, 1881-05-22


Of New Hum pshlre, und passed his last years
there. From him received my earliest impress
sions Of Chicago: He cIa!med that his daughter.
Potter; of Manchester, T. f., H. wis a the t'rs1 child
i born In tho new fort I:met her,a few years
since walking from the Site Of the fort md she
told the she hal been trying to lind her birth
place. Another daughter, still living, Is The wife
Of the present Gen. Henry W. Benhaln. He lost
bis only s9 Leu Winfield Seo., MsSea II
the: Indians In Florida. in 1857. He was the
hrother-in-law. OF the late President Frank
+ Sullivan Pierce, who married iuto one of our
| first families, his wife be.lg Miss Lufromboise
Of the Ottawa tribe, in the Grand River region
relatives here, four OF whom voting here when
we belonged to PEORIA County, IN 1S1j, and the
wife 90 Of Gen: John ! B. neaublen being Josettc,
Gen. McScal was tho competitor Of. Gen.
Scott fe; being the tallest and heaviest man
were brevettel for their gaantry at the battle of
Nlagaru, Canatla, in 1914, where McSeal w,.s SO
severely wounded that no was iucapacitateu for,
at one time Survoyor-Geucral OF tho port OF
Dr. alexander Wolcott, he uncle Of onr % present.
and long time-honorcd County Surveyor, named
for him. -. ~ -. ~ -.
-.'.,@ THE FIRST INDIAN AGENT, -:
Of whom I can obtain any trncc here. was
WAS here rs early as lslB. He was sucreedcd in
lsA) by Or. Wolcott, who occupied the position
n 9nt hooss bis aeah in @ Me ss o S
born III Kentucky, April ), 1901, und was one Of
our fir5t Board OF Town Trus.ees in Is5S,
in % this % State, WIS daughter of tho ,s' Hon.'
Mites Hotehkt:s; and niece Of our United States
Lewiston, in Fulton County. yotl will lind. upon
tho list OF marriages there, the following, ut
Chicago precinct q that county: :. hy John
+,ttt3tr I p mi i Ira" rINrYf
and i:ii ElIen ii. Knsic. @ H AS'"'' 1A'~'' "o'' -
Mr. Hamtin resided ut PEORIA and was on his
the ceremony. Che,.go had neither clergyman
nor Justice Of the Peace then. But this trouble
was soon avoided by the appointment Of
tho as' Peaee as' for s Fulton County: @ upon the
I'd Of pecember following We had to
wnit until We became u part OF Peoria
Billy Caldwell tSaugAnashl, who was appointed
April IL, lsa Mrs. Wocott, now deceased, re-
GsSge C. 4 nnss of o l2 nSrp5 fy
Utah. 1t is cMimcd that she was the first white
child born in Chicago, the place Of her birth he.
John i and Eieanor Kinzs. and know not why
i,efson married here. Inc Unitea States oiicial
sulary was : sl,3oo, und :. that he had
u Sub-Agent, Alexander Doyle, born in
Virginia. 1T salary Ut s5t1, and that Mr.. Kin
and Alexander Robinson. better known rs Che-
chepinq.1a, whose descendants still reside in this
c5y at sanry Of ; and qp PIG rserre LeG'er her
but having no descendants TINT am aware Of,
ut u snlary OF s+s;&- In the year Isl, there up
Connecticut, named A. r. Lindsey. ut Il salary
Of 81 l,ts}3, OF whom nothing Is now known. There
was Il Jacob B. Earnum here rs Fnctcr, as curly
RS 1877, from Massachusetts, At a salary of
$l,31U. and who WIS continued here tor some
time after Dr. Wolcotr came, OF whoM also Moth
Mr. Alexander Bcauben informs me that, in
1865, an aged gentleman called to see him, and
inquired about bis father. He said he lived here
his father, the site OF which nus been washed
away and would now be out in tho lake, IT it bud
not been filled up. lie said his n.tne was Var.
mum, and he lived then in Petersburg. He had
forgotten whether in Kentucky Of virginia-
The Adiutaut-G Geuernl's Official records show
the following: Upon May =, 1sS, hlnj Gen.
Issued thR order:
DIRECTS THAT FolsT DEARBORN, CHICAGO,
a. De EVACUATED.
and that the g:trrison thereof be withdrawn to
the headquarters Of tho Third Regiment Of
Infantry, , :, !, The CUntnundiny-t Il enerHl of
the eastern department will give the necessary
orders for CARRYING these moysments M ntoellest:
Thus mntters stood ut the fort until, Mnjor-
General In Chief Of the Army. 71a1or-General
|. Alexander Macntnb, gave the following order
under dnto OF 'Washngton, aug; ~ lSS;
sin conformity with tho directions Of the Sec
rctary OF WAr, The following movements of the
troops will bc made without delay: Two COM
panies OF the Fifth Regiment Of Iufantryto re-
OCCUPY Fort Dearborn, ut the bead Of Lake
slichlgAn. the remaining eight computes to pro-
coed by tho way OF the ouiscotlsin aud FV1
Kivcrs, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, where the
headquarters of the regiment will be estab-
isshed." ;.
thus ailudes to this change OF the soldiers: .srhc
frftn n
but restored in l&..S, after the WinnebMgo WIZ
There was disturbance between the Wtnneha-
TIC young chief, Red Bird. was taken
and mRrsoned at 5als rrase d. da Ghssn GS de d9
cbngrin and tho irksomeuess Of confinement
1t w,ls feared that the Potrawatomlcs tour In
dians) would make common cause With the VIM
nebugoes, and commence general system OF
havoc and bfoodshcd upon the frontier. They
were deferred from such ii step. prohahly. BY tho
aon (ChechcpnqIal, und ChanlbIee habonec,,
who made IN expedition nmOng the Rock River
bands TO nc! aFs..o = and persuade them into remain
! Gun never think nf either of these three per-
sons without being rcnsiu1ed Of tho many pleas.
ant and instructive hours TINT huyo passed
with them individually and collectively. listen
fng to their own execricnce, describing bnttle
after bat.Ie-the massacre of Chicngo and the
personal interviews with and charsctcris;tcs of
Tecumseh, Gen. Hurrison. and Gen: Wayne.
whom they always called ''Oid Tempest.
Caldwell or Suugnunsh died with his tribe Mt
Council Bluffs, Ia, Sept. q, 1871, in his U9tb
year. Chaubee or ShAbonee died nenr Morris,
in Gruniy County, in this StNtc, July
II, 1857 aged ST years, whilst Robinson or Che
chepinu,ln iyed to vote Tor me several t!nes Tor
Congress, and to call on me us Anyor, and smokc
the pipe of peace. IIe died. upon his reservn~
ton Ie,,r kiyer Purk, In this county, April =.
1877 ngc' llO years. -.
Tho WinnebuYo indians occupied nll that por-
ton of Wisconsin Territory bordarlng on WIS.,
cousin River numbering about l:Es9, OF whom
5tU were warriors. Hence tho importance OF
mixing headquarters ut Fort l1owAr0-Grecn
Dny-and nt1erwNrd Ut the construction Of Fort
Winnebago, under the superintendent Of Lieut..
jefferson Davis. -.
.. GEN. DAVID HUNTER,
writes me from Washington. under date of May
is. 1881: ..ln October. 1875, saw on tho nOrth
side Of the river oppust tho fort, white iGuu,
and wondering where he cualld hive ct'mc from.
l got into II small wooden csroe, Intended for
ot,Iy one person, und patidled over to interview
him, He introduced himself to ine ns Secnnd-
Lieut.. jefferson Davis, Of the First Infantry,
from Fort Winnebagtr. in pursuit Of dcserters. /,
OF course. WAS very gli.d to sea Lieut. Dnvis. |
invited him TO lie down In my canoe. a0u l.
putldled him safely to the fort. He wasmy guest
urbagu. This, no doubt, wus tho first visit Of
Jefferson Davis to Chicago.
The cuuipnnies ut the fort, from Oct- !. lss6,
to their withdrawal, Mny ~, 1881, were Co,11-
pnuIcs i and or the Fifth Infantry. capt.
John Fotsle, who commanded tho tort, was
from massachusetts, and WIS killed April -,
lSN by Il steamboat explosion on tho Ohio