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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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trading post from local Native American tribes. One year later in 1804, John Kinzie bought du Sable's property and occupied it until his death in 1828. In...
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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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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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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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Kennedy High School (Illinois) (redirect from John H. Kinzie High School)
October 3, 1963, as John H. Kinzie High School. The name was changed to the present one in 1965, to honor former President John F. Kennedy who was assassinated...
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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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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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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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Chicago River the Guarie River, or Gary's River. James Kinzie, the son of early settler John Kinzie, built a tavern on the west bank of the river at Wolf...
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with a provision for exclusionary laws to be passed. In 1853, state senator John A. Logan helped pass a law to prohibit all African Americans, including freedmen...
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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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