Thirteenth Generation

1704. Adelaide S "Addie" Chatfield was born in 1843 in Utica, LaSalle Co., Illinois, USA. She appeared in the census in 1850 in Buffalo, Ogle Co., Illinois, USA. She appeared in the census in 1860 in Buffalo, Ogle Co., Illinois, USA. Addie appeared in the census in 1880 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. She died on 9 June 1883 at the age of 40 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. She was buried on 11 June 1883 in Graceland Cmtry., Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. Seen birth transposed as 1834 which is probably correct. Grave shows 1843 in error.
Census records state born in New York.
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Illinois, Cook County Deaths
Name: Adilaide C. Collins
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 09 Jun 1883
Event Place: , Cook, Illinois
Gender: Female
Age: 43
Marital Status: Married
Ethnicity: American
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1840
Birthplace: Ogle Co., Ill.
Cemetery: Graceland
Record Number: 33
Source Reference: cn 22764
GS Film Number: 1031447 , Digital Folder Number: 004004273 , Image Number: 01084
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Burial in Section “O”, Lot 13, Grave #4
From Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 29 Oct 2014,
We show that an Adelaide C. Collins was buried here on 6/11/1883 next to Henry Hobart Taylor. She is in Section “O”, Lot 13, Grave #4. Henry is in grave #3. We do not show an Adelaide S. (Chatfield) Taylor with that specific name but we do show that Adelaide C. Collins was buried right next to Henry Hobart Taylor. There are a couple other Chatfield’s in that Lot that would indicate that this is probably the person you are searching for.

Thank you for your interest in Graceland.
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Mrs. Henry Hobart Taylor (Adelaide Chatfield), (painting)
Painter: Healy, George Peter Alexander 1813-1894
Subject: Taylor, Henry Hobart, Mrs. (Adelaide Chatfield)
Medium: Oil
Type: Paintings
Owner/Location: Chicago Historical Society Clark Street at North Avenue Chicago Illinois 60614
Date: 1867
Topic: Portrait female
Control number: IAP 12030335
Notes: Owner, 1972
Data Source: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Adelaide S "Addie" Chatfield and Henry Hobart Taylor were married on 24 October 1860 in Polo, Ogle Co., Illinois, USA. Illinois, County Marriages
Name Henry H Taylor
Titles and Terms Mr
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 24 Oct 1860
Event Place Ogle, Illinois, USA
Gender Male
Spouse's Name Addie S Chatfield
Spouse's Titles and Terms Miss
Spouse's Gender Female
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Henry Hobart Taylor, son of John Otis Taylor and Harriet Eames, was born on 4 July 1834 in Durhamville, Oneida Co., New York, USA. He died Bright's disease on 9 November 1875 at the age of 41 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. He was buried in Graceland Cmtry., Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. Burial Section “O”, Lot 13, Grave #3
Find A Grave Memorial# 69893024
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An article about Henry Hobart Taylor's will appeared on page 8 in the Chicago Tribune Nov. 18, 1877
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Occupation: Businessman: established an agency in Chicago for distribution of machinery manufactured by C. Aultman & Co. and Nichols, Shepard and Company; a founder of Elgin Watch Company; established and was a director of Commercial National Bank of Chicago; Director of American Insurance Company, as well as with judicious investments in Chicago real estate.
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"He had only reached the age of forty years, when men are usually at the meridian of their powers. Why men gifted with such natural endowments, and possessing so many accomplishments fitting them for years of usefulness and honor, should be cut off in their early prime is one of the inscrutable mysteries of life! It is certain that in the early death of Mr. Taylor Chicago lost a most worthy and estimable citizen and one who contributed not a little to her growth."
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Henry Hobart Taylor was born in Durhamsville near Oneida Creek, New York in the year of 1835. His father and family moved to Chicago in 1845 and engaged in merchandizing. Henry was ten years of age when the family moved to Chicago and he entered the public schools of that city. However at an early age he became a clerk in his father's store where through that experience received a business education and was initiated into the mercantile experience of the growing busy city of Chicago.

In 1854 the family moved to Freeport, Illinois. At that time Mr. Taylor was eighteen years of age and launched out for himself. He began his self-support although he had only one dollar in his pocket. He journeyed to Cincinnati, Ohio where he became employed by a druggist for the purpose of learning pharmacy. In that day it was common practice for a young man who wished to become a doctor, lawyer or a pharmacist to study, read and work with one of the older men as he practiced his profession. At the conclusion of an apprenticeship the young man was either declared competent to practice his profession or after passing an examination was licensed and accorded the right to follow his chosen profession. Mr. Taylor spent learning to become a pharmacist and mastered the art, but made no use of his knowledge of pharmacy during the rest of his life.

In 1856 he returned to Freeport, Illinois and at that time took out an agency for C. Aultman & Co. of Canton, Ohio. Thus there began an association which endured for a period of nineteen years. This could well be termed the turning point in his career for with the cultivation of the prairies his business increased rapidly.

In 1864 he became associated with Nichols, Shepard and Company of Battle Creek, Michigan and also became a stockholder in that Company. In order to handle the increase in his business he established an agency in Chicago for the distribution of machinery manufactured by C. Aultman & Co. and Nichols, Shepard and Company of which he assumed personal responsibility. His business was extended throughout the northwestern states as well as to the Pacific coast and grew to large proportions.

He was a remarkable business man being active in several business enterprises in Chicago and its environs. Typical of this interest was his connection with the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Illinois. He was one of the founders of that Company and was a member of the Board of Directors from 1867 until his death on November 9, 1875. It was he who placed the Elgin watch on the London market within one month's time.

It is enlightening at this point to recall the financial and economic conditions of Chicago during the time that Henry H. Taylor was a citizen of that city. With a population of 29,000 in 1850 by 1855 it had grown to 80,000 and in 1860 it stood at 100,000. In other words this was more than a sixty percent increase in population during that ten year period. In 1860 the city was astir growing more rapidly than it could care for its needs. It became known as the city of enterprise and already had become the great railroad center of the country. The northwest was opening up and thousands of immigrants were moving in to claim the land. Hogs, cattle, corn and wheat were pouring into the city in huge quantities. Steamboats on the lakes and freight cars standing in the railroad yards were filled to overflowing with products from the farms and ranches. Chicago shipped thousands of bushels of grain in 1860. Due in part to the war between the states, prices were greatly inflated. The value of property and real estate increased seventeen percent during the four years of the war and stood at $37,063,512. By the close of the war, property values had increased seventy percent. In brief, Chicago was in the midst of unprecedented, phenomenal and rapid growth. These then were the financial and economic conditions which prevailed in the city of Chicago during the time that Henry H. Taylor was one of its prominent citizens.

Possessed as he was with unusual business acumen and foresight, there is little wonder that he made investments in real estate at comparatively low prices. With the rapid growth of the city already depicted, real estate prices skyrocketed and Mr. Taylor was able to realize enormous profits from those investments which in the end brought him a fortune. One must remember too that this was long before the day of income and inheritance taxes and so his fortune was not thereby reduced.

In still another way he allied himself with the financial interests of the community. With enlargement of his financial resources he joined in the establishment of the Commercial National Bank of which he was a Director for many years. He was one of the Directors of the American Insurance Company with offices in the city of Chicago.

Upon his death he left his only son, H.C. Chatfield Taylor, an inheritance of approximately two million dollars.

In 1864 Mr. Taylor was married to Adelaide Chatfield who was a native of Orriskany, New York. To this union was born one son, H.C. Chatfield Taylor, who became a well known literature in the city of Chicago.

Mr. Taylor did not enjoy the advantages of higher education, but he was a great reader of books and became a most versatile person in the several fields of literature and also became knowledgeable in the various fields of science of that day. Through diligent study he acquired great precision in the use of language and was extremely refined in the use of words. He was particular and meticulous in his demeanor and in every respect a modest and unassuming person. All in all he was a learned, cultured and refined gentleman without doubt influenced immeasurably by his New England heritage.

He maintained numerous interests outside of the area of business. He was a Republican in polities, although he was not a narrow partisan. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and had attained the rank of Knight Templar. He made several trips to Europe, doubtless for business purposes as well as for social and cultural pursuits. He was generous in his gifts to charitable organizations and his contributions were made without regard to creed. His gifts went to the Bethel Home, Chicago Relief Society, Old Ladies Home and other similar charities. His contributions were always large, but they were never made with ostentation and he never permitted his name to go before the public as a giver. His gifts were made without public recognition or acclaim which was typical of the man.

For three years prior to his death Mr. Taylor suffered from a complication of diseases and during the last month of his life became totally blind. Yet in spite of those handicaps with indomitable courage and energy he attended to his business until the day of his death. The cause of his death was due to Kidney and Bright's disease. Interment was made in the Graceland cemetery in Chicago.

Mr. Taylor's will provided that his son was to receive $50,000.00 and the remainder of his estate was to go to charities. However, the son was not satisfied with his father's will and so in the quietest and most gentlemanly manner possible importuned the other legatees that his father's disposition of his wealth was not fair. So without a lawsuit or even a vigorous protest they acceded to his request and permitted Hobart to take the entire estate.

His name was Hobart Chatfield Taylor. Upon the death of his uncle Wayne Chatfield his will provided that Hobart was to receive his fortune of $3,500,000.00 with the proviso that he would take his uncle's name. This he did and his name became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. He was one of the first Americans to acquire a hyphenated name. At this time he was twenty-eight years of age. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886 and later married the youngest daughter of ex-senator and millionaire, Charles B. Farwell. The two fortunes which he inherited amounted to approximately four and a half million dollars. This was exclusive of his wife's inheritance. One of the newspaper accounts stated that he was very wealthy and did not dissipate in any hurtful way.

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Adelaide S "Addie" Chatfield and Henry Hobart Taylor had the following children:

Adelaide S "Addie" Chatfield and Charles C Collins were married on 6 February 1879 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Name Charles C Collins
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 06 Feb 1879
Event Place District of Columbia
Gender Male
Spouse's Name Adalaide C Taylor
Spouse's Gender Female
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Name Charles C. Collins
Spouse's Name Adalaide C. Taylor
Event Date 06 Feb 1879
Event Place Washington, District Of Columbia
Charles C Collins was born about 1841 in New York, USA. He appeared in the census in 1880 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. USA Census, 1880
Name Charles C Collins
Event Place Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Gender Male
Age 39
Marital Status Married
Race White
Occupation Real Estate
Relationship to Head of Household Self
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Self
Birth Year (Estimated) 1841
Birthplace New York
Father's Birthplace Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace Connecticut
Sheet Letter C
Sheet Number 88
Person Number 0
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Charles C Collins Self M 39 New York
Carrie C Collins Other F 37 New York
Taylor Hobart Other M 15 Illinois