May Hildreth, Fairy Godmother to Homeless Children, Chicago 1915

May Hildreth, New Future Society, The Day Book, Chicago newspaper, March 27, 1915

SHE IS FAIRY GODMOTHER TO LITTLE WAIFS

Miss May Hildreth, a Chicago girl, who plays fairy godmother to dozens of little children of the slums, proteges of the New Future society, a philanthropic organization. finding homes for homeless children is the special work of the new future society.

Coulter House 2016 vs Coulter House 1916

Today, Coulter house in Chicago is a residence hall at the university of Chicago. A beautiful old building housing over 300 residents and hosting events often related to theater and arts.

coulter house, university of chicago

According to the university history, this building was named for John Merle Coulter, an eminent scholar, who was hired in 1894 to head the botany department.

100 years ago in Chicago, the Coulter house was a refuge center for girls being rescued from the sex trade and white slavery. though not the same address, There is a possibility that the benefactors of this Coulter house could have been related to the university professor.

chicago tribune sept. 20, 1913

A new video series researching the people involved, as well as the girls rescued at the Coulter House - Home for Girls can be found here;

Arrest of teenage girl in Brothel and married couple running it, 1915 Chicago

I came across an old newspaper article in the Chicago Tribune about criminal charges filed against a couple who were prostituting out a 16 year old girl. My curiosity aroused, here's what I've found on the Coulter House-Home for Girls, and the people involved.

If any of these people were your ancestors, please comment and leave me a message or comment.

 

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Kate Adams on Hoyne Trail, Chicago tribune, Sept 20, 1913, newspaper article

Police had made arrests in a brothel, a prostitution house, in this article referred to as 'a house of ill repute', including the arrest of a teenage girl 16 years old at the time, named Esther Watson. she was taken into police custody on Sept. 8th and held in juvenile detention for a month. She was then moved into a rescue center for girls called Coulter house. 

Police issued a warrant on the married couple who were running the house, AL and Anna Harris for harboring a minor in a prostitution house. Al and Anna Harris turned themselves in the day after the girl was taken into custody, on Sept. 9th, 1912 at 8 pm.

The case against the Harris couple is brought to court 13 times in the next 10 months, but case is delayed or passed on to a new judge every time.

Giving a push to have the case heard and to stop the court delays is Kate Adams, superintendent at Coulter House-Home for Girls where young Esther Watson, who is now 17 years old after almost  a year of court delays, is fostered while awaiting court trials, 

Kate Adams has written to the state prosecutor. She states that the refuge center she's in charge of houses girls rescued from prostitution as well as white slavery (most likely referring to indentured servants which in the process of being abolished). She also states that the community is inquiring and eager to have the case heard for prosecuting alleged child traffickers AL and Anna Harris. Kate Adams then states that the 'vice interest' (referring to the arrested couple) has claimed that they are above being prosecuted.

*the title of article refers to the supervisor of the rescue center for girls, Kate Adams, pushing for the state prosecutor, Hoyne, to take action on the case.

names involved;

Esther Watson ; 17 year old forced into prostitution

AL Harris ; arrested for pimping/prostitution related 

Anna Harris; arrested for pimping/prostitution related

Kate Adams; runs Coulter House-Home for Girls

Coulter House-Home for Girls; refuge center for girls under 18 involved in prostitution and white slavery (indentured servants) located at 2119 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, IL

officer Bell and officer Kinder; arresting officers in the Harris case

Harrison Street Police Station, Chicago, IL ; location of booked arrests in Harris case

Judge Sabbath, Judge Topkins, Judge Cooper, Judge Burke, Judge Kersten ; judges involved in Harris case

State Attorney Hoyne and Assistant State Attorney Barrett; prosecutors for the Harris case

house of ill repute; prostitution residence; 1608 and 1610 south Wabash avenue, Chicago, IL

Pastor Charles M Schoonover 1919 Newspaper Images, Oklahoma

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August 8th, 1919

Durant Weekly News (Oklahoma)

Christians Call Pastor
The official board of the First Christian Church of this city has extended a call to the Rev. Charles M. Schoonover, of San Angelo, Texas, and the call has been accepted effective on September 7th, when the new pastor will arrive with his family to take up his work. Mr. Schoonover is well known in the southwest, having filled pastorates at Bonham, Greenville, Gainesville, and San Angelo. The board feels that the local church is fortunate in securing him for the church.


April 20th , 1922
Pastor Charles M Schoonover listed as doctor

The Daily Ardmoreite Newspaper (Oklahoma)

Minister Delayed So Lawyer Starts Christian Revival

The revival service Monday night at First Christian church was attended by a good audience which was disappointed by the absence of Dr. Charles M. Schoonover, who has been unavoidably detained, but pleased with an excellent sermon by E. W. Schenk, the lawyer-preacher of Ardmore. He will speak every night this week except Saturday. Four of the men are organizing a male quartet which will sing at every service.
Mr. Schenk spoke on the incident recorded in the last part of the 10th chapter of Numbers. 

Beaver Residents Visit, Work, Accidents and Humor. 1911 Newspaper Images, Oklahoma

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April 20th, 1911, The Beaver Herald (Beaver, Oklahoma)

Maude O. Thomas, Publisher

Home Creek

Carey Barker and family visited W. R. Barker's Sunday evening.

Mr. Jorden and wife visited Newt Taylor and family Saturday.

Willie Howe and wife and Lawrence Hobbs and wife took dinner with Jim Barker's Sunday.

Claud Haskell and wife and Orvel and Ed Haskell are going to start to Colorado Tuesday.

Walter Busch and family took dinner with Mr. Cunningham's Sunday.

Lucy Wilson visited with her cousin, Elva Barker, a few days last week.

Hello! Busch Chapel, wake up.

Raymond Twentier says he is glad Mrs. Barker sets her hens close to the road. (Someone seems to have had a sense of humor)

Gorden Chamberlain's little boy is very sick at this writing.

While Walter Busch was going home from Mr. Barker's last Saturday his horse threw him off bruising him up pretty bad, but he managed to get home all right. His horse was not accustomed to a saddle.

John and Myrtle Schoonover have returned from a visit back east.

W.B. Barker and son C.B. went to Zelma last week bringing back two jacks, one black one gray. He sold one jack to Mr. Black of the South Flat for $500.

W. H. Barker started to Glazier, Texas, with broomcorn for Mr. Groendyke this week.

J. A. Barker is up and around again doing his work.

Austin Humphrey helped Charles Schoonover fix his well last Thursday.

Chas. Kirky went to Liberal last week for C. C. DeGraw and others after a load of freight.

Truax & Hopkins Undertaking, Hardware & Furniture, Tin Shop

1900's Beaver, Oklahoma

In 1900 the population was 112. The economy of Beaver City and the surrounding area depended on cattle ranching until 1902–03, when the Homestead Act brought farmers, whom ranchers sometimes derided as "pumpkin rollers," to the area. This changed the town's population and commerce. One of the first businesses was the Groves Hotel, later known as the Thompson Hotel. It was built in 1885. In 1891 Carter Tracy moved to Beaver and built a general hardware and implement company. The first newspaper was the Territorial Advocate, established in 1887. Although the name changed to the Herald Democrat, the paper continued to inform the county into the twenty-first century. In 1905 W. T. Quinn established a telephone exchange. The 1910 U.S. Census reported 326 inhabitants.

In the early years of the twentieth century two banks, the Bank of Beaver City and the First National Bank, were established. The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad was built to connect to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway in Forgan, seven miles to the north. Other new businesses included the OK Barber Shop, the Beaver Cleaners, the Goetzinger Grocery, the Beaver Motor Company, the Home Lumber Company, and a number of saloons and hotels. During the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl the town, as well as the rest of the area, suffered, and the population greatly decreased. The town of Beaver, however, actually grew from 920 in 1920 to 1,028 in 1930. The community then began to expand, with a 1940 population of 1,166 climbing to 2,087 in 1960.

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma

Beaver is located on Beaver River, and began as the location of a fur-trading post in 1879. Its original name was Beaver City, and was planned to be the capital of the short-lived Cimarron Territory. The Federal government never recognized the proposed Territory, but Beaver City remained the center of business and law enforcement for the area. In 1890, the territory was assigned to Oklahoma Territory, and Beaver City became the seat for the entire Oklahoma Panhandle, then known as Seventh County.

Beaver began as a stop on the Jones and Plummer Trail. In 1880, Jim Lane built a house on the south side of Beaver Creek, that also served as a general store, saloon, hotel, and restaurant.The first post office had been established on the north side of the river in 1883. In 1884 Lane moved the post office to his store and became the postmaster. He also added a corral and livery stable to accommodate freighters and cattle drivers. The Presbyterian Church was built in 1887. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as ""the oldest church in Oklahoma Territory".

Between Beaver and Guymon Oklahoma along Beaver Creek there are several plains Indians ruins. They are on private property and not accessible to the public. These ruins are associated with the Buried City Plains Indian Ruins near Perryton, Texas.^{[8] Wikipedia, Beaver, Oklahoma}

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1900	112		—
1910	326		191.1%
1920	920		182.2%
1930	1,028		11.7%
1940	1,166		13.4%
1950	1,495		28.2%
1960	2,087		39.6%
1970	1,853		−11.2%
1980	1,939		4.6%
1990	1,584		−18.3%
2000	1,570		−0.9%
2010	1,515		−3.5%
Est. 2014	1,470	[12]	−3.0%
U.S. Decennial Census

Schoonover still Warlike!! 1910 Oklahoma,Joseph Schoonover, Free Newspaper Images

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This article is from The Guthrie Daily Leader, September 20, 1910 (page 6)(Oklahoma)

Schoonover Still Warlike

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Sheriff Mahoney is keeping campaign promises made to Joseph Schoonover, the war-like German farmer of Oak View township. Last summer when Schoonover was cutting a wide swath around Lovell the sheriff promised to put him in jail, and last night the chance came. Schoonover was bound over for shooting at Mrs. Mary Brant and he failed to give bond. He was housed at the coop last night. Schoonover is still warlike.

(transcribers notes: Joseph Schoonover Born in Pike, Ohio, USA on 14 Feb 1835 to Hiram Schoonover and Mary Coriell Killpatrick. Joseph married Nancy Emily Streete and had 8 children. He passed away on 12 Feb 1924 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA.)
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The next day's news: The Guthrie Daily Leader, September 21, 1910

Schoonover Makes Bond
Joseph Schoonover, the militant German farmer of Oak View, was released last night, he having made the $500 bond required on a charge of shooting at Mrs. Mary Brant, a tenant.
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(5 months later) February 19th, 1911, The Guthrie Daily Leader

Neighbors' Row in Court
Joseph Schoonover of Lovell, Charged with Shooting at Mrs. Brandt
Picking cotton in the midst of shot guns was described in district court today. Joseph Schoonover, an aged German farmer of Lovell, was put on trial for shooting at Mrs. Mary Brandt. Trouble had arisen over the land leased by Schoonover to Mrs. Brandt and by her turned over to her son-in-law. Schoonover is said to have ordered Mrs. Brandt and other cotton pickers off the farm and to have puncuated his remarks with two loads of shot. Somebody found a gun in one of the Brandt wagons and after Mr. Schoonover.
 The defense appears to be that Schoonover was shooting at some ducks in the next township when shot rattled down on the cotton pickers.
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3 days later- February 22, 1911, Guthrie Daily Leader

District Court Proceedings
By assignment of the supreme court Judge Huston went to Chandler today to hear arguments...
...Judge Huston directed a verdict of acquital in the noted Schoonover case from Lovell. Joseph Schoonover was tried for shooting at Mrs. Mary Brandt, but it was found that serious intent was lacking. The shooting was at long range and with bird seed shot.

Newspaper Ads, businessmen Homes, Hall, and Dyer 1836, Vermont,

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These ads are from the Rutland Herald, in Rutland, Vermont, March 13th, 1836.

Cash for furs.

Cash paid for all kinds of furs, by Barzillai Homes, at his Store, No. 100 Milk Street, Boston.

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Stoves &c.

The subscribers have for sale at their furnace in Clarendon, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves, Potash Kettles, Caldrons and Pig Iron-all of which will be sold low for cash or on credit.

Caleb Hall & Son

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Veal Skins

Cash and the highest price paid for Veal Skins, also for Calf Skins of four or five days old by the subscriber in Shrewsbury or by Alonzo Dyer in Rutland.

Wm. Barns

Shrewsbury March 13th, 1836

Unclaimed Letters at Post Office, Newspaper Images Free, Residents of Rutland Vermont 1836

This article is from the The Rutland Herald, Rutland Vermont, April 1, 1836

(list of Adressees of unclaimed letters, article from the postmaster)

Avery Ames, James O Barnum, Coomer H Boom, Mrs Laura Barnes, Benjamin Batemen 2(letters), Joseph Barton, Lucius Bragg, Charles Barnes, Joshua Burdit, Robert Barney, Ira Bliss 2 (letters), Samuel Brown 2 (letters), William Brown, Thomas Byme, Gould S. Brown 2 (letters), Avery & Eunice Carpenter, Pratt Crain, Jesse W. Caldwell, Rozina L. Cheeney, J P Carver 2 (letters), Charles Durfee, John W Eddy, Roger Eggleston, Samuel Eastman, Mr Frink, William W Ford, Nathaniel A Fuller, B Foyrs, Bigelow C Finton, Charles Greenley, Hilkiah Grout, Isaac Y Gates, Spencer Green, Ralph Grenneli, E A Holton, Charles G Haffa, Stacy & Groverner Hacket, Prescott Haskill, Almon Hitchcock, Phebe Howard, Matthew Humphrey, Amory Houghton, Timothy Harrison, Benj. Johnson, Daniel Jackson, Henry Jackson, Mary Jerah, Adeline Jennings, Jabez Johnson, John K Joy, Samuel Kingsbury 3 (letters), Rufus Long Jr., Jabez Lion, Nathan M Lounsbury, Thomas J Leonard, William Longdean, James Munson, Alanson Mitchell 2 (letters), RV Marsh, Mary Mullard, Samuel Merriam, Nims Supply, Jesse Paul, Happalonia Perkins, Seneca Page, Lucy Powers, Eunice Robbins, Jacob Reynolds, Jane Rathbone, Betsey Roper, Seth Slasuell, Oramel Snow, Heman Spafford, Mary Ann Snow, Ira Seward, Christopher Tyson, Alvan Teuney, Benjamin Whitney, Josiah Wetherby, Wealthy Willis 2 (letters), George Ware, Elbridge Wellington.
T.J. Ormsbee, Postmaster

Transcribers note- I particularly like the name Happalonia Perkins, I've never heard that name before..and I wonder if the letter addressed to "Wealthy Willis" was someone being clever or funny.

Death of Daniel Haynes, 1836 New Hampshire Steam Mill, Newspaper Clipping

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This article is from The Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vermont, April 12, 1836

"Sad Casualty- Mr. Daniel Haynes, one of the proprietors of the steam mill at Dover N.H. became entangled in the machinery of the mill on the 17th inst. by which he was thrown with violence against the timbers and machinery over head, until (his) arm breaking released him from the wheel and he fell to the floor a (lifeless) corpse- his skull much fractured-arm crushed to fragments-besides other severe bruises."

Dover became a manufacturing center in the 1800's with the areas fast moving waterways being used as a power source. The Cocheco Manufacturing Company was a major producer of cotton goods. The company built large brick mill buildings in downtown Dover near the falls of the Cochecho River that were linked by railroad.

Interestingly, Dover's millyard shut in 1937, the year after Daniel Haynes (part owner) died. The millyard then was bought at auction in 1940 by the city itself for $54,000. Now called the Cocheco Falls Millworks, its tenants include technology and government services companies, plus a restaurant.

Etna Schoonover Death, Newspaper Images Free 1892, 1880 census son William Schoonover

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This is a newspaper listing for Vinton
Virginia listed in the Roanoke Times Saturday December 17th 1892.

Mrs. Schoonover, an aged lady, mother of William Schoonover, who had been in feeble health
for some time, died Thursday night at the residence of
her son.

 Etna Schoonover was listed in the 1880 census in Beverly, Randolph
County, West Virginia with herself as the head of household at 48 years old and
her son William Schoonover 30 years old. The only two members.

Indian Agent, Free Newspaper Images and Government Listing Department of Interiors,Bernard Schoonover, 1859

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Bernard Schoonover, Indian Agent, News and Government Listing Department of Interiors

This is a newspaper article from The
Daily Dispatch in Richmond Virginia on Saturday November 26, 1859 From the Plains
reported death of Kit Carson- the Sioux indians threatening the whites
st. Louis November 23rd.

The Omaha Republican announces on the authority
of persons just arrived from Fort Kearny the death of the celebrated mountaineer
Kit Carson at Taos New Mexico where he acted as Indian agent. Major Schoonover
agent for the upper Missouri and Sioux Indians arrived at Saint Joseph's on
Monday he reports that the Sioux had sworn vengeance against all whites found
in their country. Major S says the Yellowstone River is
navigable for steamers 900 miles above its confluence with the Missouri and
that goods can be landed within 400 miles of Salt Lake City and very near
several forts in that region.

This listing is from the Department of
the Interior in 1859. Indian office agency.

and here we see Bernard
Schoonover, Indian agent for upper Missouri . He was born in Pennsylvania and
assigned to the agency from Pennsylvania and was compensated for $1500.