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  EarlyChicagoHOME
John Kinzie’s account books show that he was visited by a customer of this name on Jan 12, 1817 and again on May 29 of the same year.
John Kinzie’s account books show that he was visited by a customer of this name on June 1, 1812 and again on Sept. 21, 1812.
John Kinzie’s account books show that he was visited by a customer of this name between June 1 and August 15, 1812, the day of the Fort Dearborn massacre.
www.earlychicago.com /encyclopedia.php   (4065 words)

  
 John Kinzie
John Kinzie (December 3, 1763 - January 6, 1828) is known as Chicago’s first permanent white settler.
Kinzie was born in Quebec City, Canada to John McKenzie and Anne McKenzie.
In 1833, Kinzie’s son, John H. Kinzie, ran to become the first mayor of Chicago, losing to William Butler Ogden.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Kinzie.html   (207 words)

  
 <John Kinzie biography>
Kinzie was principal percussionist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, a position he won at the age of 19.
John is married to Karen, a violinist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
John Kinzie, is the Director of the Percussion Studies and Instructor of Classical percussion at the Lamont School of Music.
www.du.edu /lamont/JohnKinziebiography.html   (381 words)

  
 Juliette M. Kinzie’s Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North-West
Men like John Kinzie who had lived and worked among the Indians all their lives were considered especially qualified to work as Indian agents precisely because they were aware of the subtleties of relations among the Indians themselves and also because they frequently knew native American languages.
Kinzie’s neglect of this material should not be seen as laziness or amateurishness but rather as the product of her certainty that truth was to be found in actual experience at the individual level and that the individuals whose lives comprised history were to be approached as ordinary people.
The one exception to Kinzie’s neglect of documentary sources is her inclusion in an appendix of an account of the Sauk war drawn from the journals of Thomas Forsyth, half-brother of John Kinzie, Sr..
www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/waubun.htm   (4358 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery: John Kinzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fort Dearborn was soon established at the mouth of the river, and Kinzie's influence in the area grew as he traded with the soldiers at the fort and the natives.
Kinzie had been with the soldiers but escaped unharmed; his family had already gone into hiding.
Kinzie had originally been buried in the Fort Dearborn cemetery, then moved to the original north side City Cemetery, and again to the new City Cemetery in what is now Lincoln Park.
www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/graceland/kinzie.html   (200 words)

  
 Kinzie Family Bios Page
Kinzie was one of the trustees of the School Section in December, 1829; the first Sheriff appointed by the Governor for Cook County; the first town auctioneer; and one of the Town Trustees in 1825.
Kinzie loved to describe his delight upon one occasion, when on the opening of a chest of tea, among the stores brought by the annual schooner, a spelling-book was drawn forth and presented to him.
Kinzie rceived the appointment of Agent for the upper bands of the Winnebagoes in 1829, and fixed his residence at the portage, where Fort Winnebago was in that year constructed.
www.tigerbot.com /genealogy/bios.html   (4580 words)

  
 Kinzie Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Kinzie is currently the head of the percussion division of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.
Kinzie is the principle percussionist of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1985.
Kinzie has been a featured soloist with the Toledo Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Yale School of Music, Grand Teton Music Festival and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions, most recently performing the premiere recording of Libby Larsen’s “Marimba Concerto: After Hampton”, and performing Martin Bresnick’s “Grace”, a double marimba concerto with Robert Van Sice.
www.pearldrum.com /KinzieBio.htm   (315 words)

  
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Kinzie, with her family of four children, two domestics, and two Indians, took a boat, intending to cross the lake to St. Joseph, but remained at the mouth of the harbor during the subsequent carnage, then returned to their home.
John Kinzie lived on the north side of the river, nearly on the line of Michigan Avenue; and Antoine Oulimette, a French trader, who had married an Indian woman, residal 0on the same side, about two blocks further west.
Kinzie, At this meeting nothing further was done than to pass resolutions stating that the growing trade of Chicago demanded the establishment of a Board of Trade.
delta.ulib.org /ulib/data/moa/536/a66/356/313/c95/d/data.txt   (20527 words)

  
 John Crafts Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Crafts was raised by his mother, Esther Sartwell Crafts Mead, and step-father, Rev. Samuel Mead at the family home in Walpole, N.H., along with his sister, Esther Crafts (later Mrs.
The papers of John Crafts provide insight into the development of one man's career in the fur trade during the early 19th century, with insight into the earliest history of Chicago.
A majority of the letters in the collection were written by John Crafts to his mother, step-father, brother, and sister, beginning in 1806 when Craft was finishing his education and first entering into the business world, and ending shortly after his death nineteen years later.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/C/Crafts.html   (584 words)

  
 John Kinzie silversmith (1763-1828) his early career as Shawneeawkee "The Silver Man"
John Kinzie was born in Quebec City in 1763 according to several publications.
Kinzie's stepfather William Forsyth was thus in business with the silversmith Gerrit Graverat, a very good reason to think that John Kinzie was placed with Graverat as an apprentice silversmith.
John Kinzie's half-brother George Forsyth is lost in the woods on August 6 and dies in "The Common" or "Prairie Ronde" west of the Fort.
www.er.uqam.ca /nobel/r14310/Kinzie   (8063 words)

  
 Little Clearing House for LITTLE Surname
She later married John Kinzie (or McKinzie), an Indian trader, and the family survived the Fort Dearborn (Chicago) Massacre.
Notes for JOHN KINZIE: John Kinzie was a half brother to the Forsythes.
John Kinzie was one of the earliest settlers and business men at the Fort and new village of Chicago.
www.finitesite.com /magnolia/loyalist.html   (956 words)

  
 THE FORT DEARBORN MASSACRE
Kinzie would figure prominently in the events that were still to come.
John Kinzie and the other nearby settlers had also come to the fort for protection.
John Kinzie’s niece was spared but was narrowly wounded by a tomahawk.
www.prairieghosts.com /dearborn.html   (2123 words)

  
 Descendants of ABRAHAM KINZIG
The ancestoral Abraham Kinzie, that is Kintzing, Kintzig, Kinzig, Kinsing, Kinzing, awaits discovery.
John, their first son, was the first male child born in the area, that in 1801, shortly after arriving After a struggle of five years, Dilman Kinsey died, leaving land ready and a primitive pioneer home near the foot of a precipitous bluff by the river.
John Mitchell Kinzie was born in Doon, Waterloo County Ontario, Canada on January 22, 1856.
www.octhouse.com /kinzigreport.html   (8649 words)

  
 Inventory of the Gordon Family Papers, 1810-1968
Eleanor (Nell) Kinzie Gordon (1858-1933), married Richard Wayne Parker, son of Cortlandt Parker, and lived in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., where her husband served in the United States Congress as Republican representative from New Jersey, 1895-1911, 1914-1919, and 1921-1923.
Around April, Juliette Kinzie began to express her worries about Nelly's safety and about how long they might be able to communicate through the mails, but, while there were delays and difficulties, documented in several 1863 letters, a steady stream of correspondence seems to have flowed between Chicago and Savannah.
John Kinzie died in June 1865, and there is much correspondence between Nelly and her mother and between Nelly and W. when she was in Chicago.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/02235.html   (6039 words)

  
 pages 97-to 107 - Washington County Iowa, 1880
Kinzie, and the latter erected on the site the building known to the early settlers as the "Kinzie House." This became a resort for the officers and others connected with the garrison.
Kinzie, he withheld the ammunition and arms from the Indians, throwing them, together with the liquors, into the Chicago river.
Mr, Kinzie had always been on the most friendly terms with the Indians, and still hoped that his personal efforts might influence them to allow the whites to leave unmolested; He determined to accompany the expedition, leaving his family in a boat in the care of a friendly Indian.
www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/LightOn/1880wash_9.htm   (2914 words)

  
 Discover Wisconsin-Portage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Juliette Magill, born into New England society, married Indian agent John Kinzie and traveled to the frontier in 1830 on her wedding trip, sometimes sleeping on a mattress atop her piano, which was balanced in a boat.
Juliette Kinzie embraced pioneer life with enthusiasm and good cheer, and her book, Wau-bun, The "Early Day" in the Northwest, is a fascinating account of her experiences on the land that would become the city of Portage.
On County F, John Muir Memorial County Park protects a fen containing rare plant species and the land on which Muir, the founder of America's national park system, lived between 1849 and 1855.
www.crwmag.com /Wistrails/DisWis/Portage.html   (1376 words)

  
 View of Kinzie Home, 1832
The Kinzie house, built by Jean Baptise Point DuSable in the 1770s.
John Kinzie moved here in 1804, and this house served as the base for his far-flung trading operations.
Kinzie lived among the Potawatomi for long stretches, primarily in what is now Michigan.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/6331.html   (82 words)

  
 ChicagoRelo.com is your source of all kinds of information on Chicago, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kinzie quickly assumed the role of the civilian leader of the area, trading and dealing with the local Indian population.
John Kinzie and the other local settlers had also come to the fort for protection.
John Kinzie and his family were also miraculously spared.
www.chicagorelo.com /l/details.php?id=659   (2007 words)

  
 Mackinac Island--"The Wildest and Tenderest Piece of Beauty That I Have Yet Seen on God's Earth"
Although not published until 1856, the volume contains Kinzie's classic accounts of her life on the Illinois and Wisconsin frontier in 1830-33, including a narrative of her voyage from Detroit to Green Bay, with a stopover at Mackinac Island in 1830.
John Kinzie, Indian agent at Fort Winnegabo, located east of present-day Portage, Wisconsin, had married Juliette Magill at her home in New Hartford, New York, in August 1830.
A long-time friend of Kinzie, Stuart had joined John Jacob Astor's fur-trading empire in 1810 and had served as agent of Astor's American Fury Company, at Mackinac since 1819.
www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /features/discmich/mackisland.html   (2766 words)

  
 John Kinzie, Mediator & Arbitrator, practicing in Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA
John Kinzie, Mediator & Arbitrator, practicing in Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA
John Kinzie has experience in settling the following civil matters:
Labour relations practitioner 1976-1983; Vice-Chair and Chair of the Labour Relations Board of B.C. 1983-1987; labour arbitrator 1987 to present.
www.adrweb.ca /john-kinzie   (108 words)

  
 Chapter 14
Letters testamentary were therefore issued to Wolcott on a bond of $3,000, with John Kinzie and James Latham as sureties.
On the 20th day of November next thereafter he appeared and presented the appraisement bill and sale bill of the estate of said John Crafts, which, being authenticated to the satisfaction of the court, was ordered to be recorded, the appraisers being John Kinzie and Billy Caldwell (a noted half-breed of Chicago).
On the 10th day of November, 1832 Andrew M. Hunt was commissioned by Governor John Reynolds as Judge of the Probate Court to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Norman Hyde, to hold until the end of the next session of the General Assembly.
www.just1way.org /Peoria/Books/he1902/chapter14.html   (1708 words)

  
 EarlyChicagoHOME
- 1860 · John Kinzie, patriarch of the Kinzie family, is buried in Graceland Cemetery among many family members.
John died in 1828, and his remains were removed from several earlier sites before finding permanent rest.
- The Kinzie House near Fort Dearborn, 1804, was memorialized on one of 16 historical paintings by Lawrence C. Earle, located in the banking room of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, 152 Monroe Street, Chicago.
www.earlychicago.com /monuments.php?letter=K   (178 words)

  
 andrew.stottsan.net :: kinzie kinzie kinzie
with all the recent press about dave matthew's band's tour bus dumping waste from the kinzie street bridge, this photo has been getting me a ton of traffic.
a google search for "kinzie street bridge" does yield me as the top hit, for some crazy reason.
if youd like more info on kinzie, just ask, i am one, and a great, great great, great, grandson of john kinzie, one of the first settlers in chicago, thanks......kevin kinzie
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 Women's lot was hard on the Illinois prairie : Reflections : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and ...
Writing in her old age, Juliette M. Kinzie, wife of John H. Kinzie Jr., left the first account by a woman of what life was like during the settlement period in some of the sparse settlements across northern Illinois.
John Kinzie, son of the founder of modern Chicago, was an Indian agent and trader stationed at today’s Portage, Wis. In 1831, he and Juliette traveled overland to Chicago roughly following what would become, three years later, the southern road from Chicago to Galena.
Kinzie met on her trip ranged from Mrs.
www.ledgersentinel.com /article.asp?a=2294   (909 words)

  
 George Glazer Gallery - First House of Chicago
According to the subtitle of the print, it was the residence of John Kinzie from 1804 to 1828.
John Kinzie (1763-1828) was the first permanent white settler in Chicago.
Kinzie returned four years later, and remained in Chicago until his death in 1828.
www.georgeglazer.com /archives/prints/americana/varinfirst.html   (394 words)

  
 Hihstory Club Newsletter January 2002
After writing the article about John Williamson, I had opportunity to visit the Chicago Public Library and found the death notice of his son, John A. Williamson.
John Alexander was president of the St. Andrew Society in 1931.
It is possible that John might still be alive, but he would be quite elderly.
www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Newsletters/2002/July02-4.htm   (389 words)

  
 Thomas Hamilton, First Infantry
Whistler was sent to the Detroit garrison and Kinzie was left at Dearborn.
Thomas Hamilton was in command of Fort Madison at the outbreak of the War of 1812.
John Tucker's 580 men of the 41st Foot raiding New York to cut American supply lines to Fort Erie in Canada, and Major Lodowick Morgan's 300-man battalion of the First Rifle Regiment.
members.tripod.com /umbrigade/articles/hamilton.html   (1290 words)

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