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Home
of Samuel Snyder, originally located near the railroad crossing on Neal
Zick Road. Mr. Snyder was the first mayor of Chicago Junction,
elected in 1883. The house still exists, but has been moved to
another location in New Haven. |
Samuel Snyder as he appeared when elected
first mayor of Chicago Junction Village [modern Willard] in 1883.
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Grandparents of Richard Lewis in their 1905 REO
automobile. This picture was probably taken near the same year as
the automobile. |
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The Lester P. Hensinger home near the foot
of Keefer Street in 1912. Mr. Hensinger was mayor in 1909 and
1910. He conceived and developed the popular and well known
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Brook Park on the East Side of Chicago Junction and was a fine innovator
and influential citizen. |
The Hensinger
home on the corner of Euclid and Emerald about 1910. Mr. Hensinger
was a mayor of Willard. On the porch is Mabel Hensinger [left] and
Mrs. Lester Hensinger. In front of the house (L to R] Eula Hensinger
LaBounty and son Delbert N. Hensinger; Lester P. Hensinger, Alta Hensinger
Ratin and Hazel Hensinger Chapman. In front is baby Eva Hensinger
Mason. This house still exists and has hardly changed from this
photo. |
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Captain Leydorf, J. G. Schorndorfer (standing at the doorway) was a
community activist, and his barbershop on the East Side was a favored
gathering spot for the community. Mr. Schorndorfer was a great
innovator in community affairs and deserves much credit for the sucess of
the early village of Chicago Junction. The date here was 1892.
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Mayor Lester P. Hensinger, 1910. |
Margaret Daugherty's
boarding and room house on Woodland Avenue, 1902. Note the oil
burning street lamp on the lower right. |
Oliver
Sennette's Chicago Ice and Coal Company. His daughter, Frona
Sennette (later Riddle), the mother of Gayle Hoffman, is standing in the
office doorway. About 1907.
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For many years one of
the "show houses" of Chicago, Ohio was the Hoffman House,
opposite of where the Library is now situated on the East side of Myrtle
Avenue. This photo was taken about 1900 when the sidewalks were all
wood boards. The purchase of lumber for sidewalks was a prominent
item in the village budget in those days.
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Mr. R. G. Richards
(pictured) and Mr. William Motson owned the bulk of the land where
Chicago, Ohio was built and both were very active in the early development
of the village. A street in Willard is named after Mr. Motson.
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The
Bevy Keefer home, now the site of Willard Memorial Library. This
house was across the street from the Hoffman house, pictured to the far
left on this page. Bevy Keefer was an influential citizen in early
Willard history. He is pictured with the group of men at the bottom
of this
page who tried to save the trolley system in 1921.
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Captain Frederick Jacob Leydorf
was a Prussian emigrant who insisted that he be known by the title
"Captain," a military title that he apparently earned in
Prussia. He was one of the first business men in Chicago Junction,
and one of the early mayors of the village. He had a very colorful
and forceful personality that contributed much to the beginning of the
community. This photo was taken when he became mayor.
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One of the four councilmen elected
when New Haven was reincorporated in 1868 was Joseph H. Mills. This
is a photo of Mr. Mills about 1890. He is holding an advertising
dodger for "Wallace Shows," a competitor of Barnum and
Bailey. The farm buildings were located on the south side of SR 224,
across the road from the present location of New Haven Supply Company.
See the Mills home in the frame below.
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Armatrout
Family in about the late 1920s [L to R]: Myrtle, Aunt Hazel, Uncle Gerald,
Uncle Bill, Aunt Phoebe, and Richard E. in front of Myrtle. |
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George Lydy and friends on Myrtle Avenue in 1914.
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One of the homes of Joseph Mills on SR 61
near the New Haven Square about 1904. Note the electric car tracks.
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Men associated with the
Armatrout Family by the Steuben Cemetery in the late teens or early 1920s. |
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Armatrout Family group in
Steuben, about late teens or early 1920s. Louis S. White is
driving the car. Note the old Steuben schoolhouse on the left. |
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