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In the north {an of Northfield lived the family of Elder Button, I Baptist T aeiertt. “a?!“ qhildrt [Luci- on, Inky; Watson and tar. 'ft, Sny- .' -' 7.1“,wa can: later ”him! But- ton auxin school. ' , id, ' _ . 'i, ovum il;tpcrre,1,"t.aa.',t2 ',ttttgut E. tad Willi- Bcunett mind BhnhMltllhhhiTlt,ug Sh-d, . dt=trU m . “Wm-binni- gum-whim “Imam-m. mthn-nym gunthm ,rq.sh.6ehse'toqtel.dth.rt- ' Che.termlfha.other,+ ,r-_ntibNtbehmHt,-dMrr.tttu. ”an. our "an“ deb-n. mmummhmwm Wished. tdt.tnterheexthihtss, A mammal blacksmith shop and a con-Indian- tasrs.wereahtorrmtsrMr.Bt- hard. This tavern was the my station between Chic-go and Milwau- be where “W mind with on their my to court- in both - They named by M to which from f-toBixtto--ttiteudnatd there was room for six -e'tle" int-bemh. Thelmlinemin In: many years before the Norther tem nilmd was batik After Miss Shephetd‘l (“dilution from the West Northiuld when! About 1nthr-aMieirt-dsrtarted toteoehhsthehseantrkswhieh.he ulna-pupil. [alight-choc! “no: Walt-Ian 80-6 (heath Shepherd m a nun of " fhaenee Ind distinction, . business mu in may lines of industry. Me owned a brick yud that was 1oeated on the dough use d Telegraph road. Bricks in the foundation of the WWI home iatNorthfuidweremadeittttmttin 1859 Lbs attended thwtern " male Academy in Evan-ton, when a Profuse: Jones m widen: and there were one hundred ”mu. PtaneesWiNrrtw-osemtterotue faculty " thin at“. A plank road was laid from North- tield to Niles, then to Chicago. and with . good team the trip to the city could be made in . day in the '60's. The Shepherd funily had the tint home in Northtield. There were no German in North- field until after the place was settled by English and Yankee families Ind in min) life the Erttr1ish-speairiritr people did not mingle with the Ger- man. The Germans were a good dun of thrifty. industrious people who” economies and mode of life and them to nuke . better living from the soil. i The opulent Shepherd, Winchell. Studky Phillips, Sherman and Wood {milieu were prominent in civic " hits of the community. served on election bonds Ind shaped the policy of the township. The lumey family lived in Lake - across from the bridge where the hrickyu-d is now. The Crumb and Lemme families were neighbors and their children attended the Grove thool on Dundee told. Alonzo. Ken- nitott kept I store across the road from the Grove school and Dr. John trertrtieott lived in the Grove next to the school, called Hickory Grove Northfield had four divisions. North- field is now Northbrook, and was fre- quently spoken of as North North- Md. In Northfield the Sherman, Steele, Galloway, Elvey, Will Davis, Adams, Sipley, Hutchings, Reed, Rus- sell. Henley and Richard mama came and lived on Waukegan road. In South Northfield the Mitchell family lived and later the Kiest fam, ity an. The South uhool was be, "can what is nowoNorthbrook and ' View, north of Techny. Eliza Jane Shepherd taught the Mitchell and Kiest children. W --.._._ "new me, .u“. .u. v""", In West Northfield the Russell. Big- ' years on a farm. outside the village. l hop. Boyd, Walter, Edwards, .ntti, la. 1870 they moved to Chicago, There, hm. Wood, HOOK. Paar, "'ttty Mr. Wilson entered the firm of Wil-‘ Stndley Davis, Bedine, Cobb, Allison, son and qompany, matteress and bed- Button, Kennicott and Hitchcock fam-l ding manuucturers. In 1869 Mr. ‘ ilies lived. femur. Shepherd had retired from; At East Northfield the Carey and, his may business interests in North- _ Clary "milies lived in the WMSE 'ilf and moved to Chjclgo. also. on the shore of the Skokie, Emily is home was on ackson street? Millers, who married Job Glllowny,‘between Daplnines and Halsteadn taught seven] years in the Sherman; streets. On the Sunday of the Chi-l school, 75 years ago, and Ella Jane use fire, October 9, 1871. Mr. and) Shepherd '1; one of her pupils. g Mrs. Wilson had spent the day with In the north rim of Northfield lived the lutter's parents. The Wilson: the family of Elder Button, tE Baptist! lived on West Indium street, which I Million-I child: . Luci- was tutpf the fire zone. After they) an, tafer,-watsa in In: 'ft:,, thfr- Idrt. the Sher- heme ind huh»? hind); angel-tar mall-Elder” ttttd _tonhttoyes they left their), Orestin Shepherd's family always kept i'n close touch with Chicugo mad its "airs. They were members of the Baptist church, of which Elder Button was the preacher. Besides Eliza Jane. the other chil- dra of Omtin Shepherd were, Sat- i... 1tto quarried Shame] Rhodes, and ' in Davenport, I... and Mime, who married John Williuns of New York. and liyed in Chietwo. -An of the had of an.” we” am-l ith. wu obtained dim! from the! mun-ent- After “blinking I no- i was. Orutin Shah-M'- went»! led and Sarina SW and At-l - Shepherd, an undo, can from New York, ind In nncln and mint ot, Ill-J Oman Shepherd, Willi-m my Cynthi- Ctnterbudy can" from 6:314 White, England, and remained till 1867. when they vent to Chieaeo, to tive. Omtin's brothers, Willinn.‘ Hiram. and Colonel Thom“ Shep- herd, also came west Ind bought part of Ma’s china. 1 Mth-toe "can, or “Idea-pl: - run through their property, mrhiuthefamitrnaduoatsorgoet “I: owned the out part to the M an the Sloth. (Continua than pm I) inn'lm “mm- l The next morning the Wilson gave (breakfast to the tire refugees who shad crossed the bridge, 'ae" there was no more food left in" house. Streets in the saved area were piled high with household goods William Henry Wilson, n cousin of Mr. Wil- |son, lived farther west and did not {know of the fire until he tried to [take n horse street car to go down “own Monday morning. People in ithe western part of Chicago. who were asleep, did not know if the dis- aster, Although those in Deertieid 1 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson went :10 Geneva where they lived for three ; years on I farm, outside the village. ‘ 113.1870 they moved to Chicago, where i Mr. Wilson entered the firm of Win. son and qompmy. matteress and bed- ; ding manuUeturers. In 1869 Mr. I Gratin Shepherd had retired from , his my business interests in North- (fieltt and moved to Chicago, also. of chain: liv- when - school to :which all of the tmth-as children of Deerdeid was; felt down last year. after we Mt you! of disuse. _ Mr. Shepherd mid him has farm _tenMr.riereezedrersefcViiok ,tion upon which he built a brick house opposite the Northfield station . to the west. Imamduéa-{m-Hun E She attmsdedtur-etrut.ehor* of the Lutheran chardon Dumb. 'aur2uT'a,'Mhr,2',N: (German no lites-H mulch ty2r..t?e', orher (Actor's Gar-an- American employ-I. Yhe,litt3. chunk In 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson left Chicago And bought It farm in Liber- tyville where they raised fruits and seeds for the pnbliahergof the Prairie Farmer, tor distribution. When Mr. Wilson's health faiied they moved to Ch‘adboum, North Carolina, where Tiller. _ They thtm_returoed to the fire which they watched from a sue dis, tance on Harrison street( it began on DeKoven street) then realizing partially the extent of the disaster they returned for their bhild. When the fire jumped the, east side of the river Mr. Wilson went to the otfiee and secui'ed the books of the firm and took them to his home. who were of it in the night. _ LV C-. TCT.", v"? “n, GG “may mo H . - . L V ._. :,',t,',efe"i'"'ittt " iitiGiGirhs,e,t nan-Mn} " Kin-mn- I... In... On October 27. t867, Eliza Jane Shepherd married Joseph Wilson, who was born July 21, 1839, in York- shire, Engluxd. the non of Jules and Mary Woodward: Wilson. The Wil- son funin tune to America in 1834 and made a claim in Kane county. fourteen miles west of Geneva, Ill. The Wikmu were ulna Btsptists. James Wilmn'l sister was the wife of Elder Button. and Hum-h Wood- worth. sister of Mrs. Wilson, mar- ried Rev. Richlrd Appieyard, may; of 1. Christian church south of Non - field. Rev. Appleyard performed the ceremony which united Jennie Shep- herd and Joseph Wilson. The bride's sister. Sorissa. was her maid of honor, Ind their brother. Thomas H. Shepherd, was best man. The wed-r ding took place in the family home. "sdwoelmrtrtiiuirsD..Noino.,i, nasd'umtau"8h-rmstth-in- teeintHea.iutotrrmm,nrhms.tte mmnabmrtt-trre-of “mind Inmmzuuwmamm Intern. Sh.u.owmrttoCo-etke* 1nd New York tovinlt bro-nan rehtivel when pooch - len- freqnenuy than than they do not. Nutir.uthestort-drud8orsr awake. were well “are dank?) Mrs. Wilson was in school in Ev- i. When Huston when the Lady Elgin was " of the) wrecked on tho shore of Lake Michi- I the om} Ttatt and drove to Wiudka Ind Port the firm! Clinton (now Highland M) when-i [the bodies wen washed upon the; lson gave‘ beach. ( tees who! The Wives swept over the pier like’ til there ocun -es-Mra. Wilson has seen! be house. the ocean “ninning mountain high?" the piled but that day our treaeherous lake! William'; was much tram. After two years in. the south Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson sold their farm in Libertyvilk. and it in no. (Samuel Insull’s farm, " was " l ways one of the prettiest homes with, l in twenty miles of Libertyville when 1 the Wilson: owned the place. L In 1910 when Mr. “'ilson's helllh .improved they returned to Liberty- ville. Mr. Wilsoli died January ts, _ 1924. Since then Mrs. Wilson divide her time between the homes of her ( two children in' Libertyville and that of her daughter, Mrs. Chester Wolf i in Deerfield. I She also remember: when I tome] do swept over Despuiaes, whet, and was about ten or tvelve year: of Me. ‘ and a bed quilt In: blown into their x yard in NorthCtehL It was twistmr, into ; ball that the sine of a piece l of wool Ind had no appearance of I having been a quilt. f Mrs. “When in. the Gifford. fur, sons. Vedder, Eaton. Tapper. Minna. During the Civil m Captain Amzi Kennicott. son of Dr. John Kennicott. who lived in the north and of Hickory "or Kemsieott trove. or- trosiaed a company in Northbrook and the soldiers drilled in from. of Shepherd's um. fer-ii erected a pioneer In: house when they moved to Northtieid but they built the first frame one in the village. and that is the one that their d-ughter malls. Mrs. Wilsonuluuys rode a spirited horse in her youth, and the thrill: of riding behind a “spanking team" are superior to automobile riding in her estimation, however she prefers the modern style of short skirts to long dresses six yards around the bottom. on which the braid had to be fre- quently renewed, because of its con- tact with the ground. Although she remembers the time when cattle run 'sneorttitsedrand wolves were on the prairies and in the timber. Mrs. “MLW Wils..ett kggfio hrdshlys of ipqeer " q life. Her fatriiU"i0ir"iys Arc') Fir“ r~ Thai-Lind- tttht- -. mmlorubh mum;m..msm: - lest - - 'ut dihrqhs Frank Glendorf died. and I number of years after, in 1924. Gertrude Wil, son Olendorf married Cheater Wolf, son of "cob Ind Intim- Schmidt Wolf who came to Deerfield in MMI, with the Rockeabaeh pioneer party from Canton St. Marie, Alum. Carer, Ian of wmim Wu! In Winn-'- -eatio-mt day and Mutant Carr, June- CAI-WWW lined mm to Olendorf. um Willi-m Carr own. teach I- mun. who]: held every the two was of Bury W. of l two m in the eminx- Because Deerfield IN Mrs, Wiltou's two great ‘1 of Mrs Will”? 1pm: of life Ind mat grandchildren. She has twelve, "In-rhu- My she ha been tgrandchildren. . T 1 called upo- by the Chieago Tine agtd' Funk Olendort died. mad a number j 3:3: its”! ta','.",", mi Net- of years after, in 1924. Gertrude Wil, [ te', y 1: " - son Olendorf married Cheater Wolf.’ brook to ".hio..the M were not re- non M .l-mh nm um”. mm.“ i, corded by famirtess mot her on. Edgevood, In". mad - m chil- dren, Ruth Wilson. an?“ _ Horton of Rocky Haunt. N. C. and has one child; Gertrude Wiln- - ried Funk Olendorf. I um. nnd span: 1 number of vein in “be. They had two ehildreer, _ who lives in Libel-m and an", Olen- dorf. the day‘s-ids -etant in mmhmnd ,ruro-ateeth_eMtdrq. mid. nun“ Vibu- unit! sau-res.- Fttrrin Deerfield. 11-h} marHed. 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