Excerpts from "History of Deerfield" by Marie Ward Reichelt (1928):
John Kinzie Clark was born in 1784 in an Indian wigwam at Fort Wayne.
He went to Fort Dearborn in 1818. He was employed as an expressman between Fort Dearborn and Fort Wayne, and Chicago and Milwaukee, by saddle conveyance, bringing flour and sugar to the settlers in exchange for produce.
He was a noted hunter and trapper. He also served in the Civil War.
His first wife [married 1825] was an Indian woman [Madeleine Mirandeau], whom he deserted in Wisconsin. His Indian children received $400 in 1833, when Lake County was ceded to the United States by the Indians.
He was Chicago coroner from 1831 to 1833.
John and second wife Parmelia [married July 22, 1829 in Peoria IL] had a farm near Northfield, which was later the Samuel Galloway farm, but he was not a successful farmer, for he preferred to hunt and live as the Indians did. The Indians named him Nannimoa, or Prairie Wolf, and they spent weeks camping on his land with him. In 1864, he moved to the village. He died in September 1865, at the age of 81 years.
John Kinzie Clark was born in 1784 in an Indian wigwam at Fort Wayne.
He went to Fort Dearborn in 1818. He was employed as an expressman between Fort Dearborn and Fort Wayne, and Chicago and Milwaukee, by saddle conveyance, bringing flour and sugar to the settlers in exchange for produce.
He was a noted hunter and trapper. He also served in the Civil War.
His first wife [married 1825] was an Indian woman [Madeleine Mirandeau], whom he deserted in Wisconsin. His Indian children received $400 in 1833, when Lake County was ceded to the United States by the Indians.
He was Chicago coroner from 1831 to 1833.
John and second wife Parmelia [married July 22, 1829 in Peoria IL] had a farm near Northfield, which was later the Samuel Galloway farm, but he was not a successful farmer, for he preferred to hunt and live as the Indians did. The Indians named him Nannimoa, or Prairie Wolf, and they spent weeks camping on his land with him. In 1864, he moved to the village. He died in September 1865, at the age of 81 years.
Excerpts from "History of Deerfield" by Marie Ward Reichelt (1928):
John Kinzie Clark was born in 1784 in an Indian wigwam at Fort Wayne.
He went to Fort Dearborn in 1818. He was employed as an expressman between Fort Dearborn and Fort Wayne, and Chicago and Milwaukee, by saddle conveyance, bringing flour and sugar to the settlers in exchange for produce.
He was a noted hunter and trapper. He also served in the Civil War.
His first wife [married 1825] was an Indian woman [Madeleine Mirandeau], whom he deserted in Wisconsin. His Indian children received $400 in 1833, when Lake County was ceded to the United States by the Indians.
He was Chicago coroner from 1831 to 1833.
John and second wife Parmelia [married July 22, 1829 in Peoria IL] had a farm near Northfield, which was later the Samuel Galloway farm, but he was not a successful farmer, for he preferred to hunt and live as the Indians did. The Indians named him Nannimoa, or Prairie Wolf, and they spent weeks camping on his land with him. In 1864, he moved to the village. He died in September 1865, at the age of 81 years.
John Kinzie Clark was born in 1784 in an Indian wigwam at Fort Wayne.
He went to Fort Dearborn in 1818. He was employed as an expressman between Fort Dearborn and Fort Wayne, and Chicago and Milwaukee, by saddle conveyance, bringing flour and sugar to the settlers in exchange for produce.
He was a noted hunter and trapper. He also served in the Civil War.
His first wife [married 1825] was an Indian woman [Madeleine Mirandeau], whom he deserted in Wisconsin. His Indian children received $400 in 1833, when Lake County was ceded to the United States by the Indians.
He was Chicago coroner from 1831 to 1833.
John and second wife Parmelia [married July 22, 1829 in Peoria IL] had a farm near Northfield, which was later the Samuel Galloway farm, but he was not a successful farmer, for he preferred to hunt and live as the Indians did. The Indians named him Nannimoa, or Prairie Wolf, and they spent weeks camping on his land with him. In 1864, he moved to the village. He died in September 1865, at the age of 81 years.
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