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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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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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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 .
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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
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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
S4?75o oo frh°th re'11 nnd personaI
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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staff m the Quartermaster’s Department. From 1837 to 1861 he was on dutv
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during the Utah troubles and served in the Civil War until failing health caused - ■ J -<0$
him to be placed on the retired list by President Lincoln in 1863. For five years
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Alderman of that city. He was a member of the Aztec Club which was formed in 0
the City of Mexico by the officers of the army at the close of that war; also a
member of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, and other so
cieties. He was the author of "Turnley’s Narrative from Diaries, it u
The Turnleys,” and several other books and many speeches, lectures and poems
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HENRY S. VAIL
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He was married, March 3, 1880, to Miss Jennie C. McCulloch, after making his
home in Highland. Park in 1878. He was one of the organizers of the Law and
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WARREN HENRY WILMOT was bom in Deerfield, Lake County, 111.,
October 6, 1855, the son of Lyman and Clarissa (Dwight) Wilmot. He received
is education in the district schools and Northwestern College at Naperville 111
He has been twice married: to Miss Minnie E. Vining in 18S0 and ten ’
later to Miss Eva P. Vant. He has served
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THE WILMOT FAMILY
some mention or Ri!'1 ?0,r,I<1 1,0 coinploto without
a. prominent part in** thi "1?fam ly wl,,ul‘ Played. such
yet or this lanraVimn ° affa,rs ,°r the community, and
Portrait and ninJA1”! «y *1° «je>«ber-remains here. The
"Lyman Wilmot Vho'fJlinf bum °f Lalt0 Couuty says:
dent and leading )
f fifty-one years has been a rcslNew York nadthe
r°» ,the to,wn °r Decrfiekl, claims
birth Is i , (hi Lb C,°i1l,s nativity. The place or his
the data s J«.y O22niOSf0?O,OfrVIme> *ro,om* County' and
Hnnnni. /n.
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1S0G. His parents were Jesse and
His lithe?::."0,0 WlAl,not* boLh Motives or Connecticut.
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3' 177°- and died In Colcs177R rt'iJ”. 0?loobcr 1J* isi°- HIs wire, born June 10,
and AnJCn in,1S53- They were the parents or five sons
and one daughter. The sons made tho remarkable record or having all lived to celebrate their golden, weddings,
brn.prt while„1?ne' the subject of this sketch, has cele- '
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llby wedding or the sixtieth anniversary of
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Stopben B- the eldest of the five brothers,
■uni diVrt m rU,aryi,
mrUTied Mlss
Clauson,
years- I niv* m- ' M' 1,S77,1 :l1 1,10 !l80 °r sovonty-nlno
1799 am
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1803' \vPfidoJCn July 14, iSO4; Amos, born March 3,
1 1 d. Bc,tSy Crawford, and died in 1S78, at the
ago °f seventy-six years; Asahcl was born March 24,
?n'!i0 ve Smith, and died in-St. Paul, Minn.,
" Millch' 18S?* at ,the aeo of eighty-four, having long
been a practicing physician; Lyman ia now cighty-fivo
i^nS °r,agc: : css' 1,10 youngest, was born September 13,
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' afw‘fe Blftabeth Luther, and Is now
Missouri’ th° ag° °C cighty"one years in Carroll County,
hair months old. Roswell 0., born July 12, 1847, wa
married November 20, 1S70. to Miss Miranda C. Adams
and resides in Hodgldss, Delta County,' Colo. Dwigh
JunoC,n ml AandUSr n’ 1849' marrled L,zzIe Scholes
S intn SS ’ and i os Ides In Evergreen Colo. Ho wa
E Cn PII7n rSC,;lallV° l° the Colorado Legislature
Sr ifiE mr ln ia,nuary 19’ 1852« was married Decern.
hiCqm?M,1pi7|C' t0 E?,\v n ICIttell» and their homo is nov
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Eb,??g0; W^ren Henry, born October 6, 185 5
Is now a resident ot Deerneld. The children 'ofder thai
pSeli!* Wer° b0rn ,n Ncw York aad those younger h
"Mr. Wilmot was engaged In farming In the town o
Greenwood, Steuben County. N. Y.. until 1837. when leav
‘ag b,s (am,,y» ho first came to Lake County on a pros
pcctlng tour, arriving at his destination on the 20th da\
°f fjay‘ JefQ* his younger brother, had preceded hin
this county in 1835, and had located In-what Is now
the town of Deerfield. Mr. Wilmot visited his brothei
and traveled over Northern Illinois Cor several monthand In November following returned to New York. h
the fall of 1840, ho emigrated from that state to Lain
hnUM.nr TUl !SJanV,y' com,ng ])y Loan» to Buffalo when
J.1® ansTei-red the teams to a steamboat and took pa*
Doornoi.1 (i!,lc«agr0,i Ari’lv,ng at that Port they drove t{
Dcoi field, their future homo. In February, 1S41 he pu r
wi,aiM,di°neJlUndreid aVd sIxLy acres of wild land, t<
which he afterwards added until he now has two hun
J red and forty acres., HIs farm is largely prairie am
for tlhft n^f°#i«eCtl0n 32, Where he has madQ his home
*®r J he past fifty-one years. It is considered one of tin
of thoam^ ° rarm3 Jn_ Dcorfleld. and tho owner is on.
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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at present occupied by Miss Loretta Heman.
Jesse Wilmot, who married Elizabeth
came up
the north branch of the Chicago River inLuther,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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In comparison of land values, in 1917 the Wilmot school
board paid ?G02 an acre for Wilmot land. To the south
nm-olC M1}101’
sold a 120-acre farm for $200 an
f", wna
-it WOO an acre tor the flrst ten
S a^s.^blfe
same WlfmSTanc]
R°°° n"
:E
many
of the
On his way to the dedication of the Calvanlstlc or Refoi med Lutheran Church on Dundee Road about 184S
he went through the Frey farm, and remembers a little
snow bird s nest full of eggs in tho snow. The congrega
tion and visitors at the dedication ceremony were
"packed.In like herrings." Samuel Ott was the first
Sunday School teacher in the Wilmot School, assisting
Lyman Wilmot who was superintendent.
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l0‘' Un aC1'03 °£ tho
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T!1^ GUTZLER FAMILY
October*?ia^Qn©Gutz,ier was born ,n Sundhausen, Alsace,
was born rno
h,s w,f0* Margaret Elizabeth Hetzcl,
Germans n?,Crsthclm’ A,sacc* April 1G. 1S0U. They were
fntl sky that Phi'iip°k'! Gu“# -U,0m
W#“U,y ,,0°"|C’
had riding horses and other
u^l.rIes ln his home country.
when5 ,'LrVV?S, an,only daughter of wealthy parents, and
broi.rhV\
famlly came t0 Deerfield, Mrs. Guttler
She S oil USCi°U ,,ncns 5l,Hl silks, and a short time before
these shriii?;? ,Dece,nbuJ’ 7* 1351. she directed that some of
Lcrs
1 Ul be saved for eaeli of her four surviving daugharrJval ,n Deerfield, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Gutzif,*
r1ronJ Je5jse Wilmot (brother of Lyman Wilmot)
of aUv^r'money aU< s,xly’acrc farm. paying for It two pecks
WnVl? mother of Philip Jacob Gutzlcr came with them.
iVsn \m.C, 3 not known t0 kcr descendants. She died about
Nnrih M
or elghtjr-eight. and was buried in tho first
ivoitli Northficld Cemetery.
Another member of the Gutzler household was old Grctel.
V. i huousekceper, who came to America with them. Grctel
cued about March. 18G0. She had some money "out," und
oy the will of Philip Gutzler (who died January 7. 185G)
as to be given a home with his.son, or have another found
.r her. A small house was built for Gretel across the
road, and after she died It became the property of Mr. Hess.
The will also provided that the eldest son (or one of the
two elder sons) should care for the younger Gutzlcr chil
dren, and pay to each one thousand dollars, when lie or she
became of age. Philip Gutzler, the eldest son, fulfilled these
requirements and acquired the homestead, eighty acres of
woodland, also sonic money invested.
Philip Jacob Gutzler, his wife, who was Margaret Eliza
beth Hetzcl, and their daughter, Salome (born in Gertshelm, July 9, 1837, and died In Deerfield in December, 1S50),
were burled in the old Evangelical Association Churchyard
In North Northficld. 111. About, fifty years later (about
’.905) under the supervision of Philip Jacob Gutzler’s daughter, Mrs. Lydia Himmel, the three caskets wero disinterred
intact and removed to the newer cemetery half a milcT'east
of the church.
Philip Gutzler was born In Gcrsthcim, April 2, 1830. and
camo to Deerfield with his parents In 1841. He attended
the Wilmot School, and lived the usual life of a boy on the
.farm. When he was nineteen the whole United States was
electrified by the rumor of astounding gold discoveries In
our newly acquired territory of California. It was almost
without inhabitants, and the field was open to all who could
get there. The wildest excitement and activity prevailed
throughout the country, and every city and village throbbed
with feverish Impulse to rush to the "diggings." The
boys on the farm "out west," as Illinois was then called,
did not escape-the contagion.
Tho maps then published showed all of the territory west
of the state of Missouri as a blank across which was printed
the words "Great American Desert." The difilculty of
reaching this unknown country restrained thousands from
the attempt, so that those only who possessed natural
courage or adventurous proclivities actually made the great
plunge.
In 1851, Philip Gutzler could no longer resist the golden
lure, and being then or age, felt that he was free to go,
and, in company with several other young men or the neigh
borhood (among whom were Jacob Ott and Ills nephew.
Jacob Ott. Philip Ott. Andrew Meier, George Arnold, Philip
Lehman and one of the Luther boys), started bn the Jour
ney. The "Argonauts” had several routes from which to
choose: A tedious sea journey around Cape Horn, a partly '
sea and partly land route across the Isthmus of Panama,
or Nicaragua, or Mexico, or following westward the buf
falo trails which were already outlined by the bleaching
bones of beasts and men who had succumbed to the hard
ships of the desert, or had been killed by tho Indians. Tho
• Dcorflcld party choso the routo across the Isthmus of Pan
ama.
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The ocean voyages, with the poor accommodations of tho
uotnrlnuiily lundoqunln vnminln. worn a much drnadod part
*»f llio JournXsy; but ail ho ulwayu wau n good a uullor, Philip
Gutzlcr was In better health and spirits than tho majority
or the paaoengoro when they came to anchor In tho Harbor
of Chagreo.
Travel ucroiiii the liilhimm wan by cniiouu, or buugon, up
tho Chagres River, following about tlio samo lino as the
Panama Canal, was dug- sixty years later. Part of the
distance tho men walked and over some of the way they
wero carried In chairs strapped on the backs of the natives.
These natives, who beforo the "Gold Rush" were exception
ally honest people, by two years' contact with American
radians, had been changed to thieves and murderers, and
the whole route across tho Isthmus was Infested with Amer. lean, English and Spanish highwaymen, who pounced upon
defenseless travellers at every opportunity. After crossing
the Isthmus there was another sea journey (which some
times took three months) beforo they passed through the
Golden Gate, and stepped ashore upon the "Promised Land.”
Philip Gutzler’s next five years were spent In the vicinity
of San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, and Santa Cruz.
For five years tho "rush" continued. Some of the dis
coveries were wonderful, but the greater number of people,
wrought to a pitch of nervous frenzy by the myriad reports
flying about, were too easily Influenced to leave a locality
of moderate wealth to plunge into the unknown beyond the
mountains.
After months of fruitless searching for the proclaimed
‘Inexhaustible focus of gold," they would return those who
had not succumbed to privation—poverty stricken and rag
ged, to find the claims they had left already occupied.by
fresh arrivals.
This sort of work was too uncertain to suit Philip Gutzler,
so after two years of Indifferent success at placer mining,
lie started-to grow wheat. Some of the time that he was In.
California flour was as high as one dollar a pound, and
many a man mined half a day to pay the price of a loaf
of bread.
Sugar cost a dollar a pound, and butter two dollars and
a half.
The producer’s profits were certain and though not large
compared to that of the most fortunate gold seeker’s, at any
rnto Inrgo onougli to prove tho wisdom of his choice.
Philip Gutzler prospered until ho had a severe attack of
typhoid fever. With .this, and its attendant ills, he was
sick for a year. A man nurse was employed when the
most ordinary labor cost ten dollars a day. Eggs >vere
ono dollar each, and milk seventy-five cents a quart. This
year’s sickness cost Philip Gutzler a small fortune, but,
even with such* great expense, the years spent in Californfa
pyi>—l profitable.
The first letter to reach him from his Illinois home told
of his mother’s death, and after being away five years, he
was called home by the death of Ills father. By that time
a railroad had been built so the Journey was not attended
with so many hardships.
?
On his return It was arranged that Philip should tako his
father’s farm, care for the younger children of the family,
and as his six brothers and sisters became of age, to pay
each one thousand dollars.
On July 29, 1857, Philip Gutzler married Adclla Wilmot
daughter of Lyman and Clarissa Dwight Wilmot. The re
mainder of his life was spent on the old homestead where
ho led tho active life of a successful farmer. Plls last six
years were marred by falling health, and on. June 30, 18S2,
he died at the age of fifty-two, respected as a man of the
highest honor. After his death the farm was sold to George
Stryker.
Michael was tlje second son or Philip Jacob Gutzler and
his wire, Margaret Elizabeth I-Ictzcl. Michael was born
June 15, 1833,, In Gcrsthcim. Alsace. He married Mary
I weed, November, 1855, In Waukegan, III. They made their
home In Mount Vernon, Iowa.
Mary Elizabeth (always called by her second name) was
Vjri1
1®; 184*; married John Stryker on March 27,
iSGO. 1 hey lived ln Northficld. then in Ravenswood, III
whero Mrs. Stryker died December 27. 1914. She was burled
In Grnccland Ccmotcry.
, *r.ayy’ b0Trn October 30. 1842, In Deerfield, III,, married
111 StorHngJI?|UCt ° CbIctlE:o' January 5, 1859. She died
Anna Lydia (always known as Lydia), who was born
S°“il0r,7n-,,,o*.<"-J,,llDoonrfioMl
Chl«eo.
EviuigoUca,
‘-ha
auperfect w !iv cs^lh rtii °t 1 Tosc whTch°K
�m
Clil«:n(r0 Novci!*’i** 1
rc?!;r
'vo,mi,,» a,,d “Nor her death In
managed ably to
^^rand
s,“u"
.„
wont to a place In ,„e
tl"** when the toucher "bourdo 1 uro iid'u„!i AT wwro fho
mio of Adel la's pupils asked ir Ji
o ,u?lU ono morning
house next week. 1 “Next week?*
c?mo to tIle,r
better do. Ma says she wants vo„ fflYe>i m£*m’ and *a
and tho flour aro all gone ’’ 1 7
1
0 befor0 tho ^
gTSM?
Sho attended ^ifso^ooli1 ^Iattl0)! b°™ “ay 24. S'
western Uni versify <?]?«?; afwr)vard &0'ne to the Northa»d Cook Counties’
?
1,1 various places ImLalco
Eanlzed the 0 A O Snfl,1Ci; frIand-’ E*nma Hall. or:
°‘ln llm hshd a l0ne’ °*<sten1e In Deerfldd!'' 1 “t,rar* eQ'
■
where she married Elmer'E "hllMc?
CoIoradoHattlo Gutzlcr Miller dfnd rLM . ’ November 14. 1888.
after she heeame°adIjWdCemb0r
1888' 'C33 lbaa a
tended schoSserit„GLaker^3 Vor» >avcU 23. 1802. Ho at■■led Anna L. Hodman or hI^ aild
c,llcaEo. Ho mareast 31, 1SS-1. They movedTn ?° “• I_ ,cnry Col"u>'- I"-. An-
wGo°rf Henry''^ut’m^ 'S ^ f3°Utb
dale Mich EanV°°HnA?ad0my and ^Ulsdale College, H'Us
USs! He mm rled MarJ"Si a aa“la™" ia Colorado In
Stryker) of Doorfinid n
oStijlcci (daughter of George
make hla
l1i8?°i. ?? returncd ^
G. 1920.
en,c,d ,n lsy3- and died hero January
tended locaKsc lio»|“ ! ml NmLl
", "
3‘ 1SG'k Ho at'
In l.artncrshl,,
h'
" ,."°Sor" Ulli/«‘sUy. llo was
when George rotui-nclto iim, * 2?0,'?c- l" CoIoiad°. and
et the ranches and’stock
L°Vl Look «
vlllc^Coforado, GOctobo;n28r‘lsS7NOD
thou'- y-
n
'n Lcad--
Franco. In tho Argonno Forest!
°n the batt,c,1<:Id3 •«*
citizens. ?lol*d*id'V?n h'ls tomn c0m>n>nilty’s most useful
March 31, 1927. Ho was
nadlum' Colorado,
llenver, „„ Ulu (Iay l.ororo hm'ii xt^thl'"? n"!, 9°mcloryversary.
M,xly-thhd birthday annl-
neafl'relg'ueen.qa,!fLru3nu!uair0V0'’1'le,r 27> 18CG' When
Northwestern University ho
u\°}£slng atudcnt In
January 2S. lSSd
llc is buwl^ d,pbLhci^ ^ Evanston.
Frances Willard, the noted tomnl..in Dcc.rn°ld Cemetery.
Sunday School tiacher
tcmpcrance advocate, was his
is a g^dua?eCofC
7' 1875- She
vcrslty: graduate of ScotL S^io^ 'n" ^ l> Pcnvcr Un«*
She was married on I<>br^
°C E,O0utIon.
SkInker of Denver. Colorado ^vh'ero 9<.h«t0 Gco,’e(' M«>->’ay
furnished the details of tills* most iniorno^ rf3,dc3lory, also some new material iov thl iS fJStI"er tamlly '"*•
Adella Wlhnot (who married^hnin rutlrtfv'i
Bi?ryyears of age when she came fro
v01 p was but four
wltli her parents In 1840. Her colon hi York ,to Dcc,’dcld
tho Bradley. Dwight Porte. PvS
ancestry Includes
and Bancroft fnml ies^ whiio M,/1„e7l-xNe'vbcrry. Willis,
berry library In Chicago a ul in
l" thc New!
genaloglcal records.
other libraries containing
In her old age many were the storied
i
...
her grandchildren of the singing
/
i
l?}a lo
ing bees" that were held in thp\rh«ni \ ‘l
110 sPc11’
‘‘apple parings,” and the "eon.1 hikings "h°US°*
, Qnd of the
In the neighborhood of the Wlhnot *’ ’ and tho quiltings
and Doarfleld Scliools.
nnd of one hostess who reached
111 o acme of clocaiico hv
providing little dishes ,U saucers/°
SCt l!,0,p cups ^hllj
they drank tea from their
S ch ool°h c fat ho i^Took °h c r *t If.lj her ty vl Uodte ° the WiImot
in tho Academy. This was such n Ion 1° pur.BU0 a courso
It was necessary for them to rcinal i Sn!'0,,F .J®l,Pncy that
in Half Day (a distance reached In
/ n,g U at an
In an automobllo today). After-sunnof. M,nu half nn hour,
about tho fireplace and talked, while Two nli®,”10*1 ^athorcd.
i n rni'iim*
.
Old WOHlAn pIioMa.i
corner. Hnn
One old ________
woman ...
told that
whr»n
'T°men chatted'.
- sno was
was na hn'"'
baby •
wns so small that she could Ho
10o Wns
father's hand and rest”lic!• “)»oad 'on1 h°l,,Ul^ falm of her.'
Tho other old c-ono. Intently i, to°ostod
Cor a
ishinent, Inquired. "And did you i|VQS-* r (l ,n eroat aston-.
ness came thc reply. "They .said I did n,w!‘ 1>e,rcct serious-
....... ....... .
-t^^ AS5:^ns„t■
M
jmsSHSiwH?s“-
pissn
Piiilll
SSdW, toeot!.lorramois m ne . They ‘stt uck" l' rich-0'
AUlerson'broth'Tld's 111031
IlllisSIsli
Aldersou were very religious More* ri,nI „m0t a?d John
century later when Lyman mido^ils last visit to"^^? 1.“
i'X*., 10y °nce.1,ad held- Then John Aldorson said? "iS
toi tune was not meant for us for if «#« i.n,i
’ That
never could have served my Lord and &«.«??■ .SCCUTrcd it I
satisfaction that they haS°noTwhlwd\heath!n0ghf0ra ^hV0*
S’ :SS'C Ss
avSF - “■ *■»=,ts,:;
He never
tease l.rm'about''l,olHga" old mamiT" Sl?le,\ 1Slla’ llked ‘®
loads and slow traveflnc U ^vnl r ' ,In tho days of bad
many of tho household suinlfM rS!,,,d ^J^enient to buy
Jew happened to stoo at nli wn ^,0»nl l,eddlei's. One day a
Ste.t£"vf‘“
looting sheath/ It was obvIo s M,^^ U,,der the ^
woiild bo useful for many things
* new ,nvent,on
nearly stranded by''im^'efforts tT'kn ,nl?"<led and was
^ t^o„m us: at “vr *50
Dcei-nold of tho "Safety first" Wen.^
•l'-.
Introduet,on ‘"to
�.d;Mon's Club with u membership of 17. Like the J. O. Tt.
Club ibis organ!-/.alion has for its purpose Christian
P% T sorvlco nml fellowship. Two inonihoru of the club uro
l OHO
The president of Iho
. oMcom la tbo Sunday School,
•allduh In a mmulior of the church council Tbo uidwrlng
*'or
:BMiJt *1 tho divine niwvlr.im In In charge of the Young Mon h
2- ui ?W.j Club. Two inciuliui'H iiorvu uu mauagum of U»o ill. 1’nul it
Honihl. The club was organized In Iho spring of 1!)G.
>' v.i tM Tbo present olllcors of Iho organization arc: l'Toyd Bock,
-9vjS
President; Alfred Schwab, Treasurer; Alfred Johnson,
set-'Mjft g®. Socrctary.
As
•■•lloth clubs meet every Sunday morning for religious
Instruction, and one evening a month, for business, soiemand fellowship.
Pod
ood
was |f ffc'THE. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION CHURCH
• iftffi& Tlio Evangelical Association Church in Amorica was
;ory, v,g£ &$$■<founded by Jacob Albright among the Pennsylvania Gcrd Inm gSS'mani In Novoinlier, 1803, in Lebanon, County, Pcnnsyltl\e '.S gS'Yftnla. "These people have a dialect, customs, and traits
nlon
SgSpH'ot.character peculiarly their own," according to tho hiseacli m pElorlon of The Annals of the Evangelical Association of
v'ii M.Norlh America and • History of. ti»o United Evangelical
tho I|f; Church, ltcv. A. Stapleton. The first; church and printheld
lug olllcc of tbo Evangelical Association was erected In
i guy l |llE 1816 In Now Uorlln. Union County. Pennsylvania. This
church Is really a Cerman Methodist Church, but Is an
$ &Tentirely Independent one. The original members wore
culled "Albrights."
, .
servWhJ
stify- % f-vis■ 'lyTlio first Evangelical Church in Illinois was organized
the Stnngcr Grove, the home of Martin Stangcr, father
m on;..y*
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.
®$*“orly-flvo years ago the third one was built on the souLliber. :®®VC8l corncr of JoIlu Slreicher's land given for the pur^gwjl^Tho Philip Brand family walked from their farm a
mm
„ DLL iBsSfinllo north of Deerfield to the North field corncr to nlMr.
'
' ■'I'E^’vlond church services, a distance of four miles.
harcU-$ KjJroml helped hew Lhe logs for the first church.
*
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.
, .
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
olinson,"*j
additional for each child under fourteen years of
•••vMv/J •
an extra amount for traveling expenses.' "This
ll’S
«»UB08 considerable rejoicing. There was a surplus in
• i iSibo Conference Treasury that was also divided."
Young
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,
oorolary
®G00rgo EhcIioi* was rocolvco
i the conference.
ry.
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trict have more letters daily than all the rest oi: the county, yet are left dependent on
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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first post office in the village of Deerfield was established May 4, 1850.
Deerfield was a settlement of buildings at the crossing of Waukegan Road and Deerfield
Road, but in those days, the roads were muddy except where planks were laid for wagon
wheels, and there were farms on both sides of the rutty road west thru the Wilmot farm to
the Des Plaines River. Caleb Cadwell was appointed post master, and the first office was
in his home. He owned buildings on both sides of Waukegan Road. Assisted by his daughter,
Rosclla, Cadwell served until 1854. A list of the postmasters in Deerfield since Cadwell:
Appointed
August 19, 1886
Walter II. Mi lien
Lewis Beecher
February 14, 1854
December 8, 1890
Jacob C. Antes
Eliab Gifford
October 28, 1854
Mathias Horenberger October 29, 1894
Hobart J. Milien
June 8, 1859
December 9, 1898
James H. Fritsch
Madeson 0. Cadwell
August 27, 1861
Samuel P. Hutchison November 21, 1906
Lyman Wilmot
March 26, 1864
August 15, 1914
Arthur J. Ender
Nelson C. Hall
August 31, 1866
July 31, 1922
Mrs. Fred H. Meyer
Mrs. Jane McCartney May 29, 1867
June 8, 1926
Fred H. Meyer
Christian Antes
January 15, 1869
March 1, 1934
John J. Welch
Christian M. Willman November 14, 1958 and
presently Deerfield Postmaster
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§£■ Deerfield, including Lake Forest. It was established in 1887 in Lancasterville, in the
area later called Everett. This postal service was discontinued in 1909, however, when
^4 Rural Free Delivery started out of the Deerfield post office, when Samuel P. Hutchison
was postmaster in an office in his general store on Deerfield Road near Waukegan Road.
& RFD was authorized by Congress in 1904 but did not start in this region until five years
later. Using a horse drawn mail wagon, the carrier was William Carl "Billy” Ott, less
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Tho abolitionist sentiment existed in Deerfield
and Its adjacent areas. A “station" on the
Underground Railroad was operated by Lyman
Wilmot, and a runaway slave was received here
and given quarters for the v/lnter of 1058 at the
home of Lorenz OIL’ Abolitionists from Highland
Park would come to Deerfield to debate the Issuo
at the corner of Deerfield and Waukegan Roads.1
The runaway slave, Andrew Jackson, was 20
years old and came from a Mississippi plantation.
His father was the plantation owner, a white man,
and because of this, the slavo received greater
liberty than other slaves, providing /him with an
opportunity to escape. His flight from Mississippi
was an ordeal which included temporary capture
by his pursuers.*
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Jackson lived with the Ott family, and did
chores while there. He built a while picket fence
and gale, but asked that it be taken down when
tho slaves were freed-German thrift could not ac
cede to this request. In the spring, Jackson was
taken to Chicago from where ho sailed to Canada.
He corresponded with the Ott family from there.4
The abolitionist sentiment was not universally
embraced, however, and many men were unable
to acknowledge a personal involvement in the
abolition Issuc-parlicuiarly In the resulting war.*
Antiv/ar sentiment was so strong that a bounty
was required to induce enlistments. The bounty
was $40 per man at tho beginning of the war, but It
was 51 COO by the end.*
There were a few “copperhead” and "a lodge or
two ol Knights of the Golden Circle,"* which wore
southern sympalhiziers, but “never constituted an
effective fifth column."' A strong Union League
existed to counteract any disloyalty that may
have disgraced the County.*
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Doorflold Grand Army of tho Republic
Captain McCaul’s Shield Guards were ap
parently the first volunteers. Their formation was
announced on April 20, 1061, and Ihcy Joined an
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Irish regiment In Chicago.'* On April 29, 1061,
nlnoly volunteers from southern Lake County art
rived at Waukegan." On May 4,1061, the Union RIv
fie Guards were formed. On June 6, the County
Board of Supervisors appropriated 55,000 for
bounties to encourage enlistments."
During the summer of 1061, Companies C and F
of the 37lh Illinois Infantry were organized. Cap
tain Eugcno B. Payne and Captain Erwin B.
Messer were tho officers of these Companies.
During the winter of 1061-1062, half of Company I,
45th Illinois Infantry, and half of Company F of the
C5th Infantry were organized; Company G of the
51st Illinois Infantry was organized, and all went
to Camp Douglas.w it Is not certain whether Virgil
Wilmot, the son of Lyman Wllmot who operated
the underground railroad, served In the 45th" or
the 55lh" Illinois Infantry.
Thomas Mooney of Deerfield had the unique
service record of serving on both sides. He was In
ducted Into the Confederate Army while working
as an engineer on a Mississippi River steamboat,
but escaped after two years and Joined the Union
Army."
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Several Deerfield men died as a result of the
Civil War, cither from Illness, Injuries received In
battle or from the hardships of the prison camps.
Several more were crlpplod. Those who served In- .
elude the following:
1. Mario Word Flolcholt, Tho History of DoorNoId, Glonvlow
Pross, 1928, p. 107.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 49.
0. Ibid.
o! Richard Holsladlor, Tho American Ropubllc Vol. I: to 1865,
Prontlss Hall, 19G4, p. G14.
9. nolchclt, loc. ell.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 115.
10. Ibid., p. 50.
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son
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wife. Ruth, died on Seplember 10” Another son
died a year later. No cause of death Is suggested
in the materials available, but the prevalence of
epidemic diseases in late summer has been
documented.
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A prairie lire destroyed Wright’s winter hay sup
ply and the Indians helped him to survive the first
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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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21. Ibid.
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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Ihe Deerfield area. He was the classic bucksklnn*
ed frontiersman. His mother, a Virginian, had
been captured and raised by the Shawnee and
married an English officer at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Clark's uncle, John Klnzle, was a noted Chicago
pioneer, and his stepfather, Jonas Clybourn, was
also numbered among Chicago’s first settlers.
John Klnzie Clark was raised with the Indians.
He had acquired their ways and was called "In
dian" Clark by settlers, but the Indians named him
"Nannlmoa," the prairie wolf. He was a skilled
hunter and a man of great endurance. He was an
express rider between Fort Wayne, Chicago and
Milwaukee, and brought supplies to Deerfield by
pack saddle. For two years, 1031-33, ho oven serv
ed as the Chicago coroner.
Clark had an Indian wife and a number of
children In Wisconsin, but lator In life married a
whllo woman. Pormclla Scott of DcKalb, and settl
ed In Deerfield. This marriage produced two
daughters, Elizabeth and Haddassah, who marrled Hobart and Walter Millen respectively.
His attempts to farm In Northflcld met with
failure. Clark was a hunter, not a farmer, and his
friends, the Indians, came to hunt and camp with
him on his farm. After he served In the Civil War,
he bought a home In Deerfield In 10G5. Ho is
buried in the Deerfield Cemetery.
Clark was the true frontiersman, apparently not
very adaptable to the agrarian transition that took
place during his lifetime. Those frontier skills
were best suited for survival In the hostile pre
settlement environment which so devastated
those lirst settlors, but they proved to have little
value In post settlement Deerfield.5'
library to read this book and find out about the
past. Sho lists among tho first settlors—given . v
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Captain Wright
Jonathan Kcnnlcott
Jcsso Wllmot
Horace Lamb
Tho Cadwells
Martin Luther
Michael Meehan
Oil
Mooney
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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Gerfield's doslVabllNv0 *U,<1 °l,lllcal,onal work, adds to
ecsii ability as a residence place.
DEERFIELE) athletic association
yers iaCthf,n«tl^thIcti,c ARSOciation» of which Jack
cn of tho Viii tl°n jUld •sl)0n30l'»
composed of young
‘H Players7
^ who aro chaml»°» baseball and footuong suburbaii"SM?i^S.
School I« second to uono
bool Is far qinJ'i E l»SC ,?<, »8, Tbo Deurfiel<l Grammar
uuerous V-niV ? 1 -L? w iaL il was lon years ago.. The
eiiAc^s [0?,“bB3 the vicinity, such as Briergate,
irnon RldVo
u' ^ 1 hfim, lOxmoor. Oiiwontsla,
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’ 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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According to .Schedule—Action on
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Ita.lroad traded ,l°ad a,,d tho
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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
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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.
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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
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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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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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Wilmot deeded one quarter acre of land
at the northwest corner (corner of
Wilmot and Deerfield Roads today)
of their farm for .a school,
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(a township,
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1847 with Rosella Cadwell as the
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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.)
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frame, one-room structure.
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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
Carriages
Carroll County Missouri
Casper Ott
Cattleman
Chagres River
Chargres Harbor
Charles Gutzler
Charles Levi Gutzler
Chicago Coroner
Chicago Courthouses
Chicago Illinois
Chicago River North Branch
Christian Antes
Christian Jaquet
Christian Lintner
Christian M. Willman
Clarissa Dwight
Clarissa Dwight Wilmot
Clarissa Wilmot
Clark Knights
Coach House
Colesville New York
Colorado
Colorado State Legislature
Confederate Army
Connecticut
Cook County Illinois
Copperheads
Corn Huskings
Country Physician
Countryman
Cow
Crown Hill Cemetery
Cuba Township Illinois
Dailey
Daniel Wright Jr.
Davis C. Steele
Dawson
Dedham Massachusetts
Deerfield Area Historical Society
Deerfield Argonauts
Deerfield Assessor
Deerfield Centennial Celebration
Deerfield Corners
Deerfield Filling Station
Deerfield Garden Apartments
Deerfield Historic Village
Deerfield Historical Cemetery
Deerfield Historical Map
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Massachusetts
Deerfield Our Athenian Club (OAC)
Deerfield Postmaster
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield School
Deerfield Town Hall Meetings
Deerfield Township
Deerfield Township Post Office
Deerfield Village Store
DeKalb Illinois
Delta County Colorado
Dennis Lancaster
Denver Colorado
Denver University
Denver University Preparatory Department
Deputy United States Marshall
Des Plaines River
Diphtheria
District Schools
Dorsey
Dose
Doyle
Duffy
Dwight
Dwight Porter Wilmot
E.J. Ginter
Edwin Cadwell
Edwin Kittell
Eggs
Eglon Washington
Electa Hoyt
Electa Hoyt Bennett
Eliab Gifford
Elijah M. Haines
Elisha Gridley
Elizabeth Clark Millen
Elizabeth Gutzler
Elizabeth Gutzler Stryker
Elizabeth Luther
Elizabeth Luther Wilmot
Ella Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot
Ellen Eliza Wilmot Kittell
Elmer E. Miller
Emma Hall
Emmett Post Office
England
Epidemic Diseases
Erastus Bailey
Erin
Erwin B. Messer
Eugene B. Payne
Eva P. Vant Wilmot
Evangelical Association Church
Evangelical Association Church Des Plaines Conference District
Evangelical Association Church of North America
Evangelical Association Churchyard
Evangelical Church
Evanston Illinois
Evergreen Colorado
Fagan
Farm Hand
Father Marquette
First Presbyterian Church
Flatboat
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
Heavy Timberland
Henry B. Steele
Henry County Illinois
Henry Gutzler
Henry Place
Henry S. Vail
Henry Walton
Henry Wells
Henry Wessling
Highland Park Alderman
Highland Park Illinois
Highland Park Mayor
Highland Park Post Office
Highwaymen
Highwood Academy
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
Illinois
Illinois Republican Party
Iowa
Irish
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
Lamb
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
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The underground railroad in Illinois / by Glennette Tilley
Turner ; introduction by Juliet E.K. Ualker.
1st ed.
Glen Ellyn, IL : Neuman Educational Publishing, 2001.
xix, 285 p.
ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-266) and index.
1) Underground railroad — Illinois.
2) Slavery — United States.
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Harcourt. Brace, & ••
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the life of Harriet Tubman. Contains repr
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^to'Tsvhoi^the“Tof rTttnni“E°°-ion-on theUnderground Railroad. Based on the
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Severance, Frank Hayward. OLD TRAILS ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER.
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my story of the civil war and the underground railButler, Marvin Benjamin.
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ROAD. Huntington. IN: The
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The struggles of the new
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Howard, Elizabeth. NORTH WINDS BLOW FREE. New York: W. Morrow. 1949.
Philo Carpenter operated Under
ground Railroad stations in his home
and in the First Baptist Congregational
Church. His home in Chicago was the
UGRR station where Israel Blodgett of
Downers Grove and John Coe of
Hinsdale took passengers. Carpenter's
brother was married to the sister of
Julius Warren, founder of Warrenville.
Meadowcroft, Enid La Monte. BY SECRET RAILWAY. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co 1948 n™ oslave boy Bed 1860 to the home of David Morgan in Chicago He is betrayed by a boarder who ^H
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McMeekin. Isabella. JOURNEY CAKE. New YorkMessner. 1942. In 1794 Juba, a free woman of color
takes six motherless white children into Kentucky where
their father has gone to settle.
Sterling, Dorothy. CAPTAIN OF THE PLANTER: THE
STORY OF ROBERT SMALLS. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1958. Biography of Robert Smalls, who was bom a slave, and during the Civil War
piloted a captured Confederate boat past the guns of Fort Sumter and delivered it to the Union
forces. Later he became a leader of his people and was sent to Congress. He suffered humiliation
during Reconstruction because he refused to compromise his principles.
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Nolen. Eleanor Weakley. A JOB FOR JEREMIAH.
London: New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. A lit
tle slave boy tries many jobs while selecting his future
trade.
FREEDOM TRAIN: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Scholastic Book Services,
1954. A biography of Harriet Tubman as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Wriston, Hildreth Tyler. SUSAN’S SECRET. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1957.
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Yates, Elizabeth. AMOS FORTUNE, FREE MAN. New York Puffin Books, 1950. (Reprints 1963,
1989) A biography of Amos Fortune, an eighteenth-century African prince. After being captured
by slave traders, he was brought to Massachusetts where he remained a slave until he was able to
buy his freedom at sixty years old.
L.C. Paine Freerer was a prominent
lawyer who settled in Chicago in 1836
and died in Wheaton in 1878. He made
Underground Railroad passengers and
touring black antislavery speakers wel
come in his home. He encountered per
sonal danger when he served armed
court officials with legal warrants. On
one occasion he and a party on horse
back chased a party of slave catchers
nearly across the state of Illinois in an
attempt to free an enslaved man, but
without success.
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adventures which befall a young man during the Revolutionary War. (Reprint 1967)
Buckmaster, Henrietta. LET MY PEOPLE GO: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
AND THE GROWTH OF THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT. New York: Harper. 1941.
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Riley, Louise. TRAIN FOR TIGER LILY. New York: Viking,
1954. Tiger Lily is a magical place where a chain of fantastic
events is set off by the arrival of a train on which there are
four children two animals, and a magician train porter.
Steinman, Beatrice. THIS RAILROAD DISAPPEARS. New
York: F. Watts, 1958. Thirteen -year-old Seth convinces
his parents and neighborhood abolitionists that he can be
trusted as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Crowell.
1955. Biography emphasizing the character and personality
of Harriet Tubman, whose unshakable faith led her to guide
hundreds of slaves to freedom by the Underground Railroad.
Siebert, Wilbur Henry. THE MYSTERIES OF OHIO’S
UNDERGROUND RAILROADS. Columbus: Long's
College Book Co. 1951.
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Curtis, Anna Louis. STORIES OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: The Island
Workshop Press Co-op, 1941.
1950
Bontemps. Arna. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: SLAVE
FIGHTERS, FREEMAN. New York: Knopf, 1959. A
biography of the runaway slave who devoted his life to
the abolition of slavery and the fight for Black rights.
Breyfogle, William x. MAKE FREE: THE STORY OF
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Philadelphia:
Lippincott, 1958.
Buckmaster, Henrietta. FLIGHT TO FREEDOM: THE
STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New
York: Crowell, 1958. A history of the founding and opera
tion of the Underground Railroad with background mate
rial on slavery, the growth of the abolition movement in
spite of opposition in the North. The leaders of both
races and the role of the African American after the Civil
War includes many accounts of the experiences of escap-
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1968. Born a slave but determined to be free, Harriet Tubman ran away from slavery and returned
ma ny times to free her enslaved people.
Fisher, Aileen Lucia. A LANTERN IN THE WINDOW.
New York: T. Nelson. 1957. Twelve-year-old Peter goes to
live with his Quaker uncle whose farm on the bank of the
Ohio River gives him a view of the steamboats he loves
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New York: Lothrop. 1959. A twelve-year-old white boy and
his uncle, The Freedom Man. help Daniel a slave boy and
his family obtain their freedom when they meet on a jour
ney to Kansas.
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Bacmeister. Rhoda. W. VOICES EN THE NIGHT.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs, 1965. New England and an
Underground Railroad station are the background for this
story. When Jeanie’s widowed mother is forced to break
up her family because she cannot take care of them, Jeanie
is sent to live with the Aldens, who secretly operate a station.
Bradford. Sarah. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE MOSES OF
HER PEOPLE. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel. 1961. A story of
Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made
nineteen journeys deep into the South to escort over 300
slaves to freedom. The book deals mostly with the excit
ing details of her pilgrimages, but also stresses her fervent
religious motivation.
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Douglass, Frederick. LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Ed by Barbara Rirchie. New
York- Crowell, 1966. An adaptation of the last revision (1892) by the author of a book first pub-' '■" >
lished in 1842. It is a story of Douglass’ escape from slavery and his rise to prominence.
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Douglass, Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Old
Tappan, NJ: Scribner, 1953. A tale of three boys - one
white one black and one a Seminole Indian - who find
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Joseph Henry Hudlun, Sr. was a
member of the Chicago Board of
Trade for forty years. During the
Great Chicago Fire he rescued
many valuable docments. His oil
portrait hangs in the Board's Hall
of Celebrities. The home he and
Anna Hudlun built near Dearborn
Station was one of the first built in
Chicago by black owners. They
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Railroad station there. Courtesy of
the Vivian G. Harsh Collection,
Wrighf a Quaker, and carried messages back and forth, wrapped in foil in a decayed tooth.
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THE LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Ptess, 1961. The author questions and attempts to determine
the extent to which the Underground Railroad accounts are factual.
Gara, Larry
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Browin, Frances WUliams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
Carrighar, Sally. THE GLASS DOVE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
Clark, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & WagnaUs, 1969. After spend
ing four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are
property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on
Underground Railroad.
Danforth. Mildred E. A QUAKER PIONEER: LAURA HAV1LAND, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Exposition Press, 1961.
Children, 1967.
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is sent to live with the Aldens, who secretly operate a sta
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HER PEOPLE. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1961. A story of
Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made
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slaves to freedom. The book deals mostly with the excit
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Gara. Larry THE LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Browin. Frances Williams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
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Claris, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. After spend
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property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on
Underground Railroad.
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to the North H CW>]m* plantatl0n in an attemPt to reach their freed father five hundred miles
Udenburg, Thomas J. and William S. McFeely. THE BLACK MAN IN THE LAND OF EQUALITY.
ew or . ayden Book Co., 1969. Traces the history of the black man in America through the
Reconstruction of the 1870’s and the desegregation of the 1950’s to the riots of the 1960’s.
Danforth, Mildred E. A QUAKER PIONEER: LAURA HAVILAND. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Exposition Press, 1961.
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(Reprint 1993) A brief biography in verse about Harriet Tubman and her dedicated efforts to lead
her fellow slaves to freedom.
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black Quaker member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery
Society, secretary of the Philadelphia Vigilance
Committees active abolitionist, and son of two sla ves.
worked as an agent on the Underground Railroad. He
interviewed “passengers" in order to gain information
that would enable family members to locate loved ones
in Canada. This book is a compilation of those inter
views he recorded in narrative form, as weU as letters
and newspaper clippings about slavery and the run
aways.
Lester. Julius, ed. TO BE A SLAVE. New York: Dial Press. 1968. A compilation selected from vari
ous sources and arranged chronologically of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about the
experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Loguen, Jermain Wesley. THE REV. J. W. LOGUEN. AS A SLAVE AND AS A FREEMAN; A NAR
RATIVE OF REAL LIFE. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. (Reprint 1859)
McGovern, Ann. RUNAWAY SLAVE: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Four
Winds Press (Scholastic), 1965. A simply told biography of Harriet Tubman which gives a vivid
account of her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
WANTED—DEAD OR ALIVE: THE TRUE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Four
Winds Press, 1965. A biography of the slave who escaped to freedom, then returned and led three
hundred other slaves to the North by way of the Underground Railroad.
McPherson. James M. THE NEGRO’S CIVIL WAR: HOW NEGROES FELT AND ACTED DURING
THE WAR FOR THE UNION. New York: Pantheon, 1965. The author presents documentary evi
dence from Black and abolitionist newspapers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and official records to
show that Blacks actively participated and many became leaders in the emancipation of the slaves
from 1860 to 1865.
Patterson, Lillie. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Champaign. IL: Garrard Publishing Co., 1965. The
reader follows Frederick through his increasing hatred of slavery and his escape. His home in New
York became one of the Underground Railroad stations for fleeing slaves.
Sterling. Dorothy. FOREVER FREE: THE STORY OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1963. Describes the events leading up to the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation that freed over four million slaves in the United States.
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known as the “Fire Angel" because of
the hospitality she extended to fire vic
tims during the Chicago fires. In 1871
she and Joseph Hudlun opened their
five room home to five families—some
black and some white. Their home was
a mecca of social and civic activity. It
was an Underground Railroad station
before and during the Civil War.
Courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh
Collection, Chicago Public Library
Williams, James. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES
WILLIAMS. A FUGITIVE SLAVE. WITH A FULL
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Saratoga, CA: R. & E Research Associates, 1969.
Williamson. Joanne. AND FOREVER FREE New York:
Knopf, 1966. The social and political scene in New York
City during the years leading up to the Emancipation
Proclamation is shown through the story of an eighteenyear-old German immigrant who befriends a runaway slave.
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Strother, Horatio T. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
IN CONNECTICUT. Middletown. CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1962.
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Doubleday, 1967. Biographical portraits of four famous African Americans who escaped the slav
ery into which they had been born to further the fight for freedom and equality.
Sterne, Emma Gelders. THE LONG BLACK SCHOONER: THE VOYAGE OF THE AMISTAD.
Chicago: Follett Pub Co.. 1968. A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave
ship Amistad and the subsequent Amistad Case argued by John Quincy Adams before the United
States Supreme Court.
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Forman, James. SONG OF JUBILEE. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. This expose of slavery
reveals the ambivalent feelings among slaves in one household, particularly after freedom is granted.
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Fox. Paula. THE SLAVE DANCER New York: Dell. 1973. A stark view of slavery as seen through
the eyes of a young white boy who is shanghaied on a slaver and forced to make music for its
human cargo.
Freedman, Florence B. TWO TICKETS TO FREEDOM: THE TRUE STORY OF ELLEN AND
WILLIAM CRAFT, FUGITIVE SLAVES. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971. Contemporary
sources such as newspaper articles, journals, and the published story of William Craft help reconstruct this interesting account.
Lester, Julius.
1972. Shr s.one^l'SS^avel0^ FR°M BUCK H“ New York: Dial Press.
Grant, Matthew G. HARRIET TUBMAN, BLACK LIBERATOR. Mankato. MN: Creative
Education. 1974 A biography of the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who worked
to free her people before, during, and after the Civil War.
1975.
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Gray. Genevieve. THE YELLOW BONE RING. New York: Lothrop, 1971. The pride and responsi
bility of freedom are explored in this dramatic story of a young ex-slave in the First South Carolina
Volunteers, the first Black Union Army regiment.
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family of Quakers operating a station on the Underground Railroad spirits slaves from Ashtabula
Ohio across Lake Erie to freedom.
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Harrison. Lowell Hayes. THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT IN KENTUCKY. Lexington. KY:
University Press of Kentucky, 1978.
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rUnaW3y S,3Ve heIPs hvo li«le girls survive in
blizzard, and they in turn help him hide from his pursuers
GARRETT. Moylan, PA: Whimsie Press, 1977,
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Henderson, Nancy. WALK TOGETHER: FIVE PLAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. New York: Messner.
1972. One of the plays is the story of slaves risking their lives for freedom in the Underground Railroad.
Johnson. Ann Donegan. THE VALUE OF HELPING: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. La
Jolla, CA: Value Communications, 1979. Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding
slaves to flee the South in assisting the Union army during the Civil War and in establishing homes
for the old and needy after the war.
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lection of poems about various subjects including a poem about Harriet Tubman and her escape
from slavery.
Heidish, Marcy. A WOMAN CALLED MOSES. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1976.
Harriet Tubman looks back over her life and tells her own story. The reader sees her as a sevenyear-old enslaved African her heartaches and griefs on through her escape by way of the
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could study law. He was a prac
ticing lawyer until he was elect
ed Justice of the Peace. He was
one of the founders of the antislavery society in 1859 and
helped establish the Western
Citizen which was edited by
Zebina Eastman.
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Barbara Claassen. RUNAWAY TO FREEDOM- A
STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. New York:
Harper & Row, 1978. Two young slave girls escape from a plan-
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THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR. New York: Collier Books, 1984. A black family moves into an
enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves Mysterious sounds and events as
well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
S^RY^
THE MYSTERY OF DREAR HOUSE: THE CONCLUSION OF THE DIES DREAR CHRONICLE
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1987. A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist
Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure hidden for one hundred years in a
cavern near their home.
WITH CON-
Facts on File Publications. 1988. Describes the liLf theVhnl^
American slaves resulted in the raid on Harpers Ferry.
/ u MAPS' New York:
Wh°Se StrUg8,e t0 free
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Hurmence, Belinda. A GIRL CALLED BOY. New York: Clarion, 1982. Mysteriously transported in
tune to the 1850 s, a young girl learns to respect the courage of her slave forebears.
Johnson, Georgia. A TOWPATH TO FREEDOM. East Lansing: G. A Johnson Publishing, 1989.
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Klingel, Cynthia Fitterer. HARRIET TUBMAN. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1987. A biog
raphy of the runaway slave who risked her life to help other slaves escape to freed om.
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Lame. Reginald. MAKIN’ FREE: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
Detroit: B. Ethridge Books, 1981. A book which traces the early arrival and exploits of a number
of lesser known African Americans who explored the Northwest regions of the United States and
Upper Canada.
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Lester, Julius. THIS STRANGE NEW FEELING. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 1985. The impact of
slavery on the human spirit is presented in three love stories based on true events.
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McKissack. Patricia and Frederick McKissack. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: THE BLACK LION.
Chicago: Children’s Press, 1987. Frederick Douglass becomes a spokesperson in the antislavery
movement.
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Meyer. Linda D. HARRIET TUBMAN: THEY CALLED ME MOSES. Seattle: Parenting Press, 1988.
Biography of the Black woman who lived as a slave, free woman, conductor of the Underground
Railroad and benefactor to the needy.
Rev. Richard DeBaptiste is associ
ated with Olivet Baptist Church in
Chicago. He and many members
of his church worked with members of Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
Church in antislavery activities.
He also took the personal risk of
loaning his freedom papers to
Underground Railroad passen
gers. After his years as pastor of
Miller, Douglas T. FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. New York: Facts
on File, 1988. Traces the life of the black abolitionist, from his early years in slavery to his later
success as a persuasive editor orator and writer.
Phelan, Helen C. AND WHY NOT EVERY MAN? AN ACCOUNT OF SLAVERY, THE UNDER
GROUND RAILROAD, AND THE ROAD TO FREEDOM IN NEW YORK'S SOUTHERN TIER.
Interlake. NY: Heart of the Lakes Pub, 1987.
Polcovar, Jane. HARRIET TUBMAN. Danbury. CT: Childrens Press Choice, 1988.
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Stein,
RAILROAD^' THErSJORYOF THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1981. Discusses the
network of groups and individuals throughout Ohio and the
New England states who aided slaves escaping from their
captivity during the nineteenth century.
Turner Ann Warren. NETTIE'S TRIP SOUTH. New YorkJheu^Iv rr87' f
year'°'dn°rthern8irlcounters
the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond,
Virginia, and sees a slave auction.
Books) Presents biographical sketches of fourteen notable
ParkTan^Sat^erp^'11^1^ ^art*n Luther King, Jr., Rosa
IS?*™. Satchel PaiSe* accompanied by brief skits in
hich readers can act out imagined scenes from their lives.
Walker, Juliet. E K FREE FRANK: A BLACK PIONEER ON
Lexington:
leadership P to Second'BaptTsf
TOEWRONruTv^6' DANIEL WEBSTER JACKSON AND
Church in Elgin. Courtesy of the
Vivian G. Harsh Collection.
Chicago Public Library
WRONGWAY RAILWAY. San Diego: Oak Tree
Publicatmns.1982- A teenage boy decides to leave his foster
"orn^ m Missouri rather than become involved in Judge
Hatcher s scheme to break up the Underground Railroad
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David and Sarah West and their five children loaded their household
goods into a wagon and left Erie County, New York, in the faU of1843.
After 23 days of travel, resting on Sundays, they arrived in Sycamore.
Their house became the stopping place for visiting Congregational
ministers and it was an Underground Railroad station. In 1840 David
West voted (only Caucasian men had the franchise) for the Liberty
Party’s presidential candidate, James G. Bimey.
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Wells, Marian. THE SILVER HIGHWAY. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1989.
1990
Adler, David A. A PICTURE BOOK OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Holiday House, 1994.
Biography of the Black woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the
Underground Railroad.
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Adler, David A. A PICTURE BOOK OF SOJOURNER TRUTH. New York: Holiday House. 1994.
An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist
and crusader for the rights of African Americans.
H^rBx9TocMNEGurD E TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York:
Braithwaite, Di ana.
Martha and Elvira.-
A ONE ACT PLAY. Toronto: SisterVisio
n. 1993.
Brandt, Nat. THE TOWN
that started the civil WAR.
Press, 1990.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Allen. Danice. ARMS OF A STRANGER. New York: Avon Books, 1995.
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Armstrong. Jennifer. STEAL AWAY. New York: Orchard Books, 1992. In 1855 two thirteen yearold girls one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey
north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two young girls.
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teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves
from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
AScX"™L™Ti, ** <**»*■*,, 1992 A „• „
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Unknown Author. WHO COMES WITH CANNONS? New York: Morrow Junior Books. 1992. In
1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North
CvU W St3tl0n °f thC Under8round Railroad when her world is changed by the beginning of the
Narrative of
Becvar. Patsy. A PLACE CALLED MOTHER HUBBARD CUPBOARD. Chicago: Nystrom, 1991.
This book is used to introduce the concepts of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Benjamin, Anne. YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN: FREEDOM FIGHTER. Mahwah.NJ: Troll
Associates, 1992. A simple biography of the Black woman who was never caught as she helped
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Cosner, Shaaron. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Franklin Watts. 1991. Describes
the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom.
Craft. William. RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM, OR THE ESCAPE OF
WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT FROM SLAVERY. Salem. NH: Ayer Co.. 1991.
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Hoobler, Dorothy. NEXT STOP. FREEDOM: THE STORY OF A SLAVE GIRL. Englewood Cliffs
help'ofHarriefTu bman'199L Emily’" ^ ^ Wh°,0ngS t0 read' eSCaPes from slaverX
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Crews. Donald. BIGMAMA’S. New York : GreenwiUow Books, 1991. Visiting Bigmama’s house in
the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its sur
roundings just the same as the year before.
Hopkinson. Deborah. SWEET CLARA AND THE FREEDOM QUILT. New York: Knopf. 1993 A
young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.
Douglas. Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Miami: Valiant Press, 1994. In the 1840s, as
Florida prepares to become a state, an Indian boy, black slave, and white settler become friends
and explore their differences and common bonds.
Johnson. La Verne C. KUMI AND CHANTI TELL THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. Chicago:
Empak Enterprises. 1992. Two African children following their mission of exploring AfricanAmerican history record the story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery and led over 300
of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Douglass. Frederick. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: THE BOYHOOD OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN
HIS OWN WORDS. Ed and illus. by Michael McCurdy New York: Knopf, 1994. A revised and
shortened edition of THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. AN AMERI
CAN SLAVE. This version of Douglass’ autobiography presents the early life of the slave who
became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.
Kinard, Lee. HARRIET TUBMAN’S FAMOUS CHRISTMAS EVE RAID. Nashville: James C
Winston Publishers, 1995.
Lawrence. Jacob. THE GREAT MIGRATION: AN AMERICAN STORY. New York: HarperCollins.
1993. A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's fami
ly. left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
Elisha, Dan. HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Brookfield, CT:
Millbrook Press, 1993. A biography of the African American woman who escaped from slavery,
led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, aided Northern troops during the Civil War.
and worked for women’s suffrage.
Levine. Ellen. IF YOU TRAVELED ON THE UNDER
GROUND RAILROAD. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
Describes the Underground Railroad which helped
slaves escape to freedom.
Forrester, Sandra. SOUND THE JUBILEE. New York: Lodestar Books, 1995. A slave and her fami
ly find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina during the Civil War.
Gaines. Edith M. FREEDOM LIGHT. Cleveland: New Day Press, 1991. The story of the antislav
ery heroes of Ripley. Ohio, based on eyewitness accounts of two of their leaders John Rankin and
John Parker.
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Marcey, Sally. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Wheaton, IL: T^ndale House Publishers. 1991. A plotyour-own story about the Underground Railroad Follow
the Ringers as they find a hidden tunnel under the old
church in town and discover it may have been used to
hide slaves The reader’s choices will determine which of
fifteen endings will happen.
Guccione. Leslie D. COME MORNING. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1995. Twelve-year-old
Freedom the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850s, takes his father’s work in the
Underground Railroad when his father disappears.
Hamilton, Virginia. MANY THOUSAND GONE: AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM SLAVERY TO
FREEDOM. New York: Knopf, 1993 Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the
Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
----- THE PEOPLE COULD FLY: AMERICAN BLACK FOLKTALES. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural and desire for freedom born
of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Haskins, James. GET ON BOARD: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York:
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Scholastic 1993. Discusses the Underground RaUroad. the secret, loosely organized network of
people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.
The portrait ofthe John Wagner family of
Aurora was painted by artist Sheldon
Peck. It was unusual in that Peck usually
painted portraits ofindividuals. His mak
ing an exception to this practice may have
had something to do with the fact that the
Wagners operated an Underground
Railroad station in Aurora and Peck oper
ated one in Lombard. Courtesy of the
Aurora Historical Society
McCay, Willie. YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE
PLANTATION TREASURE. NY: Random House, 1990.
McClard, Megan. HARRIET TUBMAN: SLAVERY AND
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990. A biography of the
courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to
become a heroic figure in the Underground Railroad.
McKissack, Patricia C. CHRISTMAS IN THE BIG
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HOUSE, CHRISTMAS IN THE QUARTERS. New York: Scholastic, 1994. Describes the customs,
recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave
quarters just before the Civil War.
SOJOURNER TRUTH: AIN’TIA WOMAN? New York: Scholastic, 1992. A biography of the for
mer slave who became well-known as a abolitionist and advocate of women’s rights.
in Illinois
Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on
the Underground Railroad in order lo reunite
with her younger brother.
beginning a new free life when he
small island off the coast of Haiti.
McMullan, Kate. THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN: CONDUCTOR OF THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD. New York: Dell, 1991.
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Monfredo, Miriam Grace. NORTH STAR CONSPIRACY. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Monjo, F. N. THE DRINKING GOURD: A STORY OF TIDE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New
York: HarperCollins, 1993. When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy dis
covers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad.
him into slavery, after which he always escaped.
family in Kansas in thTute^SOs o^erltK fstafton^n theTd
paraUeI s,ori«. a Q“aker
Pfeifer, Kathryn Browne. HENRY 0. FLIPPER. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1993.
Examines the life of the first African American graduate of West Point, including his dishonorable
discharge from the Army which was reversed nearly 100 years later.
S.adeihofen,Marcie Miller. ERIE FREEDOM SIDE. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press. 1990,
Phillips, Raelene. FREEDOM’S TREMENDOUS COST. Elkhart, IN: Bethel Pub Co. 1993. The
Stivers family tradition continues Hannah and her children struggle for freedom, this time for
southern slaves escaping to the North with the help of abolitionists and the Underground Railroad.
collection ofwritingslfy^hluthlfrs a^WE b'duBo^ T^'m' ^ Millbrook Press. «95. A
Polacco, Patricia. PINK AND SAY. New York: Philomel Books. 1994. Say Curtis describes his meet
ing with Pinkus Alee, a black soldier, during the Civil War. and their capture by Southern troops.
Wright, and Ralph Ellison, exploring the a,nnecfto„, of IT T™’ *“* Dove’ Richard
rC VCl* water’and sonS that link past
and present African American cultures.
Stolz, Mary. CEZANNE PINTO: A MEMOIR.
Pmto recalls his youth as a slave on Virginiaplamaton and'his^^0 new^etfe NoTth™'
Porter, Connie Rose. MEET ADDY: AN AMERI
CAN GIRL. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993.
Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life
of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.
rorYo™hGreoaECHNew“rt °L™yN ^'fbm mf 199T^eRICAN “T™** AND ART
Afti'an A-ka" experience as’ seen Ihro^^tTd
ADDY LEARNS A LESSON: A SCHOOL STORY.
Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993. After escaping
from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her
mother arrive in Philadelphia where Addy goes to
school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
The author confers with Fulton County his
torian Curtis Strode who wrote a newspaper
series based on the UGRR activiies of his
great grandfather, Francis Overton and fel
low abolitionists. The Overton Farm was on
the route between Quincy and Galesburg.
Rappaport, Doreen. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY:
FIVE JOURNEYS TO FREEDOM. New York:
HarperCollins, 1991. Five accounts of slaves who
managed to escape to freedom during the period
preceding the Civil War.
Ringgold. Faith. AUNT HARRIET’S UNDER
GROUND RAILROAD IN TIDE SKY. New York: Crown, 1992. With Harriet Tbbman as her guide,
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Caroirhoda Books, J995. Recounts how Allen Jay, a
°'AD. Minneapolis:
1840s, helped a fleeing slave i
Railroad.
Taylor, Marian W. HARRIET TUBMAN.
Danbury. CT: Grolier, 1990.
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Weinberg, Larry. GHOST HOTEL. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1994. Mysteriously drawn to an Indiana
museum, a twelve-year-old paralyzed girl encounters ghosts who return her to a former life, where
she attempts to save the son of a freed slave traveling by Underground Railroad in Kentucky.
Winter, Jeanette. FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD. New York: Dragonfly Books. 1992. By fol
lowing the directions in a song, “The Drinking Gourd," taught to them by an old sailor named Peg
Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
Wright, Courtni Crump. JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: A STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAIL
ROAD. New York: Holiday House, 1994. Joshua and his family, runaway slaves from a tobacco
plantation in Kentucky, follow the Underground Railroad to freedom.
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“Forever Free" by Edmonia Lewis
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Howard University
"During all my slave life I never lost sight of freedom. It
was always on my heart; it came to me like a solemn
thought, and often circumstances much stimulated the
desire to be free and raised great expectation of it"—
Ambrose Headen, born 1822, enslaved in North
Carolina and Alabama.
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Reverend Abraham Hall
Rev. Hall was not only a leader in the African Methodist Episcopal
Church. He was the grandfather of Lloyd Augustus Hall, the holder
of many patents. Lloyd Hall specialized in perfecting methods of
preserving foods. His work was essential to te development of dehy
drated Army rations during World War II. Courtesy of Vivian G.
Harsh Collection, Chicago Public Library
Allan Pinkerton solved his first crime quite by chance. While he was a
cooper, or barrel maker, in Dundee, he went to gather reeds with which to
bind the barrels. He rowed his boat to an island in the Fox River where the
reeds grew. There, he discovered the hiding place of counterfeiters whom
the local sheriff had been unable to locate. Pinkerton instantly gained a
reputation as a detective.
Braille Books for Children, 1983. The biography of a slave
whose flight to freedom was the first step in her becoming a
“conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
tation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground
Railroad.
Bledsoe. Lucy Jane. HARRIET TUBMAN. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Quercus. 1989.
Talmudge, Marian and Iris Gilmore. BARNEY FORD: BLACK BARON. New York: Dodd. 1973.
An indomitable man who escaped from slavery and became a wealthy leader in the political,
social, and business life of Denver, Colorado.
Blockson, Charles L. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Berkley, 1989. A comprehen
sive study of the Underground Railroad arranged by the geographic regions in which it operated
Based on many primary sources.
T\imer, Glennette. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN DuPAGE. Wheaton, IL: Newman, 1978.
Warner, Lucille Schulberg. FROM SLAVE TO ABOLITIONIST: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WELLS
BROWN. New York: Dial Press, 1976. The memoirs of a fugitive slave a man important in the
abolitionist movements in England and America. (Adaptation)
Bradley. David. THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT. New York: Harper & Row. 1981.
Carlson, J. HARRIET TUBMAN: CALL TO FREEDOM. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989.
Traces Harriet Tubman’s life, experience, and efforts to aid slaves in escaping to the North, as well
as her assistance to the Union cause during the Civil War.
White. Anne Terry. NORTH TO LIBERTY: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub Co., 1972. Describes the operation, stations, and famous conductors
on the Underground Railroad, a network that helped many slaves escape from bondage.
Collier, Christopher and James Lincoln Collier. WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN. New York:
Delacorte Press, 1983. Historical novel that portrays the plight of Black people during the
American Revolution.
Williams, Jeanne. FREEDOM TRAIL. New York: Putnam, 1973. Jared continues his stand against
slavery in pre-Civil War Kansas even though his father is killed by proslavers.
Collier, James Lincoln. WHO IS CARRIE? New York: Dell Pub Co., 1987. A young Black girl living
in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around
her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.
Winslow. Eugene. AFRO-AMERICANS 76: BLACK AMERICANS IN THE FOUNDING OF OUR
NATION. Chicago: Afro-Am Pub Co., 1975. Provides biographical sketches of Afro-Americans
who contributed to the exploration, Revolution, and growth of the United States.
Ferris, Jeri. GO FREE OR DIE: A STORY ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN. Minneapolis: First Avenue
Editions, 1988. A biography of the Black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South
led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad.
1980
Anderson, Joan A. WILLIAMSBURG HOUSEHOLD. New York: Clarion Books, 1988. Focuses on
events in the household of d white family and its black slaves in Colonial Williamsburg in the eigh
teenth century.
Haley, Alex. A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS. New York: Doubleday, 1988. This adven
ture, set in 1855, tells the story of a young white Southerner who helps in the Underground
Railroad and in an enslaved African’s Christmas Eve escape attempt.
Avi. SOMETHING UPSTAIRS. New York: Avon Books, 1988. When he moves from Los Angeles
to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new home is haunted by the spirit of a black
slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his mur
der by slave traders.
Hamilton, Virginia. ANTHONY BURNS: THE DEFEAT AND TRIUMPH OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.
New York: A A Knopf, 1988. A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrest
ed at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those
determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Bains. Rae. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM (Braille) Livonia, MI: Seedlings
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Up from Slavery an Autobiography
Valiant Press
Value Communications
Vidi
Viking
Virginia
Virginia Hamilton
Vivian G. Harsh
Viviian G. Harsh
Vladivostok Russia
Voices in the Night
W. McKinstry and Son
W. Tweedie
W.E.B. DuBois
Walk Together: Five Plays on Human Rights
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman
Warrenville Illinois
Wesleyan University Press
West Point
Western Citizen
Westminster
Wheaton Illinois
When the Rattlesnake Sounds: A Play
Whimsie Press
Who Comes with Cannons
Who is Carrie
Wilbur Henry Siebert
Wilbur Siebert
William Craft
William H. Mitchell
William L. Andrews
William Monroe Cockrum
William S. McFeely
William Still
William Wells Brown
William X. Breyfogle
Williamsburg Household
Williamsburg Virginia
Willie McCay
Worcester Massachusetts
World War II
Young Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter
Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure
Zebina Eastman
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The Deerfield Library Board
has formed a search
committee to identify a new
director for the Deerfield
Public Library. The committee
is inviting both applications
and nominations for the
position, which requires a
master’s degree in library
science from an ALA-accredited
institution, successful experi
ence in library administration,
excellent interpersonal skills,
personal integrity and a
commitment to public service.
To receive full consideration,
nominations and applications,
with salary history, should be
received no later than April 15
and should be sent to Ken
Abosch, Chair, Search
Committee, Deerfield Public
Library, 920 Waukegan,
Deerfield, IL 60015 or
kabosch@deerfieldlibrary.org
Dedicated to the fullest meeting
of the needs of his community
of library users and fellow
professionals, Jack Hicks is one
of those few masters...visionary,
imaginative, innovative,
effective- Webster’s infinite
list of appropriate adjectives is
insufficient to describe this true
master among us.
Administrative Librarian
to Retire in June
Jack Hicks, Deerfield resident and professional librarian at the
Deerfield Library for 34 years, will retire this June. Prior to his
appointment to Library Director 18 years ago, he was head of
the Reference Department.
It has been a long road of dedicated professional service for
Hicks, whose top priority all these years has been to serve the
Deerfield community by overseeing a library of which Deerfield
residents could be proud. In 1972 the library had a collection of
30,000 books. Today there are 185,000 volumes and a world of new formats and information
technology. Over the years, Hicks remodeled, renovated and managed to make best use of avail
able space so that patrons would enjoy a serviceable and attractive environment. Our remodeled
(in 1995) separate Fiction room is a testament to Hicks’s art and his devotion to books.
With honesty, sensitivity, integrity and creativity, Hicks has brought the library to the national
spotlight as one of the finest and most innovative libraries in the country. As a reference librari
an he left no stone unturned in researching for patrons. Serving the community, he opened the
library for numerous community events, not the least of which was serving 82 gallons of free
lemonade in the library every year for Family Days. In addition to repairing the building and the
computers, constructing a puppet theater and writing its scripts, Hicks provided the first online
information retrieval system in the north suburban area and instructed other communities in its
use. He instituted “librarian in the lobby” one day each month, listened to the community’s
wants and needs and responded to them. He had a vision for a 21st century library for Deerfield,
but unfortunately that failed in the recent referendum. He has always put fiscal responsibility
first, giving taxpayers the most for their tax dollar. Deerfield Library has more books per capita
than any other north suburban library, while remaining the lowest taxing body in the Village.
He is greatly admired by professional colleagues nationwide, board and staff. No question has
been too small, no hours too long, no challenge too tough. Robert R. McClarren, a Deerfield
resident and Director Emeritus of the North Suburban Library System, said, “Dedicated to the
fullest meeting of the needs of his community of library users and fellow professionals, Jack
Hicks is one of those few masters...visionary, imaginative, innovative, effective-Webster’s
infinite list of appropriate adjectives is insufficient to describe this true master among us.”
�Adult Programs
Programs are free but we request reservations.
Great. Decisions Foreign
Policy Discussion Group
The Treasures of
Tutankhamen
Continues through March 21, Tuesdays
at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11, 7 p.m.
Famed archeologist Dr. James Henry
Breasted (played by R.J. Lindsey) tells the
story of a civilization that flourished
centuries before the Greeks, the Romans
and the great cities of Europe. In 1922
Breasted viewed the King’s tomb and its
wondrous contents. Co-sponsors: AAUW.
The Medicare Rx Maze
Free Internet at
the Deerfield
Library
The library' has added several new
internet terminals, which are very
popular. Reference librarians can
register your Deerfield library
card for internet use and issue
nonresidents an internet card.
If you bring your own wireless
capable laptop to the library, you
can use the library’s free wireless
internet!
When you go to our library
website (www.deerfieldlibrary.org)
from any terminal you can search
the library catalog, place holds,
access your library account,
renew and reserve books, find
library program information, use
the library’s online databases for
research or information, and get
more general library information.
Thursday, March 9, 1:30 p.m.
Still confused about prescription choices?
You have until May 15 to decide without a
penalty. Jean Cleland, North Shore Senior
Center Director of Community Education,
offers the latest information.
Career Advice
Tuesdays, March 14 and April 25,
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Meet individually for one half hour with
Roberta Glick, JVS Career Counselor. You
must sign up in advance.
Chicago Bluegrass Band
Wednesday, March 22, 7 p.m.
Deerfield resident Peter Nye and his band
knocked your socks off several years ago
with their soulful vocals, tight harmony,
blazing instrumentals and witty banter.
They’ll have you dancing in the aisles
with their traditional bluegrass music of
love, death and home!
Job Seekers Workshop
Saturday, April 8, 9 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Qualified professionals convened by
Deerfield’s Oscar Adler give you the tools
and resources to succeed in today’s
competitive business environment. There
will be 3 workshops-you may attend one
or all: 1)9-10 a.m.: Job Hunting on the
Internet; 2) 10:15 a.m.- 11:15 a.m. Resume
preparation; 3) 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Job
interviewing skills.
The Chicago White Sox: 100
Years of Baseball Tradition
on the South Side
Tuesday, May 2, 7 p.m.
Author Rich Lindberg
looks back at the
White Sox’s colorful
and controversial his
tory as well as the
future of this pennant
winning team. Since
1985 Rich has served
as the Sox Team
Historian. Four of his
11 published books,
including “The White Sox Encyclopedia”
(new edition coming out this year), explore
the history and lore of the South Side
team.
Rosemaiy Sazonoff
Winners Reception
Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m.
High Tea with Gerri will be an elegant
completion to the 10th annual Rosemary
Sazonoff Creative Writing Contest.
Winners will read their “Books That Made
a Difference In My Life” entries.
Thought for the day: Ed Byers, Oak Park Library Director noted, “The library is much more
than a collection of books. For some people it is part of their daily routine!”
�1 STAFF NEWS
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Sally Brickman, Deputy Administrator of the Deerfield Library, has retired from her full-time posi
tion effective January 31, 2006. Sally has been at the library for 18 years as Director of Public
Relations and Programming, and has worked on the Reference Desk and on collection development.
Sally holds a master’s degree in library science from Case Western Reserve University, where she
worked in the University Libraries prior to coming to the Chicago area. Sally plans to continue
working in a part-time capacity at the Deerfield Library. She is a Deerfield resident.
Jack Hicks and Sally Brickman have worked a combined total of 74years as professional librarians!
Kimberly Stack, a Deerfield resident who has worked at the Deerfield Library for
nine years, recently received her Master of Library Science degree from
Dominican University. She was supported in part by the Deerfield Library on spe
cial scholarship to encourage librarianship. Kimberly has worked in Reader
Services and Circulation and is currently working in Technical Services in the
Deerfield Library.
Rosemary Sazonoff Creative Writing Contest
April 3- April 28
New Fiction Coming
This Spring
The Deerfield Library kicks off the 10th Annual
Creative Writing Contest at the start of National
Library Week. The contest honors the memory of
library' trustee, community activist, and journalist
Rosemary Sazonoff. There are two contests, one
for adults and one for children.
Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews
Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Phantom by Terry Goodkind
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag
Gone by Jonathan Kellerman
The Hunt Club by John Lescroart
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
The Ethical Assassin by David Liss
The Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline
Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle
The House by Danielle Steel
Kill Me by Stephen White
Dark Harbor by Stuart Woods
FOR ADULTS: The theme is Books that made a
difference in my life. You may submit a short,
unpublished piece, in any format telling how a book or
books have influenced your life. We are honored to have two Pioneer Press reporters,
Irv Leavitt and Ruth Solomon, as our judges this year. The adult winners will be
honored at a reading and elegant “high tea” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7 at the library.
Entry forms and more information will be in the library beginning Saturday, April 1,
but start planning now!
FOR CHILDREN: Grades 2-8, My Favorite Book. Write a story, poem or essay
about your favorite. Use your imagination! You could write a poem about Narnia,
interview Harry Potter for the Daily Prophet, go on a mission with Alex Rider or
explain why you love Charlotte’s Web. Cash prize awards will be given for first place
in each age category at a special party at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 4. Contest forms will
be in the Youth Services Department on April 3.
The overall theme for National Library Week is Change Your World @ Your Library
and we feel our contest reflects this.
�Registered Stories &
Workshops
■ A notary is available in the library business office at no charge from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Please call first to make an appointment. The
Village of Deerfield also has notaries for Deerfield residents.
■ No food or drink is permitted in the library with the exception of the free
coffee served in and limited to the Reader Services Dept.
■ If you have damaged or torn pages in library books, please do not do home
repair. We have professionals who know how to fix most damage. A repair or
replacement fee will be charged.
■ The Deerfield Police Department is receiving non-emergency calls from the
elevator phone and the phone in our lobby. Please do not allow children to play
with these phones. They must be for emergencies only.
Book Discussions in the Library
■ March 9, 10:30 a.m.
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
Septuagenarian Margaret Hughes
throws open the doors of her Seattle
home and lonely life when she takes
in a series of boarders whose lives
become unexpectedly connected.
HI April 20,7:30 p.m.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A reunion with two childhood friends
draws Kathy and her companions
back to their seemingly idyllic
English private school and the truth
about their childhoods.
■ March 16,7:30 p.m.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Conceived to provide a bone marrow
match for her leukemia-stricken
sister, teenage Kate takes her parents
to court to fight for the right to make
decisions about her own body.
■ May 11,10:30 a.m.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
In 19th-century China, two young
girls grow up using a secret language
known only to women to share news
of their arranged marriages, loneli
ness, and the challenges of mother
hood.
■ April 6,10:30 a.m.
In the Time of the Bittteijlies
by Julia Alvarez
Dede Mirabel remembers her three
sisters, who became martyrs during
the liberation of the Dominican
Republic in 1960.
■ May 18, 7:30 p.m.
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Frey’s now controversial “memoir”
details his harrowing struggle to
overcome addiction.
Cali or stop in at the Youth Services Desk to
register. These programs are designed with sj cific age groups in mind; we are unable to mz :
exceptions. Please register early, as space is
limited and also programs may be cancelled if a
minimum of participants fail to register.
Science Wizards
3rd -5th Grade. Friday, April 7 at 4 p.m.
Registration starts Monday March 13.
If you’re mad about science or just curious, this
is the program for you. Enjoy fun science sto
ries and activities.
After-School Stories
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade. Thursdays 4 p.m.
April 27 - May 25. Registration starts Monday,
March 20.
This five week program is specifically designed
for younger grade school children and features
stories and crafts.
Family Fun Nights
All ages are welcome, but children must be
accompanied by an adult. Limit five spaces per
family.
Dinner and a Movie: Tarzan
Monday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Registration starts Wednesday March 1.
Bring a picnic dinner to enjoy while watching
this Disney favorite about a man raised by
apes. This G-rated film is 88 minutes long.
Pajama Stoiytime: Favorite Stories
Wednesday, April 5 at 7 p.m.
Registration starts Monday, March 13.
Observe National Library Week by wearing
your PJs and listening to some of our favorite
stories! We’ll provide juice and cookies.
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Tuesday, May 9 at 7 p.m.
Registration starts Monday April 10.
Celebrate the joy of spring with crafts, stories
and activities for the whole family.
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Special Performance
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Space is limited, so register early. Children
under 7 must bo accompanied hy an adult.
Please follow age recommendations when reg
istering, as these are given by the performers.
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Drop-In Events
Bookmark Contest
Entry forms available February 27 and
must be turned in by March 31.
Entries will be displayed for voting April
3 - 30, and the “Overall Favorite”
winning bookmark will be given out
during our Summer Reading Program.
Lucky Shamrocks
Throughout the month
of March, we’ll have
shamrocks on which
you may write a wish.
We’ll put them up in
the Youth Services
Department for the
leprechauns to find.
Toddler Times
March 3 & 16; April 7 & 20;
May 5 & 18 at 11 a.m.
This special storytime is designed for
toddlers and their caregivers and is
offered in the Picture Book Room on the
first Friday and third Thursday of
each month.
Family Times
Saturdays at 11 a.m. March 18 - May 27
Come to the Picture Book Room for a
drop-in storytime for the whole family.
Please note that because of the Punch
and Judy Puppet Show there will not
be a Family Times on Saturday, April 22.
Rosemaiy Sazonoff Creative
Writing Contest for Grades
2-8: My Favorite Book!
See page two.
National TV Turnoff Week:
April 24-30
Come write a letter to your favorite
author! We’ll supply stationery all
week long and even mail the letters foi
you. While you’re here, play with
our games and puzzles, vote for your
favorite bookmarks, and choose a grea
book to read. Finally, we’ll have dropactivities from 3 to 6 p.m.
Monday - Wednesday afternoons and
from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Reading Round-Up Ends
May 21, 2006!
We don’t plan on continuing this program
next fall, so please make sure to finish
your log by 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, May
21. Remember, we can only give prizes
for completed logs.
Madhatters Children’s
Theater Project
Saturday, March 11 at 11 a.m.
All ages.
This popular, interactive v
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program of songs, skits
and poems presented by the \
Junior League
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emphasizes the fun of
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reading. Children are '
encouraged to bring their
own hats! Registration is ongoing; please call
for availability.
Jennifer Armstrong:
The Poet’s Basket
Monday, April 10 at 7 p.m.
Registration starts Monday, March 20.
Jennifer, a member of one
of Chicago’s first folk
families, now lives on the
East Coast, so we’re
really happy to have her
visit! She weaves poems,
stories and songs with
plenty of audience
participation.
Punch and Judy Players:
Sleeping Beauty
Saturday, April 22 at 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. All ages.
Registration starts Monday, March 20.
Please make a date to join us for Jack Hicks’s
last performance with the Punch and Judy
puppeteers. Hundreds of Deerfielders, past and
present, have enjoyed these performances don’t miss it!
�Deerfield Public Library
Jack Hicks, Administrative Librarian
The ivf ission of the Deerfield Library
Board
tbers value
your opinions!
David Wolff, President
847-945-2040
wolffman 1 @comcast.net
To provide our community with open access to the world
I of information and ideas, encouraging lifelong learning
and personal growth in a welcoming environment.
Ron Simon, Secretary
847-317-0116
simonrl 967 @ yahoo.com
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Jeff Rivlin, Treasurer
847-374-0709
jeff.rivlin@comcast.net
Ken Abosch • 847-948-5390
ksabosch@aol.com
Jeff Blumenthal • 847-948-8241
jcblaw@Ameritech.net
Sunday Mueller • 847-940-7431
muellers@umich.edu
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Library Hours
Mon.-Thurs:
9:00 am - 9:00 pm
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday:
Saturday:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday:
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Editor: Sally Brickman
Free Income Tax Assistance
This service, provided by
IRS-trained, AARP volunteers,
continues from 1 to 4 p.m.
Tuesdays and Fridays at the
Deerfield Library until Friday,
April 14. Please bring last
year’s form. No appointments.
The library has some tax
forms, but librarians are not
trained to answer IRS queries.
Library Closed
Easter Sunday, April 16
Memorial Day, Monday,
May 29
Deerfield Public Library
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Deerfield, Illinois 60015
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Important Library Numbers
• Telephone: 847-945-3311
• Renew by phone:
847-945-3782
• TTY: 847-945-3372
• Library Home Page and Catalog:
www.deerfieldlibrary.org
• Email:
info@deerfieldlibrary.org
To ask a reference question:
reference @ deerfieldl ibrary.org
• FAX: 847-945-3402
Jack Hicks
surveys some
of the
THOUSANDS
of books you
donated
to Katrina
victims.
Carrier Route Presort
Deerfield Postal Patron
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March - May 2006
A Million Little Pieces
Alex Rider
Allegra Goodman
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Library Association (ALA)
American Library Association Accreditation
Bluegrass Music
Broken for You
Career Advice
Carved in Bone
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University Libraries
Charlotte's Web
Chicago Illinois
Chicago Junior League
Chicago White Sox Baseball Team
Chicago White Sox Baseball Team Historian
China
Danielle Steel
Dark Harbor
David B. Wolff
David Liss
Dede Mirabel
Deerfield Family Days
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Police Department
Deerfield Public Library
Deerfield Public Library Adult Services Department
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees Search Committee
Deerfield Public Library Board of Trustees Trustee in the Lobby
Deerfield Public Library Book Discussions
Deerfield Public Library Bookmark Contest
Deerfield Public Library Browsing Newsletter
Deerfield Public Library Building and Property Maintenance
Deerfield Public Library Catalog
Deerfield Public Library Computers
Deerfield Public Library Director Search
Deerfield Public Library Email
Deerfield Public Library Programming
Deerfield Public Library Renovations
Deerfield Public Library Storytimes
Deerfield Public Library Summer Reading Programs
Deerfield Public Library Toddler Times
Deerfield Public Library TV Tune Out Week
Deerfield Public Library Website
Deerfield Public Library Wireless Internet
Deerfield Public Library Youth Services Department
Dirty Blonde
Disney
Dominican Republic
Dominican University
Ed Byers
Egypt
Elinor Lipman
Elizabeth Berg
Elizabeth Peters
Europe
Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Program
Gardening
Gone
Greeks
Harry Potter
Hurricane Katrina
In the Company of the Courtesan
In the Time of the Butterflies
Income Tax Assistance
Income Tax Forms
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Intuition
Irv Leavitt
Isolation Ward
Jack A. Hicks
James Frey
James Henry Breasted
Jefferson Bass
Jeffrey C. Blumenthal
Jeffrey Rivlin
Jennifer Armstrong
Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) Career Planning Center
Jodi Picoult
John Lescroart
Jonathan Kellerman
Joshua Spanogle
Julia Alvarez
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kenan Abosch
Kill Me
Kimberly Stack
Kristin Hannah
Library Administration
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa See
Mad Hatters
Magic Hour
Margaret Hughes
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Kay Andrews
Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS)
Medicare
Michael Chabon
My Latest Grievance
My Sister's Keeper
Narnia
National Library Week
Never Let Me Go
North Suburban Library System
Notary Public
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park Public Library Director
Oscar Adler
Peter Nye
Phantom
Pioneer Press
Prior Bad Acts
Punch and Judy Players
R.J. Lindsey
Rich Lindberg
Robert R. McClarren
Roberta Glick
Romans
Ronald Simon
Rosemary Sazonoff
Rosemary Sazonoff Writing Contest
Ruth Solomon
Sally Brickman Seifert
Sarah Dunant
Savannah Breeze
Searchable PDF
Seattle Washington
Sleeping Beauty
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Stephanie Kallos
Stephen White
Stuart Woods
Sunday G. Mueller
T. Jefferson Parker
Tami Hoag
Tarzan
Tenth Circle
Terry Goodkind
The Daily Prophet
The Ethical Assassin
The Fallen
The House
The Hunt Club
The White Sox Encyclopedia
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Tutankhamun
Two Little Girls in Blue
We Are All Welcome Here
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Death Notices
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Blacksmith
Caroline Trute Meintzer
Carrie Meintzer Kranz
Chicago Illinois
Christian Meintzer
Christoph Meintzer
Clavey Nurseries
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Review
Dehlingen Alsace-Lorraine Germany
Des Plaines Illinois
Edward Meintzer
Elmer Antes
Elvira Meintzer Leverick
H.P. Lundell
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Highland Park Hospital
Highland Park Illinois
Jacob C. Meintzer
Louise Meintzer Reynolds
Mooney Cemetery
Mrs. Christian Meintzer
Northbrook Illinois
Northbrook Presbyterian Church
Obituary
Roundout Illinois
Seattle Washington
Sophie Meintzer Kranz
The Village Blacksmith
United States
Vernon Meintzer
Willare Meintzer
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Deerfield Review Obituaries
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Death Notices
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An account of the resource
The obituaries and death notices that appeared in the Deerfield Review newspaper
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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English
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Wilhelmina Linden Obituary
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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08/11/1949
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English
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DPL.0007.002.456
Albany Park Chicago Illinois
Augustana College
Carl
Chicago Illinois
Deerfield Review
Dorothy Linden Lindblom
Evanston Illinois
Fort Dodge Iowa
Herbert Linden
Herbert Nordlander
Highwood Illinois
Immanuel Chicago Illinois
J. Helmer Olson
Moline Illinois
Mrs. G.T. Bergstrom
Mrs. M.E. Kohlhase
Mrs. Roswell V. Peterson
Mrs. T.L. Toline
Obituary
Ridgewood Cemetery
Ridgway Pennsylvania
Rock Island Illinois
Roswell V. Peterson
Seattle Washington
Theodore Matson
Wilhelmina Linden
Wilmette Illinois
Zion Lutheran Church
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Deerfield Review Obituaries
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Obituaries
Death Notices
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An account of the resource
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Carl L. Krafft Obituary
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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English
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Carl L. Krafft
Carmel California
Deerfield Review
Elizabeth Krafft Swan
First Presbyterian Church
Henry L. Krafft
John H. Krafft
Krafft Drug Store
Lake Bluff Illinois
Lake Forest Cemetery
Lake Forest Hospital
Lake Forest Illinois
Mary Kemp Krafft
Mrs. Charles Clay
Mrs. Charles Horsch
Mrs. John B. Ives
Napoleon Ohio
New York
Oak Park Illinois
Obituary
River Forest Illinois
Seattle Washington
Walter A. Krafft
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Deerfield Review Obituaries
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Death Notices
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An account of the resource
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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John Ronzani Obituary
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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English
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Angelina Ronzani
Anthony Ronzani
Deerfield Review
Dominic Ronzani
Highland Park Illinois
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Italy
John Ronzani
Lake County General Hospital
Marianna Ronzani
Obituary
Seattle Washington
Seguin Funeral Home
St. Louis Missouri
St. Mary's Cemetery
Zion Illinois
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Death Notices
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Alvin Knaak Sr. Obituary
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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05/13/1948
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English
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DPL.0007.002.293
Alvin Knaak Jr.
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Amanda Knaak Stryker
Chicago Illinois
Christine McMahon Knaak
Deerfield Drugstore
Deerfield Illinois
Deerfield Review
Edward Knaak
Ida Knaak
Los Gatos California
Mrs. Theodore Ebert
Obituary
Otto Knaak
Romayne Stryker
Rudolph Knaak
Sacred Heart Hospital
Seattle Washington
Spokane Washington
Teacher
Theodore J. Knaak
Urbana Illinois
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Title
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Deerfield Review Obituaries
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Obituaries
Death Notices
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An account of the resource
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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Deerfield Review
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English
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Johanna Frada Obituary
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Deerfield Review
Publisher
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Deerfield Review
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02/13/1947
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English
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DPL.0007.002.119
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Deerfield Review
Johanna Frada
Mrs. Albert Pick Jr.
Obituary
Poet
Seattle Washington