler
Sawmill
Schmitt
Scott Saxton College of Elocution
Seattle Washington
Shawnee Native American Tribe
Sheldon Sullens
Shields Township Illinois
Shop
Silas Brand
Silks
Singing Schools
Skokie Marsh
Sons of the American Revolution
South Chicago Illinois
South Dakota
Spelling Bees
Springfield Illinois
St. Johns Illinois
St. Mary's of the Woods Cemetery
St. Patrick's Cemetery
St. Paul Minnesota
Stanger Grove Illinois
Stanger Tavern
Steamboat
Stephen B. Wilmot
Sterling Illinois
Steuben County New York
Steward
Stewart
Stock Business
Stone Foundation
Sugar
Sun Porch
Sundhausen Alsace Germany
Survey Plat
Taxes
Temperance Advocate
Texas
The American Republic
The Turnleys
Thomas Ballard
Thomas Mooney
Timberland
Town Meeting Moderator
Trader's National Bank
Trustee of Schools
Tully
Turnley's Narrative from Diaries
Typhoid Fever
Underground Railroad
Union Army 37th Illinois Infantry Company C
Union Army 37th Illinois Infantry Company F
Union Army 38th Wisconsin Infantry Company D
Union Army 45th Illinois Infantry
Union Army 45th Illinois Infantry Company I
Union Army 47th Illinois Infantry
Union Army 51st Illinois Infantry Company G
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Union Army 55th Illinois Regiment
Union Army 65th Illinois Infantry Company F
Union Army Bounty
Union County Pennsylvania
Union League
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United Evangelical Church
United States
United States Army Quartermaster's Department
United States Congress
United States Marshall Service Northern Illinois District
United States of America
Utah
V.H. Freeman
Vedder Farm
Vermont
Vernon Township
Vincent's Grist Mill
Virgil Wilmot
Virginia
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Walter H. Millen
Walter Kittell
Walter Millen
Warren Henry Wilmot
Warren Illinois
Warren Pennsylvania
Water Cure Treatments
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Waterways
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Waukegan Illinois
Wessling
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West Deerfield Township Supervisor
West Deerfield Township Treasurer
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Wheeling Illinois
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William E. Sunderlin
William Easton
William Green
William T. Sherman
William Whigam
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Wilmot Elementary School
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Wilmot School Agreement
Wilmot School Board of Education
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World War I
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Portrait and biographical album of Lake County, Illinois. Containing Hill page ports, and
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biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together
with ports, and biographies of all the Presidents of the United States and Governors^
the State.
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1891.
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Description: 792, [4] p. : illus., ports. ; 28 cm.
Lake County (111.) —Biography.
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Angelina, wife of M fibster CaftUc. of j: ueccsjinry improve menu for successfully engaging
i nrnugton. III.; .lames, our subject, and S. B„
in agricultural pursuits arc there fotnid. Mo is nn
. industrious and busy man. yet gives some of bis
k is ti.arricrl and lives in Aurora. 111.
, A general account of the early life of any farmer | lime to public interests, lie ha? served ns a men.
lad who was reared under the parental roof in a j ber of the School Board, is a stanch Republican in
• jonticr county would not differ material ly from j politics, an ardent advocate of Urn. permwe pviuciihe boyhood of our subject. Ten summers had ! pics, and himself and wife :irc mcin!^ of the
passed over h.s hesd when lie came to Illinois. In i Methodist Cluudi at Gages Uke.
the schools of Ohio, Du Page and Lake Counties j
Seven children have been born unto Mr. and
he acquired his education, and in A8G0, he was j■ Mrs. Taylor, live of whom ate living: Klbcrt. born
joined in wedlock with Miss L'etalia Miltimore, a j .January 29, 18G2, married K'.ln Waugh, and wn«
native of this county, mid a daughter of Aaron
killed by the cars at. Kenosha Crossing. March II,
ami Polly 1 Bridge) M» Hi more, who were born, | 1**4, while serving as telegraph operator. Ills
reared and married in Vermont. Subsequently j widoxv reshles i.. Stevens Point, Wis: lle.it v, who
»ocy became residents of New Vork, whence they | was born January l.V 1X(J I. manied .Miss lRjc
came to this county at an early day. In Avon j Boyce and ruble* on the home farm; Lucy, born
Township they settled in 1639, and opened up a j in 1*C>G, is Die wife of Stephen Voum; ofValley
farm, continuing its cultivation until Mr. Milti- : County. Xeb.. by whom she has one chiM; Abner,
more's death which occurred in 1800. He was a ( horn September Kl. 1*07, Grace, in 1X7:3, and
millwright am! carpenter by trade but abandoned j Frank, in 1882, arc at home. Mr. Taylor has been
that occupation on his arrival in the West. II,s | an eye witness of the greater pan of Lake County’*
wife survived him twenty-eight year* and died in
growth and prosperity, lie has seen the intnnlucAVaukegr.n in 1878. They were parents of nine i lion of railroad* and the l ransformation t»f the
children, hut only two are now living: Lucretia, j wild prairie land into rich and fertile farms, while
n.fool A. Douglas, died in Warren township, in
the cabin homes are replaced by substantial real
December, 1369; Harvey is married and makes his deuces. When he first came here there ty ere no
bum* in Waukegan; Elbert and Alfred, twins, market facilities of any importance in ibecounty,
died at the agg of one year; Caroline, wife of I aud the work of civilization and progress seemed
Curtis Peck, died in Ft. .Scott, Kan., February 12, j hardly begun. He has cheerfully home hi.' xharc
1<S86, aged fifty-two years; Alonzo, who enlisted in j In promoting its iinterests and is a valued citizen
Waukegan in 1864, in the Ninety-sixth Illinois
of Warren Township.
Infantry for the remainder of the service, died i
while on his way to the front to Join his regiment; I
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.Marietta died of typhoid fever nl the age of fifteen
years; Mrs. Taylor is the next younger, and Har
riet, wife of Alvin Gilbert, died in Avon town
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} MAN \\ ll,Ml>l\ Who for Mfty-onc years
ship, in February, 1887.
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has been a resident and lead in*/ farmer of
Mr XR-vlor
fur ** **"'«* 1" '««•». #»<'
L4 the town ..I Deerfield, eh,i,„5 New York »,
was engaged on garrison duty. He also acted as
tin* state of bis nativity Tim place of bta birtli is
nurse in n hospital at Cleveland, Ten... lie was
j„ the town of Colesville. It,-........ County.
the
drafted into the rwelftl. Illinois Infantry, ami as- -late is July 22, ItiUO. liis parent.,- were Jesse ami
signed to Company D. and at the close of the war Hannah (Hunncl) Wiln^t, Mb natives of Con..as honorably •tiuliarg*' July 10. I8Gi. tin his uecticut. His father was bon, AneaH.I. 177.1 an,I
return, he one. more resumed farming i„ Fremont diet! in Colesville. X. V.. Ue.ober I!,. ,«io. Ills
Tow.,si,Ip, subsequently removing to H'.alven wife, horn June I... 177G- ,lie«l In IMS
They
Township. He owns 146 aces of valuable Ian,I were the parents of live sons „„,l one .laughter
furnished with two set. of buildings and all the I The so,., made the remarkable record of having a„
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second of that name, was born December 20, 1836,
Jived to celebrate their golden weddings, while one,
and became the aife of Philip Glitzier July 29,
the subject of this sketch, lifts celebrated liia ruby
18.r>7. lie is numbered among the early settlers of
wedding or the sixtieth anniversary of bis mar
Deerfield Township and is now deceased. His
riage. .Stephen B.. the eldest of the five brothers,
widow resides in Denver, Col. Levi Davis, born
was born February 20, 179$, married Mis? Betsy
Clauson, and died March 14, 1 b77. at the oge Of January 1, 1839, married Sarah A. Hodgkins and
seventy.nine years; Loly, the only daughter, was | resides at Hodgkiss, Delta County, Col. He was
born November 23, 1799, and died July 14, 1801; also a soldier of the Utc war, enlisting on the
Amos, born March 3, 1803, wedded Betsy Craw. 16th of July, 1851, in the Forty.seventh Illinois In
fan try, was wounded at the battle of Old Lake, La.,
ford, and died ill 1878, nt the age of seventy-six
being crippled for life, and was mustered out at
years; Asahcl was born March 21, 1804, married
Springfield, 111., in October, 1864. Lyman II., born
Olive Smith, and died in St. Paul, Minn., in March,
in Deerfield, III., April 25, 1841, is single and re
lbb&„ at the age of eighty*four, having long boon
sides on the old homestead. Mary, born July 2,
r» practicing physician; Lyman is now' eighty1813, was joined in wedlock May 10, 1865, with
live years of ago; Jesse, the youngest, was born
Ilham R. Bennett, and resides near Denver, Col.
September 13, 1810, chose for a wife Elizabeth
(See sketch cf Mr. Bennett’s family, who were
Luther, and is now living at the age of eighty-one
among the early settlers of Lake County), Harriet,
years in Carroll County, Mo.
born June 28, 1845, and died when thirteen and
I.ymnn Wihnoi, whose name heads this record,
one-half months old. Roswell O., born July 12,
having lost his father when a child of four years.
•ind his mother being in poor circumstances, wa?
1817, was married November 20, 1870, to Mias
Miranda C. Adams, and resides in Hodgkiss, Delta
obliged to leave home nt the early age of ten and
County, Col. Dwight Porter, born August 1C,
make his own way in the world. He began as s
farm bond. He was obliged to work hard, enjoyed
l$49, married JLI«»0 Scholes, June 9, 1881, and
resides in Evergreen, Col. lie wa3 tiie late repre
few comforts and no luxuries. His educational
sentative to tbo Colorado Legislature Ellen Eliza,
advantages wen; limited to a few mouths’attendance
born January 19, 1852, was married December 10,
nt the district schools in tho winter season. When
1876, to Edwin Ivittell. and their home is now in
lie arrived at the age of twenty-live he found that
South Chicago. Warren Ifonry, born October G,
he had accumulated enough of this world's goods
1856, Is now a resident of l)eer6cld, and bis sketch
to sot up a home for himself and was married March
17, 1831, in his native town to Miss Clarissa
is given elsewhere in this work. The children
Dwight, a daughter of Israel and Sarah (Porter; older than Lytflan H. were born in New York and
Dwight. She whs born in Windsor, BroomoCour.iy, those younger in Deerfield.
N. Y„ June 18, 1812, and is a lineal descendant of
Mr. Wilmot was engaged in farming in the town
John Dwight of Dedham, Mass., the founder of the of Greenwood, Steuben County, N. Y., until 1837,
when leaving Ids family, he first came to Lake
prominent New England family of that name
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot have been blessed with a \ County on a prospecting tour, arriving at his deshuge family, numbering six sons and five dauglidilation on the 20th of May. Jesse, his younger
ters: Virgil, the eldest, was born June 9, 1834, in
brother, bad preceded him to this county in 1835,
Greenwood, Steuben County, N. V„ married Sarah ■ and had located (n what is now the town of I>oerKstlier Hunter nod resides in Humoston, Iowa. He ' field. Mr. Wilmot visited his brother and traveled
served in the I'nion Army in toe late war as a 1 oyer Northern Illinois for several months and in
member of ihc Forty-fifth Illinois Regiment, en- 1 November following returned to New York. In
listing October 5, 1861. lie was under Sherman J the fall of 1840, he emigrated from that $ut« to
in b'S march to Hie sen, and was mustered out in ; Lake County with bis family, coming by team to
December, 1864. Adelin, bom November l, 183d, I Buffalo where be transferred the teams to a steam,
died November 8. of the same year. Adelia, the i boat and took passage for Chicago. Arriving at
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t,mt IHM't. they drove to Dcorfleld. their future home, j of his own application has obtained an education
Ti February*. 1841. be purchased one hundred and
which fined him for the practical life l»t has led.
sixty acres of wild land, to which he afterwards
lie made farming his life-work, ami met with a
added until ho. now has two hundred and fort/
aigunl success in that direction. in politics he has
PCI 08.
IL's farm is largely prairie and is situated
always been a stanch Democrat, lmt never an mliooOn section 32, where he has made his home for the
seeker, although lie has always exercised his right
past fifty.one years. It is considered one of the
of franchise, He is a member of the Episcopal
most valuable farms in Deerfield, and the owner is
Church, ns was also his wife. Mr*. Johnson U :i V
one of the most successful and leading agriculturists horn on Staten Island, March 15. Ib’01. and died
of Lake County. 111 political sentiment he is an in December, 18G7, nl the age of $i,\U*.M.\ u.?u>.
earnest Republican. In early life he was an noli*
Their children avo as follows: .John Ik. n druggist
slavery Whig and was in full accord with the orig
of Kansas: Klira Ann, who is the widow of John
inal Abolitionists He lest his vote at the pros!Hodinc, and resides on Staten Island: Theresa and
doniinl election of 1840 by reason of his removal
Sarah M. both deceased: Louisa, wife of L K.
to the West that year. When the Republican party
Reed, a h.iukei of M. Paid. Minn., |\t.T of this
w as organized lie was 0110 of those who took part sketch; Henrietta, whose home is in Kansas; Nirlmin its formation in Northern Illinois. He has never
iris A., who is engaged m farming and carpentering
’•ecu it seeker for public office and has served only
in Batavia, ML; and Albeit, deceased,
in minor local positions lie was Moderator at the
Peter Johnson has been a resident of Illinois
first town meeting held in Deerfield, and has served
since his tenth year. In 1M4J the family t.:imc
a$ Assessor for that town. During the draft ho
West, traveling b) canal, railroad and the
accepted the veiy unpopular position of enrolling
They patted through Chicago when il was a mere
officer for hi* town, b.v which he made enemies and
village, giving little evidence of the wondci fill
even had Ida life threatened.
, growth which was soon to lake place and make it
Mr. Wilmot nnd his wife are members of the
the second city in the Union. Our subject received
Presbyterian Church. They celebrated their Ruby,
his education in the schools of New Vo»U nnd Hli*
or sixtieth, wedding anniversary in March of the
nois. and by varied reading and experience Ims lie*
present year. Roth are well preserved nnd enjoy, ! come a well-informed man. He began life for
*3 they deserve, the high regard of all who know
himself at the age of eighteen, serving an appren• hem, They hive reared a large family of chilticeship to the trade of a tinner in St. Charles and
•ben, of whom nine arc living and have become ] Elgin. III. He made hi* home ia DcKalb Connie,
icsefu: and respected members of society.
! frou: 1851 to 1600. and spent part of the year in
! tiio mountains, returning \lienee to Kigiu,
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In November, 1353, Mr. Johnson was united 111
1 marriage with Miss Mary V. Die water, a native of
! Ohio, born in 1839. 'I licit* union ha* been hUs>cd
KTLK JOHNSON, one of Hie prominent * with six children, throe sous ami three daughters;
merchants ofWnucoutfn.is engaged in the
Clayton B.. who d*cd at the age of ten years, Inn
hardware business,having continued
in and Anna, both deceased; Gertrude, wife of Ifav.
that line of trade at this place fur n mini- | William II. Fierce, a Methodist minister of NuuJn
bf-r of years. He was born on Staten Island, N. j HI.; Albert Rav, who was educated in the Wan*•’ August IL !$33, and is the sixth in a family j COrnia schools, and is still at home; Jvlwin B., aged
of nine children, whose parents are Peter II. and 1 eleven years, completes the family.
Ann (Bogart. 1 Johnson. His father was horn on !
Jo May, l«b'5, Mr, Johnson began business in his
•Mate 11 Island in 1798, nnd i« still living at the ad- j present line in Wnneondn. lie carries a full and
v.-wjcvd age of ninety-three years. He attended the ! complete stock of hardware, Fair dealing, loa.soucommon a clioolb for n short time only, and by dint 1 able prices and a genial manner have won him n
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iiliaixloneil His”pursuit a"*'
log u itil IhfiQ, lie then
Uri.l.rc 0„iUli..S. UuU.uk
turned his attention to
iws fljst lemons in the pioneer corps tn the army
msd ha? hoik fo;ty one budges in Kenosha County,
Wis., besides many others in Cook, Lake ami Mr*
Henry Counties, of Illinois. His entire life i»as
been passed in this county where he is well and fafornbly known.
JjpAHRKN IlKNKY Wll.MUT. who makes
|,i$ home in Dceilhdd, is a member of the
firm of Hutchinson. Wilmot A* Mom, who
do business at Room 72, No. ll*» Dearborn Si wet,
Chicago, and is also manager of the branch oilier
ni Deerfield. Ho has the honor of being a native
born citizen of the county, his birth having oc
curred on the tith of October, I Son. in the town of
I lecrficld. His parents me l.yman and Clarissa
(Dwight) Wilmot. a sketch of whom is given else-
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I March 16. 1831: Arthur II., January 2*. ««Wi
| Maud 1C.. March 10. 1884; X.yn,«.. J..July .6,
1838; ami Minnie V., December H. 18«»Wilmot wns married to his present wife, who w«s
fomwly Mrs. Kva V. Keyes, at Deerfield, Fehruj
ary
2d. 1300. She was born near Palatine, Mm
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wns the widow of Lewis Keyes, and a daughter of
Marlin Yant. Sim lms one child born of her first
1 marriage, :\ daughter, Clara K. C‘., born December
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23, I 67 3.
In political sentinKoit, Mr. Wilmot is a Repuldii can nnd has always* taken an active interest in
! political campaigns, doing what be could to insure
: the success and advance the interests of his party.
:
j While not ambitious of political preferment he has
served in various local public. offices. He was
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chosen TrC9.«mvr <»f the town of Deerfield in April,
,
ISR-2. was re-elected and sewed until 1886. Two
i years Inter h;< was elected School Trustee and was
When tho town
! re-elected in tin.1 spring of 1801
was divided into Last and West Deer held, an event
j io whicu Mr. Wilmot was largely instrumental in
j
accomplishing, he was elected Supervisor of the
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new town Of West Dee v He Id, was re-elected in the
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of .800 to serve U'O year, In March.
136.1. he established bts home m tuc v.lla^c of
I Deci field, where he has since resided. lie is :* Mas; ter Mason, a member of A. 0 Fay Lodge, No- 070.
jI 0f Highland Parle, also belongs to the Independent
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Older of Foresters of Court Highland, No. 31. «*f
Highland Park. An active, energetic business rr.nu,
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he received bis primary
" wh0(,i 4>f the
l,U «dueution in the pivpaia«or>
Northern College at Naperville. 111. l;u«* two years
.,fu-r :dt;ining I us majority, he was engaged in
filing farm machinery and in leadline School- and
from 1330 until W.I inclusive he was conducting
the home farm. in connection with this business
he has Iso. subsequently to 183.^, engaged in the
rcnl-wtsio busmen. i«» which, during Hm past t"«> i
Years, he has tie voted his entire lime and :d h i t ion. J:
|., April. 13:i i, l.e formed the existing partnership !
with
c A. llutchiusou mid K. J- Mum of ;
H,l»
linn ii nyw carrying on an exlmiChicago.
si ve business, making a specially ui Ukeshniv and 1
No'tlisourc property.
Wilmot Isas been twice nwnivd. lr. Kankakef, M .on M:» ill 17.1 ftuo. he wedded Miss Minnie
F. Vining. daughter of JeftiMYon ami Kliznbeth :
(Frazier) Yiumg. Slur was born in Kankakee !
County, 111.. February 2d. 13.78, and died DecernIxm- 19, 1866, leaving live children, two sons and
three daughters— JCdua tL, the eldest, w:m i-orn
Mr Wilmot enjoys a wide acquaintance and i*
rapidly working into a permanent and lucrative
busings,
——• ^ KNRY HODUK1NS, has long been a restdent of this county, dating his settlement
hero rrom 1644. He was born in St. Law
rence Comity, N- Y., on February l.i,
160), and there grow to manhood. After having
ftrrivcd aL mature years,he was united in marriage
on August U, 1821), with Miss Julia White, a na
tive of Jefferson County, N. Y-- born August li,
\808__she was thus married on Iter twenty fiist
birthday. They began their domestic life hi the
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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
Amos Wilmot
Anti-Slavery Activities
Arthur H. Wilmot
Asahel Wilmot
Betsy Clauson Wilmot
Betsy Crawford Wilmot
Broome County New York
Buffalo New York
C.A. Hutchinson
Carroll County Missouri
Chicago Illinois
Clara F.C. Keyes
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Colesville New York
Colorado State House of Representatives
Colorado State Legislature
Connecticut
Dedham Massachusetts
Deerfield Assessor
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield School District #109 Board of Trustees
Deerfield Town Hall Meetings
Deerfield Township
Deerfield Treasurer
Delta County Colorado
Denver Colorado
Dwight Porter Wilmot
Edna G. Wilmot
Edwin Kittell
Elizabeth Frazier Vining
Elizabeth Luther Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell
Eva Vant Keyes Wilmot
Evergreen Colorado
Farm Hand
Farm Machinery Sales
Farming
First Presbyterian Church
Fremont Public Library District
Gail Borden Public Library
Greenwood New York
Hannah Bunnel Wilmot
Harriet Wilmot
Highland Park Illinois
Hiram R. Bennett
Hodgkiss Colorado
Humeston Iowa
Hutchinson Wilmot and Blum
Illinois Republican Party
Independent Order of Foresters
Independent Order of Foresters of Court Highland No. 31
Israel Dwight
Jefferson Vining
Jesse Wilmot
John Dwight
Kankakee County Illinois
Kankakee Illinois
Lake City Publishing Company
Lake County Illinois
Lake Forest Public Library
Lakeshore Property
Levi Davis Wilmot
Lewis Keyes
Liaison: Libraries in Association Database
Lizzie Scholes Wilmot
Loly Wilmot
Lyman H. Wilmot
Lyman J. Wilmot
Lyman Wilmot
Martin Vant
Mary Wilmot Bennett
Masonic Order
Masonic Order A O Fay Lodge
Masonic Order A O Fay Lodge Master
Maud E. Wilmot
McHenry Public Library District
Minne V. Wilmot
Minnie E. Vining Wilmot
Miranda C. Adams Wilmot
Mundelein Public Library
Naperville Illinois
New York
North Suburban Library System Database
Northern College
Northshore Property
Old Lake Louisiana
Olive Smith Wilmot
Philip Gutzler
Political Campaigning
Portrait and Biographical Album of Lake County
Prairie
Prospecting Tour
R.J. Blum
Republican Party
Roswell O. Wilmot
Round Lake Area Public Library District
Sarah A. Hodgkins Wilmot
Sarah Esther Hunter Wilmot
Sarah Porter Dwight
School Teaching
South Chicago Illinois
Springfield Illinois
St. Paul Minnesota
Stephen B. Wilmot
Steuben County New York
Union Army
Union Army 45th Illinois Infantry
Union Army Forty-Seventh Illinois Infantry
Virgil Wilmot
Warren Henry Wilmot
Waukegan Public Library
West Deerfield Township
West Deerfield Township Supervisor
Whig Party
William T. Sherman
Windsor New York
Zion-Benton Public Library District
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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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From another source it is learned that the slave, An
drew Jackson’s escape was planned because he had been
sold. "My kind master found it necessary to sell me. None
of the slaves were given any education as our masters
thought that we would rebel or outwit them. But a friend
told me that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
and that as one goes further south it gets warmer, and
going north it gets colder, With this information only, I
decided to run away. I' was soon captured for my master
had discovered my absence soon after I left, and had sent
bloodhounds after me. When taking me back to the planta
tion my captor tied my arms with a rope, which was
fastened to the horse, and made me walk in front of him,
while he rode. I loosened the rope and walked along as it
I were not trying to escape. Soon I noticed that my master
was sleeping', so I dropped the rope, and jumped into the
woods. Most of the time I hid during the day, and often
my pursuers were so close to my hiding place that I could
hear my master giving directions to them.
"Several times I was without food for a number of days.
Many times I ate raw corn taken from a field when I passed
through it. One time I fell in a barrel when I was looking
for food, and even though I hurt my hip severely, I man
aged to limp back into the woods. One day I came to a
hut and asked a girl, who was alone, for some bread, which
I could see was freshly baked. The child refused to give
it to me so I grabbed a few loaves and ran, and when
safely hidden, ate them. These are but a few of my hard*
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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 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
a bog of flour and carried it home on Uis back. Buck11
HISTORY OF DEERFIELD
wheat cakes with sorghum were a luxury, and quaii
prairie chickens, and partridges were had so often that
they were not the luxury that they are to this generation
A cheese similar to Limburger was made by the Germans
by forming cottage cheese into little balls, placing them
in a crock and allowing them to ripen. The fluid that
formed around the balls was poured off frequently ami
the cheese washed with fresh milk. Fish, principally
suckers ll/z feet long were in all of the streams. Water
for household purposes was dipped out of the ponds on
the land with buckets. Flies and mosquitoes tormented
the people and spread disease, malaria, ague, and ty
phoid. Screens or netting on windows were unknown
Wells dug were six feet deep.
Candles made by the women from mutton tallow and
cotton picking dipped, and also made in molds, were the
lights used. Later a two wick lamp, without a chimney
in which raccoou and lard, or camphene oil was burned
made a two candle power light. These lamps were on
metal standards with glass bowls. The third era was
the kerosene lamp of tin, painted green, with a polished
tin movable reflector, which hung on the door frames.
Glass hanging lamps with glass prisms or gaily painted
decorations were later parlor luxuries. “Student lamps”
of metal with a tall slender chimney on each side, with
two bowls of oil and circular wicks were a great im
provement for the sight. A Chicago directory oi’ IS GO
advertises lard oil, lunar oil, kerosene binnacle oil, Mayville coal oil, alcohol, camphene, and burning fluid.
Clothes were made for the men by the women of the
family after they had been cut by the tailor, Lawrence
Ott. In this vicinity the cloth was not woven for the
men’s suits but was bought in Chicago, and sewed by
hand with a very heavy black thread. The women did
the sewing after the children were in bed. The spinning
wheels which the German and Alsatian settlers brought
from Germany and Alsace were used to make the yarn
for stockings, mittens, and large scarfs which took the
place of overcoats. Mr. George Rockenbach has one that
his mother knitted.
After the log house era frame houses were erected.
These were very simple structures, built on the ground
without cellars under them, but with board instead of
dirt floors. A few had vegetable cellars. The first frame
house at the west end of the township that was at all
pretentious was the one built by Christian Schwingel.
now owned by Mr. Kellogg, of the Kellogg Switchboard
Company, known as the Grove Farm, and occupied by
E. L. Vinyard. It had a pantry, a cistern, and a pump
on the porch, which was the height of luxury. Good
houses began to be built in 1850, and many are still
in use.
Courtship in the early days of our township was con
ducted under difficulties. In a one room log cabin that
contained the beds of the parents and seven or more
children, the stove and other household furniture, there
was little privacy, so courting days were short. The
young people usually took walks in the woods. The
amusements were few. Sliding on the ice in winter, at
tending spelling, writing and singing schools, and among
the young men engaging in feats to show strength such
as lifting barrels of flour, and wrestling were among
their pastimes. Fist fights sometimes decorated their
drab, dull lives, as when the boys of the east and of the
west prairies met in swimming in the Desplaines River
seventy years ago, and forty years ago when the Everett
gang met the Deerfield one.
One pioneer said, “When I was young we folk held
our dancing parties in any house that had three rooms,
and if there was but one room we moved the stove and
bed out of doors, brought our fiddler and had our dance.
When it was over we moved the stove and bed back in
place and returned home in one sleigh loaded with plenty
of straw.”
DEERFIELD FAMILIES
Genealogy is an interesting study, for when one con
siders how rapidly one’s ancestors multiply (as well as
one’s descendents) two parents, four grandparents, eight
great-grandparents, and so on, until one finds that at the
time of the discovery of America, about fourteen genera
tions back, the average American now living has 1G.384
ancestors in a single ancestral generation. A good geneology describes the historical roots of the family tree, it
gives names, dates, places and family connections, ac
cording to the Eugenical News of April, 1923.
The descendonts of William Ward of Sudbury, king-
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object stand out from the flat surface of the picture m
true perspective. One of the most amusing pictures " as uuu
OC the Hoyt family at a picnic The men all won1 £
silk liats and looked very much dressed up to be sitting
on the ground around an outdoor feast spread on the
grass.
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The George Vetter store that was burned ivas also among
the photographs.
]i?!?nJun?i 2S,ii1S45’ and dlecl when thirteen and onealf months old. Roswell 0., born July 12, 1S47 was
married November 20, 1870, to Miss Miranda C Adams
Pnw£eshes A Hoclgkiss' Delta County, Colo. Dwight
T,?nie<i bi°oS Aug,llst 16, 1S'49- married Lizzie Sclioles
Ho i9t 1881, and resides in Evergreen Colo. He was
Fl?Pn PH,areSreSeiitatlVe t0 the Colorado Legislature
E1>za. born January 19, 1852, was married Decem?eiQ 1
to Edwin Kittell, and their home is now
in South Chicago. Warren Henry, born October 6 IS55
is now a resident of Deerfield. The children older than
Deerfield "'6''e b°''n ,n New York and those younger in
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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
mmssss
Hannah (Bunn^f WUmo, both natives o£ Co,^cUenl.
“Mr. Wilmot was engaged in farming in the town of
inrhirfamnvell,benrC?lmty' N' Y- »»«! «S7. whenieav'
Uig liis family, lie first came to Lake County on a nrn<?
ofMa? t0^rr!V,ng at WS ctestination on the 2011®day
of May. Jesse, Ins younger brother, had preceded him
to Lins county in 1S35, and had located in whit is now
the town of Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot visited 1 is brotheT
an traveled over Northern Illinois for several nmUths
ami m November following returned to New York
In
the fall o 1840. lie emigrated from that state to Lake
^ tl1 1ils,.famiIy' coming by team to Buffalo where
lli1?nSf%r?d tie teams t0 a steamboat and took pas9,UCagi)\ ArrivinS at that port they drove to
Deerfield, their future home. In February 1S41 lie nnr
chafed one hundred and sixty acres of wild land to •
which he afterwards added until he now has two hun
dred and forty acres. His farm is largely prairie and
}l.S1,iUa ed f0?4»?ect1011 32, where he has made his home
mia? ® Past fifty-°ne years. It is considered one of the
most valuable farms in Deerfield, and the owner is one
o. the most successful and leading agriculturists of
Lake County. In political sentiment he fs an earnest RepubhcEui. In early life he was an anti-slavery Whig and
inof i”1 fu J accord with the original Abolitionists.^ He
ion1 l!8v!te at the, l)residential election of 1840 by reason of lug removal to the West that year. When the
ShAUfb 1ian pai!ty.was organized he was one of those
who took part in its formation in Northern Illinois He
has never been a seeker for public office and his served
firof In minor i?cal Positions. He was Moderator at the
first town meeting held in Deerfield, and has served as
Assessor for that town. During the draft he accepted
£wnVehy l^T\lar P°sition of enrolling officer for liis
threatene(LhlCh ^ made enemies and even had his life
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^tieth anniversary of
brated his ruby wedding
oldest of the five brothers,
his marriage. Stephen B.,
ed Miss Betsy Clauson,
was born February 20,1798, married mis ^ s^euty.nine
and died March 14, 1■
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years; Loly, the on y dang liter was bo:ra»o
179 9 and died July 14, ISO4, Amos,
WoS: -dded Betsy effort and tod.^187 8. at the
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age of seventy-six years A 1
St. Paul, Minn.,
having lollg
1S04, married Olive Snutn, ana
in March, 1SSS, at the age
is noW eighty-five
been a practicing piys
’ tywas born September 13,
years of age; Jess, the yoange jT’ th Lutlier, and is now
living at°the a°ge of eighty-one years in Carroll County,
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mother being in P°or
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leave home at the early W ^ & farm hand
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Church. They celebrated their ruby, or sixfl.
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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*
n6? A?t?‘ 10' 1S99- They “d heir daughter
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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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LILLIAN ANTES.
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Written for Deerfield school in 1918 at Illinois Centennlal celebration Material was secured from Lillian’s
grandfather,
merchant.
Christian
Antes,
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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