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Subject: Fw: [ILDUPAGE] Routes traveled by immigrants from New York to Illinois in 1850s
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:35:45 -0600




----- Original Message -----
From: Garland Edgell
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [ILDUPAGE] Routes traveled by immigrants from New York to Illinois in 1850s

Mildred and List,

You might want to know that, in spite of my vote for the water route in this
discussion, I come from a railroad family too. My grandfather was a section
foreman for several railroads and worked for the Burlington in Downers
Grove, DuPage, IL in 1938 when he died.

From the age of 16 to about 39, my father worked for the railroads and for
many years for the Chicago Northwestern Railroad as a crane operator mainly
in the central and Western part of Iowa. I was conceived in Missouri
Valley, Iowa but born in Downers Grove, DuPage, IL.

I wonder, at the risk of starting another lengthy discussion, if anyone can
tell me how to get any records from the railroads of where and when people
were working for them. I checked with the C&NW once and they just said they
didn't have records back that far.

Garland Edgell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mildred" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ILDUPAGE] Routes traveled by immigrants from New York to
Illinois in 1850s


> This is actually getting to be a very interesting and informative
> discussion, about the routes travelled by immigrants from New
> York. It could be that people did come to Kenosha by water,
> rather than to Chicago, even though Wisconsin was not even a
> state until 1848. There were plenty of people here though. My
> brother-in-law's family were surveyors who moved here from
> New England to survey Wisconsin in preparation for it becoming
> a state. Also, the people who worked on the Erie Canal came
> to Wisconsin after they finished that, and started building
> cobblestone houses in southeastern Wisconsin, which would
> include Kenosha, as well as Lake Geneva, where I live. These
> houses are still standing and in good condition. And that was
> before the Civil War, and I'll bet they came by water, after
> having worked on the Erie Canal.
>
> Lake Geneva was settled somewhat before the Chicago fire in
> 1871, but after the fire many Chicagoans moved up here while
> their Chicago homes were being rebuilt, and they travelled back
> and forth between Chicago and here on the Chicago & North-
> western Railroad.
>
> My father was born in Joliet, IL in 1888 and after his marriage
> they moved to Wheaton in 1919 where he worked on the Chicago,
> Aurora & Elgin RR. My grandfather worked for the Frisco.
> My uncle worked for the Santa Fe. My Irish ggrandfather built
> the railroads, and the other ggrandfather built the railroad
> bridges over the Mississippi. And I worked for the C&NW.
> Whew! Call me a railroad family!
>
> Mildred in Lake Geneva, WI
>
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