on till 1879, when the church was sold to the Lutherans. Between two and three hundred members in all have been enrolled on the books of this church, which had a Sabbath school numbering once fifty, and a library of 300 books.

The Baptist Church of Bloomingdale was organized in 1841 by Rev. Joel Wheeler. It first numbered ten members. The next year, a revivalist named Morgan Edwards came to the place and preached with effect. Six new members were added to the church, but no regular preaching was held till Rev. P. Taylor, of Babcock's Grove, supplied them each alternate Sunday.

In 1848, the society commenced building a church. The frame was erected and the question arose whether the site of the place chosen was destined to be the true center of the town. This question hung in suspense, and the prairie breeze whistled through the naked scantlings and rafters of the unfinished edifice while this question was being settled by the events of time. Finally, the locality was not considered a good one, the work was abandoned, another site selected and a church built in 1849. Prosperity rewarded their efforts, the church proved too small for their increasing numbers, and the society sold it for a schoolhouse and built a larger one in 1855, at which time they had over one hundred members. Rev. P. Taylor was the first settled pastor of the church, who remained with them until the church was built which

they now occupy. The number of their members is now about fifty. The church has regular preaching and a Sabbath school.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bloomingdale was organized in 1878, and the next year occupied the church which they bought of the Congregationalists. Rev. Gustave Lambrecht was their first pastor, who was succeeded by Rev. A. B. Mysch, the

The following is a list of the business and professional men of Bloomingdale Village :

Brown & Verbeck, proprietors of the Bloomingdale Flax Mill, consumes 1,000 tons of flax straw and manufactures 600 tons of tow annually; the firm employs eight men; T. C. Ryan, cheese factory, employs three men, consumes 8,000 pounds of milk, makes fifteen cheeses and 240 pounds of butter daily; bed spring factory, by A. R. Kinne, makes 500 bed springs annually; John Beurmaster, tailor; Robert Gates, C. Eden, wagon-makers; John Shank, George Wallis, William Sleep, Elijah Bond, blacksmiths; O. A. Verbeck, Bradford Hills, carpenters; Henry Rohler, A. Backhouse, shoe shop; Roger Ryan, Charles Hills, Josiah Stevens, artesian well-borers; Thomas Saureman, harness shop; Hills & Deibert, general store; J. R. Dunning, Postmaster and general store; Henry Vanderhoof, physician; G. W. Robinson, Baptist clergyman; A. B. Mysch, Lutheran clergyman; William Rathge, Notary Public; Robert Gates, Henry Woodruff, Justices of the Peace; Josiah Stevens, Charles Pierce, Constables; Henry Holstine, grist-mill, propelled by windpower, manufacturers of flour and grinds feed.

The village of Roselle, situated in the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 3, Township 40, Range 10, was platted and recorded October 5, 1874, by Bernard Beck. The following is a list of its business

men:

Hattendorf & Bagge, general store and agricultural implements; M. Secker, general store; Illinois Linen Company, manufactory of linen fabrics, ropes, twines, etc.; a gristmill with three run of stones for flour and feed, Henry Holstine, proprietor; Rudolph Milton, blacksmith; grain elevator, by Frederick Langhurst; meat market, by J. Theo

bald; wholesale meat market, by Fred Golt. ermann; lumber yard, by Frederick Thies; hardware and tin shop, by Henry Williams; H. A. Secker, hotel; Henry Eincke, hotel; Henry Sumner, keeps the depot; J. H. C. Hattendorf, Postmaster; a public school; Henry Woodworth, Justice of the Peace; Joseph Fidler, carpenter; John D. Behrer, boots and shoes; George Steging, harness maker.

The elevation of the place is 190 feet above Lake Michigan.

Meacham is a station on the Chicago, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, in Section 1, in Bloomingdale Township. It has one general store, kept by James Pierce, who also keeps the depot and is Postmaster.

The Methodist

Church at the place was first organized as a class meeting by Rev. J. C. Stoughton, in 1851. Elizabeth Pierce, Mary Ann Battin, Grace Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs. B. B Miller were the members. They met in the old schoolhouse. Here their services were held, including their Sunday school, which was organized in January, 1858. The next year their church was finished and regular preaching has been sustained in it till the present time. The church when first organ

Agreeable to your request, I give you herewith a statement as to a strange phenomenon that occurred on my land in Bloomingdale in August, 1856.

Observing that one of my fences was prostrated, I examined the breach, and found that one of the posts had been shattered into splinters from below the second board above the ground, including the portion of it set in the ground. The portion of the post above where the bottom board was nailed to it was whole, without the marks of violence, but the lower board nailed to it was somewhat shattered. The strangest part of the whole was that in the identical hole made in the ground in which the post had stood, a deep incision was made as if, by some violent operation of nature, something had perforated it from below up, the evidence of which theory being found from the abundance of dirt thrown out and scattered for three or four rods all in one direction-probably owing to the wind. The splinters of the lower part of the fence post were

also scattered the same as the dirt which had been thrown out of the hole. I ran a pole about ten feet long down the hole, but could find no bottom, nor could I hear pebbles strike any bottom as I dropped them down. The hole was about six inches in diameter, and as clean a cut as could be bored with an auger. DANIEL KELLEY. Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public, the 13th day of September, 1882. W. L. GUY, Notary Public.

THE

flower, about the size of the old-fashioned bell-buttons that were fashionably used on boys' blue satinet roundabouts in the early part of the present century, and discontinued about the year 1835. This daisy was certainly more ornamental than useful. But what had it to do with the history of Addison? Let us speculate. The daisy was so tenacious of life that it was more difficult to

kill than blue grass. Wherever it took pos

It grew

session of the land, it outrivaled every other kind of vegetation, and rendered it almost valueless for meadow or pasturage. in several of the towns east of the Merrimack River, in the vicinity of Concord, N. H., especially in Stoddard and Hillsboro, and forced many of the inhabitants away from their mountain homes to seek more fruitful localities, where a better reward met the hands of the husbandman. The writer came from this part of New Hampshire, and speaks from his own knowledge. At Hillsboro lived Hezekiah Duncklee, and from this place he emigrated in the summer of 1833. If the mountain daisy drove farmers away from the place, perhaps their gorgeous beauty gave them a taste for the ornamental, and may not have served a vain purpose. Mr. Duncklee, having crossed the Green Mountains, arrived at Potsdam, in the State of New York, safely, where

he was joined by Mason Smith, and the two started together for the West.

Their road lay along the old historic grounds of Fort Stanwix (now Rome), thence across the Genesee River at Rochester and Buffalo, at which place they took a boat for Detroit, where they bought a horse and wagon, and pursued their journey across the State of Michigan to Chicago, which they reached on the 3d of September. They rested here five days, and again started westwardly for the Desplaines River, crossing it at the present site of Maywood, from which place a welltraveled road bore westwardly across an apparently boundless prairie. But, before starting on this road, they encamped for the night in the country so strange to the visitors. The low, flat prairie, and the sluggish river that drained it, were the least of their surprises. The Pottawatomies still owned the entire country to which they were emigrating, and 300 of their number were assembled on the river bank here. It was a picture rarely to be looked on to see these natives just preparing to leave their homes to make room for the new-comers, for they (the Indians) were now bending their course to Chicago to attend the treaty there, destined to convey Northern Illinois east of Rock River to those who had already taken possession of the choicest portions of it before

the bargain was made to sell it, and Mr. Duncklee and Mr. Smith were two more of this class on whom the Indians could look in no other light than that of intruders.

It

The next morning they resumed their journey, following the trail over which Scott's army had passed eleven months before. has since been put down on early maps as the Elgin road. It enters the present township of Addison at its extreme southeast corner, and leads thence to the village of Addison, on Salt Creek, and this was the location of the road which the travelers took.

Toiling along their way in this narrow path between two oceans of green, they came to a grave where one of the soldiers who came the year before, under command of Gen. Scott, to defend the country from the Sauks, had found his last resting-place, and the first grave of a white man in Addison Town. ship. Farther along, at Salt Creek, were the tent poles still standing as the army had left them. They crossed the stream and encamped for the night on the prairie, amidst the lullaby din of reptile life. But soon these soft voices of the night were drowned by the sharp yelp of the numerous wolves that hung around the camp attracted by the scent of strange animal life in their midst, but too formidable for them to attack. Pushing forward the next morning, they reached the settlement which the Meachams had made six months before. Here two men in pursuit of a home met three who had already laid claim to one in the verge of a grove that now bears their name--Meacham's Grove. Six months' experience in a country, wild as nature could make it, was productive of much practical information. Everything was to be built new, and the problem was how to begin. The Meachams gave the new-comers the benefit of their experience, and the result was that they proceeded back to a grove on Salt Creek,

north of where they had crossed this stream, and, on the 12th of September, selected a location on the northern verge of a grove, to which the name of Duncklee's Grove has since been given. Mr. Dunckley's claim was on what became Sections 10 and 15 when the country came to be surveyed. It consisted of suitable portions of prairie and timber, as first claims always did till timber lands had all been taken possession of.

The first thing to be done was to build a house. This was no difficult task to accomplish where there was plenty of timber, and all the tools required were an ax, hammer, saw, and adze to smooth the surface of the floor, which was made of split logs, flat side upward, called puncheons, besides which a frow, with which to rive out clapboards for the roof, was necessary. The whole was finished in two weeks, and occupied by the first freeholder of Addison Township. Mr. Duncklee's family arrived the next year, 1834, in August, at the new home, amidst the growing crops that had rewarded the labors of this pioneer farmer. The following June, on the 18th, was born a daughter, Julia A., who, at her maturity, became the wife of Frederick E. Lester. She was the first white child born in Addison, and became the first schoolteacher at the place, from which we must infer that Addison was rather tardy in establishing schools, or wished to wait till they could grow a teacher on their own soil. Setting this down to their love of home talent, if the latter was the case, we will pass on to the next thing done here in a similar direction. This was to plant apple seeds, which Mr. Duncklee did in 1836, and his orchard grew from this seed, as the first school-teacher had grown on the fuitful soil of Addison. Both were a success. Miss Julia taught a good school, and the orchard of Mr. Duncklee bore fruitfully, affording a handsome in

come for its fruit in a few years after it was planted. In the summer subsequent to Mr. Duncklee's first arrival, there came to the place and settled a Mr. Perin, who took sick and died in a few weeks, his being the first death in Addison, except the unfortunate soldier whose grave was seen by Mr. Duncklee, as already told.

Early in the summer of the same year 1834, Ebenezer Duncklee, brother to Hezekiah, came and made a claim adjoining him and Richard Kingston. Thomas H. Thomson, James Bean, Demerit Hoyt and D. Parsons, all from the Eastern States, came and made claims, mostly at the southern side of the grove.

Thus far, the settlement was exclusively American, but close upon their heels, or perhaps ere the last of the above-mentioned had settled, there came to the place the vanguard of the German immigration destined to appropriate the lands of what, since that time, became Addison Township. This vanguard was William Henry Bosque, Barney H. Fran/ zen, Frederick Graue (with his family of five stalwart young men-Dedrick, Frederick, Jr., Luderwich, Heinrich and August-and one daughter, Willemine, to help the mother garnish the house and the manners of the boys). The main settlement of these Germans was at a small grove, in what is now Section 34, ever since called Graue's Grove; but some of the Graue family settled in what is now York. Willemine was soon married to Frederick Kraige, who also settled near by. Banhard Koeler, who came with Mr. Graue, and Dedrick Leseman, all came the same year, and Young Germany took deep root at the place. Besides all these, Thomas Williams and E. Lamb, from New York State, came in 1834. The next year, 1835, Edward Lester, with his five sons--Marshall, John, Daniel, Frederick and Lewis-came to the place from the

State of New York; also two brothers, Charles H. and Hiram Hoit, and George Rouse, came from the Eastern States, and Young America seemed to hold her own with Young Germany, but soon again the latter, coming in great force, took the lead. J. H Schmidt, and his son, H. Schmidt, Jr., and Mr. Buchols, who was subsequently killed at the raising of Mr. Plagge's log cabin in 1838, all came in 1835, and the next year, Henry D. Fischer, J. L. Franzen, B. Kaler, D. S. Dunning, Frederick Stuenkle, the Banum brothers, J. Bertram, S. D. Pierce, C. W. Martin, B. F. Fillmore, came to the settlement; and the next year, 1837, Conrad Fischer, father of Henry D., also Frederick J. and August, two of his brothers, and William Asche, came to the place.

The famous old tavern known as the Buckhorn was opened the same year, by Charles Hoit. It stood on the Galena road, two miles west of Salt Creek. It did a thriving business, the farmers to the west as far as Rock River being guests at the place on their way to and from Chicago to market their produce. Teams also came from Galena, loaded with lead, a heavy article to pull through the sloughs that intervened between the two places. As prices range now for every kind of supply, a teamster would find his bills payable larger than his bills receivable, if he had lead given to him free, and hauled it to Chicago to sell at the going price, if he paid common hotel fare and allowed the customary rates for the use of his horses and pay for his own time; but conditions were different then. His horses bated on the prairie for rough feed, and ate their allowance of corn or oats from the feed trough attached to the wagon, which was brought from the farm from whence they The owner of the team slept in his wagon, except in very cold weather, and brought a portion of his food from home, pat

came.