Bradley
Bradley

Author: Vic Johnson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738551739

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At the age of 49, Ohio-born J. Herman Hardebeck had earned a gilt-edged reputation as a real estate developer in Kankakee. In the spring of 1891, to the north of Kankakee and south of Bourbonnais, lay a flat, mile-wide prairie. The land stretched eastward from a grove of Kankakee river timber, past the Illinois Central Railroad into the watershed of Soldier Creek. In May, Hardebeck signed agreements with Alvah Perry and Hiram Goodwin for the purchase of 340 acres of this property. He had taken options on additional tracts. Here Hardebeck would establish an industrial community first named North Kankakee and later renamed Bradley in honor of farm implement manufacturer David Bradley.

Bourbonnais
Bourbonnais

Author: Vic Johnson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738540962

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The village name Bourbonnais is attributed to Fran§ois Bourbonnais. He was a 19th-century French Canadian fur trader who maintained a post in a grove of trees along the east bank of the Kankakee River. This location became known as Bourbonnais Grove. Noel LeVasseur, a former American Fur Company employee, bought two sections of land in the grove in 1834 and established a settlement of immigrant French Canadians. At first, the village was called variously La Point, La Ville, and Vasseurville. A post office named Bourbonnais Grove opened in 1838. The village was known as Bourbonnais Grove until 1875, when it was incorporated as Bourbonnais. By the 1860s, Bourbonnais Grove had 1,719 inhabitants, a blacksmith shop, livery stable, hotel, and a new church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Nativity and built of native limestone. The images in this book depicting life in Bourbonnais have been gathered from local private and museum collections.

American Fiction, 1901-1925
American Fiction, 1901-1925

Author: Geoffrey D. Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-08-13

Total Pages: 1064

ISBN-13: 9780521434690

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A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

A Forest of Many Trees
A Forest of Many Trees

Author: Velma Kuykendall Winn

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13:

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Jacob Leursen (Luursen, Luyrsen), father of (Van) Lurr Jacobsen Kuykendall, was born in 1616 in Wagening, Gelderlan, Holland and married Stynite Douwes in 1638 in Amsterdam. They immigrated to New York, and he died in 1655 at Fort Orange, New York.