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    John Kinzie (December 23, 1763 – June 6, 1828) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the...
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  • Kinzie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George Kinzie Fitzsimons (born 1928), American Catholic prelate John H. Kinzie (1803–1865)...
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    John Harris Kinzie (July 7, 1803 – June 19, 1865) was a prominent figure in Chicago politics during the 19th century. He served as the president of the...
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    The Kinzie Street Bridge is a single-leaf bascule bridge built in 1909 that spans the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. In April...
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  • John Kinzie may refer to: John Kinzie, early Chicago settler John H. Kinzie, his son, and early Chicago village president John Kinzie Clark, early Lake...
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    to Chicago in 1810, probably introduced Juliette to John H. Kinzie, son of fur trader John Kinzie. They married in 1830 and moved to Detroit and then...
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  • there in 1812, in what was called the "first murder in Chicago", by John Kinzie, a trading partner of Burnett who was another early settler from Canada...
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    John Kinzie Clark (1792–1865) was a trader, trapper and a prominent early settler in the Chicago area. He was raised by Native Americans, who called him...
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  • Eleanor Kinzie (née Lytle, later McKillip; fl. 1800) was the wife of John Kinzie, mother of John H. Kinzie, and great-grandmother of Juliette Gordon Low...
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    By 1804, John Kinzie, another early Chicago settler, had bought the former du Sable house. Kinzie's daughter-in-law, Juliette Magill Kinzie, suggested...
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    Henry Dearborn, who had commissioned its construction. A fur trader, John Kinzie, who bought the old Du Sable property, arrived in Chicago in 1804, and...
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    portrays the rescue of Margaret Helm, the stepdaughter of Chicago resident John Kinzie and wife of Lieutenant Linai Taliaferro Helm, by Potawatomi chief Black...
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  • University Press "The Silver Man: The Life and Times of Indian Agent John Kinzie" By Peter Shrake, 2016 Wisconsin Historical Society "The Official Correspondence...
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  • (died 1807), Scottish writer John Kinzie Clark (1792–1865), trader, trapper and early settler in the Chicago area John Howard Clark (1830–1878), editor...
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  • government until its abolition in 1976. The first Coroner of Cook County was John Kinzie Clark, who was appointed in April 1831. The first elected coroner, Orsemus...
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    Chicago, the home became the property of John Kinzie. In 1834 the land owned by Kinzie was platted and sold. The "Kinzie addition" to Chicago, which is assumed...
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    Homesite was designated as a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976. John Kinzie, a prominent early settler, bought and expanded Point du Sable's post...
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    competition, as most private traders in Chicago soon found out. It appointed John Kinzie and Antoine Deschamps as its first agents in northern Illinois, and they...
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    including the American Fur Company under John Crafts and later the returned John Kinzie, until 1828 when Kinzie died and the American Fur Company left the...
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    Willis Tower) William Wallace Kimball, Kimball Piano and Organ Company John Kinzie, Canadian pioneer, early white settler in the city of Chicago Cornelius...
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    prominence for his Sauganash Hotel. Unlike his friend and competitor, John Kinzie, Beaubien does not appear to have owned slaves, but he did employ free...
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  • The Kinzie Hotel (formerly the Amalfi Hotel Chicago) is a 215-room hotel, located near the corner of State Street and Kinzie Street, in the River North...
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    Settlement in the vicinity of Jefferson Park began in the 1830s with John Kinzie Clark and Elijah Wentworth, whose claim was near what is now the Jefferson...
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  • widow of another trader, so he was raised alongside his half-brother John Kinzie, with whom he would also later work. When Thomas Forsyth was a child...
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    at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). There he met and married Maria Kinzie, a daughter of John Kinzie, considered the city's first permanent white resident. He...
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    brigade led by Antoine Deschamps. Hubbard carried an introduction to John Kinzie, a trader in Chicago, whose son, Morris, had befriended Hubbard. Although...
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  • students from the 7th and 8th grade level. Two large 60" x 336" murals of John Kinzie and party first encounters with the Potawatomi Indians around 1841 were...
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  • group of prominent Illinois businessmen, among them Norman B. Judd and John Kinzie. Under the name Chicago Relief and Aid Society, it became the first official...
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  • Dearborn by Major John Whistler. It is built near the mouth of the Chicago River. 1812 June 17, Jean La Lime is killed by John Kinzie, making him the first...
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  • Lake Huron. During the winter of 1789/1790, the traders Henry Hay and John Kinzie stayed in Kekionga. Hay kept a daily journal, which recorded their regular...
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