Tracing Bridget (Mahan) Hogan’s Irish Roots
This post is for documenting my efforts to "jump the pond" and find Bridget C. (Mahan) Hogan's birthplace in Ireland. The Facts…
Henry Family Land Patents in Illinois
Hiram Henry's Father Robert Lewis Henry and grandfather Robert Henry purchased 4 Illinois land patents in Illinois. The land is located at…
Dutch Chicago Historic Maps
Snyder's real estate map of Cook County, IL, 1886, Library of Congress. Flower, S.H. Burhans & J. Van Vechten 1862 Map of…
Richard Hine Stationary Store
I recall my dad telling me Richard Hine had a shop in Roseland where he sold stationary and repaired typewriters. We ended…
Cowan & Fleming Deeds & Documents
This post is a repository for documents related to the Cowan and Fleming families of Lancaster County and Chester County Pennsylvania. I…
Burnside at Ruskie
The Fishers
Jean's mother Mary Fisher was born 20 July 1754 in Port of Menteith, Perthshire (now Stirling), to John Fisher and Margaret Gourlay.…
View of Greenock, Scotland, by Robert Salmon, 1816
The Ferriers
Jean Ferrier Farquharson's father William Ferrier was born 20 April 1750 in the parish of Greenock New or Middle, across the river…
William McTaggart - Among the Heather
Jean Ferrier Farquharson Birth and Family of Origin
Jean Ferrier Farquharson was the wife of Glasgow herbalist and "bone setter" John Farquharson and mother of 9 children including Kate Farquharson's…
Lewis/Louis Rhining 1854-1932
Louis Henry Rhining was Hazel's maternal grandfather. Family lore and historical records paint a picture of a volatile individual. It's difficult to…
William Cowan (1815-1898) Biography
(William and Nancy Parish Cowan's home in Monmouth IL) Patrick McGuire wrote this biography in the fall of 2005 for the historiography…
Furnessville
An essay I wrote about Ken and Hazel and my memories of their home on Furnessville Road in Chesterton IN. You can…
The Dutch Families of Roseland
Father Jacob De Jong was born on July 17, 1810 in Holland, Nederland and came to America in the year 1849 on a sailing ship over the big Ocean. The trip took 42 days. It was very stormy and with an epidemic of cholera on board 32 passengers died. They landed in New York and went immediately by steamboat to Chicago where they landed on St Street on July 4, 1849. They traveled the 14 miles south and bought land for five dollars an acre. The place was called Hoogie Prarie (High Prairie).