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History of the Schuler Home Lot 2 Block 4 By William A. Hill and Betty J. Hill In Appreciation To Joan Schuler Vannet and William Schuler for all their memories and the pictures they so generously provided without which this endeavor would not have been possible. Also, the staff members of the Nichols Library, the Naperville Heritage Society and the Naperville Settlement for their aid in searching through the historical data. In 1804 a treaty was drawn up and signed by representatives of the affected Indian tribes and authorized representatives of the United States that, in its signing, ceded all tribal lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States. It was under the protection of this broad treaty that the settler movement into lands west of Lake Michigan began to take place. Illinois entered the union on December 3, 1818. The city of Chicago was a small community, still struggling against the native Indian tribes that regarded the shores and lands adjacent to Lake Michigan as their native homeland and seriously resented the intrusion upon these lands by the would-be settlers. South and west of the Chicago settlement by some forty miles was a pristine expanse of rolling landscape covered with native grasses, flowering plants and woodlands. A fresh water river ran through these lands in a north to south general direction. Until about 1830 these uninhabited lands were included in the jurisdiction of Cook County and the acreages of this land were available to settlers under the Land Grant Authority. This authority was permitted to either sell these lands, eighty acres per sale, at $1.25 per acre, or to agree with a settler to file a claim for a given acreage, mark off his land hold and then till and farm the land and subsequently pay off his debt to the Land Grant Authority. In 1839 Bailey Hobson and a small group of pioneers established the first settlement along the East Side of the river near where Hobson Road crosses the DuPage River today. Mr. Hobson, his family and fellow settlers traveled to this site in covered wagons. Within a year they built a horse drawn gristmill and began the construction of homes that eventually would be commemorated as the first in the village of Lisle, Illinois. In 1831 Captain Joseph Naper, a former river boat Captain and a small contingent of sturdy, hard working group of settlers formed the nucleus of growth of a community that was destined to become Naperville, Illinois. This community was on the west side of the river and the land claims of these settlers included the land in between what, today, are Jackson street on the south and Jefferson street on the north all near what now is Washington street. By the close of 1831 their industrious efforts produced their own log cabins, a sawmill, a gristmill and a school log cabin. The Potowatomi Indians native to this area were friendly enough with the settlers and traded with them as they continued their own tribal customs in the area around these two settlements. In 1832, an Indian Chief, nicknamed Black Hawk, still very resentful of the 1804 treaty, led about one thousand Fox and Sauk Indians back into Illinois in an attempt to regain control of these lands. U.S. armed forces responded and so began the Black Hawk War. The women and children of the Naper and Hobson settlements were forced to endure the trek eastward to the safety of Fort Dearborn in Chicago. The male settlers of these villages cooperated with the U.S. troops under Major Payne who had been dispatched to the Naper settlement by General Atkinson of Ottawa. Together the settlers and soldiers erected a stockade one hundred feet square with blockhouses on its diagonal corners. It was built on the low hill just south of Chicago Avenue near Ellsworth Street, on what is now the North Central College Fort Hill campus. The women and children were, as rapidly as possible, returned to the safety of Fort Payne from Fort Dearborn. The U.S. armed forces engaged in war against Black Hawk and his followers later in 1832 near the River Bad Axe in what is now Wisconsin. This battle resulted in a termination of the Black Hawk War and the insurgency of the Fox and Sauk tribes. Within the next four years, by 1835, the settlement of Naper's was a busy little community of hard working farmers, businessmen and their equally industrious wives and children. A log schoolhouse was functional, business ventures were beginning to thrive around the Preemption house that opened in 1834. In 1834, the Naper settlement was visited by a traveler and businessman from Hyde Park, New York — a Captain Morris Sleight. Earlier Mr. Sleight had served as a captain on a sloop on the Hudson River in New York, but he was an inveterate traveler, a merchant, real estate trader and a farmer but in the richest sense, an entrepreneur of the first order. Mr. Sleights travels in 1835 brought him to Chicago, but he was, quite simply, overwhelmed by the beauty of the prairies and woodlands adjacent to the Naper settlement. After he met with the village leaders he proceeded to purchase large tracts of land east and southeast of the Naper settlement. One of these land acquisitions was property designated for his personal mansion to be called Cottage Green. This property was along the north side of what today is Chicago Avenue and on the West Side of today's Ellsworth Street. Mr. Sleight bought the 400 acres of land, which included the site where Fort Payne stood. (Now North Central College Fort Hill Campus) He traded a portion of land that he had acquired from Joe Naper for a piece of property that had been owned by a Mr. Douglas. This trade allowed Morris Sleight to acquire a frame house that had been built on the Douglas property. In 1838 Mr. Sleight's wife, Harriet and their children joined him at their home in the Naper settlement. Mrs. Sleight was the daughter of a Hyde Park, New York physician. At the time of her arrival, her husband was functional as a farmer, sheep raiser, land trader and was serving as treasurer of the newly formed county government of DuPage. When the Naper settlement became incorporated in 1857 Mr. Sleight became a village trustee and in 1861 and 1862 served as the president of the city. It is almost redundant to say that in Morris Sleight's twenty-eight years of residency in the Naperville and DuPage County governmental realms, he had become a financially and politically powerful individual. In spite of his political services he was known primarily as a real estate dealer. At heart, however, he was an adventurer who loved to travel across relatively unexplored territories. From 1850 to 1854 he journeyed westward to California, engaging himself in various business enterprises that permitted him to live very, very comfortably, and, yet be able to send a draft of some seven thousand dollars back to his family in Naperville. Morris Sleight died in 1863, leaving a total of 473 acres of farmland valued at more than $30,000 to his son Delcar. In 1864 Mr. Delcar Sleight purchased the real estate holdings that had been inherited by the other heirs of Morris. At this point it is difficult to assess the total land holdings of Delcar but the names of the streets that were eventually cut through the subdivided city plots reflect his affection for his married siblings. They were Julia Loomis, Evelyn Brainard, Ida Wright and Delcar's son, Julian.
By the year 1874 growth in the city of Naperville had been modest but the eastern most street in town was Sleight Street (1874 Map of Naperville). The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad had been opened to traffic and service in 1864. Bridges over the river at Main and at Washington streets permitted movement of citizens and their wagons and carriages to the north and south of town. By 1877 the population had grown to 2,000 people. In 1890 Naperville was organized as a city and later an aldermanic and mayoral form of government was adapted. In 1893 the Naperville Lounge Chair Company was founded by James Nichols, Fred Long and John Kraushar. Peter Kroehler joined this firm as a business manager. A private generating plant had been distributing electricity in Naperville since 1890 but in 1900 the city began serious consideration of the purchase of this plant to become a tax-supported service. By this year, 1900, Nichols library had been dedicated, the first horse less carriage had been driven through Naperville, Peter Kroehler had become the president of the Naperville Lounge Company and, as the population grew to 2,600 citizens, the general value of land across DuPage county had risen to $100.00 per acre During the early years of the 1900's the cultural and educational influence of what became North Central College on the East Side of Naperville cannot be over estimated. Many of the college students resided in the homes of private families located around the college campus. These Napervillians found themselves feeling a new empathy for these students and their moves up an educational ladder. The college faculty members represented a new and vigorous source of influence and leadership in the community. The Sleight families were wealthy, influential but, above all, were very generous in their giving to the Naperville community. Morris Sleight had donated the land to be occupied by the Old Main building of North Western College. Delcar donated the sites needed for the building of the Congregational Church and St. John's Episcopal Church. He also arranged for the sale of a portion of the College Addition properties to the east side school district for the construction of the old Ellsworth school that was opened in 1889 on Sleight street, thus providing the east side of town with its first school building. The old Naper Academy, built by the efforts of Joe Naper and other west siders, had been serving the West Side of town since 1852. In 1903 the city of Naperville undertook to install a water works system that would finally pump the community's rich reserve of well waters into a gravity feed fresh water distribution system. At about this time the heirs of Delcar Sleight opted to take advantage of the increasing land values and opened what was termed the East Addition that provided home sites from Sleight Street east to Wright Street and from Chicago Avenue to North Avenue. Peter Kroehler and his family acquired a square block area of this addition as a site for the construction of the home and surrounding gardens of the Kroehler mansion. This home served to open many eyes in the community concerning the desirability of potential home sites on the East Side of an ever-growing Naperville. Soon the Sleight family saw fit to open the land east of Wright Street to the west side of Columbia Street. This addition was entitled the Columbia Addition. The relatively rapid success of the sale of these home sites led in 1905 to the decision to open the Sleight's Orchard Addition to potential home site seekers. This new subdivision included all designated building sites on the East Side of Columbia Street from Chicago Avenue to North Avenue. The Delcara Heights Addition between Julian Street and Huffman Street and between Chicago Avenue on the south to North Avenue on the north was the last section bearing the Sleight name to be subdivided. By 1910 Naperville's population had grown to 3400 citizens. The Chicago Telephone Company installed cables underground in the city of Naperville. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company built the depot that still serves the city in this year of 1996. But now we focus our attention on the as yet built upon home sites in the Sleight's Orchard Addition in the years 1910-1915. The natural history of these modest plots of land is, in itself, a fascinating story. The glacial epochs that formed these surfaces were long in time period and heavy in physical weight and influence. The receding glaciers left a rolling country from the moraines that followed each epoch. Natural flora and fauna preceded any influence of Homo Sapiens upon these territories. Indian tribes, explorers and missionaries passed over, or nearby, these soils. These home sites became a part of a huge land grant system of farm site distribution after 1804 A. D. And from 1834 to about 1920 they became the titular properties of one Morris Sleight and his heirs. Around 1920 these land sites were purchased by families and these familial groups had homes erected upon these sites that were being utilized as we approach the twenty first century. The focus of this endeavor was and is the home that was constructed at 12 South Columbia Street in the year 1923. This home site in the Sleight's Orchard Addition was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Royal Schuler. At the time they made this purchase, the Schulers were residing in an apartment in the old Daniel Strubler home at 232 South Washington Street in Naperville. Charles R. Schuler was born in 1890 and raised on the near north side of Chicago by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newton Schuler who were of German descent. Mrs. Charles R. Schuler was born in 1896 as Miss Irma Theodora Gilberg, the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gilberg, who were long time Chicagoans of Alsatian descent. Both Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Schuler had attended elementary school on the North side of Chicago. Mr. Schuler entered the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago for High School and completed his college degree in electrical engineering at that institute. He was employed as an electrical engineer by the commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago and remained in their employ until his retirement in 1954. They met while attending services at the Ravenswood Methodist Church. They were married on June 17, 1916. The Schulers contracted with a Mr. Charles Kiest of Naperville to build their two-story, three bedroom, single bath, six-room frame home above a full basement. The home was heated by a coal fired gravity return furnace. The completed home was covered by a very attractive cream colored stucco. The architectural style of the building was similar to what in the 1920's was termed a New England Salt Box. It was a very well built and compact home that sat on a 50 feet by 150 feet deep lot. A one-car garage was later added to the north east corner of the lot adjacent to the alley. When the Schulers took possession of their new home, the neighbors to the north and on the second lot to the south were already in residence. If they looked across their property to the east, very few homes had been erected in the Delcara Heights Addition and the corn crop growing on the farm could be seen. At this time the acreage was being farmed by a tenant farmer, William Barkei, on property still owned by the Sleight family The Barkei home stood on the north side of Chicago Avenue just east of Huffman Street. Charles Schuler set up the “Columbia Street Association” and this organization contributed to a fund for the streetlights. Thus the street was lighted from Chicago Avenue to the C. B. & Q. tracks, These same light fixtures served until 1994 when the wiring created maintenance problems. The lights were replaced with nearly identical fixtures. In the early 1930's the open sun porch was enclosed and the area above was added onto the house. The Schulers became the proud parents of their daughter Joan in 1925. Their son, William, was born in 1927. Mr. Schuler commuted into the city of Chicago each day on the old steam locomotive drawn C. B. & Q. trains. The family was active as members of the First Evangelical Church in Naperville. The art glass windows in this church were designed by Abram Schuler, Charles' Uncle. During his tenure as a member of the church, Mr. Schuler was elected to the board of trustees. He was also interested in public school education and for a number of years served on the local board of education. Mr. Schuler was a Mason and later became a Shriner. Both he and Mrs. Schuler were active in the Eastern Star. Both were Worthy Patron and Worthy Matron during the 1930's and 1940's. Mrs. Schuler became an active member of the Naperville Woman's Club. She was a very capable piano player and she frequently enlivened family get-togethers and sleepy afternoons while seated at her piano in the dining room. Each year Mr. Schuler's employer granted him a four-week vacation period. The family spent many of these vacations traveling about the country. They, as a family, visited several National Parks and similar places of interest. When not traveling great distances away from Naperville, the Schulers frequently spent the vacation time near Pleasant Lake in Coloma, Wisconsin. These vacation trips as a family served, in their lives in Naperville, to make the Schulers a tightly knit and very loving family. To quote the Schuler's daughter, Joan, “We were lucky kids. My brother and I each had a first class childhood!” The Schuler children attended the new Ellsworth School, which was built on Sleight Street in 1929. They entered their middle school classes on the third floor of the Naperville Community High School building that was built facing Washington Street opposite School Street and was opened in 1916. Their high school classes were taught on the first and second floors of this same building. During these years Miss Blanche Graham served as a very effective principal of the Junior and Senior High School. Mr. Ralph Beebe began a long tenure as superintendent of the Public School System in Naperville in 1927. After her graduation from high school Joan attended classes and completed a degree at Grinnell college in Iowa. Joan married Dave Vannet and they now reside in Washington State. Joan taught school on the elementary level. She and Dave have a daughter and a son. Both children obtained college degrees. Bill Schuler also received his degree from Grinnell College and worked for the St. Paul Insurance Companies achieving a vice presidency and general manager position. He met his wife, Maxine, at Grinnell and after graduation they were married. They have three sons. Bill and Maxine now live in Missouri. During the years of the Schuler residence on Columbia Street, Naperville did not cease to grow and change. Some tragedies struck the town in these years. In 1922 the Sts. Peter and Paul Church (dedicated) was completely destroyed by fire. In 1923 the city ceased operation of its own electricity generating plant and contracted with the Public Service Company for electrical power, but maintained the Naperville Electrical and Power distribution City Department. By the mid-1940's the population of Naperville approached 5,000 citizens. In 1950 the local school board opened Naperville Central High School on the southwest edge of town. The old High School became a middle school and later was torn down — replaced by the new Junior High now in use. In 1952 the Schulers contracted to have the stucco exterior of their home removed and replaced with genuine redwood siding. Mr. Charles Schuler elected to retire from the Commonwealth Edison Company in 1954. Since they were not fully decided about where next to live, they rented a home on the north side of Naperville and sold their home at 12 South Columbia to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hensel. Thus Floyd and Ella Mae Hensel and their two sons became the second family to occupy this home. Mr. Hensel was an employee of a firm from out of state and had been transferred to the metropolitan Chicago area. This writer has been able to learn very little about this family and recalls very little other than the very brief meeting with them that was occasioned during the real estate transaction in 1958. Mr. Hensel's employers found it necessary to ask him to move to a new location and thus the acquisition of Hensel's short-term ownership was assumed by Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hill and their two young children, Nancy and David. William Hill grew up in various neighborhoods in the city of Chicago since his parents never attempted to purchase a home of their own. His elementary and secondary education was completed in five different elementary schools and at Farragut High School on the near southwest side of Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the DePaul University. During World War If he was a civilian employee of the Sixth Service Command in Chicago and was attached to the Ninth Tow Target Squadron of the Army Air Corps stationed at the Midway Airport. William Arthur Hill was born in 1919 to Carl Douglas Hill (1894-1968) and Anna Helen, nee Hallas, Hill (1894-1974). Carl Hill earned his living as a sales representative for several companies throughout his career and also supplemented his income working as a licensed trade embalmer for undertakers throughout the Chicago and suburban area. His grandparents migrated to America from Clare County, Ireland shortly after 1800 and settled in Carrollton, Illinois to engage in farming and related activities. Anna Hill's grandparents migrated to Vie U.S.A. from Northern Poland in the mid-1800's. Her parents remained in Poland until the late 1800's serving a still wealthy family that represented a line of royalty that dated back to the Prussian families of the pre-Polish era. In 1944 Mr. Hill had completed his one-year of practice teaching in Chicago and his degree at De Paul University. He applied for a teaching position at the Naperville Community High School, was interviewed by Mr. Ralph Beebe, Superintendent, and was hired for the 1944-45 school year to teach classes in Math and Science. He also served as a Track Coach in his first year. He remained a member of the faculty until his retirement in 1979. From 1979 until 1983, he served as Chairman of the Departments of Education and Services to the Handicapped as a faculty member on the staff of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Mr. Hill completed his Masters Degree at Northwestern University and all the course work for his doctorate in physics at I. I. T. Mrs. William Hill (nee Betty Allen) was born in 1924 to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn D. Allen of Oak Park, Illinois. Both her mother and father were born in Michigan and they can trace their ancestry to pre- Revolutionary War founders of the State of Massachusetts. Her earliest ancestors were of English and Dutch descent. Lynn Allen (1889-1958) was a long-term employee of the Long Lines Division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in Chicago. Mrs. Hill's mother, Jane (1889-1982) nee Goozen — was mainly of Dutch descent from Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Allen were both high school graduates. Mrs. Allen helped support their family by using her skills as a dressmaker during the depression years. Mrs. William Hill attended the elementary and high school systems of Oak Park. In 1942 after finishing high school she entered the nurses' training program at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. In the course of her training Betty elected to become specialized in psychiatric nursing and completed this facet of her training at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute in 1945. Near the end of her training she became acquainted with William A. Hill who was undergoing tests as a patient. Over the next few years this acquaintance grew into a deep friendship and ultimately, in 1948, to marriage. In 1948 Mr. and Mrs. William Hill rented an apartment in Naperville at 213 East North Avenue. Mr. Hill continued his teaching at the high school and Mrs. Hill worked as a visiting nurse for the Metropolitan Insurance Company. In 1950, with their first child expected, they purchased a home at 543 South Washington Street in Naperville. Nancy was born in 1950 and her brother, David, in 1953, and Peggy in 1959. In 1958 the move to 12 South Columbia Street occurred. In 1958-59 after Mr. Hill returned from Cambridge Massachusetts where he completed a Graduate Fellowship in Biophysics at Harvard University, he became Chairman of the Science department at the new Central High school. In these and subsequent years, he concurrently taught classes as a faculty member of North Central College and the College of DuPage. Mr. Hill was an active member of the Naperville Kiwanis Club, a leader of the Indian Guides for young boys and at the First Evangelical United Brethren Church agreed to set up a preschool children's care program that survives until today. Mr. and Mrs. Hill were active members of the Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church and continued the association when it became the Methodist Church. Mr. Hill served two terms as a member of the board of trustees of this church. Mrs. Hill put aside her interest in nursing until all three of their children were enrolled in school. Prior to her return to active nursing she completed a Refresher course at McNeal Hospital in Berwyn and then was employed as a part time nurse at Edward Hospital. After nine years at the hospital she resigned. From 1975 until she retired in 1984 she continued working for several doctors as an office nurse. While the children were too young for long distant travel the family vacationed at a summer cottage on Lake Julia near Three Lakes, Wisconsin. These days of relaxation, fishing, swimming and hiking were memorable occasions for all. The summers in later years were times of lengthy car trips to almost all the National Parks, Washington, D.C., Canada and Mexico. Nancy, the eldest daughter graduated from Central High in 1967 and enrolled and graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign with a degree in English. she became employed in the University Library and completed her graduate degree in Library Science at the Champaign Campus. Today Nancy serves as Director of the Library and Administrative Dean at the University of Denver, Colorado. Her Husband, James Williams serves in identical capacity at the University of Colorado in Boulder. They and their daughter, Audrey, reside at their home in Louisville, Colorado. David, the Hill's second child graduated from North Central High School in 1971. He, too, graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Pharmacy. He married Connie Little in 1973. They attended high school and university together. Connie received her degree in Urban Planning. They are now the parents of Kristen, age 14 and Jenna, age 11, and live in Western Springs, Illinois. David owns his own Medicine Shoppe pharmacy in Brookfield, Illinois. The younger daughter, Peggy, graduated from North Central High School in 1976 and also attended the University of Illinois — going on to receive her Masters degree in Agronomy from Purdue University in Indiana. After receiving an additional degree in Counseling, she accepted a position as a member of the Task Force in behalf of Battered Women and Children in New Hampshire. In 1991, she changed careers and became employed by a nation-wide corporation which consults with states, cities and school systems and colleges and Universities to determine the best modes of funding their educational programs. She lives in her home in Kittery, Maine just north of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. So far, Peg has elected to remain single. Prior to, and following, Mr. William Hill's retirement from teaching and Mrs. Hill's retirement from nursing, they found time each year to travel extensively throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Hawaii and both Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iceland and many of the islands in the Caribbean. With this background of travel it has always been a sheer delight to return to their acquired home and property at 12 South Columbia Street in Naperville. As the years have passed, the Hills have come to love the Schuler home and with that affection a respect for the Charles R. Schulers; who built this home in the early 1920's. Time and identification with this home have produced in the Hills a remarkable sense of rapport with the Schulers — almost as though the Hills were related to these very wonderful people. Part of this identification with the Schuler family was produced very early in the ownership of the property. The very, very sturdy structure of this home is remarkable in many ways. The first hint of this structural soundness was the interesting manner in which the builder elected to support the long floor joists that, in turn, support all of the first floor. Instead of using 6" x 6" vertical wooden timbers, 12" x 12" brick and concrete supports were constructed, each neatly concealed in the basement area. And each window in the home was equipped with a heavy, wood frame, storm window and wood framed screen. Each window was carefully identified as to which window it was built to cover. With apologies to Mr. Schuler for his meticulous identification system, we had triple track storms installed on all windows. Now we merely must raise storms or lower screens as the weather dictates. We assume that the next owners may elect to install thermopanes as their contribution to the Schuler tradition. One of the more surprising discoveries had to do with the north wall of the entire home. When the Schulers contracted to have the exterior stucco covering removed, they shrewdly arranged to have this face of the home covered first with yellow pine planking. I am sure that Mr. Schuler was fully aware that as this yellow pine aged it would swell to seal off all abutments between the planking and become much more dense than even very expensive mahogany timber of equivalent thickness. The very strong winds that strike the north side of this home are ineffective in reducing its cozy warmth. Mr. Schuler, way, way ahead of practices in the 1920's and 1930's and even the 1950's, had the builder insulate all the stud spacings on all sides. So 12 South Columbia is a veritable fortress against the winters of Illinois. In following with the protection from the weather outlined above, we have installed a four by eight foot balanced and counter-weighted two inch thick hinged door that covers the top of the stair case leading to the full attic. We have also laid wooden flooring and heavier insulation over that entire area. The invariable chilliness of the attic can no longer reduce the warmth of the northeast bedroom on the second floor. To keep the interior of the house as comfortable in the summer, we have had a commercial sized air conditioning unit installed in the basement with its heat exchanger seated east of the north door to the home. These and other modifications of the physical plant of this home have been completed with the full realization that Charles and Irma Schuler have, for many years, been keeping an eye on their home from their heavenly abode. And, this conviction on our part was fully in focus long, long before the Hills came to really learn about the Schulers from their children. In a similar philosophy, the old one car garage built in the 1920's was removed and replaced with a 2˝ car garage in 1966. In the Schuler tradition, the garage is fully lined and insulated and wind tight. The lengthy lead covered underground wire cable from the basement to the garage still serves to provide electricity. An electrical contractor carefully replaced all basement fuses with a grounded circuit breaker panel. This modernization of the wiring system would, we are sure, have brought a smile of approval to the face of C. R. Schuler. So, for the Hills, all five of us, we say a heartfelt thanks to the Schulers for the home we enjoy and we hope that other families who shall succeed us at this address will, by this record, be introduced to the Schulers, the Hensel's and the Hills and thereby treasure all of us as they enjoy this home that sits upon land originally purchased by Morris Sleight in 1834. Bibliography DuPage Discoverers 1776-1976 History of the County of Du Page Naperville Centennial Booklet Fort Payne Chapter of the
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