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This posting of an abridged Table of Contents for A Considerable History: The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, The Waukegan Highlands (The Company Subdivision) & the 1890 Village of North Chicago, Illinois is done in conjunction with my article in the March, 2009 Newsletter of the Waukegan Historical Society. The exposition found in the original table of contents has been removed from all parts for this posting. A section relating to the difficulties of printing the book has been omitted as well; autobiographical notes have been added.

Table of Contents (Abridged)
iii-iv Publishing History, Acknowledgements, & Permissions to Publish
v Dedication—First Purchasers of the Waukegan Highlands
vi “Annexation Case” Map of the Village of North Chicago & the Highlands
vii-viii Table of Contents

Part I: The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company (1-13)
The Fame of Washburn & Moen
The Washburn & Moen Illinois Operation: purchase, construction, sale & fire

Part II: Washburn-Moen’s Subdivision: The Waukegan Highlands (14-39)
General Information on the Waukegan Highlands
Certification of the Legal Plat
Legal Plat of the Subdivision
The Swedish Presence on the Subdivision

Part III: The Annexation Case (40-57)
An Overview of the Annexation Case
Partial Chronology of the Annexation Case
Some of the Principals of the Annexation Case: the Jurists, the Law Firms S.A. Hathorne and R. H. Morrow
Washburn & Moen: Legal Giants

Part IV: The 1890 Village of North Chicago
Section A: Major Players in Village Development (58-90 A,B,C)
The North Chicago Land Association: A Chicago-Detroit Syndicate
The Waukegan Investment Company
The Woodbridges
E.S. Dreyer
The Associates of Washburn and Moen & The Brainard/Wadsworth House
The Women’s Land Syndicate
Carl Sayler
The Major 1890 Subdivisions of the Village
Visuals Related to the Village of North Chicago

Section B: 1890 Village Government (91-99)
The Minutes of the Village 1895-1899
The Officials of the Village of North Chicago

Section C: Special Topics of the 1890 Village (100-128)
The Lanyon Zinc Oxide and Paint Company
The Illinois Naval Militia Encampment: 1899
The Woman’s Literacy Society
The Social Scene of the 1890 Village of North Chicago

Addenda (129-138)
Table of Contents for The Wire Mill That Created North Chicago
State of Illinois 19th Century Barbed Wire Manufacturers’ Sites
Facts about the Washburn-Moen/North Chicago Marker
The Current Marker
Proposal for New Words for Marker
About the Author

Autobiographical Notes
I have lived on the Waukegan Highlands in North Chicago, Illinois, since 1972 and became interested in its history in 1986. North Chicago’s early history is my hobby. My request for an Illinois State Historical marker for my area was granted in 1991.

In 2000, I retired from teaching in the public schools after thirty-three years of service. I am hopeful in self-publishing this book to educate my own community and others about the Washburn-Moen wire mill, the Waukegan Highlands, and the 1890 Village of North Chicago. I am particularly hopeful that the community’s incorporation dates (Village of North Chicago 1895-1909); City of North Chicago (1909 until present day) can be better known as they are sometimes misstated in books and on the internet.

I have contributed this book and The Wire Mill That Created North Chicago, my first self-published book, to the Waukegan Historical Society’s Raymond Research Library, Waukegan, IL; the Lake County Discovery Museum Archives at Wauconda, IL; Chicago’s historical libraries, state historical libraries in Illinois, and historical libraries in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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