Book/Printed Material History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892.
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Image 1 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892.- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 2 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892.- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 3 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892.- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 4 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892.- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 5 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. History OF HIC AGO FROM 1833 TO 1892 AN OLD SETTLER- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 6 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892.- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 7 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. History of Chicago FROM 1833 TO 1S02 DESCRIBING THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE ROUTE FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO AND HARDSHIPS OF THE FIRST WINTER. ALSO DESCRIBING SEVERAL TRIPS TO THE VARIOUS VILLAGES...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 8 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. F !?Ycharjj?v **-moHcan xnxi nit?* Ja is i$a@ A Y ’j t- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 9 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. INTRODUCTION. You will find in reading many of the articles pub¬ lished in this work, that they are copied from items written years since for the city papers, and at the suggestion...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 11 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. Early Chicago Reminiscences by an Old Resident of 1833. I left England, my native country, on the 18th of January, 1833, with a family and two orthreeyoung men friends of the family...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 12 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 6 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES little inferior in beauty on the other. The water was alive with small craft, on the white sails of which the rays of the morning sun were shining,...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 13 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1S33. 7 rigging. The first heavy sea that broke over us was in the night and the water poured down the hatchway in torrents. My bedfellow jumped...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 14 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 8 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES deck and the roaring of the wind was so loud we could hardly make ourselves heard. It was truly a sublime though awful sight, and one I shall...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 15 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 9 loud laugli from the mate and sailors, asking us if we did not think it was a fine morning; bitter cold as it was, we...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 16 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. io EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES gladdened by the welcome cry from the man aloft, “Land ahead, land ahead!” Ah, who can tell but those who have been tossed about on a stormy sea...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 17 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 11 of axes, a lathe and half a schooner load of fruit trees; a great many of the latter sold well at New York at auction....- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 18 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 12 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES hall was building and five stone front houses nearby of which the citizens were evidently very proud as we were often asked if we had been to see...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 19 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 13 was just ready to start for Buffalo. These boats were drawn by two horses that were stabled on the fore part of the boat, where...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 20 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 14 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES country still further west as well as the center at which all the products of the soil were collected for the eastern market. But what a contrast; then...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 21 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 15 prairie country adjoining it on the south and west, assuring them that they could purchase land of the Government contiguous to the village for a...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 22 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 16 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES could all ride with good roads, but we had to travel about ten miles from the city on the shore of Lake Erie, where the sand was very...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 23 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 17 began to get worse, and when within a short dis¬ tance of the Maumee ri ver, we had to cross one of the vilest of...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 24 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 18 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES dropped in lier harness, and there we had to leave her. A neighboring farmer coming by, sold us an old horse that he warranted would carry us to...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 25 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 19 from tlie backwoods of Ohio, for there is, notwith¬ standing their travel-worn appearance, something in their looks and manners which stamp them far superior in...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 26 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 20 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES with the addition of burnt sugar and juniper berries to suit the taste of their customers. From this room you would enter the family sitting room, also used...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 27 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 2l We were early astir the next morning, not that we need have been, had not the room been wanted for other purposes, for we had...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 28 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 22 Early Chicago reminiscences but we will again leave them for the night. The next morning found us up bright and early for a start, and after getting breakfast and repacking the...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 29 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 2S pared, and glad enough we all were to sit down to it after the labors of the day; but we had hardly tasted a mouthful...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 30 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 24 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES the succeeding night will ever forget it. Glad enough we all were to welcome the first rays of the coming morn; even then the outlook was none of...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 31 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 13Y AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 25 expected we were at least twenty, but the continual stoppages to which we had been subjected had de¬ ceived us as to the distance traveled....- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 32 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 26 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES yoke of oxen, driven by a former acquaintance, who met us about 11 o’clock. This was a great relief to all, as it enabled the female portion of...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 33 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 27 for the stage company, and not before it was needed, for our party dragged one horse off to the woods—a victim to hard driving, scant...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 34 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCE^ 28 of a family in the village of Chicago, and such were a few of the hardships and troubles experienced in getting here. But before describing Chicago as we...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 35 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 29 ten times their numbers; see Captain Wells, as he strikes right and left, and single-handed drives five or six of the dusky warriors before him,...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 36 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 30 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES 1812 to 1816), but in 1816 it was rebuilt under the direction of Captain Bradley, and was again occupied by United States troops. Nothing of great impor¬ tance...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 37 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 31 while they were on the lake steamers en route to Fort Dearborn. General Scott said sometime after the Mexican war that he had often been...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 38 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 32 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES system was instituted from motives of both philan- throphy and expediency, but soon proved to be a failure and was abandoned. The second or new fort, which was...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 39 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. BY AN OLD RESIDENT OF 1833. 33 ruining many jack-knives digging out the bullets we found imbedded in the timbers. On both sides of the parade ground, in the center of the...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892
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Image 40 of History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. 34 EARLY CHICAGO REMINISCENCES keeping, so to speak). In those days fat contracts and boodlers were unknown. There was another smaller lighthouse at the end of the north pier. The duty of...- Contributor: Cleaver, Charles
- Date: 1892