The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical DocumentsKirkland, Joseph
History
The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical Documents
Kirkland, Joseph
Chicago (Ill.) -- History; Fort Dearborn Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1812
=C.= The Whistler Family.--Gardner's Military Dictionary gives
items of old John Whistler, the Burgoyne soldier; suggestion
that in Heald's place he might have avoided the disaster;
his descendants; Mrs. William Whistler and her daughter,
Gwenthlean Whistler Kinzie; Mrs. General Sheridan; 153:--Mrs.
Whistler's visit to Chicago in 1875, 154:--Her reminiscences;
155:--Whistler descendants in the army; 156.
=D.= The Kinzie Family.--John Kinzie's origin and youth;
157:--The Forsyths, Blanchard's story of the McKenzie girls;
158:--Margaret, mother of some Kinzies and some Halls;
Elizabeth, mother of some Clarks and some Clybourns; 160:--The
bend sinister; John marries Eleanor (Lytle) McKillip and comes
to Chicago; 161:--Extent of his trade; his continued relations
with Detroit; 162;--His daughter-in-law, Juliette (Magill)
Kinzie, writer of Wau-Bun, return after the massacre; 163:--His
losses; pathetic letter to his son, John Harris Kinzie;
164:--His papers burned in 1871; 165:--Inestimable services
as treaty-maker; their partial recognition in treaty of 1838;
165:--His hospitality; 166:--Visit of Gov. Cass; 167:--Winnebago
scare; 168:--End of the old pioneer; Hubbard's narrative of his
closing moments; 169:--Disappearance of the ancient mansion;
170:--Mrs. Nellie Kinzie Gordon; 171:--Heroic death in battle of
John Harris Kinzie, Jr.; 172.
=E.= The Wells and the Heald Families.--William Wells's
captivity among the Indians; Wa-nan-ga-peth, daughter of
Me-che-kan-nah-quah, and her Wells descendants; 173:--William
fighting on the Indians' side; Rebekah (Wells) Heald's story of
her reclamation of her "Indian uncle;" 174:--His parting with
his red father-in-law; later history of Me-che-kan-nah-quah, or
Little Turtle; his presentation to Washington; 175:--Rebekah
meets Nathan Heald at Fort Wayne; 176:--A. H. Edwards's
anecdotes about Captain Wells; 177:--Family feeling of Wells's
descendants; the Heald massacre relics shown; 179:--Masonic
record of Nathan Heald; his letter of Oct. 13, 1813, reporting
the massacre; 180:--Letter on official business, May 18, 1812;
181:--Remarks thereon; 182:--Death of his niece, Mrs. Edwards,
while this book is printing; 183.
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