Charles Jerold Hull 18 March 1820 – 12 February 1889 Helen Culver 23 Mar 1832 – 19 Aug 1925 Charles Jerold Hull was what could be termed a self-made millionaire, making his fortune in real-estate in both Chicago and across the US. According to the Tribune in his 14th of February 1889 obituary, his father […]
27 October 1822 – 5 May 1871 George was born in County Armagh in Ireland to Scottish Protestant parents. He came to the US as a teenager. He first settled on the East Coast, showing up on the 1850 census living in Baltimore and working in sales (possibly as a storeowner or manager). By that […]
Colonel John Mason Loomis 5 January 1825 – 2 August 1900 Mary Jane Hunt Loomis 15 August 1829 – 7 October 1910 Mary Hunt Loomis 16 June 1855 – 5 January 1861 John was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1825 to a prosperous family. His father was an officer in the state militia and a […]
7 November 1828 – 19 August 1895 Leonard Volk was born in Wellston, New York. He got his start as a marble cutter in his father‘s business before deciding to become a fine-art sculptor. He studied in Rome to perfect his art. After returning to the US, he helped to establish the Chicago Academy of […]
Patriarch Jacob Birk immigrated to the US from then-Prussia around 1853. He met and married Magdalena Welflin (from Alsace-Lorraine; then Germany, now France) in 1859, and together they had 12 children, 8 surviving childhood. Jacob did well in business and on the 1880 census is listed as the proprietor of a boarding house (per other […]
Frances Manette Pearce Stone 29 June 1835 – 12 March 1854 Frances was the second wife of grain tycoon Horatio Odell Stone, a man who was 24 years her senior. They appear to have married when she was just 16 years old. Stone’s first wife had died just a year before after many years of […]