Notes for Sesquicentennial History of Woodstock, 1800-1851 And General Historical References

Notes for Sesquicentennial History of Woodstock, 1800-1851 And General Historical References

2002

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1800-1851 AND
GENERAL HISTORICAL REFERENCES
COMPILED BY JOAN H. MANSFIELD
2002
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PRE-1852 WOODSTOCK HISTORICAL EVENTS Compiled by Joan H. Mansfield March 2002
AT HOME-MCHENRY COUNTY HISTORY 1885
1787 Northwest Ordinance, excludes slavery, land for public schools, criteria for new states p. 56 1818 Illinois a state-Nathaniel Pope, delegate to congress from Illinois Territory-boundary moved
north. 1st Illinois Constitution p. 77 1825-1848 Illinois-Michigan Canal p. 97
1832 Colonel William McHenry p. 184
1833 Treaty ceded Indian land in northern Illinois-vacate August 1836 p. 165 1836 Created McHenry/Lake County-county seat is McHenry p. 184
1838 County grants Iicenses-2 ferry; 7 mercantile; 15 tavern; 1 peddler; 2 temperance house: bounty on wolves-$10 full-grown, $5 young & prairie wolf p. 191
1839 March 1 Lake County formed; new precincts p. 195, 196
1840 State internal improvement debt=$15 million p. 98
1843 Feb 6- Legislature approves vote to be taken for removal of county seat to a new location p. 203
1843 September 4 Centerville wins county seat- to donate 2 acres and build courthouse and jail -dispute over validity of land claim p. 205
1844 Sept 4 County commissioners accept new courthouse and ordered offices moved. Moved Sept 23 p. 206
1844 Alvin Judd builds frame house-second in town- opened first tavern hotel p. 548 & 551
1844- 1845 First religious services in courthouse-Rev. Howe-Presbyterian p. 551
1845- 1846 Joel H. Johnson builds frame house -third in town-just west of Baptist church p. 549
1845 First store-Dwight & Beach becomes Beach & Norton becomes A.B. Norton-have small stock; also Henry Petrie store opens p. 549
1845 February State legislature changed name to Woodstock per Joel H. Johnson, Esq. P. 548
1846 May- Mexican War p. 118
1846 First wagon makers- Eddy brothers & H.M. Wait flax mill converted soon to planing mill p. 551
???? H.P. Norton first blacksmith; Ira Trowbridge first shoemaker p. 551
1846 Rat Hole built-fire-proof building for county offices-brick, tin roof p. 206
1846 First school in courthouse p. 551
1847 Ira Trowbridge boot and shoe store-sold in 1866 moved to Minnesota p. 550
1848 New Illinois constitution allows township form of government p. 197
1848 A.W. Fuller store becomes Fuller & Lyon then Fuller & Sherwood p. 550
1849 Wm. Gunning and Allen Dufield store 1 year then John McClure-3 years p. 550 1849 Neill Donnelley open store continues until his death in 1883 p. 550
1849 F. Mansfield opens first hardware store p. 550
1849 County voters approve Township form of government p. 197
1851 C.B. Durfee drugstore becomes Walters & Durfee p. 550
1851 Waverly House-Roswell Enos to 1854 Leander Church enlarged then Daniel Robinson enlarged
proprietor in 1885 Geo. S. Sherwood p. 551 1851 Fire: south side of Public Square/ starts in Argus office p. 558
WOODSTOCK PUBLIC LIBRARY-ILLINOIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MISCELLANEOUS NEWSPAPER-MICROFILM WOODSTOCK DEMOCRAT MAY 20, 1851 1851 Subscription 1.50 per annum
Advertisers: J.M. Stone Recorder of Deeds & Insurance; A.S. Thompson tailoring; Attorneys: Piatt and Piatt, D.C. Rush, Wm. Sloan, Chas M. Willard, Anson Sperry, L.S. Church; Joseph Golder, Justice of the Peace; Enos W. Swith Clerk of County Court; I.C. Trowbridge boots & shoes, Woodstock

Exchange east side of Public Square-newly fitted and more. Many advertisers from Chicago. Unpaid taxes list- includes George C. Dean Lots 3 & 4 Block 15
Citizens to meet to form Agricultural Society at courthouse. Hon. J.R. Giddings- 2 ribs broken-fall from wagon. Rock River Valley Union railroad
Railroad from Fond du Lac to Chicago-Janesville to Fond du Lac under contract-now to survey Janesville to Chicago-negiotiate with Illinois Wisconsin Railroad-lines to meet with other railroads-where to cross the Fox River-Algonquin likely.
Illinois-Wisconsin charter to build railroad from State Line to Chicago County and Algonquin to build bridge across river
Ladies' Dresses-some places wearing Turkish style pants and short skirts-okay by editors. Mentions secession in the south. Kentucky reports slaves leaving.
A boy in Rhode Island is 19 years old, 8 feet high, 400 pounds-can carry a barrel of flour under each arm-going to World's Fair. New York World's Fair soon. Locomotive blew up at New Jersey factory. Spinners on strike 24 weeks in Massachusetts Buffalo to Albany railroad-lots of people traveling at 2 cents per mile.
Advertisement: Pure sweet port wine & Pure Brandy for medicinal purposes at Woodstock Drug Store.
Woodstock Thespians to perform "Blue Devils" and "Box & Cox" 25 cents per couple.
F.D. Austin advertises McCormick's Reaper.
About two-thirds of ads are from Chicago most Lake Street addresses.
A.C. Norton blacksmith-north side of Public Square.
Notice to debtors to pay up.
Arabian liniment and Sloan's Family ointment.
AT HOME: DIRECTORY OF MCHENRY COUNTY 1877
1844 Grand Hunt takes place with destination Sec. 6 Seneca township p. 78
1836-1837 Couny of McHenry/Lake name after Colonel McHenry p. 78
1837 Elected county officers-county seat is McHenry-not surveyed yet-"a lawless band of squatters" p. 80
1837 County liquor license cost $8-set prices for various brews p. 81
1837 First highway-Lockport,Naperville, DuPage, Warrenville, Dundee, Woodstock to Madison p. 82
1838 Surveyed from third Principal Meridian eastward finishing Lake County four years later p. 80 1838-1839 Divided into McHenry and Lake Counties p. 81
1840 Population McHenry County 2,578-had 13 mills and manufacturing establishments- 3 days by oxen to Chicago-40-40 cents per bushes for wheat-roduction as high as 45 bushels per acre-20 teams in a line. P. 82
1842-43 Legislature passed and act for location of county seat-August voted on County seat, Centerville won p. 81
1843 Murder trial-Davis andTaylor Driscoll tried for murder of Campbell in Lee County p. 102
1844? Brewery-John Burtschy in Greenwood moved to eastern part of Woodstock-moved again near barn of old Woodstock House. (See 1854) p. 103
1844 William Sloan came to town-planted nursery on west side of town-active in Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac railroad-became its president-accidentally killed while witnessing putting up first line of telegraph in that city (Chicago?) P. 104
AT HOME-WOODSTOCK ILLUSTRATED 1895-PHOTOCOPY

1844 Spring-first frame house by Alvin Judd as a hotel-large room used as dance hall and gatherings-came from 25 miles around-later is part of Exchange Hotel p. 11
1845 Summer-Frederick Belcher-American House (present courthouse site-1895) p. 11
1846 Henry Petrie dry good and groceries p. 11
1846 First Presbyterian-oldest congregation-came from Ridgefield Presbyterian-met at courthouse p. 18
1846 First school-1 year later built school house p. 31
1847 Baptist Church meets in courthouse p. 12
1848 German Presbytrian first church building-later moved to Queen Anne prairie-built brick church on Church Street p. 18
1850 John, Donnelley and A.W. Fuller-build railroad p. 12
1850 Methodist congregation-before 1850 part of a circuit p. 18 1844 September 23 moved county seat to Centerville p. 81 1845-46 Legislature changed name to Woodstock p.81
1844 Courthouse buiilt (burns in 1858) p. 81
1845-1846 Brick grist mill by Quinlans-never paid closed in 1874 when Phoenix mill opened p. 102
1846 Josiah Dwight publishes Illoinois Republican- few years p. 83
1847 First school-sold in 1866-half used for blacksmith shop p. 101
1848 F.D. Austin publishes Woodstock Democrat unitl 1856 p. 83
1851 South side swept off clean by fire burnt Argus and 3 othrs p. 101
Transcribed 4/11/02 File name HNOTESPRE


ADDENDUM 4/16/2002
LIBRARY-WORLD BOOK YEARBOOK 1985 (for 1984) 1/7 American space walk without lifelines
3/28 Tornados in North and South Carolina kills 60 injure more than 1,000
7/30 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles
10/31 Indira Gandhi assassinated
12/12 Postage goes from 20 cents to 22 cents
LIBRARY-WORLD BOOK YEARBOOK 1990 (for the year 1989)
2/15 Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
3/24 Exxon-Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of oil in Alaskan waters.
3/29 "Rain Man" wins Oscar
7/19 United Airlines jet crashes at Sioux City, Iowa
9/17-9/22 Hurricane Hugo attacks southwest U.S.
10/17 Earthquake in northern California kills 62-freeway collapses
LIBRARY-WORLD BOOK YEARBOOK 1992 (FOR THE YEAR 1991) 1/17 Persian Gulf War begins with air strike against Iraq 12/25 USSR dissolved.
LIBRARY-WORLD BOOK YEARBOOK 1993 (FOR THE YEAR 1992) Feb. Deadly earthquake inn Afghanistan and Pakistan
2/11 & 2/18 Sudafed cold capsules poisoned with cyanide kills 2 in Washington state. 2/28 Iraq agrees to end hostilities
HISTORICAL MUSEUM- FIRE FILE/WOODSTOCK
Zimmer, Herman & Co.'s brewery in flames, 3/4 miles from Public Square; brick building 130' x 54', 3-story, 10,000 bushels of malt, 5,000 bushels of barley, 3,000 barrels of beer-barley raised locally (7/17/1856 Sentinel)
1860 2/24 Fire at Clapp's Tin Store east side of Square small damage 1860 2/25 Fire in loft of livery stable on Main Street owned by MX. Joslyn destroyed; Henry Sherwood's saloon and R.G. Schryver's furniture rooms destroyed
1871 October 8 West part of south side of Square burns.
1872 August 27 E Judd and E; Jackson fire (Medlar Photo)
1875 6/5 LA. Austin livery stable on Jefferson Street burns.(Sentinel 6/16/1952) 1880 3/6 Dacy's warehouse burns (Sentinel 6/16/1952) 1882 5/13 Interior of Kellogg block burns.
1892 2/1 East side of Main except 2 brick buildings on north end burns-include Waverly House
1893 4/15 South half of east side of Square burns-includes Rat Hole (Sentinel6/18/1952) 1895 Rate Hole and others burns?????
1902 Brewery burned (Sentinel (?) 80th Edition 2/13/1937)

1907 Oliver Fire Dept 1907 See Oliver photo file
1908 Fireman in front of courthouseGOOD PHOTO horses, carts, etc.
1908 4/17 Hall & Eckert fire; bounded by railroad/E. Judd/Madison (Sentinel 6/18)1952) 1914 March 12-fire at City Hall
1916 June 2 Borden condense milk factory on Washington Street on fire-put out by Mr. Tuttle
(Sentinel 7 9/10/1987) 1919 December-Public School burns; faced South/Throop/Dean (Sentinel 6/18/1952) 1927 Joslyn garage burns (new city water system (1/27/1927) 1936 Jan 28 Stone's boot and shoe store burns, NE corner Cass & Main; -lOdegrees
(12/14/1962)
1942 May 13 Bohn Hardware in Hoy Block-fire (not destroyed??) 1949 Fire: Ben Davis Shoe Store/Dr. Wittenberg on Main Street (Sentinel 6/18/1952) 1957 March 9 Dacy Electric and Allied Printing on Benton Street burns(Peasley Historic Gallery Photo)
1976 August 26 Tye Barn burns-west side of Throop Street.
Note: Dates should be verified as some do not agree. Jhmansfield 4/16/2002 File: HGENERAL