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Academy and as a Lieutenant he served through the two years war with Mexico.
From 1849 to I^55
was on duty *n Texas and on the new boundary line be
tween Mexico and the United States, and was then transferred to the general
staff in the Quartermaster’s Department. From 1857 to 1861 he was on duty
during the Utah troubles and served in the Civil War until failing health caused
him to be placed on the retired list by President Lincoln in 1863. For five years
he was Vice-President of the Trader’s National Bank of Chicago. After the
great fire in Chicago in 1871, he spent two years in traveling with his family and
in 1880 settled in Highland Park where he now lives. He has been Mayor and
Alderman of that city. He was a member of the Aztec Club which was formed in
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, The Turnleys,” and several other books and many speeches, lectures and poems. He died
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HENRY S. VAIL was born near Janesville, Wis., April 23, 1847, and was
educated at Ripon College. He served in the Civil War in Company D, 38th
Wisconsin Infantry, from April 19, 1864, to August, 1865. Pie came to Chicago
in 1872, and entered the life insurance business. He is a well known actuary.
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
Order League.
LYMAN WILMOT was born in Colesville, N. Y., July 22, 1806, the son
of Jesse and Hannah Wilmot. He was married March 17, 1831, in his native
town to Miss Clarissa Dwight, who was born June 18, 1812. There were nine
children: Virgil, born June 9, 1834; Adelia H., bom December 20, 1836, wife
of P. Gutzler; Levi D., bom January 4, 1839; Lyman H., born April 25, 1841;
Mary, born July 2, 1843; Roswell O., born July 12, 1847; Dwight Porter, born
August 16, 1849; Ellen Eliza, born January 9, 1852; Warren Henry, bom
October 6, 1855. Mr. Wilmot came to Lake County in 1840, locating in the
Town of Deerfield. He died November 12, 1896.
WARREN HENRY WILMOT was bom in Deerfield, Lake County, 111.,
October 6, 1855, the son of Lyman and Clarissa (Dwight) Wilmot. He received
his education in the district schools and Northwestern College at Naperville, 111.
He has been twice married: to Miss Minnie E. Vining in 1880, and ten years
later to Miss Eva P. Vant. He has served as Township Treasurer, Trustee of
Schools and as Supervisor of West Deerfield from 1904 to 1909. He was ap
pointed Deputy U. S. Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois, October 22,
1906. He is a Protestant, votes the Republican ticket, and is a member of Wau
kegan Council Y. of A., Nq. 157, (A. F. & A. M.), A. O. Fay Lodge, No. 676,
Lake Camp, No. 178, M. W. A.
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HISTORY OF LAKE COUNTY.
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The Rev. G. L. Wrenn took the pastorate May i, 1872,and continued in this
service eight years. The Rev. C. B. Allen, Jr., succeeded him in September,
1880, and continued until March, 1882. The Rev. H. C. Leland came in Novem
ber, 1882. He was succeeded in May, 1884, by the Rev. E. G. Cheverson and
he by the Rev. G. B. Simons in November, 1885, the Rev. J. W. Weddell in
May, 1887, the Rev. L. A. Gould, June, 1894, the Rev. W. M. Vines in December,
1897, the Rev. Robert Morris Rabb in December, 1898, the Rev. James P. Whyte
in May, 1900, the Rev. Edwin Seldon in January, 1902, the Rev. G. D. Rogers
in December, 1903, the Rev. M. F. Sanborn in April, 1907, the Rev. E. LeRoy
Dakin in May, 1908. His pastorate ended in January, 1911.
A number 01 the ministers of this church have been student pastors from
the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and occasional service has been
rendered by the professors of the school. The effort is now being made to find
a permanent pastor. October 2, 1908, the first pastor, the Rev. G. L. Wrenn,
who had continued to serve the church as a deacon, died. In his memory his
children gave the beginning of a fund for a pipe organ, which was added to by
Mrs. C. N. Kimball and other friends. On October 20, 1909, a fine memorial
oragn was dedicated.
The church has had four hundred members, but with the losses by death
and the fluctuating membership of a suburban church, the present membership
is 141, of whom 53 are non-resident.43
There are to-day five Baptist Churches in Lake County—those of Wau
kegan, Highland Park, Barrington, Russell and Wauconda.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES.
As has been shown in the sketch of the Ivanhoe Congregational Church.
The Presbyterians came to the county when it was still a part of McHenry
County, and organized the Mechanics’ Grove Church in 1838. It was really a
Union Church of Presbyterians and Congregationalists. In two years, however,
the Presbyterians lost control and the church passed from them to become the
Congregational Church, now of Ivanhoe.
THE CHURCH OF HALF DAY.
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On the other hand a Congregational Church was organized at Half Day,
November 20, 1841. The Rev. Elbridge G. Howe was the first pastor, but
remained only for a brief period. The Rev. Joseph H. Payne came in January,
1842. The^first members were Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Pelton, Mr. and Mrs.
4SHighland Park Church Records; Gazette, May 23, 1896.
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Joshua Pelton, Jr., Thomas Pelton, Sarah Hawkes, Levi Walker, Jane B. Walker,
Lyman, Jesse and Clarissa Wilmot, Luther Farnham, Mary Cook, Silas and
^£Tm!a^tevens. A house otwoSmp was begun, in the village, in 1844. In the
process of the years, although the date cannot now be ascertained, this church
passed from the Congregational to the Presbyterian form of organization. The
church was too feeble to maintain a pastor and it was served from Libertyville
on alternate Sundays from 1869 to 1881. In that year the two churches were
separated, and the Rev. Hannibal S. Stanley served the Half Day Church until
1884, driving over from Lake Forest. In 1885-86 the service was abandoned.
In 1887 Prof. LeRoy F. Griffin came from Lake Forest. In 1889 and 1891 a
supply came from McCormick Seminary. In 1890, 1892 and 1893 the church
was vacant. The church disappears on the “General Assembly Annual Minutes”
of 1894, and the organization, as such, was probably abandoned in that year. A
new population had come in and a remnant of the old time worshippers have from
time to time, ever since, fitfully resumed the service. Student “supply” from
Lake Forest or McCormick Seminary has carried on this work, and the writer
of this sketch conducted a service in the old historic church as late as 1908.
But the place is now closed and silent.44
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THE CHURCH OF WAUKEGAN.
The Presbyterian Church of Waukegan was organized November 11, 1859,
by a colony from the Congregational Church of that town. In those days in
the sparsely settled West, “Union” churches were frequently formed by the
fraternization of Congregationalists and Presbyterians under a single organiza
tion, and one pastor of either denomination. Forty-five Presbyterians, who had
previously worshipped in the Congregational flock formed the new church.
They were: William Ladd, Mary A. Ladd, Mrs. N. Cleaveland, Mrs. J. S.
Frazer, H. A. Rew, Matilda A. Rew, John M. Hartnett, Margaret I. Hartnett,
Dr. W. C. Barker, Sarah A. Barker, Mrs. McCrone, D. O. Dickinson, Mercy
Dickinson, Leonard Dickinson, R. W. Clarkson, Susan Clarkson, W. C. New
man, Letitia Newman, Thomas Hartzell, L. D. Hartzell, Prudence Ingalls, Hilda
Ingalls, Sarah Barker, Elvira A. Baker, Mrs. C. W. Upton, Sarah Ferry, Mrs.
John Cloes, Sophia Bacon, Matilda Dorcey, Sarah Barker, Emily C. Poutt,
Sarah Hinckley, Jane Belshaw, Margaret McKay, Mary Douglass, Lydia Thomp
son, Julia S. Geer, C. Ii. Millen, Mrs. Ann Millen, Mary A. Millen, H. H.
Hawks, Sarah Hawks, Phoebe Landon, Susan A.-Look and Amanda Deacon.
From other churches came J. W. Kelly, Mary J. Kelly, Horace Hurlburt, Eliza
beth Hurlburt and Eliza Bates. The Rev. George L. Little took charge of this
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A majority of four votes gave the name Deerfield instead of Erin to this
township, there being seventeen votes for the former and thirteen for the latter,
as expressed at a public meeting called for the purpose at the house of Michael
Meehan, and the name Deerfield was given to the township by the commissioners.
It is not clear as to who the first settler in this section was. It is claimed
and disputed, that Jacob Caldwell and sons settled here in the spring of 1836,
near the town of Deerfield. On the other hand it is asserted that Horace Lamb
was the first settler, building a house for himself at least a year prior to the
first date. We quote from Haines’ History:
"When we take into account the fact that the Indians remained in
possession of the lands lying in Lake County until 1836, and that occupa
tion by the settlers was not permitted before that time, except by consent
of the Indians, we can not expect to find settlers attempting to occupy the
land much before that year. It is well understood that Capt. Daniel Wright
was the only settler in what is now Lake County in 1834, except perhaps, Amos
Flint, who is claimed to have settled on Fox River the latter part of this year.
In 1835, ^e time in which the Indians were to leave the country being near at
hand, which they seemed to realize, they became more indifferent as to the en
croachment of the whites, whereby during this year some progress was made by
settlers. It is possible that settlers may have entered the town of Deerfield in
j835, but it is certainly not probable that any came before that time.”
Among the early settlers may be mentioned Jacob Caldwell and five sons,
Horace Lamb, John Mathews, Jesse Wilmot, Lyman Wilmot, B. Marks, R.
Dygert, John Cochran, Michael Meehan, Magnus Tait, Anthony Sullivan, John
King and Francis McGovern.
The first school in Deerfield was taught by Rosilla Caldwell in 1848, and the
first school house was built near the county line on Section 33.
In the early forties a town site was laid out east of Highwood called St.
Johns, but owing to litigation concerning title to the land, it was abandoned and
in 1850, Jacob C. Bloom, Andrew Steele and others laid out a town site just south
of St. Johns, called Port Clinton, and a postoffice was established here the same
year. After the Chicago Parallel Railway (now the Chicago and Northwestern
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feasibility of building a new church which should meet the requirements of the
Church and Sabbath School, and it was finally decided that a new church must
be built and should cost not less than $65,000.00, and that work should
be commenced early in the spring of 1910. A Building Committee was appoint
ed and authorized to secure plans and specifications and this has been done, and
ground is to be broken very soon, and it is to be hoped that the new building
will supply all the needs of the society for many years to come.
The writer of this article has been connected with this church for thirtythree years and has seen it pass through seasons of depression and rejoicing
and has come to love the old building and will be sorry to see it pass away, but
all things must pass away and old things become new. Many and many are
the pleasant hours that have been spent in the old church with friends that have
passed away and many tender memories come back while sitting in the church
and looking at familiar places and thinking of those who have gone, never to
return. There are two of the charter members still in the church, Miss Sarah
Patchen, who still continues to be an active worker, and Mrs. Lucy C. T. Allen,
who has passed her 91st birthday, and can still remember the time when the
church was organized and can remember the various persons who took part
therein. Her son’s wife was the first person to join the church by profession
and her granddaughter was the first person to be baptized.
When the new church is completed the writer will rejoice with the rest of
the congregation, but with regard to the old church his feelings and sentiments
are expressed by the old hymn which has been often sung in the old church and
doubtless will be in the new:
“I love Thy church, O God!
Her walls before Thee stand,
Dear as the apple of Thine eye,
And graven on Thy hand.”
Since Mr. Godrich wrote the preceding narrative Mr. Goodson
succeeded in the church by the Rev. Roy Calvin Dodson, who took up
in the fall of 1910. Mr. Dodson came from Bloomington, Illinois, and
offered the Highland Park pulpit in 1908, but could not then be drawn
Bloomington church.
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THE DEERFIELD CHURCH.
The Presbyterian Church at Deerfield Corners was organized in May, 1876,
by the Rev. E. S. Hurd, D.D. The first members were Lyman and Clarissa Wilmot, Lyman Wilmot, Jr., Philip and Adelia Gutzler, Louis and Caroline Todd,
'MrsTLizzie Hall and Mrs. Mary S. Muhlke. The church edifice was built the
same year. Dr. Hurd continued only for a year and for a number of years the
church was "supplied” from Chicago or Lake Forest by Students. The “Min-
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on the Green Bay Road where the Atteridge home now is, Michael Maguire,
who was Coroner in 1837-39, and Comity Commissioner in 1846-49, just north
of him, James Cole and his four sons just south of Swanton, Michael Dulanty
at the south end of the town on the same road
In Deerfield Township Michael Meehan was the only settler in 1835. He
made the beginnings of “Meehan’s Settlement” in Section 18. He was soon
followed by Jacob Caldwell at Deerfield Corners, with his five sons—Madison
Philemon, Caleb, Hiram and Edwin; also by Plorace Lamb, a mile south of
Caldwell’s, John Mathews, Lyman Wilmot at Deerfield Corners, Benjamin Marks
up m the northeast corner, Robert Daggett in the southeast corner, where he lies
buried in the little cemetery beside the new Golf Station at Braeside; John
Cochran, Magnus Tait, Anthony Sullivan, Francis McGovern on 22, John Mc
Govern on 25, John King a half mile west of Fort Sheridan; Michael Yore and
James Fagan on 7; Michael Vaugh n on 18; James Mooney on 27.
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In Ela Township in 1835 were George Ela, who went to the Legislature
m 1846, on Section 33; Abraham Vanderwerker was on Section 34 • A. Russell
gave name to Russell’s Grove on Section 10. Other early settlers were John
Robertson
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Ueill on 34, George Cook, Leonard Loomis, Richard Archer on 2,5. Erastus
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Waher M°rse, m 1835, settled at the later Gilmer, where he died September
26 i88a His brothers, Abiel, Henry and Martin settled near him. Martin
tlr°'kTy CT a h‘tle later to Section 29. Lake Zurich and Ela were on the
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in 1843. Thomas Haggerty was on Section 4;
Noah Webster, unknown to fame, was on Section 31.
In Fremont Township in 1835 were Daniel Marsh at "Marsh’s Settlement”
l6’.south °f Fremont Center; Paschal P. Houghton on Section 30;
W.ll.am Fenwick at the south end of Diamond Lake; Charles Fletcher on Sec
tion 32. Fletcher, who was born in 1806 in Woodstock, Vermont, and died in
Fremont, February 16, 1882, walked from Buffalo to Lake County. I..
In December, 1839, he was married to his neighbor, Elizabeth F. Houghton, Later
comers were Uz Hendee on Section 1; A. Marble on 5; Hurlbut Swan on 11;
Thomas H Payne on 7; Samuel L. Wood on 8; John G. Ragan who came in
August, 1836, and was County Commissioner in 1844-46, on 34- Nelson and
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A History of Lake County Illinois
A.W. Fletcher
Adelia H. Wilmot Gutzler
AF and AM
Amos Flint
Andrew Steele
Anthony Sullivan
Benjamin Marks
Caroline Todd
Chicago and Northwestern Train
Chicago Illinois
Chicago Parallel Railway
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Colesville New York
Daniel Wright
Deerfield Corners
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield School District #109 Board of Trustees
Deerfield Township
Deerfield Township Commissioners
Deerfield Township Treasurer
Deputy United States Marshall
Dwight Porter Wilmot
E.S. Hurd
Edwin Cadwell
Elbridge G. Howe
Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell
Eva K. Vant Wilmot
First Presbyterian Church
Fort Sheridan Illinois
Fox River
Francis McGovern
General Assembly Annual Minutes
Haine's History
Half Day Congregational Church
Half Day Illinois
Hannah Bunnel Wilmot
Hannibal S. Stanley
Highwood Illinois
Hiram Cadwell
Horace Lamb
Jacob C. Bloom
Jacob Cadwell
James Cole
James Fagan
James Mooney
Jane B. Walker
Jesse Wilmot
John Cochran
John J. Halsey
John King
John Mathews
John McGovern
Joseph H. Payne
Joshua Pelton
Joshua Pelton Jr.
Lake County Commissioners
Lake County Coroner
Lake County Illinois
Lake Forest Illinois
LeRoy F. Griffin
Levi Davis Wilmot
Levi Walker
Libertyville Illinois
Lizzie Hall
Louis Todd
Luther Farnham
Lyman H. Wilmot
Lyman Wilmot
Madison Cadwell
Magnus Tait
Mary Cook
Mary S. Muhlke
Mary Wilmot Bennett
Masonic Order A O Fay Lodge No. 676
McCormick Seminary
Michael Maguire
Michael Meehan
Michael Vaughn
Michael Yore
Minnie E. Vining Wilmot
Mrs. Joshua Pelton
Mrs. Joshua Pelton Jr.
Naperville Illinois
Native Americans
Northwestern College
Philemon Cadwell
Philip Gutzler
Port Clinton Illinois
Port Clinton Post Office
Presbyterianism
Protestantism
R. Dygert
Republican Party
Rosilla Caldwell
Roswell O. Wilmot
Sarah Hawkes
Selina Stevens
Silas Stevens
St. Johns Illinois
Thomas Pelton
United States Marshall
United States Marshall Service Northern Illinois District
Virgil Wilmot
Warren Henry Wilmot
West Deerfield Township Supervisor
Y of A Waukegan Council